October 25, 2025 • 47 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Denver Broncos record-setting comeback against Jaxon Dart and the NY Giants, the Toronto Blue Jays winning Game 7 of the ALCS against the Mariners to advance to the World Series against the Dodgers, Maller's Mountain of Money: Kim Kardashian Edition, and more!
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If you thought the Baseball Playoffs the American League Championship
Series we're going to end on Sunday night, you are
a loser. There will be a Game seven. Welcome in
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All right, So our lead this hour, we're gonna start
with baseball and the football Week seven of the NFL.
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We'll mix that in as well.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
We're gonna start with the baseball playoffs, the America League
Championship Series. Oh God, one wins, you lead, one wins
Sunday night to get it done. And while the NFL
played from morning tonight all day. There was just one
Island game in Major League Baseball. This was at one
slot left in the World Series and Seattle visiting the
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four to one six area code and opportunity to punch
their ticket to the Fall Classic and a date with
the Doyers, And that was what was on the line.
There is winn You had two chances to win one game.
But if you win the first game, you don't. We
worry about the second game. And so they sent out
Logan Gilbert. Seattle did to the Mantains, all right, Logan Gilbert,
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to just give us a solid out and give us
a chance to win the game. Give us an opportunity
to win the game. And the opposition there for the
blue Jays, they were with Trey you Savage and how
did that go? Well? Vladdie Guerrero was laughing and smiling
and having a grand time as he was playing the
role of spoiler. And now he's set himself up. He
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had a home run there if you didn't see it,
sixth home run of the postseason. Remember, I'm alding to
remember those first couple of games when the Blue Jays
were terrible against the Mariners and we were like, what's
going on what's going on with Ladimirguerre. Well, he's back,
so he goes and hits his sixth home run. The
rookie Trey you Savage struck out seven in five and
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two thirds innings. I've told that's good. The Blue Jays
four course eight games? How cool is this game seven?
We got a game seven. It's on Monday night. There
they beat the Mariners six to two. They'll finally have
a better story is in the losing locker room, the
Seattle side of things, as the Mariners end up getting
waylaid by the Blue Jays in this game. They were
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never had the lead, they never I didn't play well.
They were sloppy all over the place. So let us
discuss the question. Though it's on the mound. The jumping
off point is on the mound. You had a rookie
for Toronto who went out there and he wasn't great,
but was better than the guy that the Mariners started.
So how do you explain how bad bad to the
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bone Logan Gilbert was for the Mariners with a chance
to push Seattle to the World Series. So on this one,
I've got boombox, skinny jeans and carnival cruise, and we
will combine all of these things together and we're going
to have some delicious chocolate chip cookies. All right, So ay,
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let's just call it what it is. Logan Gilbert went
out to the mound with the weight of legends like
Alvin Davis and Jim Presley and Jay Buter and all
these other old Mariners. He went out there on the
biggest stage of his life. He had pitched well in
the playoffs prior to the league championship series. Right, we
saw him have some big starts against the big appearances
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against the Detroit Tigers. And the lights got very bright
there and the Blue Jays cranked the volume up to eleven.
And how did that go? The pitcher there melted like
a snow cone in July. It did not go very well.
And all the success that he had against the old
English d and fizzled fast. In this game. You saw,
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you know what I'm talking about. I was on FS
one here. The box score was bad. If you didn't
watch the game, Oh, watch football, and so I don't
watch baseball. I shut up. So the box score was bad. However,
it felt much worse watching Logan and Gilbert pitch like
I'm surprised it wasn't. It wasn't more lopsided than it
was the way he pitched. It was a parade of
base runners. Gilbert at this point needed someone from Baywatch
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to come, and he needed a lifeguard to help Monte
was drowning on the mountain. Now, meanwhile, the Blue Jays
mentioned they sent the rookie out, Trey Y Savage, who
in many ways was like houdin the getting out of
jams here for the Toronto baseball team. And Gilbert on
the other side, even though he had more experience, he's
the one that needed a diaper change, and he wasn't
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fooling anybody, and he couldn't.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Work his way out of issues.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And the four seamer was flat, as the guys like
to say, and the slider no bite you need? Where's
the bite? There is no bite on the slider. And
so the flop sweat was pouring down was not going well.
In fact, you could have filled a kiddie pool with
the amount of choke that was coming off Gilbert in
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this particular start against Toronto. And so he gets to
wear the letterman's jacket. Congratulations on this. You get the
big l which is stitched on to the lettermans jacket loser,
and it was the theme. If there was a song
for this start for Logan Gilbert, number thirty six in
your program, but number zero in your Mariner heard, that
would be Bruce Springsteen getting out the boombox there and
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cranking up the blinded by the light. The light of
the world series for Seattle.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Was on the line.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And now now you screwed this up. And so now
we have a game seven and two starts for Logan
Gilbert in the American League Championship Series and the results
were mixed. His ERI was not a seven point seven
to one earn run average for Logan Gilbert in the
American League Championship Series. That is bulletin board worthy in Seattle,
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not in a good way. That is tattoo worthy. The
suck tattoo, Holy Canoli.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Give up twelve hits in his two starts, eight runs,
seven earned, I believe is the numbers on that.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Meanwhile, mention there's a game seven is down to one
night only in the American League Championship Series. So the
question is what are you most excited about in anticipation
of Game seven of the Alcs, the Jays and the Mariners.
The winner gets a chance to play the Doyers in
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the Fall Classic. So this is game seven. That Game
five is good, but Game seven is better than the
Game five. Like Game five we had Tigers and Mariners
played Game five when fifteen innings and all that. Game
seven though I know, it is pure cinema, pure cinema.
That's what we're gonna get here October Baseball drama orama,
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all of that. The stakes, the al pennant at the
end of the game on Monday night. Is ee going
to be the Mariners win the pennant, the Mariners win
the pennant, or oh god, the Blue Jays are back
in the World Series for the first time in like
a gazillion years and all that stuff and a playdate.
As we mentioned with shoe hail Tani and the Doyers
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in the twenty twenty five World Series. It is interesting
note if Toronto wins Game one of the World Series
will be Friday night in Ontario. If the Mariners win,
Game one will be in Los Angeles with rush hour
traffic gridlock in LA on Friday night and rush hour
Now here's what I love, get down to it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here's what it makes wine. Right.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Everything that has happened is prologue, everything that's taken place
leading up to Game seven, like all if you watch
all six games of this and the crazy start where
the Mariners looked wonderful, the first two games, the Blue
Jays looked like they were they were going on vacation,
and everything that changed when we flipped up to across
the North American content there to Seattle. But the thing
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that's great is the it's one game. It's analytics go
out the window in manyways because it's it's game seven.
It's not you don't have a large sample size. It's
one game.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The scouting report says blah blah blah blah blah, but
you throw it in the trash. You can burn it,
the whole thing. And this is a night where careers
are defined and the marketing campaign.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
About ah, the legends are born in October.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, legends are born in October, but they also die
in October too, and you have to take a long
time to recover from a stink bomb performance. For example,
you've got Vladimir Guerrero Junior on one side, and there
was a chance he would have just played out the
year and gone into the market as a free agency
signed forever contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, so he's
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locked in there. He hasn't gotten it done in the
playoffs this year is getting it done and beat the
Yankees up. But you look at an opportunity to go
to the World Series of the Blue Jays, Holy Joe,
Carter Batman have a chance to do that. Cal Raley
on the other side, this is uncharted territory. Ken Griffy
Junior and those great Mariner teams with a Rod and
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those guys back in the day, and they never got here.
So these guys are either going to be immortalized just
by getting the World Series and then if they win it,
that's like a higher plane, that's like a higher level
and all that. And if they do get this done
to win the Pennant, then you get that glossy World
Series montage you're included in and all that. And I'm
gonna spend the next decades remember when they won the Pennant.
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Oh man, this is a big deal. We want to
and if you lose, oh man, holy crap, the whole
building is going to be tight, which is great. And
we talk often about tight took a syndrome and who
can overcome that? And this is a great opportunity. Who
will succumb to that situation? It's kind of like tight
took a syndrome. How to describe it. It's kind of
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like wearing skinny jeans and eating birthday meal and cake.
You know, suddenly those skinny jeans a little tight, little
tight things a little tight there. And so that's where
we are. You know, the Xanax will be going out
there like buttered popcorn at a movie theater. Everyone's gonna
be on it at at Loggers heads with with just
the moment. And I think it's great because somebody's gonna
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choke epically and I will be here to document it. Now,
will we get a choke job like that pitcher for
the Phillies that gag that series away on a two
hopper back to the mount. He chucked the ball behind
the catcher and that was it for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Now, that would be extra.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Special in a Game seven situation here, But again, the
matchups don't matter, home field doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
There's no script at all that the.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Breaking down launch angles momentum as John Smolts likes to say,
all that doesn't matter, all right, comes down to who
doesn't soil themselves in the moment in Game seven. So
that's what it's all about, that simple. And it's kind
of like the players on the Mariners and Blue Jays.
You think of them like tea bags, and you're gonna
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find out what they're made of when they hit the
hot water. You know, not all tea bags are the same.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Ask Peyton Manning about that, now, Vladdie, he's gonna be
the man or is he gonna be the stooge? We
will find out? And you got the big dumper on
the other side about all the things that have been
said about his season, the most impressive playoff regular season combined,
if you get to the World Series, because the other
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players that have hit all these home runs did not
finish the job, and if cal Raley can finish the job,
then okay. And so it's all hands on deck. Starters
will be coming out of the bullpen, you're gonna get that.
Closers will be in the sixth inning and we'll be there.
I'll be sitting down. I will watch the game for you.
If you don't care about baseball, I will watch the
Blue Jays and the Mariners, so you do not have to.
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All right, last word, we go to the NFL the
game of the day in Denver, and we witness one
of the most pathetic choke jobs in the history of
pro football. It impossible happened because of absolute moufeasance by
the New York Giants, period stop, no real debate about that.
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And my god, the Giants were up nineteen to nothing
against the Broncos going to the fourth quarter, a Denver
team that was just not their day.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
They were behind.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
The eight ball. Maybe they were using eight ball, I
don't know. They were just terrible. And somehow the Giants,
because of their generosity, they managed to screw things up
so royally that they allowed the Denver Broncos to score
thirty three points in the final fifteen minutes and lost.
The Giants did on a walk off field goal. How
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is that even possible? That's a biblical choke job. They
will be in the Bible. It's a King James Bible.
It's in there somewhere. That is believe.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
NFL teams.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
They had the stat NFL teams sixteen hundred and two
straight games when leading by eighteen or more points they
had won. So you know it's announcers always said, well,
you never know, this team could come back. No, ninety
nine percent of the time, the team never comes back.
This ninety nine point nine nine percent of line doesn't happen.
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This time it happened, and my god, Brian day Ball.
Let's discuss the question who's most responsible the better story
on the losing side, who's most responsible for Brian Dave
Balls Giants doing the belly whopper and getting smoked in
the fourth quarter by the Denver Broncos. So this was
not a partial collapse. This was a full monty collapse,
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from soup to nuts, from A to z any other
way you want to say it, and all three phases
of suck, which is impressive.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You add the special teams. The idiot kicker for the
Giants missed multiple, multiple extra points, so that's an f up.
You've got the defense with sloppy tackling, just generally lazy
football by the Giants after playing really solid. I thought,
for maybe I was wrong, got first three quarters, I
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thought they looked pretty good. You've got the offense with
the rookie Jackson Dart, the new Messiah the new savior
of the Giants, and Jackson, Jackson Dark goes out there
and stunk it up in the fourth quarter, had an
interception that helped fuel the comeback. Without that, Denver doesn't
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have enough gusto to come back and win the game.
And so you mix in coaching malpractice with lase a
fair lazy river football by the Giants, and you have
been able to achieve the unachievable. Congratulations, congratulating just when
you thought the Giants had turned the corner and they'd
arrived and okay, they got their quarterback, they got Scataboo
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Scataboo boo, it's got the.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Name and all that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
All right, Well here's Brian Dayball, who should be unemployed
at this point but apparently is not, and here is
him trying to spin the unspinnable. Let's take a listen. Yeah,
tough loss.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
So not a lot of talking that needs to be
done when you lose a game like that.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Everybody gave everything they had, Oh they did really? Okay,
you didn't look like it on my TV med my
TV's I get old TV. Maybe that's the problem, because
it looked like they thought the game was over and
uh yeah, wow wow wow wow wow wow. All right,
so mentioned Jackson Dart. Not good, not good, just all
of it was was god awful. Here is Dart on
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how you quarterbacked the game. I don't care if you're
a rookie or not. You quarterbacked were the greatest choke jobs.
With like five minutes ago, the Broncos were getting smoked,
and they came back and explain yourself, Jackson Dart. I
never felt like we were gonna lose the game.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
So you know, I looked at the clock when they scored,
I said, and.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
We got a lot of time left I had. I
had no doubt that we were gonna go down there
and score. Well, guess what your defense, you didn't. You
didn't you left too much time or whatever. The Giants
took a carnival cruise and the destination they clearly did
not look at the destination. Their cruise was titled Crap
your Pants, and they crapped their pants right there mile
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high crap, which I think is better for you. It
clears out your system. So congratulations and bow Knicks, the
beneficiary of all this, who stunk for three quarters, right,
Broncos had nothing going on offensively, and then he turns
into John Elway in the final fifteen minutes. Here, Nicks
had one hundred and seventy four yards passing forty six
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yards on the ground in the fourth quarter, It converted
a bunch of two point conversions, had two touchdowns on
the ground too, through the air, and again not possible
without football incompetence by the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
There.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
The Giants were thunderstruck. They thought, well, just like Jackson
Dart said that, ah, we have plenty of time. Well
we're gonna win this game. Don't worry that we have
such a big league that the Broncos can't come back. And
then the Broncos came back, So the Giants gave them oxygen.
So does Brian day Ball survive as coach of the Giants? Now,
you'd say he shouldn't. He doesn't deserve when you look
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at his resume and how terrific the Giants have been.
What a laughing stock, what a fraudulent franchise the Giants
have been for years since he took over. And you think, well,
you fight it, but that's the Giants. Don't do that.
They should have been fired two years ago. Brian Dave
Balls should have been let go. It's a joke. But
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that's how the Giants opera. That's why they're frauds. The
New York Giants are frauds. They they allow this kind
of crap to go on, this malfeasance. Brian Brian Dabole,
who's clearly incompetent as a head coach. I mean, my god,
that Denver the Giants with the interception and some sloppy
tackling and some penalties whatever. The Giants gave the Broncos
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a little bit of oxygen and they went through that
door like it was a Black Friday sale at Walmart. Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
They were just going for it.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Uh. And if that doesn't get you fired, what else?
I would have had him fired multiple times? What else
does one have to do to lose their job. He's
a nice guy.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I'm he's good.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
He's a nice guy. Congratulations, glowing stories about full person
and the writers like him. Paul again, give him thirty
three points in the fourth quarter. I'm guaranteeing you. The
tabloids in New York already had the headline the Giants
are gonna win the game. They're ready to go, and
then surprise, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You lose a game like that, you should be sent
to the Who'sgal.
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of the few people I like to work here, Canadian Mike,
and he lives in Toronto, and he sent me a
random text message. It's like, Wow, that's kind of cool.
I like that guy. I wonder what happened to him
because he's Canada dry now hanging out there in Toronto.
But he messages me, and I of course our sympathy
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to Robbie the Mariner fan crying Craig who's crying right now?
You could hear that sound at the end of the
baseball game JJ in Renton, who assumed the Mariners we're
gonna lose. No stret Denis. I'm trying to remember everyone
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this hour is from Obviously Toronto. It was the eye
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in the bullseye of Major League Baseball, the final chapter,
Game number seven of the American League Championship Series the
Mariners and the Blue Jays. Twenty seven outs, nine innings,
one game winner gets the Dodgers in the Fall Classic.
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It was on Fox. You had Joe Davis and John
Momentum Smoltz on the call. Although I have noticed these
last couple of games ever since I did my Mallard
monologue mocking the momentum that was mentioned every ten minutes
on the game, he hasn't mentioned it as much, although
I did hear it in every broadcast I watched. There
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were two Monday night games and I heard it halftime
the Buccaneers had all the momentum because they scored a
field goal before halftime. I heard that. I judge me anyway,
So Joe Davis and John Smoltz had the call. It
was on Fox Sports One. I don't know if you're
watching it or not. Perhaps not, but don't worry. I
actually I loved it. I mean it's Game seven. Yeah,
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I mean some of these things I watch, I'm not
gonna lie to you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I hate them.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I get paid to do that. By some of these games.
I watch them like this sucks, but I kind of have.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
To watch it. This I enjoyed watching until the end.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
When cheating a one thousand and two one thousand hole,
George Springer hit a go ahead and Dingger Springer the dinger.
I wonder if there was a bang, bang or a
whistle whistle for the cheating a hole the go ahead
three run home run in the seventh inning to turn
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the game around and Toronto advances to the World Series
for the first time since nineteen ninety three. Holy, Holy
Canoley get the poutine ready, baby, So they rallied to
beat Seattle four to three in the final in Game
seven of the American League Championship Series on Monday night,
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Vladimir go Row and the Blue Jays will host. They
have home field advantage. Host Sho hal Tani and the
Dodgers game one on Friday night. It's on like Donkey
Kong in Toronto, as the Blue Jays representing the World
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Series in Canada for the third time. As they they
would say, we would have won a third time in
a row, but there was a baseball workstoppage and all that.
But the early nineties Blue Jays were legit. And that's
a long time ago, and you got to be old
to have remembered the Blue Jays when they were good.
And now they're good again in the World Series. And
so we have plenty of time to discuss as they
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take on the Dodgers, who swept the Brewers in the NLCS.
We have all week to talk about that. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room, and so that is.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Where we will begin.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And the Mariners gagged away a three to one lead
in the seventh and eighth They fell a eight outs away,
eight out short of their first World Series of parents.
They did get home runs from Jay Rod and cal Raley.
Cal Raley went yard there, and so but the Manors lose.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
They lose.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Now, Dan Wilson, who is he gonna shave that mustache? God,
I'll shave it form anyway. He's the manager of the Mariners,
Dan Wilson, and he was asked, you've just lost the
American League pennant in Game seven. You've choked away a series,
losing five five of the final six games, or four
of the final six games. Good job by you, good
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math by me. Win the first to lose four of
the final five to lose the series. Anyway, here's Dan
Wilson on his Mariner message.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Just to hold up their heads and and you know,
to understand what kind of a season they had. I mean,
I know this things and there's no question that it's
gonna sting, but the kind of season they had, you know,
doing things that no team in this organization has ever done.
And and you know, knocking on the door of a
World Series all that, you know, it's due to how
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hard they've worked, how hard they've played all season long,
all the times they've come back, all the times they've
bounced back. It's a special team in there, and it's
a shame we had to come out on the wrong
side of this one.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So that's a bad quote. Your professional athlete, your job
is to play hard. I don't give you any credit
for that. I give you no credit Meanwhile, the money
quote is from the big dumper, cal Ralei, mister danger.
This was his career year. He'll never play this well
again for a full season.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
This is the high water mark for cal Raleigh. And
they didn't win the pennant. They lose to Toronto in Game
seven and cal Ralei dropped a truth bomb post game.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
You know, I hate to use the word failure, but
it's a failure. I mean, that's what we expected just
to get to the World Series, win World Series, and
that's you know what the bar is and the standard is,
and you know that's what we want to hold ourselves
accountable too. But yeah, it's uh, it hurts, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
So that's a great jumping off point right there. I
like that. That's the money quote.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs
down on cal Raley saying the Mariner season was a failure.
So I've got Rodent Blue Chee and Alfred Hitchcock and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make a delicious, wonderful trip to Cancun with
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all all expenses paid. It's gonna be wonderful because that's
where the Mariners are going. Well, the Blue Jays are
getting made for the World Series on Friday. The Mariners
can go on a nice tropical vacation. So ay, I
love this. I love the cal Rally quote. I really
do thumbs up. In fact, you know, I'm gonna go
not just thumbs up, I'm gonna go thumbs all the
way up to the mountain to the moon. All right,
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big dumper gets it. Good job by you. I was
the standard chow when a team loses in this type
of environment. There was no puffy sticker being handed out
to the Seattle Manners.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
No aw shucks. They blew it. That's what it is.
We're all grown ups here.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
They blew it. If it looks like a rodent, and
it smells like a rodent, it's a rodent. And that's it.
They were up two to zero in the American League
Championship Series. They had won both games, both games in Toronto.
They had three games at home. Boom boom boom. And
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they left it up. They screwed it up, and they
had one hand already on the World Series ticket, and
they dropped it. They dropped it, and they screwed it
up and that's the gag they choked. It's called what
it is. The Seattle Manners choked in the American leagu
Championship Series. From Game three through the rest of the series,
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the Seattle that old baseball team was outscored thirty three
to seventeen. They were almost doubled up by Toronto, the
pratt fall for the ages for the Seattle Mariner. They
didn't just lose by a little bit. Once they stopped playing,
that was it.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
They're not the last the.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Party over, losing their Augusto and losing with some rasthmatas
when you think about it, they and then they still
had eight outs to go in Game seven, eight out,
so I eight out, so you win the pennant, you
get the champagne, and the Blue Jays zapped their lumber.
And the person who's not a household name, so it's
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likely a name that only a.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Few of us will remember.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
But the one that has to wear this for effing
it up as Edward Bizardo, Eduardo Bizardo, who was just bad,
who apparently was good. I don't I didn't watch him
pitch much of a leaf pitcher for the Mariners, but
on this night he earns those novelty you know, the
plastic aircraft wings when you fly the Vomit comet and
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he gets those. So congratulations to Bizardo who screwed things up.
He gave up the home run to the cheater. He
sucked at a time you cannot suck. And cal Raley
is right again, this is just put the ball on this.
It is a failure. And we appreciate that he did
not immediately run to the gram and write some proud
of you boys, some kind of that bull crap post
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a bunch of crying emojis or something like that to mine.
Maybe he did. I didn't see it. So he stood
up and he said it. And you know, it doesn't
change the fact the man has choked. But at least
you had the guts to say, put what really happened
out there and not try to spin it. It was
a failure. Boom done, and that's accountability. Good job by you,
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cal Raleigh. He had an amazing year and you lived
up to the big contract you got. Good job by you.
The bar is not the American League Championship Series participation banner.
It's the World Series, and the Mariners continue to be
the only team that has not made the World Series.
Every other member of the cartel has made the World Series. Now,
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in the next five to ten years, probably next five years,
they're going to add an expansion team or two, so
it'll be two other teams that haven't made the World Series.
And then those two teams will make the World Series
and the Mariner still will not have made the World Series,
and it'll be even more embarrassing. But that's the way
we are. So the weight continues as they are pennantless
in Seattle. Meanwhile, in the winners locker room, not as good,
(32:37):
not as good as story. The question what is the
lesson from Vladimir Guerrero winning American League Championship Series ENVP
honors for Toronto?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
What's the lesson here?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So this is classic baseball in October playoff baseball. We
were talking about this series in real time and after
two games of the ass what was the talking point. Well,
Vladimir Guerrero has had seven at bats, he's zero for seven.
In fact, we had the stats against the Yankees. He
hit the crap out of the ball against everyone else.
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Is after two games he was batting one hundred or
something like him, one o three against everyone else in
the playoffs other than the Yankees. Flatty was a battie
and not a good way. Not a good way.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And then you know the hot take machine, which I'm
part of the industrial complex of the hot take in
small part of it. I don't work day shift. If
I day shift, i'd be a big part of it.
I work overnights. So this is where the real hot
takes are developed.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
In the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
We cook them up hot and we piping hot right
out of them. Anyway, So revving up the hot take machine,
it was spicy, so everyone was ready to stick the
fraud label on the back of Vladimir Guerrero. And then
boom goes to dynamite or in this case wrecket Ralph
or wrecket Vlattie as he went turbo time, which is
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a reminder. Now we have a day of talk show
to do a nightly talk show, So it is a
reminder though it's not how you start, it is how
you finish. And this was a turbotastic ending for Vladimir Guerrero.
The blue Chew or the Blue jay Chew fixed whatever
issue he may or may not have had here doing
the mal or math. Vladimir Guerrero Junior batted the final
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five games of the ALC has batted five twenty six.
That's Beer League softball for Vladimir Guerrero with three home runs,
scored six runs, had three runs batted in. And that's
why you pay stars. You pay them to perform like that.
Not all of them do. Many of them do not
perform at that level. And Guerrero did not need to
(34:42):
be perfect. He was not perfect at the beginning, obviously sucked.
He just needed to be there when it mattered. And
that's the other lesson from all this. And I've known
this for many, many years, but it's it's amnesia. It's
October amnesia that happens every year. It's like, I'll give
you Shoel Tani was trash in the playoffs with the Dodgers.
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Everyone right now is licking every crevice of his body
because of the game he had in the close out
game against the Brewers. But he was terrible for the
postseason up until that game. But that's what people are
gonna remember that. I canna remember how Toddy was sucked
before that. They're gonna remember, Oh my god, did you
see the game? He had the greatest game of all
the time. I got my pants down that they're so
excited about that, so they'll forget the other stuff. And
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Guerrero's a great example. He was terrible for the first
two games, but October amnesia kicks in and he was
there at the end. He delivered for games three, four, five, six,
and seven onthough it was one for four in this
game in game seven, but he didn't melt under the
bright lights of October there and so I guess he
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just needed a couple of games to heat up the
old engine. Not the last word big picture, that big picture.
We now have the match up. The matchup is set.
We've got a team representing an entire entire country because
baseball let the Expos leave Montreal, so we've got Toronto
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and La. What letter grade? What letter grade do you
put on the twenty twenty five World Series matchup? First
glance Dodgers and Blue Jayson, So first glance on the
Mather report card, I give it a B. I'm gonna
give it a B. It's not an A. I can't
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give it an A. It's a B. It's like a
B minus. World Series.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
It's a B.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It is a matchup that has some juice, and I
was thinking about it as I was making the long
trip in here to the hallowed hallways of Fox Sports
Radio where legends have worked. Here in the old Steve
Harvey studio we're in now where he did his show
and then crossed the way there. The other studio we're
in is the where Limbaud did his show when he
was in La like legends of radio. So I come
in here and the storylines are bubbling up for the
(36:56):
Fall Classic they are What are they? You've got some star,
You've got a villain, You've got history, all of that
stuff mixed together. You've got Otani, the biggest global star
in baseball, who's representing Japan all right, biggest thing in
the world there for Japanese baseball fans. And you got
(37:18):
him playing in his second World Series. And oh, by
the way, even though the Dodgers won last year, Otani.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
You're not supposed to say this part. He wasn't very good.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Oh I said it. Oh my god, I said it.
That's why I'm on overnight. I said it. I said
it the daytime, guys with lick his toes. He sucked
in the World Series last year. There, I said it.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Anyway, so he's got a chance at redemption, all right.
And we also have that other story, the catfish story.
We all got catfished when Otani was a free agent.
You remember this. I was thinking about this when I
was coming in here. I was like Otani when he
was a free agent and nobody knew where it was
gonna go.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
And there was.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
That infamous private jet story. Do you remember this Otani
to Toronto? John Morosi MLB insider tracking the tail number
essentially of Otani's private plane leaving the airport in southern
California like it was Air Force one heading to Toronto,
and everyone got all excited and turned out No, that
(38:15):
was almost as good as Arson Judge going to the Giants.
That was a John Hayman f up by him. So
now it comes full circle. Now it is full circle.
We know obviously Atani's with the Dodgers and all that
he didn't go to Toronto, and now he is standing
between Toronto and a World Series trophy, and that is
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an interesting wrinkle to this world series. Then you've got
Vladdy Guerrero Junior, who has turned into the Oracle of October.
As Vladdie is your daddy, hitting four forty, even those
two zero for seven, the two games, Oh, hitting four
to forty. He's leading baseball in every key number. Daddy. Yeah,
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he is carrying Toronto. This is like David Ortiz type
stuff when he was with the Red Sox back in
the day. I guess Flatty's gonna end up on Fox
eventually doing baseball coverage on TV. So there's no such
thing as momentum. But he's on a heater. That's what
the kids say. He's a cartoon. Crooked numbers there for
Vladimir Guerrero Junior, number twenty seven in your program, but
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number one in your heart for the Blue Jays. And
let's not forget the real thing about this world series
that stands out like a sore thumb.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
The villain.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Now, you might think the Dodgers are the villains because
they spend all the money, they've got all the good players. No,
now would be wrong. The villain a cheating, a strout.
Oh yeah, George Effen Springer forever an a hole, forever,
(39:50):
a cheater. He's been branded a dirty dog. He's a
dirty dog. George Springer and every Dodger fan in Chavez Ravine.
When the series gets to la will serenade him, right,
they still remember I was getting text from people that
were sending me messages from the twenty seventeen period of
time there that wretched world series. Bine bang, whistle whistle.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
How about this?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Check him for the buzzer. How do we know he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Wearing a buzzer?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Every time Springer walks up to the plate, he's going
to get the Alfred Hitchcock treatment. You know what that is.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
That's going to.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Be the birds, the boo birds.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Is what he's going to get there.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
And a reminder for those of you that are a
little slow and dumb. George Springer, jose Al Boove, and
Alex Bregman, the three headless horsemen of the Apocalypse of Baseball,
the greatest single scandal in the history of North American sport.
They got away with it, the whole dirt bag crew,
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all of them, and Rob Manford, who should have dropped
the hammer on them. Instead he did nothing because he's
locking balls. He doesn't have any balls. Otherwise he would
have punished him. But they all should have been banned
for life. George Springer should have been banned for baseball
for life. That home run that happened in Game seven
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of the ALC has should not have been allowed to
happen because he would have had now of him selling
insurance or doing something to get a real job. But
because the Commission's got no spine, George Springer, Altuve pregnant,
all those other cheats are allowed in baseball.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
And it makes me want to vomit. I want a puke.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
And so now some justice as he goes into Dodgers
Stadium would be saring anything. I'll lose the World Series.
The Dodgers are winning the World Series, and so that's great,
and they'll boom and they'll serenade him installationious. He's the
bad guy, so that's good. And but so it gets
a bee because I mean it's Toronto. I can't go
higher than a bee with Toronto.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
But it's got star power. It's got that we mentioned's
got the villain. You've got the redemption in arc with
Otani after sucking in the World Series last year. So
there's a full plate of drama. And O'ton's obviously the
biggest star. But Vladdy's gone nuclear here of late for
the Blue Jays here and you got the rich kid Dodgers.
See this is tough. Like if you hate the Dodgers,
(42:18):
but you're like love America. Are you gonna like pull
for Toronto?
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Is there? That's Canadas team?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
What do you do? It's Hollywood versus Hockey Town. Boo Springer,
You've got will Vladdie Rake versus that Dodgers starting pitching,
the Otani Mania all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
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Speaker 7 (42:49):
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Speaker 1 (42:51):
All right, here we go time now four the game.
I've been told by Coop no small talk. So we'll
have Mike in Boston. Hell, oh, Mike, welcome?
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Then no small talk? Who do you want to partner with?
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Mike?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
I'll take cool all right, and no boy pah, that backfired.
Poppy in San Diego, Hello, Poppy.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Hey, I'm gonna have to go with my Mathstorp that matter.
Speaker 8 (43:19):
We're gonna win, Okay, go ahead, all right, gentlemen, this
is malardsmount of money. Kim Kardashian addition, She turns forty
five years old today. The category is our home video,
keeping Up, Black Book, and under the Knife.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
Mike, you were on first. Which category would you like?
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Keeping up?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Keeping up?
Speaker 4 (43:38):
All right, Poppy? How about you? Oh, let's go under
the light, under the knife.
Speaker 8 (43:42):
Okay, all right, Mike, you and I are up first.
The category is keeping up. We need the first and
last name of the athletes.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (43:50):
These athletes all come from big sports families. Are you ready, Mike? Yes,
all right, forty five seconds. Let's begin the star on
the Golden State Warriors right now. Yes, a star tight
end for the New England Patriots. He's retired now. Yes,
he is currently the quarterback at Texas. He's gonna be
a high draft pick.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (44:12):
This guy was the center slash power forward for the
Lakers with Kobe Bryanty from Spain. Yes, this guy was
the father of Roberto Roberto. Uh, he just passed away
a few days ago. Yes, good job. This guy is
the father of Aaron, the manager for the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Bob Boone, jeez, Brett Boone.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
No, all right, this guy was an offensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
It was Bob Boone.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Okay, how many points was it? Oh?
Speaker 8 (44:50):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (44:51):
A one? All right?
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Poppy. You ready to go here, Bobby?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Yeah, all right. Forty five Seise athletes have all had
cosmic work, cosmetic cosmetic work done.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Are you ready, Poppy?
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yes, all right, run away and go. Basketball player. He
went to high school in Alaska. He played at Duke.
He was with the Lakers and the Bulls and the Cavaliers.
All right, boxer named the real deal. Mike Tyson bit
his ear off. Yes, white linebacker for the Chicago Bears
(45:25):
in the early two thousands. Yes, star for the Heat,
not Lebron, not Chris Bosh. Yes, primetime defensive back coach
at Colorado. Right, yes, let's see what else do we have? Guard?
What was this guy? We went to Yukon, I believe,
played with the Hornets, the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah, you got it right, that's wow?
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (45:53):
What was that? What are we at? Now?
Speaker 1 (45:55):
We got the lead?
Speaker 8 (45:55):
Yes, all right, Mike, out of time? No, Mike, do
you want home video or black book?
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Home video?
Speaker 3 (46:01):
All right?
Speaker 4 (46:02):
These athletes are all known to have a sex tape.
Speaker 8 (46:05):
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Love sex tapes?
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Going cool?
Speaker 4 (46:10):
Begin all right. This guy is a famous wrestler.
Speaker 8 (46:12):
He just died. No, no, he just died. Like most
famous wrestler of all time. Okay, yes, thank you, h
one of the best tight ends of all time.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
He's on f S one and ESPN. He was for
the Broncos, the Ravens.
Speaker 8 (46:35):
No, okay, this guy's second fiddle on the Nuggets, second
fiddle on the Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
He's the second guy on the Nuggets. The shooting guard, Coop.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
We're out of time, Coop, you do not get enough points.
We win the game, Poppy, one of the guys, what
the game?
Speaker 3 (46:54):
We won the game? Cheater, No, you had you went.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
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We'll mix that in as well.
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We're gonna start with the baseball playoffs, the America League
Championship Series. Oh God, one wins, you lead, one wins
Sunday night to get it done. And while the NFL
played from morning tonight all day. There was just one
Island game in Major League Baseball. This was at one
slot left in the World Series and Seattle visiting the
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four to one six area code and opportunity to punch
their ticket to the Fall Classic and a date with
the Doyers, And that was what was on the line.
There is winn You had two chances to win one game.
But if you win the first game, you don't. We
worry about the second game. And so they sent out
Logan Gilbert. Seattle did to the Mantains, all right, Logan Gilbert,
(03:13):
to just give us a solid out and give us
a chance to win the game. Give us an opportunity
to win the game. And the opposition there for the
blue Jays, they were with Trey you Savage and how
did that go? Well? Vladdie Guerrero was laughing and smiling
and having a grand time as he was playing the
role of spoiler. And now he's set himself up. He
(03:35):
had a home run there if you didn't see it,
sixth home run of the postseason. Remember, I'm alding to
remember those first couple of games when the Blue Jays
were terrible against the Mariners and we were like, what's
going on what's going on with Ladimirguerre. Well, he's back,
so he goes and hits his sixth home run. The
rookie Trey you Savage struck out seven in five and
(03:57):
two thirds innings. I've told that's good. The Blue Jays
four course eight games? How cool is this game seven?
We got a game seven. It's on Monday night. There
they beat the Mariners six to two. They'll finally have
a better story is in the losing locker room, the
Seattle side of things, as the Mariners end up getting
waylaid by the Blue Jays in this game. They were
(04:19):
never had the lead, they never I didn't play well.
They were sloppy all over the place. So let us
discuss the question. Though it's on the mound. The jumping
off point is on the mound. You had a rookie
for Toronto who went out there and he wasn't great,
but was better than the guy that the Mariners started.
So how do you explain how bad bad to the
(04:40):
bone Logan Gilbert was for the Mariners with a chance
to push Seattle to the World Series. So on this one,
I've got boombox, skinny jeans and carnival cruise, and we
will combine all of these things together and we're going
to have some delicious chocolate chip cookies. All right, So ay,
(05:02):
let's just call it what it is. Logan Gilbert went
out to the mound with the weight of legends like
Alvin Davis and Jim Presley and Jay Buter and all
these other old Mariners. He went out there on the
biggest stage of his life. He had pitched well in
the playoffs prior to the league championship series. Right, we
saw him have some big starts against the big appearances
(05:23):
against the Detroit Tigers. And the lights got very bright
there and the Blue Jays cranked the volume up to eleven.
And how did that go? The pitcher there melted like
a snow cone in July. It did not go very well.
And all the success that he had against the old
English d and fizzled fast. In this game. You saw,
(05:43):
you know what I'm talking about. I was on FS
one here. The box score was bad. If you didn't
watch the game, Oh, watch football, and so I don't
watch baseball. I shut up. So the box score was bad. However,
it felt much worse watching Logan and Gilbert pitch like
I'm surprised it wasn't. It wasn't more lopsided than it
was the way he pitched. It was a parade of
base runners. Gilbert at this point needed someone from Baywatch
(06:06):
to come, and he needed a lifeguard to help Monte
was drowning on the mountain. Now, meanwhile, the Blue Jays
mentioned they sent the rookie out, Trey Y Savage, who
in many ways was like houdin the getting out of
jams here for the Toronto baseball team. And Gilbert on
the other side, even though he had more experience, he's
the one that needed a diaper change, and he wasn't
(06:27):
fooling anybody, and he couldn't.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Work his way out of issues.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And the four seamer was flat, as the guys like
to say, and the slider no bite you need? Where's
the bite? There is no bite on the slider. And
so the flop sweat was pouring down was not going well.
In fact, you could have filled a kiddie pool with
the amount of choke that was coming off Gilbert in
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this particular start against Toronto. And so he gets to
wear the letterman's jacket. Congratulations on this. You get the
big l which is stitched on to the lettermans jacket loser,
and it was the theme. If there was a song
for this start for Logan Gilbert, number thirty six in
your program, but number zero in your Mariner heard, that
would be Bruce Springsteen getting out the boombox there and
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cranking up the blinded by the light. The light of
the world series for Seattle.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Was on the line.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And now now you screwed this up. And so now
we have a game seven and two starts for Logan
Gilbert in the American League Championship Series and the results
were mixed. His ERI was not a seven point seven
to one earn run average for Logan Gilbert in the
American League Championship Series. That is bulletin board worthy in Seattle,
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not in a good way. That is tattoo worthy. The
suck tattoo, Holy Canoli.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Give up twelve hits in his two starts, eight runs,
seven earned, I believe is the numbers on that.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Meanwhile, mention there's a game seven is down to one
night only in the American League Championship Series. So the
question is what are you most excited about in anticipation
of Game seven of the Alcs, the Jays and the Mariners.
The winner gets a chance to play the Doyers in
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the Fall Classic. So this is game seven. That Game
five is good, but Game seven is better than the
Game five. Like Game five we had Tigers and Mariners
played Game five when fifteen innings and all that. Game
seven though I know, it is pure cinema, pure cinema.
That's what we're gonna get here October Baseball drama orama,
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all of that. The stakes, the al pennant at the
end of the game on Monday night. Is ee going
to be the Mariners win the pennant, the Mariners win
the pennant, or oh god, the Blue Jays are back
in the World Series for the first time in like
a gazillion years and all that stuff and a playdate.
As we mentioned with shoe hail Tani and the Doyers
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in the twenty twenty five World Series. It is interesting
note if Toronto wins Game one of the World Series
will be Friday night in Ontario. If the Mariners win,
Game one will be in Los Angeles with rush hour
traffic gridlock in LA on Friday night and rush hour
Now here's what I love, get down to it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here's what it makes wine. Right.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Everything that has happened is prologue, everything that's taken place
leading up to Game seven, like all if you watch
all six games of this and the crazy start where
the Mariners looked wonderful, the first two games, the Blue
Jays looked like they were they were going on vacation,
and everything that changed when we flipped up to across
the North American content there to Seattle. But the thing
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that's great is the it's one game. It's analytics go
out the window in manyways because it's it's game seven.
It's not you don't have a large sample size. It's
one game.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The scouting report says blah blah blah blah blah, but
you throw it in the trash. You can burn it,
the whole thing. And this is a night where careers
are defined and the marketing campaign.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
About ah, the legends are born in October.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well, legends are born in October, but they also die
in October too, and you have to take a long
time to recover from a stink bomb performance. For example,
you've got Vladimir Guerrero Junior on one side, and there
was a chance he would have just played out the
year and gone into the market as a free agency
signed forever contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, so he's
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locked in there. He hasn't gotten it done in the
playoffs this year is getting it done and beat the
Yankees up. But you look at an opportunity to go
to the World Series of the Blue Jays, Holy Joe,
Carter Batman have a chance to do that. Cal Raley
on the other side, this is uncharted territory. Ken Griffy
Junior and those great Mariner teams with a Rod and
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those guys back in the day, and they never got here.
So these guys are either going to be immortalized just
by getting the World Series and then if they win it,
that's like a higher plane, that's like a higher level
and all that. And if they do get this done
to win the Pennant, then you get that glossy World
Series montage you're included in and all that. And I'm
gonna spend the next decades remember when they won the Pennant.
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Oh man, this is a big deal. We want to
and if you lose, oh man, holy crap, the whole
building is going to be tight, which is great. And
we talk often about tight took a syndrome and who
can overcome that? And this is a great opportunity. Who
will succumb to that situation? It's kind of like tight
took a syndrome. How to describe it. It's kind of
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like wearing skinny jeans and eating birthday meal and cake.
You know, suddenly those skinny jeans a little tight, little
tight things a little tight there. And so that's where
we are. You know, the Xanax will be going out
there like buttered popcorn at a movie theater. Everyone's gonna
be on it at at Loggers heads with with just
the moment. And I think it's great because somebody's gonna
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choke epically and I will be here to document it. Now,
will we get a choke job like that pitcher for
the Phillies that gag that series away on a two
hopper back to the mount. He chucked the ball behind
the catcher and that was it for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Now, that would be extra.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Special in a Game seven situation here, But again, the
matchups don't matter, home field doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
There's no script at all that the.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Breaking down launch angles momentum as John Smolts likes to say,
all that doesn't matter, all right, comes down to who
doesn't soil themselves in the moment in Game seven. So
that's what it's all about, that simple. And it's kind
of like the players on the Mariners and Blue Jays.
You think of them like tea bags, and you're gonna
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find out what they're made of when they hit the
hot water. You know, not all tea bags are the same.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Ask Peyton Manning about that, now, Vladdie, he's gonna be
the man or is he gonna be the stooge? We
will find out? And you got the big dumper on
the other side about all the things that have been
said about his season, the most impressive playoff regular season combined,
if you get to the World Series, because the other
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players that have hit all these home runs did not
finish the job, and if cal Raley can finish the job,
then okay. And so it's all hands on deck. Starters
will be coming out of the bullpen, you're gonna get that.
Closers will be in the sixth inning and we'll be there.
I'll be sitting down. I will watch the game for you.
If you don't care about baseball, I will watch the
Blue Jays and the Mariners, so you do not have to.
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All right, last word, we go to the NFL the
game of the day in Denver, and we witness one
of the most pathetic choke jobs in the history of
pro football. It impossible happened because of absolute moufeasance by
the New York Giants, period stop, no real debate about that.
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And my god, the Giants were up nineteen to nothing
against the Broncos going to the fourth quarter, a Denver
team that was just not their day.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
They were behind.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
The eight ball. Maybe they were using eight ball, I
don't know. They were just terrible. And somehow the Giants,
because of their generosity, they managed to screw things up
so royally that they allowed the Denver Broncos to score
thirty three points in the final fifteen minutes and lost.
The Giants did on a walk off field goal. How
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is that even possible? That's a biblical choke job. They
will be in the Bible. It's a King James Bible.
It's in there somewhere. That is believe.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
NFL teams.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
They had the stat NFL teams sixteen hundred and two
straight games when leading by eighteen or more points they
had won. So you know it's announcers always said, well,
you never know, this team could come back. No, ninety
nine percent of the time, the team never comes back.
This ninety nine point nine nine percent of line doesn't happen.
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This time it happened, and my god, Brian day Ball.
Let's discuss the question who's most responsible the better story
on the losing side, who's most responsible for Brian Dave
Balls Giants doing the belly whopper and getting smoked in
the fourth quarter by the Denver Broncos. So this was
not a partial collapse. This was a full monty collapse,
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from soup to nuts, from A to z any other
way you want to say it, and all three phases
of suck, which is impressive.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You add the special teams. The idiot kicker for the
Giants missed multiple, multiple extra points, so that's an f up.
You've got the defense with sloppy tackling, just generally lazy
football by the Giants after playing really solid. I thought,
for maybe I was wrong, got first three quarters, I
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thought they looked pretty good. You've got the offense with
the rookie Jackson Dart, the new Messiah the new savior
of the Giants, and Jackson, Jackson Dark goes out there
and stunk it up in the fourth quarter, had an
interception that helped fuel the comeback. Without that, Denver doesn't
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have enough gusto to come back and win the game.
And so you mix in coaching malpractice with lase a
fair lazy river football by the Giants, and you have
been able to achieve the unachievable. Congratulations, congratulating just when
you thought the Giants had turned the corner and they'd
arrived and okay, they got their quarterback, they got Scataboo
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Scataboo boo, it's got the.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Name and all that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
All right, Well here's Brian Dayball, who should be unemployed
at this point but apparently is not, and here is
him trying to spin the unspinnable. Let's take a listen. Yeah,
tough loss.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
So not a lot of talking that needs to be
done when you lose a game like that.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Everybody gave everything they had, Oh they did really? Okay,
you didn't look like it on my TV med my
TV's I get old TV. Maybe that's the problem, because
it looked like they thought the game was over and
uh yeah, wow wow wow wow wow wow. All right,
so mentioned Jackson Dart. Not good, not good, just all
of it was was god awful. Here is Dart on
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how you quarterbacked the game. I don't care if you're
a rookie or not. You quarterbacked were the greatest choke jobs.
With like five minutes ago, the Broncos were getting smoked,
and they came back and explain yourself, Jackson Dart. I
never felt like we were gonna lose the game.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
So you know, I looked at the clock when they scored,
I said, and.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
We got a lot of time left I had. I
had no doubt that we were gonna go down there
and score. Well, guess what your defense, you didn't. You
didn't you left too much time or whatever. The Giants
took a carnival cruise and the destination they clearly did
not look at the destination. Their cruise was titled Crap
your Pants, and they crapped their pants right there mile
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high crap, which I think is better for you. It
clears out your system. So congratulations and bow Knicks, the
beneficiary of all this, who stunk for three quarters, right,
Broncos had nothing going on offensively, and then he turns
into John Elway in the final fifteen minutes. Here, Nicks
had one hundred and seventy four yards passing forty six
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yards on the ground in the fourth quarter, It converted
a bunch of two point conversions, had two touchdowns on
the ground too, through the air, and again not possible
without football incompetence by the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
There.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
The Giants were thunderstruck. They thought, well, just like Jackson
Dart said that, ah, we have plenty of time. Well
we're gonna win this game. Don't worry that we have
such a big league that the Broncos can't come back. And
then the Broncos came back, So the Giants gave them oxygen.
So does Brian day Ball survive as coach of the Giants? Now,
you'd say he shouldn't. He doesn't deserve when you look
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at his resume and how terrific the Giants have been.
What a laughing stock, what a fraudulent franchise the Giants
have been for years since he took over. And you think, well,
you fight it, but that's the Giants. Don't do that.
They should have been fired two years ago. Brian Dave
Balls should have been let go. It's a joke. But
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that's how the Giants opera. That's why they're frauds. The
New York Giants are frauds. They they allow this kind
of crap to go on, this malfeasance. Brian Brian Dabole,
who's clearly incompetent as a head coach. I mean, my god,
that Denver the Giants with the interception and some sloppy
tackling and some penalties whatever. The Giants gave the Broncos
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a little bit of oxygen and they went through that
door like it was a Black Friday sale at Walmart. Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
They were just going for it.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Uh. And if that doesn't get you fired, what else?
I would have had him fired multiple times? What else
does one have to do to lose their job. He's
a nice guy.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I'm he's good.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
He's a nice guy. Congratulations, glowing stories about full person
and the writers like him. Paul again, give him thirty
three points in the fourth quarter. I'm guaranteeing you. The
tabloids in New York already had the headline the Giants
are gonna win the game. They're ready to go, and
then surprise, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You lose a game like that, you should be sent
to the Who'sgal.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
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I like that guy. I wonder what happened to him
because he's Canada dry now hanging out there in Toronto.
But he messages me, and I of course our sympathy
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You could hear that sound at the end of the
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this hour is from Obviously Toronto. It was the eye
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in the bullseye of Major League Baseball, the final chapter,
Game number seven of the American League Championship Series the
Mariners and the Blue Jays. Twenty seven outs, nine innings,
one game winner gets the Dodgers in the Fall Classic.
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It was on Fox. You had Joe Davis and John
Momentum Smoltz on the call. Although I have noticed these
last couple of games ever since I did my Mallard
monologue mocking the momentum that was mentioned every ten minutes
on the game, he hasn't mentioned it as much, although
I did hear it in every broadcast I watched. There
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were two Monday night games and I heard it halftime
the Buccaneers had all the momentum because they scored a
field goal before halftime. I heard that. I judge me anyway,
So Joe Davis and John Smoltz had the call. It
was on Fox Sports One. I don't know if you're
watching it or not. Perhaps not, but don't worry. I
actually I loved it. I mean it's Game seven. Yeah,
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I mean some of these things I watch, I'm not
gonna lie to you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I hate them.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I get paid to do that. By some of these games.
I watch them like this sucks, but I kind of have.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
To watch it. This I enjoyed watching until the end.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
When cheating a one thousand and two one thousand hole,
George Springer hit a go ahead and Dingger Springer the dinger.
I wonder if there was a bang, bang or a
whistle whistle for the cheating a hole the go ahead
three run home run in the seventh inning to turn
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the game around and Toronto advances to the World Series
for the first time since nineteen ninety three. Holy, Holy
Canoley get the poutine ready, baby, So they rallied to
beat Seattle four to three in the final in Game
seven of the American League Championship Series on Monday night,
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Vladimir go Row and the Blue Jays will host. They
have home field advantage. Host Sho hal Tani and the
Dodgers game one on Friday night. It's on like Donkey
Kong in Toronto, as the Blue Jays representing the World
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Series in Canada for the third time. As they they
would say, we would have won a third time in
a row, but there was a baseball workstoppage and all that.
But the early nineties Blue Jays were legit. And that's
a long time ago, and you got to be old
to have remembered the Blue Jays when they were good.
And now they're good again in the World Series. And
so we have plenty of time to discuss as they
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take on the Dodgers, who swept the Brewers in the NLCS.
We have all week to talk about that. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room, and so that is.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Where we will begin.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And the Mariners gagged away a three to one lead
in the seventh and eighth They fell a eight outs away,
eight out short of their first World Series of parents.
They did get home runs from Jay Rod and cal Raley.
Cal Raley went yard there, and so but the Manors lose.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
They lose.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Now, Dan Wilson, who is he gonna shave that mustache? God,
I'll shave it form anyway. He's the manager of the Mariners,
Dan Wilson, and he was asked, you've just lost the
American League pennant in Game seven. You've choked away a series,
losing five five of the final six games, or four
of the final six games. Good job by you, good
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math by me. Win the first to lose four of
the final five to lose the series. Anyway, here's Dan
Wilson on his Mariner message.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Just to hold up their heads and and you know,
to understand what kind of a season they had. I mean,
I know this things and there's no question that it's
gonna sting, but the kind of season they had, you know,
doing things that no team in this organization has ever done.
And and you know, knocking on the door of a
World Series all that, you know, it's due to how
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hard they've worked, how hard they've played all season long,
all the times they've come back, all the times they've
bounced back. It's a special team in there, and it's
a shame we had to come out on the wrong
side of this one.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
So that's a bad quote. Your professional athlete, your job
is to play hard. I don't give you any credit
for that. I give you no credit Meanwhile, the money
quote is from the big dumper, cal Ralei, mister danger.
This was his career year. He'll never play this well
again for a full season.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
This is the high water mark for cal Raleigh. And
they didn't win the pennant. They lose to Toronto in Game
seven and cal Ralei dropped a truth bomb post game.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
You know, I hate to use the word failure, but
it's a failure. I mean, that's what we expected just
to get to the World Series, win World Series, and
that's you know what the bar is and the standard is,
and you know that's what we want to hold ourselves
accountable too. But yeah, it's uh, it hurts, all right.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
So that's a great jumping off point right there. I
like that. That's the money quote.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs
down on cal Raley saying the Mariner season was a failure.
So I've got Rodent Blue Chee and Alfred Hitchcock and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make a delicious, wonderful trip to Cancun with
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all all expenses paid. It's gonna be wonderful because that's
where the Mariners are going. Well, the Blue Jays are
getting made for the World Series on Friday. The Mariners
can go on a nice tropical vacation. So ay, I
love this. I love the cal Rally quote. I really
do thumbs up. In fact, you know, I'm gonna go
not just thumbs up, I'm gonna go thumbs all the
way up to the mountain to the moon. All right,
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big dumper gets it. Good job by you. I was
the standard chow when a team loses in this type
of environment. There was no puffy sticker being handed out
to the Seattle Manners.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
No aw shucks. They blew it. That's what it is.
We're all grown ups here.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
They blew it. If it looks like a rodent, and
it smells like a rodent, it's a rodent. And that's it.
They were up two to zero in the American League
Championship Series. They had won both games, both games in Toronto.
They had three games at home. Boom boom boom. And
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they left it up. They screwed it up, and they
had one hand already on the World Series ticket, and
they dropped it. They dropped it, and they screwed it
up and that's the gag they choked. It's called what
it is. The Seattle Manners choked in the American leagu
Championship Series. From Game three through the rest of the series,
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the Seattle that old baseball team was outscored thirty three
to seventeen. They were almost doubled up by Toronto, the
pratt fall for the ages for the Seattle Mariner. They
didn't just lose by a little bit. Once they stopped playing,
that was it.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
They're not the last the.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Party over, losing their Augusto and losing with some rasthmatas
when you think about it, they and then they still
had eight outs to go in Game seven, eight out,
so I eight out, so you win the pennant, you
get the champagne, and the Blue Jays zapped their lumber.
And the person who's not a household name, so it's
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likely a name that only a.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Few of us will remember.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
But the one that has to wear this for effing
it up as Edward Bizardo, Eduardo Bizardo, who was just bad,
who apparently was good. I don't I didn't watch him
pitch much of a leaf pitcher for the Mariners, but
on this night he earns those novelty you know, the
plastic aircraft wings when you fly the Vomit comet and
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he gets those. So congratulations to Bizardo who screwed things up.
He gave up the home run to the cheater. He
sucked at a time you cannot suck. And cal Raley
is right again, this is just put the ball on this.
It is a failure. And we appreciate that he did
not immediately run to the gram and write some proud
of you boys, some kind of that bull crap post
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a bunch of crying emojis or something like that to mine.
Maybe he did. I didn't see it. So he stood
up and he said it. And you know, it doesn't
change the fact the man has choked. But at least
you had the guts to say, put what really happened
out there and not try to spin it. It was
a failure. Boom done, and that's accountability. Good job by you,
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cal Raleigh. He had an amazing year and you lived
up to the big contract you got. Good job by you.
The bar is not the American League Championship Series participation banner.
It's the World Series, and the Mariners continue to be
the only team that has not made the World Series.
Every other member of the cartel has made the World Series. Now,
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in the next five to ten years, probably next five years,
they're going to add an expansion team or two, so
it'll be two other teams that haven't made the World Series.
And then those two teams will make the World Series
and the Mariner still will not have made the World Series,
and it'll be even more embarrassing. But that's the way
we are. So the weight continues as they are pennantless
in Seattle. Meanwhile, in the winners locker room, not as good,
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not as good as story. The question what is the
lesson from Vladimir Guerrero winning American League Championship Series ENVP
honors for Toronto?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
What's the lesson here?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So this is classic baseball in October playoff baseball. We
were talking about this series in real time and after
two games of the ass what was the talking point. Well,
Vladimir Guerrero has had seven at bats, he's zero for seven.
In fact, we had the stats against the Yankees. He
hit the crap out of the ball against everyone else.
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Is after two games he was batting one hundred or
something like him, one o three against everyone else in
the playoffs other than the Yankees. Flatty was a battie
and not a good way. Not a good way.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
And then you know the hot take machine, which I'm
part of the industrial complex of the hot take in
small part of it. I don't work day shift. If
I day shift, i'd be a big part of it.
I work overnights. So this is where the real hot
takes are developed.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
In the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
We cook them up hot and we piping hot right
out of them. Anyway, So revving up the hot take machine,
it was spicy, so everyone was ready to stick the
fraud label on the back of Vladimir Guerrero. And then
boom goes to dynamite or in this case wrecket Ralph
or wrecket Vlattie as he went turbo time, which is
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a reminder. Now we have a day of talk show
to do a nightly talk show, So it is a
reminder though it's not how you start, it is how
you finish. And this was a turbotastic ending for Vladimir Guerrero.
The blue Chew or the Blue jay Chew fixed whatever
issue he may or may not have had here doing
the mal or math. Vladimir Guerrero Junior batted the final
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five games of the ALC has batted five twenty six.
That's Beer League softball for Vladimir Guerrero with three home runs,
scored six runs, had three runs batted in. And that's
why you pay stars. You pay them to perform like that.
Not all of them do. Many of them do not
perform at that level. And Guerrero did not need to
(34:42):
be perfect. He was not perfect at the beginning, obviously sucked.
He just needed to be there when it mattered. And
that's the other lesson from all this. And I've known
this for many, many years, but it's it's amnesia. It's
October amnesia that happens every year. It's like, I'll give
you Shoel Tani was trash in the playoffs with the Dodgers.
(35:05):
Everyone right now is licking every crevice of his body
because of the game he had in the close out
game against the Brewers. But he was terrible for the
postseason up until that game. But that's what people are
gonna remember that. I canna remember how Toddy was sucked
before that. They're gonna remember, Oh my god, did you
see the game? He had the greatest game of all
the time. I got my pants down that they're so
excited about that, so they'll forget the other stuff. And
(35:27):
Guerrero's a great example. He was terrible for the first
two games, but October amnesia kicks in and he was
there at the end. He delivered for games three, four, five, six,
and seven onthough it was one for four in this
game in game seven, but he didn't melt under the
bright lights of October there and so I guess he
(35:47):
just needed a couple of games to heat up the
old engine. Not the last word big picture, that big picture.
We now have the match up. The matchup is set.
We've got a team representing an entire entire country because
baseball let the Expos leave Montreal, so we've got Toronto
(36:07):
and La. What letter grade? What letter grade do you
put on the twenty twenty five World Series matchup? First
glance Dodgers and Blue Jayson, So first glance on the
Mather report card, I give it a B. I'm gonna
give it a B. It's not an A. I can't
(36:28):
give it an A. It's a B. It's like a
B minus. World Series.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
It's a B.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It is a matchup that has some juice, and I
was thinking about it as I was making the long
trip in here to the hallowed hallways of Fox Sports
Radio where legends have worked. Here in the old Steve
Harvey studio we're in now where he did his show
and then crossed the way there. The other studio we're
in is the where Limbaud did his show when he
was in La like legends of radio. So I come
in here and the storylines are bubbling up for the
(36:56):
Fall Classic they are What are they? You've got some star,
You've got a villain, You've got history, all of that
stuff mixed together. You've got Otani, the biggest global star
in baseball, who's representing Japan all right, biggest thing in
the world there for Japanese baseball fans. And you got
(37:18):
him playing in his second World Series. And oh, by
the way, even though the Dodgers won last year, Otani.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
You're not supposed to say this part. He wasn't very good.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Oh I said it. Oh my god, I said it.
That's why I'm on overnight. I said it. I said
it the daytime, guys with lick his toes. He sucked
in the World Series last year. There, I said it.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Anyway, so he's got a chance at redemption, all right.
And we also have that other story, the catfish story.
We all got catfished when Otani was a free agent.
You remember this. I was thinking about this when I
was coming in here. I was like Otani when he
was a free agent and nobody knew where it was
gonna go.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
And there was.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
That infamous private jet story. Do you remember this Otani
to Toronto? John Morosi MLB insider tracking the tail number
essentially of Otani's private plane leaving the airport in southern
California like it was Air Force one heading to Toronto,
and everyone got all excited and turned out No, that
(38:15):
was almost as good as Arson Judge going to the Giants.
That was a John Hayman f up by him. So
now it comes full circle. Now it is full circle.
We know obviously Atani's with the Dodgers and all that
he didn't go to Toronto, and now he is standing
between Toronto and a World Series trophy, and that is
(38:36):
an interesting wrinkle to this world series. Then you've got
Vladdy Guerrero Junior, who has turned into the Oracle of October.
As Vladdie is your daddy, hitting four forty, even those
two zero for seven, the two games, Oh, hitting four
to forty. He's leading baseball in every key number. Daddy. Yeah,
(38:58):
he is carrying Toronto. This is like David Ortiz type
stuff when he was with the Red Sox back in
the day. I guess Flatty's gonna end up on Fox
eventually doing baseball coverage on TV. So there's no such
thing as momentum. But he's on a heater. That's what
the kids say. He's a cartoon. Crooked numbers there for
Vladimir Guerrero Junior, number twenty seven in your program, but
(39:18):
number one in your heart for the Blue Jays. And
let's not forget the real thing about this world series
that stands out like a sore thumb.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
The villain.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Now, you might think the Dodgers are the villains because
they spend all the money, they've got all the good players. No,
now would be wrong. The villain a cheating, a strout.
Oh yeah, George Effen Springer forever an a hole, forever,
(39:50):
a cheater. He's been branded a dirty dog. He's a
dirty dog. George Springer and every Dodger fan in Chavez Ravine.
When the series gets to la will serenade him, right,
they still remember I was getting text from people that
were sending me messages from the twenty seventeen period of
time there that wretched world series. Bine bang, whistle whistle.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
How about this?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Check him for the buzzer. How do we know he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Wearing a buzzer?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Every time Springer walks up to the plate, he's going
to get the Alfred Hitchcock treatment. You know what that is.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
That's going to.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Be the birds, the boo birds.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Is what he's going to get there.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
And a reminder for those of you that are a
little slow and dumb. George Springer, jose Al Boove, and
Alex Bregman, the three headless horsemen of the Apocalypse of Baseball,
the greatest single scandal in the history of North American sport.
They got away with it, the whole dirt bag crew,
(40:54):
all of them, and Rob Manford, who should have dropped
the hammer on them. Instead he did nothing because he's
locking balls. He doesn't have any balls. Otherwise he would
have punished him. But they all should have been banned
for life. George Springer should have been banned for baseball
for life. That home run that happened in Game seven
(41:14):
of the ALC has should not have been allowed to
happen because he would have had now of him selling
insurance or doing something to get a real job. But
because the Commission's got no spine, George Springer, Altuve pregnant,
all those other cheats are allowed in baseball.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
And it makes me want to vomit. I want a puke.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
And so now some justice as he goes into Dodgers
Stadium would be saring anything. I'll lose the World Series.
The Dodgers are winning the World Series, and so that's great,
and they'll boom and they'll serenade him installationious. He's the
bad guy, so that's good. And but so it gets
a bee because I mean it's Toronto. I can't go
higher than a bee with Toronto.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
But it's got star power. It's got that we mentioned's
got the villain. You've got the redemption in arc with
Otani after sucking in the World Series last year. So
there's a full plate of drama. And O'ton's obviously the
biggest star. But Vladdy's gone nuclear here of late for
the Blue Jays here and you got the rich kid Dodgers.
See this is tough. Like if you hate the Dodgers,
(42:18):
but you're like love America. Are you gonna like pull
for Toronto?
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Is there? That's Canadas team?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
What do you do? It's Hollywood versus Hockey Town. Boo Springer,
You've got will Vladdie Rake versus that Dodgers starting pitching,
the Otani Mania all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
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who Mailor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
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Speaker 7 (42:49):
Not?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
All right, here we go time now four the game.
I've been told by Coop no small talk. So we'll
have Mike in Boston. Hell, oh, Mike, welcome?
Speaker 2 (43:02):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Then no small talk? Who do you want to partner with?
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Mike?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
I'll take cool all right, and no boy pah, that backfired.
Poppy in San Diego, Hello, Poppy.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Hey, I'm gonna have to go with my Mathstorp that matter.
Speaker 8 (43:19):
We're gonna win, Okay, go ahead, all right, gentlemen, this
is malardsmount of money. Kim Kardashian addition, She turns forty
five years old today. The category is our home video,
keeping Up, Black Book, and under the Knife.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
Mike, you were on first. Which category would you like?
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Keeping up?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Keeping up?
Speaker 4 (43:38):
All right, Poppy? How about you? Oh, let's go under
the light, under the knife.
Speaker 8 (43:42):
Okay, all right, Mike, you and I are up first.
The category is keeping up. We need the first and
last name of the athletes.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (43:50):
These athletes all come from big sports families. Are you ready, Mike? Yes,
all right, forty five seconds. Let's begin the star on
the Golden State Warriors right now. Yes, a star tight
end for the New England Patriots. He's retired now. Yes,
he is currently the quarterback at Texas. He's gonna be
a high draft pick.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (44:12):
This guy was the center slash power forward for the
Lakers with Kobe Bryanty from Spain. Yes, this guy was
the father of Roberto Roberto. Uh, he just passed away
a few days ago. Yes, good job. This guy is
the father of Aaron, the manager for the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Bob Boone, jeez, Brett Boone.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
No, all right, this guy was an offensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
It was Bob Boone.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Okay, how many points was it? Oh?
Speaker 8 (44:50):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (44:51):
A one? All right?
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Poppy. You ready to go here, Bobby?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Yeah, all right. Forty five Seise athletes have all had
cosmic work, cosmetic cosmetic work done.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Are you ready, Poppy?
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yes, all right, run away and go. Basketball player. He
went to high school in Alaska. He played at Duke.
He was with the Lakers and the Bulls and the Cavaliers.
All right, boxer named the real deal. Mike Tyson bit
his ear off. Yes, white linebacker for the Chicago Bears
(45:25):
in the early two thousands. Yes, star for the Heat,
not Lebron, not Chris Bosh. Yes, primetime defensive back coach
at Colorado. Right, yes, let's see what else do we have? Guard?
What was this guy? We went to Yukon, I believe,
played with the Hornets, the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah, you got it right, that's wow?
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (45:53):
What was that? What are we at? Now?
Speaker 1 (45:55):
We got the lead?
Speaker 8 (45:55):
Yes, all right, Mike, out of time? No, Mike, do
you want home video or black book?
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Home video?
Speaker 3 (46:01):
All right?
Speaker 4 (46:02):
These athletes are all known to have a sex tape.
Speaker 8 (46:05):
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Love sex tapes?
Speaker 3 (46:09):
Going cool?
Speaker 4 (46:10):
Begin all right. This guy is a famous wrestler.
Speaker 8 (46:12):
He just died. No, no, he just died. Like most
famous wrestler of all time. Okay, yes, thank you, h
one of the best tight ends of all time.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
He's on f S one and ESPN. He was for
the Broncos, the Ravens.
Speaker 8 (46:35):
No, okay, this guy's second fiddle on the Nuggets, second
fiddle on the Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (46:43):
He's the second guy on the Nuggets. The shooting guard, Coop.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
We're out of time, Coop, you do not get enough points.
We win the game, Poppy, one of the guys, what
the game?
Speaker 3 (46:54):
We won the game? Cheater, No, you had you went.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
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