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Hour 2 - Bravo! · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: And how do you do in our number two? We
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  Speaker 1: rant and rave like lunatics here in our number two
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  Speaker 1: of the Ben Maller Show. And here in our number two,
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  Speaker 1: talking baseball as Atlanta gets a game in L.A. So
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  Speaker 1: that NLDS series tied up at 1-1. Who gets the
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  Speaker 1: most blame for the Dave Roberts Dodgers losing game two
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  Speaker 1: at home? It's not the offense, even though they didn't
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  Speaker 1: score much.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the offense. I'll let you know.
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  Speaker 1: Also, how are things looking for Walt Weiss, Atlanta Braves,
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  Speaker 1: as they get what they wanted in L.A. And in
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  Speaker 1: the other National League matchup, does Padres manager Craig Stammen
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  Speaker 1: deserve blame for not pulling closer Mason Miller before he
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  Speaker 1: crumbled in the ninth inning, tried to get six outs
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  Speaker 1: out of him, and he could not get it done.
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  Speaker 1: And the Brew crew come back. They're one win away now.
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  Speaker 1: From advancing. We'll get to all of that and more.
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  Speaker 2: My God. Here it is. Hour number two.
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  Speaker 1: A bravo kind of a performance. Welcome in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get back to the NFL in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: We must talk some baseball. We had playoff action. Double
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  Speaker 1: barrel playoff action. We will start with the late game,
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  Speaker 1: which was on Fox in Los Angeles. As we will
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  Speaker 1: get back to the. NFL again, but it's time now
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  Speaker 1: for some baseball hardball hoedown, if you will, a hardball hoedown.
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  Speaker 1: So Matt Olson and the Atlanta Braves in LA trying
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  Speaker 1: to salvage a split after losing game one over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend in the NLDS. How did that go? It was
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  Speaker 1: on Fox and actually went out pretty well. If you
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  Speaker 1: didn't watch, it went pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Not bad. Michael Harris, the second, getting her done yet again.
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  Speaker 1: Another big playoff game for him as he tripled and
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  Speaker 1: scored the go-ahead run The Dodgers relief pitcher, Chris Bubich.
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  Speaker 2: What a name.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he didn't get picked on in school. And
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  Speaker 1: that was in the fifth inning. And Atlanta held off
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Max Muncy had a home run late. Not
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  Speaker 1: enough as the Atlanta baseball team beats the L.A. baseball
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  Speaker 1: team 3-2 on Sunday night. So that means now the
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  Speaker 1: divisional series. is tied up 1-1. The better story, though,
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. But you already knew that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. Who gets the most blame? Who gets the
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  Speaker 1: most blame for the Dodgers, the Dave Roberts Dodgers, losing?
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  Speaker 1: Game two of the NLDS. So I've got classic animation,
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  Speaker 1: butcher shop, and offshore oil rig. And we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together. And we are going to
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  Speaker 1: put the biscuit in the basket is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: But we always start with number one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 2: One, one, one, one.
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  Speaker 1: One all right so many people are pointing just about
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  Speaker 1: everyone's pointing to the dodgers anemic offense in this game
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  Speaker 1: they had eight at bats with runners in scoring position
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  Speaker 1: how many hits do you think the dodgers got in
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  Speaker 1: those eight at bats none zippo uh oh for eight
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  Speaker 1: with runners in scoring position i'm told that's not good
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  Speaker 1: they had seven runners stranded on base which is pure
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  Speaker 1: trash The Dodger hitters were totally hogtied. The Atlanta Braves,
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  Speaker 1: not even a real team, going with a spring training pitching.
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  Speaker 1: If they had a real commissioner, if baseball had a
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  Speaker 1: real commissioner with balls, there would be no spring training games.
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  Speaker 2: It's the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to take this sport seriously when you have
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  Speaker 1: this type of stuff. I don't care that it worked
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  Speaker 1: for Atlanta. It's the dumbest thing in the world, and
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  Speaker 1: you people support it. You're okay with it. When I
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  Speaker 1: covered spring training a million years ago, it was called
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  Speaker 1: a spring training game where you'd roll out a pitcher
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  Speaker 1: for an inning or two and then another one and
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  Speaker 1: another one so they could run out and go golfing.
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  Speaker 1: And they're doing this in the plus. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: been going on a long time. It's still so stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Even when it works, it's so dumb. It's offensive is
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  Speaker 1: what it is, these bullpen games. The Braves used a
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  Speaker 1: bullpen game, and they end up getting the win. Dodger
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  Speaker 1: hitters were totally confused, discombobulated, all that stuff, by the
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  Speaker 1: gaggle of Atlanta relief pitchers. But the ringing of the
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  Speaker 1: shame bell for us, the Dodger offense was bad, however.
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  Speaker 1: We leave a special spot on the pedestal of bad
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  Speaker 1: for Blake Snell. This was a classic animation situation for
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 2: A Pepe Le Pew special. P-U! What stinks? Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 1: It is fascinating to me that some of you guys
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  Speaker 1: defend Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten angry emails from my Dodger people. You should
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  Speaker 2: be nice to Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 4: He's really good.
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  Speaker 2: He's really good when he pitches.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So the Dodgers have babied Blake Snell. Is that true?
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  Speaker 1: Have they not babied Blake Snell for the time he's
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  Speaker 1: been with the Dodgers? This year was like over the top.
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  Speaker 1: He sat out months. Back in the day, we'd call
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  Speaker 1: that malfeasance. And he made just nine starts. They paid
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  Speaker 1: him $ 36 million to make nine starts. And under the
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  Speaker 1: guise of, hey, we're going to have him good to
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  Speaker 1: go for the post. This is always their default position. Well,
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  Speaker 1: as long as he's good for the playoffs, we'll be okay.
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  Speaker 1: So they coddled and they babied Blake Snell. I ain't
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  Speaker 1: playing this.
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  Speaker 2: I get my brawl.
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  Speaker 1: So they coddled him, saving him for the month of October,
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  Speaker 1: which is very reminiscent to when they did this with
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  Speaker 1: Kershaw a couple years ago. And then he went out
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  Speaker 1: and got absolutely toasted. by the Arizona Diamondbacks in his
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  Speaker 1: first playoff start. But this is Blake Snell. This is 2026.
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  Speaker 1: So Blake Snell, they saved him for October, and he
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  Speaker 1: was right there in the front of the Vomit Comet.
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  Speaker 1: Pukey McPuke. Pukey McPuke. That was the performance.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 1: Three and two-thirds innings. 90 pitches to get.
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  Speaker 2: Through three and two-thirds innings. You've got to be joking.
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  Speaker 1: 90 pitches, five walks, three hits allowed, and everyone playing
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  Speaker 1: defense for the Dodgers. They stood around there picking their nose,
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  Speaker 1: grabbing their tuchus. watching Snellzilla choke on his own vomit
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  Speaker 1: as he was on the mound. And then, and I
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  Speaker 1: actually love this, this guy Ray Kerr, this no-name. This nobody,
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  Speaker 1: Ray Kerr, making the minimum wage salary, which used to
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  Speaker 1: be a big deal. Back in the old days, it was, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's making minimum wage. You'd be like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: that guy has to get a job selling cars. He's
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  Speaker 1: making $ 700, 000 a year. Where I come from, you're rich
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  Speaker 1: if you're making $ 700, 000 a year. So this guy's making
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  Speaker 1: minimum wage in baseball, this guy, Ray Kerr.
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  Speaker 2: And he's out there.
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  Speaker 1: This is the guy who's become a viral sensation because
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  Speaker 1: he was serving up Buttered popcorn at the movies and
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  Speaker 1: then he had the Slurpee machine and the Big Gulp
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  Speaker 1: machine that he had to clean out when he worked
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  Speaker 1: at 7-Eleven. Like five minutes ago, even though it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: five minutes ago, it just seems like it was five
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago. And he was more impressive in his outing.
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  Speaker 1: The guy that is known for serving you a Big Gulp.
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  Speaker 1: than Blake Snell. You just can't make this up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is Snell embarrassed? Hell no! He's not wired that way.
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  Speaker 1: If he cared, he wouldn't have made just nine starts.
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  Speaker 1: The guy doesn't care. These guys get paid anyway, so
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You care more than he cares. I
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  Speaker 1: promise you that. So this guy just taking money right
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  Speaker 1: and left. Nine starts for 36 minutes. I would be
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  Speaker 1: so embarrassed. And I'd be embarrassed if I went out
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  Speaker 1: and got outpitched by a guy who's known for working
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  Speaker 1: at a 7-Eleven.
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  Speaker 2: But that's exactly what happened That's exactly what happened. So
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  Speaker 2: is Snell embarrassed? No, we doubt it. We doubt it.
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  Speaker 1: He's going back on Twitch and playing video games, and
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  Speaker 1: he's good to go. All right, meanwhile, page two. To
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves side of things. So take a little
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  Speaker 1: Kodak moment here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a data reference. But take a photo. Take a photo.
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  Speaker 2: Take a screenshot.
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  Speaker 1: So how are things looking? Here's the question. How are
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  Speaker 1: things looking for Walt Weiss... And his Atlanta Braves, as
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  Speaker 1: they have gotten the win, they're tied up 1-1, best
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  Speaker 1: of five series heading back to the South. So Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: they right now have somehow pickpocketed the keys to this series. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's certainly not over. It's not the first team to
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  Speaker 1: win one game who's on the road in Atlanta. That's
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  Speaker 1: not it. But Walt Weiss, he went in, he looked
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  Speaker 1: at the big menu board. He said, can I have
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  Speaker 1: an appetizer? I'd like a split.
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  Speaker 2: What is it? Was that a banana split? No, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like a road split. Okay, we'll give you a road split. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: no problem.
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  Speaker 1: And now you've got Chris Sale, who is the main
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  Speaker 1: course for Atlanta. So they're not futzing around with these
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  Speaker 1: bullpen games when he's out there. So he'll be on
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  Speaker 1: the mound. They'll have a travel day because they travel
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  Speaker 1: by stagecoach from the West Coast to the East Coast.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid they would play right away. So Walt Weiser, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I want the appetizer. I had the appetizer.
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  Speaker 2: Now I got my win.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Chris Sale. And we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go to the butcher shop, and we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to order the tomahawk steak. We're going to order the
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  Speaker 1: tomahawk chop to the Dodgers blue balls is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do. We're going to give them a tomahawk
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  Speaker 1: chop right to the blue balls for the Dodgers. So
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  Speaker 1: right to the blue balls.
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  Speaker 2: Right there.
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  Speaker 1: So the series, 1-1, home field, back in suburban Georgia there,
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  Speaker 1: out in the sticks. And you've got Chris Sale, the
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  Speaker 1: ace on the mound in suburban Atlanta, and the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: going with Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty good matchup, kids. That's a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: pitching matchup. Yamamoto... is outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: And unlike Blake Snell and some of these other frauds
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  Speaker 1: that the Dodgers roll out there on the mound, I
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  Speaker 1: trust Yamamoto. I believe he will give you an honest
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  Speaker 1: day's work. And he won't run off to go play
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  Speaker 1: video games. Whatever else Blake Snell is doing there. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the matchup. Yamamoto is right among the top handful
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  Speaker 1: of pitchers in all of baseball. And he'll be on
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  Speaker 1: the mound there. And Atlanta, though, they're playing with house money.
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  Speaker 1: The Braves are absolutely playing with house money in this.
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  Speaker 2: The Dodgers, if... They lose that game, they're on the ropes.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: They got to win the last two or it's turn
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  Speaker 1: at the last. The party's over.
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  Speaker 2: See you later.
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  Speaker 1: And nothing says October quite like flying. The anxiety of October,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: quite like flying across the country, knowing that Chris Sale
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  Speaker 1: is waiting for you and you just puked up a
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  Speaker 1: game at home. The greatest team in baseball, the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: of 2026, and now they need to win a game
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta or this thing's all kaput. All right, now
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  Speaker 1: final point. To Milwaukee we go. Whoa, what a couple
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  Speaker 1: of games over the weekend. You had the Padres who
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  Speaker 1: thought they had hit a home run late to give
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  Speaker 1: themselves a lead, I believe, would have given them a lead,
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  Speaker 1: and then it hit off the roof.
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  Speaker 2: And like, what's the ground rule? What is that? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. But there it was.
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  Speaker 1: So we had that on Saturday. And then on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: the Padres were in position to even up the series,
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  Speaker 1: get a road, win the pod squad.
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  Speaker 2: And what happened? They went to Mr. Reliable, Mr. Dependable.
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  Speaker 2: They're all everything closer.
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  Speaker 1: All the broadcasters got their knee pads on. When this
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  Speaker 1: guy's on the mound, he's the greatest thing ever. Give
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  Speaker 1: him a Manny and a Patty. Give him a bubble bath.
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  Speaker 1: Mason Miller. And he cruised through the eighth inning. Mason
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  Speaker 1: Miller was great in the eighth inning. In game two
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  Speaker 1: of the NLDS, he was outstanding. And then Craig Stammen,
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  Speaker 1: the manager, said, you know what? I'm going to try
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  Speaker 1: to get six outs. Because he thought, why not? This
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  Speaker 1: guy's a top pitcher in baseball, and that's not too
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  Speaker 1: much to ask, is it? Well, apparently it was. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: it was. So Stammen sent him back out for the
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  Speaker 1: ninth inning and needed six outs. And Miller all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden decided, I'd rather have a Miller. He might
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  Speaker 1: have drank a whole keg of Miller as he could
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  Speaker 1: not find the strike zone. And he lost command. He
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  Speaker 1: walked the bases loaded with two outs. The base is
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  Speaker 1: loaded with two outs. And Stammen stayed in. He stayed
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  Speaker 1: with his closer. He did not make a change. There
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  Speaker 1: was some debate. Should you take him out? They said, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to keep him in there. And he faced
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Churrio. You know those overpriced things you get at Disneyland?
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Churrio. And he singled. A ribby single to center field,
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  Speaker 1: driving in two runs. A two-ribby single. And that gave
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers the game. They go on and obviously win
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  Speaker 1: it at that point. Walk it off as Stammen defended
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  Speaker 1: the move. The Padres manager defending the move after the
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  Speaker 1: game saying, quote, we were thinking of Mason for six
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  Speaker 1: outs anyway while noting that Miller was battling the strike zone.
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  Speaker 2: You think?
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  Speaker 1: You think he was battling the strike zone? So the
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  Speaker 1: question is this, though.
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  Speaker 4: So the.
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  Speaker 1: Padres getting called out, their manager getting called out. Does
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  Speaker 1: Padres manager Craig Stammen deserve the blame for not pulling
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  Speaker 1: closer Mason Miller before he absolutely evaporated.
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  Speaker 2: On the mound?
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  Speaker 1: So I have an unpopular opinion. I actually am supporting
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  Speaker 1: the Padres manager here.
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  Speaker 5: And.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what are you doing, Maller? You're just trying to
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  Speaker 2: be contrarian. No, I'm not. I'm not. I was watching
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  Speaker 2: the game, flipping. Obviously, there was football, so I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: completely locked in on this.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm watching the game, and I'm like, dude, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Padre guy, and I'm obviously not, who would
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  Speaker 1: you rather go down with? Some other jabroni in the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen or Mason Miller? So I'm giving this whole fake outrage...
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  Speaker 1: A massive shoulder shrug is what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 1: This is the postseason. I understand the second-guessing stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm all about it. I love second-guessing. And I've done
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  Speaker 1: more second-guessing than anybody, just about. Every decision is brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: Every decision is brilliant until the ball lands in center
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  Speaker 1: field and two runs score, and then all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden it's not. But the internet mob, the outrage mob
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  Speaker 1: on the internet demanding a scapegoat. You can't just blame
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  Speaker 1: the guy that had a 1-6-7 earned run average. You
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  Speaker 1: can't blame him, God forbid. No, you can't blame Mason Miller.
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: No, he was the one that was negligent on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: Craig Stammen was damned either way.
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  Speaker 2: He was. He was dandy.
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  Speaker 1: The couch managers on social media were sharpening their knives regardless.
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  Speaker 1: You can talk about the definition of being stuck between
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  Speaker 1: the devil and the deep blue sea. That would be that.
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  Speaker 1: And making it seem like a six-out save. This is
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  Speaker 1: how soft baseball is. You make it seem like a
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  Speaker 1: six-out save is like working as a roughneck on an
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  Speaker 1: offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Like, we
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  Speaker 1: understand that, yes, occasionally you have to do this in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. And you have a day off the following day,
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  Speaker 1: so you have a chance to recover. And yet, it's, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't force your all-everything pitcher to get six outs.
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  Speaker 3: Like, seriously.
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  Speaker 2: Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: You don't take the bazooka out of the game because
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  Speaker 1: the bazooka jammed a couple of times. You don't take
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  Speaker 1: the bazooka out.
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  Speaker 6: Of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And as they said in the wild, wild west back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, you ride the horse that brought you
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: to the dance, and even when the horse suddenly starts walking,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: everybody in Milwaukee, you get a walk, you get a walk,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: you get a walk, you get a walk, and that's it.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: If Mason Miller can't be... It can't be a guy
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that you can go six outs for. He's not even
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: that old. What are we doing?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Seriously. I don't get it. He can't get one more
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: lousy out? Really?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Who else were they supposed to bring in? The ghost
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: of Trevor Hoffman passed? This is their top guy? You
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: live by Miller? You die by Miller? And Sunday it
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: turns out that the sword... just cut San Diego right
• 18:23
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• 18:27
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• 18:55
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• 19:01
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• 19:04
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• 19:11
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• 19:15
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• 19:18
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• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show, Fox Sports Radio. We work our way
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: through the overnight here talking some baseball. This hour is
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the Braves get a win in L.A. So they're tied 1-1,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: best of five series. And the Brew Crew have the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Padres chatting with the Grim Reaper. Not going well for
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the San Diego baseball team. Going to hang a star
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: on that one. No, not so much.
• 20:26
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• 20:45
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• 20:49
  Speaker 2: What up, Bill?
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Koopaloop at a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan. Your
• 20:53
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• 20:55
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• 21:01
  Speaker 1: love when athletes are complete and total morons, and there
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: is no one dumber in all of baseball, I would say,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: this weekend than Austin Wells.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Holy crap.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: If old man Steinbrenner was still around, he would have
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: been off the playoff roster. Yes, Austin Wells with the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: epic base-running blunder in the Yankee playoff loss over the weekend.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Just outstanding.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Game 1 of the ALDS, and the Yankees get shut out.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: They lose 1-0, but Austin Wells was the only player
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: on the team to record a single hit.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: However... He had a I want.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: To get away situation where he decided, you know what,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to stretch it out and get
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: over to third base. And no, he wanted to reach
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: third base. He thought he had a better chance to score.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And he apparently did not realize that he is not
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: very fast. And it did not work out. And I
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: think the first day I ever played baseball as a
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: kid and every other kid that's ever played baseball, you
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: don't make mistakes. The final out at third base. Don't
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: And he did it. He did it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Let's go to a man who's made many bonehead plays.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Angry Bill is back.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: On the Ben Maller Show. Hello, Angry Bill.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: How's everybody doing?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Angry Bill.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Glad to hear your voices. The Dodgers can go ahead
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: and do whatever they want to do. They have great players.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: I think they've got good players. But they've got one problem.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: They've got Dave Roberts. If you start Koufax and win,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: you start Drysdale the next day. You don't start not
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: your next best pitcher. He is such a putz head,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: it's unbelievable. Last year, you guys, they say you're going
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: to win three series, win three World Series in a row.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: You wouldn't have won two in a row. If Toronto
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Blue Jays kept playing small ball, you would have lost
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: last year.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, this just in, Angry Bill, that didn't happen. So
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: they did win two. Maybe in your world they didn't,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: but in the world the rest of us live in,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: they have won the last two.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It's wild.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: You keep pointing the way this guy Dave Roberts thinks.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: He's so stupid, he couldn't even pick your.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Ugly dog out for a walk. My dog is not ugly,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: by the way.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: That dog is so ugly, he's a botched colonoscopy.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: You don't even know. You would know about a colonoscopy.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: You would know about that. You would absolutely know about that.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: But let me point something out here, Angry Bill. First
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: of all, it's good to hear you. All right. I
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. It's nice that you called in. Your takes
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: are still terrible, though. I'm glad your takes still suck.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Are you trying to get me to defend Dave Roberts?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: You want me to sit here on these microphones at
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: this bully pulpit and defend Dave Roberts, who I've been
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: crushing for a decade plus?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I really liked him in that spot. Dave Roberts, come on.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Here's your prediction. You're going to lose with Dave Roberts
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: this year, and the next manager of the Dodgers is
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: going to be Don Mattingly.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: That's definitely not happening.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of crack you're smoking, but
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that's not happening.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Well, let me tell you, I can't believe how stupid.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: How don't you start your next bet?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I like that you're totally avoiding Mr. Yankee fanboy over there,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Austin Wells getting thrown out. You're just ignoring that part
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: of it in a 1-0 lead, right?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, let's just look over that. Let's focus
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: on Dave Roberts. I love that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Part of the game.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Part of the game is to get thrown out at
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: third base? Really?
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: It happens.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: It happens. You are so full of crap. You are
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: so full of crap.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: If that had been Mookie Betts, you would have unloaded
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: on Mookie.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, Mookie, what are you doing? Oh, my God.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Who said somebody's going to drive him in from third base?
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Exactly. You don't go to third base.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Jeez.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: You stay here.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: It's second.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Don't change the subject.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Because it's about the Yankees and you're a Yankee fanboy.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: That's why.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: How don't you pitch your Japanese pitcher the next day?
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Didn't he see what that guy did last year?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Apparently they didn't get enough time off having 10 days
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: or whatever they had on. They didn't have enough time off.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: These guys are such babies. They need so much time off,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: these losers.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: When that camera shows Dave Roberts sitting on a bench
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: and making like he's thinking, that is such a funny thing.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: I start laughing my ass off. That man is so stupid,
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: it's unbelievable.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: There you go. And you, of course, when you think
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: of smart, we think of Angry Bill.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: You keep helping all you want.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't care. Listen, I don't get any
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: more money if the Dodgers win. They don't give me anything.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I don't care. I hope they win. But if they
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: don't win, I'll still be here doing a talk show.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: That's scary.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: That is scary. I agree with you. It is scary.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: It does. I should get a bonus if they win.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I should. If Dave Robertson can keep managing, how do
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: you pick the ugliest dog on a face of the
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: earth to buy? When you went to the store.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I know you miss Bella. I know you
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: miss Bella, but my dog, an elite dog, a championship-level dog, Moxie,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of course.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: You're jealous of Moxie, and that's fine. I understand.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: How do you pick such an ugly dog, Ben? Tell me.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Well, you're blind, so I wouldn't go by your opinion.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I could be blind and that dog's still ugly. Oh,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: my God.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: So I'll talk to you in six months, Angry Bill?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Is that the plan here? Check back in six months?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Is that right?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: I've been going through a rough time. Don't worry about it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Well, what's going on with you? Let's help you out here.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: How can I help you? What's going on with you?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: You want to know the truth? They keep telling me
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: there's stuff wrong with me. They keep telling me stuff wrong.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: They put me on an operating table. One of my
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: veins to clear out my heart. The guy has me
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: on the table 10 minutes. He gets me off. He says,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: you've got a heart of a 30-year-old.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: That's because you've never used it, so it's on you.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: These people in Jacksonville got no brains. You watch their
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: football team, they keep saying, oh, they got a good
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: football team. How do you make the penalties they make
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: and think you got a good football team?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Well, as you know, it'll come back and it'll bite
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: them in the ass eventually.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: We know that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But all right, well, Angry Bill, listen, I hope your
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: health improves, Angry Bill. Call us anytime. We're here for you.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you. All right, go away. Hang up on yourself.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: There's Angry Bill. Let's say hello to Andre in the Commonwealth. Andre, Andre, Andre. Welcome, Andre.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: And his dog, Willis. There's Willis.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Willis heard you.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: So he's not doing a good thing. He's got to
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: behave himself better. He's showing a little bit of adjective, Ben.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Angry Bill, you've got to watch it. You've got to
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: be a better friend to yourself. Stress can be the
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: number one killer. If you've got the hypertension, I understand
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: you're getting– animated about the sports, there's a lot to
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: get animated about, specifically why the doggone Lions decided to
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: go for it on fourth and 20 rather than kicking
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: the field goal when their offense wasn't running like it
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: needed to. And then when they come down and score
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: a touchdown, and now instead of being down six points,
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: having to go all the way down and score a touchdown,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: they'd be only down three, putting themselves in field goal range.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: That's not a hit on their bill. You know, this anger,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: you know, Dan Campbell, who's, you know, threatening to bite
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: people's kneecaps off, he looks like he hits the peace pipe.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: He might need to hit it because right now Detroit is,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Well, he might want to go to Express Pros and
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: update his resume because the way this is going, he
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: ain't going to last there in Detroit very much. That
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is a bad football team. That's one of the worst
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: we've seen. We've seen a lot of bad defensive teams,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: but they're as bad as anybody on defense.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: They suck.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: They're giving up 440 yards a game, 30-plus points a game.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: It's pathetic.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: And you've got the Michigan man there, Hutchinson, Aiden. You know,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: doing what he can. That's a team that usually.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Well, it was one guy out of 11. How's that
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: going for you?
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: It's not going well. You know, the other guy that
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: they were relying on, Mr. Glenn, is he's trying to
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: build the Jets back up.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: How's that going? How's that going?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: How are the Jets doing? Are they doing good? Same
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: old Jets.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: They're competitive.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: They're competitive. They're competitive. I know Gino. Gino had three touchdowns,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: no interceptions, a rating over 100. They're competitive.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: You know, the Texans are competitive.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Some good stats.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: The Lions over here are, you know, they're making, embarrassing
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: themselves on national television. But back to this whole thing
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: about stress, we've got to be a better friend to ourselves.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: That's why the Ben Maller show, this community, the Maller militia,
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: it's invaluable. It's invaluable. I didn't realize, and I know
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: we're going to get to sports, but we've got to
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: watch the bit of loneliness. They say loneliness is the
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: equivalent of 15 cigarettes. That's why Ben Maller in this community,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: I'm not even a smoker, but when we have the
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: social isolation, that's 15 cigarettes.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of cigarettes.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: You know, that's more people.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Join the Maller militia.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of tobacco. Yeah, we're saving people's lives here.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: You are, Ben.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Clearly.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Yes, obviously, yeah. On top of that, what we learned
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: here in the Commonwealth, Harvard study, 75 years, the number
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: one indicator of longevity, not how much you make, not
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: where you live, not cultural background, and that's important, warm relationships.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: I.e.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: The Mallard Militia. That's the number one indicator of longevity.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: We'll live forever. We're all part of Mallard Militia. We
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: can't die.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: We're going to be part of the militia.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Come on now, please.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Okay, but who's not living forever?
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: Dan Campbell. Listen, I got nothing against him. I rock
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: with him. But, Ben, we can't allow this to go
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: on any longer. We have to state the facts. Ben
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: Johnson was his OC, came back after the debacle against
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: the 49ers. After they lost to the commanders at home,
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: that was enough. And now he's bringing the Chicago Bears
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: back to prominence. Ben, you've got a defensive coordinator in Minnesota.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: You talk about Minnesota. How the heck are they winning games?
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Their offense is more abundant. You've got a defensive coordinator
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: in Minnesota. You've got a team in Detroit right there
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: that's on the fridge.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: We've got to get this done.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're firing Dan Campbell for Brian Flores.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Is that what you're talking about right now? Are you
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: firing Dan Campbell and putting Brian Flores? I don't think
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Brian Flores can get a head coaching job at this point.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: That lawsuit's still going on, right? Who's going to hire him?
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: That's the problem.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the lawsuit's going on. But, Ben, look, we have
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: to show some leadership here. He got a raw deal
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: with the Dolphins. How's Mike McDaniels doing for the Chargers,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: by the way? So he got a raw deal.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: McDaniels looks good on the sidelines. Coaching he sucks at,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: but he really looks like he knows what he's doing
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: on the sidelines.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: He looks very smart.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: He has the watch. His watch game is strong. He's
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: got the gold watch. He has a little bit of moxie.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: It's not working out. I'm not going to rain down
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: on him, but Brian Flores got a raw deal in Miami,
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: just like Steve Wilkes, by the way, got a raw
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: deal with the Panthers when they got rid of Matt Rule,
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: and they jettisoned him, and now it's been a couple
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: years since they've been winning. You're right about the lawsuit, Ben.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: It doesn't look good in terms of the optics, but
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: I think he did have a point to make. Maybe
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: we settle that lawsuit, you know, under the table.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, if you settle it, then you can get a,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: you know, probably hire him right away and get a
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: head coaching job. Yeah.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Back to the NFL. I knew how to call it, Ben.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: I knew Willis.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I can't be there.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: Hey, we've got Columbia State next Monday, so I'm going
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: to be in the building.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. There you go.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: The great Andre and his dog Willis checking in from
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the Commonwealth as we press on and on and on.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: So the game, I'll go back to Saturday, the Padres-Brewers game,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: which ended in a crazy way. Ty France hit a moonshot,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and it hit off the roof of the ballpark in Milwaukee.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: They get the dome there. And everyone was up in arms.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: It looked like it would have been a home run
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And you've got players pleading and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: yelling and angry and all that stuff from the Padres
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: who feel like there was this great injustice there. The
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  Speaker 1: nerds say, well, it wasn't guaranteed, even though it looked
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  Speaker 1: like it was going to be a home run, that
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  Speaker 1: it was going to be a home run.
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  Speaker 2: You're not that. Yeah, the nerds have all the numbers
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  Speaker 2: and all that.
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  Speaker 1: The postgame, Ty France questioned why baseball couldn't use its
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  Speaker 1: advanced tracking technology to determine what the ball would have done.
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  Speaker 1: He talked about all the nerd stats, exit velocity, projected distance,
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  Speaker 1: and ball tracking. Manny Machado, good old Manny, he agreed
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  Speaker 1: as well. He argued that baseball has enough data on
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  Speaker 1: launch angle and trajectory that it should have the technology
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  Speaker 1: to have a better call.
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  Speaker 2: In such situations. Well, then I mentioned the nerds. The nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd, nerds.
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  Speaker 1: So they crunched the numbers on this. They said, all right,
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  Speaker 1: so is that a home run? Is that not a
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  Speaker 1: home run?
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  Speaker 2: And all that.
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  Speaker 1: The ball struck a roof cable at the dome there
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. And so they went back and the Padres
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  Speaker 1: challenged it, but the grounds rule was pretty clear. So
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the Evidence against the Rob Home Run argument, the StatCast
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  Speaker 1: estimated the ball would have been a homer in only
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  Speaker 1: one MLB stadium. And that would be the one in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: So they did look at these numbers here, and they
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  Speaker 1: claimed that it was one out, runner on first, Ty
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: France hit a pitch 105.3 miles per hour with a
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  Speaker 1: 49-degree launch angle, you nerds. And they claimed it would
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: have only been a home run in one ballpark. So
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that's what they're saying. So Manny Machado and these guys
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  Speaker 1: are like, well, go look at the numbers. And then
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: so somebody did look at the numbers and they said
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been a home run.
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  Speaker 2: So, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Real quick, Thomas wants to cash a golden ticket. Hold on,
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  Speaker 1: let me punch the right line up.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas, you are in the Twin Cities. You got a
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  Speaker 2: golden ticket.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a golden ticket. I've got a golden ticket.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: This is the part you talk to. This is always
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the hard part. This is the part you got to talk.
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  Speaker 2: Where is he?
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  Speaker 5: I am not home yet.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just about home.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I'll put you back on hold then.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't... Golden ticket, you go right away. All right. Anyway,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: it is... I don't know what that was about.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he asked me to wait five minutes, but it
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: was five minutes since I had screened it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, he doesn't want to... He's a safe driver.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: He's a Minnesota nice guy.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to be... You've got to encourage that.
• 34:47
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• 34:48
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• 34:51
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  Speaker 1: So the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman. has not reached base safely
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  Speaker 1: in 24 straight postseason games dating to 2024. Blank holds
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the record for the longest on-base streak in playoff history.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? Hollering James
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  Speaker 1: from Malapropguy. That's his answer. Gorilla Monsoon. The Legend from
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  Speaker 1: Alf the Alien O'Piner. You are Mary Gibbs, who is
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  Speaker 1: 30 today. Boo from Monsters, Inc. is 30 years old.
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  Speaker 1: That's from Late Night Drug Tester. Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: with the iconic Chuck Knobloch, who had the yips. Fred
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  Speaker 1: Flintstone from Doc Dan. That's his answer. Angel Hernandez from
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  Speaker 1: JT the Wingman. And Arik in Minnesota says former twin
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  Speaker 1: second and third baseman, 1979 AL Rookie of the Year
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  Speaker 1: John Castino is the correct answer. Pronk from Nick. Wally
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  Speaker 1: Pipp guessed by Larry D. That's his answer. Charlie Hustle
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  Speaker 1: from Johnny Q. Angry Bill's Doctor from Michael in Tulsa.
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  Speaker 1: The Bambino Babe Ruth guessed by Sean in Portland. Will Middlebrooks,
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  Speaker 1: there's a funny name, from Mediocre Kabuki in Maine. John
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  Speaker 1: Kruk from Kevatomic. Rod Carew guessed by Analog Al.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Lonely holds the record from So Smokes a Lot.
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  Speaker 1: And Mark, the full name guy, says it's him. And
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Analog Al says he's glad.
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  Speaker 2: Glad, angry, bills back. You have an answer, Lorraine, now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with the Green Ranger. Is it
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the Green Ranger? No, that is the Green Hornet. The
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: correct answer would be Miguel Cabrera. Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: 31 straight postseason games on base.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
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  Speaker 6: To the third degree.
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  Speaker 1: Higher end.
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  Speaker 6: This is when Big Ben gets great.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Koopaloop, what do we got?
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Ben, it was reported over the weekend that teams around
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: the NFL are monitoring the Marvin Harrison Jr.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Situation. What does that mean? Are they monitoring? Are they
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: clicking refresh on their computer? How do they monitor it?
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: What do they do exactly? That's a good question. Thank you.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I guess they're seeing about maybe if he'll be available
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: to trade for the NFL.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Well, who would want to trade for Marvin Harrison Jr.,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: who's not very good at football?
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: Light him up.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Well, that leads to my question.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Do you think a change of scenery could improve things
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: for Marvin Harrison Jr.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Well, there is a saying, Coop, that the apple doesn't
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: fall far from the tree. In this case, the apple
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: did fall far from the tree.
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  Speaker 4: No, listen.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: He's got a great opportunity in Arizona. It's a bad team.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Remember Megatron back in the day on bad Lions teams?
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: He had great statistics. You should be able to get
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: numbers on a bad team. He's just, he can't get open.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: By all accounts, he's just kind of lazy. I wouldn't
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: touch him. But somebody will. He'll get another opportunity. He'll
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: get an opportunity on a good team.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Next.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: So Notre Dame quarterback C.J. Carr accounted for five touchdowns
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: against Bill Belichick's North Carolina.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: That seems good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The former draft guru, Todd McShay. I guess he's still
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: a draft guru.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just doing it like independent, I think. Yeah.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Or maybe he's got the ringer.
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: And I don't know who works at the ringer.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Uh he said he said watching car today reminded me
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: of Tom Brady in person yeah do you think we've
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: got a future Hall of Famer in CJ Carr.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: That's actually disrespectful because nobody who watched Tom Brady at
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Michigan thought this.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Guy's going to be good in the NFL. So he's
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: actually disrespectful. See what he did there, Coop?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Because Brady, he was drafted in the middle rounds because
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: nobody thought he was any good.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: That's true. So, you know, hold on. You look at
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: the big board, Coop.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: And even Arch Manning, Texas didn't play this weekend, but
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Arch Manning right at the top. CJ Carr is in
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: that conversation among the top 10 picks, but.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of time left before the draft.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not convinced that, you know, he's fine. I'm not
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: ready to annoy him the next time.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: Ready?
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Next! All right, so get this. An anonymous NBA executive.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: was quoted in saying there's definitely interest there in trading
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: for Bronny James, that teams are interested, and that the
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Lakers could get a second-round pick or two.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Liar, liar.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: You started a movie, liar, liar. Come on, Coop, that's
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: a lie. No, it was reported. Use the claw. It's bullcrap, Coop.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: It's bullcrap.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: It's not true. How'd we do?
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: I won, I won, I won, I won, I won,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: I won.
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  Speaker 6: Chicken dinner.