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- 0:32Speaker 1: Well, a surprise lead, a surprise lead I was not
- 0:35Speaker 1: anticipating when I tried to map out my plan of
- 0:39Speaker 1: attack for the overnight show. I thought, well, there's no
- 0:41Speaker 1: way that we're going to start with the football game. Zero, zero, zero, zero. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
- 0:49Speaker 1: We're going to start with the NFL. And we had
- 0:52Speaker 1: fully planned and anticipated a compelling, exciting World Series game
- 0:56Speaker 1: number three. We were fired up. There's going to be
- 1:00Speaker 1: some real controversy in Game 3 of the World Series.
- 1:03Speaker 1: And the question is, who exactly was watching after the
- 1:06Speaker 1: fifth inning? Friends and family? Even friends and family were like,
- 1:09Speaker 1: let me see what's going on in the football game.
- 1:12Speaker 1: So I assume you know by now that the Milwaukee
- 1:15Speaker 1: Brewers have amputated the Tampa Bay Rays 10-1 the final
- 1:22Speaker 1: in a game that was not that close. And so
- 1:25Speaker 1: we have decided to defer to Hour 2 for the
- 1:28Speaker 1: full recap on the World Series. Instead, we start out
- 1:32Speaker 1: with the Monday Night Football brouhaha that took place in
- 1:35Speaker 1: the Delaware Valley. I know Jonathan and Della were very
- 1:39Speaker 1: excited about that. As Philadelphia, the site, the battered and
- 1:43Speaker 1: broken birds, hosting Dakota Prescott and the Cowboys. So were
- 1:50Speaker 1: you watching? Even if you weren't watching, chances are once
- 1:53Speaker 1: the World Series game got to 10-0, you flipped on
- 1:56Speaker 1: over to see what was going on. Let's be realistic here.
- 1:58Speaker 1: So Dak Prescott, 212 yards, three touchdown passes. As the
- 2:04Speaker 1: Cowboys favored on the road here, two of them to C.D. Lamb.
- 2:09Speaker 1: And the Cowboys manhandled the once-proud Philadelphia football team. They
- 2:14Speaker 1: win by 17-0. It was a one-score game going into
- 2:18Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and then the afterburners turned on for
- 2:21Speaker 1: the Cowboys on Monday night. So the Eagles now have
- 2:25Speaker 1: lost not one, not two, not three, not four, but
- 2:27Speaker 1: five straight games. Javante Williams running and stumbling and bumbling
- 2:34Speaker 1: in the Cowboy backfield for 155 yards and a touchdown.
- 2:39Speaker 1: I'm told that's good. And the Cowboys remain alive. They're
- 2:44Speaker 1: not dead yet. As the NFC least is up for grabs,
- 2:49Speaker 1: the Gigantes, the Giants lead the division 4-2-1. The Cowboys
- 2:53Speaker 1: get their third win of the season. And the focus,
- 2:59Speaker 1: we'll get to the loser. The Eagles are such a mess,
- 3:01Speaker 1: it's not even fun to goof on them. We'll get
- 3:04Speaker 1: to them in a minute. Let's go to the Cowboys, though.
- 3:06Speaker 1: We'll start there. And Jerry Jones' team. The state of
- 3:10Speaker 1: the Cowboys. A lot of excitement. A lot of excitement.
- 3:15Speaker 1: The Cowboys win. They were favored. They win by a
- 3:18Speaker 1: large margin here. So that is a good jumping-off point.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Let us discuss. The question, is this Dak Prescott Cowboys
- 3:26Speaker 1: victory on Monday Night Football a season-changing victory? So I've
- 3:32Speaker 1: got favorite doctor, NASCAR, and Peacock. Peacock. And we will
- 3:39Speaker 1: combine all of these things together. And we are going
- 3:44Speaker 1: to put the biscuit in the basket is what we're
- 3:47Speaker 1: going to do. Just put the nice little biscuit there,
- 3:49Speaker 1: put some butter on it, and then put it in
- 3:50Speaker 1: the basket. And that's the way to do it. So
- 3:53Speaker 1: is this Dakota Prescott Cowboy win a season-changing victory? So
- 4:00Speaker 1: I'm giving this premise a bit of side-eye. That's what
- 4:04Speaker 1: I'm doing here. You want credit. For beating a wounded
- 4:09Speaker 1: Eagles team, you were favored on the road to beat.
- 4:14Speaker 1: There is a word for that. It starts with a
- 4:16Speaker 1: capital E. Embarrassing. You cannot have a season-changing victory by
- 4:24Speaker 1: doing what you were supposed to do. Hello? That's what
- 4:28Speaker 1: you were supposed to do. It's kind of like your
- 4:31Speaker 1: kid taking the trash out of And then coming back
- 4:35Speaker 1: from taking the trash out, taking the garbage out, and
- 4:38Speaker 1: they're like, all right, I would like a nice standing ovation. Well, no,
- 4:41Speaker 1: you little loser. That's your chores. You're supposed to do that, dummy.
- 4:45Speaker 1: You're supposed to take the trash out. What's wrong with you?
- 4:49Speaker 1: So you did your chores. Congratulations. Of course, now with
- 4:53Speaker 1: everything with the Cowboys, now it's like, well, you know,
- 4:55Speaker 1: people are singing the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations song. After
- 5:00Speaker 1: a couple of clunkers for the Cowboys, they're like, we're back.
- 5:03Speaker 1: The Cowboys are back, which every time they win, they're back.
- 5:05Speaker 1: And Jerry Jones, what he did here, this win is
- 5:08Speaker 1: a trip to the doctor. Jerry called up his favorite doctor, Dr. Feelgood.
- 5:13Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, everything's cured now. We're all cured. Dr. Feelgood.
- 5:17Speaker 1: I'm a doctor. That's right. Dr. Feelgood came in. Everything's good. Please.
- 5:21Speaker 1: I look at the Cowboys, the same shaky wagon. They
- 5:25Speaker 1: just put a nice new coat of paint on it.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Here is Dakota Prescott, the Cowboy quarterback, better known by
- 5:32Speaker 1: his nickname, Dak. Here is Dak explaining that there's a
- 5:36Speaker 1: lot to look forward to in that division. Take a listen.
- 5:38Speaker 3: It's all right there in front of us. We've got
- 5:40Speaker 3: to play New York again, who's got the lead right now.
- 5:42Speaker 3: We've got to play every team in our division one
- 5:44Speaker 3: more time. So it's right there in front of us.
- 5:45Speaker 3: This is a huge road win in the division. Now
- 5:48Speaker 3: we get to go home for a couple of weeks,
- 5:49Speaker 3: and we've got to continue this win.
- 5:50Speaker 1: Huge. Favored against a backup quarterback. That's your Cowboys. That's
- 5:54Speaker 1: your Cowboys in a nutshell. Celebrating beating a team that
- 5:59Speaker 1: had three wheels off of the car. And you're celebrating that.
- 6:03Speaker 1: That's your 2026 Dallas Cowboys right there in a nutshell.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Holy crap. Holy crap.
- 6:08Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 6:08Speaker 1: The Cowboys are the NFL's version of a used car dealership.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Fresh wax. Some new... New air freshener, put that in
- 6:18Speaker 1: there on the windshield, you know, on the front there.
- 6:22Speaker 1: And then the transmission's all messed up, but who cares
- 6:25Speaker 1: about that? So Dak Prescott is the patron saint of
- 6:28Speaker 1: temporary optimism. He spent a lot of money, and he'll
- 6:31Speaker 1: fail when you need him most. That's what he does.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Have him play the backup quarterback of the Eagles, and
- 6:36Speaker 1: the Eagles missing a bunch of guys defensively, and you're
- 6:39Speaker 1: off to the races. Congratulations. Now, on to the Philadelphia side.
- 6:43Speaker 1: So Saquon Barkley... Played limited amount of action. Didn't have
- 6:48Speaker 1: an early touchdown for the Philadelphia Eagles, who are now 2-5.
- 6:51Speaker 1: And they are on a death spiral at this point.
- 6:57Speaker 1: And it's about time to say, turn at the lights.
- 7:01Speaker 1: The party's over. Longest losing streak since 2016. I was
- 7:07Speaker 1: a little kid back in 2016. That's how long it's been.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Ten years. Ten years. My God. Ten years, five straight
- 7:17Speaker 1: losses for the Philadelphia football team. So the question regarding
- 7:21Speaker 1: the E-A-G-L-E-S, suck, suck, suck. Can Nick Sirianni, can Coach
- 7:28Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni keep the Eagles from disappearing into the NFL's
- 7:34Speaker 1: black hole of irrelevance? All right, so there's a couple
- 7:39Speaker 1: ways to approach this. First of all, the Eagles are
- 7:41Speaker 1: in a big media market. They have a passionate fan base,
- 7:44Speaker 1: so they're never going to completely fall off the map. However,
- 7:48Speaker 1: is Nick Sirianni the guy to put in the big
- 7:52Speaker 1: chair and to lead you back into relevancy and avoid
- 7:56Speaker 1: falling off into the abyss? Hell no! Hell no! Nick Sirianni.
- 8:04Speaker 1: is the type of coach who is built for a
- 8:08Speaker 1: victory parade, not a rescue mission. He's not that kind
- 8:12Speaker 1: of coach, pal. He's not that kind of coach. He's
- 8:15Speaker 1: a luxury automobile, and you're going to ask him over
- 8:19Speaker 1: the next couple of months, as the Eagles are going
- 8:21Speaker 1: to have a tattered roster the rest of the year,
- 8:24Speaker 1: you're asking him, instead of driving that luxury car, can
- 8:27Speaker 1: you please drive the bulldozer? Well, no, I don't drive
- 8:30Speaker 1: a bulldozer. I drive a luxury car. But we need
- 8:32Speaker 1: you to drive a bulldozer. Well, I can't drive a bulldozer.
- 8:34Speaker 1: I drive a luxury car. I understand that. But we
- 8:36Speaker 1: need this. And the team's not very good. And so
- 8:38Speaker 1: these are the moments where you earn your money. But
- 8:41Speaker 1: I don't want to earn my money. Okay, fine. It's
- 8:44Speaker 1: like a country club golfer, Nick Sirianni, asked to dig ditches. Well,
- 8:49Speaker 1: that's not going to go very well. I don't care
- 8:52Speaker 1: how much Gatorade you have, how much sweet tea you have.
- 8:55Speaker 1: That's not going to go very well at all. And
- 8:56Speaker 1: so Sirianni, we say this a couple years back, and
- 8:59Speaker 1: I maintain the take. I've not gone away from the take.
- 9:02Speaker 1: The Nick Sirianni is a show pony. And right about now,
- 9:07Speaker 1: he's a show pony trying to survive a rodeo. That's
- 9:10Speaker 1: not going to go well at all. And you know,
- 9:13Speaker 1: the moment that bull starts bucking, With a B, by
- 9:17Speaker 1: the way. I said bucking with a B. He is
- 9:20Speaker 1: going to go, bye-bye, get out of here, see you later.
- 9:23Speaker 1: Sirianni's gone. So we'll find out if Sirianni is truly
- 9:27Speaker 1: an elite coach, which several prominent media dopes said that
- 9:31Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni is this all world, all great, one of
- 9:35Speaker 1: the top coaches in the NFL and not just a
- 9:37Speaker 1: guy given great talent. Okay, fine. So if Sirianni is
- 9:41Speaker 1: truly an elite coach, shouldn't he be able to manufacture
- 9:44Speaker 1: a couple of wins without having an elite roster, which
- 9:48Speaker 1: the Eagles currently do not have an elite roster. So
- 9:51Speaker 1: this is the part where you have to roll up
- 9:52Speaker 1: your sleeves and get some dirt on your fingernails and
- 9:55Speaker 1: all that stuff. And Sirianni, in the cartoon image in
- 10:00Speaker 1: my head, Nick Sirianni, he's got this sinking feeling right
- 10:06Speaker 1: into the bubbling, boiling cauldron of goo. And it's NFL
- 10:12Speaker 1: misery for the Eagles. And there's no one there, not
- 10:16Speaker 1: Howie Roseman or anyone else, or Dom, the big Dom
- 10:21Speaker 1: guy on the sidelines. No one is going to throw
- 10:23Speaker 1: him a life preserver at this point for Nick Sirianni.
- 10:27Speaker 1: So good luck. Good luck on that. And it's kind
- 10:31Speaker 1: of like if Nick Sirianni, coach of the Eagles, was
- 10:33Speaker 1: a NASCAR driver... and you took away his, you know,
- 10:39Speaker 1: he looks really good, and then you take away his
- 10:42Speaker 1: 800-horsepower engine, and he doesn't look so good anymore. He's struggling. Buggety, buggety, buggety, buggety. Exactly. Now,
- 10:52Speaker 1: you think this is bad. The trade deadline is a
- 10:54Speaker 1: couple weeks away, and you wait. The birds are bad now.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Wait until they start unloading. Howie Roseman's going to trade
- 11:01Speaker 1: two or three of these guys. that are key players
- 11:03Speaker 1: for the Eagles, and then they're going to have to
- 11:05Speaker 1: finish out the year with whatever's left. They're looking at
- 11:09Speaker 1: a top-ten pick. Right now the Eagles have the sixth
- 11:11Speaker 1: pick in the NFL draft. They don't have a quarterback,
- 11:14Speaker 1: so will they draft a quarterback to replace Jalen Hurts?
- 11:18Speaker 1: That's an off-season storyline to keep an eye on. This
- 11:21Speaker 1: is a big-time mess. I did want to go back
- 11:25Speaker 1: to the Cowboys one more time. And there was a
- 11:28Speaker 1: viral video that bounced around the echo chamber on social media,
- 11:33Speaker 1: got into the algorithm. The bots were doing a little
- 11:35Speaker 1: dance there. They were very excited about this. So the
- 11:38Speaker 1: viral video clip did involve Jerry Jones. And no, this
- 11:42Speaker 1: is not him with some young lady there. Of course,
- 11:45Speaker 1: Jerry's 84 years old. So every woman's young to Jerry
- 11:48Speaker 1: at this particular point. Anyway, the viral clip. of owner
- 11:52Speaker 1: Jerry Jones and ABC's Troy Aikman engaged in a very animated,
- 12:00Speaker 1: almost 10-minute conversation on the sideline prior to the Monday
- 12:07Speaker 1: night football game in Philadelphia. They were right there, side-by-side, face-to-face,
- 12:15Speaker 1: having a very personal conversation on the field. So the
- 12:18Speaker 1: question is, What stands out about the Cowboys owner and GM,
- 12:24Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, having an on-field powwow with Troy Aikman prior
- 12:31Speaker 1: to the game on Monday? So, look at the clip.
- 12:36Speaker 1: There's several different angles to this. There's some still photography
- 12:40Speaker 1: of Jerry and Troy side-by-side here. Jerry Jones and Troy
- 12:44Speaker 1: Aikman having a private conversation about at midfield in front
- 12:48Speaker 1: of a stadium filling up with 70,000 people and at
- 12:52Speaker 1: least 40 television cameras and a bunch of people with
- 12:56Speaker 1: their paparazzo cell phone. Very discreet. Very discreet by Jerry
- 13:02Speaker 1: and the Cowboys and Troy Aikman and all that stuff.
- 13:06Speaker 1: And this just in, by the way, to Fox Sports Radio,
- 13:09Speaker 1: we believe that Troy Aikman and Jerry Jones have each
- 13:12Speaker 1: other's phone number. What does that mean? That means they
- 13:17Speaker 1: don't need to be standing at midfield. You don't have
- 13:21Speaker 1: to conduct your business at midfield with the ABC cameras
- 13:25Speaker 1: rolling and all that stuff. This is the NFL's version
- 13:28Speaker 1: of a Hollywood red carpet photo op for Jerry. It's
- 13:32Speaker 1: all about the photo op. Listen, Jerry Jones, we know,
- 13:35Speaker 1: thank God for Jerry. Jerry's great. Jerry's never met a
- 13:39Speaker 1: camera he did not want to make sweet love to.
- 13:43Speaker 1: Jerry just wants to make out and tongue every camera.
- 13:46Speaker 1: And he usually does. He usually does. And so he
- 13:50Speaker 1: doesn't just stir the pot, as he's pointed out, Jerry Jones.
- 13:54Speaker 1: He's not a pot stirrer. He owns the pot. He
- 13:57Speaker 1: manufactures the spoon. And he sells tickets so you people
- 14:02Speaker 1: can watch him stir the pot. That's how he operates there.
- 14:06Speaker 1: He's the P.T. Barnum of professional football. And he's... Getting
- 14:11Speaker 1: up there, and not many more years of Jerry with
- 14:15Speaker 1: us doing this kind of nonsense, so we're going to
- 14:16Speaker 1: enjoy every single ridiculous Jerry Jones moment. And the great
- 14:22Speaker 1: thing about him being P.T. Barnum, he proves, and the
- 14:24Speaker 1: Cowboy fan base proves... that Jerry's like, hey, listen, there's
- 14:28Speaker 1: a sucker born every minute. And about 50% of them
- 14:32Speaker 1: wear cowboy jerseys. So we're very happy about that.
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- 14:46Speaker 5: Welcome to Football Doesn't Lie.
- 14:47Speaker 6: Hi, I'm Bill Parcells.
- 14:50Speaker 5: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
- 14:51Speaker 6: I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine.
- 14:55Speaker 5: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
- 14:58Speaker 5: we're going to talk about the NFL slate through the
- 15:00Speaker 5: lens of Bill's expertise as he coaches me from novice
- 15:03Speaker 5: fan to football expert over the course of the season.
- 15:06Speaker 6: You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and
- 15:08Speaker 6: hopefully we can give our audience a little in-depth look
- 15:12Speaker 6: into the inner sanctum of pro football that they can't
- 15:15Speaker 6: get anywhere else.
- 15:16Speaker 5: Tune in every Thursday for unfiltered stories from Coach Parcells,
- 15:20Speaker 5: analysis on the state of the modern game, and education
- 15:23Speaker 5: on how football really works.
- 15:25Speaker 6: Continuity is very important.
- 15:27Speaker 4: But what happens when you get good coaches on your
- 15:30Speaker 4: staff and people begin to recognize them, then they want
- 15:34Speaker 4: to hire them. And then you can't stop a guy
- 15:37Speaker 4: from trying to improve himself, but you have to replace them.
- 15:41Speaker 5: Because once you understand what's going on inside the mind
- 15:44Speaker 5: of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
- 15:47Speaker 6: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
- 15:50Speaker 6: haven't done, because I didn't have enough money, I don't
- 15:53Speaker 6: own the team. I never owned a team.
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- 16:00Speaker 5: or wherever you get your podcasts.
- 16:05Speaker 1: It was game three. of the Small Market World Series,
- 16:10Speaker 1: the Tightwad World Series, the teams that don't spend a
- 16:13Speaker 1: lot of money compared to the other good teams in baseball.
- 16:17Speaker 1: And game number three. It was on Fox. Did you watch?
- 16:21Speaker 1: Did you watch? Well, the Brewers trying to go up 3-0.
- 16:25Speaker 1: You had Joe Davis and John Smoltz. John, a professional golfer,
- 16:30Speaker 1: occasionally does some broadcasting stuff. They were side-by-side there. The
- 16:33Speaker 1: Brewers looking to put a chokehold there. On the series,
- 16:36Speaker 1: after holding serve at home, I learned this in basketball,
- 16:41Speaker 1: a series does not start until the road team wins. Okay, well,
- 16:45Speaker 1: if you didn't watch, perhaps not. The Milwaukee Brewers have
- 16:48Speaker 1: now started the playoff series. The Brewers moving within one
- 16:53Speaker 1: victory of their first World Series championship as they crushed
- 16:59Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, 10-1, 10-1 in Game 3. 10-1 in Game
- 17:09Speaker 1: 3 of the World Series. Very rare do you see
- 17:12Speaker 1: a game that lopsided in the fall classic as Jackson Churrio.
- 17:18Speaker 1: That's the affordable Churrio. Jackson Churrio collecting not one, not two,
- 17:23Speaker 1: not three, but four hits, including a double, had a
- 17:26Speaker 1: stolen base. Milwaukee had 16 hits. 16 hits. The Brewers
- 17:31Speaker 1: erupted after instant replay. If there was no instant replay,
- 17:35Speaker 1: if it was like baseball used to be, the Rays
- 17:38Speaker 1: get out of the inning unscathed. We're good to go. However,
- 17:42Speaker 1: there is instant replay. They went to the replay, and
- 17:45Speaker 1: the call was overturned at second base. And as a result,
- 17:50Speaker 1: that opened the floodgates, and the Brewers erupted. They had eight.
- 17:55Speaker 1: two out runs in the fifth inning two out eight
- 17:58Speaker 1: runs eight of them highlighted by bryce terang's two run
- 18:03Speaker 1: ribby single and a rookie pitcher named robert gasser was
- 18:08Speaker 1: el domitor on the mound he allowed one hit over
- 18:12Speaker 1: six innings and he retired 14 consecutive tampa bay ray
- 18:18Speaker 1: batters he was a gift from the Padres. Now the
- 18:21Speaker 1: Padres traded a gaggle of minor leaguers. The only one
- 18:24Speaker 1: that turned out to be any good... is this guy.
- 18:27Speaker 1: That was the Josh Hader trade. Y'all love your prospects,
- 18:29Speaker 1: and you always say, oh, Maller. I got an email
- 18:32Speaker 1: from a guy from Wisconsin who said, hey, you always
- 18:35Speaker 1: rip prospects, man, but Gasser was a prospect. Okay, what
- 18:38Speaker 1: about the other three guys the Brewers got for Josh Hader?
- 18:42Speaker 1: They're nobodies. Congratulations. You got one, essentially one for one.
- 18:46Speaker 1: You traded a proven commodity for a guy, and who
- 18:49Speaker 1: knows what's going to happen to this guy, Robert Gasser.
- 18:50Speaker 1: You pitched very well in this game. Congratulations. You allowed
- 18:53Speaker 1: one hit over six innings, did retire The 14 consecutive
- 18:57Speaker 1: Rays batters. The Brew Crew are now up three games
- 19:01Speaker 1: to none using Mallor math. That means that you only
- 19:05Speaker 1: have to win one more in the best of seven
- 19:08Speaker 1: World Series and then it's all over for the team
- 19:12Speaker 1: from Florida. The better story, though, is in the losing
- 19:15Speaker 1: locker room as Tampa Bay. Capital I implode. Capital I
- 19:22Speaker 1: implode for the Tampa Bay Rays. That's a good jumping
- 19:25Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question. Manager Kevin Cash, postgame,
- 19:30Speaker 1: Kevin Cash called the Rays' performance, quote, deflating in the
- 19:35Speaker 1: fifth inning from hell for the Tampa Bay Rays. How
- 19:39Speaker 1: would you describe the performance of the Tampa Bay baseball team?
- 19:43Speaker 1: So I've got Hello Kitty. Chihuahuas and parenting. 101. That's
- 19:50Speaker 1: Parenting 101. We'll combine all of these things together and
- 19:54Speaker 1: try not to be eaten alive, which is essentially what
- 19:57Speaker 1: happened to the Rays. They were eaten alive. That's what happened.
- 20:00Speaker 1: So my first thought, number one.
- 20:04Speaker 7: Number one.
- 20:05Speaker 1: Number one. Number one. So my word for this is
- 20:10Speaker 1: how I would describe it is FUBAR. As forget what
- 20:14Speaker 1: the F means, but it's up, just F'd up beyond repair.
- 20:20Speaker 1: It was just a complete FUBAR situation followed closely by
- 20:24Speaker 1: the capital E emasculating. Now, Kevin Cash used the word deflating.
- 20:30Speaker 1: That was his word. And that's what happens to a
- 20:33Speaker 1: balloon at a kid's birthday party. That's what happens. This
- 20:37Speaker 1: was a full-blown World Series catastrophe. Everyone's all dressed up.
- 20:42Speaker 1: The 17 Rays fans were there. They were all dolled
- 20:46Speaker 1: up in their Rays gear, all fired up to watch
- 20:49Speaker 1: Tampa Bay in the World Series. And the stadium, it
- 20:52Speaker 1: was really road field advantage. It seemed like on the
- 20:56Speaker 1: television broadcast there were more Brewers fans there than Rays fans.
- 20:59Speaker 1: But either way, you go out there all dolled up,
- 21:02Speaker 1: all ready, looking hot, doing a pirouette in the catwalk,
- 21:06Speaker 1: and then you go out there and ride the vomit comet.
- 21:09Speaker 1: And the Rays did not just hit a pothole. They
- 21:12Speaker 1: drove the team bus to the very bottom of the
- 21:16Speaker 1: Grand Canyon is what they did with this performance here.
- 21:18Speaker 1: The great test of any championship team is how do
- 21:22Speaker 1: you respond to adversity? Things are not going well. And
- 21:26Speaker 1: how do you respond? Well, Tampa Bay, they did not respond.
- 21:30Speaker 1: They crumbled like a stale Ritz cracker back in the
- 21:34Speaker 1: day into little pieces. And this was not a heavyweight knockout.
- 21:40Speaker 1: The idea that you lose 10-1, you probably think, well,
- 21:42Speaker 1: the Brewers must have Brought back Rob Deere and Prince
- 21:46Speaker 1: Fielder and all these old sluggers of years gone by.
- 21:50Speaker 1: The Hebrew Hammer, Ryan Braun. They all came back. No.
- 21:55Speaker 1: That did not happen. There was no big bopper. The
- 21:59Speaker 1: Brewers did not have a big bopper. There was no
- 22:02Speaker 1: grand salami. Get out the rye bread and mustard, grandma. No,
- 22:06Speaker 1: there's none of that. There was no 500-foot moonshot to
- 22:12Speaker 1: the heavens. The Brewers did not use a chainsaw. This
- 22:17Speaker 1: was not the Chainsaw Massacre, at least not the way
- 22:21Speaker 1: you'd expect it to be. So it was not that.
- 22:25Speaker 1: This was death by a thousand paper cuts. Dink and dunk.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Dink and dunk. And the Rays in a funk because
- 22:34Speaker 1: of the dink and the dunk, just like that. So
- 22:38Speaker 1: seven consecutive. Seven consecutive two-out hits. You know what that is?
- 22:42Speaker 1: That is death by 1,000 paper cuts is what that is.
- 22:45Speaker 1: It really is death by 1,000 paper cuts. So Tampa Bay,
- 22:49Speaker 1: they needed a tourniquet in the fifth inning, and Kevin
- 22:53Speaker 1: Cash went to the medical kit in the dugout, and
- 22:56Speaker 1: all he had was a Hello Kitty Band-Aid. And it
- 22:59Speaker 1: turns out that the Hello Kitty Band-Aid did not work.
- 23:03Speaker 1: So the Rays had a hole in their ozone layer.
- 23:07Speaker 1: And it was just from base hit after base hit
- 23:10Speaker 1: after base hit. Everything was out of whack. The Rays
- 23:13Speaker 1: looked like, when they were done here, a souffle that
- 23:16Speaker 1: had been slammed on the oven door. Just slammed it
- 23:21Speaker 1: right there. Bam. All right, now, page two. There is
- 23:25Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory going around. I want to spend a
- 23:27Speaker 1: couple minutes talking about it with you. I think it's interesting.
- 23:30Speaker 1: So going back to the weekend, the Tampa Bay Rays,
- 23:33Speaker 1: you might remember if you watched Game 2 over the weekend.
- 23:37Speaker 1: Junior Caminero, the third baseman for Tampa Bay, good player,
- 23:43Speaker 1: Junior Caminero, called out his Tampa Bay teammates in the
- 23:48Speaker 1: dugout during game two. You might remember Tampa had a
- 23:51Speaker 1: sizable lead in that game, and they gagged it up.
- 23:55Speaker 1: There were some shaky defensive plays for the Tampa Bay Rays.
- 23:58Speaker 1: But in that game, it was caught on camera. Junior
- 24:01Speaker 1: Caminero called out his Tampa Bay teammates in the dugout.
- 24:05Speaker 1: He screamed, according to lip readers, we're playing scared right now, biatches,
- 24:11Speaker 1: is what he said. It's a quote. You can say that.
- 24:13Speaker 1: It's a quote. Called them female dogs. All right, so
- 24:16Speaker 1: the question, does Junior Caminero deserve the heat? He's getting
- 24:21Speaker 1: some heat online because ever since then, it hasn't gotten better.
- 24:26Speaker 1: It hasn't gotten better for the race. So, question, does
- 24:29Speaker 1: Junior Caminero deserve the heat he's getting online for barking
- 24:33Speaker 1: and at his raised teammates and what has happened since then.
- 24:37Speaker 1: So I'm going to nod my head yes. I'm nodding
- 24:41Speaker 1: my head yes on this. Junior Caminero tried to play
- 24:43Speaker 1: General Patton, the classic speech to motivate his guys, and
- 24:49Speaker 1: his troops responded like the French Army in 1940. It
- 24:54Speaker 1: did not go very well. If you know your history,
- 24:56Speaker 1: it did not go very well.
- 24:58Speaker 2: At all.
- 24:59Speaker 1: So I imagine that Caminero thought, hey, I am delivering
- 25:03Speaker 1: one of the great World Series motivational speeches of all time.
- 25:07Speaker 1: This is going to become the stuff of legends. They're
- 25:09Speaker 1: going to have bobblehead doll nights for me giving this speech.
- 25:14Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing. It's going to be the
- 25:16Speaker 1: rallying cry for the franchise for years to come. Instead,
- 25:22Speaker 1: instead of that. This was the motivational speech that landed
- 25:27Speaker 1: like a wet mattress falling off a freeway overpass in
- 25:32Speaker 1: the middle of a monsoon. Did not go as planned
- 25:35Speaker 1: by Junior Caminero at all. He believed that this team
- 25:40Speaker 1: needed some tough love, so he gave the Tampa Bay
- 25:43Speaker 1: Rays some tough love in Game 2, trying to light
- 25:46Speaker 1: a fire under his teammates, and it turns out instead
- 25:49Speaker 1: of lighting a fire, the roster curled up, into the
- 25:53Speaker 1: fetal position and started sucking their thumbs is what they
- 25:57Speaker 1: started doing here, the Tampa Bay team. Caminero went full
- 26:01Speaker 1: Gordon Ramsay, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, and yelling and all that.
- 26:06Speaker 1: And the Rays are like, hey, listen, we're not Gordon
- 26:08Speaker 1: Ramsay level. We like the Easy Bake Oven. That's what
- 26:11Speaker 1: we like. Okay, good. You like the Easy Bake Oven. Congratulations.
- 26:14Speaker 1: Way to go. And so... He's like, I imagine Caminero's like,
- 26:18Speaker 1: we want some junkyard dogs. We want some dogs and
- 26:22Speaker 1: all that. And then instead he discovered that they did
- 26:25Speaker 1: get some dogs. Unfortunately, the Rays players were emotional support chihuahuas.
- 26:31Speaker 1: That's how they play. They were emotional support chihuahuas in
- 26:34Speaker 1: this game, game three of the World Series, an epic
- 26:38Speaker 1: choke job. And apparently the Rays roster, they don't like
- 26:44Speaker 1: tough love. Not a fan, not a fan of that,
- 26:47Speaker 1: and it's a bit of an issue. Confrontation, allergic to
- 26:51Speaker 1: confrontation for the Tampa Bay players there. Somebody might want
- 26:55Speaker 1: to get them an EpiPen because clearly they had an
- 26:58Speaker 1: allergic reaction in this situation. It was not good. So
- 27:03Speaker 1: after dropping a pair of brutal one-run games in Wisconsin,
- 27:08Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay team gets absolutely put into the blender
- 27:13Speaker 1: on puree. Just like that. And what a messy situation.
- 27:18Speaker 1: By the way, Junior Caminero, this could be his final game,
- 27:22Speaker 1: game four of the World Series, as there's a chatter.
- 27:26Speaker 1: The Rays are going to trade him because he's good
- 27:28Speaker 1: and he wants to get paid. Of course, keep in mind.
- 27:31Speaker 1: There aren't going to be too many trades. The baseball
- 27:34Speaker 1: world's going to shut down December 1st, so there's like
- 27:36Speaker 1: a month to go, a little over a month, and
- 27:38Speaker 1: then that's it. Turn out the lads. The party's over. Now,
- 27:43Speaker 1: as for the Milwaukee side, where Jackson Churrio is the
- 27:47Speaker 1: star of the show, any advice? Here's the question. Any
- 27:51Speaker 1: advice to Pat Murphy's Brewers up 3-0 in the World Series?
- 27:57Speaker 1: Do you have any advice to Pat Murphy's Brewers?
- 28:00Speaker 2: Yes.
- 28:00Speaker 1: I'm going to get on. the Malheur think tank. I'm
- 28:03Speaker 1: going to turn that on right now, the Malheur think tank,
- 28:06Speaker 1: which is never wrong. The Malheur think tank is never wrong.
- 28:09Speaker 1: So the Rays right now are lying on the canvas.
- 28:13Speaker 1: The Brewers are standing over the Rays. The Brewers are
- 28:16Speaker 1: looking down. Pat Murphy's Brewers are looking down at the Rays,
- 28:20Speaker 1: lying on the canvas. And right now the Rays are
- 28:24Speaker 1: seeing those cartoon birdies. They're seeing the cartoon birdies hanging
- 28:28Speaker 1: on by a thread. Now, when I say hanging on
- 28:30Speaker 1: by a thread... That thread is dental floss from the
- 28:36Speaker 1: dollar store. Bugatti the trucker went out and bought it.
- 28:40Speaker 1: It's that dental floss from the dollar store. Now, Yandy
- 28:43Speaker 1: Diaz and his pals on the Tampa Bay baseball team,
- 28:47Speaker 1: they're not just running on fumes. The gas tank is
- 28:49Speaker 1: empty at this particular point. And their championship dreams are
- 28:53Speaker 1: on life support. So here is my advice. From the
- 28:56Speaker 1: Maller think tank to Pat Murphy, it is parenting 101.
- 29:01Speaker 1: Parenting 101. Don't play with your food. Kids, don't play
- 29:06Speaker 1: with your food. What's wrong with you? That's it. That's
- 29:09Speaker 1: the advice right there. Don't just end it. This is
- 29:12Speaker 1: the fourth act of a horror movie. The villain is down. Down, down, down, down, down, down, down.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Don't turn your back. Do not turn your back if
- 29:20Speaker 1: you're the Brewers. Do not give Tampa Bay any oxygen
- 29:23Speaker 1: at this point and any hope that they have a
- 29:27Speaker 1: chance to bite back. So we mentioned this has been
- 29:30Speaker 1: mostly paper cuts, mostly paper cuts. But the Brewers at
- 29:35Speaker 1: this point can bring out the chainsaw and turn this
- 29:39Speaker 1: into the mill. Chainsaw Massacre at this particular point. And
- 29:44Speaker 1: don't ruin the ending. We don't need, if you're the Brewers,
- 29:47Speaker 1: you don't need another sequel. That's it. And so there's
- 29:51Speaker 1: really no motivational speech that needs to be said. I
- 29:54Speaker 1: would go out and get some shovels and some brooms.
- 29:58Speaker 1: That's what I would do. And you finish bearing the
- 30:01Speaker 1: Tampa Bay baseball team. Pat Murphy, he's got the champagne chilling.
- 30:06Speaker 1: Like a villain. Chilling on ice. Just don't let the
- 30:09Speaker 1: Rays turn it into warm grape juice. Do not do that.
- 30:13Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
- 30:15Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. All right,
- 30:22Speaker 2: here we go.
- 30:22Speaker 1: Third degree Koopaloop. I don't know what that was. We
- 30:25Speaker 1: can't rip. It's her birthday, so she can F up
- 30:27Speaker 1: as much as she wants. My old one's gone, so
- 30:30Speaker 1: I got the older one. All right, Ben.
- 30:32Speaker 7: Stop me if you've heard this before, but somebody is
- 30:35Speaker 7: on pace to break Calvin Johnson's record for receiving.
- 30:37Speaker 1: Yards in a season. Yes, every year this happens. Absolutely, yes.
- 30:40Speaker 7: But this time Jackson Smith and Jigba is on pace
- 30:42Speaker 7: to break it in 16 games, like Calvin Johnson said it.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Do you think he'll do it? No, I always bet
- 30:47Speaker 1: against that happening because you have injury, you have underperformance.
- 30:51Speaker 1: You have to play at a truly elite level the
- 30:54Speaker 1: entire season. You only have like one bad game and
- 30:57Speaker 1: he's not going to do it. So forget about that.
- 31:00Speaker 1: Even as good and magical as he is.
- 31:02Speaker 5: Next!
- 31:03Speaker 7: So Aaron Rodgers thinks that the NFL should kind of
- 31:06Speaker 7: expand their, you know, overseas foreign games thing. Instead of
- 31:10Speaker 7: springing it out of the season, they think that all
- 31:12Speaker 7: 32 teams should do one week overseas.
- 31:15Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Well, he mentioned this.
- 31:17Speaker 1: He said, I talked about this yesterday. And, you know,
- 31:20Speaker 1: it's stupid. It's a dumb idea. They're going to give
- 31:22Speaker 1: him an extra bye and all that stuff. The rest
- 31:25Speaker 1: of the world doesn't care about the NFL like we do.
- 31:28Speaker 1: And it's going to take 30 years for that to happen.
- 31:30Speaker 1: Good luck.
- 31:30Speaker 2: Next.
- 31:32Speaker 7: The Oklahoma City Thunder lost two players for the season
- 31:34Speaker 7: against your Clippers.
- 31:35Speaker 1: Yes, I saw that. Is it time for them to panic? Yes.
- 31:39Speaker 1: In fact, the rumor is they're trying to convince Russell
- 31:42Speaker 1: Westbrook to come out and retire. Yes. That, Coop, is
- 31:45Speaker 1: the definition of panic. How did we do? You passed
- 31:48Speaker 1: this edition. Winner, winner, winner. Chicken dinner.
- 31:51Speaker 2: Chicken dinner. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk
- 31:56Speaker 2: lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsportsradio.com.
- 32:01Speaker 2: And within the iHeartRadio app, search FSR to listen live. Now,
- 32:07Speaker 2: Mallard's Mountain of Money.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Lord, that's a lot of money.
- 32:11Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
- 32:14Speaker 2: Probably not.
- 32:16Speaker 1: Let's do it. Welcome in our contestants. And we just
- 32:18Speaker 1: talked to him a few minutes ago. He demanded to
- 32:21Speaker 1: play the game from New York. We say hello to Skilly. Hello, Skilly. Welcome.
- 32:26Speaker 2: What up, man?
- 32:26Speaker 1: How you doing? All right, buddy. Who do you want
- 32:28Speaker 1: to partner up with, Skilly?
- 32:30Speaker 4: You.
- 32:30Speaker 1: All right. We're in it. Don't mess this up, Skilly.
- 32:34Speaker 1: And then Lorena picked one or two, Lorena. One or two.
- 32:36Speaker 3: Number one.
- 32:37Speaker 1: All right. You have picked JC from down the street
- 32:42Speaker 1: here in Sherman Oaks. Hello, JC. Welcome. Hey, how are you?
- 32:48Speaker 1: And who do you want to partner up with, JC?
- 32:51Speaker 1: I want Cooper because I play to win the game.
- 32:57Speaker 1: That's right. JC squared. I'm the all-time wins king at
- 33:01Speaker 1: the game show. One more. Okay, what are the categories? Quickly, Coop, please.
- 33:05Speaker 7: All right, this is Mallard's Mountain of Money, the Roberto
- 33:08Speaker 7: Benigni edition.
- 33:09Speaker 1: He turned 74 years old today. Happy birthday.
- 33:12Speaker 7: The categories are Tigers in Lipstick, Son of the Pink Panther,
- 33:18Speaker 7: Life is Beautiful, and Pinocchio.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Skilly, you were on first. Which category would you like?
- 33:23Speaker 4: Life is Beautiful.
- 33:24Speaker 1: Life is Beautiful.
- 33:25Speaker 2: All right.
- 33:25Speaker 1: And JC, how about you?
- 33:27Speaker 2: Pinocchio.
- 33:28Speaker 1: Pinocchio, all right. All right, here we go. 45 seconds
- 33:32Speaker 1: on the clock, and these athletes are Jewish or converted
- 33:37Speaker 1: to Judaism. Life is beautiful. Category number three, we'll put
- 33:41Speaker 1: 45 seconds on the clock. Are you ready, Skilly?
- 33:45Speaker 6: I think so.
- 33:46Speaker 1: Let's get it. All right, here we go. The greatest
- 33:49Speaker 1: Jewish baseball player of all time for the Dodgers.
- 33:53Speaker 6: Brad Carew.
- 33:57Speaker 1: No. Patriots wide receiver, slot receiver during the Tom Brady years.
- 34:02Speaker 6: Julius Edelman.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll give you that. New York Knicks star, also
- 34:07Speaker 1: played for the Phoenix Suns. He's now a police officer
- 34:10Speaker 1: in Miami.
- 34:10Speaker 2: Amari Stoudemire.
- 34:12Speaker 1: Good job. Third baseman for the Cubs. He was a
- 34:15Speaker 1: star for the cheating Astros.
- 34:19Speaker 6: Okay.
- 34:19Speaker 1: All right. Quarterback for the Chicago Bears back in the
- 34:24Speaker 1: Stone Age in the 1940s. Helped invent the modern quarterback position.
- 34:29Speaker 1: Very Jewish name.
- 34:30Speaker 3: No?
- 34:34Speaker 1: All right. You got 60 points. That's a sign. Well,
- 34:37Speaker 1: Rod Carew, make sure to save that. We need to
- 34:40Speaker 1: bring that back. That is outstanding.
- 34:43Speaker 7: Who?
- 34:43Speaker 1: Sandy Koufax. Sandy Koufax. Yeah, that was a tough category. Yes.
- 34:47Speaker 6: All right.
- 34:48Speaker 1: All right.
- 34:49Speaker 6: Really, I'm Jewish.
- 34:51Speaker 1: Well, you're... Wait, he didn't get Sandy? No, he did not. Okay,
- 34:56Speaker 1: then you only got 50 points. You didn't get the
- 34:58Speaker 1: greatest Jewish baseball player of all time, Sandy Gomez. All right,
- 35:00Speaker 1: that's fine.
- 35:01Speaker 7: JC, we got Pinocchio. These sports figures have all been
- 35:04Speaker 7: caught in a lie. Got it.
- 35:07Speaker 1: 45 seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Greatest quarterback of
- 35:10Speaker 1: all time, Deflategate. Tom Brady.
- 35:13Speaker 5: Yes.
- 35:15Speaker 1: This is the coach of Alabama. He lied and said
- 35:17Speaker 1: he wasn't going to Alabama.
- 35:21Speaker 7: Pass.
- 35:21Speaker 1: Football coach. The best football coach of all time in sport,
- 35:24Speaker 1: in college. Rod Carew. Never. The hit king in MLB.
- 35:30Speaker 1: He rose.
- 35:31Speaker 5: Yes.
- 35:32Speaker 1: The cyclist who had cancer in his balls. That's pass.
- 35:38Speaker 2: Oh, my.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Okay.
- 35:39Speaker 2: Worst.
- 35:40Speaker 1: First baseman for the Orioles. He lied about taking steroids.
- 35:44Speaker 4: Eddie Murray.
- 35:45Speaker 2: Nope.
- 35:45Speaker 3: Pass.
- 35:47Speaker 1: The ref in the NBA that tried to rig the games.
- 35:51Speaker 7: Who?
- 35:52Speaker 1: The ref in the NBA that tried to rig the games. Okay.
- 35:55Speaker 1: I don't know how this is possible. You only got 40.
- 35:57Speaker 1: Ben is in the lead. Okay. What do you want, Skilly? No,
- 36:01Speaker 1: I'm first. No, I go. You're in the lead. You
- 36:04Speaker 1: have more. You have 50. He has 40. JC, do
- 36:07Speaker 1: you want Tigers and Lipstick or Son of the Pink Panther?
- 36:10Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Son of the Pink Panther.
- 36:12Speaker 7: All right, these athletes all followed in their father's footsteps.
- 36:15Speaker 7: 45 seconds, let's begin. Best basketball player for the Lakers,
- 36:19Speaker 7: he died in a helicopter crash.
- 36:21Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. All right, this guy's nickname is The Kid,
- 36:25Speaker 1: played for the Mariners. Ken Griffey Jr.
- 36:28Speaker 6: Yes.
- 36:28Speaker 7: This guy is the quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. His
- 36:31Speaker 7: dad was the failed brother of Peyton and Eli.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Archie Manning. Archie Manning. Yes.
- 36:40Speaker 7: This guy is the bad wide receiver that just got
- 36:43Speaker 7: traded from the Cardinals.
- 36:44Speaker 1: His dad was on the Colts. Oh, I know this guy.
- 36:48Speaker 1: That's okay. We win anyway. Woo! See, we're going to
- 36:51Speaker 1: have bonus time next hour. We're going to have bonus
- 36:53Speaker 1: time next hour. The game is not over yet.
- 36:56Speaker 2: Not over.