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- 2:01Speaker 1: So had a Monday night game and got a bunch
- 2:04Speaker 1: of baseball games, a couple baseball games. Made the editorial
- 2:07Speaker 1: decision to start with baseball. What are you doing that?
- 2:13Speaker 1: Just relax? Got a long road ahead, long winding road
- 2:18Speaker 1: through the overnight, so we have plenty of time and
- 2:20Speaker 1: a blank canvas to paint a word mosaic in the
- 2:24Speaker 1: darkness yere. But we begin with the baseball Playoffs Divisional
- 2:28Speaker 1: Round game number two, game number two in the National League.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Now we're gonna start with the early game because that
- 2:37Speaker 1: was the better game at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia,
- 2:44Speaker 1: the original capital of the United States of America. Kyle Schwarber,
- 2:48Speaker 1: the fighting Fells, looking to square things up against the
- 2:52Speaker 1: Dayers and get some good vibrations going against that. Shohei
- 2:58Speaker 1: Otani and the Dodgers of Okavy pitched in Game went,
- 3:00Speaker 1: and pitch that great in Game one. Didn't do much
- 3:03Speaker 1: of anything with the bat, but the Dodgers, with that
- 3:05Speaker 1: massive dream team lineup that didn't play like that. They
- 3:09Speaker 1: were chronic underachievers during the regular season, but they did
- 3:11Speaker 1: win Game one, trying to go up to Oh. I
- 3:13Speaker 1: don't know if you were watching or not. Maybe not.
- 3:15Speaker 1: We watched so you would not have to because possibly
- 3:18Speaker 1: we get paid to watch, so that's why we watched.
- 3:20Speaker 1: But we did watch. And Blake Snell, Hey, that's my guy,
- 3:24Speaker 1: you know it, Me and Blake's and we go back
- 3:26Speaker 1: many many years. Blake Snell, I'm not playing us I
- 3:29Speaker 1: get mine. Brawl that, Blake Snell.
- 3:31Speaker 2: I'm not playing unless I get mine.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, he struck out nine over six, shutout, and hey, listen,
- 3:37Speaker 1: the guy look good. What do you want to say?
- 3:39Speaker 1: How do I think he's a douche? But he looked good.
- 3:41Speaker 1: H and one hit ball for the Doyers and then
- 3:45Speaker 1: the bullpen barely barely held on by the skin on
- 3:50Speaker 1: their chinny chin chin. The ninth inning rally a fort
- 3:53Speaker 1: nothing leap. They almost gaged it, but they did not.
- 3:56Speaker 1: So LA gets the win, the Dodgers the good guy,
- 4:00Speaker 1: four to three. They get to win over the Phillies.
- 4:01Speaker 1: In Game two of the National League Divisional Series, Sho
- 4:05Speaker 1: hey o Tani did have a Ribbi single and that
- 4:08Speaker 1: was his first hit in the series. That part of
- 4:10Speaker 1: that four run seventh inning. Will Smith, the fresh Prince
- 4:13Speaker 1: of bel Air, got it done as well to run single,
- 4:16Speaker 1: and the reigning World Series champion Dodgers have a two
- 4:20Speaker 1: nothing lead. It is not a best of seven, it
- 4:24Speaker 1: is a best of five. They are two to zero
- 4:26Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. The Phillies are in serious trouble at this
- 4:31Speaker 1: particular point. It's only a best of five. Dodgers can
- 4:34Speaker 1: advance in their seventeenth National League Championship Series with a
- 4:38Speaker 1: Game three win back in Los Angeles on Wednesday night
- 4:44Speaker 1: in downtown LA, and parking will cost you eight hundred dollars.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Good luck, all right? So let us discuss the question
- 4:52Speaker 1: better store in the losing locker room? So who is
- 4:55Speaker 1: to blame? Who is to blame for Bryce Harper's Phillies
- 4:59Speaker 1: being on the brink of elimination. It was not supposed
- 5:04Speaker 1: to be like this for the fighting Phills. Now my
- 5:06Speaker 1: thoughts on this, I've got minecraft grand canyon and Captain's chair,
- 5:13Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
- 5:16Speaker 1: we are going to make some grilled chicken and rice,
- 5:18Speaker 1: which I'm told is healthy, and not that it's great.
- 5:21Speaker 1: I mean, you've got to have food fried, but I'm
- 5:23Speaker 1: told that's healthy. Anyway, my first thought on this is
- 5:27Speaker 1: what a humiliation situation for the Philadelphia Phillies to be
- 5:33Speaker 1: in this situation. The Phillies, the self proclaimed team of destiny,
- 5:38Speaker 1: that this was the team that had been hanging around
- 5:41Speaker 1: the last couple of years, and they went for they
- 5:43Speaker 1: went out, they pumped up the tires on the bullpen,
- 5:46Speaker 1: and they were ready ready for the Dodgers. And this roster,
- 5:51Speaker 1: all those big bats, a powdered keg of passion the
- 5:55Speaker 1: phill And we do like the way the Phillies play.
- 5:58Speaker 1: They're a fun team to watch. They've got an edge
- 6:01Speaker 1: to their game, and they like to claim their blue
- 6:04Speaker 1: collar heroes in South Philadelphia. Of course, they're all tremendously overpaid,
- 6:09Speaker 1: spoiled athletes, but they pretend they do cosplay like their
- 6:14Speaker 1: blue collar heroes. And they're circling the drain right now.
- 6:18Speaker 1: And the problem for the Phillies, I call it an
- 6:21Speaker 1: I ninety five problem for the Philadelphia Phillies. And now
- 6:25Speaker 1: what does that mean? The arrow is pointing towards the
- 6:27Speaker 1: headliners for the Philadelphia Phillies. It's like Minecraft dungeons, a
- 6:34Speaker 1: starless knight, or in this case, a couple of starless
- 6:37Speaker 1: knights for the Philadelphia Phillies. If you do the cross
- 6:40Speaker 1: check LA cross examination on the Phillies, you got Bryce
- 6:44Speaker 1: Arper over here, Trey Turner, and Kyle Schwarber, the big
- 6:48Speaker 1: three right there, and they are hitting I ninety five,
- 6:52Speaker 1: Actually not hitting I ninety five, they're hitting OWN ninety five.
- 6:56Speaker 1: They're eating. In the first two games they've had twenty
- 6:59Speaker 1: one at batch they're two for twenty one. Now I
- 7:01Speaker 1: didn't play professional baseball, but that sucks. Two for twenty one,
- 7:05Speaker 1: eleven strikeouts from those three the top bats in the
- 7:09Speaker 1: Phillies lineup eleven strikeouts in twenty one at bats, one
- 7:13Speaker 1: run bat at in that Trey Turner, a former Dodger
- 7:15Speaker 1: in the National League Divisional Series, so they were promoted.
- 7:20Speaker 1: The billing was firecrackers. The Phillies bring the fire crackers,
- 7:25Speaker 1: and instead they're wet matches. That's what they brought. They've
- 7:28Speaker 1: brought wet matches here. And it's been the same movie
- 7:31Speaker 1: for the Phillies in this run. They've had good regular
- 7:35Speaker 1: season teams. And it's not over. We'll explain why it's whatever. Yeah,
- 7:38Speaker 1: but this is not looking particularly good at this point,
- 7:41Speaker 1: same cast, and it looks like we're heading towards the
- 7:44Speaker 1: same ending barring a dramatic rewrite in the writer's room. Here,
- 7:47Speaker 1: the Phillies, who live on those good vibrations, right, very loud,
- 7:51Speaker 1: high volume, crank it to eleven. The fans are insane.
- 7:56Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park. I've been there. It's a beautiful ballpark,
- 7:59Speaker 1: great and vil for baseball. The greatest mascot in sport,
- 8:02Speaker 1: the Philly fanatic, running his fat ass around there having fun.
- 8:06Speaker 1: And that is supposed to be Citizens Bank Park, a
- 8:08Speaker 1: cathedral of intimidation, a house of horrors for the opposing
- 8:14Speaker 1: team to go into Philadelphia with all the lunatic, trunk
- 8:18Speaker 1: Neanderthal fans and that ballpark. And yet you stop and
- 8:22Speaker 1: you look around the Philadelphia a Phillies there have lost
- 8:25Speaker 1: I believe the numbers five of their last six postseason
- 8:27Speaker 1: games at home at What happened to Red October? Where
- 8:33Speaker 1: did that go that? Where's that mystique of the Philadelphia Phillies. Well,
- 8:37Speaker 1: I guess the question is does the idea of home
- 8:42Speaker 1: field advantage mean something anymore now? In baseball? There's something
- 8:49Speaker 1: there that you only get in football, where you have
- 8:52Speaker 1: a dramatic competitive advantage. You are if you're the home team,
- 8:58Speaker 1: you are able to close the game out at home.
- 9:02Speaker 1: You have the advantage because the road team bats first,
- 9:06Speaker 1: U bat second, and so there's a little more of
- 9:09Speaker 1: an advantage knowing what you need to do in the
- 9:11Speaker 1: late innings. I would argue the road team has more
- 9:13Speaker 1: of an advantage early in the game, and if you
- 9:15Speaker 1: can score early and play with the lead, you put
- 9:17Speaker 1: the pressure. The pendulum of pressure swings back to the
- 9:20Speaker 1: home team. But there's a legitimate advantage there. The ballparks
- 9:23Speaker 1: are a little different in baseball, not as much as
- 9:25Speaker 1: they used to be, but it's a little different. The
- 9:26Speaker 1: only other thing in football you have warm weather dome
- 9:30Speaker 1: team cold weather. But the NFL is trying to deball
- 9:33Speaker 1: all the cold weather teams, and eventually they'll only be
- 9:36Speaker 1: like three cold weather outdoor stadiums because Chicago's gonna get
- 9:40Speaker 1: most likely eventually is talk they're going to get a dome.
- 9:43Speaker 1: I've seen different drawings of the stadium they're gonna build
- 9:46Speaker 1: at the racetrack in suburban Chicago. Cleveland wants a dome.
- 9:50Speaker 1: You do have Buffalo, who's building a new stadium will
- 9:53Speaker 1: be outdoors in Green Bed. There'll be a few outdoor teams,
- 9:55Speaker 1: but for the most parts talking me domes or warm
- 9:58Speaker 1: weather teams. And so that was always in advantage. But
- 10:01Speaker 1: when you look at the just the we're not back
- 10:04Speaker 1: in my damn the old guy story. So when I
- 10:07Speaker 1: was a kid, but I've always heard these stories about
- 10:10Speaker 1: players being rattled, Like in Philadelphia. You go there and
- 10:13Speaker 1: you be rattled by a bunch of old dudes wearing
- 10:16Speaker 1: Randall Cunningham jerseys, and you chuck and hot dogs on
- 10:20Speaker 1: the field and all that stuff. But like the whole
- 10:23Speaker 1: Philly fan thing where they.
- 10:26Speaker 3: Will eat you alive, they will eat you alive in.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Philadelphia, that's just a myth. It's just a myth, and
- 10:34Speaker 1: you can't weaponize it anymore. I remember when I was
- 10:38Speaker 1: watching the great Dick Stockton on subis and Pat O'Brien
- 10:42Speaker 1: who worked here at Fox Sports Radio and the Progressive
- 10:45Speaker 1: at the half there at CBS above the Boston Garden.
- 10:47Speaker 1: And I remember watching this as a kid when the
- 10:50Speaker 1: Lakers and Celtics played. Now, I was young, and I
- 10:52Speaker 1: used to talk about all the wonderful things that Red Arbach,
- 10:54Speaker 1: this old executive of the Celtics, would do with the
- 10:57Speaker 1: old Boston Garden my home court advantage there, from shutting
- 11:01Speaker 1: off the hot water, to turning up the heat in
- 11:04Speaker 1: the summer and to make it colder in the winter,
- 11:08Speaker 1: getting brown sludge like brown tapwater sludge in the showers,
- 11:13Speaker 1: like all that stuff, just to kind of mess with
- 11:16Speaker 1: the other team. Right, And so that doesn't happen. You
- 11:19Speaker 1: don't do that anymore. Right, The visiting players show up,
- 11:23Speaker 1: they get a police escort to wherever they're playing, and yeah,
- 11:27Speaker 1: they play in front of forty thousand drunks if they're
- 11:29Speaker 1: playing a baseball game or whatever. But then they go
- 11:32Speaker 1: back to the Ritz. Carlton and the never be worried
- 11:36Speaker 1: about anything, right, they have all the creature comforts, they
- 11:39Speaker 1: have everything. It's not hostile, it's not And so we're
- 11:44Speaker 1: living in this era where you've got the charted flights.
- 11:47Speaker 1: These Major League Baseball clubhouses, and this is one thing.
- 11:51Speaker 1: When I started, they still had crap house visiting clubhouses
- 11:55Speaker 1: in baseball, Like they were really crappy every clubhouse in
- 12:00Speaker 1: Major League Baseball because the union, the players Union, just complained.
- 12:03Speaker 1: It's like walking into the presidential suite. It's a penthouse.
- 12:08Speaker 1: It's not a clubhouse. It's a penthouse, and everyone's pampered.
- 12:12Speaker 1: You're really struggling on the road when you're soaking in
- 12:15Speaker 1: eucalyptus steam rooms. You know, it's really difficult. It's so bad.
- 12:21Speaker 1: So again, and when your own stars stop producing, there's
- 12:26Speaker 1: really no external excuse. And these were at home games
- 12:29Speaker 1: usually not road games. And Bryce Harper, you don't love
- 12:33Speaker 1: the body language. Big body language guy from Bryce Harper,
- 12:37Speaker 1: Trade Turner has he seeing ghosts or something like that?
- 12:40Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 12:40Speaker 1: And Kyle Swarber, it does appear he's trying to hit
- 12:44Speaker 1: a ten run home run every time he comes up.
- 12:46Speaker 1: I don't think as possible. Boy, that would be cool
- 12:49Speaker 1: for the Phillies if he hit a ten run home run,
- 12:51Speaker 1: that would be pretty neat. But the team it's supposed
- 12:54Speaker 1: to be a gritty team, the Phillies. You know, they're
- 12:56Speaker 1: all a bunch of multi millionaires, but they're a gritty team,
- 12:58Speaker 1: lunch pail outfit. And right now they are the seat
- 13:02Speaker 1: fillers at their own concert.
- 13:03Speaker 4: There.
- 13:04Speaker 1: They're done with the regular season, the playoffs. Now, they
- 13:08Speaker 1: didn't get to this point because they had the buy
- 13:11Speaker 1: and all that. And they're dancing. You know, it's dancing
- 13:15Speaker 1: on my own, crying alone. That's the vibe there. Now,
- 13:20Speaker 1: all that said, the Phillies are not dead. They are now. Listen,
- 13:23Speaker 1: I want the Dodgers, the one you know that some
- 13:25Speaker 1: of you think I don't, but I do. I'm not
- 13:27Speaker 1: a Dodger hate or anything like that. I'm just a
- 13:29Speaker 1: realist and you're all a bunch of fanboys. But here's
- 13:32Speaker 1: the point. The Phillies are not dead yet. Now. Teams,
- 13:35Speaker 1: if you look at the numbers, teams that have taken
- 13:37Speaker 1: a two nothing lead in the best of five postseason
- 13:40Speaker 1: have won eighty of ninety times. That works out to
- 13:42Speaker 1: eighty eight point eight percent. Eighty eight point eight on
- 13:45Speaker 1: your FM do sounds like a college radio station, and
- 13:48Speaker 1: fifty four sweeps, So that tells you what has happened,
- 13:52Speaker 1: not what's going to happen. And if the Phillies can
- 13:55Speaker 1: steal the game on Wednesday, win that game, they flip
- 13:58Speaker 1: the script. Now, all of the sudden, the pressure start
- 14:02Speaker 1: shifting to the Dodgers not to f this thing up
- 14:04Speaker 1: and have to go back to a Game five in Philadelphia,
- 14:06Speaker 1: even though they won two there, to have to win
- 14:08Speaker 1: with that ragtag bullpen to go back to the Delaware Valley.
- 14:12Speaker 1: So it's really just a one game thing. The Phillies win,
- 14:15Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden things change around quite
- 14:17Speaker 1: a bit, and it's like the Phillies found their pulse,
- 14:20Speaker 1: and you don't want them to find their pulse because
- 14:22Speaker 1: you know what that means there and now it is
- 14:24Speaker 1: a faint pulse. Even if they win, it's a faint
- 14:27Speaker 1: pulse and all that stuff. But this is all about execution.
- 14:29Speaker 1: That's always about execution. And the Stars haven't been better
- 14:32Speaker 1: in the moment. And it's not like, Ohtani, he was
- 14:36Speaker 1: not good in Game one on the mound or at
- 14:40Speaker 1: the plate, and you know a better here, although not great.
- 14:44Speaker 1: And the Phillies stars, though, they're the ones that have
- 14:46Speaker 1: failed to shine the brightest. Now turning the patriot. As
- 14:50Speaker 1: far as the Dodgers are concerned, the question here is,
- 14:55Speaker 1: and I was getting peppered with. I don't go on
- 14:58Speaker 1: social media much, but people my real world, you know,
- 15:00Speaker 1: not the fake people in social media, but the real
- 15:03Speaker 1: people were like, oh you were wrong about the Dodger
- 15:05Speaker 1: They're up for nothing. I was getting I looked at
- 15:07Speaker 1: my phone. I was like, oh boy, you're an idiot.
- 15:11Speaker 1: Suddenly those people stop sending me text messages. When the
- 15:13Speaker 1: Dodgers bullpen came in, there, the parade of the losers,
- 15:18Speaker 1: the parade of terribles there, but the Dodgers didn't win.
- 15:20Speaker 1: So have the Dave Roberts Dodgers now two and ohero
- 15:24Speaker 1: in the NLDS, have they solved their bullpen blues? At
- 15:28Speaker 1: Schufvezravine So I am shaking my head.
- 15:32Speaker 2: No.
- 15:32Speaker 1: If you're watching on the YouTube feed there, and if not,
- 15:34Speaker 1: you can watch it later Ben Mahler Show at Ben
- 15:37Speaker 1: Maler Show on YouTube, I'm going to That is what's
- 15:39Speaker 1: called as a WT situation. Wishful thinking is what that is.
- 15:44Speaker 1: The Dodgers are exactly who we thought they were. And
- 15:48Speaker 1: if you want to crown them, crown their ass right.
- 15:50Speaker 1: They've got a bunch of star power, but there's a
- 15:53Speaker 1: soft underbelly. They're Superman with kryptonite. We know what the
- 15:57Speaker 1: kryptonite is. You poked him in the gut and it
- 16:01Speaker 1: jiggles Jack Jackal Jaggo. That's a bullpin. Dave Roberts and boy,
- 16:05Speaker 1: you talk about Roberts came this close to being kicked
- 16:10Speaker 1: out of LA if they had blown that gid. Dave
- 16:12Speaker 1: Roberts got cute right now the front office. These guys
- 16:14Speaker 1: are the smartest people in the room, playing with matches
- 16:18Speaker 1: and gasoline. That's the Dodgers right there. Roberts tried to
- 16:22Speaker 1: get cute. I'm gonna bring in Blake Trining. Blake Who's head,
- 16:27Speaker 1: die die diarrhea for how many months? I'm gonna bring
- 16:31Speaker 1: in Blake Trining like he's gonna be my secret weapon.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Like it's two years ago and I'm only bring Blake
- 16:37Speaker 1: Trining in there, And instead he was diffuse. That sparked
- 16:42Speaker 1: the Phillies comeback. And the only reason Roberts isn't being
- 16:46Speaker 1: tarred and feathered right now is because the Dodgers held
- 16:50Speaker 1: on and won. And he gets a mulligan because that's
- 16:52Speaker 1: how it works. And the box score says at w
- 16:55Speaker 1: And so the fact that it was systemic incompetence by again,
- 16:59Speaker 1: Roberts is just the middle manager. We know he's not
- 17:01Speaker 1: really doing anything that the front office doesn't want. But
- 17:04Speaker 1: deep down, the Dodger fan, the real Dodger fan, they
- 17:07Speaker 1: know the truth. Right that bullpen they are the flying
- 17:10Speaker 1: will lend us that's a data reference, but go with
- 17:12Speaker 1: it all right. Every night they are wobbling on a
- 17:16Speaker 1: tight rope over the Grand Canyon, just waiting, waiting to
- 17:21Speaker 1: slip on that wire. And there's no net, right, there's
- 17:26Speaker 1: no net, and you can feel it coming right now.
- 17:30Speaker 1: It listen, there's a great shape against the Phillies.
- 17:32Speaker 5: For now.
- 17:33Speaker 1: You hear the music and you see the balancing pole
- 17:37Speaker 1: kind of shaking a little bit, and the ween gusts
- 17:40Speaker 1: up there. Those middle relievers come in, the era explodes.
- 17:44Speaker 1: So I don't think anything's been solved because my position
- 17:48Speaker 1: was the they're pitching starting pitchers in the bullpen and
- 17:53Speaker 1: they're avoiding the actual bullpen. It's that bad. They actually
- 17:56Speaker 1: agree with that. The Dodgers agree with me. They say,
- 17:58Speaker 1: you know what, Mallory, you're right as blow. It's the
- 18:01Speaker 1: starters we got to bring in, and yet even in
- 18:04Speaker 1: this game they got cute. And so that Dodger bullpen
- 18:07Speaker 1: has an underlying condition. All right, they do. It's a
- 18:11Speaker 1: nightly death defying stunt. Hide the women, hide the children.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is the guy who's he didn't have a
- 18:18Speaker 1: safety net and the only safety news to bring these starters.
- 18:23Speaker 1: And then even he didn't, he didn't bring Sazaki in
- 18:25Speaker 1: and he messed around with that. All right. Now, quickly,
- 18:27Speaker 1: last thing, we go to Milwaukee, the other half of
- 18:30Speaker 1: the bracket in the National League, where if you turn
- 18:32Speaker 1: on the game very early, the Cubs had an early lead.
- 18:34Speaker 1: They're up three to nothing over the Brewers, and then
- 18:37Speaker 1: they had to play the rest of the game. Andrew
- 18:39Speaker 1: Vaughan and Jackson Turio each hit three run home runs,
- 18:44Speaker 1: and William Contrez also a solo shot. The Brewers not
- 18:48Speaker 1: known for their all their home run power, but they
- 18:51Speaker 1: on this day they did get it done. There. They
- 18:54Speaker 1: come back down three to nothing, the brew crew get
- 18:56Speaker 1: a seven to three win, and now they are one
- 18:59Speaker 1: win away from a rematch. This was a rematch in
- 19:02Speaker 1: the NLCS about seven eight years ago, Dodgers and the Brewers,
- 19:06Speaker 1: and the series now shifting to Wrigley Field for Game
- 19:10Speaker 1: number three that'll be on Wednesday as well. The better
- 19:12Speaker 1: story in the loser's locker room. So who gets to
- 19:15Speaker 1: eat the blame cheese curds because you're in Wisconsin for
- 19:20Speaker 1: the Cubs who lost to the Brewers. So this one's easy.
- 19:24Speaker 1: It's Imanaga showed it to in Monaga, the starting pitcher
- 19:27Speaker 1: here for the Cubs, the ace who I believe watching
- 19:30Speaker 1: this game and I was slipping back and forth from
- 19:32Speaker 1: the Monday night game in this game, but watching him,
- 19:34Speaker 1: he melted faster than some fresh cheddar in an air
- 19:38Speaker 1: fire on a hot pretzel. Just melted, just absolutely melted.
- 19:41Speaker 1: You jump back to a three to nothing lead, and
- 19:44Speaker 1: Suzuki hit a rocket early on for the Cubs. You got,
- 19:48Speaker 1: you know, feeling pretty good right there. You're thinking, great,
- 19:51Speaker 1: crowds kind of buzzing back home. There's a lot of
- 19:53Speaker 1: Cub fans in Milwaukee because it's not that far away
- 19:56Speaker 1: from Chicago, and everyone's excited. I know, our guy's tree, Eugene.
- 20:00Speaker 1: They're all fired up there and this you got your
- 20:03Speaker 1: so called stopper, You got your number one pitcher on
- 20:06Speaker 1: the mound there and it was like a kid's birthday
- 20:10Speaker 1: party pinata. You get a hit, you get to hit.
- 20:13Speaker 1: Imanaga was in the captain's chair and he was writing
- 20:16Speaker 1: the Vomit Comet. He wrote the Vomit Comet and the
- 20:20Speaker 1: just completely helpless. The Brewers played Yachtzi with Immenaga in
- 20:25Speaker 1: this game. And so there you go. So here we are.
- 20:28Speaker 1: It's October baseball. You need your ace, generally speaking, you
- 20:32Speaker 1: need your ace to go more than a couple of innings.
- 20:34Speaker 1: Eat some innings, be like Joey Chestnut and scarf down
- 20:38Speaker 1: all the hot dogs, the Glizzy gobbler and no. Instead.
- 20:43Speaker 1: Imanaga was nibbling, he was sweating. He was pressing forty
- 20:48Speaker 1: six pitches. You get a three nothing lead, your ace
- 20:50Speaker 1: goes forty six pitches. Good afternoon, good evening, and good
- 20:55Speaker 1: night and bye bye, see you later.
- 20:57Speaker 6: There.
- 20:57Speaker 1: So another team, the Cubs, says somebody you said, hey,
- 20:59Speaker 1: the Cubs are just built different and all that. I
- 21:01Speaker 1: don't see it. That appears to be false advertising for
- 21:04Speaker 1: the Cubs at this point. Here, it does look more
- 21:06Speaker 1: like they're built for day games in May against the
- 21:08Speaker 1: Pirates and not primetime in October. There, and we'll talk more.
- 21:13Speaker 1: I'm sure if the Cubs do lose this on Wednesday
- 21:15Speaker 1: about Craig Council, and people will be celebrating the demise
- 21:20Speaker 1: of Craig Council as a Wisconsin guy. And he took
- 21:23Speaker 1: the money and went down to Chicago to coach the
- 21:25Speaker 1: Cubs and his team. The Cubs are getting pantsed right
- 21:29Speaker 1: now by his old team. So the Brewers look very relaxed.
- 21:33Speaker 1: Why wouldn't. You're up to nothing in the series. The
- 21:35Speaker 1: Cubs look a little constipated. There's some pill you can take.
- 21:39Speaker 1: There's a pill. There's also a drink that you can
- 21:41Speaker 1: take to get rid of that here. But Council, he
- 21:43Speaker 1: left for the money, so it's not like he if
- 21:45Speaker 1: he is really worried. He was with State ofum Milwaukee.
- 21:48Speaker 1: He left because he got a bag from Chicago, become
- 21:50Speaker 1: the highest paid management in baseball. And that's the same
- 21:52Speaker 1: thing you would have done. I would have done, we
- 21:54Speaker 1: all would have done. Not worried about winning. He's I
- 21:57Speaker 1: can win in Chicago. He's in the playoffs. He's like, yeah,
- 22:00Speaker 1: find the Brewers can win, but I'm still getting paid,
- 22:03Speaker 1: and how can you get that money in Milwaukee.
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- 24:09Speaker 1: That's Expresspros dot Com. So we touched baseball last hour.
- 24:13Speaker 1: We now go our lead this hour from the River
- 24:15Speaker 1: City and that's where we had Jacksonville in a full moon.
- 24:20Speaker 1: That was the stage the final act of Week number five,
- 24:24Speaker 1: Week number five of the NFL season, and you had
- 24:27Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs traveling vandwagon fit for a
- 24:32Speaker 1: pop star into du All Cody.
- 24:37Speaker 4: Just like that.
- 24:38Speaker 1: There a little playdate with the Jaguars. And you only
- 24:41Speaker 1: see the Jags on national TV one time, normally a
- 24:44Speaker 1: regional broadcast. But here they were Monday night football Island game.
- 24:49Speaker 1: Were you watching? BA and me? We were watching the
- 24:51Speaker 1: baseball game. I was flipping back and forth. I was
- 24:54Speaker 1: I was flipping back and forth. I watched the majority
- 24:58Speaker 1: of this one. And a good thing about f football
- 25:00Speaker 1: a lot of time outs. He can go back and
- 25:02Speaker 1: forth and have a field day. So if you did
- 25:04Speaker 1: not watch Trevor Lawrence who tripped, he fell to the ground,
- 25:09Speaker 1: he stumbled, he tripped over his own line, and he
- 25:12Speaker 1: got up and he got his feet and nobody touched
- 25:15Speaker 1: him from Kansas City, a defensive boo boo and scrambling
- 25:22Speaker 1: one yard touchdown with twenty three seconds remaining, the kill
- 25:27Speaker 1: shot for the Jaguars, as it was a comedic pratfall
- 25:33Speaker 1: which ended up in an improbable touchdown and Jacksonville beats
- 25:38Speaker 1: Kansas City thirty one twenty eight on a Monday night.
- 25:44Speaker 1: As Trevor Lawrence was serenaded serenaded by his teammates. There
- 25:49Speaker 1: his birthday, twenty sixth birthday for Trevor Lawrence there, and
- 25:53Speaker 1: good news is he doesn't need anything because he's really
- 25:56Speaker 1: filthy rich, so he don't need to buy him anything.
- 25:59Speaker 1: He's so loaded he can buy whatever he wants. Yes, anyway,
- 26:03Speaker 1: the ridiculous wacky ending there as Kansas City has scored
- 26:09Speaker 1: to take the lead, went up by four, so Jacksonville
- 26:12Speaker 1: had to get a touchdown. The Jaguars eight and one.
- 26:15Speaker 1: Now they snap an eight game losing streak to Kansas City.
- 26:19Speaker 1: They also matched their wint how pathetic were they last year?
- 26:23Speaker 1: Where they've matched their win total at four from all
- 26:27Speaker 1: of last season. And the Chiefs the better story here
- 26:30Speaker 1: in the losing locker room, the Chiefs dropped back under
- 26:33Speaker 1: five hundred. I thought the Chiefs had arrived. You told
- 26:37Speaker 1: me they had arrived. They beat Baltimore. They had arrived.
- 26:40Speaker 1: Apparently not that that was wrong. Well, the better story
- 26:44Speaker 1: is there, so let's go into it and let's hear
- 26:47Speaker 1: from some of the key participants. Will start out with
- 26:50Speaker 1: Andy Reid. Now, one of the big storylines here was
- 26:53Speaker 1: the mistakes for the Chiefs, and they had they led
- 26:57Speaker 1: the world in penalties in this game. The referees calling
- 27:00Speaker 1: the penalty here, there, and everywhere. Here is Andy Reid
- 27:06Speaker 1: talking about that particular issue.
- 27:09Speaker 9: Thirteen penalties to their four. Whether I agree with them
- 27:12Speaker 9: or don't agree with them, it doesn't matter.
- 27:14Speaker 5: They call them.
- 27:15Speaker 9: And so you have that many penalties, you give a
- 27:18Speaker 9: field position, you get outstat him to death. But it
- 27:22Speaker 9: doesn't matter. It's a score that matters. And we've got
- 27:25Speaker 9: to take our business there.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Okay, Andy always sounds like he needs a throat lozenge
- 27:31Speaker 1: he and Doc Rivers always sounds like he's got he
- 27:33Speaker 1: needs some garlic or something like that. Anyway, all right,
- 27:36Speaker 1: so question, let's discuss the question what happened? What happened
- 27:40Speaker 1: to Andy Reid's cams City chiefs there in Jacksonville. So
- 27:44Speaker 1: I've got waffle house, confetti, and submarine and we'll combine
- 27:50Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we're gonna make your
- 27:54Speaker 1: Babushka's favorite gummy candy is what we're going to make,
- 27:57Speaker 1: all right? So number one, I said, Num number what?
- 28:02Speaker 4: What?
- 28:02Speaker 1: What? Right?
- 28:04Speaker 2: All right?
- 28:04Speaker 1: All right? So here's what I saw on my TV,
- 28:10Speaker 1: which is not I don't have like the biggest TV
- 28:12Speaker 1: in the world. I got a regular sized television of
- 28:13Speaker 1: a giant TV. So I saw Kansas City walk into
- 28:17Speaker 1: Duval County and get hit in the face with a
- 28:21Speaker 1: frying pan. Andy Reid mentioned they won the stats. They did.
- 28:25Speaker 1: They won the stats. So if you're just a low
- 28:27Speaker 1: information fan and you worship stats and you're a fantasy
- 28:29Speaker 1: football dope, oh, they won the starts. Everything's foid. Yeah,
- 28:34Speaker 1: remember what is the mantra? We have a couple of
- 28:37Speaker 1: mantras on this show because we've done this a long time.
- 28:40Speaker 1: Most games are lost, they're not won, and the better
- 28:43Speaker 1: story is losing locker room. This game checks both those boxes,
- 28:47Speaker 1: both those boxes. This was a waffle House special for
- 28:51Speaker 1: Kansas City. They stacked up mistakes, they were smothered in penalties,
- 28:56Speaker 1: and they had a side of brain farts, which I
- 28:59Speaker 1: don't I think that's an add on item at waffle house.
- 29:01Speaker 1: I don't think that's out on the actual menu. I
- 29:03Speaker 1: think that's the secret menu. You can order brain farts.
- 29:05Speaker 1: You gotta go there like a two thirty three in
- 29:07Speaker 1: the morning, though, to get the full brain fart experience
- 29:09Speaker 1: when you go to the waffle house. But listen, the
- 29:12Speaker 1: Chiefs cooked themselves. Andy Reid mentioned it thirteen penalties one
- 29:15Speaker 1: hundred and nine yards, and they even at one point
- 29:18Speaker 1: late in the game, not that it mattered, but they
- 29:20Speaker 1: called back to back timeouts, which even I know didn't
- 29:22Speaker 1: play in the NFL. But even though you can't call
- 29:24Speaker 1: back to back timeouts, you cannot do it. He did it.
- 29:27Speaker 1: Oh my god, you can't do it on Madden. You
- 29:29Speaker 1: can't do it in the real NFL. So Andy Reid's group,
- 29:32Speaker 1: you know what it looked like. It looked like they
- 29:34Speaker 1: were making a YouTube video on how to implode and
- 29:38Speaker 1: lose an NFL game. Things to do to lose an
- 29:42Speaker 1: NFL game, made by those influencers in Kansas City, including
- 29:49Speaker 1: and you're not supposed to say this because Mahomes is great,
- 29:51Speaker 1: but he left way too much time on the clock.
- 29:54Speaker 1: They were so arrogant that the Chiefs assumed the position that, hey,
- 30:00Speaker 1: we're so good defensively that we don't have to worry
- 30:03Speaker 1: about limiting the time left before Jacksonville gets the ball.
- 30:08Speaker 1: So the Chiefs did score the go ahead touchdown with
- 30:10Speaker 1: one forty five to go in the game, and then
- 30:13Speaker 1: they fed up the kickoff, which we've seen a couple
- 30:15Speaker 1: of times here in Week five, we saw it, and
- 30:19Speaker 1: whether they have the fugazy kicking rule, or it's got
- 30:21Speaker 1: to be in the right zone. If it's not in
- 30:23Speaker 1: the right zone, if it goes out of bounds, the
- 30:25Speaker 1: ball goes to the forty yard line. So the Jags
- 30:28Speaker 1: took over at their own forty yard line. Now they
- 30:31Speaker 1: didn't need a field goal, so it's not like that,
- 30:33Speaker 1: but they still it gave them some wiggle room and
- 30:36Speaker 1: they took advantage of which is all of this is
- 30:38Speaker 1: totally unchief like. It's unchief like to play that way.
- 30:42Speaker 1: We've not seen that in this era. And the team
- 30:46Speaker 1: that has been the model franchise in this particular run
- 30:49Speaker 1: of big game performance and composure. They don't win them all,
- 30:55Speaker 1: but they're normally not going to beat themselves. And it's
- 30:58Speaker 1: been what six years more than that, I think now,
- 31:02Speaker 1: and here they are in this game looking like they're
- 31:05Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, tripping over their own shoelaces and just
- 31:08Speaker 1: a hot mess. And then you had that ninety nine
- 31:11Speaker 1: yard ninety nine yard return pick six from linebacker Devin
- 31:18Speaker 1: Lloyd of Jacksonville ninety nine yards. He should have run
- 31:22Speaker 1: back to the end zones to make it a full
- 31:23Speaker 1: one hundred yards, but that's the kind of play that
- 31:26Speaker 1: you see people. Wow, it's a rookie mistake. Mahomes not
- 31:31Speaker 1: a rookie obviously, Right, Mahomes did the thing you can't
- 31:34Speaker 1: do at the time.
- 31:34Speaker 4: You can't do it.
- 31:35Speaker 1: He made the big mistake there. And here's Mahomes by
- 31:38Speaker 1: the way, pointing out Patrick Mahomes that there were a
- 31:42Speaker 1: lot of self inflicted wounds. Take a list.
- 31:44Speaker 5: I mean, it kind of just talks about our whole
- 31:46Speaker 5: entire season. I mean, I feel like we have the
- 31:50Speaker 5: guys and we execute at certain points of game and
- 31:52Speaker 5: looked really good, and then we kind of would crush
- 31:54Speaker 5: ourselves with penalties and mistakes and interceptions and fumbled or
- 31:58Speaker 5: whatever that is. I mean, it's just we've kind of
- 32:01Speaker 5: done that to ourselves all year long. It's kind of
- 32:03Speaker 5: been one guy here there, and in this league it's
- 32:06Speaker 5: so close that those change games, and so we got
- 32:09Speaker 5: to be better. You know, we we've lost Chimney games already.
- 32:13Speaker 1: Yes, well, good luck. So the Chiefs back under five
- 32:17Speaker 1: hundred here. That was a kick to the foot balls
- 32:20Speaker 1: by Jacksonville, the Kansas City. The Chiefs strutted in. They assumed,
- 32:24Speaker 1: like everyone else that plays Jacksonville look it's like a
- 32:26Speaker 1: community pool. You come here, you can look at the pool,
- 32:29Speaker 1: and then you win the football game. And they were like, hey,
- 32:31Speaker 1: we're rock stars, man, you know we are Taylor Swift's
- 32:34Speaker 1: favorite team. We are. And they end up leaving doing
- 32:37Speaker 1: the walk of shame right down Broad Street there with
- 32:40Speaker 1: their tails between their legs, and the Chiefs as they lose.
- 32:43Speaker 1: Mahomes did have the Gatti stat line, the three hundred
- 32:45Speaker 1: and seventy eight total yards running and passing, two touchdowns
- 32:49Speaker 1: running and passing combined, and a l So the Dorks
- 32:53Speaker 1: will be happy because Mahomes had a big stat game.
- 32:56Speaker 1: The Chiefs are two to zero against Tomato Cans, the
- 33:00Speaker 1: Giants and Ravens already combined two and eight. That's a
- 33:02Speaker 1: two hundred winning percentage. Meanwhile, the Chiefs are zero and
- 33:05Speaker 1: three against the Chargers, Eagles, and Jaguars, who are a
- 33:10Speaker 1: combined eleven and four. So that tells you a lot,
- 33:13Speaker 1: not everything, but it tells you a lot. Here, past results,
- 33:15Speaker 1: we know do not guarantee future outcomes. We're all aware
- 33:18Speaker 1: of that. And Kansas City had the Big Three. They
- 33:21Speaker 1: were let's see the Big three. They were sloppy, they
- 33:26Speaker 1: were unfocused and they were undisciplined. So those are the
- 33:30Speaker 1: big three. Congratulations, And you could see we heard from
- 33:33Speaker 1: Andy Reid, but you can see Andy Reid like kind
- 33:35Speaker 1: of his mustache was twitching a little bit. Either he
- 33:37Speaker 1: wanted some chicken alfredo or he was very upset. I'm
- 33:41Speaker 1: not sure which, but I'm going disgusted. But he might
- 33:44Speaker 1: have wanted chicken alfredo also and been disgusted. And so
- 33:47Speaker 1: the Andy Reid is always detail oriented, right, That's one
- 33:50Speaker 1: of the great Hall of Fame traits of Andy Reid.
- 33:52Speaker 1: And it's all about the little things, as coaches like
- 33:55Speaker 1: to say, but instead look like a bunch of guys
- 33:57Speaker 1: on a bender, just like they were in Jacksonville for
- 34:00Speaker 1: the weekend, just having a great old time elsewhere. Yet
- 34:03Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey had seven catches for sixty one yards and
- 34:06Speaker 1: a touchdown, which is good but not great. And my
- 34:09Speaker 1: advice to Kelsey is he better run off to an
- 34:11Speaker 1: Elvis chapel asap, get married as fast as possible, do
- 34:16Speaker 1: not wait for the royal wedding, because Taylor Swift is
- 34:20Speaker 1: going to realize, wait a minute, this team's a loser.
- 34:22Speaker 1: My husband plays for losers, my future husband, so I
- 34:26Speaker 1: don't want to be associated with losers. So you better
- 34:28Speaker 1: get married quick, Travis, because it is not going well
- 34:31Speaker 1: for the Chiefs right now. And if the Chiefs keep
- 34:32Speaker 1: this up, I don't think they will. But if they
- 34:34Speaker 1: do keep it up, and she's going to be writing
- 34:37Speaker 1: her next album will be a breakup song and it'll
- 34:41Speaker 1: be like Flags and Fumbles and she'll be rifting on that. Well,
- 34:45Speaker 1: maybe the Chiefs are so busy. They were like they
- 34:47Speaker 1: were trying to listen in their helmets to the new
- 34:50Speaker 1: Taylor Swift album and that's why they were unable to
- 34:52Speaker 1: play all right now? Page two? Does this count? Big
- 34:55Speaker 1: headlines all over the interweb? Does this count as a
- 34:59Speaker 1: signature for Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars? So on this one,
- 35:05Speaker 1: I know that the clown College of Sportscasting, there's a
- 35:09Speaker 1: sports writer clown college. There's certain narratives that you just
- 35:12Speaker 1: have to go with, and this is one of them.
- 35:14Speaker 1: But I rolled my eyes when I saw that, And yeah,
- 35:18Speaker 1: you want to just break out the confetti cannons, you know,
- 35:23Speaker 1: fire the cuttings, get the confetti cannons ready to go
- 35:26Speaker 1: for Trevor Lawrence. You can do that if you want. However,
- 35:29Speaker 1: I believe the word for that is premature capital P.
- 35:33Speaker 1: Premature capital P. And here's why, again, we laid it out.
- 35:37Speaker 1: Kansas City was so sloppy. They handed the game to Jacksonville,
- 35:41Speaker 1: and Jacksonville took it. On the island game, they took it. Congratulations,
- 35:45Speaker 1: But stop me. If you've heard this before, Trevor Lawrence,
- 35:49Speaker 1: maybe my TV was different than your TV and the
- 35:52Speaker 1: other people's TVs. I thought Trevor Lawrence played fine. I
- 35:57Speaker 1: thought he was fine Trevor Lawrence as a player. It's
- 36:00Speaker 1: not like he parted the Red Sea or the Saint
- 36:03Speaker 1: John's River there in Jacksonville. This was more about the
- 36:06Speaker 1: Chiefs collapse than it was some kind of public coronation
- 36:10Speaker 1: of the Jaguars. Cheryl. Lawrence had a meh performance. Two
- 36:16Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one yards passing. That's kind of where
- 36:18Speaker 1: he's normally at, somewhere between one eighty and two twenty.
- 36:21Speaker 1: And he had his usual two turnovers, a horrific fumble interception.
- 36:26Speaker 1: So he checked those boxes and he on the signature
- 36:30Speaker 1: player of the game. He was at klutz, he fell down,
- 36:33Speaker 1: he got stepped on, he fell down, and then because
- 36:37Speaker 1: the Chiefs decided they wanted to kind of relax a
- 36:40Speaker 1: little bit. They didn't want to hustle, so they allowed
- 36:43Speaker 1: the quarterback with the ball to Sanchez into the end zone.
- 36:47Speaker 1: So let's not act like this is Joe Montana finding
- 36:51Speaker 1: Dwight Clark in the back of the end zone against
- 36:53Speaker 1: the Cowboys, that signature moment that ignited the career of
- 36:56Speaker 1: Joe Montana. No, that was the mo whoopsie Daisy, what happened? Oh, Mike,
- 37:02Speaker 1: I guess I scored a touchdown moment we've seen in
- 37:05Speaker 1: a long time. He tripped. He tripped, And there is
- 37:11Speaker 1: a dimension in the multiverse where Trevor Lawrence trip does
- 37:14Speaker 1: not score a touchdown. Jacksonville does not win, and we
- 37:17Speaker 1: are having a much different conversation you and I right now.
- 37:21Speaker 1: But Lawrence is one of the one of these guys.
- 37:24Speaker 1: He's been a pretty big bust in his NFL career,
- 37:28Speaker 1: and yet it's like he's got his own visitor and
- 37:31Speaker 1: like the convention and visitor authority of Trevor Lawrence. So
- 37:36Speaker 1: you can't say that, you know, just keep pumping the
- 37:38Speaker 1: tires on Trevor Lawrence. He's so good. Come on, if
- 37:42Speaker 1: that's your signature moment, tripping and scoring a touchdown, you
- 37:46Speaker 1: likely need to go back to the to the creative
- 37:49Speaker 1: writing room and come up with something else there. You
- 37:51Speaker 1: need to aim higher. All right, final point, follow up
- 37:55Speaker 1: to what we've been discussing here. Follow up to what
- 37:57Speaker 1: we've been discussing. So Jacksonville has a good In fact,
- 38:01Speaker 1: you look at your NFL standings, and I know you
- 38:04Speaker 1: love your NFL stands. Oh, I can't get enough of
- 38:06Speaker 1: those NFL stand Boy, They're great, aren't the standings?
- 38:09Speaker 4: Right?
- 38:09Speaker 1: So you look at the standings for Jacksonville, and now
- 38:11Speaker 1: if you look at your big board, not a list,
- 38:13Speaker 1: big board, Jacksonville is the number five seed in the
- 38:17Speaker 1: American Football Conference, so they would play in that five
- 38:21Speaker 1: to four game. It's way too early for all that.
- 38:23Speaker 1: But they're a playoff team and they're off to the
- 38:25Speaker 1: four and one start on the year, and the people
- 38:28Speaker 1: are saying, well, they've arrived, So is it time to
- 38:32Speaker 1: take the Jags seriously? Beat Kansas City primetime game. So
- 38:36Speaker 1: I would say, I'm gonna channel our favorite crossing guard
- 38:41Speaker 1: from Fort Wayne, and I'm gonna put the stop sign up,
- 38:44Speaker 1: is what I'm gonna do. Daniel from Fort White. I'm yeah,
- 38:47Speaker 1: I'm putting the stop sign up, because here's why they're
- 38:52Speaker 1: not there. I don't see it right, and I need
- 38:56Speaker 1: to see way more, way more before I'm going to
- 39:00Speaker 1: start carving the faces of Trevor Lawrence and the head
- 39:06Speaker 1: coach Liam Cohne into AFC Mount Rushmore. I'm not quite
- 39:10Speaker 1: there yet. The wins are against the Niners and Kansas City.
- 39:15Speaker 1: Those are the two big wins for Jacksonville. Those are
- 39:19Speaker 1: billboard wins. So I guess they'll buy a billboard on
- 39:22Speaker 1: nine to ninety five and put that up. Congratulations. Not impressed,
- 39:26Speaker 1: I'm not as why are you not in press? Were
- 39:28Speaker 1: you just being a douchebag the mixplay because in this
- 39:32Speaker 1: game it was more about Jacksonville being the beneficiary of
- 39:35Speaker 1: the benefactor, which was Trevor Lawrence his opponent there Mahomes
- 39:41Speaker 1: and Travis Kelcey and Andy Reid Heer. That's not arriving
- 39:43Speaker 1: when someone just hands you the game. Now you took it.
- 39:46Speaker 1: That's like somebody finding a lottery ticket on the street
- 39:50Speaker 1: and then you scratch it off with your like a
- 39:52Speaker 1: quarter or something like that. You won, Well, congratulations, but
- 39:55Speaker 1: you didn't buy the lottery and you found it, and
- 39:58Speaker 1: so again, just don't be a prisoner of the moment
- 40:00Speaker 1: here relax as Aaron Rodgers fam as he said. And Jacksonville,
- 40:05Speaker 1: y'all told me, And I did have Jacksonville in the
- 40:08Speaker 1: game Monday night, so I was happy. If you watched
- 40:09Speaker 1: Benny versus De Penny on YouTube, WHI you should watch
- 40:11Speaker 1: every week, make that part of your routine. I had Jacksonville.
- 40:14Speaker 1: I was very happy that they won the bet. I
- 40:16Speaker 1: didn't think they would actually win the game. The other
- 40:19Speaker 1: factor here, though, is when you handicap the game. The
- 40:21Speaker 1: big selling point for Jacksonville is they have a top
- 40:23Speaker 1: ten defense in most of the key categories. They were
- 40:26Speaker 1: top ten, top five defensively, and that we thought was
- 40:31Speaker 1: going to be the calling card for Jacksonville. However, they
- 40:33Speaker 1: gave up. Let me shake my notes here four hundred
- 40:36Speaker 1: and seventy six yards that Kansas City looked like a submarine,
- 40:41Speaker 1: but they were the screen door on the submarine trying
- 40:44Speaker 1: to keep the water out and they were at the
- 40:45Speaker 1: bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It did not go well.
- 40:49Speaker 1: And so if the Chiefs and Jaguars meet again in
- 40:52Speaker 1: January in a playoff game, are you gonna bet on
- 40:56Speaker 1: Kansas City or are you gonna bet on Jacksonville, You're
- 40:59Speaker 1: gonna bet on Kansas City every time. And context obviously
- 41:04Speaker 1: plays a factor in this. You're talking about October football,
- 41:07Speaker 1: You're not talking about a playoff test or anything like that.
- 41:10Speaker 1: And Jacksonville they play Seattle next, that's in Duvall County.
- 41:15Speaker 1: Then they play one of those international games across the
- 41:17Speaker 1: Atlantic against the LA Rams. So that's who they have
- 41:20Speaker 1: up next. And those are two games that are fifty
- 41:22Speaker 1: to fifty games. You can go either way where Jacksonville
- 41:25Speaker 1: could win both. They can go one and one lose bowl.
- 41:28Speaker 1: I mean, those are legitimate similar teams to Jacksonville, the
- 41:33Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks and the Rams. So we'll see, we'll see
- 41:37Speaker 1: what happens here. We'll watch the games. But the good
- 41:40Speaker 1: news for the jackson I will Benny Brightside. The division
- 41:42Speaker 1: they're in, the AFC South is the kiddie pool of
- 41:47Speaker 1: the NFL, and I realize the culture playing very well
- 41:50Speaker 1: right now. They have the top record in the AFC.
- 41:54Speaker 1: That's not going to last. And the Jags in Jacksonville
- 41:57Speaker 1: and Indianapolis can thumb wrestle for first place. And the
- 42:02Speaker 1: Texans are saying what about us, Well, I'm not too impressed.
- 42:04Speaker 1: They beat the Ravens and Hooper Rush, so we'll see
- 42:07Speaker 1: what they do when they play some real opponents here
- 42:09Speaker 1: and then got the Tennessee Titans who are wearing the
- 42:12Speaker 1: Dunce cap in the corner of the room, sucking their
- 42:14Speaker 1: thumb and the sandbox waiting for teams to give them
- 42:16Speaker 1: games like the Arizona Cardinals. So Trevor Lawrence still the
- 42:19Speaker 1: poster boy in my world. Trevor Lawrence is still the
- 42:23Speaker 1: poster boy for getting paid on potential, not results. And
- 42:28Speaker 1: I'll give him this. They at least they're somewhat entertaining
- 42:30Speaker 1: Jacksonville with like Trevor Lawrence is kind of a dopey,
- 42:34Speaker 1: got the long hair thing. You got the nerdy coach
- 42:37Speaker 1: who doesn't seem like he's the leader of men, but
- 42:40Speaker 1: yet he's coaching an NFL team. So there's a lot
- 42:42Speaker 1: going on.
- 42:42Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 42:45Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 42:48Speaker 1: Here we go, how about that?
- 42:51Speaker 2: There is one gets Great Ben.
- 42:58Speaker 10: After another loss for the Bengals and another three interceptions
- 43:01Speaker 10: from Jake Browning, coach Zach Taylor didn't rule out a
- 43:04Speaker 10: change at quarterback, Ben, who should the who should Cincinnati
- 43:07Speaker 10: go after to keep them in the hunting?
- 43:08Speaker 1: To Joe Barrows, I would have an open tryout. The
- 43:11Speaker 1: backup is Brent Rippen. He used to play for the Rams.
- 43:13Speaker 1: Guy can't play, so they got can't play. They got
- 43:16Speaker 1: sucked and blow at the quarterback position, Coop, So they
- 43:18Speaker 1: got a trade for somebody or get somebody out of
- 43:20Speaker 1: Canadian football. They neither one of them can play next.
- 43:22Speaker 10: Dak Prescott was serenaded with m V pach hands in
- 43:25Speaker 10: the Meadowlands during the cow Balls against the Jets. Ben
- 43:29Speaker 10: if Dallas's wort to make it to the postseason despite
- 43:31Speaker 10: a tumultuous offseason, do you think Dak will actually be
- 43:34Speaker 10: in the discussion? Uh?
- 43:36Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't buy it. And uh, you know,
- 43:40Speaker 1: no one, No one's established themselves head and shoulders as
- 43:42Speaker 1: the MVP in the NFL. It's only week five. No
- 43:45Speaker 1: one's clearly headed, you know, way way above everyone. But
- 43:48Speaker 1: I know I do not have Dak Prescott in the
- 43:50Speaker 1: conversation when we have that conversation, Coop. At the end
- 43:54Speaker 1: of the year, it's a nice win. You played the Jets, Okay,
- 43:56Speaker 1: you can't win an MVP against the Jets.
- 43:58Speaker 10: Next on Sun, Jamier Gibson David Montgomery both scored a
- 44:02Speaker 10: touchdown in the same game for the fourteenth time, the
- 44:04Speaker 10: ties of record held by Emmett Smith and Daryl Johnson. However,
- 44:07Speaker 10: Emmett and Moose played together for ten years. Gibbs and
- 44:10Speaker 10: Montgomery are currently in their third year together. Ben, Are
- 44:13Speaker 10: they already the greatest one two punch up running back
- 44:15Speaker 10: of all time?
- 44:15Speaker 1: Yeah? If I was a Lions fan, Coop, I was
- 44:18Speaker 1: living in Lansing, Michigan or something like that, they would
- 44:20Speaker 1: be the greatest of all. Of course. Not come on,
- 44:23Speaker 1: you got you do that over longevity. You do that
- 44:26Speaker 1: in big games. You have to win championships together. And
- 44:29Speaker 1: last I checked, the lines have done none of that.
- 44:30Speaker 1: How did we go? He passes it a Hi, Hi, run,
- 44:35Speaker 1: hollering James Run.
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- 44:48Speaker 2: listen live real quick.
- 44:51Speaker 1: Let's not waste any time, but we have our game
- 44:52Speaker 1: show contestants. Keith is in May and Keith welcome. What's
- 44:56Speaker 1: going on you sat ex scaited, Keith, you're gonna play
- 44:58Speaker 1: the game, and who do you want to partner up with?
- 45:01Speaker 1: You got me Ben, Cooper Loop, I'll go with you,
- 45:05Speaker 1: all right, sounds sounds good. Hold on a sec and
- 45:09Speaker 1: Tyler and Boston. Tyler, you're gonna be with Coop all right?
- 45:12Speaker 7: Sounds good to me.
- 45:13Speaker 1: All right, we'll lock you in coopboard.
- 45:15Speaker 10: The categories quickly cool please all right, gentlemen, this is
- 45:18Speaker 10: the John Mellencamp edition of Mallor's Mount of Money.
- 45:21Speaker 4: He turned seventy four years old today.
- 45:23Speaker 10: The categories are Hurt So Good, Authority Song, small Town,
- 45:28Speaker 10: and rain on the Scarecrow.
- 45:30Speaker 4: Keith, you were on first, which category would you like?
- 45:33Speaker 10: Let's go with small town?
- 45:34Speaker 4: Small town all right? And then Tyler, how about you scarecrow?
- 45:39Speaker 4: All right?
- 45:40Speaker 1: He said, with a question mark on that Coop a question.
- 45:42Speaker 1: But all right, everyone, hold on, we'll have and it's entire.
- 45:44Speaker 1: Do not hang up, gentlemen, do not hang up. Mallard's
- 45:47Speaker 1: Mount of Money. We'll get to that and we will
- 45:49Speaker 1: do it next.
- 45:49Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
- 45:52Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific now
- 45:57Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of money. Hello, do you have what it
- 46:01Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably not?
- 46:05Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Here we go, let's play
- 46:07Speaker 1: the game. We have our contestants. We've got Keith in
- 46:10Speaker 1: Maine and Tyler's in Boston. Keith has partnered up with media.
- 46:13Speaker 1: What are you up to, Keith? Are you working right now?
- 46:15Speaker 1: Are you just hanging out?
- 46:17Speaker 5: Oh?
- 46:17Speaker 1: I actually just got out of work.
- 46:19Speaker 5: I'm on my way home.
- 46:20Speaker 1: Oh nice?
- 46:20Speaker 10: All right?
- 46:21Speaker 1: What kind of work do you do?
- 46:23Speaker 7: I work at a paper mill in the middle of
- 46:26Speaker 7: nowhere in now Vegas, Maine.
- 46:28Speaker 1: All right, Well someone needs to make paper and you're
- 46:31Speaker 1: the one doing it. Yeah, yeah, get it? All right?
- 46:34Speaker 1: Well I won't ask Tyler then, because you guys don't
- 46:37Speaker 1: care about Tyler. Let's play the game, coop.
- 46:38Speaker 4: What are you got going on here?
- 46:40Speaker 1: And Keith?
- 46:41Speaker 4: I believe, yes, yes, you have small town all right?
- 46:43Speaker 1: These athletes all are from small towns, kind of like you. Keith.
- 46:47Speaker 1: Are you ready? Ye? All right? Forty five seconds on
- 46:50Speaker 1: the clock. Here we go, and we're our way. Quarterback
- 46:52Speaker 1: for the Packers before Aaron Rodgers barb yes, a wide
- 46:57Speaker 1: receiver with the Vikings, He went to the Patriots, though
- 47:00Speaker 1: on the undefeated team. Yeah, the greatest Celtic of all
- 47:04Speaker 1: time in the nineteen eighties. Anyway, Yes, Yankee legend. He's
- 47:09Speaker 1: not a mouse, but he played in the nineteen sixties
- 47:12Speaker 1: and outfielder number seven for the Yankees. Yes, white running
- 47:17Speaker 1: back for the old Washington Redskins in the nineteen eighties.
- 47:22Speaker 1: Kind of a plodding running backs nor guard for the
- 47:28Speaker 1: for the Lakers. A white guy from no currently on
- 47:33Speaker 1: the Lakers right now?
- 47:34Speaker 4: Currently, Oh, all right, that's fine, you wo No, that
- 47:43Speaker 4: is correct, but not that, not that one.
- 47:45Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, John Riggins. You didn't get John Riggins. All right,
- 47:49Speaker 1: let's sorry.
- 47:49Speaker 10: Go ahead, Coop, you're up, all right, Tyler, we have
- 47:52Speaker 10: rain on the scarecrow. These athletes all grew up or
- 47:55Speaker 10: currently live on a farm. Are you ready?
- 48:00Speaker 4: Ready?
- 48:00Speaker 1: All right?
- 48:00Speaker 4: Forty five seconds, let's begin.
- 48:02Speaker 10: Current quarterback for the Bills, the all time strikeout king
- 48:07Speaker 10: in Major League Baseball. He played for the Angels and
- 48:14Speaker 10: the the Houston Astros. His the nickname is Rocket. Okay, anyway,
- 48:20Speaker 10: this guy was a pro wrestler. He was in the
- 48:21Speaker 10: Princess Bride. He's giant he yes, uh, this guy he said,
- 48:28Speaker 10: I didn't say anything.
- 48:29Speaker 1: You said.
- 48:30Speaker 10: This guy is one of the all time greatest pitching
- 48:33Speaker 10: hid in the postseason, he played for the Giants. His Yes,
- 48:40Speaker 10: this guy was a white guy receiver for Aaron Rodgers
- 48:42Speaker 10: on the Packers. Yes, this guy was the center for
- 48:45Speaker 10: the Dallas Mavericks when they won in twenty eleven.
- 48:47Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's and we'll we track the Andrey the Giant.
- 48:51Speaker 4: You said it.
- 48:52Speaker 1: I did not say minus third. I did not say Sup,
- 48:54Speaker 1: we're tied.
- 48:55Speaker 4: No, we're not.
- 48:56Speaker 1: Believe we're tied. Said, I did not say it.
- 48:58Speaker 4: I heard it.
- 48:59Speaker 1: Everyone heard it. Nope, you heard it, right, Keith? I did, Yeah,
- 49:03Speaker 1: he said, Keith heard it? All right, Well you're you're
- 49:06Speaker 1: cheating already. Go ahead there, Keith, we are up. You
- 49:09Speaker 1: want what we got? A forty song or hurts so good?
- 49:14Speaker 1: All right, hurts so good, very good. These athletes played
- 49:16Speaker 1: through injury to win in the playoffs. Are you ready, Keith? Yeah,
- 49:21Speaker 1: all right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
- 49:23Speaker 1: First and last name, greatest golfer of all time? Yes,
- 49:28Speaker 1: all time NFL leading rusher for the Dallas Cowboys, starting
- 49:33Speaker 1: pitcher for the Red Sox. He had a bloody sock
- 49:36Speaker 1: and he got it there. Yes, tight end for the
- 49:40Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. His son was a rapist. Oh my god,
- 49:45Speaker 1: all right, Dodger outfield played for the Tigers, hit the
- 49:48Speaker 1: home run in the eighty eight World Series. The Yes,
- 49:52Speaker 1: center for the Lakers. He liked to park in handicap
- 49:55Speaker 1: parking spaces. No, he might, well, he might actually need one. No,
- 50:01Speaker 1: how about this. A linebacker for the Rams played with
- 50:05Speaker 1: a broken leg in the Super Bowl in nineteen eighties.
- 50:11Speaker 9: I have no idea.
- 50:12Speaker 1: All right, Jack Youngblood, you have.
- 50:16Speaker 4: One sixty two sixty total. Then and Andrew Bynen was
- 50:19Speaker 4: the center that I liked to park in.
- 50:21Speaker 1: Han Yeah. I didn't know anything else to say about
- 50:25Speaker 1: Andrew bid.
- 50:25Speaker 10: I won a championship with the Lakers alongside power gasol
- 50:28Speaker 10: between towers.
- 50:29Speaker 1: Come on, at least Kwame Brown through a cake. You
- 50:32Speaker 1: know that's funny.
- 50:32Speaker 10: All right, Tyler, we've got authority song. These athletes all
- 50:36Speaker 10: had a problem with authority. Forty five seconds, that's begin.
- 50:40Speaker 10: His nickname was the Answer in NBA. Yes, this guy
- 50:44Speaker 10: knelt during the anthem. In the NFL, Yes, this guy
- 50:49Speaker 10: was one of the best wide receivers. He was on
- 50:51Speaker 10: the forty nine Ers, the cow now the Cowboys. He yes,
- 50:57Speaker 10: this guy's nickname was the rain Man in the NBA
- 51:00Speaker 10: for the Sonics has the Seattle SuperSonics. He had like
- 51:06Speaker 10: seven children from like seven different women. Yes, this guy
- 51:10Speaker 10: was a wide receiver on the Saints.
- 51:12Speaker 2: Uh.
- 51:13Speaker 10: His cousin calls our show a generic name with Drew Brees. No,
- 51:19Speaker 10: all right, this guy has the same name as a
- 51:21Speaker 10: running back in the NFL for the Rams. But he
- 51:23Speaker 10: was an NBA players.
- 51:25Speaker 4: Oh sorry, you don't win. I hate to say. What
- 51:28Speaker 4: was the total?
- 51:29Speaker 1: Are we won?
- 51:30Speaker 4: You got one hundred on there and then on the
- 51:33Speaker 4: other yea.
- 51:34Speaker 1: Yeah, we did not track. We again, win the game.
- 51:45Speaker 1: We win, We won the game. We won the game.
- 51:48Speaker 1: Game