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Hour 1 - Game. Set. Match. · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: That's baseball, Susan. It's our number one of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Maller Show podcast. A happy Thursday to you. It is
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  Speaker 1: the 29th day, 29th day of October, and the first
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  Speaker 1: day since the World Series ended because last night in
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  Speaker 1: the Sunshine State, inside the dome, The Brew Crew, Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: got it done. They're the champions of baseball. Is the
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  Speaker 1: Brew Crew winning the World Series a shot in the
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  Speaker 1: arm for Major League Baseball or a commercial disaster? We'll
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  Speaker 1: discuss that. And where did things go wrong for Rays
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  Speaker 1: manager Kevin Cash in Game 5 of the World Series?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get on my bully pulpit and rant
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  Speaker 1: and rave. There was something that happened in this game.
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  Speaker 1: that upset me so much that I needed to use
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  Speaker 1: my microphone as a tool of therapy. It was therapeutic
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  Speaker 1: to rant and rave about a certain move involving the
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  Speaker 1: pitching that I had to rant about. Also, Pat Murphy's
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  Speaker 1: Brewers changed the formula for winning the World Series now
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  Speaker 1: that they played not like everyone else. They put the
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  Speaker 1: ball in play, and they got on base, and and
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  Speaker 1: weren't just sitting back waiting to get home runs. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about all that and more as the baseball season
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  Speaker 1: is over here in our number one. Well, that is game, set,
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  Speaker 1: and match. It is all over. Bye-bye baseball. Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: saddle again and again and again. And yet another baseball
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  Speaker 1: season has reached the finish line. Our lead this hour
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  Speaker 1: from the Sunshine State, fresh off avoiding the old sweep.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay trying to pull another upset. Put a little
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  Speaker 1: more pressure on Milwaukee. It was game five of the
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  Speaker 1: 2026 World Series on Fox. You had Joe Davis and
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  Speaker 1: professional golfer John Smoltz who had the call. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you watched this game or not. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what else you were doing. There's some Bad basketball, huh?
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  Speaker 1: You could have been watching that. Maybe some hockey. The
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  Speaker 1: baby-faced ace, Jacob Mizorowski, throwing five and two-thirds scoreless innings,
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  Speaker 1: and then he had a boo-boo and came out of
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  Speaker 1: the game. While rookie Cooper Pratt, who didn't play all
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  Speaker 1: that well this year, but played very well in the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, a couple more hits, a couple more runs
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  Speaker 1: batted in, and the Brewers... Something that has never been
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  Speaker 1: said before. The Milwaukee Brewers are the champions of Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball. They beat the Rays 4-1. Congratulations. As they
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  Speaker 1: get her done on a hump day Wednesday night. They
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  Speaker 1: become World Series champions for the first time ever. Their
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  Speaker 1: first championship in the history of the franchise. 44 years
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  Speaker 1: after their only previous appearance in 1982. So this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of a win also for Seattle. The Brewers were
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle Pilots. So that's a big win for you. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the used car salesman, Bud Selick, somewhere in the greater
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix area where he's retired. Bud, and I'm sure enjoying
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  Speaker 1: a Bud, the old owner of the Brewers, the used
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  Speaker 1: car salesman. So Milwaukee wins. They had a top record
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  Speaker 1: during the regular season, 103 regular season wins. And they
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  Speaker 1: backed it up in the playoffs, played 13 playoff games,
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  Speaker 1: won 11 of them. I'm told that's good. They swept
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  Speaker 1: the once proud Dodgers and the NLCS. And then they
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  Speaker 1: take care of Tampa Bay in the gentlemen's sweep. Four
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  Speaker 1: games to one. That's more of a basketball term than
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  Speaker 1: a baseball term. So that means the Tampa Bay Rays,
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  Speaker 1: the weird scientists of baseball, have been in three World
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  Speaker 1: Series and loss, loss, loss. Yeah, they're 0 for 3.
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  Speaker 1: That's not good. Particularly great. Not particularly great. It is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point, though, just the World Series
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  Speaker 1: in general. So let us discuss the question. Is the
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  Speaker 1: Brew Crew winning the World Series here for Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 1: and company there? A shot of the arm for baseball
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  Speaker 1: or a commercial disaster? So I've got Big Tech, Jack
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  Speaker 1: in the Box, and Squiggly Lines. And we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: take a joyride, is what we're going to do in
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  Speaker 1: the overnight. So, A, to answer the question, is the
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  Speaker 1: Brew Crew winning the World Series a shot in the
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  Speaker 1: arm for baseball or a commercial disaster? We actually went
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  Speaker 1: to the judges' scorecards. We did not have to look
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  Speaker 1: at the CompuBox stats on this. It is a split decision.
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  Speaker 1: A split decision. On one hand, the Brewers winning the
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  Speaker 1: World Series... is lousy for the business of baseball. Let's
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  Speaker 1: not kid ourselves here. Milwaukee has all the glamour of
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  Speaker 1: a cheese curd convention. I love the cheese curd. I do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. They lack the marquee name brand superstar.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have a household name on the team. They
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  Speaker 1: just don't. And there's really not much sexy about the
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  Speaker 1: Brewer roster. They'll sell a mountain of merch. And people
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  Speaker 1: will be lining up. They'll set all kinds of records
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  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin for T-shirts and hats and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: The television executive, the advertising people, I'm sure, are not
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  Speaker 1: exactly popping champagne here. From a baseball standpoint, the reason
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  Speaker 1: it's a split decision, from a baseball standpoint, this was
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  Speaker 1: a booster shot. The Brewers rejected the modern baseball obsession
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  Speaker 1: with the Big Bopper. And I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching that. I didn't like the pitching stuff
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  Speaker 1: because they I mean, I'll get to that in a
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  Speaker 1: minute just in general. But in terms of an offensive
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  Speaker 1: approach to baseball, it was refreshing is what it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was great. They played like a collection
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  Speaker 1: of pests and instigators and dirt bags and grinders and
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  Speaker 1: all those big words. And it was beautifully obnoxious baseball,
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  Speaker 1: beautifully obnoxious baseball. And it put several people in their place.
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  Speaker 1: And I love now you've also got turning the page,
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  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy, who is the Colonel Sanders of major league baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It's official now. If you know anything about business, the
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  Speaker 1: guy behind Colonel Sanders, not a real Colonel, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Holland Sanders, he started franchising KFC at the age of 65.
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  Speaker 1: All right. That's when he, became big at age of 65. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the cantankerous Pat Murphy got his big managerial break, full-time gig,
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  Speaker 1: not fill-in, full-time gig in Milwaukee just before his 65th
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  Speaker 1: birthday a few years ago. And so you can say
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  Speaker 1: it's extra crispy championship baseball. There's also an odd quirk
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  Speaker 1: to this, the Brewers winning the World Series, and the MVP,
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  Speaker 1: catcher William Contreras, the World Series MVP. Now, he did
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  Speaker 1: bat 381. He threw a bunch of base stealers out.
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  Speaker 1: I think there were four base stealers that he threw out.
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  Speaker 1: And he turned the automated strike zone challenge system into
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  Speaker 1: his personal bonanza. And this is the first World Series
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  Speaker 1: with this part of it. And it's fair to say
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  Speaker 1: that William Contreras is the man who can thank big
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  Speaker 1: tech players For this trophy. If he just batted 381
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  Speaker 1: and threw out four base stealers, does William Contreras win
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  Speaker 1: the MVP? No! He wins the MVP because of technology.
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  Speaker 1: There were 13 appeals that he went to the... replay
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  Speaker 1: the automated ball strike challenge system and he hit 10
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  Speaker 1: of the 13 that's a 77 percent win rate much
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  Speaker 1: to the disgust of John Smoltz but he hit 77
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  Speaker 1: percent which means he has a better idea of the
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  Speaker 1: strike zone than the home plate umpire Contreras should just
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  Speaker 1: become a home plate umpire. He was playing chess while
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  Speaker 1: the umpires were playing Candyland or Chutes and Ladders. All right, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page, on the Tampa Bay side, the question,
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  Speaker 1: where did things go wrong for Rays manager Kevin Cash?
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  Speaker 1: Let's just focus in on game five. of the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Because everyone seems to be blaming the Tampa Bay offense.
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  Speaker 1: They did not score until a token run in the
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  Speaker 1: ninth inning. It's certainly fair to blame the Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: offense for not getting her done against the Miz. However,
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  Speaker 1: if you will allow me, this is therapeutic for me.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to climb onto the bully pulpit and
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  Speaker 1: discuss a pet peeve of mine. The continued softification of
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball pitching is So Drew Rasmussen started the
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  Speaker 1: game for Tampa Bay. He pitched four innings on three
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  Speaker 1: days rest. Four innings on three days rest. He threw
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  Speaker 1: 48 pitches, and the television gas bags and the baseball
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  Speaker 1: establishment treated Rasmussen like he had single-handedly built the Panama Canal,
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  Speaker 1: one of the great by humanity, and it was done
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  Speaker 1: by the bare hands of Drew Rasmussen. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you saw any of the pregame festivities with David
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  Speaker 1: Ortiz and Jeter and A-Rod and all those guys, who
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty confident were ready to nominate Drew Rasmussen for
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  Speaker 1: the Congressional Medal of Honor. That was even before the game.
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  Speaker 1: And for what exactly? Showing up to work? The whole thing...
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  Speaker 1: Watching him being celebrated by his teammates for that gutty
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  Speaker 1: outing made me want to puke in my mouth. Four innings,
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  Speaker 1: 48 pitches. What an iron man. More like an ironing
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  Speaker 1: board is what that was. So I would like to
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  Speaker 1: go classic old guy. I'd like to go old guy.
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  Speaker 1: A radio. So my outlook, I'm just going to explain
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  Speaker 1: this because I get emails. Oh, you're such an old a-hole. Whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I am. But here's the point. When I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid, there was a standard. Back in my day.
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  Speaker 1: And so I judged things by that standard. So I
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  Speaker 1: would like to go classic Jack in the Box. When
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  Speaker 1: I see a guy throw 48 pitches and get celebrated,
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  Speaker 1: I flashback. There was a pitcher, you probably don't know
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  Speaker 1: who this is anymore, named Jack Morris. Now, he was
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  Speaker 1: mostly good for the Detroit Tigers, but he went over
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  Speaker 1: to the Twins. And in 1991, a million years ago,
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  Speaker 1: this guy Jack Morris, in Game 7 of the World Series...
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  Speaker 1: threw 126 pitches in one game in the World Series
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  Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Braves. He pitched all 10 innings of
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  Speaker 1: shutout baseball and led the Twins to the championship in
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  Speaker 1: Game 7. He then, believe it or not, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: his arm did not have to be amputated after the game.
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  Speaker 1: He came back the next year at age 37, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: and pitched 230, 240 innings or something like that. Of course, now.
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  Speaker 1: You'd have to be shut down for the following season
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  Speaker 1: if you pitched that many pitches in a game. And oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. I said that was then. This is now.
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  Speaker 1: I am fascinated by the baseball establishment that has conditioned
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  Speaker 1: the younger generation of fans to believe that four innings
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  Speaker 1: and 48 pitches is some kind of test of endurance,
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  Speaker 1: pushing the limits of the human body. My God. It
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  Speaker 1: is so pathetic. Baseball is not raising the workhorse anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It's raising the show pony. There's a lot of show
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  Speaker 1: ponies out there, a whole lot of show ponies. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the last word here. So moments after the World Series
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  Speaker 1: had ended, the chatter started. And this is a yearly ritual.
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  Speaker 1: I have determined no matter who wins the World Series,
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  Speaker 1: the same boilerplate story pops up. So the Brewers, by winning,
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  Speaker 1: have challenged the industrial complex of baseball. They've challenged the
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  Speaker 1: big spending blueprint of professional baseball. Milwaukee ranked 19th in payroll.
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  Speaker 1: $ 134 million, whatever the luxury tax payroll, which is roughly...
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  Speaker 1: $ 250 million behind the loser Dodgers. $ 250 million behind the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: whom the Brewers swept in the league championship series. You
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  Speaker 1: know where I'm going with this, right? You're nodding your
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  Speaker 1: head yes. So their championship, clearly the line, if you
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  Speaker 1: follow the line of thinking, suggests that, hey, sustainable success
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  Speaker 1: for the Brewers at scouting, player development, Savvy trades, continuity
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  Speaker 1: in the organization, and you don't have to have the
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  Speaker 1: most buying power. You don't have to have the biggest roster,
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  Speaker 1: and that this somehow is going to change things. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll ask the question. Have Pat Murphy's Brewers changed the
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  Speaker 1: formula for winning the World Series? So I have two
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  Speaker 1: words as a rebuttal. Stop it. Just stop it. This
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  Speaker 1: is not Moneyball 2.0. This is Coupon Ball. And the Brewers' model,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of this being the new normal, is a
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  Speaker 1: fairy tale. Listen, they played very well in October. Good
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  Speaker 1: for them. But let's not all of a sudden rewrite
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  Speaker 1: baseball economics. Milwaukee did not reinvent the baseball wheel. They
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  Speaker 1: did not. They discovered what happens when everything goes right
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  Speaker 1: for a month. In the postseason. The Brewers are the exception.
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  Speaker 1: They're the squiggly line. The squiggly line. Not the new normal.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the updated instructional manual. It is not.
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee showed up to the World Series with a Groupon
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  Speaker 1: and a dream. They had nine homegrown players making a
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  Speaker 1: combined $ 26 million. So nine of the players on their roster,
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  Speaker 1: the core of the roster, was making less than $ 30 million. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that's what the Dodgers spend on their clubhouse
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  Speaker 1: aromatherapy is about $ 30 million in the private plane just
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  Speaker 1: to the players who can't be around the unwashed, the
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  Speaker 1: support staff. It's crazy. But the idea that the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: and Yankees all of a sudden, oh, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: stop spending. They need to operate like Milwaukee. Please. They
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  Speaker 1: actually have money. They want to spend. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: voluntarily put yourself on food stamps? Why would you say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sign up for that card so I
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  Speaker 1: can get some food?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Don't confuse financial necessity with revolutionary genius. And the brewers,
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  Speaker 1: they're being celebrated. They won. Congratulations. They're being celebrated for
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  Speaker 1: extreme couponing. There's a lot of the baseball media that
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  Speaker 1: love this storyline. The underdog. Oh, man, they didn't spend
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  Speaker 1: the money and they won. Oh, this is so great.
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  Speaker 1: And all that stuff. But everyone loves the underdog story until,
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  Speaker 1: this is the point where you don't love it, until
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  Speaker 1: your team, which has deep pockets, your team that can
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  Speaker 1: spend money starts trading all-stars to save a couple of bucks.
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  Speaker 1: At that point, you're like, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: like that anymore. I don't know if I want to.
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  Speaker 1: Because if everyone was doing what the Brewers were doing,
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't work either. There has to be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of balance in all this. That's where we are.
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  Speaker 1: So the Brewers have won the World Series. If you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to comment on that or anything else that you
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  Speaker 1: are inclined to talk about regarding the baseball, you are
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  Speaker 1: Later on this hour, we'll have the Who Am I game.
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  Speaker 1: That's 877-996-6369. And then at Ben Maller, straight ahead. So
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  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers have won the World Series, and there's
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  Speaker 1: one person in particular. that just about everyone is goofing on.
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  Speaker 1: There's one person in particular, just about everyone's goofing on
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  Speaker 1: following the World Series. Who is that one person getting
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  Speaker 1: called out as Milwaukee wins their first ever championship? We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that, and we will do it!
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• 21:21
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• 21:31
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• 23:26
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• 23:40
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• 23:44
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• 23:50
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• 23:54
  Speaker 1: world of sports shut down. The entire world shut down.
• 23:57
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• 24:00
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• 24:04
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• 24:09
  Speaker 1: 134 days of nothing. It was the nuclear spring and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: summer for sports, the industrial complex, the legacy sports leagues
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: all shut down in America. And yet, I've been at
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio pretty much my entire adult life. I've
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: been here 25 years, and we had the highest listenership
• 24:32
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• 24:35
  Speaker 1: listening when the pandemic was going on than any other time,
• 24:40
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• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Radio back is the sports. That's what's holding us back.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: If we can get rid of the sports, we'll be
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in good shape. We'll have great ratings if there's no baseball. Oh,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: my God. It'll be amazing. It's going to be great. Anyway,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: let's see, what else do we have? Let's see, page
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: down here. I don't know if I want to read that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: It's kind of boring. Barbecuing Len checks in from his compound.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: He says, congratulations to the brew crew. He says, well done.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I just wonder which ones earned the chance to wear
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Dodger blue in the future. Yeah, well, there's already chatter
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: that Contreras is not going to be on the Brewers
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: next year, that he'll be. He'll be gone, and that'll
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: be that. Now, King Rory, who's in the belly of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the beast in Wisconsin, and a regular in the Mallard militia, says,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Behind my Packers winning the Super Bowl, and I guess
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the Bucs winning the NBA Finals, but ahead of marrying
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: my wife and the birth of my kids, the Brewers
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: winning the World Series is the best day of my life.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Is it accurate to say that the Green Bay Packers
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: now have the longest championship drought in the state of Wisconsin?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Those loser Packers,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: they can't win. Jerry in a jar writes in, he says,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: tell JT the wingman my magic eight ball was correct.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Never doubt the eight ball. Brewers in five. That's the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: key to life. That is the key to life. Late
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: night drug tester says congratulations to the Brewers. It just
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: can't help but think there is some country that that
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: will think the Devil Rays have won their third World
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Series in less than 20 years. Did they already print
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: up the shirts? I guess they have to have those
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: done in advance. It's not like the Rays came anywhere
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: close to winning the World Series. They were down three
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: games to none. Fergdog writes in, says, congrats to the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Brewers and all, but I hope they know the only
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: reason they won the World Series is because the Dodgers
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: won 100 games. If the Doyers had just lost one
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: more game... They'd be the ones hoisting the Lombardi Trophy
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: right now. That's correct. Well, not the Lombardi Trophy, but
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the hunk of metal, the piece of metal. Yeah. Remember
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the guy called up, oh, the Dodgers, you can't win
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: because they won 100 games. They cannot win the World Series.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. Yefimi in Chicago says, hey, Maller, A-plus on the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Maller monologue, but I want you to know that I
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: am the person who fixes everything. As in IT. So
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: tell Lorena, if she still works there, that I cannot
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: fix the blankety blank from the blank blank blank blank.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Ben?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, what? Do I not talk enough? Should I talk more?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I don't want people to think I don't.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Work here anymore.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that was about. I have no idea.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I'm here all the time. He's a Cub fan. He's
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: probably complaining because all these guys in Chicago are pissed
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: off because the Brewers won and they don't like each
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: other and all that stuff. Yeah, I get it. Gunner
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: writes and says, amazing opening monologue. Go Panthers. Hey, where
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: were you, Gunner, last week? Did you take the week
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: off like the Carolina Panthers took the week off? Is
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: that what happened? Like the team didn't show up so
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: you didn't show up? Well, isn't that convenient? Isn't that convenient?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Michael in Tulsa writes in. He says, hey, Ben, I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: was born in Milwaukee and could not be happier. I'm
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: sure my grandfather, who worked for Miller Brewing Company for
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: 35 years and a big Milwaukee Braves and Brewers fans
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: looking down from the pearly gates and is smiling. All right.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: That's good. All my my peeps, a lot of ex-Wisconsin
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: people who've moved all over the country that are fans
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: of the show. including the aforementioned JT the Wingman. I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: did not realize Michael in Tulsa, originally from Wisconsin. Kathy,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: who's in Madison, and she's a legend. She's the Hey
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Mona woman. She says, this is Kathy in Madison partying
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: all night. And she's listening on her phone and then
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: listening on the Ben Maller Show on the Big 1070
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: in Madison. Look at that. You're actually listening on the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: local station in Madison. She says, go Brewers. go brewers
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: yes curmudgeon wayne also celebrating the fact that some kids
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: in zimbabwe will be celebrating the tampa bay rays world
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: series truck stop fungus wearing his tighty whiteys eating a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: bowl of chili from a truck stop somewhere in the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: backwoods of arkansas says just a thought is it possible
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: mlb went with some low budget teams this year for
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a bargaining chip with the up And coming negotiations prove
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: small market teams can compete. Well, no, the owners don't
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: want this. The owners, they want the salary cap to
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: help the small market teams. So this is the worst
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: case scenario for the ownership side. If anything, the conspiracy
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: truck stop fungus is the players colluded to help the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Brewers and the Rays get to the World Series because
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: it absolutely killed. kills all of the argument the owners
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: have been making. They've been out there saying, well, we
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: just need a salary cap because these teams can't win
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and we need a cap for the little guys. They
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: don't need a cap, you idiots.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: I love cheesy conspiracies.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I hope people wake up here, Lorena. I mean,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: there's so many dumb people out there. Oh, no, we
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: got to have a salary cap. We got to give it. No,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the reason teams like the Pirates and the A's don't
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: win and the Reds is because they don't try to win.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: They're just happy. They make a lot of money in baseball.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: They're very happy about that. Very happy about that. And
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: they make more money giving the illusion that they're developing
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: through the minor league system, and you idiots buy all
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: that crap. Ben Dover writes in. I don't think that's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: his real name. He says, do you think the Brewers
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: winning the World Series hurts the CBA negotiations since it
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: proves you don't need a big market payroll? Yeah, we
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: were just talking about that, Ben Dover. Absolutely. Spot on. 100%.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: If you're the Players Association, you're like, all right, you
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: guys say we need a cap. because competitive balance and
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: all that, okay, well, the team in the American League
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that won, the pennant, and the team that won the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: World Series in the National League, they don't spend money.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: They don't spend money. That's it. All right, let's go
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: to the phones, and let's start out. The Brewers have
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: won the World Series. We'll go to Wisconsin, and a
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: man who is running around banging on pots and pans
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: right now celebrating the championship. His name is Roy.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Roy.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: And he is on the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Hello, Roy. Welcome. Yo, Ben.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, so happy. So happy right now.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: You're speechless. You're a man of few words. You don't
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: know what to say. So I'm going to tell you
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: what you need to say is it's all about Fox 1.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: There's nothing like live. This fall, every NFL on Fox
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: game streams live on Fox 1. Every Sunday, every rivalry,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: miss it live. And you're just watching a highlight catch
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: every play as it happens. NFL on Fox, streaming on
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Fox 1. Now back to Rory in Wisconsin. And how
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: long you been a Brewer fan, Rory? How long you
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: been a Brewer fan?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: For most of my life, most of my life, I've
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: been a Brewers fan. It's just a dream come true.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: Like I said on X, it's probably the second best
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: day of my life, behind the Packers winning Super Bowl
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: XLV and right behind the Bucs winning the NBA Finals
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: and marrying my wife and my kids. You know, that's life.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: You've got to say that. You've got to put that
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: in there. You've got to definitely.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: I'm just happy for you. I truly wish Bob Uecker
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: was here to enjoy it. But, you know, it is
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: what it is.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Well, he lived a great life. He lived a great life.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: He lived to 90. That's a solid run. That is
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: a really good run to get to 90.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Plus, he experienced a World Series championship with the St.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: Louis Cardinals.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, no, for sure.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: And I'm with you. I don't want a salary cap
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: for the MLB or a floor.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They just proved it. They don't need it.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: They just proved it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: It's unnecessary.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: You just need the right manager, tell them what to do,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: and they'll get it done.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: There you go. There is a way. If you're actually trying,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: that's the problem. A lot of these teams, they don't
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: spend money. Tampa Bay, to their credit, Milwaukee. They found
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: a formula. They tried. Athletics just draft guys, develop them.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller is a great example. This great relief pitcher.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: The Athletics had him for a couple years, pitched well.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: They traded him to the Padres. That's all they do.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: They just draft these guys. Some of them turn out
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to be good. And they're just like a minor league
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: feeder team for the rest of baseball. Now, did you know, Roy,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the person that everyone's dogpiling on after the Brewers ended
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: up winning The World Series. There's one person getting a
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: lot of crap after the Brewers won. Do you know
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: who that is? Do you want to take a guess?
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I know I'm putting you on the spot here, but
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: that's fine. What do you think? Is it Drohan?
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Is it cheap-ass Mark Asiano? I'm not quite sure. It
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: is none other than Craig Council.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Craig Council's getting killed. He was the manager of
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the Brewers from Wisconsin, right? Local guy, all that. And
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: he left the Brewers.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Supposedly he needed a harder challenge, so he went to
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: his other favorite team, Chicago. And I know some people
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: will be like, oh, it was just all a setup.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: He left just to tank the Cubs so the Brewers
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: can win it.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: All, whatever. I don't think anyone's saying that. And by
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the way, I don't think he left. He said he
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: left for baseball reasons. He left for money. He got
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: $ 40 million from the Cubs. If the Brewers had offered
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: him $ 40 million, that would have been fine. I believe
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: he more than doubled his salary for the same job
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: just moving from Milwaukee to Chicago. Who wouldn't do that?
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. If I doubled my salary, I
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: would go somewhere and work there if they doubled my
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: salary for the same job. Who wouldn't do that? I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: don't know if he still is, but he was the
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: highest paid manager in in baseball when he left to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: go to the Cubs. But you can goof on him
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: all you want. I don't think he's too worried, Roy, financially.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I think he's all right. I think he'll be okay.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: And I know a bunch of Cub fans that live
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: in Wisconsin. They were all mad that Craig Council became
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: their manager, and they were all mad. Like, he's not
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: going to do Jack Diddley. Just like he did. He
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: did diddly-poo for the Cubs.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: He didn't do diddly-squat. Diddly-squat. That's the word. All right.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Roy. All right. Go away. Go celebrate. There's Roy.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Buy the T-shirt and the hat. Or do you just
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: buy the hat, not the T-shirt? You got to buy both, right?
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: It's unlikely the Brewers are going to win again in
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: your lifetime, so you got to buy all the crap.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: all the merchandise and all that stuff. You've got to
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: get everything lined up. That's the way to do it.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Do we
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: have time for another call? Actually, we should pause for
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the cause because it is by the clock, for the clock,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: plausibly all about the clock. Love that. As the World
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Series continues. Time now for the Who Am I game.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And this is when I pretend to be somebody else.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: And here we go. Cooper Pratt, the Brewers, the Brew Crews.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt drove in seven runs during the 2026 World Series.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I am the player that holds the all-time record for
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the most RBIs in a single World Series by a
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: player age 22 or younger. Again, this is the Who
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Am I game. And the Brewers, Cooper Pratt driving in
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: seven runs through this World Series. I know, right? I'm
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the player that holds the all-time record For the most
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: RBIs in a single World Series by a player age
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: 22 or younger, who am I? That's the question. The answer.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 36:54
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  Speaker 1: Dua Lipa because my buddy Marlon's man is, you know,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: he's pals with her, so. indirectly, thanks to the show,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Marlins Man, a member of the Mallard Militia. I consider
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Dua Lipa a close personal friend. I'm sure we'll be
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: exchanging holiday cards.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: Friends by association.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, you know, she ever sends a message to
• 37:25
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• 37:28
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• 37:30
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  Speaker 1: to it. We'll pay off the Who Am I game
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  Speaker 1: in a second. I did want to take one of
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  Speaker 1: these great calls. Let's go to Pete, who's in St.
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  Speaker 3: Pete.
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  Speaker 1: And Pete is next on the Ben Maler Show. All right,
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  Speaker 1: he's gone. Let's go to Nathan in Florida. What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: That's representing the entire state of Florida. What's going on, Nathan?
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  Speaker 1: What's up, man?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Lorena, just for the record, Brandi from the meet
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  Speaker 7: and greet misses you. She is sleeping right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I was just thinking about you two the other day. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's this Nathan. Oh, yeah, I remember you, Nate. You
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  Speaker 1: flew out with your old great minion. I love you guys.
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  Speaker 7: Love you guys. Thank you, Lorena. I appreciate that. So
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  Speaker 7: I have a real question for you, Ben. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what do we got?
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  Speaker 7: This was all set up because if– If the Dodgers
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  Speaker 7: won again, it was going to be like, okay, everybody
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  Speaker 7: with big money wins. Do you think there's going to
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  Speaker 7: be no salary cap? This is my question because I
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  Speaker 7: think they put Luke too smart.
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  Speaker 1: I do not believe, Nathan, there's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: salary cap in Major League Baseball. The players will not
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  Speaker 1: go for it. I do love the conspiracy. I think
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  Speaker 1: we should make a movie, you and I, Nathan. We
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  Speaker 1: should write the movie, The Illuminati of Baseball Got Together,
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  Speaker 1: The New World Order.
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  Speaker 7: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be great?
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  Speaker 7: I just feel like they put the small market teams
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  Speaker 7: in there on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't really work for the owners. It works for
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  Speaker 1: the players. Like the players conspired some satanic conspiracy. It
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  Speaker 1: would make a lot of sense. You'd let the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: win the World Series and the Rays play in the
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  Speaker 1: World Series if it meant another 10 years of no
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  Speaker 1: salary cap. Of course you would do that. Who cares?
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  Speaker 7: But it really didn't matter who won. You know what
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  Speaker 7: I mean? The Brewers won. Good for them. I'm a
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  Speaker 7: Red Sox fan, so you know how I.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I know you're a New Englander at heart.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. All right, I got to go, Nathan.
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  Speaker 1: We love you. Thanks for meeting us in Vegas. We'll
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  Speaker 1: do it again next year. Hopefully you guys can come
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  Speaker 1: out there. Time now for the Who Am I game.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt drove in seven runs for the Brewers during
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  Speaker 1: the 2026 World Series. I am the player who holds
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  Speaker 1: the all-time record for the most RBIs in a single
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  Speaker 1: World Series by a player aged 22. or younger, with nine.
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  Speaker 1: I had nine. Who am I? That is the question.
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  Speaker 1: And what is the answer? Let's see. Does anyone know?
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  Speaker 1: We go page down, page down. Chuck Knobloch from Andy
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  Speaker 1: in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Madison Beer, guessed by Fergdog, unless
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  Speaker 1: that's not his answer. What else do we have? Joe
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  Speaker 1: Maurer from Femi. Here's a good name. Tito Landrum from
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  Speaker 1: Mallor Prop Guy. Bob Euchre from Alf the Alien O'Piner. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at that. There's you right there. And is that me?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's me. We have Mookie Betts, Overton High
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  Speaker 1: School legend Mookie Betts from Larry reporting from Nashville. Blue
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  Speaker 1: Moon Odom from Doc Dan in Minnesota. John Olerud from
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  Speaker 1: Dat Dude. Drew Peacock, guest by Mr. Irrigation. Satchel Paige
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  Speaker 1: from Steelers Nasty. Homer Bush from Chip in the Q's.
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  Speaker 1: What say you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 5: It's obviously Dua Lipa.
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  Speaker 2: Stop.
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  Speaker 1: Unless it's not. It's Addison Russell of the Cubs, who
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be a star. How's that working out
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  Speaker 1: for Addison Russell? Do we know?
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  Speaker 6: No, not a star.
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  Speaker 1: Not a star. Not a star.