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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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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: As we are back in the saddle again and had
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  Speaker 1: a decision to make, had an editorial decision to make.
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  Speaker 1: We had a team punching their ticket going to the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. And then we had a random NFL Monday
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  Speaker 1: night football game. So what did we decide? Well, we
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  Speaker 1: decided that what we do here is broadcasting, not narrowcasting.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to wait to talk about the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay Rays. A ratings killer have advanced to the Fall Classic,
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  Speaker 1: which you're going to have to change the name of that.
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  Speaker 1: You can't call it the Fall Classic. Cannot call it
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  Speaker 1: the Fall Classic. But that is Brewers and Rays. If
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  Speaker 1: that was going on in your front yard... You wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: even look out the window. You'd close the lines. But
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  Speaker 1: that'll be the matchup in the World Series. More on
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  Speaker 1: that later. Our lead this hour, though, from the Bay Area,
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  Speaker 1: some 48 miles south of the Tenderloin District in San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco there in Santa Clara. There was football action. Jaden Daniels,
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  Speaker 1: who does not know when to run out the clock
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  Speaker 1: and when not to run out the clock. Jaden Daniels
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  Speaker 1: and the Commanders paying a visit to Northern California. A
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  Speaker 1: little play date with the undefeated 49ers trying to find
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  Speaker 1: some gold there, Washington. You had the squabbling Fox refugees,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, who hate each other. Now, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: if you read the tabloid reports, the trade papers. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they don't like each other. So they were on the
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  Speaker 1: call on ABC. Were you watching? No, you were not watching.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what else you were doing. The 49ers,
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  Speaker 1: did they get a win or did they finally lose?
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  Speaker 1: The answer? Winner, winner, winner! Chicken dinner! The 49ers improved
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  Speaker 1: to 6-0. That's not one, not two, not three, not four,
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  Speaker 1: not five, but six straight victories. As they survive, the Commanders,
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  Speaker 1: what a dumb name that is, rally. They so want
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  Speaker 1: to be the Redskins. They're trying to wear the old
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  Speaker 1: Redskins uniforms. They don't want to use the logo anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's really ridiculous. At this point, just go back.
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  Speaker 1: You're essentially wearing their uniforms. Just put the logo. It's
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  Speaker 1: so stupid. Anyway, the team formerly known as the Redskins
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  Speaker 1: rallied down 20, had the ball, an opportunity to take
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  Speaker 1: the lead, and did not get it done. So the
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  Speaker 1: Niners hold off Washington 23-17. If you listened, listen, we were.
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  Speaker 1: We were off in the dark at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the week here, but on Penny vs. the Penny, which
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  Speaker 1: was available on Instagram and Facebook, that was one of
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  Speaker 1: the games we gave you. Washington plus the 7.5. Got
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  Speaker 1: the backdoor cover. We loved the backdoor cover there. As
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  Speaker 1: the Commanders, if you took the 7.5, you got the
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  Speaker 1: win in that game. Now, Brock Purdy had one touchdown pass,
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  Speaker 1: getting a lot of hype for the MVP. He's not
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  Speaker 1: winning the MVP. All right, so Purdy had a touchdown pass.
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  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, fumble! He also scored two rushing touchdowns for
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  Speaker 1: the Niners. So we mentioned San Francisco had a 20-point
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  Speaker 1: lead at one point. And then in Jaden Daniels, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of second-half touchdowns cut the deficit to six. Washington
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  Speaker 1: did have the ball. Threatened to take the game, snatch
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  Speaker 1: the game away. from the Niners. But Malik Mustafa breaking
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  Speaker 1: up Jaden Daniels on a fourth down pass play near
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  Speaker 1: the goal line with less than two minutes remaining. And
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  Speaker 1: that's it. That's all she wrote. So the Niners escape
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  Speaker 1: with another win. The better story, though, is in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. Washington, while they did make a late surge,
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  Speaker 1: In this game, they, however, came up short, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the focus continues to be on the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Washington football team. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. The old thumbs-up, thumbs-down.
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  Speaker 1: Thumbs-up or thumbs-down on this commander's comeback, even though they lost,
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  Speaker 1: does this take the heat-off coach Dan Quinn in? and
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  Speaker 1: take him off the hot seat? Does it take the
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  Speaker 1: heat off Coach Dan Quinn's hot seat? That's the question.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Candid Camera, AOL Dial-Up, and Cedars-Sinai. And
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, and we
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  Speaker 1: will attempt. to not be bogged down. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: try not to be bogged down. So, A, to answer
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  Speaker 1: the question, does this take the heat off Dan Quinn's
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  Speaker 1: hot seat? So I'm going to go thumbs down. Thumbs
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  Speaker 1: down is where I'm going on this one. Dan Quinn's
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  Speaker 1: seat is not cooling off. In fact, we had an
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  Speaker 1: expedited booth review of the commander's coach, and we looked
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  Speaker 1: at the booth review, and his seat now is actually
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  Speaker 1: sitting in a barbecue pit. We got the smoker off
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  Speaker 1: to the side. And he is apparently the main course there,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Quinn. So even though Washington played much better in
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  Speaker 1: the second half, can't play any worse about than they
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  Speaker 1: did in the first half. So they were fashionably late. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how this happens is beyond me. A NFL team fashionably
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  Speaker 1: late to its own game. An island game. But there
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  Speaker 1: they were. Fall behind by 20 and then get celebrated.
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  Speaker 1: because of a helter-skelter failed comeback attempt. Now, the biggest indictment,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest indictment here is Dan Quinn apparently thought the
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  Speaker 1: NFL was experimenting with a fifth down. What? Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: if you're watching early in the second quarter, about 13
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  Speaker 1: minutes in the second quarter, and Dan Quinn was caught
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  Speaker 1: on candid camera footage Dan Quinn, pants down, candid camera,
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  Speaker 1: gobsmacked after his quarterback, Jaden Daniels, the first-ever quarterback to
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  Speaker 1: run out the clock in a tie game in field
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  Speaker 1: goal range. That was Jaden Daniels in the previous game.
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  Speaker 1: So Daniels, in this game, threw the ball away, which
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  Speaker 1: would not have been a problem had it not been
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  Speaker 1: fourth down in field goal range. Who goofed? I've got
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  Speaker 1: to know. Right there, in relatively deep 49er territory, field
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  Speaker 1: goal range. And Jaden Daniels said, you know what? Let
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  Speaker 1: me just get rid of this thing. Let me throw
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  Speaker 1: this ball away. I don't want the ball. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need the ball. But the thing that was great is
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  Speaker 1: they cut to a shot of Dan Quinn on the
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  Speaker 1: TV broadcast. And Quinn was preparing to kick a field goal.
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  Speaker 1: He was going for it. On fifth down, he was
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  Speaker 1: going to kick a field goal. And it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. There's only four downs. This is not
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  Speaker 1: Colorado football back in the day when they were giving
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  Speaker 1: a fifth down. He's like, well, yeah, yeah. He's waiting
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  Speaker 1: for that fifth down to kick the field goal. Like
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the Easter bunny to deliver a tax refund. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're just getting some chocolate eggs or chocolate bunny. That's
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  Speaker 1: all you're getting. That's it. And so the brain fart
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  Speaker 1: was so big. How big was it? It was such
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  Speaker 1: a big brain fart. It actually registered on the Richter scale.
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  Speaker 1: That's how big a brain fart it was. Another moment
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  Speaker 1: of situational malfeasance from Dan Quinn. The head coach there,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness. Now, here's Quinn, who's about to lie to you.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what he said to the media, which is opposite,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, of what actually he said in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: No, I definitely knew it was fourth down.
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  Speaker 1: We were going for it, and I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: it before, too.
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  Speaker 3: I was probably saying, like, with the leadership, there's not
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  Speaker 3: a penalty to go for a field goal. Like, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't go, like, it's the.
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  Speaker 1: Turn on downs. Like, I think somebody asked me, can
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  Speaker 1: we kick a field goal?
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  Speaker 3: So now we were going for it we knew we
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  Speaker 3: had to go for some fourth downs to be bold
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  Speaker 3: in the game i didn't think it was going to
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  Speaker 3: be a 17 14 game like i probably thought it
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  Speaker 3: was going to need 28 30 to score you know
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  Speaker 3: to go win it and so it was by design
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  Speaker 3: that we were going to go but i knew what
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  Speaker 3: happened i think i was probably just commenting that i
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  Speaker 3: remembered at least on the headset somebody asked me and
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  Speaker 3: after an illegal shift like it was turnover on downs
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  Speaker 3: and jayden saw the foul too i think he also
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  Speaker 3: came out saw.
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  Speaker 1: The penalty So that was a lot of words to say.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I effed up. But God knows I
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  Speaker 1: ain't admitting to that, you losers. No, no, no. Lip readers.
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  Speaker 1: Lip readers. Listen, I'm not a great lip reader. Even
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  Speaker 1: I could tell what Dan Quinn was saying. I'm an
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  Speaker 1: amateur lip reader. And even I knew exactly what he said.
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  Speaker 1: And some of our blind listeners, blind sea bass in
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee is like, I knew that. Yeah, Stevie Meatballs, I'm
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  Speaker 1: aware of that. Come on now. What's up with that?
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  Speaker 1: So Dan Quinn is living proof, apparently, that you can
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  Speaker 1: make millions as an NFL coach without mastering basic kindergarten math.
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  Speaker 1: It's fascinating. Get this man to the tattoo shop, get
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  Speaker 1: a forehead tattoo of a down marker. Oh, no, I
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  Speaker 1: knew the situation. Of course you did. Yes, that's why
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  Speaker 1: you said, no, I'm fourth down. We'll kick the field goal.
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  Speaker 1: We can kick the field goal. All right, now to
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  Speaker 1: the winner's side. Not as good a story. A number
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  Speaker 1: of you reached out to me based on the events
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  Speaker 1: in recent days while I was away from my post
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  Speaker 1: in the Watchtower. And you said, hey, what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with your Rams, Baylor? Like somehow I work for the team.
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  Speaker 1: It blows me away. Anyway, the 49er thing, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of my friends in Northern California love the show. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for listening. You guys have been with me
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  Speaker 1: a lot. You've been with the show for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: We go way back on different stations we've been on
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco over the years. And so you've been
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  Speaker 1: with me a long time. And you know that I'm
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  Speaker 1: not very high on the 49ers. But they keep winning, Maller!
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  Speaker 1: So here's the question. Have you now changed your position
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  Speaker 1: on the 6-0 Kyle Shanahan Niners? So I have two letters. N-O. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: The Niners are playing great. I'm not buying this. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it's fool's gold. Even with a six-game winning streak
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  Speaker 1: and a shiny bow on top of that, I'm still
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  Speaker 1: not there. I'm not. I certainly would not give them
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  Speaker 1: credit for failing to cover the spread against the Washington
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  Speaker 1: Commanders who blow. You're not going to get style points.
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  Speaker 1: And even if they'd won that game by 30 points,
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  Speaker 1: you would have gotten style points because this is a
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  Speaker 1: game against an inferior opponent. You're at home, East Coast,
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  Speaker 1: West Coast, all that stuff. And so, now, are the
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  Speaker 1: Niners better than I expected? I'm going to be sure. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I'll concede that. However, do not confuse a perfect record
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  Speaker 1: with a perfect team. This is far from a perfect team.
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  Speaker 1: They're lacking. Minnesota Vikings are also. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 1: anybody that good in the NFC. I think they all stink.
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  Speaker 1: Top to bottom. They're not one team I would bet on.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever wins the AFC is going to win the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. Period. Stop. And the Niners are...
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  Speaker 1: Here's my beef with the Niners. The Niners are operating
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  Speaker 1: with an AOL dial-up processor. It's AOL dial-up in a
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  Speaker 1: fiber optic world. That seems problematic. That seems problematic to me.
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  Speaker 1: But what do I know? The wiring is really messed up.
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  Speaker 1: They might want to hire an electrician to come in
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  Speaker 1: here and rewire the thing. You get that electrical substation...
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  Speaker 1: And just one power surge away from a complete meltdown.
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  Speaker 1: Evans knocked out of this game. The Niners downplaying Mike Evans' injury.
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  Speaker 1: And how many times has he been dinged up already?
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  Speaker 1: You look at the older players on the 49ers here.
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  Speaker 1: And then you look at this game. There's a patternicity
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  Speaker 1: situation with Kyle Shanahan teams. But Brock Purdy, who's getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hype. I guess there was a talking
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  Speaker 1: points memo sent out to the broadcasters. Brock Purdy, MVP, MVP, MVP. Stop.
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  Speaker 2: Stop.
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  Speaker 1: Stop. All right. I don't trust him. When the lights
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  Speaker 1: get bright and the stakes are high. I don't trust
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  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy. I don't. And in the second half of
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  Speaker 1: this game, after coming out, lighting up the scoreboard in
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  Speaker 1: the second half, Brock Purdy completed all of four passes,
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  Speaker 1: four completions after halftime, a passer rating below 80. That's
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  Speaker 1: your MVP. Okay. That's your MVP, not mine. And so
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco, much like a toddler playing with their food,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what they were doing in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: And there's Kyle Shanahan's trademark. This is what he's done.
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  Speaker 1: His teams have done. They get a comfortable lead. And
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  Speaker 1: they start going into cruise control there, the Niners. And
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  Speaker 1: suddenly you're driving a clown car with three flat tires.
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  Speaker 1: Even Ernesto, our buddy Ernesto in the Bay is screaming.
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  Speaker 1: He knows. And those are not championship habits for the
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  Speaker 1: 49ers here. And they're bad habits wearing a Halloween costume
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  Speaker 1: is what they are at this particular point. Halloween not
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  Speaker 1: that far away. Less than two weeks away. So that's
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  Speaker 1: where we are. I'm still waiting. I know the Niners
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  Speaker 1: are going to win a bunch more games. They'll probably
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  Speaker 1: win 14 games this season. Look at the schedule. But still, ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: we don't buy it. Now, last word. To L.A. We're
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. What did they eat for breakfast? Snap, crackle, pop. Snap, crackle, pop.
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  Speaker 1: Rams suffered another. Body blow, body blow, body blow. Wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver Devontae Adams. He gone. Oh, the hammy. Went whammy
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  Speaker 1: for Devontae Adams. A ruptured hamstring. That sounds painful. And
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  Speaker 1: the loss to the field goal kicker for the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: Rams lost the game. They did not give up a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay announcing Adams. Devontae Adams will miss six to
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  Speaker 1: ten weeks. And you do the math on that, most
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  Speaker 1: likely a season-ending injury for Devontae Adams. And so the
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  Speaker 1: Rams lacking one of the star players. Another star player out.
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  Speaker 1: It's the year of players not performing. Miles Garrett. He's
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  Speaker 1: enjoying the L.A. nightlife, from what I understand. My friends
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  Speaker 1: who are out and going around to social events in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: say Miles Garrett getting a lot of time out and about.
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  Speaker 1: Playing football, not so much. In fact, he hasn't played
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  Speaker 1: a game for the Rams in North America. Has missed
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  Speaker 1: all the games in North America for the Rams. But
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  Speaker 1: this is about Devontae Adams as he's out. Also, a
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  Speaker 1: couple defensive tackles, including Kobe Turner knocked out. That little
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  Speaker 1: fun-sized kicker, the guy that weighs like 90 pounds, he
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  Speaker 1: got hurt. Shocking, a 90-pound kicker would get hurt. It
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  Speaker 1: might be a little more than that. And Miles Garrett
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  Speaker 1: not coming back. And these guys, listen, that's one thing
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  Speaker 1: I've learned as I've gotten older. The more money these
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  Speaker 1: guys get paid, the less they try to hurry back, mostly.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, ah, but I'm going to take an abundance
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  Speaker 1: of caution. I'm going to sit back and relax and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of wait things out and all that. So
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  Speaker 1: the Rams are a hot mess at this point. They're 2-4.
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  Speaker 1: Refs took two games, Cardinals game, another crap call went
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  Speaker 1: against the Rams. And then the Bronco game, the NFL
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  Speaker 1: admitted Broncos didn't deserve to win that. But it is
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  Speaker 1: the situation the Rams find themselves in at this point.
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  Speaker 1: The question here, is the Devontae Adams injury a death
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  Speaker 1: sentence for the 2026 Rams? Sean McVay Rams. Is this
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  Speaker 1: a death sentence? So I am going to shake my
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  Speaker 1: head no on this one. It is not a death
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  Speaker 1: sentence for the Rams. It should not be. The Rams,
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  Speaker 1: I'm already tired of all the excuses. I'm not an
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  Speaker 1: excuse guy. Just do what you're supposed to do. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear the excuses. It drives me bonkers.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people running interference for Sean McVay,
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  Speaker 1: and McVay's not done a good job coaching this team.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, I'll rant and raver about that. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: not today, but McVay's not doing a good job. And
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  Speaker 1: the whole situation reminds me of like a politician. They
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  Speaker 1: have so many excuses, the Rams. It's like a politician
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  Speaker 1: caught leaving one of those sleazy motels that charge by
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  Speaker 1: the hour with a floozy at three in the morning
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  Speaker 1: and caught on camera. Well, OK, so you got all
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  Speaker 1: these excuses and all that. And that's wonderful. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing that we've often said, it's an old saying in
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  Speaker 1: sports that adversity doesn't create character, it reveals it. If anything,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams are the model franchise, the single greatest OMG
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  Speaker 1: in the history of professional sports. A guy named Kurt Warner,
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Warner, grocery bagger, Kurt Warner, who became an MVP
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  Speaker 1: and the star of the greatest show on turf. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the difference was that Ram team, this is years ago,
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  Speaker 1: they had a guy named Trent Green, the old St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis Rams. And Trent Green was not... was not expected
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  Speaker 1: to be the man to lead the Rams anywhere. So
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  Speaker 1: they had low expectations, and then Kurt Warner took off
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  Speaker 1: and all that. So it can be done, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what kind of character this team has. If losing
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  Speaker 1: one star receiver on top of everything else that has
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  Speaker 1: happened destroys your season, then you were never legitimate. You
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  Speaker 1: were a fraud. You weren't a legitimate Super Bowl heavyweight
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  Speaker 1: team and all that. You were just a house of
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  Speaker 1: cards with a nice roof and good marketing. That's it. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Rams are dead. I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you the Rams at this point are lying
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  Speaker 1: in a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai, and they're arguing with
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  Speaker 1: the doctor about whether or not they should be there.
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  Speaker 1: And Devontae Adams is good. I'm not going to say
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  Speaker 1: he's not. He's obviously a good player. But his loss
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  Speaker 1: should not take the entire season and have it just
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: burn up and all that stuff. There's a lot of
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: games to go. And McVay is the offensive maestro. The
• 18:33
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• 18:38
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• 18:41
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• 18:43
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• 18:47
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. He can light up. He's got more brainpower.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: He can light up Times Square. You figure out that
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the Rams can do something with what they have. One
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: door closes, another one opens up. Now, the twisted logic
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and a lot of dumb football aside, which is what's
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: been going on for the Rams, and not the brightest
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: team in the world here, the Rams, They still have
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the talent, even without Devontae Adams. They can go out
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and make a trade. The trade deadline's coming up here
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: in November. And if they want, they can get somebody
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: else's problem, like that Jerry Judy, who's no good from Cleveland.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: The Browns love to make trades with the Rams, so
• 19:25
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• 19:28
  Speaker 1: was drafted high and apparently can't play. So there's a
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: guy that will be available at the trade deadline if
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: they want. And there'll be plenty of other names as
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: teams continue to suck. And as long as the Rams
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: are in the wild card race, and they're certainly not
• 19:43
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• 19:46
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• 19:48
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• 19:51
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• 19:52
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• 19:55
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• 19:59
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• 20:01
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• 20:05
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• 20:08
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• 20:14
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• 20:18
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• 20:21
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• 20:30
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• 20:32
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• 21:18
  Speaker 1: So our lead from St. Petersburg, it was game number
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: six of the ALCS. The Guardians looking to force a
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: game seven. Another team with a dumb nickname. They're named
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: after a bridge. The Guardians trying to get to a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: game seven, winner take all game seven. Anything can happen
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: in a game seven. And the Rays hoping to end
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: things and advance to a higher level. In the playoffs,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: a team from Wisconsin eating cheese curds, waiting around to
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: find out who they were going to play. You had
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Brian Anderson, the Brewers broadcaster. He had the call. Ron
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Darling and Jeff Francor on TNT. They were calling the game.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: And you were probably watching the football game, or I
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: don't know what you were doing, but you were most
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: likely not watching this based on the ratings. It's not good.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Yandy Diaz, Yandy, Yandy Diaz and Junior Caminero went kaboom, kaboom.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Each of them had a two-run ding-dong, which I'm told
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: is good. And next met Freddy Peralta. Mets trash is
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: your success. As Peralta, who was not good wearing the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Metropolitan's uniform, went down to Florida and he grounded a
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: round on the mound. Five and a third innings. Tampa
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Bay ends up beating Cleveland 7-3 in Game 6 of
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the ALCS, and it's on to the World Series, their
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: third pennant in 29 seasons. As a big league franchise,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you think of some of these teams that have been around,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: like the Angels and others who've only been to one
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: World Series. The Mariners have never been to the World Series.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, they spend no money, they have no fans,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and they've now been to three World Series, have a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: chance to win their first World Series championship. The Rays
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: will face the Brew Crew, the Brewers, in the first
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: matchup in which both teams are trying for their first
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: World Series title. That's the first time this will have
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: happened in almost 50 years. 1980, the Fightin' Phils got
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: their first franchise championship over the Kansas City Royals. and
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: George Brett. That was way back in 1980, so 46
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: years ago. Now, game one, I know you're counting down
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the minutes to game one. It's on Friday, Friday, Friday,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and that'll be in Milwaukee. And it's possible the roof
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: will be open based on the weather pattern, unlikely in Milwaukee.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: So that would mean if the Brewers play all the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: games with the roof closed and the Rays don't have
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: a roof to open unless there's another hurricane, that means
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: this will be an all-Dome World Series. Dome-da-dome-dome-dome! Yes, cannot wait.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Dome baseball. When you think the great outdoors, you think...
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: dome stadiums but that's what we have on tap so
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: at least we won't have to worry about a rain
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: out or a rain delay unless the roof breaks at
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the house that bud selig built there in milwaukee but
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the story here is tampa bay winning and kevin cash
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and we got one more bite announcing to his team
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: one more bite A big celebration. They were all going
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: crazy in the locker room as Yandy Diaz talked the talk.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He guaranteed a Game 6 victory through an interpreter on Sunday,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and then he walked the walk Getting it done on
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Monday night. But the better story is in the losing
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: locker room. And the Tribe, the team formerly called the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Tribe before you wokesters made them change their name. So
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the Tribe were up 2-1 in the American League Championship Series.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: And they let it all slip away. Bye-bye. See you later.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And they end up blowing the lead. Lose three games
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in a row. And that's all for the Cleveland baseball team.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: So good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: How much responsibility should the manager, Stephen, vote shoulder as
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the Guardians eliminated from the American League Championship Series? So
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: how much responsibility falls on the shoulders of the manager?
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: So I've got Air Force Paratrooper, Peter Luger Steakhouse, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Soup of the Day. And we will combine all of
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: these things, and we are going to sing Kumbaya. We're
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: going to sit around the fire and we're going to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: sing Kumbaya. Now, we always start with... I don't even
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: have to say it anymore. It sounds like you're clogged.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: It's all choked up. Very emotional. I'm verklempt. I'm verklempt.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: All right, so most games, what's the mantra? Most games
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: are lost, they're not won, right? Most games are lost,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: not won. Better story, losing locker room, all that bull
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: crap I say every night. Now, most series are lost,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: not won. This is a textbook example. Now, the good
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: news is I can tell you what happened because chances
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: are you were not watching. I know Ohio Al, I believe,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: was watching, possibly Dick and Dayton, possibly Dick and Dayton,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and a few others. But there it was. Cleveland... Did
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: not get eliminated by Tampa Bay. Cleveland eliminated Cleveland. So
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the Guardians were up two games to one. And you
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: know what they were feeling? They were feeling groovy. They
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: were feeling groovy. They were like, oh, this is great.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And they went from that and they ended up getting
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: outscored the final three games 17 to 7. Three consecutive
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: trips on the Vomit Comet. Three consecutive nights on the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Vomit Comet. Now, Stephen Vogt, the manager, did not play.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: We all know that. He did not play. However, his
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: fingerprints are all over the crime scene. The DNA is
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: in the air everywhere. It just is. So Stephen Vogt
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: took a bottle of stupid pills from the medicine cabinet there.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: He was not managing. He was micro-managing, trotting out how
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: many relievers? Not one, not two, not three, not four,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: not five, not six, not seven. How about eight relievers?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Like he was conducting some kind of odd science experiment.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And the guinea pig was the Cleveland baseball team's playoff hopes.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Just like that. Congratulations, professor. The manager of the Cleveland
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: baseball team. You outsmarted yourself. And it's right on to Cancun.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Knock yourself out. So relying on your eight My Ponies.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And that's what relief pitchers are. They're not as good
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: as starters or else there would be starters. So the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: eight my ponies. And you ended up saving your stallion,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: your stud of studs, Gavin Williams. You saved him for
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: game seven. That is a choice. That is a choice
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that you made. It is also managerial malpractice. It is
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the equivalent of being in the Air Force. You're an
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Air Force paratrooper. And you're like, hey, listen, I know
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: we're going to do some practice stuff and we're going
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to jump out of the planes. So what we're going
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: to do is we're going to save the good parachute
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: for the second jump. We're not going to use the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: one that's got a hole in it and it's a
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: little frazzled. We're going to use that parachute on the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: first jump. And then on the second jump, we'll use
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: a really good parachute that's going to come down perfectly.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: There is no second jump, dummy. There is no second.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: This is the disease of modern baseball. And it continues
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to backfire. And no one has the base balls to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: put a stop to it. It's ridiculous. Modern baseball. Everyone's
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: got all the gadgets and gizmos and all the spreadsheets
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and all the notes and all that stuff. They've got
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the matchup charts over here. And nobody uses their brain.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Nobody uses their brain. What is the point? Let me
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: ask you this. What is the point of having a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: dominant top starting pitcher like Gavin Williams? What is the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: point of having a pitcher like that? And then say,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you know what? We're going to save him for game seven.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Do you understand?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: The choke factor in a Game 7, it's akin to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: a professional golfer, the final round of the Masters. How
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: often do these guys gag at these big golf tournaments? Well,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in baseball, you get to a game seven and there
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: is a widespread case of tight took a syndrome. A
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: sphincter gets a little too tight there. But you can't
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: figure out who's got that and who doesn't have that
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: if you don't get to a game seven. What on
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: God's green earth? We don't know. Was this completely Stephen
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Vogt's choice or was this a group decision? Was this
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: some poindexter in the front office? I don't know. But
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I will be Benny Brightside on one thing. I will
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: give a positive review because I will guarantee you that
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: while it didn't work out and Gavin Williams did not
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: take the ball in Game 7, because there is no
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Game 7! There is no Game 7! The good news
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: is he'll be extra fresh for that Cactus League opener.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: If there is a Cactus League in 2027, the way
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: it's looking, there will not be a Cactus League. in
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: 2027 with the pending work stoppage. But if there is,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Gavin Williams has that extra rest.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. All right, now, page two. So let's go up
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to 36,000 feet. That is our cruising altitude on the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: red eye. We're going to look down, and we look
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: down there, and we have the matchup. We have the matchup,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: just like every whiz kid, every algorithm predicted way back
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: in spring training. It is on like Donkey Kong on
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a Friday night in Brewtown. The Brewers into the World Series.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Somewhere Sleazy Cheese is smiling. And the Green Bay Gobbler,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: very happy. Even JT, the wingman, he might live in Tennessee,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: but his heart's back in Wisconsin. So their team on
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to the World Series. Here's the question. What grade, give
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: me a grade, what grade do you give The 2026
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: World Series between the Brewers and the Rays. The Brewers
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and the Rays. That is the matchup. So we have
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: decided to dub this World Series the proper name. It
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: is the Speakeasy Fall Classic. It is the Speakeasy World Series.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: You have to knock three times. You got to whisper
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the password. and promise not to tell anybody the games
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: are being played. Do we all agree on that? Very good.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: So on the Maller grading system, the Maller scale of interest,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the Maller scale of interest, 1 to 10 with 10 being, oh,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: my God, I can't wait to watch. I am at
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: a 2. I'm at a 2. a matchup that has
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: all of the national buzz of that of a zoning
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: board meeting in Sheboygan. In fact, I would argue there
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: might be better snacks and cheaper snacks at a zoning
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: board get-together in beautiful Sheboygan. Unfortunately, that is not what
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: we're talking about here. It's the fall classic. Nobody, nobody ordered...
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like going to Peter Luger's Steakhouse, and
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: you get in there, you're all excited, you sit down,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: they get the white tablecloth, they get you a cocktail,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and then they say, well, we have a limited menu. Okay, well,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: that's fine. I'll just get something off the limited menu.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: And the waiter hands you the menu, and it's a big,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: big menu thing and then there's like there's only one
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: thing i said well okay it's probably like a porterhouse
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: steak or something like that no no no no uh
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the menu is a limited menu and we're only serving
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: tonight they said the waiter says we're only serving steamed
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: broccoli uh no spice nothing no steak uh that's it
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: we have drinks and we have steamed broccoli well i
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: don't want steamed broccoli but that's all you're getting you're
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: getting steamed broccoli you're not getting anything else so the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: raisin brewers now i can sit here behind the bully
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: pulpit and say man there's some really good stories In there,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: there's some really good stories. Jackson, Churrio, The Miz, and Junior, Caballero,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and all these guys. There's some good stories in there.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I can also tell you a documentary about Twinkies has
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: some good stories, but nobody's watching that either. You're not
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: going out of your way to watch a documentary about Twinkies.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: You're not. That's just the reality of the situation. And
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: so this thing is built. This World Series, I'm telling
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: you what this is built for. This is built for
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: people who know what FIP and WAR are. All 37
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: of you are all horny for this World Series. Congratulations.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: This is the World Series for you. If you're a
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: big fan of War and War Plus, War to the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Tenth Degree, all of that stuff, and FIP, so congratulations.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: You have now eliminated 98% of your possible audience here.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And the ratings will be so bad. How bad? How
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: bad will they be? The ratings will be so bad
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: that the people over there at Nielsen are going to
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: have to send someone to the stadium to verify the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: games actually happened. They're going to have to verify. Now,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong. I'm never wrong. I hope I'm wrong.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong. So there you go. You've eliminated
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: most of the... The hard-on nerds, the Rays have no
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: fan base outside of a very small, small group there
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: in the Tampa-St. Pete area. And the Brewers, they own Wisconsin.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: That's great, but not a lot of fans outside... of
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the state of Wisconsin, and that's it. Now, I get it. Listen,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: if you're from Wisconsin or you're a Rays fan, I
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: totally get it. Enjoy the hell out of it. The
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: problem is I do broadcasting, not narrowcasting. It puts me
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: in a bit of a pickle that I am doing
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: a broadcasting situation. I know from talking about the Rays
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and the Guardians a few times I did, the listener engagement,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the tools that we have were not good. There's not
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of interest in this. And that, there certainly wasn't.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine it's going to be much better. Now,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to watch. I like baseball. I watch any
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: World Series. I don't care. As I was talking to
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the great Steve DeSegar in the hallways before he went
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to bed and recorded his updates there for the overnight,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and DeSegar, we were like, hey, we're talking about some
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: of the worst World Series matchups. And I was at
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: one of the worst all the time. The Cleveland Indians
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: played the Miami, then they were called the Florida Marlins
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: in the World Series. And that was a Game 7
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: thriller of a World Series a million years ago. And
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: it was great. It was awesome. It was just a
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: magical thing. But there was two teams that don't have...
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Cleveland a little bit because they've been around for a
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: long time. They were then called the Indians. Now I
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: don't know how many Guardians fans there are. But this
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: is what we got. We had Arizona and Texas not
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: that long ago. That was a crap World Series matchup.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And now I guess this is the era of crap
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: World Series matchups. Now you're probably wondering, why are you
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: at a 2, Ben, and not a 0? Let me explain.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: So Major League Baseball, the reason I'm at a 2
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: and not a 0... Major League Baseball owners have spent
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the better part of 30 years preaching that small market
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: teams cannot compete. It's impossible. It's a real poverty story.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: It's a real sad story. Major League Baseball just can't
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  Speaker 1: have these teams that are in these smaller cities that
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: don't spend a lot of money. They can't compete. So
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: 30 years, baseball owners have been saying that same dogma.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: And a lot of you idiots bought it. And now
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: you all look like jack wagons. And I love it.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I love it all. You all look like total donkeys.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: And the owners, Milwaukee is 19th in payroll. They're 19th.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is 28th in payroll. And one of those
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: teams will win the World Series. Tampa, 28th in payroll.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: The salary cap argument of the owners is, is torn
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  Speaker 1: up like an Achilles. Snap, crackle, pop. It's bad. The
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: billionaires are in Cancun. The coupon clippers will be playing
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin on On Friday night, and what a total
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: harpoon job to the whole argument of the owners out
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  Speaker 1: the window. I was away from my post. I saw
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the owner of the Orioles said the quiet part out loud. Hey,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: we make a lot of money. We make a lot
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: of money. And that's not ideal. That's not ideal for
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the owner's argument. But I've learned that a lot of
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: sports fans are idiots, and no matter what is in
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: front of you, you're going to buy the propaganda. It's sad.
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  Speaker 1: I'm disappointed, but I've learned that. A lot of you
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: are just idiots, and whatever these people say, oh, I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: want the owners to make more money, and they need
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap. Okay, thank you. All right, last word.
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  Speaker 1: Quickly to New York, New York, the Big Apple. We
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: have learned that Aaron Boone will return as the Yankees
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: manager in 2027. It'll mark his 10th season there. in
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the Bronx Zoo since taking over in 2018. I think
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: it was 2017, I think he took over. Anyway, it'll
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: be 10 years for Aaron Boone as the manager. The
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Mallarmath not working on that. Now, in the regular season,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone, 583 winning percentage. In the playoffs, he has
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a losing record, a. 474 winning percentage with all that
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Yankee talent in playoff games. Now, despite another October choke
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: job by the New York Yankees, the Yankees are choosing
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: to go down the highway marked continuity, continuity highway, rather
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: than make a change. Boone gets another opportunity. to end
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the franchise championship drought. I was barely alive the last
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: time the Yankees won a World Series. There's a lot
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: of kids right now getting ready to get out of
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: high school that have no memory of the Yankees ever winning.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: Ever.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Losers. Who's in a worse spot, the Lakers or the Yankees?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: The Lakers haven't won since Kobe, and that's a long
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: time ago. No legitimate championship, and the Yankees, 20-09.
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  Speaker 4: My God.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: That was back in the Stone Age before TikTok, 2009.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: All right, so here's the question. Is Aaron Boone returning
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: good news for the Bronx Bomber fan base? Is this
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: good news? Aaron Boone back in the dugout one more time.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: So for 29—I did the math on this— for 29 fan bases—
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Break out the champagne. Take out the noisemakers. And put
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: on a happy face. And put on the party hats. Why?
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: It is a glorious day if you're a Yankee hater.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: This is a wonderful day. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Aaron Boone is back, baby.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Way to go. Welcome to Groundhog Day in the Boogie
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Down Bronx with Aaron Boone. Same sock puppet manager. same
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: sloppy fundamentally unsound baseball and the same skipper saying the
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: same bull crap after it happens year after year how
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: proud he is of the boys i am so proud
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: that was the greatest error i've ever seen by anthony
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: vulpe boy he really tried so good oh so good
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: and remember boone is not really a manager in the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: sense of a traditional old school manager He's middle management.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: We talked about this. He's a middle manager, corporate spokesman,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: wears baseball pants, and he's got more lives than what?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: More lives than a feral cat living behind some kind
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: of old seafood restaurant in the bad part of town. Now, technically,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: you know what Aaron Boone is? The soup of the day.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And what is the soup of the day? It's not
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: French onion. It's not matzo ball. It's not tomato bisque.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: The soup of the day. is duck soup, or in
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: this case, lame duck soup, as 2027, the final guaranteed
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: year of the contract for Aaron Boone with the Yankees.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: And so that's lame duck status, lame duck soup for Mr. Boone.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: And yet again, Yankee owner Hal Steinbrenner embarrassing the family
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: legacy as Hal Steinbrenner has confused stability. And he thinks
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: that's good. It's really stagnation. You don't realize it because
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: you're not that bright, apparently. And turning the Bronx Bombers,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the once proud Bronx Bombers, into the Bronx bumbling sock puppets,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: as they have been for many, many years now. And
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: so instead of a parade through the Canyon of Heroes
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: in Manhattan... Enjoy the same traditional October funeral procession. Not
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: exactly the parade the Yankees were hoping for.
• 42:17
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• 42:19
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• 42:22
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• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Quickly, quickly. What do we got? What
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: do we got? Coop, coop, coop, coop. Here we go.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: After the Chargers fell to 0-6, some comments from Jim
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Harbaugh after the game made it seem like Mike McDaniel
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: is definitely on his way out. However, Monday has come
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: and gone, and he was not fired, as far as
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: we know. Do you think that means he's safe?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: No, the Chargers have a bye. They're not playing this weekend,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: so they could have already fired him. They just didn't
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: announce it, although I assume McDaniel would have made it public.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Somebody has to be– much like the Aztecs of Mexico. Somebody–
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: they need a human sacrifice, Coop. And Mike McDaniel will
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: be doing a podcast about kombucha tea before too long.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Next.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: So the Broncos have won their last couple of matchups,
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: but you wouldn't know it based on social media reactions.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Here we go. This is Coop trying to give some propaganda.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Sean Payton was actually asked if he's considered benching Bo Nix.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: He just said no. Do you think that's true?
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: No.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Well, you can't admit it. You don't admit it until
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: you actually do it. But we're getting late in the
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: season now, middle of the season. Bo Nix is the
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: 27th ranked quarterback. Jacoby Brissett has been a better quarterback.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Something has to change. It is not sustainable. The Broncos,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: either Bo Nix has to get better, or if that's
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: not going to happen, they've got to replace him next.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: You want a fun question or a sporty question? Let's
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: do fun. Why not? All right. What was the best
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: thing you ate on your trip to Mexico City? I
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: don't like soft tacos, but I did enjoy the soft
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: tacos in Mexico. I did not eat the grasshoppers they
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: had on the menu.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I chose not to eat the grasshoppers. What else did
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I eat? No, obviously the taco shops. I love that
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: stuff's open like 6 in the morning. You can get
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: good food until 6 in the morning. And more importantly,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: didn't get Montezuma's Revenge, Coop. Did not get that. How
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: did we do? We passed this edition. Winner, winner, winner, winner.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Chicken dinner.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Woo.
• 44:14
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• 44:22
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• 44:28
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• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Lord, that's a lot of money.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: All right, to the game we go. We'll start out
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: with our contestants quickly. Scotty on the pike, a regular hello. Scotty, welcome.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Hello, Ben. How are you?
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: All right, thanks for asking. Scotty, who do you want
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: to partner up with? We don't have a lot of time,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: so who do you want to partner up with? I'll
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: go with you. Can you sound a little more excited?
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: He knows he's going to lose. No, no, I'd like
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: a little more excitement. I'd enjoy a little more segment.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I want to go with Big Bet. There we go.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: All right. Tyler is just down the road from you there.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: He's in Boston. Hello, Tyler. You're on the Ben Maller Show. Welcome, Tyler.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: You love these games also. Who would you like to
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: partner up with, Tyler? Well, you know, me and Coop
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: generally win this, so we'll do it again. That's a lie.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Some cheating. All right, quickly, Coop. What do we got? Quickly, quickly.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: All right, this is the Snoop Dogg edition. He turns
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: 55 years old today.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Categories are Nothing But a G-Tang, Gin and Juice, I
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: Love My Mama, and Drop It Like It's Hot.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Scotty, which category would you like? Drop It Like It's Hot.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Drop It Like It's Hot. All right, and Tyler, how
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: about you?
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Nothing But a G-Tang.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: All right. All right, let's go, Scotty. You picked Drop
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: It Like It's Hot. And these sports figures all have
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: had notable blunders in their careers. Are you ready? I am.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: All right, 45 seconds on the clock. We need the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: first and last name. Good luck. Here we go. We're
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: on our way. Quarterback for the Washington Commanders, he ran
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: out the clock in a tie game. Yes. Coach of
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks decided to run the ball. Or throw
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: rather than run, yes. Call the timeout for Michigan with
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: no timeouts left in the final four. No, basketball player.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Fab four. Fab five, rather. No, how soon we forget.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Wide receiver for the Eagles. Fumbled before he crossed the
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: goal line. Slot wide receiver. Played with a bunch of teams,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: but mostly played for the Eagles and the Commanders. How
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: about the basketball player? Dribble out the clock in the
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals for the Cavaliers in a tie game. Oh,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: come on. Cowboy players. Basketball sucks. Okay, that's fine, but
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: these are basketball questions. J.R. Smith, Deshaun Jackson, Chris Webber. Crap.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: That basketball player, Deshaun Jackson. Okay.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: 30 points.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Tyler, we have nothing but a G.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: How do you not know Chris? How old are you?
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want to know. You're probably too young. Go ahead.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: Tyler, we've got nothing but a G thing. These athletes
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: all have a first name that starts with a G.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: 45 seconds on the clock. Let's begin. The Greek freak
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: for the Milwaukee Bucks.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: The tight end for the 49ers.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: The current quarterback for the Jets.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Ace pitcher for the Yankees. He used to be on
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: the Pirates.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Running back for the Bears. Back in the day. Back
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: in the day. Okay.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: A white guy that was on the Utah Jazz and
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: later the Celtics.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: He was like... Gordon Hayward.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah!
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on! Offensive lineman who later became the director
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: of the... White guy in the Jazz. One of the
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: great clues of all time. And the Celtics.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: And the Celtics. They don't have any white guys for
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: the Jazz or the Celtics. That's for sure. Oh, my God.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: You got 180. So 180 to 30. All right, we're going.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Scotty on the pike. What do we got?
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Gin and juice? Gin and juice or I love my mama. Scotty?
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Gin and juice. Gin and juice. All right. All right,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: here we go. These sports figures all have gotten a
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: DUI arrest. Bad job by them. All right, here, 45 seconds.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: We're on our way. Go. Former CBS commentator and Cowboys quarterback.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Tony Romo. Yes. Former Mavericks coach. He was a star
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: for the Nets in the NBA. Point guard.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Jason Kidd.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Yes. Quarterback who barfed in the Super Bowl for the Eagles.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Donovan Knapp.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: A wide receiver mostly known for the Chargers. He got
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: a DUI after signing with the Colts this season. Slot
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: wide receiver. All right. How about this? A Steelers wide receiver.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Last name, kind of a famous last name. Like the
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: booze about 10 years ago or so. Antonio Brown? No,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: it's another wide receiver. Terrible. Yeah, please. There's no basketball.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, I couldn't do Zach Randolph. Great news for Coop.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: We win again. No, I think I won because we
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: ran out of time. So I won, I think.