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Hour 1 - You Don't Get What You Pay For · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Benny man can. The Benny man can.
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  Speaker 2: It's our number one.
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  Speaker 1: Bringing the razzle dazzle to you on this Thursday, the
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  Speaker 1: 15th day of October. This podcast approved by Kyrie in OKC.
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  Speaker 1: He's given us the thumbs up on that. It was
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  Speaker 1: his birthday yesterday, but we don't do birthday shout outs.
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  Speaker 1: So I can't do a birthday shout out to Kyrie.
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  Speaker 1: Because today is not his birthday. Yesterday was his birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Here in our number one, what percentage of the blame
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  Speaker 1: for the latest Dodger playoff debacle goes on the shoulders
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  Speaker 1: of Blake Snell? Bro, I'm risking my life, bro. I
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  Speaker 1: ain't playing unless I get mine. God, Dodgers pay this
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  Speaker 1: guy $ 36 million a year. He got outpitched by a
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  Speaker 1: guy making the minimum. How embarrassing. Also, how much of
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  Speaker 1: the problems for that Dodger offensive disaster belong on the
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  Speaker 1: back of Shohei Otani?
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Any advice to manager Pat Murphy and the Brewers in
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  Speaker 1: the NLCS? Milwaukee now just one win away from exterminating
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  Speaker 1: the once proud Dodger franchise. We'll talk about all of
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  Speaker 1: that and more right now. Settle in. It's our number one. Well,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you get what you pay for, and sometimes you don't.
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  Speaker 1: our friend from Bakersfield, Andrew, who told me how great
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers are and all that, what a liar he was.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, hey, Maller, you know, it's not over yet.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, it isn't over.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting close to over. There's no time like October.
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  Speaker 1: The NLCS is here streaming live on Fox One. The
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  Speaker 1: back-to-back World Series champion Dodgers take on the top-seeded Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: Seems to be quite the mismatch. It's an NLCS rematch.
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  Speaker 2: One series.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's one win for Milwaukee from the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Can the Dodgers storm back and slam down the cheese?
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  Speaker 1: Almost no chance of that. Stream the MLB postseason live
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  Speaker 1: on Fox 1. By the way, I did add to
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  Speaker 1: that copy. I added to that copy. That did not
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  Speaker 1: say some of the things I said in the copy.
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  Speaker 2: That was add-on. That was a bonus add-on I put
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  Speaker 2: in the copy. So there is that. Well, some nights
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to figure out, what should I talk about?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to talk about. This is not
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  Speaker 2: one of those nights.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour, don't bury the lead, my man,
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  Speaker 1: is from Los Angeles. That is the scene of the carnage.
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  Speaker 1: The once proud Dodger franchise embarrassing themselves on a nightly basis.
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  Speaker 1: It was game three of the NLCS, the greatest team
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  Speaker 1: in baseball history. The Dodgers taking on the Cheeseheads who
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  Speaker 1: invaded SoCal.
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  Speaker 2: And the game started with a bang.
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  Speaker 1: As Jackson Churrio and the Brew Crew trying to extend
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  Speaker 1: their lead over Shohei Otani and the Dodgers. You had
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  Speaker 1: professional golfer John Smoltz moonlighting as a baseball commentator. And
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  Speaker 1: Joe Davis, they had the call on Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Did you watch?
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  Speaker 1: You did? Okay, good. Maybe you missed it. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what else you were doing. It's none of my business.
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  Speaker 1: The great Jake Bowers. Jake Bowers and Garrett Mitchell went
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  Speaker 1: ding to the dong, ding to the dong, back to
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  Speaker 1: back jacks off that fraud Blake Snell as Milwaukee regained
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  Speaker 1: the lead.
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  Speaker 2: In the seventh inning.
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  Speaker 1: And the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: Did not let it go. And they end up stomping
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers out like a cigarette on the sidewalk. 6-2
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  Speaker 1: in the game on Wednesday night. So that means the
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  Speaker 1: fat lady is warming up right now. The big obese
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  Speaker 1: woman is warming up. It's a 3-0 series lead in
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  Speaker 1: the NLCS for the boys from Wisconsin. The Dodgers had
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  Speaker 1: taken a 2-1 lead in the 6th inning last And
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  Speaker 1: they gave the ball back to their ace. How'd that
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  Speaker 1: turn out? So the loss pushing the Dodgers to the
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  Speaker 1: brink of elimination.
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  Speaker 2: Brink of elimination. Game four will be Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: They moved the playoff schedule around because of bad weather
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Hard to believe you get bad weather in
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland in October. Who could have seen that? Anyway, so
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers will play the Brewers in game four. That
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  Speaker 1: should be it. Dodgers look like they've pretty much given
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  Speaker 1: up here. And so the Brewers can become the first
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  Speaker 1: major league club to complete a postseason sweep. after getting
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  Speaker 1: swept by the same opponent the previous postseason. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: how many times have teams matched up in a similar situation?
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  Speaker 2: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts' Dodgers are sinking into the La Brea Tar
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  Speaker 1: Pits as we speak. That is a good jumping-off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss. And let's start out on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people focusing on the offense. We'll work
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  Speaker 1: our way to the offense in a minute. But let's
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  Speaker 1: start out on the mound. So the question, what percentage
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  Speaker 1: of the blame, what percentage of the blame for the
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  Speaker 1: latest Dodger loss goes to Blake Snell? So I've got
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  Speaker 1: Buka DiBepo, Hasbro, and a Phillips screwdriver. And we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together. And we are going
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  Speaker 1: to make some eyewash, which is what the Dodgers basically
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  Speaker 1: are tossing out, eyewash. That's it. So using the very complex,
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  Speaker 1: time-tested method of Malheur math, which is not actual math,
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  Speaker 1: it's Malheur math. When you use Malheur math, you're never wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You're never wrong. The great unwashed cannot question Malheur math.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit of a stab in the dark, but
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  Speaker 1: we do talk radio at night. So using Malheur math,
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  Speaker 1: the percentage of the blame for the latest Dodger loss
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  Speaker 1: goes on Blake Snell. Now it would be 75% of
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  Speaker 1: this disaster theater.
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  Speaker 1: Is on that weasel Blake Snell on the mound. I
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  Speaker 1: tried to tell you. I tried to warn you. You
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  Speaker 1: guys wouldn't listen, and you deserve every suck-bag performance by
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  Speaker 1: this loser, Blake Snell. Now, the Dodgers' offense was lousy,
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  Speaker 1: but they handed their $ 36. 4 million supposed ace, leader of
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  Speaker 1: the pack, the baseball, with a lead in the late innings.
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  Speaker 2: His job, protect the lead.
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  Speaker 1: Don't turn the mound into an all-you-can-eat meatball buffet, and
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did. as this is the demo
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  Speaker 1: tape for Blake Snell to get a job in a
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  Speaker 1: kitchen at Buca di Beppo. As he was up against
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  Speaker 1: a no-name, Milwaukee's Robert Gasser made, I believe he makes
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  Speaker 1: the minimum salary in baseball, which is still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money, $ 800, 000, but it's not $ 36. 4 million per year,
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  Speaker 1: and he outpitched Blake Snell. So you get paid like
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  Speaker 1: a Terminator, Blake Snell. You get paid Terminator money. And
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  Speaker 1: you went out there and pitched like a Roomba that
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  Speaker 1: was malfunctioning.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations. Way to live up to your end of the bargain.
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  Speaker 1: So the Dodgers, they thought for some reason, because there
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  Speaker 1: were some idiots over there, that they were getting a
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  Speaker 1: holy terror. They got a holy cannoli instead. And the
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  Speaker 1: thing that is the most maddening, and I've been complaining
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  Speaker 1: from the bully pulpit for a long time about this,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers coddle these guys, especially Blake Snell. They treat
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell like a priceless Fabergé egg, and they did
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  Speaker 1: it all summer, managed the workload. They tossed him on
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  Speaker 1: silk pillows. They gave him room service, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, no, no, no, don't worry. We know
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing here. We want this guy in October.
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  Speaker 1: We want him there. Well, it turns out the Fabergé egg, well,
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  Speaker 1: it just was an overpriced omelet. So the nerds' master
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  Speaker 1: plan was to unleash their secret weapon in October. That's
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  Speaker 1: why they didn't need Blake Snell during the regular season. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that secret weapon, it turned out to be instead of
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  Speaker 1: a supersonic nuclear warhead, it turned out to be a
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  Speaker 1: super soaker.
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  Speaker 2: Now, nobody in the L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Media has the balls or the baseball media, for that matter,
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  Speaker 1: to call out Blake Snell. who has been sold falsely
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  Speaker 1: as a North Star. He's not that. The last four
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  Speaker 1: playoff starts for Blake Snell as a Dodger. The last
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  Speaker 1: four playoff starts. The Dodgers record, 0-4. Blake Snell's earned
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  Speaker 1: run average, his last four playoff starts in Dodger blue, 6.33.
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  Speaker 2: There she blows. There she blows, Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 1: That is not an ace. That is a recurring nightmare
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  Speaker 1: with direct deposit. So there you go. Pay him $ 36. 4
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  Speaker 1: million to go out there and ride the vomit comet
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  Speaker 1: on the mound in the playoffs. Total fraud. And all
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  Speaker 1: these suck-ups like David Vasse and those guys that were
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  Speaker 1: defending Blake Snow. The guy's a fraud. He's always been
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  Speaker 1: a fraud. He'll always be a fraud. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page to the Dodgers offense.
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  Speaker 2: We're just warming up. We are just warming up.
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  Speaker 1: So how much of the many problems for the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: offensive disaster this postseason belongs to the one and only
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  Speaker 1: Shohei Otani?
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  Speaker 2: So some will say, well, he's only.
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  Speaker 1: One guy out of nine. You can't put too much
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  Speaker 1: of the blame on him. I say bullpucky.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I say.
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  Speaker 1: You see, Otani is the tip of the big blue pyramid.
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  Speaker 1: Everything goes through him. He's the center of the universe.
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  Speaker 1: And Dave Roberts went out there. They tried to shuffle
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  Speaker 1: the deck a little bit. They didn't have the balls
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  Speaker 1: to bench Ohtani. He deserved to be benched. They can't
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  Speaker 1: do it because they make too much money off the merch.
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  Speaker 1: So they had to leave him in the lineup. And
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  Speaker 1: Roberts shuffles the deck. And somehow every card he's played...
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  Speaker 1: is a joker. One joker after another. For example, Dave
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  Speaker 1: Roberts moved Shohei Ohtani to the sixth spot in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he really liked him in that spot. Well, congratulations, Dave.
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  Speaker 1: You found the perfect spot for Shohei. Right in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of an offensive landfill. The international sensation. The face
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  Speaker 1: of baseball nation. And all he got was a slap single. Whoop-dee-damn-do.
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  Speaker 2: Whoop-dee-damn. We can't rip him. No, no, it's not his fault.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You just wait until the Dodgers lose here. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to hear 8,000 excuses on how this guy's hurt and
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  Speaker 1: that guy's hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Load of bull crap.
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  Speaker 1: Is warming up right now for the Dodgers. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: Brewer pitchers in this NLCS have turned the Dodger lineup
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  Speaker 1: into a Hasbro special.
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  Speaker 2: Play-Doh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, these guys go out there, the Brewer
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  Speaker 1: pitchers must be laughing in the clubhouse. It's the Dodger
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  Speaker 1: lineups like Play-Doh. The Brewer pitchers squeeze it, they stretch it,
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  Speaker 1: they flatten it, and then they put it back in
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  Speaker 1: that little yellow container. It doesn't matter how much money
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  Speaker 1: you make. And this is one of the reasons we've
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  Speaker 1: ranted and raved about salary cap. Some of you idiots
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  Speaker 1: who don't know anything about life think.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we need a salary cap.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't. This is a great example. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter how much money you make. You still have to
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  Speaker 1: play the games. And side by side, the Milwaukee Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: just based on a spreadsheet, have no business, and they
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  Speaker 1: are kicking their boot up the.
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers' tuckus right now.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a hit and miss game and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And what is that? What is that? P.U. What is
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  Speaker 2: that smell?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the Dodger lineup. The Dodgers, these guys getting
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  Speaker 1: paid like Hollywood leading men and performing like unpaid extras.
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  Speaker 1: And they've got so much star power. That's like the
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Walk of Fame in that lineup. And they have
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  Speaker 1: fewer fireworks than a wet and rainy night on the
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  Speaker 1: 4th of July. And then, to pour salt on the wound,
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  Speaker 1: you got some no-names like Jake Bowers and Garrett Mitchell,
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  Speaker 1: who went biggity-biggity-boppity, as in Big Bopper, for the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: upstaging these Dodger sluggers. And in Game 3, the game
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  Speaker 1: that was played here on Wednesday night, the Dodgers batted
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  Speaker 1: 154 against Milwaukee pitching.
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  Speaker 2: And across this series, the Brewers have.
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  Speaker 1: completely manhandled the dodgers they've scored 53.3 percent more runs
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  Speaker 1: in this series they're batting 333 milwaukee with runners in
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  Speaker 1: scoring position half the sign of the devil and the
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  Speaker 1: dodgers are hitting 125 with runners in scoring position a
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  Speaker 1: buck 25 at this rate the only thing the dodgers
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  Speaker 1: will be driving home is themselves when they're eliminated. And
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  Speaker 1: my God, my God. It turns out October does not
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  Speaker 1: accept American Express. So there you go. Now, the bad
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  Speaker 1: news is, you know, I like the Dodgers. Obviously, for me,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to lose, and that sucks. The good news
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  Speaker 1: is this totally torpedoes the baseball ownership claim that we
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  Speaker 1: have to have a salary cap. Small market teams like
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee can't compete. Well, good luck on that. Good luck
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  Speaker 1: selling that to dumb people. I'd like to hear that debate.
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  Speaker 2: All right, last word.
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  Speaker 1: To the big picture now we go to the big
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  Speaker 1: picture uh here is dave roberts dave roberts now he
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  Speaker 1: was a bit player on that red sock team that
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  Speaker 1: came back down three nothing he was a pinch runner
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  Speaker 1: had the most famous pinch steel uh pinch running steel
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  Speaker 1: in baseball playoff history here's a dave roberts let me
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  Speaker 1: guess he's gonna say the series is over we have
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  Speaker 1: no chance to win unless he doesn't say that here's
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  Speaker 1: what roberts had to say take a listen What are your.
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  Speaker 5: Thoughts now being behind 0-3, but knowing from personal experience
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  Speaker 5: a team can come back?
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  Speaker 1: It's possible.
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  Speaker 2: I've lived it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the thing is that our guys have
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  Speaker 3: been battle-tested. As was that team I was with. part
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  Speaker 3: of and i think the mindset has to be and
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  Speaker 3: teams have been down before 0203 it's just you just
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  Speaker 3: got to win tomorrow and so it's an elimination game
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  Speaker 3: we've played in a lot of elimination games and we
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  Speaker 3: just got to get a win and we got to
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  Speaker 3: find a way to build some momentum.
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  Speaker 1: And it takes momentum how can you build momentum milwaukee's
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  Speaker 1: got all the momentum momentum momentum oh my god momentum
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  Speaker 1: so stupid That's Dave Roberts' way of saying, I have
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  Speaker 1: nothing intelligent to say, so I'm going to use momentum.
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  Speaker 1: By the logic, just look at this logically. So Milwaukee's
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  Speaker 1: got all the momentum, you idiots. So the series is over.
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  Speaker 1: Why would Milwaukee give up the momentum? They own the momentum.
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  Speaker 1: They have all the momentum. The Dodgers have no momentum.
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  Speaker 1: How could Milwaukee possibly give up the momentum? Can the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers go and buy momentum like they buy free agents?
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  Speaker 1: Will Milwaukee sell them some momentum?
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Now, just big picture for Milwaukee. Any advice,
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  Speaker 1: unsolicited advice to Pat Murphy?
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  Speaker 2: We like him.
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  Speaker 1: I wish he was the Dodgers man. He's good.
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  Speaker 2: Much better than Dave Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, any advice to Pat Murphy and the Brewers in
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  Speaker 1: the National League Championship Series? So I will give one
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  Speaker 1: piece of advice. The piece of advice is to keep
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  Speaker 1: the tape measure in the junk drawer and don't start
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  Speaker 1: measuring the drapes yet. And that's how you end up
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  Speaker 1: with a garage full of commemorative National League Championship T-shirts
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  Speaker 1: being shipped to Guatemala.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you do it.
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  Speaker 1: You're in the driver's seat, but you have not reached
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  Speaker 1: the destination yet. And Pat Murphy has been playing chess
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  Speaker 1: while Dave Roberts has been playing with refrigerator magnets. I'd
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  Speaker 1: rather have the guy playing chess. And so the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: spent all this money, the greatest team ever. They built
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  Speaker 1: baseball's Death Star team. And the Brewers are taking it
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  Speaker 1: apart with a Phillips screwdriver. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Phillips screwdriver.
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  Speaker 1: They're taking apart baseball's Death Star, turning the most expensive
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  Speaker 1: roster in baseball, dollar for dollar, into a group of
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  Speaker 1: guys waiting for their luggage at the baggage claim. And
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  Speaker 1: they've been waiting for a while, and they don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know where it is.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it got lost.
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  Speaker 1: So whatever you're doing, Milwaukee, that has turned Shohei Ohtani
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  Speaker 1: into a very expensive... a decorative houseplant. Don't get cute.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously you don't start buying into everything and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But I wouldn't change anything. You just keep doing what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing. Keep getting her done. Because the only thing
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  Speaker 1: more dangerous than the Dodgers is a Brewer team that
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  Speaker 1: thinks the Dodgers are already dead. They're not dead. They're
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  Speaker 1: not dead. But you do know, even if you lose
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  Speaker 1: a couple games here, at some point the Dodgers will
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  Speaker 1: toss out Blake Snell. And again, for those of you
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  Speaker 1: a little late, Blake Snell, last four playoff starts. Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: got this guy to be great. He's turned into Clayton Kershaw.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a compliment. That's not a compliment. He's playoff Kershaw.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Yamamoto puked up a game the other day. So these
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: guys that are supposedly the greatest starting pitchers, even with
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: bad offense, starting pitching... Not rising up, not getting it
• 19:22
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• 19:27
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• 19:30
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• 19:32
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• 19:45
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• 19:48
  Speaker 1: up in a little bit, what did Blake Snell have
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to say for himself? The man that got the big
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: contract has been a total failure as a Dodger in
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the regular season. He doesn't want to pitch in the playoffs.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: He does pitch and the Dodgers wish he wouldn't pitch.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: So we'll hear from him. We'll get to that and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: we will do it.
• 20:08
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• 20:52
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• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the NLCS right now as the.
• 20:58
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• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Looks like it'll be a short series here. Milwaukee dominating
• 21:03
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• 21:08
  Speaker 1: this National League Championship Series?
• 21:10
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• 21:43
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• 21:45
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• 21:47
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• 21:48
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• 21:50
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• 21:52
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• 21:59
  Speaker 1: He's the pride of Chicago. He's a White Sox fan,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to talk about what happened there.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: The White Sox had their own gag job up 2-0
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: against the team named after a bridge from Cleveland. Didn't
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: go well for them. The Sox not going well for
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: my Dodgers right now. Koopaloop, his team eliminated in Cactus League.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: The Angels, you can say hello to Koop at abronchofan.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: That's abronchofan. Your comments can and will be used against you.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: We're on the come, Ben. Yeah, the Angels are on
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: their way back. They might get to 79 wins next year.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: That's a big step. That's a big step for the Angels.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: It's a huge step.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: It is. It's great. Coop's actually going to be a
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: non-roster invitee to spring training, but only if they have
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: replacement players. King Rory writes in and says, I'm not
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: going to count my eggs before they hatch. Of course,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: King Rory from the land of the cheese. He says,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to count my eggs before they hatch.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: But these Dodgers are no 2004 Red Sox. Granted, when
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the Brewers win the NL pennant, we can guarantee four
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: of the potential World Series games will not be delayed
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: by rain or snow. Yeah, well, if they play Tampa,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: then this whole series will be played as it's supposed
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: to be played. It'll be for friends and family only,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: but that's fine. That's fine.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: What else do we have?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Page down. Analog Al says, more likely to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: get a memento than momentum. Yeah, there you go. Here's
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a Kobe fanboy who says, Yo, Ben, you are tripping
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: about the Dodgers. Blake Snell pitched pretty good until the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: inning when Bowers started following away pitches. I'm not a pitcher,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: but I know you get tired from that. It's almost
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: like Blake Snell gets paid $ 36 million to get guys
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: out to have that closeout pitch. Any pitcher would get tired.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: It ain't over until the fat lady sings. Well, there's
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: several obese women getting ready to sing, dude.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: The Dodgers are cooked. They suck. Come on, please stop.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: These Dodger fanboys.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Eugene in Chicago says the Dodgers started a Ben Maller rant.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Rant mode activated.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: There you go. And Dread Pie writes in, says the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Dodgers are losing on purpose to say, look, a small
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: market team won the NL this year. We don't need
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a salary cap. It's all part of the plan for
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Do you lose this year? And I think
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: he's saying long term, they're in good shape there. I
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, why not?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Spock's weed is back.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I haven't heard from him in a while. He's up
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: on the overnight. He's listening. Nature Boy says it must
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: be a tough night for the Snellzilla fanboys. Yeah, can
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: we check in on Vasay? Vasay's probably giving Blake Snell
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: a shoulder massage at this point, I would think.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: It's okay, Blake.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: It's okay.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: You tried. You tried.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: You tried.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: It's not your fault. Oh, it's so funny.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Hilarious Fargo Pete writes in says Yamamoto was on the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: vomit comet the scud ball Blake smells and all the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: other superstar Dodgers are clearly too fatigued from signing all
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: those autographs before the game to win one oh yeah
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: so Fargo Pete's upset because the Dodgers didn't sign autographs
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: before for a game Well, I'm sure that's why they're
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: not hitting. They didn't sign autographs. What else do we have?
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Page down.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Can't read that on the air. What else do we have?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Let's see. The Baltimore Freeloader account writes in, says, Turn
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: out the lights.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: The party's over.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: What are they going to do with all the extra
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Dodger dogs, all the nachos and lobster tails and the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Sky Sweets?
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: What a waste.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: But everyone will get their money back. In 2039, yes, 2039,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I'm getting a lot of people defending Blake Snell, which
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: fascinates me. How far up the Dodgers' derriere does one
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: have to be to defend Blake Snell? He's a $ 36. 4
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: million ballplayer. The Dodgers gave him a lead in a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: playoff game they had to have. Got to have it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Got to have it game. They said, hey, Blake, we
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: got to have it. We're going to let you out
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: there with the lead now. Let's have you be our
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: North Star. We want you to lead us to where
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: we need to go, Blake. Okay, fine. No problem.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: That sounds like a good idea. I'll do it. How'd
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: that go? Not so good. Not so good. All right.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Let's see here. RPS commentator complaining about the drops. I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you, dude. I love drops.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: We just don't have.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Drops right now the way I like it, but I
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: don't control that, and apparently we're not going to get
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the drops that we want, so we just have to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: deal with it. We'll do the show. We just have
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to live without the drops for now. At some point,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: we'll get the drops back, but we don't have them
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate. I don't know what to tell you.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not in charge of the drops. I have no
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: control over any of the drops. I don't play them.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: There's some I like that I would like to work
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: into the show, but we don't have access to those,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: so it's just that. All right, anyway, here is Blake Snell,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a man that just choked. Blake Snell, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: So anyway, Blake Snell, you have blown it. You were
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: given the lead. You were given the baseball chance to
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: hold on to the lead there. And you ended up
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: giving up a home run on the first pitch of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the game. And then two more ding-dongs. It was a debacle. Anyway,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: here's Blake Snell giving up all those big, nice, fat meatballs.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I should have. I mean, I just got
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: a strike pitch one. And then, yeah, just left the
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: fastball over the middle of the bowers. But, I mean,
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: he's having, you know, I've known him since he got
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: drafted with San Diego, then was with the Rays. I
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: was with him for, you know, probably like four years,
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: something like that. So, I've seen all the ups and
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: downs he's been through, and it's been a lot of downs, so...
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: For him to go through this right now, he's earned it.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: Hats off to him. Wasn't it bad? I threw everything
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: I had. Fastball down middle, if I could locate that better,
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: who knows what would have happened. He's the best I've
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: ever seen him play.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: What about you? It's a good bet.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Hats off to him.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: The walks, what really.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: Frustrated me with Vaughn.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: You always rock, guys.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: Mitchell, another home run. I mean, three home runs in
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: a game. I mean, I didn't give up one the
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: whole year.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you pitched like nine games.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: It's pretty frustrating.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: You pitched like nine games.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. It's hard to give up a lot
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of home runs. You hardly pitched. They saved you for this.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: They saved you to puke all over the mound, Blake Snell.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: They paid you to play video games. And God knows
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: what kind of trouble you were getting into. I don't know.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: My God. Praising the guy that kicked his ass. What
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: a loser. Blake Snell is such a loser. Loser. Loser, loser, loser.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: My God. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. ain't pitching unless I get my brawl. Remember?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: We remember. We remember. Michael writes in. He says, I'm
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: risking my life, brawl. He ain't risking his life at anything.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I promise you that. I promise you that. All right,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. And now a man from
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the Dodger PR department, let's say hello to Andrew, who's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: in Bakersfield, California.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Hello, Andrew.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Hello, Ben.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Thank you for taking my call. So I listened to
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: the first inning, and then I went outside and took
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: my bus to Wednesday Night Church. I heard the rundown.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: And so I'm going to agree with you and then
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: give a disagreement.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: After the Dodgers take the lead in the sixth, it
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: seems pretty simple to me that, you know, the Dodgers
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: need to be steady and fearless and you can't walk
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: the first batter.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Right, Ben?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: What are you getting at? You know what you can't
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: do is give back-to-back home runs up. That's what you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: can't do.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: But after the first home run in the first inning,
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Snell was doing pretty well, wasn't he, Ben? Thanks, Ben.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a guy that is blind and went to
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: church and didn't watch the game. That's overnight talk radio
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: at its finest. I didn't see the game. I didn't
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: hear the game. But I'm going to give a take
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: on the game. My God. Holy crap. That is terrible.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Absolutely freaking terrible. All right, let's say hello to, let's
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: go to Jeff in Denver. Hello, Jeff.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: Welcome.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Hello, Jeff.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Hey, Ben.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Just wanted to call in.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I admit that I was wrong. You guys, the Dodgers
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: beat Atlanta.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: But remember, I pointed out that the entire Dodgers history,
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: any time they win 100 or more during the regular.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Season, they have zero championships.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: And history is going to repeat itself.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, because we know that there's no way you can
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: win because something hasn't happened yet. That's exactly right. Whatever
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: has happened will continue to happen forever. So what's the
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: point of doing something different because it's impossible? Because Jeff
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: in Denver says it cannot happen.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: It's over 100 years.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: And again, how many times have the Dodgers won 100 games?
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: I don't know, but they haven't won a championship.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: You don't know. Again, the point is you don't know.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: You're just talking out of your– you're a troll.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I get it. I bust your balls. I bust your balls. Listen,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you're in Denver. You have nothing good. The Broncos suck
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: this year. You've got a terrible quarterback. Bo Nix is
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a stiff. The guy can't play. We have a winning record, Ben. Listen,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix is a fraud. They've got to get rid
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: of him. Hardest schedule in the entire league for the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: beginning of the season, and we came out with a
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: winning record.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Bo Nix is a coach.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: May I point out that the Broncos did beat the Rams?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: That's right. That's right, they did. You're trying to trigger me,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: and you know, and anybody that has a functioning brain knows,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: the NFL gave that game to Denver.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: It's still a W. They told Sean McVay, they said, listen,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: we effed up.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: You should have gotten the ball and run out the clock,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: and your guy threw an interception.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: But that's fine.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: That's how pathetic Denver sports is.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: What was the final score?
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: You are taking credit for a game that was– The
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: injustice against the Rams.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: No justice, no peace for the Rams. And that's a
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: sad fan. You're a sad fan, Jeff. Sad fan.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I feel sad for you.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: No, I feel sad for you because your manager doesn't
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: know how to play team ball.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Look at Milwaukee. They play small ball if they need to.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is not a manager. Dave Roberts is just
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: doing whatever he's told. His main job is to.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Do with the— you think of.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Him like a— Pat Murphy's a real manager. Dave Roberts is
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: just there to play grab-ass with the writers in Vassay,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and that's what he does.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: I agree.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: The Dodgers had several chances to maybe bunt somebody over,
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: try to steal a bag, get a single.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Score a run.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I agree. Dave Roberts just sits in that seat right
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in the front there, the front row, top step of
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the dugout. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Any more trolling you want to do, Jeff?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Any other trolling would you like to?
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: No?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: It says Monica, who's apparently a celebrity because she knows
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of our friend from New York. Is this Monica? Hello, Monica.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: You're on the air. Hello, Monica. Is she sleeping? I
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: hear breathing. Yeah. She must not have sleep apnea like
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: everyone else that calls the show.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Monica.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: She's apparently somehow connected to E-Dog. Is that correct? Am I...
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Am I right on this? Yeah, she said she wanted
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: to shout out.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Isn't that who E-Dog talks about all the time, or
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: is that a different name?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, that's Melissa. Melissa, yeah. I don't know who
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Monica is. I don't know.
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: Monica's asleep.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: That's what she is. She's fast asleep. Oh, I hear
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: a little snore. Oh, okay. It turns out she's got
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: a little snore situation. Oh, it's getting... Is this sound
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: effects is getting bigger? No.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: OK.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you, Monica. Lovely contributions. You know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I say we need more women calling the show. We
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: need more ladies to call the show. There's there's a
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: lady right there. There she is, Monica.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to Lucky Tony.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Who's in the Bay Area. Hello, Lucky Tony. Welcome. 877-99
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: on Fox, by the way, if you'd like to be
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: part of this fine radio program.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Hello, Lucky Tony.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Welcome.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: FMK.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: I would F Daisy Marie. I would marry Veronica Lil.
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: And I would K Libby Vamp. And then I'd like
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: some time alone.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Ben. All right, on that note, it is the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. I don't know what that was. Time
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: now for the Who Am I game. And here we go.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Through week five of the 2026 NFL season, I ranked
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: dead last among quarterbacks in average air yards per attempt.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: at just 5.2 yards while also ranking last in percentage
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: of passes traveling 10 or more and 20 or more
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: yards downfield. Again, through week five of the NFL season,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I ranked dead last among all quarterbacks in average air
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  Speaker 1: yards per attempt at just 5.2 yards in terms of
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  Speaker 1: air yards while also ranking last in the percentage of
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  Speaker 1: passes traveling 10 or more yards and 20 or more
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  Speaker 1: yards downfield. Who am I? That is the question, the answer.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to it, and we will do it next.
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  Speaker 1: through the overnight hours, talking some NLCS this hour. The
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and Brewers, it's all Milwaukee. The once proud Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing themselves in the National League Championship Series on the
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  Speaker 1: brink of being swept. Wow. Good news is no one
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  Speaker 1: will lose their job because they've got lifetime employment over there.
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  Speaker 1: So they'll just say, well, we got hurt. This guy
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  Speaker 1: was hurt. That guy. Wait for the excuses. Wait for
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  Speaker 1: the excuses from Dodger Town. Holy crap. They're writing them
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  Speaker 1: right now. They're like, hey, how many different ways can
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  Speaker 1: we come up with some bull crap excuses here? Let's
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. They're working on it right now. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: they're working on it. They'll get there. Don't worry. We
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  Speaker 1: believe in them. In the meantime, don't forget Fifth Hour Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I might have to do a rant this weekend about momentum.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts' comment just set me into a tizzy. We
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  Speaker 1: played that earlier this hour. Dodgers have to find momentum.
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  Speaker 1: New episodes, The Mailbag, which has been a big hit.
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  Speaker 1: We lost Danny G. Couldn't handle overnights. He went to
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  Speaker 1: the day shift. And then we had Bree, and then
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  Speaker 1: she quit. And so we just said, all right, we'll
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  Speaker 1: just rotate callers in on the mailbag. And we've done it,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been great. It's been a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll keep that going every Sunday on the mailbag,
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  Speaker 1: including this Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: All right, back to it.
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  Speaker 1: Time now for the Who Am I game. And this
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  Speaker 1: is where we'll pretend to be somebody else. We'll pretend
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  Speaker 1: to be somebody else, and that's how it goes. All right,
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  Speaker 1: here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Through week five, through week five.
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  Speaker 1: Of the NFL season here in 2026, I ranked dead
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  Speaker 1: last among all quarterbacks at average air yards per attempt
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  Speaker 1: at just 5.2 yards.
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  Speaker 2: It's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: While also ranking last in the percentage of passes traveling
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  Speaker 1: 10 or more and 20 or more yards downfield.
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  Speaker 2: Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
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  Speaker 1: And let's see. Does anyone know the answer? We go
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  Speaker 1: to the Hoy Paloy. Late night drug tester says you
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  Speaker 1: are Jim Palmer, who is 81 today. Well, happy birthday,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Palmer. I love the fact the Oriole legend is
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  Speaker 1: now at the I don't give a crap old guy
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  Speaker 1: stage of life. where he's not trying to pacify anyone,
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  Speaker 1: and he's just, hey, I'm old. I will say what
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  Speaker 1: I want. Doc Dan from Minnesota going with John Riggins
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  Speaker 1: as his answer. Never heard of him. Femi from Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: got it right, the top Uber East driver. The Magic Man,
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  Speaker 1: Don Makowski from The Legend. Alf, part of the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court Justices of the Malheur Militia. Alf the Alien O'Piner.
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  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Matthew Stafford, guest by Mr. Irrigation.
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Bellisario from James. That's pretty funny. Hans Gruber from
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  Speaker 1: Big Rig Rob. Who else do we have? Kev Atomic
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  Speaker 1: in Alaska says Monica was the sleeping celebrity. All right,
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  Speaker 1: the correct answer, you think you know? When you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know. The quarterback ranking dead last of all QBs
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  Speaker 1: in average air yards per attempt.
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  Speaker 2: At just 5.2 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix of your Denver Broncos, the worst quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. This is out of Cam Ward. Cam Ward's
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  Speaker 1: a little worse, but not much worse.