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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead, don't bury the lead, my man. Our
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  Speaker 1: lead is from baseball. Talking baseball. Yeah, it's the greatest
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  Speaker 1: time of the year.
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  Speaker 3: October.
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  Speaker 1: And the playoffs going on. And we are heading down
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  Speaker 1: an avenue of Armageddon for baseball. And part of me
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  Speaker 1: does want this to happen. Part of me does want
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  Speaker 1: this to happen. Because the owners seem hellbent on getting
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap. Anybody that knows anything about Life knows
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  Speaker 1: you don't need a salary cap. Why would anyone endorse
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap? Only dumb people endorse a salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: But their whole argument in baseball is, hey, we got
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  Speaker 1: to give the small guy a chance, the team that's
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  Speaker 1: too cheap to spend money. Okay, well, we're on the
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  Speaker 1: cusp of a Milwaukee versus Cleveland or Tampa Bay World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful what you ask for. The NBA is living
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  Speaker 1: that same life, by the way. The NBA is living
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  Speaker 1: that same life. They did a lot to shut down
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  Speaker 1: the smaller teams and all that. Well, the Knicks won.
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Yeah, but San Antonio, you
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  Speaker 1: had Oklahoma City. You got a lot of the smaller,
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  Speaker 1: mid-sized markets that are having success in that sport. But
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour from Los Angeles and the baseball
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  Speaker 1: playoffs here, the NLCS resumes on Fox 1, game number
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  Speaker 1: three on a Wednesday night. At Chavez Ravine, there were
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  Speaker 1: some convenient leaks, the Dodgers leaking to their useful idiots
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  Speaker 1: in the media, the beat writers, that, hey, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: we might shut down baseball's unicorn. Benching, benching the big bopper.
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  Speaker 1: who's a big flopper these days. Well, in the end,
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers manager Dave Roberts confirming that if you thought Shohei
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  Speaker 1: Ohtani was getting benched, you're a loser. Not happening. He
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  Speaker 1: will remain in the lineup to go 0-4, possibly 0-5,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how many at-bats he gets against Milwaukee. Roberts
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  Speaker 1: said Ohtani was, quote, very convicted and adamant that he's
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  Speaker 1: close to rediscovering his form. When I get called by management,
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  Speaker 1: they say, you know, the show sucks, Ben. I say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm close to being a good talk show host.
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  Speaker 1: I'm real close to being a really good talk show host.
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  Speaker 1: And they say, okay, we'll just let you keep talking.
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  Speaker 1: You suck right now, but we'll let you keep talking. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: why not? So, yeah, that's great. What a load of
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  Speaker 1: bull crap. Does anyone buy that? Oh, yeah, he's close
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  Speaker 1: to rediscovering his form. And he's healthy enough to play. Well,
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  Speaker 1: either way, the Dodgers are in stranger danger zone. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you don't go full sky is falling until you lose
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  Speaker 1: a game at Dodger Stadium. Then you go sky is falling.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to win a game in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: They've already blown two chances on that. But the loss,
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  Speaker 1: they lose the game on Wednesday night, one of these
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  Speaker 1: games here at Dodger Stadium, and that's it. They're pretty
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  Speaker 1: much cooked. The Blue Crew trailing the Brew Crew in
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  Speaker 1: an all-crew matchup. 2-0 Milwaukee with the lead in the
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  Speaker 1: National League Championship Series. And the possibility, the Dodgers, if
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  Speaker 1: they don't get this done in the game on Wednesday night,
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  Speaker 1: the nearly insurmountable 3-0 deficit in terms of Milwaukee being
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  Speaker 1: in control here. Now, as far as Otani... They claim
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  Speaker 1: he's got all these things wrong with him, left knee inflammation. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my bicep! That hurts, too. The bicep's all left up
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot there. So he's got this, that, and the
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  Speaker 1: other thing as he tries to rediscover how to hit
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  Speaker 1: a baseball. Okay, that is a good jumping-off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Are you surprised? Are you surprised
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  Speaker 1: that the Dodgers decided not, not to bench Shohei Ohtani?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Old World Mafia, Uzbekistan, and Lego set.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together. And
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make you a bologna sandwich. Because
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  Speaker 1: if you believed that Otani was going to be benched,
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  Speaker 1: you were eating the bologna sandwich. I hope you enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: Had some mustard or some ketchup or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Because that was a bunch of bologna. Like, the idea
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  Speaker 1: that anyone would be surprised Ohtani didn't get benched. I
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  Speaker 1: look at you cross-eyed is what I do. The whole
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  Speaker 1: benching story was a dog and pony show from the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning. Nobody believed it who has any common sense
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  Speaker 1: for a second. And it's like, yeah, the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 1: going to bench Shohei Ohtani the same way Disneyland's going
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  Speaker 1: to say, you know what, we're going to close Space
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  Speaker 1: Mountain because the line's too long. Well, no. No. No,
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  Speaker 1: Otani is in this little chapter of Dodger baseball. Shohei
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  Speaker 1: Otani is the godfather. He is. And following the old
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  Speaker 1: world mafia principles of honor, tradition, respect, and dignity. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way you can bench him. He deserves to be benched.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anyone that disagrees with that? And you take
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  Speaker 1: the name away, do a little Pepsi challenge, and you say,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we have A and B, A and B,
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  Speaker 1: player A, player B, take the names away. Otani be benched.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is not benching the boss. He's not benching
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  Speaker 1: the boss. It's kind of like the janitor firing the
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  Speaker 1: CEO if Dave Roberts were to bench Otani. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers, I'm telling you, I know some of the
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  Speaker 1: people over there, they would rather play eight players versus
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  Speaker 1: nine in the lineup, which is what they're doing, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. Actually, it's like seven versus nine because Will
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  Speaker 1: Smith sucks also. But they'd rather play shorthanded. then disrespect
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  Speaker 1: the golden goose, Shohei Ohtani. And they just showed you
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  Speaker 1: their hand right now because he deserves to be benched.
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  Speaker 1: He's a net negative. He's a liability. And the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: are not going to bench him. Oh, he's getting close.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting close. Well, maybe he'll find his swing in December.
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  Speaker 1: I understand there's financial ramifications here. The Dodgers are managing
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  Speaker 1: a corporate relationship, not just a lineup. That's a factor,
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  Speaker 1: whether you want to admit it or not. The boys
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  Speaker 1: in blue are not just a baseball team. They are
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  Speaker 1: a multibillion dollar conglomerate. The Otani Merchandising Operation. It's the
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  Speaker 1: Otani Merchandising Operation. And occasionally they'll play baseball and whatnot here.
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  Speaker 1: And Milwaukee, they got to be loving this, right? You're
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. You're like, holy crap. This is great. Like,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers are so arrogant. They think they can win
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  Speaker 1: with one arm tied behind their back with Otani playing
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  Speaker 1: the way he's playing right now. And Milwaukee's on the
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  Speaker 1: power play, power play, power play in the NLCS. And
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  Speaker 1: they are licking their chops. And for so long, teams
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  Speaker 1: had the fear factor with Otani. They didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: pitch to him. And now you look at it, it's
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  Speaker 1: like they can't wait to pitch these Milwaukee Brewer pitchers
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  Speaker 1: against Shohei Otani. And I don't blame them. Like, the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers are voluntarily playing without a designated hitter. It's pretty impressive. Otani,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, batting 150 with a 411 OPS in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. I'm told that's not good. And one for
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  Speaker 1: seven with three strikeouts in the National League. championship series
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  Speaker 1: the man is mr automatica and in terms of an
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  Speaker 1: automatic out for shohei otani who i am convinced the
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  Speaker 1: amount of bull crap coming from dave roberts that otani
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  Speaker 1: could go up to home plate blindfolded holding a broomstick
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  Speaker 1: and dave roberts would call it a productive at bat
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  Speaker 1: Really liked him in that spot, did you, Dave? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: really did. All right, now to the American League Championship Series.
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  Speaker 1: They actually played a game on a Tuesday night there.
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  Speaker 1: We head to the Sunshine State with Brian Anderson and
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  Speaker 1: Ron Darling and Jeff Franker there on Turner Sports. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're still in business. I thought they went out of
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  Speaker 1: business when they lost the NBA, but they're still in business.
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  Speaker 1: So there they were, Brian Anderson, Brewers broadcaster. Must annoy
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  Speaker 1: him that he has to do the other series. and
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  Speaker 1: not the Brewer Series, and the Dodger guy gets to
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  Speaker 1: do the Dodger Series for Fox, Joe Davis. But Freddy Peralta,
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  Speaker 1: who sucked at a time you cannot suck for the
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  Speaker 1: Mets after being pretty good for Milwaukee, Freddy Peralta threw
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  Speaker 1: not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, six!
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  Speaker 1: Six innings of four-hit ball, and someone named Liam Hicks,
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  Speaker 1: we have no idea who that is, apparently he's a
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  Speaker 1: baseball player, and he had a two-run single, compliments of
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  Speaker 1: the generosity of Jose Ramirez. Fielding error. And the Rays stun. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't really stun. They were supposed to win. But
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  Speaker 1: they beat the Guardians 3-1. The final, the American League
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  Speaker 1: Championship Series best of five now tied 1-1. Game three
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  Speaker 1: of this epic matchup for friends and family only will
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  Speaker 1: be Thursday night back in northern Ohio. Weather permitting, there
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  Speaker 1: is some rain today. In the forecast. So there is
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  Speaker 1: some rain. We'll see how that goes there. The skipper
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  Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Guardians. He gets the vote of confidence
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  Speaker 1: is what he gets. Well, let's get the state. of
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians address here. The Cleveland Guardians tied 1-1 after losing.
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  Speaker 1: Steven Vogt is the manager and defensive blunders all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. Here's what he had to say. And he
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  Speaker 1: rips one to right down the... Apparently he sounded like
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  Speaker 1: a play-by-play guy. We don't play sound. Anyway, Steve, about 1-1,
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  Speaker 1: usual standard bull crap there from the manager. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so here's the question. Did Freddy Peralta and the Rays
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  Speaker 1: win this game, or did Jose Ramirez and the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: lose this game? That's the question. All right, so there's
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  Speaker 1: only one correct answer, and you know if you've been
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  Speaker 1: with the show a long time, the better stories in
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. Most games are lost, not won. This is,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of punch was this for the team formerly
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  Speaker 1: known as the Tribe? This was a body blow, body blow,
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  Speaker 1: body blow. October baseball, I am told, is about a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things. One of the things it's about is concentration.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have concentration. And Jose Ramirez was, it
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  Speaker 1: looked like mentally chasing butterflies while the game was chasing him,
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  Speaker 1: which generally is not a good strategy. Freddie Peralta was good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Going to rain all over Freddy Peralta. He was good.
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  Speaker 1: He was. Jose Ramirez, though, suffering from a Cat 5
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  Speaker 1: brain fog. A Category 5 brain fog for Jose Ramirez.
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  Speaker 1: He had so much fog upstairs. How much fog did
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  Speaker 1: he have? Thanks for asking. He had so much fog
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  Speaker 1: upstairs that he had enough to qualify for to go
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  Speaker 1: over to Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, and he could
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  Speaker 1: have gone over there and supplied the fog. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: The man had a complete cranial power outage. as Jose
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  Speaker 1: Ramirez's brain buffering like a pirated NFL stream from Uzbekistan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure no one watches those streams. You should not
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  Speaker 1: do that. Bad job by you. And Jose Ramirez, you
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  Speaker 1: live by Jose Ramirez's bat. You die by Jose Ramirez's glove.
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  Speaker 1: And you see how it all turns out. But he's
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  Speaker 1: an elite player who temporarily, temporarily turned into a guy
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  Speaker 1: trying to remember. You know, you ever walked in the kitchen?
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  Speaker 1: You get old enough, you walk into the kitchen. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: why did I walk here? Why am I in the kitchen?
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand. What am I supposed to do here?
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  Speaker 1: I must have left something. I don't get it. So
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  Speaker 1: he was caught napping. That's it. Cleveland, I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: they're not good enough to give a game away. And
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  Speaker 1: we will never know whether the Guardians would have won
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  Speaker 1: this game had they played a clean game. But we
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  Speaker 1: do know they lost it because they gave the game
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  Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay. They did. This game was delivered by
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  Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez, United States Postal Service. Congratulations there. And all
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay had to do was sign the certified mail,
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  Speaker 1: little thingamajig there, and they got the W. And they did.
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  Speaker 1: So that said, this series too close to call after
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  Speaker 1: two games. And these teams, are they exciting? Hell no!
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  Speaker 1: They're not that exciting, but they are separated by millimeters. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And people have said, well, are you going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the World Series if it's Tampa Bay, Cleveland versus Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: one of those two? And I said, well, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: might do it on the Fifth Hour podcast. We might
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  Speaker 1: have to do that. Anyway, last word to the Bronx,
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  Speaker 1: where former Yankee manager Joe Girardi passionately defending Aaron Boone.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see this? Now, Girardi suggesting that this past
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  Speaker 1: season might have been the best managerial season for Aaron Boone.
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  Speaker 1: And we thought this was originally at the improv. This
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  Speaker 1: was some stand-up comedy here. Apparently he was not joking.
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  Speaker 1: Girardi praising Aaron Boone for overcoming adversity. All the adversity.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 1: And shifting from an offensive-driven team to a pitching-heavy team,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees... And juggling the bullpen and all that. But
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't all sunshine, rainbows, and lollipops. As Girardi did
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  Speaker 1: get out his Astro Blaster and take some shots at
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  Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm. For saying that his reckless defensive play there
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  Speaker 1: in Game 2 of the ALCS, he was going to
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  Speaker 1: do that again. Girardi said, no, you can't do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. It didn't work. Girardi also questioning the lack
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  Speaker 1: of accountability. in the Yankee clubhouse as he cited the
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  Speaker 1: repeated mental mistakes that the Yankees had this past season,
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  Speaker 1: base-running blunders and players sliding past bases. Just a dumb
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  Speaker 1: baseball team. Just a dumb baseball team. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: the question, how much stalk do you put on Joe
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  Speaker 1: Girardi defending the Yankees manager Aaron Boone and slamming Jazz Chisholm?
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  Speaker 1: So I put down zero zilch nada as the Girardi
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  Speaker 1: endorsement of Aaron Boone is worth less than expired Chuck E.
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  Speaker 1: Cheese tokens from back in the day when they used
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  Speaker 1: to have tokens. It's an absolute no purchasing power situation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the most interesting part in many ways is Joe Girardi
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  Speaker 1: talking about the lack of accountability in the Yankee locker room,
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  Speaker 1: which is really calling out Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is
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  Speaker 1: the El Capitan of the Yankees. So when you say
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  Speaker 1: there's a lack of accountability in the clubhouse, you're really
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  Speaker 1: calling out Aaron Judge. Are you not? That's how I
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  Speaker 1: heard it. He's the captain. So if there's lack of accountability,
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  Speaker 1: it falls on his shoulders. Now, that being said, Joe
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  Speaker 1: Girardi is a card-carrying member of the Brotherhood of Managers,
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  Speaker 1: whether active or former managers. And he's also collecting a
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  Speaker 1: Yankee broadcasting check. He does some Yankee games. Not a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but he does some Yankee games on TV on the
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  Speaker 1: YES Network, the propaganda arm of Yankee baseball. And he's
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  Speaker 1: collecting that check, and you expect Joe Girardi to toss
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone under the No. 4 train? Come on. Please.
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  Speaker 1: This is the easiest endorsement in all of baseball. It is.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Girardi knows that Aaron Boone is going to be
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  Speaker 1: back next season. And he's going to do the games
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  Speaker 1: on TV. So you think you're going to kowtow to
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone? He thinks he probably would. And he's also
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  Speaker 1: operating under the assumption that whenever baseball ends its work stoppage,
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  Speaker 1: Jazz Chisholm will be headed to a different outpost. And
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  Speaker 1: we all know Aaron Boone is just a middle manager...
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  Speaker 1: with a tablet, and as long as the tablet has power,
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  Speaker 1: he's okay. He's not some visionary. He's not. Aaron Boone
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  Speaker 1: is essentially assembling the Yankee Stadium Lego set piece by piece.
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  Speaker 1: You give him the instructions, and you say, all right,
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  Speaker 1: here's what you got to do to build the ballpark. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: He will build a lovely replica with those Legos. Just great.
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  Speaker 1: You take away the instruction manual, and Aaron Boone will
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  Speaker 1: be sitting on the carpet, chewing on those plastic Lego bricks.
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  Speaker 1: Just crunching away. Oh, this is interesting. It's very crunchy.
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  Speaker 1: It's extra crunchy peanut butter is what it is. And
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees have been for many years here the most expensive,
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  Speaker 1: underachieving country club in American sport. So congratulations to the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees on that. They have spent Years and years talking
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  Speaker 1: about fundamentals while playing baseball like nobody bothered to read
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  Speaker 1: the manual on the fundamentals. You feel me on that?
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 1: The real story isn't told on the field.
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  Speaker 3: It's written in the lives of the people who left here,
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  Speaker 3: who started as students in Happy Valley and became forces
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  Speaker 3: in the world. This is who we are. Penn State
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  Speaker 3: brought to you by the Penn State Alumni Association. a
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  Speaker 3: show where distinguished graduates return to share their stories. Hosted
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  Speaker 3: by me, College Football Hall of Famer LeVar Arrington. Available
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  Speaker 1: From the power outage around the NFL following Denver's latest
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  Speaker 1: beatdown of the 0-5 Chargers, although it wasn't really a beatdown,
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  Speaker 1: they won the game by six points, Justin Herbert... The
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  Speaker 1: incompetent quarterback of the Chargers has had his name bandied about.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of trade chatter, if you follow this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. That's heating up. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: saw any of this or not. Perhaps not. Herbert signed
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  Speaker 1: one of those mega millions contracts through 2029. He's contractually
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  Speaker 1: obligated to the team that used to be in San Diego,
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers. And he's got massive money. There is a
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  Speaker 1: no-trade clause. So there is a no-trade clause. Now, his
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  Speaker 1: value in terms of the trade market, there are some
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  Speaker 1: that are saying, well, he's worth two first-round picks. And
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  Speaker 1: people are just throwing Fettuccine Alfredo against the wall to
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  Speaker 1: see what sticks. They're like, well, he's worth two first-round picks.
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  Speaker 1: Others are like, well, no, you couldn't even get a
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  Speaker 1: second-round and a third-round pick. for Herbert the way he's playing.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: He has been not only a quarterback, he's been terrible
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: this year for the Chargers, completing less than 60% percent
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of his passes with five touchdowns seven interceptions which i'm
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: told is not good 17 sacks in five games bad
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: situational awareness and that's on him and a miserable passer
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: rating the numbers are bad across the board for justin
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: herbert He is winless in three playoff appearances, including one
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of the all-time great choke jobs in pro football history,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: as the Charger quarterback did nothing in the second half,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: which is why the Jacksonville Jaguars stormed back from 27
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: points down. And then last year, if I remember correctly,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: against the Texans, Justin Herbert was very generous giving the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: football away. So November is approaching. It's already the 14th
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: of October, November approaching, the trade deadline. The Chargers publicly
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: insisting that they are never, ever going to trade Justin Herbert.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: They let that be known to the sock puppet, NFL
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: insider crowd that just repeats everything. We're not trading him.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: We'll never trade. Never, ever going to trade Justin Herbert.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: That's a long time. All right, so it's good jumping
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question for those of
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you in the back of the room. What do you
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: make of Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert being floated by some
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: on the trade market and the Chargers claiming, no, no, no,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: we're never going to trade this guy. So I've got
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: assembly line, McDonald's soft serve, and barbed wire. And we
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we are
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: going to have a screw loose. which is what some
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: of the people that call this show have. A few
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: screws loose. All right, so number one. Number one. I
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: said number.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Number one.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Now, privately, the Chargers have made it be known that
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: we are not getting rid of Justin Herbert. That is their...
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Their position, they leaked it. Adam Schefter had it. They said, well,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: we're not going to trade this guy. However, the circle
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of life, the circle of life in the NFL is
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: you are a promising quarterback coming out of the draft.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: You play okay. You get a big contract. And then
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: at that point, you got to crank it up a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: couple of notches. He's not cranking it up a couple
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: of notches. And we know that one man's trash is
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: another man's treasure. That's the way it is. And just,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: if you don't believe me, look at Goodwill, look at OfferUp,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: all those places you get other people's garbage, and you
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: get very horny for that stuff. And so Herbert is
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a guy that throws the football like Zeus, throwing thunderbolts!
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Just like that. That's what it sounds like. That's a thunderbolt. Unfortunately,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the scoreboard does not award points for mythology. So if
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: only the Zeus-like throws, the Thunderbolts, if those were worth points,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: that would be great. And you look at all the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: stats and all the niceties that were tossed out by
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth and Troy Aikman back when Tony Romo was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: an upstanding citizen and he called NFL games, and how
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: many broadcasters just loved, loved Justin Herbert. Slava, slava, slava!
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: All over Justin Herbert. You look back at that, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like he was... A bag of Ruffles
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: potato chips. The flaming hot cheddar and sour cream. A
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: lot of empty calories there. A lot of empty calories.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And yet he was given the franchise quarterback contract and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: didn't deliver the results. Not a big game quarterback, Justin Herbert.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Not a guy that gets it done in the big moment.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: He hasn't been that guy. You're not that guy, pal.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: You're not that guy. And the Herbert Alibi Assembly line,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the Justin Herbert Alibi Assembly line, operates 24 hours a day,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: seven days a week, including all federal holidays. It does
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: not shut down. Every failure... Every failure has a nice excuse,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: a really nice excuse, every single one. I say, oh, well,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: it's not his fault. It's the offensive line. Okay, it's
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the offensive line's fault. That's great. Oh, no, it's the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: coaching staff. They're the ones that are effing up. Okay,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: they're stupid. Fine. No, no, it's the injuries. Okay, I
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: got you. It's the injuries. No, no, wait a minute.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: It's the receivers. It's their fault. No, no, hold on
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: a sec. It's the fans. There's not enough powder blue fans.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: That's why Herbert's not good. Herbert is always just an
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: innocent bystander, even though he's the donkey under center. Right.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: He's always the innocent bystander at the scene of the crime.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: And it's a one football crime after another for the Chargers,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: one after another. At some point, at some point, he's
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: either just incapable of doing it and he just can't
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: overcome adversity. Or what else? I don't even know any
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: other answer to that. What would the other answer be? Now,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: for those of you that say, there's no way the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Chargers are going to trade him. They said they're not
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: going to trade him. They're not going to trade him. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Herbert has a no trade clause. Whoop-dee-damn-do. Whoop-dee-damn-do. He's got
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a no trade clause. That's great. What does that mean?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: That just means he can handpick the team he wants
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to play for. It also means he can get a
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: little kicker. a little sweetener, some sugar put on top,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: and they can facilitate a trade. Now, Herbert is one
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: desperate owner away from becoming someone else's very expensive science project.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Very expensive science project. And you say, well, who would
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: be in the market? The obvious one would be the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. They don't have a quarterback. Michael Penix Jr.,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: when he plays, is okay, but he's always hurt. Tua sucks.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: So they don't have a quarterback. If you're Atlanta and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you've got all these toys around the quarterback position, all
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: these great playmakers, why would you not call the Chargers
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: up and say, hey, let's make a deal. Let's bring
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: in Justin Herbert, see if he likes to eat grits.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: We'll bring him to Atlanta. Or if you're the Minnesota Vikings,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you don't have a quarterback. You've got a championship-level defense
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. You don't have a quarterback. You go on
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: this gimmick sideshow guy, the glitch, Alligator Arms Murray. Now,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that Herbert's an upgrade from Kyler Murray.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Some of you people are, so go that direction. And
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: then you look at some of the other bad franchises
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: that are always making moves that you question. You say, well,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, they don't have a quarterback. And the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, they don't have a quarterback. All right, now,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: page two. To the Fight Club... That's right. Body blow,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: body blow, body blow. Fight Club. Fallout, Monday Night Football postgame.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: The Bills beat the Rams in overtime on the undercard.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: In the main event, the Rams actually knocked out the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. What? Yeah, well, if the game had gone
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to double overtime, double overtime, as my friend Alex used
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to say, then, hey, that would have been a win
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: for the Rams. It was the postgame punch heard round
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the football world. Everyone buzzing about this. I assume, you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: by now we talked about a little bit yesterday. Rams
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: left tackle. Alaric Jackson suspended not one but two games
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: without pay for throwing a haymaker at Bills linebacker Bradley Chubb.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And he did connect. He was caught red-handed. Jackson confronted Chubb.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: There were words exchanged. And one thing led to another.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And then kaboom! As Eileen in San Francisco would say, kaboom!
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Just like that. Right there. Punch to the head, to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the face. Right in midfield. Television cameras caught the whole thing. Question.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: What stands out about the Rams' starting left tackle, Alaric Jackson,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: being suspended for punching Chubb? a Bills player post-game, after
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the game had ended in overtime. So after a minutes-long
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Mallor deliberation of the available information, we've determined that Aleric
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Jackson was not actually suspended for throwing a punch for fighting.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: He was suspended for being an idiot to the highest degree. Congratulations.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: The irony here is extraordinary. It just is. So Jackson
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: works in one of the most heavily televised industries in America.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: There isn't a lot of live television. Local news is
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: live in television, and sports are live. And nothing draws
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: an audience more than the NFL. So you work for
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: a business that is a TV show, and they sell football,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: but it's really a TV show, and you somehow, you
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: jack wagon, somehow forgot... that the game was being televised.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Or you assumed that there was something else going on.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: The NFL didn't need to investigate this. They had the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: punch from not one, not two, not three, not four,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: not five, how about six different camera angles. I'm guessing
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: there's some drone footage somewhere of the punch. And Jackson
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: apparently thought the final whistle, the final whistle meant the
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: surveillance system was unplugged. That's it, no more. It's difficult
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to claim... That you've been misunderstood when your fist is
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: doing all the talking. It's very difficult. The man possesses
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Alaric Jackson based on some of his other activities here
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: as well. He possesses the impulse control of a toddler
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: who has been told, hey, the McDonald's soft serve machine
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: is broken. And, well, no, I need my cone. I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: need my vanilla cone. Where's my McFlurry? What's wrong with
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you people? So I will tell you, try punching a
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: colleague at the office Christmas party, which will be here
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in a couple months. Try punching a colleague and see
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: how understanding your employer becomes. Let me know. Get back
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to me. All right. I'm not telling you to do that.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying if you do do that, get back
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to me. So, yeah, Alaric Jackson, the football IQ guy.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: It went from questionable to assembly required. There was an
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: employee at the company years ago that did go. No,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: it was not. Coop gave a name. It was not him.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: We did have an employee who did throw a haymaker.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: who then actually ended up on network television, by the way.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: He got promoted. He got promoted. All right, final point
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to Austin, Texas, the rare college football story, which is
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: a hybrid. It's college and the NFL. So Texas coach
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkeesian, Coach Sark. Coach Stark defending his quarterback. That's
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: my quarterback. Arch Manning earlier this week claiming his famous surname.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: The Manning surname brings unfair scrutiny.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Boo-hoo-hoo!
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Sarkeesian argued an unknown quarterback with four top-ten victories and
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: 13 starts would receive universal praise. And his defense following
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Arch Manning this past weekend had not one but two
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: costly fourth-quarter interceptions, handing unranked Oklahoma a win. As the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: number one team in college football Texas at the time
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: went number one. Belly up. The game delivered. Boomers sooner.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And they got it done thanks to the generosity of
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Arch Manning. Unranked team beating the top team. The first
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of those mistakes was a pick six. The second with
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: 19 seconds remaining. Set up Oklahoma. for the game-winning 47-yard
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: field goal. Unlike the L.A. Rams, the Sooners kicker not
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: terrible at his job and actually made the kick. So
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the preseason Heisman contender and the man who had been
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: projected as the top pick in the 2027 NFL draft
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: has had a bumpity, bumpity, bumpity ride in Austin. Some
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: highs and some lows. Even the Ohio State game, Arch
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Manning was horrific. Horrific. It was terrible in that particular game.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: By the way, we'd like to alert all the affiliates
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: down the line. Stay Awake with Jake is listening, by
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the way. He heard his name, and he is tuned in.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: He's a big radio muckety-muck. And all that. Engineer and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: all that. The great stay awake with Jake. Lorraine, I
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: don't know if you know Jake. Jake was our engineer
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: for a long time. Jake Warner.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Like Big Brother Jake?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Big Brother Jake.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I met him at Mt. SAC, my college that
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: I go to.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Okay. There you go. Anyway, to the question. To the question.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Here it is.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Is Texas coach Steve Sarkeesian confusing legitimate quarterback criticism with
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: unfair expectations because Arch Manning has a famous last name?
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: So to answer the question, I'm nodding my head. Yes,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: this is obviously a confused Sark coach Sark. Are we
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: supposed to throw some kind of pity party? is that
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: we're supposed to do for a quarterback who won the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: genetic lottery. Do you know how much easier it is
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: in life when you're born into the Manning family? Now,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: good for him. That's a wonderful mitzvah. I'm not ripping
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: him for it, but let's not sit here and pretend
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: like it's hardship. The Manning name in the football world
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: is a VIP pass. It is not some kind of
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: prison sentence. You can't say you overcame the odds. Now,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: you could argue that he's Arch Manning, not Peyton or
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Eli Manning's son. The other Manning's son, Cooper Manning, is, well,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: that's not as good. But Arch Manning was born... into royalty,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: football royalty. He was born on third base. And you
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: listen to Steve Sarkeesian. I know coaches have to defend
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: their players. But you listen to Steve Sarkeesian, and he
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: wants us to believe the poor guy had to crawl
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: through broken glass and barbed wire to get where he
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: is in life, overcoming the odds. He'd overcome the odds
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: if he hadn't made it. He would have overcome the
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: odds to play college football. By the way, Arch Manning,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: who apparently is really difficult to not celebrate Arch Manning,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: according to Coach Stark, out of all the college football quarterbacks,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: where is Arch Manning? Where does he rank? Remember, he
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: was a Heisman contender preseason, so he's certainly top 20, right? No?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: All right, top 25. Huh? Huh? How about top 30?
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Do I hear top 30? It's got to be top 30.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Come on. Top 35?
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: No?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: All right. Top 40.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: You're nodding. You're nodding. No? Wrong! It turns out Arch
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Manning is the 65th ranked quarterback in college football. Is
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: that good? I'm asking for a friend. 65th-ranked quarterback in
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: college football, behind the likes of the quarterbacks from the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Western Michigan Broncos and Sam Houston State. Their quarterbacks rank
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: higher than Arch Manning. If Arch Manning were named Arch Johnson,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: nobody would have considered him a Heisman favorite. Or a
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: possible top pick overall before the season. That's just a fact, Jack.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: That's a fact. And he's the most protected quarterback in
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: collegiate football, Arch Manning. He's got a massive NIL deal
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: because of the last name, not because of his production
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: on the field. And so you can't enjoy the perks
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: of football royalty and then claim some kind of diplomatic
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: immunity when you throw the ball to the wrong team
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: multiple times and cost your team a victory against an
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: unranked opponent. And I understand all coaches do not want
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to criticize their players because the players today can't handle it.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: And even back in the old days, they didn't always
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: blast players, but they did occasionally, rare and appropriate, blast
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the player. Sarkeesian is reluctant to hold... Arch Manning accountable.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: He is. And really what Coach Sark is doing, he's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: double dipping. He's not only coaching the Longhorns, he's also
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: running a public relations department for the Manning family, is
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: what he's doing. And it's not going to work out
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: well for Sarkeesian either. He's not going to last there.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: If this... goes the way that it's possibly going to go.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: It certainly looks like it's heading that direction. You lose
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma like that, my God. Watch out. Watch out.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Be sure to.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Here we go, here we go, here we go, here
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: we go, here we go. How about that? Here we go.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I said here we go.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: And it figures to be a roller coaster to the Koopaloop. Ben,
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: Caleb Williams is progressing, but they're not sure if he's
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: going to be able to start this weekend. But they
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: also said they have not determined who will take first
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: team snaps at Wednesday's practice if it's not Williams. Ben,
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: who do you think gives them a better chance to win,
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Case Keenum or Tyson Bajend?
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Bajend.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: Agent.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Bajend.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Bajend.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Like special agent. Bajend. Yeah, well, listen, with the Monday
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: night game, I think it was Monday night game, the
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: primetime game, you'd go with Case Keenum. The Bears were
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: flat as Tree in Chicago and Yafimi in phase. No,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: they just didn't play well at all in any phase
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: against the Green Bay Packers. But they're paying Bajent top-level
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: backup QB money, so he's probably going to be the guy.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: He didn't play well enough. Who cares? Why are you
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: married to your backup quarterback? I'd go Case Keenum.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Next!
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Cam Scadaboo had a costly fumble, but it ended up,
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: you know, they saved him with a tie.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: But yesterday, an unnamed scout and league executive like that.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Love that.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: They said that Scadaboo is a change of pace guy,
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: not a starting running back in the NFL.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Do you agree with them? That was the argument coming
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: out of college at Arizona State that he's not an
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: every-down running back, that he can be exhilarating but also
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: frightening if you play him all the time. He's become
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: a bit of a cult hero with the Giants. They're
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: in this pickle where the fans love him, and they
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: don't really have anybody who's that much better than him.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: So until they get somebody that's clearly better, I just
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: think you ride the roller coaster.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Next!
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Texans got their first win. Nico Collins talked up his quarterback,
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: CJ Stroud, said the dude is hooping. You think it's
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: too little too late.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: For the Texans? Well, no, they're in the AFC South.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: It's not a good division. Jacksonville looks all right, but no,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're not a good team, the Texans, but
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: it's not over. How do we do? You pass. Yay!
• 39:20
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• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Love. Exciting and new.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Queen of hearts.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: You know, I don't give enough credit to that opening.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: It is so good. It really puts me in the mood.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: From fans of the show?
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Some of you don't know how to put your women
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: in the mood. You got to work on that.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Wow. Well, some of the guys will say it's the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: lady's fault.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, right, right. It's not the fact that you haven't
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: showered in three days.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with that?
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: You haven't said a single compliment to her.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: We call that French style. That's how that goes. El natural.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: All right, Lorraine, are you ready to save people from
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: bad relationships?
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Let's do it.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Curmudgeon Wayne in Duluth says,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: at what point do I tell my wife's cousin that
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I'm in love with her?
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would choose at a family Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Thanksgiving. Right when the turkey comes out.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because if you're going to do it, you might
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: as well do it big.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, instead of just like saying, you know, maybe you
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: do a prayer. A lot of people do that. Well,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: instead of the prayer, I'd like to announce I can't
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: get enough of my wife's cousin. That'll go over well.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you find love to find love.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Okay. Rob in the 321 writes in and says, not
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: a love question this week, but a career one, Lorena.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Where do you see yourself in five years in this industry?
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a great question. I would like to be
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: a trophy wife.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: That would be okay.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: You know where you do this job for fun?
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: Not because you have to.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: I understand. Fergdog writes in, says, do women like guys
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: who do impressions? I can do a mean Gilbert Gottfried. Oh,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: Please, no.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Make it stop.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: Oh, I have never been more annoyed than when I
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: go on a date with someone who does nothing but
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: like make voices of other people.
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  Speaker 4: I even had a guy once who tried to tell
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: me a joke and I didn't laugh.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: And he goes, oh, well, I actually stole that from
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: someone else.
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  Speaker 4: So it's OK if you don't laugh.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Do you know who Gilbert Gottfried is?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: No chance.
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  Speaker 4: What's eating Gilbert Grape? Is that who that is? He's Iago.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love Iago. He was one of the first
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: guys to get canceled. What was that car insurance that
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: he did? Aflac. Aflac. I love Aflac. He was the
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Aflac Duck. Yeah, they canceled him. He's dead, but he
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: was funny. He's a good guy. All right. Of course,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: everyone will be dead eventually. Truck Stop Fungus writes in, says,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I'm planning a romantic evening on the shores of Lake Michigan.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Do I go with the Holiday Inn or Roy's Motel? Oh!
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Ah, you know, Holiday Inn is classic, and you know
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: they have the buffet breakfast every morning.
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: But I love a hole-in-the-wall hotel where you have to
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: go in and you have to, like, check the bed
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: for bed bugs and cockroaches and, like, the cabinets.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: I would definitely splurge and do that one for sure.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: That's the way to do it. Good advice there, Lorena.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: JT the Wingman says, to spice up my relationship, I
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: want to bring a third into our love triangle.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, I love that for you.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: But you can't choose between Ferg Dog and Robbie the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Mariner Fan. Can you help decide?
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: You know, if you play it right, you can have all.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: You can have all of it. Make it a party.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: That would be... Is the bed big enough for that? Wow. Yeah,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: come on.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: What?
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: You can always move to the floor.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Hello. Scotty on the Pike writes in. He's got the
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Bucky's Beaver as his mascot.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: Boosie!
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: He says, my wife is having her hip replaced. Do
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: you think the Kama Sutra.
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: Yes, and make sure you help her massage it.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: And stretch it out. You know, you got to make
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: sure she gets her flexibility back.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: All right, Will T. writes in. He says, do you
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: think the fan who won Super Bowl tickets over the
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: weekend will take his wife?
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: No, definitely not.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: No.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Who won Super Bowl tickets over the weekend?
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: I didn't see, but there's no way they're taking their wife.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: No? The girlfriend? What do you think?
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: Best friend who they can get absolutely obliterated with.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: That's the plan.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: There it is.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Look at that. The queen of hearts, Lorena. Good questions.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Good questions.