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- 0:38Speaker 1: That is how you end a playoff series. Not the
- 0:42Speaker 1: Dodgers the Phillies. Wow. Welcome in the beginning of another
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- 1:54Speaker 1: We're back at it. See nightly talk show every night
- 1:58Speaker 1: here win, loser, draw, good, bad or ugly. Things going on,
- 2:02Speaker 1: things not going on, and we sit in the big chair,
- 2:06Speaker 1: as our old morning guy Mark Patrick used to say
- 2:08Speaker 1: back in the day, and yap away yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
- 2:12Speaker 1: I guess the headline, the headline and lead this hour
- 2:16Speaker 1: is oh Ryan, Oh no, oh Ryan, Oh no oh,
- 2:22Speaker 1: Ryan's belt. If you will, what a what a night?
- 2:26Speaker 1: If you saw the baseball or not, but a double
- 2:28Speaker 1: barreled action, one good game, one dog food game on
- 2:31Speaker 1: the divisional round card on a pretty good sporting day.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Like if you're into this kind of crap, right, if
- 2:37Speaker 1: you're into it and I'm into it, and I assume
- 2:39Speaker 1: you are too, this is a good day. It's a
- 2:42Speaker 1: good day. So yeah, the Brewers and the Cubbies. Now
- 2:44Speaker 1: that was the nightcap. That was the dud Dud Dud
- 2:48Speaker 1: dud Dud. Then you had the Phillies earlier and the
- 2:50Speaker 1: Dodgers that was the undercard. And it's kind of like,
- 2:53Speaker 1: you know boxing. I used to be a huge not
- 2:56Speaker 1: a huge boxing I used to go to boxing matches
- 2:58Speaker 1: in Vegas and everyone's while. You'd go to a boxing
- 3:01Speaker 1: match and the undercard would upstage the main event. You'd
- 3:04Speaker 1: be like, Wow, that's not supposed to happen. Well, this
- 3:07Speaker 1: was it I heard. The assumption was they moved the
- 3:11Speaker 1: Phillies Dodgers game up because the Eagles were playing in
- 3:16Speaker 1: the NFL game. I guess they really wanted to make
- 3:18Speaker 1: sure the Philadelphia sports fans up both their teams suck. Anyway,
- 3:23Speaker 1: it turns out the game in LA did upstage the
- 3:26Speaker 1: matchup at the Friendly Confines there in Chicago. So that's
- 3:29Speaker 1: where we will begin again. If you saw any of
- 3:32Speaker 1: this stuff or not, maybe you were busy. I don't
- 3:35Speaker 1: know what you're doing. I'm not in your shoes, all right.
- 3:37Speaker 1: So we had an instant classic at Chavez Ravine. One
- 3:41Speaker 1: of those moments where years from now you'll be like, hey,
- 3:45Speaker 1: you remember that JABEBROWNI that Schmendrick for the Phillies. What's
- 3:50Speaker 1: the guy's name that did the thing you can't do
- 3:52Speaker 1: at the time? Yeah? That guy? What's Yeah? So the
- 3:55Speaker 1: game was tied at one, it went to extra innings.
- 4:00Speaker 1: The bases were lowered. There were two outs in the
- 4:02Speaker 1: eleventh inning, and the Phillies had a relief pitcher, O'riyan
- 4:07Speaker 1: Kirkering on the mound. Not a household name he is
- 4:11Speaker 1: now though, congratulations, you're now a household name. O'Ryan so
- 4:15Speaker 1: Oriyan Kirkering on the mound. And there was a little
- 4:19Speaker 1: tapper from Andy Piez back to the mound, and he
- 4:23Speaker 1: fielded the ball, bobbled it and then threw it away
- 4:27Speaker 1: right past home plate. We could have thrown the first base,
- 4:31Speaker 1: but instead he threw it right there. Boom, a wild
- 4:35Speaker 1: throw passed home plate. And after screwing it up and
- 4:39Speaker 1: Andy Piez gets it done. They't comebacker like he was.
- 4:44Speaker 1: He failed, but yet succeeded with two outs in the
- 4:47Speaker 1: eleventh inning, and thanks to the generosity of the Philadelphia Phillies,
- 4:51Speaker 1: very charitable in the city of brother in Law, the
- 4:54Speaker 1: Dodgers escape. They get a two to one win and
- 4:58Speaker 1: they have DECOMMISSI the fighting phills, not a nada, go bye,
- 5:07Speaker 1: See you later, suckers. Where's your red October? Now? Now
- 5:11Speaker 1: the story here is I mean, we know, I mean
- 5:15Speaker 1: you know. Oftentimes we'll come in here if you listen
- 5:18Speaker 1: to the show on a regular basis, if you listen
- 5:20Speaker 1: to the Ben Mather Show, we often come in here
- 5:22Speaker 1: with a knife and we play the blame game. We
- 5:24Speaker 1: cut up the blame cheese steak, or we blame you
- 5:27Speaker 1: know this, that and the other thing. There's no need
- 5:31Speaker 1: to play that game, like, we don't need to play
- 5:33Speaker 1: the game. We know where the blame is on this.
- 5:35Speaker 1: The blame is rather obvious. It's right between your eyes here.
- 5:38Speaker 1: So the pitcher O Ryan Kirkering on the mound, he
- 5:42Speaker 1: hung his head in shame. There he put his hands
- 5:44Speaker 1: down on his knees after his throat sailed away, sailing
- 5:48Speaker 1: away right past J. T Va Muto the catcher there
- 5:53Speaker 1: as as the pinch runner came home to score the
- 5:56Speaker 1: comet across the plate there and he actually missed the
- 5:58Speaker 1: plate and then had to go back and touch the
- 6:01Speaker 1: plate that The Dodgers are onto the National League Championship Series.
- 6:04Speaker 1: They have to wait till this weekend because the Chicago
- 6:07Speaker 1: Cubs pummeled the Brewers and so the Cubbies are staying alive,
- 6:12Speaker 1: and there will be a deciding Game five on Saturday.
- 6:16Speaker 1: So I don't know if youre gonna watch that or
- 6:17Speaker 1: just watch college football, but yeah, I'll check it out.
- 6:20Speaker 1: Game five. That's good. Somebody's gonna be somebody's gonna be
- 6:23Speaker 1: very upset at the end of that game. As I've
- 6:25Speaker 1: often said, the better story is in the losing locker room.
- 6:29Speaker 1: And one of the mantras is that and another mantras,
- 6:31Speaker 1: most games are lost, not one. This is a great example.
- 6:34Speaker 1: This is a textbook example of the ethos of the
- 6:38Speaker 1: Ben Mathers Show. Most of the time a game is
- 6:41Speaker 1: lost because someone's a complete f up, like this game,
- 6:45Speaker 1: and what happened, as we discussed this game is immediately
- 6:49Speaker 1: instead of just accountability and you know, I know you
- 6:53Speaker 1: didn't try to suck O'Ryan Kirkering, but just sucked and
- 6:58Speaker 1: that's it. No, everyone's got our circle the wagons. It's
- 7:01Speaker 1: not his fault. Oh no, no, it's such bulk. Let's
- 7:06Speaker 1: hear from Rob Thompson, the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies,
- 7:11Speaker 1: chiming in on all of this, you little taste of
- 7:14Speaker 1: what it was like. Take as rob obviously a heartbreaking
- 7:17Speaker 1: we to lose.
- 7:17Speaker 4: To get a long conversation with Oryan coming off the field,
- 7:20Speaker 4: do you want to share a little what you told him?
- 7:21Speaker 4: Or just to keep his head up? And he just
- 7:24Speaker 4: got caught up in the moment a little bit coming
- 7:26Speaker 4: down the stretcher. He pitched so well for us, and
- 7:29Speaker 4: I feel I feel for him because he's he's putting
- 7:32Speaker 4: it all on his shoulders. But we went as a team,
- 7:34Speaker 4: and we lose as a team.
- 7:35Speaker 1: So all right, that quote right there is the money quote.
- 7:39Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. Is it unfair to
- 7:43Speaker 1: put the Philadelphia Phillies loss on O'Ryan kirk ring? Is
- 7:47Speaker 1: it unfair? So my thoughts on this, I've got Jet Blue,
- 7:51Speaker 1: who Roberto and Butterball and we will throw all of
- 7:56Speaker 1: these things together and we are gonna yack aty yack
- 7:59Speaker 1: under the darkness. So a my position, is it unfair
- 8:02Speaker 1: to put all of this on the Phillies picture? It
- 8:05Speaker 1: would be an injustice not to blame him, Like you
- 8:08Speaker 1: would live in a parallel universe, and life is not
- 8:11Speaker 1: always fair. We know that right, and you've got your problems.
- 8:15Speaker 1: I've got my problems. But O'Ryan Kirkering, the picture here
- 8:18Speaker 1: melted down like a cheap soft pretzel left out in
- 8:23Speaker 1: the hot summer on Broad Street. You know, sometime late July,
- 8:28Speaker 1: early August. The moment was too big. He cracked, couldn't
- 8:32Speaker 1: handle it. He had tight took a syndrome. He choked.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Call like it is, don't lie, don't pretend, don't don't
- 8:38Speaker 1: do that crap. This was not some quirky bad hop.
- 8:42Speaker 1: It was not. It was a routine play a big
- 8:44Speaker 1: league player makes one hundred percent of the time. It
- 8:48Speaker 1: wasn't the baseball gods playing some kind of evil trick
- 8:52Speaker 1: on this Philadelphia Phillies picture. No, no, no, no. He
- 8:55Speaker 1: flat out choked. He sucked at a time you cannot suck.
- 8:59Speaker 1: And and unfortunately for him, he decided he wanted to
- 9:01Speaker 1: go on vacation. Oryan Kirker. He went down to the airport.
- 9:05Speaker 1: He got a one way ticket from Jet Blue and
- 9:07Speaker 1: the destination Panic City because he paniced. Baby, And you know, again,
- 9:12Speaker 1: don't give me the we win as a team, we
- 9:14Speaker 1: lose as a team. Crap. I don't hear that garbage, please,
- 9:18Speaker 1: You know who didn't lose the game. You can say, well,
- 9:20Speaker 1: Bryce Harper sucked in this series, that's true, but he
- 9:22Speaker 1: didn't throw the He didn't throw the ball away. H
- 9:25Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber hit some home runs the other day but
- 9:27Speaker 1: didn't do much else. Kyle Schwarber didn't throw the ball away.
- 9:31Speaker 1: You know who did throw the ball away. You want
- 9:33Speaker 1: to take a guess, ding ding ding ding ding ding. Yes, Oh,
- 9:36Speaker 1: Ryan Kirkering threw the ball away. That's on him. It's
- 9:40Speaker 1: not little league. He's a you know, a grown up
- 9:43Speaker 1: young man. It's on him, all right. This wasn't a
- 9:45Speaker 1: bad inning. This is a career tattoo. Congratulations. You have
- 9:51Speaker 1: now been branded. No matter whether you stay in Philadelphia,
- 9:55Speaker 1: you go play for the Red Sox or the Diamondbacks,
- 9:58Speaker 1: or the Mariners, the the Marlins or the Twins or
- 10:01Speaker 1: the a Holes in Houston, it doesn't matter. You have
- 10:04Speaker 1: now gotten that tattoo right on your forehead, and for
- 10:09Speaker 1: better or worse, that sticks with you forever. There's no
- 10:12Speaker 1: removing that tattoo.
- 10:13Speaker 3: Right.
- 10:13Speaker 1: It's not now. It's not all bad news because from
- 10:17Speaker 1: an irishtandaman, this source is not close to the situation.
- 10:20Speaker 1: The Phillies are already planning a concession item to honor
- 10:24Speaker 1: a Ryan Kirkering for the twenty twenty sixth season. They're
- 10:28Speaker 1: gonna be serving up at the snack bar there art
- 10:31Speaker 1: Choke sandwiches, because that is the official vegetable of O'Ryan,
- 10:37Speaker 1: the ARTI chuck. Wow. He becomes now the hunchback of
- 10:40Speaker 1: the Delaware Valley and Philadelphi's gonna eat him alife like
- 10:44Speaker 1: they do not hand out. Hey, you know you tried
- 10:47Speaker 1: a good job by you your ribbons. After that, you
- 10:52Speaker 1: know they chuck batteries at you, and all that mattered
- 10:56Speaker 1: was what happened in that moment, right didn't Matt? You said,
- 10:59Speaker 1: well they were terrible of the Phillies offense. I agree
- 11:01Speaker 1: with you, they were bad. But the game was even up.
- 11:05Speaker 1: There were two outs. You get the hit her out,
- 11:08Speaker 1: Andy Piez. The game continues. You live to play another
- 11:10Speaker 1: day or in this case, another inning. And the game
- 11:14Speaker 1: was in his hands. He was on the mound, Ryan Kirkering,
- 11:17Speaker 1: and he rode the vomit comet. He did. It was
- 11:20Speaker 1: early to ride the vomit come up. But he wrote
- 11:22Speaker 1: the vomit comment. He is going to wear that for
- 11:24Speaker 1: the rest of his big league career. He will become
- 11:26Speaker 1: again the answer to well who am I game? Who
- 11:28Speaker 1: was the numb nuts pitcher that threw the game away
- 11:31Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Phillies. Now you think about the context
- 11:34Speaker 1: of this as well, how does this loss? Here's another question,
- 11:38Speaker 1: how does this loss change things going forward for the Phillies.
- 11:42Speaker 1: So we have the multiverse in play, all right, there
- 11:46Speaker 1: was a dimension here where the Phillies go on and
- 11:49Speaker 1: come back and win Game five this weekend in Philly
- 11:52Speaker 1: and then go on to the NLCS and then the
- 11:54Speaker 1: World Series, and then they win the championship and everyone celebrates.
- 11:58Speaker 1: And however, that did not happen in this part of
- 12:03Speaker 1: the multiverse. The shelf life has run out, the bread
- 12:07Speaker 1: has become moldy. This was the last best chance for
- 12:12Speaker 1: this core group to win a championship, and the ball
- 12:15Speaker 1: was in the hands of Oriyan Kirkering, and he chucked
- 12:18Speaker 1: it past the catcher. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Turn at the lads, the parties over see you later.
- 12:29Speaker 1: And the thing is and you know it, every man,
- 12:31Speaker 1: woman and child knows it. The Dodgers were vulnerable. They
- 12:34Speaker 1: were plumped for the taken You know it, and I
- 12:37Speaker 1: know it. Bryce Harper, he becomes a year older now,
- 12:40Speaker 1: he'll be thirty three next season, thirty four by next
- 12:43Speaker 1: October during the playoff run. He's no longer in his
- 12:46Speaker 1: athletic prime. You've got big time free agents. Jt Ria Muto,
- 12:51Speaker 1: who was on the receiving end of the wild throw
- 12:54Speaker 1: that sailed past him. The catcher, the slugger, Kyle Schwarber,
- 12:58Speaker 1: he's selling some sharp bombs and then maybe the pentagonal
- 13:02Speaker 1: by him and then Ranger Suarez. They're all free agents.
- 13:05Speaker 1: That's an old core, oldest in baseball. What a mess now,
- 13:10Speaker 1: I do like Dave Dombrowski the GM there and he's
- 13:13Speaker 1: gonna have to work like a ninja to keep this
- 13:17Speaker 1: group together. And you know it's a it's a good
- 13:20Speaker 1: town when the Phillies are winning. They packed the place
- 13:22Speaker 1: there at Citizens Bank Park. But man, what a debacle.
- 13:26Speaker 1: What a royal f up. And one guy, one guy
- 13:30Speaker 1: f the whole thing go up. The whole thing goes
- 13:32Speaker 1: to flames. Now on the other side, turning the page here,
- 13:36Speaker 1: the question on this one is what is the vibe
- 13:38Speaker 1: around the Dave Roberts Dodgers, Like it's you can't really
- 13:44Speaker 1: feel that great ken ye. I mean you talk about
- 13:47Speaker 1: the definition of better to be lucky than good, and
- 13:50Speaker 1: that's exactly what that smelled like. You smell that, Yeah,
- 13:54Speaker 1: my goodness. You could feel the universe trying to send
- 13:58Speaker 1: this thing to a game five. And the Dodgers were
- 14:01Speaker 1: like our guy that left to show Roberto. They were
- 14:04Speaker 1: driving the struggle bus, the much bally hooed Big Three
- 14:09Speaker 1: sho Hel Tani greatest player ever, rookie Bets. Do I
- 14:14Speaker 1: have to apologize for rookie Betsy? Freddie Freeman, I believe
- 14:18Speaker 1: my math is right. I used some mallort math on this.
- 14:21Speaker 1: They batted a collective one fifty a womp. When you
- 14:25Speaker 1: talk about sucking a horrific one six eight for fifty
- 14:30Speaker 1: against the Philadelphia Affilies. That's the big Blue wrecking crew,
- 14:34Speaker 1: my fat ass, that's the big Blue wrecking crew. They
- 14:37Speaker 1: were teetering on the brink. They were wobbling around like
- 14:40Speaker 1: a guy on a unicycle trying to drive through a hurricane.
- 14:44Speaker 1: And hey, again, they're lucky. The box score doesn't charge
- 14:48Speaker 1: rent for squatting. There were a lot of squatters in there,
- 14:52Speaker 1: a lot of floaters, and the Dodgers anemic offense scored
- 14:56Speaker 1: two runs in a closeout game, one on a basis
- 14:59Speaker 1: loaded walk he paces load of walk to Mookie bats
- 15:03Speaker 1: and the other which ended it the throwing air by
- 15:06Speaker 1: o Ryan Kirkering on the Andy Piez forty foot bouncer.
- 15:10Speaker 1: That is not manufacturing runs. That is like walking around
- 15:15Speaker 1: the parking lot at Disneyland and finding a twenty dollars
- 15:18Speaker 1: bill is essentially what you did. That's a guardian angel
- 15:21Speaker 1: in Dodger blue. That's lessorda looking down from Blue Heaven
- 15:25Speaker 1: doing CPR on your postseason run. Here, they were bailed out.
- 15:28Speaker 1: That is a government government like bail out here. Now,
- 15:31Speaker 1: I will say it's not all bad. On a positive note,
- 15:34Speaker 1: Roki Sazaki has become a glue guy. In the Dodger bullpen,
- 15:38Speaker 1: he was he was outstanding yet again the bullpen which
- 15:42Speaker 1: has duct tape and it's got police tape around it
- 15:45Speaker 1: as well. Man, are they bad? Just a bad group.
- 15:50Speaker 1: But Suzaki came in there and all of a sudden,
- 15:53Speaker 1: and when he's on the mound, it's like, ah, everything's good,
- 15:56Speaker 1: everything's great. We got this. As long as the starters
- 15:59Speaker 1: can go seven innings, they'll be fine. But to Sazaki,
- 16:02Speaker 1: with ice water. That's what you want, right That's what
- 16:04Speaker 1: the other guys had resumes where they had no pulse
- 16:06Speaker 1: on the mound. But Sazaki's living it right now. And
- 16:10Speaker 1: you know, if this series turns, he's the guy. He's
- 16:14Speaker 1: the reason it turned now. And really that's kind of
- 16:16Speaker 1: the thing that's the vibe the story of this Dodger team,
- 16:21Speaker 1: the greatest team ever assembled. But yet you look at
- 16:24Speaker 1: this team the way they played for Dave Roberts, despite
- 16:26Speaker 1: the payroll and all the star power and all the sizzle,
- 16:30Speaker 1: they're never clean. It's never pretty. It's stumbling into the
- 16:35Speaker 1: bar at one point fifty nine in the morning, and
- 16:37Speaker 1: somehow walking out with a win is what it is.
- 16:41Speaker 1: And you just you can't rely on cosmic breaks forever.
- 16:45Speaker 1: You can't do it. It's working right now. It's just
- 16:47Speaker 1: like a cosmic accident, all right. Quickly, last word, we
- 16:50Speaker 1: go down to Chicago the late game where Matthew Boyd,
- 16:56Speaker 1: Boyd was he good? Pitched a two hit you he
- 17:00Speaker 1: went into the fifth anything the whole game, but that's
- 17:02Speaker 1: modern baseball. Pitched a two hit ball into the fifth inning,
- 17:06Speaker 1: and the Chicago Cubbies they put the Milwaukee Brewers lineup
- 17:11Speaker 1: into a chokehold sixth to nothing in a game that
- 17:16Speaker 1: didn't even seem that close on a chilly Thursday night
- 17:19Speaker 1: in Chicago. There they pushed the divisional series all the
- 17:23Speaker 1: way back up what ninety some on miles up I
- 17:25Speaker 1: ninety four to Milwaukee for a decisive Game five this
- 17:29Speaker 1: weekend is Ian Happ, Kyle Tucker, and Michael Bush, the
- 17:33Speaker 1: ex Dodger all Homer for the Cubbies there and the
- 17:37Speaker 1: crowd there, they were having a rollicking good time at
- 17:40Speaker 1: Wrigley Field. They were dancing in the aisles there. It
- 17:42Speaker 1: was great. It was wonderful. You know why they were
- 17:44Speaker 1: dancing because Rigny Field is a playground for the blank blanks.
- 17:49Speaker 1: Eighty five percent of the world's working. The other fifteen
- 17:52Speaker 1: percent come out here. It's a blank blank that's the Cubs. Yeah,
- 17:57Speaker 1: that's that is the Cubs. So the Cubs were on
- 17:58Speaker 1: the brink of elimination after they've lost those first two
- 18:01Speaker 1: games in the NLDS there in Milwaukee, and look like
- 18:04Speaker 1: they were not supposed to be on the same field,
- 18:07Speaker 1: but they held on the other night on Wednesday, and
- 18:10Speaker 1: so now here we are Boyd Good and the relievers
- 18:13Speaker 1: Good as well. And so next up the finale, best
- 18:16Speaker 1: of five, back in Milwaukee again Saturday night. Tickets are
- 18:19Speaker 1: not available. I think Marlin's Man is gonna be there.
- 18:21Speaker 1: He was debating whether or not to go. But there's
- 18:24Speaker 1: no other game that day, so I'm assuming Marlin's man,
- 18:25Speaker 1: my buddy's gonna be there. He was in Chicago for
- 18:28Speaker 1: the game. He'll be in. I don't know if he's
- 18:30Speaker 1: gonna see He said he's thinking about going out to
- 18:32Speaker 1: Seattle for the game here on Friday night. But the
- 18:34Speaker 1: winner of that series between the Cubs and the Brewers
- 18:37Speaker 1: will take on the Doyers and that'll be in the NLCS.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Coming up your better story again, losing a locker room.
- 18:43Speaker 1: So the questions rather obvious. Where have things gone haywire?
- 18:47Speaker 1: Where have things gone wrong for the Brewers? So watching
- 18:51Speaker 1: this game, this was from the Milwaukee side of things,
- 18:54Speaker 1: I call this a butterball game. It was an absolute turkey.
- 19:00Speaker 1: You win ninety seven games, you had the top record
- 19:03Speaker 1: in the sport. And when you're out there and this
- 19:06Speaker 1: is a close out game, You've had two close out
- 19:08Speaker 1: games here. The lights are bright, the stage is all
- 19:12Speaker 1: yours right there. You want that national attention and your
- 19:15Speaker 1: little Milwaukee and you go out there and you're in
- 19:18Speaker 1: the witness protection program, lest your bats are three hits,
- 19:22Speaker 1: three hits all night. Three hits was Greg Maddox pitching
- 19:26Speaker 1: for the Cubs, one for thirteen with runners in scoring
- 19:31Speaker 1: position over the two games at Wrigley. That's not playoff baseball.
- 19:34Speaker 1: That is a hostage situations what that is. And they
- 19:38Speaker 1: were literally drowning up there. It wasn't an offense. It
- 19:41Speaker 1: was a clogged toilet. They didn't have a plunger and
- 19:45Speaker 1: it could not hit water. As the line goes, they
- 19:48Speaker 1: could hit water if they fell out of a boat
- 19:50Speaker 1: and into Lake Michigan, they wouldn't be able to hit
- 19:53Speaker 1: water there. So the brew crew who left more guys
- 19:56Speaker 1: stranded than Spirit airlines during a snowstorm. I was thirteen,
- 20:00Speaker 1: as we said, thirteen left on base in the two games.
- 20:03Speaker 1: That is malpractice. Played like a bunch of mamelukes. Now,
- 20:06Speaker 1: the good news is, despite what every ex jock and
- 20:08Speaker 1: meat heead athlete likes to say, there is no such
- 20:11Speaker 1: thing as momentum. It doesn't matter. If there was momentum,
- 20:14Speaker 1: the Brewers would have eliminated the Cubs because they had
- 20:17Speaker 1: all the momentum. They had won the first two games
- 20:19Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, but there is no momentum. It was so
- 20:22Speaker 1: funny because I was watching some of the coverage of
- 20:25Speaker 1: the Phillies and the Dodgers and the lead in the
- 20:27Speaker 1: pregame stuff, and I'm just signing this. It's not very entertaining,
- 20:30Speaker 1: but I was watching it, and they're like, Oh, the
- 20:32Speaker 1: Phillies have the momentum. Now, you know they won, they
- 20:35Speaker 1: dominated the Dodgers. You know they're scaringly Really, there is
- 20:39Speaker 1: no such thing. Why do people keep repeating something that's
- 20:43Speaker 1: not true. I don't understand. I don't get it. I
- 20:46Speaker 1: don't understand.
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- 22:38Speaker 1: So we discussed the wacky wacky world of Major League Baseball.
- 22:44Speaker 1: Last hour the Dodgers victorious and the Chicago Cubs victorious
- 22:49Speaker 1: as well, so they both have advanced well, the Dodgers advanced,
- 22:52Speaker 1: the Cubs advanced to a game five on Saturday in baseball.
- 22:56Speaker 1: But while those things were going on, mostly the Cub
- 23:00Speaker 1: Brewer game, we had well, we had ash in the NFL,
- 23:05Speaker 1: a Thursday Night special. Al Michaels was there, Kirk Herb Street, Herbie.
- 23:11Speaker 1: They had to call in the Amazon as they were
- 23:14Speaker 1: calling that game. And that is to lead this hour
- 23:15Speaker 1: from New Jersey, the reigning Super Bowl champion Eagles traveling party.
- 23:20Speaker 1: They went up I ninety five to take on the Giants.
- 23:22Speaker 1: I don't know if you were watching, maybe you were
- 23:25Speaker 1: watching the baseball or not. The theme of the night
- 23:28Speaker 1: with was youth be served as rookie Cam Scataboo running wild,
- 23:34Speaker 1: running and stumbling for not one, not two, but three
- 23:37Speaker 1: three touchdowns and fellow rookie quarterback Jackson Dart had one
- 23:42Speaker 1: rushing score and another passing The New York Giants Wake
- 23:46Speaker 1: Up the Echoes. The Giants beat the Eagles thirty four
- 23:50Speaker 1: seventeen to the final in the Thursday night game. And
- 23:53Speaker 1: so with that, it was less than a week ago
- 23:57Speaker 1: that the Eagles had not lost game in forever, and
- 24:01Speaker 1: now they've lost two games in just a few days.
- 24:03Speaker 1: The Broncos got them, and now the Giants knocked them down.
- 24:07Speaker 1: A couple more pegs here, the better story is in
- 24:10Speaker 1: that losing locker room. So let us discuss the question,
- 24:14Speaker 1: what is the temperature. Let's do a temperature check. What
- 24:17Speaker 1: is the temperature in the Eagles locker room around Jalen
- 24:21Speaker 1: hurts at this point. So my observations on this. I've
- 24:25Speaker 1: got Smorgasborg, Smuckers and Tony Stark, and we will combine
- 24:31Speaker 1: all of these things together, all of them, and we're
- 24:35Speaker 1: gonna play doctor Jekyl mister Hyde, because Philadelphia in many
- 24:39Speaker 1: ways is a doctor Jekyl mister Hyde operation of the
- 24:44Speaker 1: football team. And put all this together, and we're gonna
- 24:46Speaker 1: make your Babushka's favorite choked cheese steak. Now, the Phillies
- 24:50Speaker 1: ate the choke cheese steak in many ways. The Eagles
- 24:52Speaker 1: did as well. But Number I said number one, the
- 25:00Speaker 1: Eagles locker room temperature is a gauge. It's redlining right now.
- 25:05Speaker 1: It's redlining. It's a tender box. It is what's in
- 25:09Speaker 1: the box. It's a tinder box. At this point, less
- 25:12Speaker 1: than a week ago, the Eagles were sitting pretty as, Oh,
- 25:16Speaker 1: we're not winning by a lot, but we're winning and
- 25:18Speaker 1: that's all that matters. And I did a monologue say
- 25:22Speaker 1: there's some some issues there in Philadelphia, and of course
- 25:24Speaker 1: immediately got the blowback.
- 25:26Speaker 2: You just do.
- 25:26Speaker 1: That's why you're doing overnights, Fatty. I love that so much.
- 25:31Speaker 1: It's so good, and so I get that kind of feedback.
- 25:34Speaker 1: And here we are ten days later. The Eagles have
- 25:38Speaker 1: now lost twice, and so they were one of the
- 25:40Speaker 1: last unbeaten teams in the NFL. But now the trap
- 25:43Speaker 1: door has opened up and they've fallen into a Pitavanaconda's.
- 25:47Speaker 1: At this point here, things are not going particularly well.
- 25:50Speaker 1: The Eagles scored as many points in the second half
- 25:54Speaker 1: as the Fox Sports radio football team. Yes, bupkiss, let's
- 25:58Speaker 1: hear from Jalen Hurts. It's the Eagles quarterback on what
- 26:02Speaker 1: exactly were you doing in the second half? Take a listen.
- 26:06Speaker 2: That's the third straight game you guys didn't score second
- 26:08Speaker 2: half point?
- 26:10Speaker 7: What's going on? Half of the half?
- 26:12Speaker 1: I gotta be better, gotta be better.
- 26:15Speaker 7: I take on the ship for it, you know, a
- 26:18Speaker 7: lot of a lot of autonomy, a lot of opportunity
- 26:22Speaker 7: there with the ball in my hands and giving those situations,
- 26:27Speaker 7: I have to be a wiser and more detailed with it.
- 26:30Speaker 7: So I always looking in with first, you know, looking
- 26:34Speaker 7: in with on the things that I can control, and
- 26:36Speaker 7: you know, I see a lot of opportunity in this.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, you're at a fork in the road and
- 26:43Speaker 1: it's either you put the thing back on the tracks
- 26:45Speaker 1: here or that's it. Now. Shut out in the second
- 26:49Speaker 1: half by a Giants defense which came in ranked twenty
- 26:52Speaker 1: second in scoring defense twenty sixth in total defense, handed
- 26:56Speaker 1: a game away last week to the New Orleans Saints
- 26:59Speaker 1: on offense with turnovers, and yet they made Jalen Hurts
- 27:02Speaker 1: look like he was trying to throw a medicine ball
- 27:05Speaker 1: in the second and a half. Now here's the part
- 27:08Speaker 1: that should make Eagle fans have heartburn, make them really,
- 27:12Speaker 1: really nervous. You know this, if you're a real Egle fan,
- 27:15Speaker 1: If I cut you open and cheese steak comes out,
- 27:19Speaker 1: I'm talking. I'm not talking cheese whiz. I'm talking the
- 27:22Speaker 1: cheese steak with the pro boloan they just call the
- 27:25Speaker 1: steak samwich in Philadelia. That locker room has a smell.
- 27:29Speaker 1: You know that smell. You smell that that's the oh,
- 27:34Speaker 1: that's the oh smell. Yeah, you've got divas to the right,
- 27:39Speaker 1: divas to the left. In the wide receiver room. You've
- 27:42Speaker 1: got your quarterback with an underthrow to the right, an
- 27:46Speaker 1: overthrow to the left, misreading the defense in the middle,
- 27:49Speaker 1: AJ Brown giving everything side eye. On the sidelines, you've
- 27:53Speaker 1: got Devontae Smith starting to stare off into the void.
- 27:58Speaker 1: And then they just heard from Jalen Hurts. You know,
- 28:01Speaker 1: mister Joe cool right now and all that. You know,
- 28:03Speaker 1: it just got to flushed it away. But he does
- 28:06Speaker 1: play like a guy who's pressing. There was a lot
- 28:09Speaker 1: of behind the scenes drama in Philadelphia this week with
- 28:14Speaker 1: reports of a meeting between kind of a peace meeting
- 28:19Speaker 1: between the quarterback and the receivers, and they went at it.
- 28:23Speaker 1: And so this is not the same group that walked
- 28:26Speaker 1: into stadiums last year and was a juggernaut. Not right now,
- 28:29Speaker 1: they're not. They look tight, they're detached. And it's not
- 28:33Speaker 1: always sunny in Philadelphia. That's false advertised always cloudy. It's
- 28:37Speaker 1: always cloudy there. And the Eagles have all the ingredients necessary,
- 28:41Speaker 1: all of them to cook up a Smorgsborg of disaster,
- 28:46Speaker 1: a total Smorgsborg of disaster. If you check the cabinets,
- 28:50Speaker 1: they've got the ingredients, You've got diva wide receivers. You've
- 28:53Speaker 1: got the disease of me with with aj Brown and
- 28:56Speaker 1: Devonte Smith saying they're not getting the ball enough. Davonte
- 28:59Speaker 1: we mentioned Jalen Hurts with the wild throws. Sekwan Barkley.
- 29:03Speaker 1: He has been a cookie cutter running back. This year
- 29:06Speaker 1: he was a super nova. He's now a dime store
- 29:09Speaker 1: running back. The defense has regressed. It's the middle of
- 29:12Speaker 1: the pack defense. It's all the ticking time bomb and
- 29:15Speaker 1: the cherry on top. You've got a head coach who's
- 29:18Speaker 1: not exactly a calming presence. Nick Sirianni, one of the
- 29:22Speaker 1: great front runners of our time. Does anyone disagree with
- 29:25Speaker 1: that when things are going well, he's pounding his chest
- 29:30Speaker 1: and running around, you know, chest bumping, hi naval gazing,
- 29:35Speaker 1: all that stuff. And when things aren't going well, uh,
- 29:39Speaker 1: not so good. Here's Nick Sirianni, the Eagles head coach,
- 29:41Speaker 1: commenting on the lack of offense. There was none in
- 29:45Speaker 1: the second half for his.
- 29:46Speaker 8: Team obviously, you know anytime, you know, I think there
- 29:50Speaker 8: were some some good moments in the run game today,
- 29:54Speaker 8: got ourselves behind the sticks a little bit in the
- 29:56Speaker 8: second half on some of some of the runs there.
- 29:59Speaker 8: So we'll look at everything right there. You know, we know,
- 30:04Speaker 8: we we know we have the guys up front to
- 30:07Speaker 8: be able to do that. Obviously, we gotta we gotta
- 30:09Speaker 8: do a good job putting them in positions to succeed.
- 30:12Speaker 8: And then we got to go execute.
- 30:15Speaker 1: Okay, I guess we had to cut off the word execute,
- 30:17Speaker 1: but that was a breach of etiquette, a breach of
- 30:19Speaker 1: etiquette there, the way the Eagles were playing. And so
- 30:22Speaker 1: the second part is, let's go to the Giants. We'll
- 30:24Speaker 1: go back to the Eagles. Let's go to the Giants
- 30:25Speaker 1: right now. So the question on the Giants the winning
- 30:28Speaker 1: locker room, which is not as good as story. The
- 30:30Speaker 1: winning locker room is just not it's just not as
- 30:32Speaker 1: good a story as the losing locker room. But we'll
- 30:34Speaker 1: go there now. So the question is a lot of
- 30:38Speaker 1: lot of pump pumping the tires on the this the
- 30:43Speaker 1: young players for the Giants, A lot of pumping the
- 30:45Speaker 1: tires on this is so it is the hype warranted
- 30:49Speaker 1: for Jackson Dart and Cam Skataboo, the quarterback running back combination.
- 30:54Speaker 1: It is already over the top. So I thought they
- 30:58Speaker 1: both looked good. I don't know how you couldn't make
- 31:01Speaker 1: that statement that they both look good. But I would
- 31:04Speaker 1: pump the brakes on having a parade down the canyon
- 31:07Speaker 1: of heroes for Jackson Dart and Camscataboo based on social
- 31:12Speaker 1: media only. These guys have now squared the circle. They
- 31:15Speaker 1: have absolutely squared the circle. I guess we'll forget about
- 31:18Speaker 1: the fact that they gave a game away to the
- 31:20Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints a few days ago, but we'll just
- 31:23Speaker 1: come on. So it's great. It's one night, one night only,
- 31:28Speaker 1: that's it. And yeah, on this night, we do this.
- 31:31Speaker 1: We do the talk show daily and so right now,
- 31:33Speaker 1: you know each night and they were Cam Scataboo and
- 31:37Speaker 1: Jackson Dart were smuckers, uncrustables, right, peanut butter and jelly,
- 31:41Speaker 1: perfectly packaged, sweet in the middle, snack sized football heroes
- 31:46Speaker 1: they were. However, to say that this is now going
- 31:50Speaker 1: to be a thing is a classic overreaction. Right, you
- 31:55Speaker 1: sentence yourself to prison, You're now in the jail set,
- 32:00Speaker 1: prisoner of the moment, and Jackson Dart was out there
- 32:03Speaker 1: looking like a shaw Day, a smooth operator, throwing the
- 32:07Speaker 1: ball around and fired up. And it's very weird to
- 32:10Speaker 1: see the Giants with someone playing quarterback that looks like
- 32:13Speaker 1: they know what they're doing. Haven't had that in a
- 32:15Speaker 1: long time. And then you've got Cam Skataboo, who we
- 32:19Speaker 1: saw in college, became a cold hero in his college
- 32:22Speaker 1: days briefly and wasn't drafted very high, and he ran
- 32:25Speaker 1: through the Eagles defense like it was a kid running
- 32:27Speaker 1: through sprinklers out on a park somewhere on a hot
- 32:30Speaker 1: summer afternoon. And yeah, that was fun. I'm not a
- 32:33Speaker 1: Giants fan, but for those of you that do partake
- 32:36Speaker 1: in the Giants, it was loud, it was great, a
- 32:38Speaker 1: little razzle dazzle. When's the last time they had razzle dazzle?
- 32:42Speaker 1: And it was probably already I know, is the peak
- 32:45Speaker 1: the right word? I don't know if peaks the right word,
- 32:47Speaker 1: but this was like a revival tan.
- 32:50Speaker 8: It was like a.
- 32:51Speaker 1: Religious experience for the Giant fans who've been in a
- 32:54Speaker 1: football coma, in a malaise for so many years here,
- 33:00Speaker 1: but I go back to the question is is this permanent? Well, no,
- 33:05Speaker 1: it's premature to say that. See the problem is I
- 33:08Speaker 1: actually kind of liked that these two guys. And what's
- 33:11Speaker 1: gonna happen is the New York overhype machine's gonna get
- 33:15Speaker 1: it craked up, and I'm gonna start hate both of them.
- 33:17Speaker 1: I know this always happens. Right now, it's fun to
- 33:21Speaker 1: watch camp scatterboo, bump heads and run through people and
- 33:25Speaker 1: not care about his long term health. And Jackson Dart
- 33:28Speaker 1: looks really like an exciting young quarterback. And yet I
- 33:32Speaker 1: know I'm going to hate them because this is what
- 33:34Speaker 1: always happens with New York athletes. You just get it
- 33:38Speaker 1: shoved down your throat and you begin to despise them.
- 33:42Speaker 1: At least I do. Maybe you don't, all right, final point,
- 33:46Speaker 1: So I'll go back to the Philadelphia side of things.
- 33:48Speaker 1: One of the storylines in this game, if you're watching
- 33:50Speaker 1: it in the second quarter, fans were spitting mad, spitting
- 33:55Speaker 1: mad neutral fans because the Philadelphia Eagles tush push took
- 34:00Speaker 1: over the game. So during the second quarter, Philadelphia was
- 34:02Speaker 1: in the red zone and they needed a couple more
- 34:05Speaker 1: yards to reach the end zone. So not only did
- 34:09Speaker 1: they attempt the touch push, but they did it four
- 34:13Speaker 1: times in a row. Touch push, touch push, touch bush,
- 34:16Speaker 1: touch bush touchy touchy touch. Hey, that's what they did,
- 34:20Speaker 1: and they did score. Jalen Hurts eventually scored. The reaction, though,
- 34:25Speaker 1: there was a visceral reaction to that second quarter stretch
- 34:29Speaker 1: where they ran the four touch pushes and the repetition
- 34:32Speaker 1: of it. People very upset, demanding it be outlawed, saying
- 34:36Speaker 1: that the replays yet again showed that there were Eagle
- 34:39Speaker 1: linemen who jumped off sides. It was not called. So
- 34:42Speaker 1: the question is do you feel the agony of the
- 34:47Speaker 1: fan calling out the tousch push saying it must be banned.
- 34:52Speaker 1: It must be banned after the Eagles ran it four
- 34:55Speaker 1: times their rapid fire in the second quarter. As American
- 35:00Speaker 1: idol judge back in the day, Randy Jackson would say, Yeah,
- 35:04Speaker 1: that's gonna be a no for me. Dog, that's gonna
- 35:08Speaker 1: be an Now. The Eagles, I might be wrong with this.
- 35:12Speaker 1: I believe they lost the game, and I don't think
- 35:14Speaker 1: this is a crime against humanity that they continued to
- 35:18Speaker 1: run the touchbush right, that just calm down now. As
- 35:21Speaker 1: for the Pearl clutching, which is going on call the
- 35:25Speaker 1: fall start, call the penalty. Uh yeah, there were penalties,
- 35:30Speaker 1: they were not called.
- 35:31Speaker 7: Uh.
- 35:32Speaker 1: And and so you're you're saying letter of the law round.
- 35:34Speaker 1: I'm a spirit of the law guy, not letter of
- 35:36Speaker 1: the law guy. Every offensive lineman in the league twitches
- 35:41Speaker 1: a little bit before the snap, right. You only notice
- 35:45Speaker 1: it because you're like, well, it's the slow motion replay
- 35:49Speaker 1: on it. It's one of those things. You can call
- 35:50Speaker 1: a penalty on every play if you want, and all that.
- 35:52Speaker 1: And if I was Nick Sirianni and I had this play,
- 35:58Speaker 1: I would never stop bringing. I would run it twenty
- 36:00Speaker 1: times a game. I'm shocked they don't run it more.
- 36:03Speaker 1: If it's fourth and one, tush push, third and inches,
- 36:08Speaker 1: tush push. If it's you're at a wedding and you're
- 36:13Speaker 1: walking someone down the aisle, tush push right down the aisle. Oh,
- 36:18Speaker 1: but it's ugly. It's not a football play. It's ugly. Okay,
- 36:24Speaker 1: football's not pretty anymore. See if Martha Stewart's still around,
- 36:29Speaker 1: I don't know, track her down. She'll make it look better.
- 36:32Speaker 1: But it's not the Eagles job to make the game
- 36:35Speaker 1: pretty for you. It's not and the NFL could have
- 36:40Speaker 1: gotten rid of it, they didn't have enough votes, And
- 36:43Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. This is one of those things
- 36:46Speaker 1: that drives me nuts. I've gotten on my soapbox here
- 36:49Speaker 1: at the bully pulpit and I've I've said, listen, in baseball,
- 36:52Speaker 1: they shouldn't have gotten rid of the shift. There's an
- 36:53Speaker 1: easy way to solve the shift. Just bunt use, you know,
- 36:57Speaker 1: choke up on the bat, hit the ball the other
- 36:59Speaker 1: way and the sh shift will go with But baseball,
- 37:01Speaker 1: of course, god forbid you. I'll make the players self regulate.
- 37:05Speaker 1: So they got rid of it, although it's still kind
- 37:08Speaker 1: of there. They just there's this imaginary line near second
- 37:11Speaker 1: base and then this is the same situation, right, it works.
- 37:16Speaker 1: If you want it banned, it's because you're just admitting
- 37:20Speaker 1: you're a loser and you can't beat It's just like,
- 37:22Speaker 1: stop whining. You don't even understand how bad it sounds.
- 37:25Speaker 1: You just sound weak. And you know the as far
- 37:29Speaker 1: as like the referees and all that, well, the NFL
- 37:31Speaker 1: referees have been incompetent my entire life. And the point
- 37:35Speaker 1: is either two things, stop the play or run the
- 37:40Speaker 1: play yourself. Just if you can't stop it. Why would
- 37:43Speaker 1: anyone else be able to stop it? It's it's the
- 37:46Speaker 1: job to score touchdowns. It's not to say, oh, we
- 37:50Speaker 1: got to score it, but we got to do a
- 37:51Speaker 1: certain way. No. Now, the other question I had quickly,
- 37:55Speaker 1: the other question, what does the toush push mean to
- 37:59Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts? Right watching him play in the second half,
- 38:02Speaker 1: that the ugly truth, the naked truth. And every time
- 38:07Speaker 1: I watch Jalen Hurts more and more I think the
- 38:09Speaker 1: same thing, and I get very I get very angry
- 38:12Speaker 1: people sending me messages, well, you don't know what you're
- 38:14Speaker 1: talking about. I don't understand why you keep saying that
- 38:16Speaker 1: you really don't know ball. And maybe I'm the only
- 38:19Speaker 1: one I could be the When I watch Jalen Hurts
- 38:22Speaker 1: play quarterback, I think this guy is a jag A
- 38:26Speaker 1: just a guy, not a Jacksonville jack just a guy,
- 38:29Speaker 1: right that if you take this play away and the
- 38:32Speaker 1: way things are going at some point here in the
- 38:34Speaker 1: next couple of years, the tush push will be be outlawed.
- 38:39Speaker 1: When I watch Jalen Hurts, though, it's like, if you
- 38:41Speaker 1: take that play away, it's the only thing that he
- 38:43Speaker 1: does at a super level. It would be like Tony
- 38:47Speaker 1: Stark having the Iron Man suit taken away from Without
- 38:52Speaker 1: the suit, He's just a rich guy with some nice
- 38:55Speaker 1: facial hair. That's it, right, without the tush push. Jalen
- 38:59Speaker 1: Hurts into what Kyler Murray without the video game addiction. Right,
- 39:05Speaker 1: Kyler Murray in a bad Thursday night game. He's not
- 39:07Speaker 1: flying around, He's grounded. It's it's Jalen Hurts is Kyler
- 39:11Speaker 1: Murray with better body language, without the toush push. Now
- 39:15Speaker 1: with it, you can win a super Bowl. They just did.
- 39:17Speaker 1: They're the reigning super Bowl champions. Congratulations. And in any
- 39:21Speaker 1: short yardage situation and it's it's amazing how many times
- 39:24Speaker 1: during the course of the game it ends up being
- 39:27Speaker 1: third down and one or fourth down and one. And
- 39:29Speaker 1: in those situations, it's an unstoppable super nova. Right, And
- 39:35Speaker 1: so if you take that away and you had to
- 39:37Speaker 1: do things the other way, how would that turn out?
- 39:41Speaker 1: Tumble down more times than that?
- 39:43Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 39:46Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 39:49Speaker 1: That was twelve that was clearly alive to the third.
- 39:52Speaker 2: Yeah, this is one big event gets grilled as.
- 39:58Speaker 1: Like an elementary school cope.
- 40:00Speaker 2: Ben.
- 40:00Speaker 9: Leading up to the Broncos game against the Jets in London,
- 40:04Speaker 9: Bo Knicks kind of pushed back on the idea that
- 40:07Speaker 9: it's a trap game and said trap games don't really exist.
- 40:09Speaker 9: He said, I think in the league, quite honestly, it's
- 40:11Speaker 9: a little dispectful, disrespectful to consider anybody a trap team.
- 40:15Speaker 9: They're an NFL team, They're gonna have some really good players.
- 40:17Speaker 9: It's not a trap game, Ben, do you agree with him?
- 40:20Speaker 2: Now?
- 40:20Speaker 1: Bo Knicks is a dope. I've been handicapping NFL games
- 40:24Speaker 1: and even before I started listening to people that are
- 40:26Speaker 1: older than me. This is a thing. It is absolutely
- 40:29Speaker 1: a thing. Historically, if you look at the gambling trends,
- 40:31Speaker 1: it happens. Teams underperform after a big win when they're
- 40:35Speaker 1: playing a suck bag team. It happens next.
- 40:38Speaker 9: There are some of the NFL community that believe Panthers
- 40:40Speaker 9: coach Dave Canalis could bench Bryce Young for Andy Dalton
- 40:43Speaker 9: again sooner rather than later. Ben, do you think Young
- 40:45Speaker 9: gets bench the season?
- 40:47Speaker 1: Bryce Young? Two things are true. Bryce Young sucks and
- 40:49Speaker 1: he will not be benched because if he gets benched,
- 40:52Speaker 1: Dave Canals is out next.
- 40:54Speaker 9: Steelers are linked to upgrades at wide receivers. Some of
- 40:56Speaker 9: the names are Jalen Waddle and Jacobe Myers. Do you
- 40:58Speaker 9: think they could make a move for one of these guys?
- 41:01Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Jacoby Myers, although I knowing the Steelers will
- 41:04Speaker 1: probably just like signed Odell Beckham because he's friends with
- 41:06Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. How did we do? I won hollering James.
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- 41:24Speaker 2: R to listen live. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame week?
- 41:30Speaker 2: Blame week too.
- 41:32Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Here we
- 41:35Speaker 1: welcome in a man who is feeling his oats today.
- 41:38Speaker 1: Weed Maine hippie made me laugh.
- 41:46Speaker 3: Bend Oh, I won't, I won't call Sunday, call Monday.
- 41:54Speaker 1: You're already, you're already, you're already announcing that you're not
- 41:58Speaker 1: willing to do the bit on Sunday to Monday? Is
- 42:01Speaker 1: that right thinking of you? Because there's so much football
- 42:05Speaker 1: and shutdown? Okay, all right, all right, all right, I'll
- 42:09Speaker 1: look at my schedule over the weekend and we'll.
- 42:10Speaker 9: Figure out this out. Too much football on Sunday doesn't work,
- 42:15Speaker 9: then he's alread, he's got it down.
- 42:17Speaker 1: And what do you think come day with hump day?
- 42:19Speaker 1: Ask ask weed man on hump Day? I like that.
- 42:23Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, get get through the rest of your week
- 42:26Speaker 9: with ask weed Man.
- 42:27Speaker 1: Get over the hump with weed Man. Yeah all right,
- 42:29Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, all right, why not? Okay weed Man?
- 42:33Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners. Are you ready? Yes?
- 42:37Speaker 9: All right?
- 42:37Speaker 1: What is the difference between Justin Cooper and Felexis? That's
- 42:49Speaker 1: the difference is Cooper has traveled abroad. Felexus has traveled
- 42:52Speaker 1: as abroad.
- 42:53Speaker 8: So there you go.
- 42:54Speaker 1: That's E in Rosevil, Minnesota. Thank you week. Yeah. Did
- 42:59Speaker 1: you hear that Raina is going to be the Super
- 43:01Speaker 1: Bowl halftime show? A translator from Spanish lyrics? Bad Bunny's
- 43:06Speaker 1: doing it, so should be the translator. Hear about that? Now?
- 43:10Speaker 1: Good big news, big news with Loraina and now blind
- 43:12Speaker 1: Scott said, great news. I'll buy you dinner the next
- 43:15Speaker 1: time we see each other. So there you go, Tom
- 43:19Speaker 1: in Indiana. I know those things are related. Did you
- 43:23Speaker 1: hear blind Scott has a step ladder?
- 43:26Speaker 3: Wow?
- 43:27Speaker 1: Yeah, well, his real ladder left when he was a kid.
- 43:31Speaker 1: But that's a Noah in Austin. Wow. How did how
- 43:36Speaker 1: did blind Scott fix his cracked pumpkin this Halloween?
- 43:41Speaker 3: Wow?
- 43:42Speaker 1: Well he used his pumpkin eye patch? Is what he did?
- 43:46Speaker 9: There?
- 43:47Speaker 1: The ie If I doesn't Mike the Leprechaun set that
- 43:50Speaker 1: one in Well. Interesting news from from the state of Maine.
- 43:55Speaker 1: Blair in Maine was spotted buying two handguns from Kyler Murray,
- 43:59Speaker 1: did you hear about this?
- 44:00Speaker 3: Wow?
- 44:01Speaker 1: That's sure you? Yeah, Blair said, Kyler is his small
- 44:06Speaker 1: arms dealer, is what he said. So JJ, what is Blarin?
- 44:14Speaker 1: What is blairin Main's Halloween costume? What a TikTok crash screen?
- 44:21Speaker 1: That's from Eric in Kansas. He said that one. I
- 44:24Speaker 1: thank you Eric, if you're doing all right. Why did
- 44:26Speaker 1: Marcel throw a clock out the window? Why well, he
- 44:31Speaker 1: wanted to see time fly just like the Yankees. That's
- 44:34Speaker 1: a Mike the Leprecaun. Why did Mike the Leprechaun get
- 44:43Speaker 1: kicked off the farm? Why well, he would not stop
- 44:48Speaker 1: choking the chicken. I don't know why. That's Bobby in Florida.
- 44:51Speaker 1: Thank you there. Why does hollering James call the sex
- 44:57Speaker 1: line why he loves talking about the twins. The twins talk.
- 45:03Speaker 1: That's lucky, Tony, wasn't that funny? This is from William
- 45:11Speaker 1: Williams said this one in Scrooge Scrooge's Girlfriend. Scrooge in
- 45:15Speaker 1: the Bay Area's girlfriend said if they don't get married,
- 45:17Speaker 1: she will kill him. How about that?
- 45:20Speaker 3: Wow?
- 45:21Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently it's a matter of wife or death. So
- 45:24Speaker 1: that's it. That's all you got. Big Ben's lame jokes
- 45:29Speaker 1: in the week. If you want to send a joke
- 45:30Speaker 1: in for a future episode, send it care of Benmallers
- 45:33Speaker 1: Show at gmail dot com. Benmaller Show at gmail dot com.
- 45:36Speaker 1: Put jokes in the headlines, otherwise it's not going to
- 45:39Speaker 1: be read. We do Q and A jokes. Put your
- 45:41Speaker 1: name under each joke, otherwise you're probably out of luck.
- 45:44Speaker 1: What happens when a microscope runs into a telescope? What
- 45:50Speaker 1: they kaleidoscope? That was a SMALLI guy named Smolly. He
- 45:59Speaker 1: also said this one in which days are the strongest days?
- 46:03Speaker 1: We shaved Saturday and Sunday. You know why?
- 46:08Speaker 3: Why?
- 46:09Speaker 1: The rest are just weak days? That's why? So Saturday,
- 46:12Speaker 1: all right, we'll buckle up. Weed man What happened? What
- 46:16Speaker 1: happened when weed Man failed to pay his exorcist exorcist tax?
- 46:21Speaker 3: Wow?
- 46:21Speaker 1: What he was repossessed? That's a Jimmy well we we
- 46:29Speaker 1: we man hippie told a joke on Zoom, but nobody laughed.
- 46:32Speaker 1: If you remember that we well, it turns out you're
- 46:36Speaker 1: you're not remotely funny. That's why. How how messy? How
- 46:42Speaker 1: messy is weed Man's home? How messy? It's so messy?
- 46:47Speaker 1: The roaches formed a union. That's Noah in Austin. What what? What?
- 46:55Speaker 1: What characteristics is weed Man? Or do the Cleveland Browns
- 46:59Speaker 1: and weed Man Hippi share?
- 47:01Speaker 3: Which one?
- 47:02Speaker 1: Inherent losers? Inherent losers? That's John and Youngstown, Ohio. Why
- 47:08Speaker 1: has weed Man been eating a lot at McDonald's lately? Why, well,
- 47:13Speaker 1: there's a McDonald's dumpster right around the corner. That's why.
- 47:16Speaker 1: That's a surfer Todd the comedian there go. Why did
- 47:20Speaker 1: Jane good All try to help weed Men?
- 47:24Speaker 3: Why?
- 47:25Speaker 1: All right? Well, because she thought he was saying, send
- 47:27Speaker 1: me monkeys. That's Eric in Kansas. Beg you weed Many.
- 47:32Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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- 47:41Speaker 3: cook Scoop on entertainment. What a Fox Sports Radio's amazing
- 47:45Speaker 3: Friday early morning traditions, The segments starting right now and
- 47:51Speaker 3: here in the Man who commers all culture from starting
- 47:55Speaker 3: to finish, my friend and my brother hut the Cooper Ka,
- 48:02Speaker 3: take it away.
- 48:03Speaker 1: I didn't know you guys were related.
- 48:05Speaker 8: I had no.
- 48:05Speaker 9: Idea half half brother.
- 48:10Speaker 1: Well your brothers from different mothers. But yeah, no.
- 48:14Speaker 9: More, thank you, Marcel, thank you. All right, have a
- 48:18Speaker 9: good one. All right. Uh So, we're gonna start as
- 48:25Speaker 9: we always do, ben in the theaters. We have a
- 48:28Speaker 9: few movies that are worth mentioning that come out this weekend.
- 48:31Speaker 9: The first one that I want to bring up is
- 48:32Speaker 9: Tron Aries. Now, this is the latest installment of the
- 48:37Speaker 9: Tron franchise. You know the Tron franchise, right, Yeah, I was.
- 48:42Speaker 1: I was a kid. I just played that. I spent
- 48:44Speaker 1: a lot of time at the movie theater, the Edwards
- 48:47Speaker 1: movie Theater playing the Tron video game. Yes, yes, it
- 48:50Speaker 1: was a big part of my childhood. Yeah hell yeah.
- 48:52Speaker 9: Well this one stars Jared Leto. Uh So, I'm a
- 48:58Speaker 9: I'm a fan of the Tron series. I'm not a
- 49:00Speaker 9: fan of Jared Leto, Uh, I know, I.
- 49:04Speaker 1: Don't what do you think he's a douche kinda?
- 49:07Speaker 9: I just I don't know. It just bugs me for
- 49:10Speaker 9: some reason. But I do I do love Jeff Bridges,
- 49:12Speaker 9: and he is in this uh you know again, and
- 49:15Speaker 9: so I don't know my love. I do, I do,
- 49:18Speaker 9: And I have the Unlimited So maybe I'll check it out.
- 49:21Speaker 1: But I'm gonna see if you have unlimited? What's the
- 49:23Speaker 1: reason not to see it?
- 49:24Speaker 9: Well, because there's a couple other movies out this weekend
- 49:26Speaker 9: that I think sounds more.
- 49:26Speaker 1: In to just spend all day at the movies.
- 49:29Speaker 9: Oh, you're right. My buddy saw it already. He said
- 49:32Speaker 9: it was very entertaining, it's got it's The critics don't
- 49:35Speaker 9: like it, but the audience does, according to early reviews.
- 49:40Speaker 9: Also out this weekend is a movie called roof Man
- 49:43Speaker 9: and this looks. This looks good to me. So it's
- 49:46Speaker 9: based on an unbelievable true story follows the guy played
- 49:50Speaker 9: by Channing Tatum, a former Army ranger, a struggling father
- 49:54Speaker 9: who turns to robbing McDonald's restaurants by cutting holes in
- 49:58Speaker 9: their Roofs seems like a good place, earning him the
- 50:01Speaker 9: nickname Roofman.
- 50:02Speaker 1: Is he stealing chicken nuggets? What is he? Still?
- 50:04Speaker 9: I don't know? It says after escaping prison he secretly
- 50:08Speaker 9: lives inside a Toys r Us for six months. It
- 50:11Speaker 9: seems reasonable, and then he falls for a divorce mom
- 50:14Speaker 9: and double life.
- 50:15Speaker 1: Wasn't there a story a couple of months ago about
- 50:17Speaker 1: somebody living in like a walmart, like literally living in
- 50:20Speaker 1: a Walmart, Like they just they were homeless and they
- 50:22Speaker 1: were living in the walmart. Yeah.
- 50:23Speaker 9: Yeah, they do this all the time. Like I saw
- 50:25Speaker 9: where somebody was living like in the giant like sign
- 50:29Speaker 9: the letters of the like because because it had he
- 50:32Speaker 9: had like electricity up there, and then he just like
- 50:35Speaker 9: he had like a compewter setup. Anyway, Uh, This movie
- 50:38Speaker 9: stars Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, isn't it as well as
- 50:41Speaker 9: Peter Dinklage, Juno Temple, and Uzo Aduba. So it's the
- 50:45Speaker 9: star studyed cast. I'm gonna check that out. The early
- 50:47Speaker 9: reviews are great. And then, last but not least, I
- 50:51Speaker 9: wanted to bring up another movie that's out this weekend.
- 50:52Speaker 9: It's called a House of Dynamite and this one stars
- 50:55Speaker 9: Idris Elba. It is by director Catherine Bigelow. She was
- 51:00Speaker 9: director of The hurt Locker and Zero Dark thirty. And
- 51:03Speaker 9: this is basically it's about a single unattributed missile has
- 51:08Speaker 9: launched at the United States and a race begins to
- 51:10Speaker 9: determine who is responsible and how to respond. Yes, now
- 51:16Speaker 9: to television, Yes, moving over, I'd like.
- 51:19Speaker 1: To learn all the affiliates TV.
- 51:23Speaker 9: First couple of things that I want to bring up
- 51:25Speaker 9: are both documentaries all good. Yes, I'm listening. The first
- 51:28Speaker 9: one is on HBO. It's called The Alabama Solution. It's
- 51:32Speaker 9: on HBO at eight pm tonight, or you can stream
- 51:35Speaker 9: it already on HBO Max. About No, This one's getting
- 51:41Speaker 9: rave reviews from critics. It is about incarcerated men who
- 51:46Speaker 9: defy the odds to expose a cover up in one
- 51:49Speaker 9: of America's deadliest prison systems. Yes, Yes, and then also
- 51:55Speaker 9: available today, This one is available on Prime Video. It
- 51:58Speaker 9: is a documentary called John Candy I Like Me.
- 52:02Speaker 1: It is I was a big Johnny Candy guy, big
- 52:04Speaker 1: sports fan John Candy.
- 52:06Speaker 9: Yes. This documentary is directed by Colin Hanks, son of
- 52:09Speaker 9: Tom Hanks, and it is a profile of the beloved
- 52:12Speaker 9: Canadian comedian.
- 52:14Speaker 1: When I first started, he was always at the Kings games.
- 52:16Speaker 1: And then he died, so he was no longer at
- 52:18Speaker 1: the games, but the other Kings he used to be
- 52:19Speaker 1: out there all the time.
- 52:20Speaker 9: Yeah, dying.
- 52:21Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think he owned. He was buddies
- 52:23Speaker 1: with Bruce McNall, who was this guy. Yeah, in a
- 52:25Speaker 1: lot of trouble, but it was a jail. But I
- 52:27Speaker 1: think they were like he owned, like was very small percent.
- 52:32Speaker 1: It was a long time ago, so I might be
- 52:34Speaker 1: wrong anyway.
- 52:35Speaker 9: All Right, I'm gonna skip ahead real quick because we're
- 52:38Speaker 9: running a long time here.
- 52:39Speaker 1: We're moving ahead in the broadcast now, we're now moving
- 52:41Speaker 1: ahead in the broadcast.
- 52:42Speaker 9: This Sunday on HBO at ten pm or available on
- 52:45Speaker 9: HBO Max is a new series called The Chair Company,
- 52:49Speaker 9: and it is a comedy series that is getting good reviews.
- 52:52Speaker 9: It is from snlve Tim Robinson, and basically it's a
- 52:58Speaker 9: man who investigates what he at least be a far
- 53:00Speaker 9: reaching conspiracy after suffering a humiliating incident at work and
- 53:06Speaker 9: comedy ensues. And so that is on HBO ten PM
- 53:10Speaker 9: or HBO Max.
- 53:11Speaker 1: And that is you seeing that office rip off on
- 53:14Speaker 1: NBC's The.
- 53:16Speaker 9: Paper or Yeah, I haven't checked it out yet, but
- 53:18Speaker 9: I hear I have heard good things.
- 53:21Speaker 1: We've seen it. Send me a message, let me know
- 53:23Speaker 1: if I need to waste my time while.
- 53:24Speaker 9: It's supposed to be like after rite a continuation right, yes,
- 53:28Speaker 9: because it does have Oscar from Yeah, he's pretty much
- 53:31Speaker 9: the boss now.
- 53:32Speaker 1: So they got one random guy and they made that
- 53:34Speaker 1: guess like it's like back in the eighties they had
- 53:37Speaker 1: Cheers and then they had Kelsey Grammer did Frasier. Yes,
- 53:40Speaker 1: that actually became up. That became a popular Yeah.
- 53:42Speaker 9: I was gonna say that one probably had more success
- 53:44Speaker 9: than this one.