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Hour 1 - Big Blue Wrecking Crew · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Talking baseball. Yes, we are. Shazam! It's our number one
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  Speaker 1: of the Ben Maller Show. We stayed up all night
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  Speaker 1: for Fresh Pod, and we led off the night with
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  Speaker 1: some hot baseball talk. It's the NLDS, the Braves, and
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and it goes to L.A., whose fingerprints are
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  Speaker 1: most prominently displayed on this loss tonight. for manager Walt
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  Speaker 1: Weiss's Braves as they had everything set up and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't work out. Also, can you sum up how good
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  Speaker 1: Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been in playoff games for the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: as he got it done again? And are Matt Olsen
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  Speaker 1: and the Braves now completely cooked in the NLDS as
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  Speaker 1: they are up against it? No margin for error. For
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  Speaker 1: the team from Atlanta. We'll get to all of this
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  Speaker 1: and more. Settle in. It's our number one. And it's
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  Speaker 1: yours right now. Well, it was high anxiety unless it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: The Big Blue Wrecking Crew returned. At least for a night.
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  Speaker 1: They never miss a show. And they say, hey, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: where's that big NFL game this week? Well, I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: you asked. NFL Week 5 is here, and it is
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  Speaker 1: a big one. The Bears, the Bears versus the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday's America's Game of the Week. Streaming live on Fox 1.
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  Speaker 1: every play as it happens live. Bears Packers live on
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  Speaker 1: And you see the key there, the Bears Packers. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize this until my brother moved to Wisconsin years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't realize when you do the Chicago– versus
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  Speaker 1: any team in Wisconsin. You've got to stop in Kenosha
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  Speaker 1: at the Cheese Castle. If you're driving from Chicago to Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 1: or vice versa, I guess you could stop there on
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  Speaker 1: your way down. But our lead this hour. Don't bear
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  Speaker 1: the lead, my man! All right, let's play the big game.
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  Speaker 1: Epic matchup. Epic pitching matchup. Major League Baseball. The second
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  Speaker 1: round of the postseason. And we head below the Mason-Dixon line.
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  Speaker 1: It was on Fox. Boy, Kenny Albert sounded freaking great.
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  Speaker 1: Is that guy not a stud as a broadcaster? So
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  Speaker 1: Joe Davis came up lame. He couldn't do the game.
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  Speaker 1: And it was as good as any broadcast I've seen.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Albert is freaking great. Kenny Albert is awesome at play-by-play. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I might be biased because he's a friend of the show,
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  Speaker 1: but Kenny Albert stepped in there at the last minute.
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  Speaker 1: Flew in, apparently, the same day there. God forbid! Showed
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  Speaker 1: up and showed out with John Smoltz on the Fox broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: But the epic pitching matchup in Game 3, series tied 1-1.
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  Speaker 1: You had Yoshinobu Yamamoto versus Chris Sale in the suburbs
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  Speaker 1: outside Atlanta. Everyone had their Braves fan gear on. They're
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  Speaker 1: all dressed up, all dolled up, ready to go. Looked
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  Speaker 1: like a commercial for the Braves gift shop. Looking at
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  Speaker 1: the crowd there. I did not see Tommy in Atlanta, though.
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  Speaker 1: I looked for Tommy. My friend Tommy. Big Braves fan there.
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  Speaker 1: Friend of the show. I did not see Tommy in
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta there. Or the Georgia boy, for that matter. But
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  Speaker 1: the matchup lived up to the hype. Probably not if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Braves fan. But on this side of the aisle,
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  Speaker 1: holy crap! Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out 10 Atlanta Braves in
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  Speaker 1: 7 stellar innings. And Kike Hernandez, who sucks in the
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  Speaker 1: regular season... Not in the playoffs. Hit another two-run ding-dong.
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  Speaker 1: And Freddie Freeman really had two home runs. One was
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  Speaker 1: robbed by a great defensive play by Atlanta. Hit another
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  Speaker 1: home run there. And the Dodgers never trail. And they
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  Speaker 1: end up. beating the Atlanta Braves 3-1. And so the L.A. Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: the bad guys, y'all hate the Dodgers, right? They spent
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  Speaker 1: too much money. They got all the good players. The
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers have a two games to one lead in the
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  Speaker 1: National League Divisional Series. Yamamoto dominating the highly anticipated matchup here.
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  Speaker 1: getting the best of Atlanta's Chris Sale, who allowed three runs,
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  Speaker 1: seven hits in five innings. The better story is in
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  Speaker 1: that losing locker room. So that is where we will begin.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good jumping off point. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question. Whose fingerprints are more prominently on this particular
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  Speaker 1: loss for manager Walt Weiss's Atlanta Braves? Who's got their
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  Speaker 1: fingerprints all over this? So I've got... We've got the blueprint, ACDC,
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  Speaker 1: and we have poltergeist as well. And we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together. And we are going to
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  Speaker 1: put the biscuit in the basket is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. So, A, I love stories like this. It
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  Speaker 1: happens all the time. And we do Benny versus the Penny.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing that great on Benny versus the Penny.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the things I've learned over the years
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  Speaker 1: is wherever the public is at, go against the public.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever popular opinion is in terms of gambling, if you
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  Speaker 1: can find out where everyone's convinced something's going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: you go the other way and you're going to win
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  Speaker 1: more times than that. Now, you're not going to win
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  Speaker 1: all the time, but you're going to win more times
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  Speaker 1: than not. I bring that up because the best laid
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  Speaker 1: plans of mice, men, and baseball managers like Walt Weiss
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  Speaker 1: usually end up with somebody warming up in the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: way too soon. And it happened again. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to make the old line, Vince Scully used to use
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  Speaker 1: this quote all the time, if you want to make
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  Speaker 1: God laugh, tell them about your plans, right? Well, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to make Dodger fans laugh, tell
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  Speaker 1: them about Chris sale on extra rest. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: The fear factor.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're cooked. Yeah, so Skipper Walt Weiss had it
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  Speaker 1: all mapped out. He had the blueprint. What a freaking
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  Speaker 1: great blueprint for the Atlanta Braves. It looked great on
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  Speaker 1: a tablet. It looked really good. You built the runway.
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  Speaker 1: You cleared the airspace. You gave your big horse, your
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  Speaker 1: big Clydesdale, some extra time off in this epic prize fight,
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and Braves, the showdown in a town. And this
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  Speaker 1: was the game. This was the game to turn it
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  Speaker 1: upside down and put all the immense pressure on the
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  Speaker 1: D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers. And this was it. You had your guy.
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  Speaker 1: Extra rest. This is why you give Chris Sale extra
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  Speaker 1: rest for a game like this at home. The Braves
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  Speaker 1: treated this like a title fight. And I don't blame them.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like a great strategy here. Unfortunately... Even though
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  Speaker 1: it was billed as a title fight, Chris Sale showed
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  Speaker 1: up and fought like he was on the undercard. Who goofed?
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know. Two home runs. Should have been three.
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  Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman robbery there. Seven hits. Five innings. That's it
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  Speaker 1: for Chris Sale. And that is not a thoroughbred horse
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  Speaker 1: right there. That is not a horse that can win
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  Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby. That is a pony ride at the
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  Speaker 1: Georgia State Fair. is what that is. Yeah, not good.
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  Speaker 1: He put the plane in the weeds. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: put it on the runway there, Chris. You put it
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  Speaker 1: in the weeds. Bad job by you. So turning the
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  Speaker 1: showdown in A-Town into the letdown in A-Town for the
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  Speaker 1: hometown team there. Not good enough. Do better.
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  Speaker 3: Be better.
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  Speaker 1: And it didn't happen here for the Atlanta baseball team. Now,
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  Speaker 1: page two. On the other side here, the Dodgers side
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  Speaker 1: of the aisle, the question, can you sum up how
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  Speaker 1: good Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been in these playoff games for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers over the last couple years? So the song here,
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  Speaker 1: and it's also a tribute to one of our big
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  Speaker 1: fans of the show, it's ACDC's Big Balls. If you've
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  Speaker 1: been to the Malheur... meet and greets we've done the
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  Speaker 1: last couple times in Vegas, you know, big balls, Bob,
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  Speaker 1: a karaoke legend there. And, Yamamoto showing the world. He
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  Speaker 1: does have the ACDC Big Balls. Absolutely everything the Dodger
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  Speaker 1: fan spent years begging Clayton Kershaw to be in October.
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  Speaker 1: And they said prayers and they did all these rituals
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  Speaker 1: to try to get Kershaw to be the man in October.
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  Speaker 1: And he was Mr. Tiny in just about every big spot.
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  Speaker 1: Yamamoto showed up from Japan carrying the luggage. It was
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  Speaker 1: all there. Big balls in the luggage. The whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers paid for a luxury import. And amazingly, the
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  Speaker 1: luxury import actually works as advertised. You know how rare
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  Speaker 1: that is? Yamamoto has been as good as he was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be. Some would say even better. Plus, shipping
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  Speaker 1: and handling included the whole thing. That is an increasingly
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  Speaker 1: rare phenomenon in the highly compensated world of professional sports,
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  Speaker 1: the industrial complex of sports, which is just hyperbole. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's going to be the greatest thing ever. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. And then they pitch and they blow. Not Yamamoto.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: So the hyperbole was backed up by performance.
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  Speaker 4: It was.
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  Speaker 1: And the kindest thing I've ever said about anyone is
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  Speaker 1: that Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the anti-Kershaw. Put that on your
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  Speaker 1: billboard around Dodger Stadium. We have our guy, Yamamoto, the anti-Kershaw.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Instead of Dodger fans having to reach for
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  Speaker 1: antacids when a guy like Kershaw is on the mound
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  Speaker 1: in October, they're reaching for another ice-cold brewski to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the good times. And big stage, big pressure, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And he just treats October... like a Tuesday afternoon in
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  Speaker 1: May against the Rockies. Just la-la-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. And the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: are a cup check time, and it's good to report
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  Speaker 1: that Yamamoto is very well taken care of in that department.
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  Speaker 1: The cup check, not a problem. As Yamamoto passes just
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  Speaker 1: about every time, he's got eight playoff wins already in
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  Speaker 1: And he's three playoff wins away from being in the
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  Speaker 1: top three, I believe, all time. Some ridiculous statistic in
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  Speaker 1: terms of playoff wins. He's just been insane. Oh, wins
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  Speaker 1: don't matter, Maller! Okay, nerd. Nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: October, it has a way of exposing imposters. Happens all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It also has a way of validating those
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  Speaker 1: that deserve the validation, like Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who's been freaking great.
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  Speaker 1: And pitch him much better than that stiff Blake Snell,
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  Speaker 1: that turd Blake Snell. All right, this is a real pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: All right, dump Blake Snell, get me another Yamamoto. Do
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  Speaker 1: they have another guy in Japan like Yamamoto? Bring him
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  Speaker 1: over right now. Come on. Pay him a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last word. Let's go to the big picture.
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  Speaker 1: So right now, as we speak... The Dodgers have a
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  Speaker 1: two games to one lead in the National League Divisional Series,
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  Speaker 1: much to the dismay of those that grew up fans
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  Speaker 1: of the Braves, whether you're in the South or just
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  Speaker 1: a fan of the Superstation back in the day. And
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  Speaker 1: here we look, and we say, wait a minute. The
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers need one more win to reach the Final Four.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. So the question, are Matt Olsen and the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves completely cooked in the National League Divisional Series?
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  Speaker 1: Are they completely cooked? So we took the thermometer out.
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  Speaker 1: We got the temperature. It's not going well. Obviously, it's
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  Speaker 1: not going well. Atlanta, though, we're happy to report they're
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  Speaker 1: still breathing. It's real labored. It's really labored. The breathing's
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  Speaker 1: really labored. And there's a very obese woman, a very
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  Speaker 1: fat lady, who's warming up her vocal cords behind the
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  Speaker 1: curtain right now, as they said back in the day
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  Speaker 1: at the opera. And so she's eating some snacks right now,
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  Speaker 1: but she's also warming up her vocal cords as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: So the Dodgers did not, it's going to blow you away,
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  Speaker 1: did not eliminate the Braves on Tuesday night. You see,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the first team to win two, it's the
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  Speaker 1: first team to win three. However, what the Dodgers did accomplish,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what Atlanta's going to have to deal with,
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  Speaker 1: is they eliminated the margin for error for the Bravos.
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  Speaker 1: So they're going to have to tomahawk chop times two here.
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  Speaker 1: And they can't have an off performance at all. So
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  Speaker 1: the air fryer, the Braves are in the air fryer
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  Speaker 1: at this particular point. And the air fryer is currently
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  Speaker 1: on keep warm. That's the setting. It's already cooked. The
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  Speaker 1: food's been cooked, and now it's on keep warm. So
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  Speaker 1: Chris Sale was supposed to be the October boogeyman. Boogeyman. Instead, L.A.
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  Speaker 1: checked under the bed, and they dragged the boogeyman out
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  Speaker 1: by the boogeyman's ankles in Atlanta after stealing game two
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  Speaker 1: in Chavez Ravine. They came home with high hopes, and
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  Speaker 1: they had their ace all lined up, ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, right. Body blow, body blow right to the gut. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: it's a gut blow, gut blow, gut blow. So that's
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  Speaker 1: not just a loss in game three. That is a
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  Speaker 1: poltergeist level. Soul extraction is what that is. Saving your ace,
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  Speaker 1: which Walt Weiss did saving your ace and losing anyway.
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  Speaker 1: My God, that is the baseball equivalent of having an
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  Speaker 1: issue with on your yacht, and you end up firing
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  Speaker 1: an emergency flare, and you shoot it right into your
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  Speaker 1: own boat. That's essentially what the Braves did. So now
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  Speaker 1: they are trusting Tyler Malley. And the Malley rally is
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  Speaker 1: what they're trying to do here. He'll pitch just a
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  Speaker 1: generic roster, middle of the rotation, starting pitcher guy. who's
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  Speaker 1: played for a bunch of teams. So he'll be on
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  Speaker 1: the mound for the Braves in Game 4, and Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Glass now certainly capable of coughing up a furball for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Don't trust him much at all. That's the matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Braves have to win, have to get her done, or
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  Speaker 1: they're completely cooked. So the doomsday clock, if you look
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  Speaker 1: up at the Jumbotron, the doomsday clock is ticking. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a couple guys on the Braves right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're checking their iPhone. And they're saying, what's the flight
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  Speaker 1: availability for Cabo? How can I get to Cabo? What's
• 16:53
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  Speaker 1: all-inclusive resort? And I want good restaurants. I want the
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  Speaker 1: spicy Alfredo. I want the fettuccine. I want the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So where can I get that? All right, here's the
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  Speaker 1: It's a tribute song to Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Not quite as
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  Speaker 1: good as Madison Bumgardner, the Higantes back in the day, however...
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  Speaker 1: Good enough for the Dodgers as they get the win.
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  Speaker 1: They're talking about that this hour as the baseball playoffs continue.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see here. RM writes and says, I know you
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  Speaker 1: thrive on performance jackassery, but a 37-year-old Chris Sale, who
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  Speaker 1: was obviously dominant all year, probably doesn't get younger in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. The Dodgers versus Dodgers was not elite, but
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  Speaker 1: it was still good. There you go. He then says,
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  Speaker 1: my takes are late night radio. Yes, that's why we're
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  Speaker 1: And I like that you're a jock sniffer. That's good.
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  Speaker 1: We like the jock sniffers, right? We like the fanboys.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome the fanboys in. Make excuses. Make all the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: excuses you want. I love the excuses. Love them, love them,
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  Speaker 1: love them. Monkey Biz Doug writes in from South Korea, says,
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  Speaker 1: my Braves cook themselves when getting rid of Freddie Freeman.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Go.
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  Speaker 1: Nature Boy says, will you apologize if the Dodgers come
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  Speaker 1: back or the Braves come back to beat the Dodgers?
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  Speaker 1: Why would I apologize? There's no need to apologize at all.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Nature Boy says, Kenny Albert, breath of fresh air. Compared
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to Joe Davis, Davis wears a Dodger onesie just like Vasse,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: according to the Nature Board. Each their own. I just
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: thought Kenny Albert was freaking great. Loved it. Needs more
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of Kenny Albert in these big games. We need more
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: of Kenny Albert. Mark from Queens writes in and says,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Big Ben, Kenny Albert was fantastic, but the best ever,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Vince Scully. Unfortunately, Vin is calling games across the pearly gates.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: He's not available. We tried to get a hold of him,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: but not available. What else do we have? Mark the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Walker from Rochester in New York. He writes in, he says,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: doing this early because I'm actually running today and it's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: difficult to post. You are the late, great. Oh, he's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: answering the who am I? You can't answer the who
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: am I game now. We haven't even given the question.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? It's a bad job by you.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Shame on you. Shame on you. Joey the Bellman writes in,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and he says, I must say I have a hard
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: time watching baseball on the boob tube, but the Dodgers
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and Brewers are a must watch. It's been fun. That's
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: from Joey the Bellman. There you go. Mexican John Dutton
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: writes in from Maine. He says, my favorite caller. is
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Anthony in Louisiana. He says, well, everyone's got a favorite.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's say
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: hello to Andrew in Bakersfield, the king of bad takes. Hello, Andrew.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Welcome. Hey, Ben.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: First of all, I had a question for Weed Man
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Hippie last night, and I was on hold, and you
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: didn't take my call.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: What do you have to say for yourself?
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't see the board with your name on it
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: or I would have taken the phone call. As far
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: as I know, we had no calls for Weed Man. Otherwise,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I would have put them on. So I didn't see
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: your name on there. Sorry, cowboy.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Well, the Dodgers, okay. Did you catch Kyle Tucker? First
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: hit of the game.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Yes, that makes up for six
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: months of suck. Yes, absolutely. And he stole second. Oh,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I guess a modern-day Ricky Henderson. Absolutely. Freaking great. Kyle Tucker,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: put him in the Hall of Fame right now.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: That's about all I got.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Ben. That's it. Go Dodgers. All right, more bad takes.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: King of the bad takes. You give him two minutes,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: he'll give you three or four bad takes. Let's go
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to Vic in one of the great cities, one of
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the fun cities to say Rancho Cucamonga. Hello, Vic.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Welcome.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Yes, Tanner Scott. I don't know why Dave Roberts is
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: so loyal to this guy. It's almost to a fault.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Well, he did actually pitch well this year, Tanner Scott.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he gives me indigestion and an ulcer every time
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: I see that guy in a big, high-leverage situation.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Well, the one that I was thinking was going to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: blow the game for the Dodgers was Edwin Diaz, who
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: came in and gave up an extra base hit there
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: for the the Dodgers, and Mr. Timmy Trumpet. I thought
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: he was going to choke on the trumpet there, but
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: he was able to get out of it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he almost made me go number two. Good thing
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Freddie was there to scoop it all up.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. He actually almost went number two on
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the mound there, Edwin Diaz.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: He made me go number two slightly. Good thing Freddie
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: scooped it all up.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Saved the day. If I'm managing, I would not have
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: put him in that. Dave Roberts, he got away with it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I would not have put Edwin Diaz in there. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: wouldn't even have him on the roster.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: I would have took Trident, to be honest.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I would have taken whiskey and put a bottle of
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: whiskey on the mound and had that and see what happens.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: You know, just maybe they'll get drunk. The Braves hitters
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: will get drunk and they won't get a hit.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Bless out the indigestion stuff, man.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I hear you.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Make sure to get some nice toilet paper just in
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: case because there's still games to be played here.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Thank God for the scoop, Freddie Freeman.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: That's right. Save the day. Playoff Freddie Freeman. There you go.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Michael in Tulsa writes in. He says, nice monologue, Maller. However,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you sound like my girlfriend who got her nails done
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: today and had them painted blue. I can't wait for
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee to play Tampa in the World Series. Yeah, that
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: would be outstanding as the people that do advertising at
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball jump off buildings without parachutes. Shane in
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Des Moines writes in. and has a random non-sequitur take.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: We always love the random non-sequitur takes. Shane in Des
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Moines says, I don't usually like Dallas, but I do
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: on Thursday night. The upcoming Thursday night football game for
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Week 5 features the Tampa Bay Buccaneers visiting Dallas. The
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Cowboys are an 8.5 to 10-point favorite, according to Shane
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: in Des Moines. He says he likes to go. Well,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that you're a tout, Shane. I had
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: no idea you were a tout, giving out picks. Truck
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Stop Fungus writes in from the highways and byways of
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: North America. He's wearing his tighty-whities, eating some chili at
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: a cheap hotel down by the side of the road
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: in the boondocks. And he says, Kenny Albert is great.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I put him up there with Al Michaels. Pretty good. Listen,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Kenny's outstanding. The fact that he didn't know he was
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: doing the game, I guess he woke up and said, hey,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: we need you to do the game. And he had
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to fly into Atlanta. It's not brain surgery, obviously. It's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: just calling a baseball game. But, man, it was great.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I normally have the sound down on these games. They
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: just annoy me. But when Kenny Albert's doing a game,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I got my sound up. I'm hearing what Kenny Albert
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: has to say. Absolutely. Thousand percent I'm hearing what he
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: has to say. We are on X at Ben Maller,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: if you'd like to opine, and on the phones at
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: 877-99 on Fox. That's 877-99. 996-6369. Let's say hello to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Lucky Tony, who's in the Bay Area. And Lucky Tony
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: is next. Hello, Lucky Tony. Welcome.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Hey, Ben.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: How does David Vasse say, like, a midget?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: He's cockeyed.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Ben.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Lucky Tony. I think that made the air.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Having an eye condition doesn't need to be dumped. It's
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a medical condition. Yeah. A lot of people are cockeyed. Exactly. Yes,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: it is a big problem. Well, congratulations to the Milwaukee
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Brewers who have made, well, they've extended their baseball history.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: The Milwaukee Brewers have lost, and we'll talk more about
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that game coming up next hour. Padres staying alive, staying alive.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee's lost 12 straight road playoff games, and that means
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: now The Milwaukee Brewers, in their franchise, going back to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the salad days of Paul Molitor and Robin Yount and
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: all those players from years gone by. The Milwaukee Brewers,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: 30 playoff games. And what do you think their winning
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: percentage is on the road? What do you think their
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: winning percentage is? You got a number in your head?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: What do you think that is? You think they're a
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: little under 500, something like that?
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: No.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Well, they obviously lost 12 in a row. The Brewers
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: have only won six out of 30 games. When playing
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: away from Wisconsin, that is a 200 winning percentage for
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers. They don't travel well. They do not
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: travel well. Now, they would have home field advantage if
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: they get to the NLCS and play the Dodgers. So
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: they'd have that extra game at home. We'll take advantage
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of that, right? We'll see what happens. All right. Nature
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Boy says, when are we going to hear the cries
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to get rid of Dave Roberts? Probably we'll hear them
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: after the Braves win the next game. The Braves are cooked.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: That was their shot with Chris Sale, and he wasn't
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: good enough. But the good news is we had that guy.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: He's old, so it's okay for him to have a
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: bad performance. It's fine. It's perfectly fine for him to
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: have a bad performance. Let's see. What else do we have?
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Page down. I want to read that. All right, let's
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: go back to the phones. Let's say hello. Oh, here's
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a blast from the past. Returning to the show after
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: several months being suspended from the show. He has returned.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Blind Scott from the north end of Boston. Hello, Blind Scott. Welcome.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Just got out of the Lunatic Hospital. I've been keeping
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: in touch with Lorena and Coop. So, like, I email
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: people on the radio, but they don't email me back,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: but they see my messages. So, like, I wasn't feeling
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: that well because I, like, took a fall, and I
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: had a hard time making transactions, and I was eating
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: out of the buffet at the supermarket. And I guess
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: you're not allowed to do that. I thought if you
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: got in there, like, right before it closed, you could
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: eat actually out of the buffet. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. So you went to a grocery
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: store and just started eating out of the buffet?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I was also drinking coffees and eating candies and coffee
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: shops and taking medicines in there. And, you know, I
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: was eating hamburgers and prepared food sandwiches. One time the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: manager said that he was thinking about me when he
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: was at home. And he was real depressed about how
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I went blind. And I just took that as, like,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: they liked me a lot. You know what I mean? And, like,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: sometimes I get to the self-checkout. And the self-checkout's actually
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: not made for the blind, if you've ever gone. So
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: go up to the share code, of course, right? It
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: was like an issue where I was like, walk out
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: the door with my groceries without paying because technology wasn't
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: updated for the blind. So I had to square that away.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: So that was squared away. And I need someone to
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: sponge my record now because I didn't get my Section
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: 8 housing. I'm not allowed to live in Section 8,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: by the way. They don't want me there.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: You make too much money, right? You make too much money.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: No, no, it would have been $ 1, 200 a month. No,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: it was $ 1, 200 a month to live in Section 8,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: which seemed like a lot of money to live in
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Section 8.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: That's not a lot of money.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: My dad thought it was too much, but they told
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: me I'm not allowed anyways because I had to explain
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: criminal history, which could be explained pretty easily. I want
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: to do the podcast. I've got some topics for the podcast.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, you do? Are you going to just produce the podcast?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Are you going to put that together?
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like three hours. You'll call me, and I'll
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: just do the three hours of podcast.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: You'll do three. So I don't have to do the podcast.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: You'll just do the fifth hour podcast this weekend.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been direct messaging you on Instagram.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I don't look at those. I don't look at the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: direct messages on Instagram.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I understand. Hold on. I've been doing my own content,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ in Portland. It's been going actually pretty well, dude.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ has found me and saved me and he's
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: my Lord and Savior.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Is this true or are you just trying to get
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: people to.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Send you money? One more thing. The poppy plant, it
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: bloomed very well this year in Columbia. So, like, there's
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: a ton of heroin. I've used AI, actually, to track
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: heroin arrests in the United States.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's great. Great use of AI.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love heroin. So, heroin's back on the streets
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: here after the fentanyl. You know, I don't recommend anybody
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: do drugs. Like, be safe. But it's great to be
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: back with the show. So, I'll be joining the podcast
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: this weekend. I've been away from my family for so long,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: so I don't have any family anymore. I have no
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: friends or family. That's right. You're my family now.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And you don't take any pauses either, which is very impressive.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want me to do a big reveal? Oh,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I got out of the lunatic hospital, and you know
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: who was one of the first people to call me?
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: You want me to just keep that off? Yeah, we'll
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: keep that off here for the podcast.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, we might have to save that. That's a great
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: tease for the podcast.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Can I come on next hour? I don't know.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Sorry. been away for like three months and now he
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: wants to bogart the show that's a typical blind scott
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: response so people were wondering what happened to blind scott
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what's going on with all
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: that let's go uh let's go to philip who's in
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: socal philip is next it is the ben mallor show
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: it's the the nlds our dodgers and braves and still
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: waiting for a brave fan but i think Pretty sure Phillip,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: based on where he lives, is a Dodger fan. What's
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: going on, Phillip? Welcome.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: All right, you're what's happening. Ben, Shohei Ohtani. It's obviously
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: the guy's hurt. He's swinging at pitches a foot outside.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Why don't they bench him and put Kiki Hernandez in
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: the DH?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Because as long as Ohtani's able to play, they're going
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to put him in there no matter what as a decoy.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: That's why.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: It could be, possibly.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Well, why else would they... They moved him down and
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he went... What did he have? Two at-bats, went 0-for-2
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: at a walk in the game. Yeah, he's not... This
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: is not Otani from a year ago or two years ago.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: He's not playing very well.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: No, not the same guy, but I think he's hurt.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: That's why he's like that, so.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: If you're playing, you don't get an excuse. You know, right?
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: If you're playing and if you're hurt and you miss games, okay, fine,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: you're hurt, but if you're playing... And then you're judged
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: on your performance, and his performance isn't good enough. Although
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I do believe he's built up enough equity, Philip, where
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: people will overlook bad postseason from Otani here. They'll look
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the other way.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I didn't catch your prediction. Who do you believe
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: will be in the World Series?
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Well, it's very important. As you know, I am a
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinus. My predictions
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: are crucial to the industrial complex of professional sports. And
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: that would be the Dodgers. And I believe I picked
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the Yankees, which is not looking very good at this
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: particular point. So it appears we'll get Dodgers and Rays.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: We saw that a couple years back. That wasn't very good.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Dodgers and White Sox? That wouldn't be horrific. That'd be
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: That'd be good.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: One last thing. There was the passing of Southern Sam
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: McDowell today.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I saw that. I didn't realize he was still alive.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: He was 84. I grew up in Cleveland, watched the Indians.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: He was my favorite pitcher of all time as a kid.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: There you go. So rest in peace, Sudden Sam McDowell.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I also saw former Dodger GM Fred Clare died. 91,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Fred Clare.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Rest in peace.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Former PR. This guy, Fred Clare, was a PR guy
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers and ended up becoming the general manager
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: of the team. And then ended up winning. They won
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the 88 World Series. He was the GM when they
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: won the World Series. All right. Well, thank you, Phillip.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: There you go. There's a Phillip. I didn't have Sudden
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Sam McDowell on my bingo card. But I did want
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to mention Fred Clare. I was going to do this later,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: but he was a sports writer, became a PR person,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: was a newspaper guy. And covered the Angels and then
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. There was a Long Beach Press telegram. I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: don't even know if that's still in business. Probably not.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: And he worked for the Dodger PR department. And got
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the job there. And worked his way up. And up
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: and up and up. And then became the GM in 1987.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: And that was after one of the great controversies before
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: social media. There was a general manager named Al Campanis.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: The Chief, they called him. Al Campanis. And he made
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: some comments on this TV show that used to be
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: popular called Nightline regarding racism. He made some racist comments
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and he got whacked as the Dodger GM. And then
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: they had to put somebody in there and they put
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Fred Clare and he stayed around. And he's credited with
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: helping create the Dodger Blue branding and the Think Blue
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: campaign campaign. that became part of the franchise. And he
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: also hired my pal Ross Porter. Helped hire Ross Porter,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: who I worked with back in the day as a
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Dodger broadcaster. So rest in peace there to Fred Clare,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the GM back in the day of the Dodgers. Looked
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: at 91. Did he outlive Lasorda? Lasorda was in his
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: 90s when he died. That would piss Tommy off if
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Fred Clare lived longer than him. I don't know. I
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: think Tommy was like 90 when he died. Might have
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: been older, though. Might have been old. Tommy lived a
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: good time there. 93 yards, so he's good. Tommy can
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  Speaker 1: Minimum 100 total home runs in a career. Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: are in the midst of the divisional series around the
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  Speaker 1: to have at least 10% of my career home runs.
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  Speaker 1: 100 total career home runs. Who am I? That is
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  Speaker 1: Anybody know the answer? Mallard Prop Guy says David Passé
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  Speaker 1: is the answer. Femi, the top Uber East driver in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: going with Jerry Seinfeld. Alf the Alien O'Piner checks in
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  Speaker 1: with Marty Barrett, Red Sox legend from 14. years ago.
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  Speaker 1: The Red Sox always had a pesky white dude play
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  Speaker 1: Marty Barrett, and there were some other names there I'm forgetting.
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  Speaker 1: Miguel on fire going with Jose Offerman is his answer.
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  Speaker 1: Boof Bonzer from Doc Dan. Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Page down. I can't read that. Liberty Valance. From Shane
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  Speaker 1: That's his answer. Tony Nguyen from DJ Spin Patrick in
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  Speaker 1: is none other than Kike Hernandez of the Dodgers right now. Kike,
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