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Hour 1 - A Pair of Dirty Sox · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: day of September here. as we stayed up all night
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Speaker 1: into the early morning hours on this Wednesday to give
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Speaker 1: you a fresh pod. And here in hour number one,
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Speaker 1: it's all about the baseball playoffs. We'll start in the
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Speaker 1: American League. What stands out to you about manager Chad
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Speaker 1: Tracy's Red Sox performance or lack thereof? Red Sox shutout,
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Speaker 1: worst playoff loss, shutout loss in Red Sox playoff history,
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Speaker 1: 9-0 to the Yankees. Also, give me a word that
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Speaker 1: sums up the Yankees on their side, their performance. in
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Speaker 1: game one of the wildcard round as it was a
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Speaker 1: domination situation. And Yankees all-star Jazz Chisholm Jr. was benched
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Speaker 1: to start the wildcard round for Anthony Volpe, of all people.
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Speaker 1: How does that strike you? We'll go there as well.
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Speaker 1: the playoffs underway with a dud here, there, and everywhere.
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Speaker 1: baseball as it's on. As we begin the postseason, not
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Speaker 1: yet in October. It will soon be October. It is
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Speaker 1: not yet October. So the playoffs starting here in September.
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Speaker 1: And our lead, we're going to start out in the
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Speaker 1: Bronx in New York City there. The made-for-TV matchup. You
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Speaker 1: never see the Yankees and Red Sox on national TV.
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Speaker 1: They just don't get that much attention. But here we are,
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox and Yankees squaring up in the wildcard
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Speaker 1: round as the curtain went up on the MLB playoffs here,
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Speaker 1: the Fugazi wildcard round, where it's best of three. And
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Speaker 1: they're all played in the same city. They're all played
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Speaker 1: in the same city. It's the only time in the
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Speaker 1: playoffs you'll have conceivably three games in a row. Although,
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Speaker 1: more times than not, these games, these series, don't even
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Speaker 1: get to the third game. But if you were not watching...
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Speaker 1: Perhaps you did not know the games were on NBC.
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Speaker 1: You haven't been paying attention this year. The New York
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Speaker 1: Yankees mollywhopped the Red Sox 9-0. Who goofed? I've got
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Speaker 1: to know. Game one of the AL Wild Card Series
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Speaker 1: there at Yankee Stadium. And so the New Yorkers take
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Speaker 1: the 1-0 series lead. Best of three matchup as the
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Speaker 1: new ace of the Yankees, Cam Schittler. Schittler. Ah, see,
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Speaker 1: I knew I was going to do it. There you go. Well,
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Speaker 1: I was close. I had it right. That's a good
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Speaker 1: way to start the show.
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: That's all right. The effort was made. Schlittler.
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Speaker 2: Did I need to dump that?
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Speaker 1: Schlittler. Nah, leave it in. No, I feel like we
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Speaker 1: technically don't. We don't, because it was a mispronunciation. The
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Speaker 1: intention was to say the name properly. The intention was
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Speaker 1: to say Schlittler, because the effort to say the name properly,
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Speaker 1: we said the thing you can't say. We said the
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Speaker 1: thing you shouldn't say, but we said we technically the
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Speaker 1: effort was made to not say what we said. So
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Speaker 1: we said what we didn't want to say by trying
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Speaker 1: to say what we didn't want to say. You see?
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Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, Cam. Cam getting it done. Cam. See,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it again. I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to be careful. Dominating for the Yankees over the Red
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Speaker 1: Sox there. Six and a third scoreless innings allowed. Two hits,
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Speaker 1: one walk, struck out 10 for the Yankees as Schlittler
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Speaker 1: throwing a career-high 117 pitches. And people freaking out, we
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Speaker 1: are in the creamy soft portion of the sporting world
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Speaker 1: where our beloved athletes are put on a pedestal, and
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Speaker 1: they must be protected at all costs. So good old
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Speaker 1: Cam there, 117 pitches, most by Yankee pitchers since 2012. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my God, his arm's going to have to be amputated
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Speaker 1: through 117 pitches. Oh, my God. Yeah. Ben Rice was
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Speaker 1: oh so nice. He had four hits and five at-bats,
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Speaker 1: a couple of dongs and six runs batted in. I
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Speaker 1: am told that is good, accounting for two-thirds of the Yankees' offense.
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Speaker 1: And Rice delivering the knockout blow. Down go the Sox.
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Speaker 1: Down go the Sox. He had a grand salami, Ben Rice,
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Speaker 1: during a five-run eighth inning. And the Yankees were already
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Speaker 1: in complete and total control of this game, but that
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Speaker 1: was just the final blow. in the route or route,
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Speaker 1: depending on how you look at it. New York now
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Speaker 1: one victory away of advancing to the American League Divisional Series.
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Speaker 1: They'll have Max Fried. He is scheduled to start Game 2.
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Speaker 1: It'll be coming up on Wednesday night. Boston must win
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Speaker 1: or else it's turn at the last. The party's over.
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Speaker 1: And that is a good jumping off point. The better
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Speaker 1: story is in the losing locker room. So let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question. What stands out to you about manager
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Speaker 1: Chad Tracy's Red Sox performance in this particular game? So
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Speaker 1: I've got hook and ladder. Burger King and Prius. And
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Speaker 1: we'll put them all together. We're going to try to
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Speaker 1: spice things up. I think we've already spiced things up.
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Speaker 1: That was my tribute to Lucky Tony earlier here. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, Lucky Tony calls up. All right. Anyway, the
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Speaker 1: word that stood out to me was overwhelmed. That's the
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Speaker 1: word I would use to describe the Red Sox offense
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Speaker 1: in this game. The game plan for the Boston baseball
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Speaker 1: team at the plate, What was the game plan? See,
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Speaker 1: it was guess wrong and then swing late and return
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Speaker 1: to the dugout. Rinse, wash, repeat. OK, sounds good. Why not?
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Speaker 1: So Chad Tracy, the manager who got the full time job,
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Speaker 1: we're happy for him. We wouldn't have given him the
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Speaker 1: full time job, but we're happy that he got the job.
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Speaker 1: the spawn of Jim Tracy, former Dodger manager. So Chad Tracy,
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Speaker 1: his guys were thirsty, but not the kind of thirsty
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Speaker 1: where you're chasing after girls and all that. So they
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Speaker 1: were thirsty, so they stood by the hook and ladder truck,
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Speaker 1: and they tried to drink out of the fire hose,
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Speaker 1: and that did not go very well. It was a
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Speaker 1: don't ask. So the Mallard diagnosis here for the Red
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Speaker 1: Sox is they have to win two games now. Otherwise,
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Speaker 1: that's it. They're done, the next two games. So go
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Speaker 1: down to Walgreens. And pick up your prescription. And take
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Speaker 1: two pills a day. And we hope that will cure
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Speaker 1: tight sphincter syndrome. I'm a doctor. Also known as tight
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Speaker 1: tuchus syndrome there. And then you might want to call
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Speaker 1: your hitting coach in the morning and see how everything's
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Speaker 1: going there. Give him a bus. Or the other option
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Speaker 1: for the Red Sox hitters is just to remove the
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Speaker 1: blindfold that you've apparently gone to home plate with and
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Speaker 1: generally easier to hit that way when you don't have
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Speaker 1: the blindfold on. My God, that was terrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.
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Speaker 1: So the Red Sox, who did not play well to
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Speaker 1: finish the regular season, we are told they ranked dead
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Speaker 1: last in Major League Baseball in pretty much every major
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Speaker 1: September offensive category. And the Red Sox verifying and validating
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Speaker 1: that that was legit. They went out there and managed
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Speaker 1: three pathetic hits. That's it. And they were gripping those
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Speaker 1: bats extra tight. They were gripping the bats so tight.
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Speaker 1: We think the people over at Louisville Slugger. are going
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Speaker 1: to say, hey, we need to charge you for repairs
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Speaker 1: because you screwed up. That's a bad job by you.
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Speaker 1: And you look at the Red Sox lineup, guys like
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Speaker 1: Wilson Contreras and Zidane Raffaele and Roman Anthony and Caleb
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Speaker 1: Durbin combined to go 0 for 12. And I didn't
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Speaker 1: play in the major leagues, but I'm told that's not good.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's good. And they just went limp.
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Speaker 1: So when they're down at the Walgreens, when they're down
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Speaker 1: at the pharmacy there to get their prescription on how
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Speaker 1: to cure tight sphincter syndrome, they might want to pick
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Speaker 1: up some chew, maybe that blue chew stuff, and then
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Speaker 1: they'll get stronger at bats. That'll be the way to go.
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Speaker 1: But to make matters worse, Roman Anthony, who's fragile. Remember?
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Speaker 1: when Roman Anthony showed up and it was like oh
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Speaker 1: my god our hero is here Roman Anthony you saved
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Speaker 1: the day sister got all that attention because she was
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Speaker 1: attractive and a bunch of horn dogs were all excited
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Speaker 1: about her now you look at it Roman Anthony who
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Speaker 1: was hurt most of this year when he played not
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Speaker 1: all that good This is the new thing in baseball.
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Speaker 1: These young players that are dubbed the next great thing
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Speaker 1: show up and are given this hero's welcome. But Roman
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Speaker 1: Anthony knocked out with injuries, so we'll see what happens
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Speaker 1: with that. Page two. On the Yankees side of things,
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Speaker 1: you've got Cam Schlittler, who was Dr. Nasty on the mound,
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Speaker 1: and Ben Rice, who we said, well, so nice at
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Speaker 1: the plate and all that stuff for the Yankees. So
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Speaker 1: the question, let's play the word game for the Yankees.
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Speaker 1: Give me the word that sums up the Yankees performance,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees performance in game one of the wildcard round.
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Speaker 1: So the Yankees, the word that stands out here is surgical.
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Speaker 1: This was a surgical situation, as in surgical demolition by
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Speaker 1: the New York Yankees in this game. And no, Boston
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Speaker 1: did not have anesthesia. They did not have anesthesia. With
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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge lounging in the dugout on the injured list
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Speaker 1: or disabled or whatever they're calling it. Whatever's not offensive
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Speaker 1: to you people that are sensitive about everything. Ben Rice
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Speaker 1: brought the lumber and the thunder for the Yankees there,
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Speaker 1: turning Yankee Stadium into his personal driving range. And the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox were very happy to provide him the tea.
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Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Cam Schlittler on the mound brought the chloroform.
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Speaker 1: for the Yankees in this game. So it was a
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Speaker 1: Yankees-Red Sox. It was a six-hour or so documentary, and
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Speaker 1: it was all about how great the Yankees are and
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Speaker 1: how exceptional the Yankees are, and it was condensed down
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Speaker 1: into nine innings of baseball. And we often take pot
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Speaker 1: shots at the Yankees, and I'm sure at some point
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Speaker 1: we'll be able to do that again, but on this
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Speaker 1: particular night... Aaron Boone, who is the middle manager, and
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Speaker 1: Brian Cashman and his army of nerds served up a
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Speaker 1: total Burger King performance. It was a combo meal from
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Speaker 1: Burger King. It was a Whopper with an extra large fry.
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Speaker 1: As they fried the Red Sox in this game, it
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Speaker 1: was picture perfect, annoyingly perfect for the Yankees to win
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Speaker 1: this game. Now, why was it annoyingly perfect? Because it's
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Speaker 1: the kind of game... where the Yankee fan, who's already annoying, right?
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Speaker 1: I'll agree on that. The Yankee fan's annoying. So the
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Speaker 1: Yankee fan, now they pay the playoff prices. They see
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Speaker 1: this dominating performance, 9-0 over the Red Sox in the
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Speaker 1: playoff game. They actually receive playoff-quality performances for once, something
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Speaker 1: that doesn't normally seem to happen there in recent years.
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Speaker 1: And immediately you know that the Yankee fan's mapping out
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Speaker 1: the parade route Or root. And they're saying, where can
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Speaker 1: I buy the merch, the World Series merch? We haven't
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Speaker 1: made the World Series yet. You haven't won the World Series. Well,
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Speaker 1: we're going to make it. You're the Yankees and all
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Speaker 1: that effing stuff. All right, now, the last word, staying
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Speaker 1: with the pinstripes, if you looked at the Yankee lineup,
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Speaker 1: and who doesn't like doing lineup radio, but if you
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Speaker 1: looked at the Yankee lineup, there was a story in there.
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't Aaron Judge who was not, was not,
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Speaker 1: The story here is All-Star second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr.,
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Speaker 1: who was demoted to bench jockey. Jazz Chisholm, game one
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Speaker 1: of the wildcard round. I remember this happening, I believe,
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Speaker 1: last year. Jazz Chisholm wildcard round against Boston and lefty
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Speaker 1: Peyton Tolley. and he was unable to pay the tollie
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Speaker 1: as Anthony Volpe, of all people, Anthony Volpe got the
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Speaker 1: start at second base for the Yankees. So that means
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Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm, who made headlines back in spring training in
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Speaker 1: the Grapefruit League when he famously said, that he was
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Speaker 1: going to go 50 for 50, 50 home runs, 50
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Speaker 1: stolen bases, and he was eyeing a contract that would
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Speaker 1: average $ 35 million a year over seven or eight years,
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Speaker 1: possibly 10 years. Instead, Jazz Chisholm went out and posted
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Speaker 1: career lows in things like batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS,
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Speaker 1: which I don't think is going to help you. I
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Speaker 1: don't think that's a net positive if you're trying to
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Speaker 1: get a new contract and you do all that. And
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Speaker 1: he finished. How close did he come to 50 home runs? Well,
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Speaker 1: he had 19. 19 home runs. That's not 50. It's
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Speaker 1: not close to 50. It's not even 20. It's close
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Speaker 1: to 20, but it's not. Anyway, then he did have
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Speaker 1: 41 stolen bases.
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Speaker 2: Whee! All right.
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Speaker 1: Question. You've got Yankee all-star Jazz Chisholm benched to start
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Speaker 1: the wild card round. How does that strike you? So
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Speaker 1: the Yankees did not technically puncture Jazz Chisholm's ego, because
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Speaker 1: I think it's almost impossible to do that. The man's
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Speaker 1: very proud of himself. There's no one he likes more
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Speaker 1: than himself. What the Yankees did is they simply ran
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Speaker 1: over Jazz Chisholm's ego and with the analytic department's Prius.
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Speaker 1: They backed over him with the Prius, is what they did.
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Speaker 1: And all spring, this guy was writing checks with his
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Speaker 1: mouth and talked about a $ 350 million contract and has
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Speaker 1: back then spent roughly six months jazz yelling insufficient funds,
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Speaker 1: insufficient funds for the Yankees. And that 50-50 prediction by
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Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm, while it was great and it's fun and
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Speaker 1: I encourage more people to do it, we should point
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Speaker 1: out that the 50-50 shot called by Jazz Chisholm belongs
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Speaker 1: in the same museum with The athlete showed up in
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Speaker 1: the best shape of his life. I love when you go,
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Speaker 1: I'm in the best shape of my life. Okay, that's great.
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Speaker 1: That is just effing wonderful. Congratulations. Way to go. Turns
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Speaker 1: out that hitting 218 against left-handed pitching does not play
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Speaker 1: the trumpet very loudly, and that is what got Jazz
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Speaker 1: Chisholm Jr. benched against a left-hander. The nerds ran the
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Speaker 1: sabermetric numbers into the super gobbledygook. And it spit out.
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Speaker 1: They said, let's put it in the sabermetric washing machine.
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Speaker 1: And it popped out platoon player. Yes, that's if you're
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Speaker 1: not starting because you can't hit left handed pitching. Is
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Speaker 1: that not a platoon player? Oh, you're being mean, Maller.
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Speaker 1: I know I'm a schmuck. Nothing humbles a future thirty
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Speaker 1: five million dollar a year man. Quite like watching Anthony
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Speaker 1: Volpe play. who, by the way, was there. And you
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Speaker 1: were in Worcester. A few of you did attend the
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Speaker 1: Woosox game on that Sunday many months ago where I
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Speaker 1: threw out the first pitch. And Anthony Volpe, at that point,
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Speaker 1: was playing AAA baseball for the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Rail Riders. And
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Speaker 1: he went from the Rail Riders to the starting lineup
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Speaker 1: for the Yankees and replaced in a playoff game.
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Speaker 2: Playoffs!
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Speaker 1: And replaced... Jazz Chisholm. Imagine having somebody take your playoff
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Speaker 1: at bats who spent a good chunk of the summer
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Speaker 1: playing for the Rail Riders while you sit in the
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Speaker 1: dugout underneath in a hoodie ordering off the dollar menu.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty much what happened there in a nutshell for Jazz.
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Speaker 1: Ben Maller. Now, we did not talk about the White
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Speaker 1: Sox and the ass. Well, 1,000 to 1,000 holes. Chicago
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Speaker 1: gets the win there in their wild card round. It
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Speaker 1: turns out that the White Sox had a performance enhancer.
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Speaker 1: A very unusual performance here. We believe this is the
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Speaker 1: first time in baseball history that a team has gotten
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Speaker 1: this kind of performance enhancement prior to a playoff series.
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Speaker 1: It's very unique and will likely never happen again in
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Speaker 1: your lifetime or certainly in my lifetime. But what is it?
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that and we will do it.
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Speaker 1: As we continue on through the overnight just beginning. A
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Speaker 1: lot of baseball talk to get the festivities going as
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Speaker 1: the Yankees are a win away from advancing. So the
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Speaker 1: Padres and the Chicago White Sox and also the Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Braves as they got the win earlier during the day.
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Speaker 1: We also have later on A bunch of baseball players
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Speaker 1: do you do that? Well, it's at Ben Maller. Lorena
21:31
Speaker 1: is here, FSR Tech Queen.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Bill.
21:33
Speaker 1: Don't talk to me. And over there, Koopa Loop at
21:36
Speaker 1: a Bronco fan.
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Speaker 3: Moo.
21:38
Speaker 1: That's a Bronco fan. Your comments can and will be
21:42
Speaker 1: used against you in the court of the Maller Militia.
21:45
Speaker 1: So please, please act accordingly. We thank you. The Mallard
21:52
Speaker 1: Militia with a lot to say, as you might imagine.
21:55
Speaker 1: And here we go. Alf the Alien O'Piner says, as
21:59
Speaker 1: Rice and Cam Schlittler are Massachusetts born and bred, the
22:06
Speaker 1: Sox should fire whoever is responsible for scouting in the region. Yeah,
22:12
Speaker 1: they did highlight that a lot on the broadcast that
22:14
Speaker 1: they were from the Commonwealth and they came back to attack.
22:19
Speaker 1: The hometown team. Femi, the top Uber Eats driver in Minnesota, says, Ben,
22:25
Speaker 1: I've never watched a WNBA game, but your guy Steve
22:29
Speaker 1: announcing the Lynx has been knocked out of the first round.
22:34
Speaker 1: Broke my heart. Can you please do a deep dive
22:38
Speaker 1: in the seventh hour of what happened? I have no
22:41
Speaker 1: idea what you're talking about, Femi. I have no concept
22:45
Speaker 1: of that. I did not watch a second of that.
22:47
Speaker 1: I have no interest in that. So let me know
22:50
Speaker 1: how that goes. I do broadcasting, not narrowcasting. That's a
22:54
Speaker 1: narrow audience there, unless there's... The only time the WNBA
22:56
Speaker 1: is relevant is if there's something political, which is often,
22:59
Speaker 1: which is often. Mark the Walker writes in, and he's
23:02
Speaker 1: out wandering around Rochester. He says, A, on the Mahler monologue,
23:06
Speaker 1: the highlight was definitely... avoiding a Freudian slip announcing jazz chism. Yeah,
23:13
Speaker 1: I've not screwed that one up. The Cam Schlittler, that
23:18
Speaker 1: has happened. There you go. Anthony in Anaheim says, sorry
23:22
Speaker 1: to hear about your buddy, Mr. Belding. Rest in peace. Well,
23:25
Speaker 1: it wasn't a buddy. It was just a guy that
23:27
Speaker 1: happened to occasionally listen to the show and had some
23:30
Speaker 1: success in Hollywood and all that. Fargo Pete says, we
23:33
Speaker 1: need a Fargo Mallor meet and greet. Can I stay
23:37
Speaker 1: at your house, Fargo, Pete? What is there to do
23:39
Speaker 1: in Fargo? I've never been to Fargo. What do you
23:43
Speaker 1: do there?
23:44
Speaker 3: Where is Fargo?
23:44
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. What state do you think Fargo is in?
23:50
Speaker 1: North Connecticut. See, now people think you're just being, you're
23:55
Speaker 1: playing a character. Like Northern Connecticut, like inside of Connecticut,
23:58
Speaker 1: the Northern region. They think you're just doing this. You're
24:01
Speaker 1: not blonde. I think it's a good guess. It's a
24:03
Speaker 1: terrible guess. It's not even anywhere close to Connecticut. Is
24:08
Speaker 1: it North Dakota? Yes, it's North Dakota. But that's not
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Speaker 1: anywhere near Connecticut. It was north something. Connecticut is far,
24:18
Speaker 1: far away from North Dakota. All right, Yankee fan Jill
24:21
Speaker 1: writes in and says, I'm so happy you can't even
24:24
Speaker 1: find fault tonight, Maller. Can I have one night to enjoy, Ben? Yeah,
24:30
Speaker 1: go ahead. Knock yourself out, Jill. Enjoy. It was a
24:32
Speaker 1: good night. I'm sure I could find something. The Jazz
24:36
Speaker 1: Chisholm thing I did find. I took a shot there.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
24:39
Speaker 1: Absolutely. curmudgeon wayne this guy bitches about everything he says
24:45
Speaker 1: it's nfl season maybe hit them first and spend the
24:49
Speaker 1: next hour with baseball mallor all right i'm glad that
24:54
Speaker 1: curmudgeon wayne is programming my job that's what i need
24:58
Speaker 1: that's when i jump off the bridge is when i
25:00
Speaker 1: didn't know you were taking volunteers well it's nice to
25:04
Speaker 1: have a program director like curmudgeon wayne i'll tell you
25:06
Speaker 1: that The Baltimore Freeloader account writes in. He says, what
25:12
Speaker 1: the Schlittler is going on? You better learn this guy's
25:16
Speaker 1: last name. He's going to be around for a while.
25:19
Speaker 1: If he was a scrub, you wouldn't have to worry
25:21
Speaker 1: about learning it. Well, no, I'm not worried about it.
25:24
Speaker 1: And I've said his name before, Baltimore Freeloader account. I
25:29
Speaker 1: just merely, for some reason, I was like, okay, I
25:31
Speaker 1: got to make sure I say this right.
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Speaker 2: And then, boom!
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Speaker 3: Boom!
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Speaker 1: Dropped like my old dog Bella, the Shih Tzu, right there. Boom,
25:38
Speaker 1: it happened. Manager Chip writes in, says it's going to
25:42
Speaker 1: be beautiful when your Doyers melt down in the playoffs.
25:45
Speaker 1: Your on-air tantrum is going to be biblical. Ah, please.
25:50
Speaker 1: Those days are over. The Dodgers just buy all the
25:53
Speaker 1: good players and they win and that's what they do
25:55
Speaker 1: these days and that's that. So we did not mention
25:59
Speaker 1: the White Sox and the A's. Swung 1,000 to 1,000 holes.
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Speaker 1: The White Sox beat the A-holes 6-3 in Game 1,
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Speaker 1: best of three A.O. wildcard series. That is Chicago's first
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Speaker 1: postseason win. Since 2021, I was barely alive back then,
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Speaker 1: and Mr. Montgomery getting it done there. He dropped to
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Speaker 1: ninth in the batting order, hit a 430-something-foot home run
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Speaker 1: there for the White Sox. He hit 31 homers this season,
26:27
Speaker 1: also set a new Major League record, Colson Montgomery, with
26:31
Speaker 1: 227 strikeouts. As Chicago completes the turnaround, three straight 100-loss
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Speaker 1: seasons because they were tanking. Of course, I love how
26:39
Speaker 1: all these stories, oh, what a rags-to-riches story. None of
26:43
Speaker 1: those stories point out that was an intentional losing situation
26:46
Speaker 1: by the White Sox. I have yet to see one
26:48
Speaker 1: of those stories saying, hey, they were trying to lose, dummies. No, it's, oh,
26:53
Speaker 1: it was such a sad, they were trying to win,
26:55
Speaker 1: and they lost 100. No, they weren't trying to win.
26:57
Speaker 1: They were not trying to win. If they're trying to win,
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Speaker 1: you don't lose 100 games. You don't lose 100 games,
27:04
Speaker 1: you're shy to win. You might lose once in a while,
27:06
Speaker 1: but not three years in a row. That was a
27:08
Speaker 1: strategic tank. Tanky McTank. It's on the McDonald's menu. Tanky McTank. Says, oh,
27:15
Speaker 1: they lost 100 games, three straight years, and a modern record,
27:19
Speaker 1: 121 losses in 2024, and now they're the first team
27:23
Speaker 1: ever to follow that up with a playoff berth. Okay, great. Meanwhile, Houston,
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Speaker 1: the cheaters over there, they became the first team to
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Speaker 1: reach the postseason without a winning record in forever. Capturing
27:40
Speaker 1: the American League West, they were 81-81. And it's pretty funny.
27:45
Speaker 1: All those fans that cheered the cheating in Houston, they
27:49
Speaker 1: had other things to do. The stadium was pretty empty.
27:52
Speaker 1: They announced the attendance at 34,000 people. That was some
27:57
Speaker 1: fuzzy math right there. Stadium seats about 41,000. And the
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Speaker 1: Houston fans booed. They booed. You know what they should
28:07
Speaker 1: have done is bang on trash cans. That would have
28:09
Speaker 1: helped out the team. That worked in the World Series
28:11
Speaker 1: years ago. Just bang on trash cans. Or bring the buzzer. Hey,
28:15
Speaker 1: I'm checking for the buzzer! You know, that kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: No?
28:20
Speaker 1: Put a little thing in there like a whistle? How
28:22
Speaker 1: about a whistle?
28:23
Speaker 2: No? No?
28:25
Speaker 1: All right, well, the White Sox one win away from
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Speaker 1: advancing while the 500 A-holes, despite making the playoffs for
28:32
Speaker 1: the ninth time in 10 seasons, which is only possible
28:35
Speaker 1: because the commissioner has no balls. The franchise should have
28:38
Speaker 1: been banned from the postseason. That's a different conversation. So
28:41
Speaker 1: they face elimination. And the story here, though, performance enhancer.
28:48
Speaker 1: Let me see here if Anthony in Louisiana knows what
28:51
Speaker 1: kind of performance enhancer the White Sox had. Hello, Anthony
28:57
Speaker 1: in Louisiana.
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Speaker 2: How you doing, Bean?
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Speaker 1: Anthony, you're my baseball insider. Do you know what kind
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Speaker 1: of performance enhancer the White Sox had that has never
29:07
Speaker 1: happened before in baseball history and will likely never happen again?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I heard the White Sox beat the Astros. I
29:14
Speaker 2: don't know.
29:18
Speaker 3: I like football.
29:20
Speaker 1: See, that's a drop. We can put that, I like football.
29:22
Speaker 1: That's a drop. Save that, Lorena. That could be a drop. Well,
29:26
Speaker 1: do you know who the Pope is?
29:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard him before.
29:31
Speaker 1: What's the name of the Pope right now? Who's our
29:33
Speaker 1: current Pope? Not my Pope.
29:34
Speaker 2: I forgot his name.
29:36
Speaker 1: You forgot the Pope. Pope Leo.
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Speaker 3: Pope Leo, yeah.
29:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pope Leo. Leo. He wears Nikes. Pope Leo. Well,
29:42
Speaker 1: Pope Leo sent a letter of support to the Chicago
29:46
Speaker 1: White Sox before the wild card opener against Houston. And
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Speaker 1: the White Sox shared it publicly a couple hours before
29:54
Speaker 1: the game. Real name Robert is a Chicago guy, a
30:01
Speaker 1: native longtime White Sox fan. Do they have a black
30:05
Speaker 1: box at the Vatican so he can watch the White
30:08
Speaker 1: Sox games? And he was elected Pope back in May
30:17
Speaker 1: of 2025. And the Pope wrote that sports can be a, quote,
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Speaker 1: school of life, stressing sharing, respect, and unity rather than
30:27
Speaker 1: victory at any cost. And he also expressed hope that
30:30
Speaker 1: the White Sox would foster friendship and solidarity. Okay. He
30:36
Speaker 1: offered blessings to Jerry Reinsdorf and the organization and all that.
30:41
Speaker 1: So there you go. The Pope. Like, imagine all the
30:44
Speaker 1: things going on the Pope has to do when he's
30:46
Speaker 1: sitting there. Do you think he actually wrote the letter?
30:48
Speaker 1: He probably did write the letter. He's a White Sox fan.
30:49
Speaker 1: He's from Chicago. For sure he wrote it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
30:52
Speaker 1: That's kind of got to be weird, right? Like, if
30:54
Speaker 1: you're the Pope, that's your last job, right? You don't
30:57
Speaker 1: retire from the Pope. That's it. You're the Pope until
31:01
Speaker 1: you retire.
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Speaker 3: You got to have a hobby.
31:03
Speaker 1: And you know where you're going to be buried, the
31:05
Speaker 1: whole thing. I mean, that's kind of crazy, right, Anthony?
31:07
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great.
31:09
Speaker 1: That's like we talk about tenured Supreme Court justice, but
31:13
Speaker 1: this is more than that. All right. Now go ahead, Anthony.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: Hey, cuz.
31:18
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that Ben was not done because I
31:20
Speaker 1: had a mouthful of hot dog.
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Speaker 3: Hey, cuz.
31:24
Speaker 1: How you doing, Anthony? How you doing?
31:30
Speaker 2: This was the rain. What? You pray for me, Dirt.
31:35
Speaker 2: I'm having all surgery, Dirt.
31:37
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I remember. You are going under the knife.
31:39
Speaker 1: This has been going on for two months. Yeah, I mean,
31:42
Speaker 1: unless they reschedule you again.
31:44
Speaker 2: I'm going to get some teeth taken out. I'm not
31:46
Speaker 2: going under the knife.
31:47
Speaker 1: You're not going under the knife?
31:48
Speaker 2: That counts.
31:49
Speaker 1: Getting teeth taken out counts. I count that.
31:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
31:53
Speaker 1: Oh, it's playing guesswork.
31:54
Speaker 2: Then I'm going to let y'all go. Oh, you know
31:56
Speaker 2: how many vlogs it takes to change the light bulbs?
31:59
Speaker 1: I was doing blonde jokes now.
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Speaker 2: One. One. Because they had to ask for directions. Yeah,
32:03
Speaker 2: I have a good night.
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Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Anthony. Thanks, Anthony. You'll be appearing
32:07
Speaker 1: at Ha Ha's in Baton Rouge coming up this weekend,
32:11
Speaker 1: so make sure to go out to Ha Ha's and
32:12
Speaker 1: support Anthony there. Ivan the Terrible, not handling the downfall
32:25
Speaker 1: of the embarrassing franchise in Houston very well. He's getting
32:28
Speaker 1: very upset. He told me to shut up. He says,
32:32
Speaker 1: I turned myself into a clown. Ivan, I don't know
32:36
Speaker 1: if you were watching. I know you don't want to
32:38
Speaker 1: talk about it, but what were your fellow A-hole fans
32:41
Speaker 1: doing there? Yeah, yeah. What were they doing? Boo! Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo!
32:53
Speaker 1: A lot of boos. A lot, a lot of boos.
32:58
Speaker 1: And I did see, I believe it was on The Athletic,
33:03
Speaker 1: the Astro players ripping their own fans for booing them
33:08
Speaker 1: and not showing up. For the playoff loss, one of
33:14
Speaker 1: the relievers you've never heard of for the A-holes said
33:16
Speaker 1: the fans here are definitely spoiled with a lot of
33:20
Speaker 1: ALCS and World Series runs. And he says we have
33:22
Speaker 1: to earn that right to bring this team back to
33:26
Speaker 1: that position. That being said... The no-name reliever said, when
33:32
Speaker 1: this team was in their first playoff series 10 years ago,
33:36
Speaker 1: Minute Maid Park was probably packed. It makes a big difference.
33:39
Speaker 1: If we were in Chicago, it'd probably be as loud
33:42
Speaker 1: as blank, he said. And the players upset, which is
33:50
Speaker 1: par for the course. These guys are all spoiled and
33:53
Speaker 1: pampered athletes, and they want everything to be perfect. And
33:56
Speaker 1: I think it's great. a franchise that has never won
33:59
Speaker 1: a legitimate World Series, a despicable bunch of a-holes that
34:03
Speaker 1: were not punished for cheating the game of baseball, the
34:06
Speaker 1: single greatest scandal in the history of baseball, and Rob
34:09
Speaker 1: Manford allowed that franchise to get away with it. It's embarrassing.
34:13
Speaker 1: It's absolutely embarrassing. Yeah, I know. All right. Curmudgeon Wayne says,
34:20
Speaker 1: I'd rather walk into a hornet's nest than go to Fargo.
34:23
Speaker 1: There's got to be stuff to do in Fargo. It's
34:26
Speaker 1: got to be like A pinball place. You can go
34:29
Speaker 1: to a bar and play pinball.
34:30
Speaker 3: No.
34:32
Speaker 1: Yeah. Late night drug tester says with all the blowouts
34:34
Speaker 1: on night one of the MLB playoffs, they may as
34:37
Speaker 1: well let the twins and Royals in and given the
34:41
Speaker 1: same kind of effort. Well, speaking of that, this was
34:45
Speaker 1: a historical night. We have the fun fact of the hour.
34:48
Speaker 1: As you know, we love fun facts here on the
34:50
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. Ben Maller fun fact. Prior to Tuesday night,
34:54
Speaker 1: there were 30 postseason shutouts decided by eight or more
34:59
Speaker 1: runs with the Yankees and Padres both winning by that margin.
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Speaker 1: This is the first time it has happened twice in
35:06
Speaker 1: the same day in baseball history. So you had a
35:10
Speaker 1: historical night. Of dole, dole, dole, dole, dole. All right,
35:17
Speaker 1: Ben Malishow, time now for the Who Am I game.
35:19
Speaker 1: This is where we pretend to be somebody else as
35:21
Speaker 1: we call it the Who Am I game. Ben Rice
35:24
Speaker 1: had six runs batted in for the Bronx Bombers. I
35:27
Speaker 1: was the last Yankee player to have six ribbies in
35:33
Speaker 1: a postseason game. Again, Ben Rice, six runs batted in.
35:36
Speaker 1: He had the grand salami. to blow the game open
35:40
Speaker 1: there late. Six RBIs for the Bronx Bombers. I was
35:42
Speaker 1: the last Yankee player with six ribbies during a postseason game.
35:47
Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question, the answer. We'll
35:49
Speaker 1: get to it. We'll do it next.
35:52
Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
35:54
Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
35:57
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show, Fox Sports Radio. As we continue on,
36:01
Speaker 1: don't forget Fifth Hour Podcast every single Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
36:06
Speaker 1: New episodes drop. I want to Catch that, subscribe, and
36:11
Speaker 1: it'll show up in your timeline. We'll pay off the
36:13
Speaker 1: Who Am I game in a moment right now, though.
36:16
Speaker 1: Let's go right to the phones. And John is in
36:20
Speaker 1: the state of Georgia, and he's a Bravo fan, I believe. Hello, John. Welcome.
36:25
Speaker 1: What's going on, John? John?
36:27
Speaker 2: How's it going, man? I'm a big Braves fan. I
36:32
Speaker 2: work from like 3 in the afternoon to 3 in
36:34
Speaker 2: the morning, and one of the– strange things. You know,
36:38
Speaker 2: we got that two o'clock slot earlier today with the game.
36:42
Speaker 2: So I got to listen to it on the radio, but, uh,
36:46
Speaker 2: our radio guys are actually pretty good. Uh, it's a guy, uh,
36:49
Speaker 2: Ben Ingram and Joe Simpson, they call it, you know,
36:52
Speaker 2: and man, it was just so, it was such a
36:56
Speaker 2: great game listening to it on the radio with them.
37:00
Speaker 2: The eight banning, you know, when Riley hit that free
37:04
Speaker 2: run home. It was just really.
37:05
Speaker 1: That's a bailout. That is a bailout. Braves were in
37:08
Speaker 1: the Phillies and their clothes are on the mound. The
37:10
Speaker 1: Braves were in trouble. They were.
37:14
Speaker 2: But, you know, it's one of them things. And it
37:16
Speaker 2: sounded great, but I couldn't watch it. But I just wonder,
37:21
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw it, or did the
37:23
Speaker 2: stadium look full? What was your take on it?
37:26
Speaker 1: It was fuller than Houston, I know that. But people
37:30
Speaker 1: complain about the 2 o'clock start. And I agree, like you,
37:32
Speaker 1: I have weird hours. So for me, it's like playing
37:35
Speaker 1: a game in the middle of the night when you
37:36
Speaker 1: play an afternoon game like that. But people complain about everything.
37:41
Speaker 1: They complain the games are at night. Oh, it's at night.
37:44
Speaker 1: I've got to wait. So it's like there's no perfect solution.
37:47
Speaker 1: It is disrespectful, though. You would agree, right, John, to
37:50
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves? I do.
37:52
Speaker 2: I feel it was. But, you know, it doesn't really
37:55
Speaker 2: bother me. I think that the Braves, you know, The
38:00
Speaker 2: Phillies are always like a thorn in the side to
38:03
Speaker 2: the Braves. Getting that first win is great, but later
38:07
Speaker 2: on today, it's 3 o'clock here on the East Coast,
38:10
Speaker 2: but they've got to win this game. They've got to.
38:13
Speaker 2: Even if they stand a chance, because the next, I
38:18
Speaker 2: think it's the Dodgers, right? Yeah.
38:20
Speaker 1: Yes, that would be.
38:21
Speaker 2: Man, that's going to be.
38:22
Speaker 1: Well, yeah. All right, you're feeling good. I wouldn't get too...
38:29
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are not invincible. They look invincible. They're not invincible,
38:34
Speaker 1: so we'll see. I thank you for staying up, and
38:37
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. Christian Sanchez, or Christopher Sanchez, rather,
38:41
Speaker 1: the ace of the Phillies, is on the mound. In
38:44
Speaker 1: that game. Time now, though, for the payoff on the
38:47
Speaker 1: Who Am I game. And here we go. Ben Rice
38:50
Speaker 1: was oh so nice. He had six runs batted in.
38:53
Speaker 2: Who?
38:53
Speaker 1: Ben Rice for the Bronx Bombers. And it turns out
38:57
Speaker 1: that I was the last Yankees player to have six
39:00
Speaker 1: ribbies during a postseason game. It's been a minute. Who
39:05
Speaker 1: am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
39:08
Speaker 1: And let's see here. Alf, the alien opiner. Going with
39:14
Speaker 1: inmate and former Yankee Mel Hall. Wrong! We checked last
39:19
Speaker 1: time you brought Mel Hall's name up. I think it
39:20
Speaker 1: was you. I think he's getting out in a couple years,
39:24
Speaker 1: Mel Hall. He's been in prison for a long, long time.
39:29
Speaker 1: Femi in Minnesota. going Susan Rice is the answer. Who else?
39:32
Speaker 1: Malapropguy says Babe Ruth. He regularly had six ribbies or
39:37
Speaker 1: six rib-eyes during the regular season and postseason play. That's
39:40
Speaker 1: from Malapropguy. Jerry in a Jar says it would be J.J.
39:45
Speaker 1: McCarthy's spiraling career. That's the answer.
39:49
Speaker 3: Who else?
39:49
Speaker 1: Fargo Pete says, got to be Fargo native. Roger Maris.
39:54
Speaker 1: There you go. What else do we have? Page down.
39:56
Speaker 1: Rob in the 321 says, former Yankee great Toby Harrah.
40:02
Speaker 1: Didn't he play like a dozen games or something like
40:04
Speaker 1: that for the Yankees one year, Toby Harrah? That's a
40:06
Speaker 1: name only old dudes know, Toby Hara. Frank Hauser going
40:10
Speaker 1: with God Sham God as his answer. What else do
40:16
Speaker 1: we have? Lucille Ball from Eileen in San Francisco no
40:19
Speaker 1: longer banned from the X Machine. She's back. What do
40:25
Speaker 1: we have? I see a page that Eric's going with
40:28
Speaker 1: Robinson Cano. Don't you know? Who else do we have?
40:31
Speaker 1: Geographic geography teacher from Michael in Tulsa. Page down. Mr. October.
40:41
Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson and other people just commenting on Anthony in
40:46
Speaker 1: Anaheim and his phone calls. All right, one more time.
40:50
Speaker 1: So Ben Rice, six runs batted in for the Bronx Bombers,
40:54
Speaker 1: and I was the last Yankee player to have six
40:57
Speaker 1: ribbies during a postseason game. Who am I? All right, Lorena,
41:00
Speaker 1: who am I? The man with the voice, Morgan Freeman.
41:03
Speaker 1: Morgan Freeman, is that correct? No. Darn it. The correct answer,
41:09
Speaker 1: wasn't Morgan Freeman on College Game Day, did he look
41:12
Speaker 1: kind of old? Wasn't that, somebody said that, somebody sent
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Speaker 1: that to me, Cindy, I think it was him. Well,
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Speaker 1: he is kind of old. Well, he is old. He's
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Speaker 1: like really old. Like old, old. Good for him to
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Speaker 1: be old. It's good, it's lucky to be old. The
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Speaker 1: correct answer is Robbie Cano, don't you know, back in 2011.
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Speaker 1: Along with Hideki Matsui, Bernie Williams, and Bobby Richardson, the
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Speaker 1: other Yankees to do it back in the day. Old school.