Benjamin A. Maller

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Twenty two wins in a row, one hundred and two
regular season victories. Every one of the state of Ohio
telling me that the Cleveland Indians, not the Los Angeles Dodgers,
with a team to beat in professional baseball, and not
one of those people will call this radio show, not
one will call this radio show tonight. The Indians meekly, embarrassingly,

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humiliatingly exiting stage right baseball postseason. That's the sound of
the Indians. Welcome in the beginning of another edition of
the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere
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see you now. Joe Girardi, he's screwed up. He was
gonna be fired, and now for now he didn't have
to worry about that because the Yankees have been victorious.

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They win in Cleveland in Game five that was on
Fox Sports one. Did you watch the game on Fox
Sports one? Someone named d D. Gregorious. He did a
couple of home runs. Who and the Yankees end up
beating the big bad Cleveland Indians one hundred and two wins.

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Great team, great camaraderie, all that crap that the mainstream
baseball media was celebrating it turned out to be frauds,
turned out to be frauds, as the Yankees win five
to two at Progressive Field. And now move on. We
got the Yankees and Astros the American League Championship Series
Game one Friday in Houston. We don't believe tickets are available.

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We don't believe tickets are available. So the Yankees able
to navigate their way through the minefield that was supposed
to be the Cleveland Indians after essentially spotting spotting Cleveland
a couple of games and all those accomplishments and all
that out out the door, up the wazoo, whatever you
want to say. So let's talk about this now. The

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question does this outcome say more about the Yankees or
more about the Indians? Do you know who you're listening to?
Come on? Of course it says more about Cleveland. This
is not even up for debate here. I can't imagine
an outcome or an argument, a compelling argument, an accurate

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argument that I will buy that this says more about
the New York Yankees. The Yankees were playing with house money.
The fact that they got to a game five, that
they didn't roll over and get into the fetal position
start sucking the thumb when they fell behind two games
to lave. That was enough, right, They just the fact

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that they got to a game five and to win
that game, To win that game and watch the Indians
self destruct. A right to watch a formally effective starting
pitcher and a cy young winner vomit all over the
mound in a must win game. Yikes. Now, I know.

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The argument is the argument is that, hey, this is
you know, it's it's an odd it's an odd twist.
But the Indians are still better. I mean, I mean
some people say that are still better. Sure, all right,
my thoughts on this. You've got cruise control apathetic, a
suffocation situation, and a very fragile, a very fragile professional

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baseball team. All right, we'll start with this. The first thing.
After the beginning to games of this particular matchup, the Indians,
it would appear, were lulled into what they were lulled
into a false sense of security. And what did they do?
They went into cruise control mode those games at Yankee State,
and they didn't play well. They didn't have the same edge,

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the sense of urgency. For an odd, some odd reason
in the Bronx and the Indians offense was they were
emasculated by Massa, hiro Tanaka and Severino, those two guys
shutting down the Indians in key spots. And by the
time the team was diagnosed, by the time Terry Francona
diagnosed this apathetic approach, the damage had been done and

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clearly he was unable unable to figure it out right,
could not figure it out. The magic elixir was not there,
as we can see by the outcome. So that's on Francona.
Everyone loves Terry Francona ice cream sandwiches. At four in
the morning, He'll eat three boxes of popsicles. He'll end

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up in the Cleveland clinic because he's got some kind
of ailment from his diet or whatever. We all like
frankha he's a good BS artist. It's compelling in that respect.
But that's that's embarrassing. That is an embarrassing outcome, an
absolutely embarrassing outcome, and Cleveland and he is now I've

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lost in game deciding of serious deciding games they've lost
with six in her own now with a chance to
clinch a postseason series. That's that's pretty bad. It's pretty bad.
Terry Francona, What if the hell are you gonna say
to you? Or what did you say to your team?
Did you tell them to go home and put their
head down and stand there because they suck? You know,

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whatever you say isn't going to make anybody feel better tonight.
But we win together and we lost together. It was
an honor to go through this year with these guys,
and there's times that hurt like tonight, but it's it's
quite a group and I feel a better person for
going through the year with these guys. Really, come on,

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do you think he really believes that he says that
about every team, doesn't he like he was managing those
terrible Phillies teams with garbage. He said the same thing
about those teams, Right, that's what you're supposed to say.
That's that's by the book. Barbe Zachly. Of course he'd
come out and been honest here and said that guy
has no guts, that guy's got no balls, that guy

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over there has got no teeth. That or the guy
in my left fielder No, no backbone, no spine, can't
say that, right, can't say that because you get so
you gotta say, oh, you know, I love this. This
was amazing. A second point, big big tip of the
cap to Corey Klueber and Trevor Bauer, But this is
more about Corey Kluber because he was the one in

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Game five. Bauer went in Game four, so it's really
on Kluber here, who is the workhorse? Who is the
Cy Young Award favorite pitching against? By baseball stad andreds
in old geezer, that's what Sabathi is. He sees a Bathia,
by baseball parlance, is a washed up old geezer of

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a pitcher. And not that he got the win because
he apparently ran out of gas, as the cliche goes.
But Cooper ended up himself being pulled even before Sabbathia
allowed his first base runner. Thinking about that, mister Cy
Young favorite got taken out of the game before Sabbathia
had even allowed a base runner. And not only was

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he a pitcher in this game, he was horrendous in
fact this entire series. How bad was he? He was
so bad, so bad. He should be brought up on
a grand larceny charges. It was horrendous in this series.
It was a fraudulent couple of starts. It was also
you know what it was, confirmation was confirmation of the crapshoot.

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That is the base ball postseason. You think you know,
but you don't know. Professional blind dart throwing is what
the baseball postseason is. In twenty sixteen, Corey Kluber, who
I believe it's the same person, had a four and
one record in six starts, an earn run average of

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one point eight three. In the postseason run to the
World Series for the Cleveland Indians thirty four and the
third innings pitched last year, he allowed seven earn runs.
Seven earn runs last year. How about in twenty seventeen
six and the third innings ten hits, nine earn runs,
an earn run average of almost thirteen. And there is

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a point of demarcation as they slice it up. We
have our GINSU knife here, we're chopping it up here.
The first five postseason starts for Kluber, he had an
AR of number one. The last three postseason starts over eleven.
Minds me of a guy that I've watched a lot
over recent years, the great Clayton Kershaw, who's had a

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roller coaster ride in October. It had some really bad
starc He's also had some really good starts. All right,
Terry Frank Kna you know Klueber sucked. Are you gonna
tell me, you're gonna be honest, You're gonna lie to me?
I just thought quickly his stuff was starting to trend down,
you know, even though the last thing he got a
strike out on a hanging break the ball, it just

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wasn't the normal crisp you know, especially the movement is
out of pitches were flat. It wasn't crisp. It's like
I like my chicken fingers. I liked them crisp. That's
when I enjoy it. It also reminds me of that
here's an outdated reference. It used to be this quarterback
for the forty nine Ers years ago. His name was
Jeff Garcia, and he used to say that that that

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term crisp. But because he had a lisp, we used
to play it on the radio all the time because
it was hilarious. We'd all laugh at him. It was
really good, really good back in the day, all right,
So last thing here, this is now back to back,
back to back of years. The Indians have played like
choking dogs at the end. They had the Cubs on
the ropes, they didn't close it out, had the Yankees

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on the ropes, didn't close it out. And so you
get the twenty two wins, you got one hundred two
regular season wins, and you got everyone's saying how great
you are and how wonderful. You know, Terry Francona is
in another postseason collapse. I just didn't feel real, Crisp. Yeah,
the entire team did not did not feel real Chrisp.
So now there is a silver lining here right now,

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and now the season's over, these guys can go. They
can go to Cancun or the Bahamas, or or wherever,
Hawaii or some tropical destination. They've all made a ton
of money. The minimum salary and baseball is like well
over five hundred thousand dollars last I checked. It's probably
a lot more than that now, so these guys all
have a lot of money. They can go travel around
and enjoy themselves. So, Terry Francona, there's a silver lining here,

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right You get to go on vacation you can enjoy yourself,
tell you, tell your team to go out, have a
good time. Yes, you know, nobody wanted the season to
be over. It doesn't wind down. It comes to a
crashing halt, and nobody, myself included, was ready for it
to be over. But if you want a season to
wind down, play for the San Francisco Giants their season

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winded down. Or the Philadelphia Phillies also their season winded down.
That's how that works The Ben Maler Show on Fox,
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Back in the day, we used to play that a lot.
That got a lot of airplane sports radio, a lot
of airplane of course, now it's just saying now it's
a classic Goldie. Yeah, Chris, Yeah, bringing back the hits,
bringing back the hits. So has Joe Girardi saved his job?
Not yet, because they could still gag in the next round.
Come on. Behind his leadership, they rallied for three straight wins.

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Come on. Yeah. And I had to hear about d D.
Gregorious and how great a clutch player d D. Gregorious
is do you know, Eddie, what D D. Gregorious His
postseason batting average was coming into this game. Go ahead,
take a guess. I have no idea. What do you
think his postseason batting average? He's been around for a
few years with different teams, usually really good at guessing things.
All right, go ahead, just throw a number buck twenty five? Yeah, Eddie, yes,

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why would Why wouldn't you go like two fifty or
something like that. I'm making it sound like it was
really bad, right, yeah, but you're supposed to play along
the whole by saying it was bad. That's yes, But
the bit is, well, it's like two hundred and then
I said, no, Eddie, it's even worse than that. But
if you go one twenty five, I got nothing. I

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got no wiggle room. When you go one twenty five,
I got nothing. Now it sounds like he's he's a
postseason hero. Take two. Yeah, all right, Eddie, guess how
bad D. Dregoriuses? Please throw me throw the number out there, Eddie. No,
that's that's even worse that season one season. No, but

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you're not supposed to get it right. You're supposed to
play along, don't you Listen? To these other shows where
they play along, dopye sidekicks, play along. We are different
at different. We're very different. No one's listening. We're very different.
That's how different we are, Damn. I was all excited
about that, Eddie, you know, you know how about this?

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Here's one d D glorious two postseason home runs in
one game. I know that's more. Joda Maggio never did that.
Roger Morris never did single postseason. Of course, back then,
men were men, Damagice, you didn't have to worry about
the divisional series of the wild card game. When he
was playing for the Yankees, he had a fast pass, yes, exactly.

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The magic was dating Marilyn Monroe, who also dated Derek Jeter.
We learned a few weeks ago. So that's right. How
soon we forget great moments? Yeah? I hope that'll be
played on the year end show. Of course it will.
Now we will do and will not air. Then we
will spend ten hours on a year end show and

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no one will here. Could we sell that and make
extra money? Yes, so we will. People pay so much,
Just like weed Man is getting rich, begging for money
on his Twitter feed and all that. A lot of
we'll do very well. So alright, so Ben Maller's Show,
and we'll get to Aaron Judge at some point here
and his human fan act that we will get to that.
The number. If you'd like to be part eight seven

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that and we'll do it next. The Ben Maller Show
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My lips have been on it and out live from

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the Guy Coo Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. Well.
The Yankees getting set to play the Astros now in
the American League Championship Series. We got one slot left
in the final four of baseball the Nationals and Cubs
a Game five? Are the Nationals going to pull the

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Cleveland Indians here and gag all over the field against
the Cubs after coming back to force the Game five?
Will find out later today. As the Yankees in that
game in Cleveland, we are told the first team in
baseball history to win a nine inning postseason game, striking
out at least sixteen times. I think all of those
strikeouts were Aaron Judge. I think he had all the

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strikeouts for the Yankees. At least it seemed that way.
Seemed like that was where it was was going. As
we Yap the night Away and the Peanut Gallery checking
in the Mallar militia checking in on Twitter at Ben Maller,
that is at Ben Maller. Let's see here, can't read
that one on the air. Let's see. Uh yeah, here's

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a oh weed man, hippies. He's not only on the phones.
He's saying, DD is Clutch great, Golden d d better
than Jeter, Yankee dynasty. Weed man? Did you get some
bad weed? Weed man? What's going on with that? I
was listening to your monogue. I love you, then, Dodgers,

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the world is right. You don't want. You do not
want that because the Dodgers will beat the Yankees and
he'll be bummed out. I don't want to deal with
I'm that man, right, I'm all about hope and love
and changing the world. This makes the world right. I'm
telling you that. I'm telling you D D. Gregorius. Listen.
I'm very happy, Derek, both the Marlins. Please let me talk.

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I'm happy. Please, I'm happy to Clark ce to both
the Marlins. And he's gonna trade standing to the Yankees
so the Yankees can have standing in Judge and back
to back. But D. D. Gregorius is a better shortstop
and quick twitch muscle. He got that quick twitch muscle.

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You don't even know what that means. You're just talking
at it. You have no idea what that means. That
ball he turned on that ball. Man. That's why I
love to sit there and like that. You think, No,
don't call me if I got something else to say.
One more thing, please, please, one more thing about two
different life forms to Aaron Judge. And he was warned.

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It's not that we didn't warn him. Don't worry. He'll
be on hold the entire show. He's not going anywhere.
We'll check back in later with weed Man Hippie. He
just hangs out and at any moment we can go
to weed Man Hippie and he'll he'll have a hot take,
absolutely hot hot take. New question. Let's go from Miami
to I think he's back in northern California. Now, Mark

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the Full Name Guy is on Fox Sports Radio. Hello,
Mark the Full Name Guy, Barbarian, you're back in Santa Barbara. Yes, sir, okay,
thank god. So excited. Jets here within driving distance of
our studio, A reasonable driving distance. That's great. Well it's done.

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Wonders for your Dodgers, now come on, that's true. You're
you're like a Dodger fan. Now that you're in Santa Barbara,
that'll be the day. You know, somebody told me a
long time goal that plant life was superior to human life,
and now we manned Hippie is the perfect prime example
of that. He proves well, he enjoyed, He values plant

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life very much. He has a great he has a
great respect for plants, and he feats them very well.
Yes he does, Yes, he does. And um, you know,
I was figuring I'm a title for a book I'm writing.
I'm thinking maybe life on the Mississippi or ing with Farley.

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What's going on you? I say, you're still crazy, but
you've become a little more mellow. I feel like you
haven't threatened to kill me in a while. Uh. And
you're a little calmer. You are a little calmer. Now
is the medication? Where is it working? The anxiety levels
come down? Yes? Yes, this this fabulous woman up in
northern California bought me a Fender steel Streak guitar. I

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told you has She told me she had a fine
week in the real estatement. So you know you got
a guitar. Now are you making money with the music?
Are you going out on like performing on the streets
of Santa Barbara? Can you imagine that you are really? Yes, sir,
you are no way really. I gotta go. I gotta
leave him. I guess I love Santa Barbar. I haven't

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been to Santa Barbara. I gotta go to Santa Barbara,
the jewel of the Mediterranean in southern California as they
call it there. I gotta go there and check you out. Now,
what what place in Santa Barbara for me? Right in
that main strip there with all the shops and the
stores and all that. You mean State Street, Yeah yeah,
sometimes sometimes right on the beach or just off the beach, yeah,

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right there on Cabril, or sometimes near the train. Now
you're any good? Are you any good at this? I
know you performed for us on the show, you've you've
done some music for us in the past there, But
do people actually toss a couple of bucks your way?
It's tough now because if you're trying to get money
playing music, most people just have credit cards. They don't
carry cash with them, so it's hard to get these

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these one hundred dollars dinner plates. It's terrible. Yeah, what
a nightmare to get one hundred dollar dinner plates. You played,
you played your guitar that you got for free. What
a nightmare that is? Yeah, yeah, you know steaks, ribs. Yeah,
so you're getting fat man. You know how much weight
I lost? Ben Miller wawn to you, Well, let's just

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have lost about sixty pounds more to go, okay, thirty
five hundred more to go, and then you're good. All right,
very good. I didn't understand. Oh yeah, and about Eric Judge,
you know, now we get sports Rod Regus, he's looking
more like Alex rod Regus than Derek Jeter. It looks

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like it looks like a season Mark. It looks like
Mark Reynolds is what he looks like. Star. Mark Reynolds
is what he added. Occasionally hit home run and every
other time he'll strike out. That's Mark Reynolds. That's also
Aaron Judge. Oh he said New York. Nick was over
seventeen shooting from the floor. I think it was John
was not John Starks back in the day, that horrible game. Yeah,

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Judge is barely better than that right now, All right now,
I feel like I've caught up with you, and so
I'm done with you. I got your Dodgers are the
favorite Spy're gonna say it right now. They're not gonna
blow it. They're gonna win the World Series. Say it
with me, Dodgers win the World Series. Dodgers win the
World Series. One final gift to the Great Tommy Losorda

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right there, Okay, I get out of you. Can't imagine
why people aren't tossing money into the collection plate when
Mark's performing there. Just don't get it. I have a
question for Danny. Danny, why is it that weed Man

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gets blown up constantly? But Mark the full name guy
seems to be able to speak as long as he wants.
Good question, Eddie. Yeah, I think it's because is Mark
the full name guy rarely calls the show? Well, he
used to, but he's not getting call every every day, Eddie.
I've blown him up before. When he was calling more often,

(23:11):
he would get blown up. Yeah, but it seems like
a San Francisco treat when he just calls once every
two months. Yeah, he did go into hiding for a while.
We hadn't heard from him in a while. Who's pencil
neck Ray doesn't call? He calls like the instant of icelines. Sometimes,
pencil Neck. We like him. If he called up, he
could say any kind of gibberish and we just listened
to him. Don't do a lost cap magnet pencil Neck

(23:34):
exactly hollering James. If he somehow called in, he would
get a full segment of air time as long as
he's somewhat coherent, which is probably not going to happen.
So there's that. Who else have we not heard from
in a while? That used to call the show that
hasn't called in a while. We haven't heard from mister Tibbs. Oh, yeah,
mister Tibbs, he's probably is he in house arrested, mister Tibbs,

(23:58):
mister Smooth, Oh yeah, mister Smooth used to call every
week for the Tinderoni Tips with Danny G. I talked
to mister Tibbs. Yes, oh you did. Is he upset
with me because I don't mention his name on the show. No,
he's not upset with you. Okay, good, but he's okay, Yeah,
he's fine. Is he off house arrest? Now? Did you
still have that ankle bracelet? Because he's a peeping tom?

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That is a good question. I'd not ask. He did
not ask. Okay, all right, So Ben Mallows show on
Fox on Fox to take some more phone calls. Also,
I promise we'll get to the vow of silence and
why is this a big deal? Why is this a
big deal? We'll try to figure that out. We'll get
to it all in right now. Though, Eddie Garcia is
right here, he's right over there, and he's gonna give
you the last Eddie. Well, let's check you in on

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the postseason baseball action. With one team moving on and
one team extending the series. In Game five of the
American Division Series, the Yankees beat the Indians in Cleveland
five to two. D D. Gregorius hit two home runs
off of Corey Kluver. Fred Gardner and Todd Frazier drove
in runs in the nineteen to seal the win. The
Yankees round two games and nothing in the series. They
him all the way back, win three straight and advanced

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the face of the Astros in the ALCSKA four. The
National League Division Series saw the Nationals beat the Cubs
five to nothing. Even if that series at two two,
Steven Strassburg, who we were told was not going to
pitch in this game because he was under the weather,
suddenly made a miraculous recovery. Came out pissed seven shutout innings,
allowed just three. It's struck out twelve and getting the win.
The big hit was Michael A. Taylor's Grand Slam in

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the eighth enning. That's the first postseason grand Slam in
National's history. Again, it's tied to two two, they'll but
deciding Game five. On Thursday in DC, red Sox announced
the manager John Farrell is out after five seasons on
the job. He's out to get out here fail you bum.
After winning back to back Ali's titles. The team also
lost in the first round of the playoffs each year.
So didn't he start dating a yes, a reporter? Yes,

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so he gets the still dater. She gonna dump him
now that he's not managing the Red Sox anymore. I
guess that's that's up to her all right. In the NFL,
Oaklaraider's head coach Jack del Rios, as he expects quarterback
Derek Carter to start Sunday against the Chargers, be very
careful if that's the case. Joey Boast is licking his
chops right now. If that's the case, car with only
miss one game when the initially city is gonna be
out two to six. Make it through that game healthy, Eddy,

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he'll be hurting that well. That is not very nice
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ready for that. Eddy. It may start without Lebron Jayses,

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you have some political rallies to go to. What's he
got going. He's not gonna play in their preseason finale
because of an ankle sprain he's got he's gotta pay.
Coach Tyler says he doesn't know if he'll be ready
for the season. He's already taking days off. They change
you see, he's a fraud, Eddie. They change the schedule
so they start players would not miss any games, and
he's already missing games. No days off, lots of days off,

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Here's a message from t J in Fort Collins aka

(27:19):
the Guys says, I'm so happy the Ben Maller Show
is back on Altitude nine to fifty in Colorado. Huzzah,
it's been too long, he said. I agree. It was
your boy to put back on. Yeah, and that's the
home of the Nuggets. So some hot nugget talk. We'll

(27:39):
get that here, yest I love nuggets. I grew up
eating nuggets. Soche. Yeah, Avalanche talk, Sure, why not, Eddie,
that'll be in the hour of our five we'll have
that look Colorado Rappers the world. By the way, today
we changed the Oh yeah, yeah, we can do it
if you want. All right, you want to do it? Yeah,
I mean not now, we will do it. Let's give
me a little heads up, please. All right, here's your

(28:00):
heads up. We'll do it later. That's the heads up. Okay,
all right. I believe over the years, Eddie, we've been
on every radio station in Denver. I really feel that way.
I feel, yes, we played we have played radio station
Bingo in the Denver radio market here over the years.
I feel like I've been on every station that has
any kind of sports programming in Denver at some point

(28:22):
we've been on there. I did local radio in Denver
years ago, on a station I cannot say because it's
not the station one right now, so I can't say it.
You did local radio. I just some phil was that
not doesn't count. No, I thought that you had did something,
you know, kind of like a regular basis. It's not
like my my part of the fabric of Kansas City

(28:44):
Radio on FESCO in the morning. It was Friday morning.
It's must Yes, people look forward to Friday eighty not
because the weekend, because I'll be breaking down the Chiefs
game that weekend. That's why they want to hear me
every Friday on the radio. There. It's very important. So
what do we make very important? Yeah? I'm all right,
So what do we make of this story? I was

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all over the place? What story you talk about? Oh?
Thanks for playing along, Eddie. It involves former Celtic guard
Isaiah Thomas. Okay, Isaiah Thomas is apparently a little chief
still at the little a little bit for trading him.
Do you think he was a twelve year old? And uh,
he's did this interview any went off? He's baffled by

(29:25):
the Celtics decision to trade him. He's very hurt by this,
and he essentially said he might never speak to Danny
Ainge again. Now, I have a couple of thoughts on this.
First of all, who the f cares? All right? If
another man talks to another man? Who cares? All right?
I've I've been in radio. I've lost my job before
several times. And those are some of the people I
talked to some there's something be no reason to talk

(29:46):
to Why would why would Isaiah Thomas have to talk
to Danny Age. He plays for a different team. He
doesn't play for Danny Angel's team anymore. So it's the
point of what he's saying, not that not that they're
really going to talk anymore or not. It's the point
that he's still right. So he's very sensitive, he's very reclempt,
and that's fine, all right, that's fine. But this is
going to be a net positive for the Celtics. They

(30:09):
got the better of the trade. They got. Even if
you believe that Isaiah Thomas is going to come back
and he's got that chip on his shoulder and he's
going to be amazing, Right, this motivation, this bitterness towards
the Celtics is going to inspire greatness and spite. It's
a wonderful emotion to get back at someone, right, to

(30:31):
get back and that that grudge that you hold, that's
that's not a bad thing. But am I gonna am
I supposed to be worried because Danny Ainge and Isaiah
Thomas are not gonna have a bite to eat. I'm
not gonna say hello to you. I don't I don't
care if they don't say hello to each other. It
seems illogical to me, the amount of attention that this God,
it's just foolishness, is what it is. Isaiah's gonna miss

(30:54):
a good chunk of time this NBA season. He's hurt
coming off a major injury. It doesn't really matter though
for the Cavaliers, because they go sandbagging during the regular
season anyway, and they just decide they want to play
about a month and a half of basketball, like a
week before the regular season ends. They crank it up,
and then they played during the playoffs and then they
usually end up in the NBA Finals and then they
lose to the team from the West. That's typically how

(31:15):
it goes most years, right. Well, Plus, this is not like,
you know, Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant beef, right. I mean,
they get on the court against each other, so there
could be something going on there. I mean, Isaiah Thomas
is not going to play against Danny Age. You play
against the team. But you know, usually when there's some
bad blood, we kind of like that. I gotta tell you, though, Eddie,
I believe Ange could take. Angel is fifty eight years old,

(31:37):
but I believe his teenage son dumped on him. Nahna
video he could not take. He could take if you
train Isaiah because he Danny Ainge has he's not a
big guy. Well, yeah, I guess compared to Isaiah Thomas,
he's gigantic, right, because angels like six four six five
something like that. Isaiah Thomas is like five nine at most. Right,

(31:57):
So Ange would have a height advantage, he'd have a
weight advantage. Oh, he'd have a big weight advantage. He'd
have a reach advantage. Right, he'd have a gut advantage.
He'd have a lot of advantages. Yeah, how'd that work
out against his kid? You're getting getting caught up. A
teenager dunked on Danny Age and made him look horrible. Listen,
here's what we'll do, all right. I'll train Danny Ainge

(32:19):
you seriously, I'll be the promoter. We'll put it on
one of the New England cable channels. We'll do it
and we'll charge money for you know, give it all
the charity eddie stuff. I'll get my cut. Everything else
will go to charity. I'll get my cut and then
we'll see who can win. Wouldn't that be great? A
celebrity boxing match between Danny Ainge and Isaiah Thomas and
Thomas doesn't have to talk to Ange during the fight.
They can just punch each other. That's a great idea. Then,

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thank you, thank you. All right, So to the phones
we go. Dan. A guy named Dan is in Minnesota
and he is on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Dan, Hey Dan,
how are you Dan? If if I was any better,
I would be a twin, since you asked, But not
a Minnesota twin because they exited quickly from the postseason.

(33:06):
They did. So. My statement question here is on the
kneeling for the anthem. As I said to your producer
at home, you know you don't see it, especially since
they're in showing the anthem anymore. But I'm just curious
what the reaction to the fans at the stadium kind
of ground zero for that the kneeling is the support
in the stands? Are people kneeling sitting for the anthem

(33:29):
with the players? Is that a brombrier or how all
of us sports fans kind of feel at home? I,
as I said, don't think football, baseball, basketball is a
huge social platform for me personally. I what's wrong with you?
You don't want your favorite athlete to shove down the

(33:49):
political agendas down your throat. You're a bad America. When
I was a kid, it was Charles Berkeley saying, I
am not a role model. And remember that land with
That was that before or after he tossed a guy
through the window in Orlando. Remember, well, well, here's the

(34:10):
way I'll answer this day. I'm gonna answer it this way.
I believe it depends on location, right, there's a lot
of places where people are angry. I know in Boston
and Washington, DC, or Landover, Maryland where the Redskins play.
There was a lot of anger. There's a lot of
nasty things being said at players. Uh and and people
seem genuinely enraged towards the players, and the players live
in a bubble. They live in there. They believe they're

(34:32):
they're on the right side of this, and the fans
are wrong, and that they're they're on the right side
of this, and that these people are just morons. That's
the sense I get, right. So you have irritation on
both sides. You have ratings going down. You have sponsors
upset with the NFL because they're getting angry calls, they're displeased.
Everyone's in a huff. And now we stand here and

(34:52):
we're gonna have a big pow wow in New York
next week between the players Association and the leadership the
ownership of the NFL to try to figure out a
way to get out of this before they destroy the NFL.
That's what they're trying to do. I agree, Yeah, I
think I just cure you from the platform if it's

(35:14):
you know, I mean, you live in Minnesota. What's the
reaction among your people in your town, in your area.
Are people supporting this or are they upset with it?
I think it's it's it's neither. It's they just don't care.
It's they don't turn into sports for that call. I

(35:35):
got you, all right, Thanks, all right, thanks? All right,
there he got Mallis. So Eddie is excited because I
made an executive order, much like Donald Trump. I made
an executive order. I sent out, I had my bugle,
and I called it out. The Cavalry has been called
out for the first time this NHL season. For the

(35:59):
very first time time, we will debut a new segment
on this show. It's called Puck The World what's it called.
That's what not puck the world? It's called it's called
the NHL. I has screwed it up. It's called the NHL.
That's what up, bugle misfired. I don't know what I

(36:22):
was looking for. I messed that up. Very difficult, Eddy,
to talk, very that's very demanding my job here, all right,
A lot of stuff going on. I gotta put a
word after another word. Do you know what kind of
a problem that is for me? Look at the time,
Eddie and I gotta put words to the side by side,
all right. So I have the NHL. Puck me. I

(36:43):
get it right, Eddie. All right, that's what we'll do.
We'll get to that now that we have no time
for it. But here's the who am I game? First?
Here we go. I am the quarterback. I am the
only quarterback in NFL history too twice through at least
twenty five passes, not get a hundred yards and still
be credited for a game winning drive. Again, I've done

(37:04):
this twice in NFL history, thrown at least twenty five passes,
not had a hundred yards passing, and still been given
credit for the game winning drive. Who am I a
night without the Ben Maller Show is like a daytime
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(37:24):
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alert all our affiliates down the line to get some
alternative programming. We're gonna have the NHL Pluckham coming up
here in a mom We'll have that for you just
a couple of minutes. Here's the who am I game?
I am the quarterback, the only quarterback in NFL history
to twice twice throw at least twenty five passes to

(37:49):
not get a hundred yards in that game and still
get credited with a win, A game winning drive, game
winning drive. That's the question. What's the answer. The rock
Cats going with future Super Bowl MVP Jared Golf. That's
his guests. Who else do we have fun House going with?
John Fourcade? Is his answer? Nice? Yes, that's what he got.

(38:11):
A photo to Eddie. Fun House is a photo He's
up late celebrating the Yankees win. Attila's going with Jack Trudeau,
Timmy Tebow from that guy. Who else do we have here?
Jim Plunkett from Ernie uh the throwing Samoan. Jack Thompson
thrown out a lot of random names, Jeff Garcia, Steve Debergh.

(38:33):
Henley went with Jeff Garcia, Quincy Carter from just Josh
M and M. Guess by Eric, that's his answer? All right, Eddie,
do you have an answer? It's not Tupac or Willie Beamon,
which was also gains by Joseph. I'm going with Bubby Brister,
the great former Steeler. Uh no, the correct answer. This
actually happened in the span of four weeks back in

(38:55):
twenty oh five, the great Mike McMahon, remember him, Eddie
out of Rutgers I actually do with the Lions, right, yeah,
but he did this. He was playing for the Philadelphia Eagles,
the Oh five Eagles, and the Eagles. It's only happened
ten times in NFL history since nineteen fifty. The quarterbacks
had less than a hundred yards, twenty five passes were

(39:17):
more and had a game winning drive and Mike McMahon
did it twice in four weeks in oh five. Jay
Cutler did it this past week. All right, let's get
to it. Here we go. It's hockey season somewhere and
everywhere everywhere. Ar let's do the NHL pockam. You gotta go.
Skaters in a goalie, Two skaters in a goalie. I

(39:38):
will win. Everyone else will be playing for second place.
Who's going first? Danny j go ahead, all right, Sydney Crosby.
Sidney Crosby is uh am? I looking at the rent schedule.
Eddie Brandon sod all right, so yeah, yeah, okay, a
vander Cane, Coop oh Man, all my picks. I'm gonna

(39:59):
go with bradon point. You can't pick Jamie Ben because
he's not playing. Actually he is. One more, go ahead,
one more, erondell Aaron dell Adele, I go up, Nikita
Kuchera of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Eddie Vladimir Terasinka. That's

(40:20):
an old, reliable Danny. We gotta pick it up my goalie.
Jimmy Howard, all right, Eddie Andre Vassilevski, Ben, Bishop Diarrhea, Cooper,
Jamie Ben, Yeah, got it, guy, he didn't pick a goalie.
An amazing modern medical miracle and professional baseball of picture

(40:45):
dealing with mold in air conditioning at a hotel in Chicago,
able to put his big boy pants on and go
out and shut down the Chicago Cobbs. Move over, Willis
take a seat, Michael Jordan, flu game, It's Steven Strasburg.

(41:08):
What a joke. Welcome in the beginning of another hour.
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(41:30):
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Friendly confines with a light rein falling in Chicago. The
Cubs trying to punch their ticket to Los Angeles for
a date with the team's gonna eventually win the World
Series this year, the Dodgers, they had to get through
the Washington Nationals, and how did that work out? Facing elimination,

(41:53):
Facing elimination, We had a plot twist in Chicago. There
will be a fifth and deciding game between the Nationals
and Cups. You know that by now, right. Steven Strassburg
goes out pitches seven shutout innings of baseball, twelve strikeouts
and if five nothing, win over the Cubbies in Game four,

(42:16):
so that would go back now and later on today.
This is now Thursday for everybody, right except our friends
in Hawaii. We got game Action, Game Action Game five
between the Nationals and the Cubs, Michael Taylor hitting a
grand slam off Wade Davis. It was a one nothing
game in the eighth inning, and then after that that

(42:36):
was it. But this all only tells part of the story.
It only tells part of the story here because it's
all about Dusty. Dusty Baker and Mike Rizzo. Now Baker,
long time manager, journeyman, nomad manager around baseball, and Mike Rizzo,

(42:56):
the weasley general manager of the Washington Nationals, who combined,
I believe to tell a fairy tale about Steven Strassburg,
and I wanted to talk about this with you. Now
I have my thoughts on this. The tall tale goes
something like this. Baker blamed as I mentioned the air

(43:17):
conditioning and mold in Chicago as a fall guy as
an alibi. Now Tenor ro arc was supposed to start
Game four. He was supposed to start, even the general manager,
Mike Rizzo was on local DC sports radio and a

(43:37):
weekly hit his morning hit there and he denounced any
kind of idd any thought that Strasburg was going to pitch.
So here's the way it played out, right, all star pitcher,
suffering from the bubonic plague, storms into the manager's office
in a rage just a couple of hours before the

(43:58):
pitch the first and says I've got to play. I
need to stave off elimination, demands to get the ball,
save the season. Then goes out there and pitches like
Madison Bumgardner. Yeah right, come on. Now here's the question.
Do you believe the story that the Washington Nationals are

(44:20):
telling me? Listen, the guy pitched a great game, bitch,
a wonderful game. But to me, the more interesting part
of this is the lead up to it is the
preamble leading into Game four that we touched on yesterday. Now,
I've again like a bad poker player. I think you
can tell my position on this in which side of
the aisle I happen to be sitting. My answer to

(44:44):
that question, do you believe the National story? Is absolutely
not a couple of things here, puffery and embellishment, tough love, fraud,
there goes that word again, fraud and myth making, all
those things are in play here. All of that is
and play. We'll begin with this Dusty Baker, and he's

(45:05):
complicit with the other brass for the Nationals. They were
attempting to cover for one of their cornerstone players, right,
and they dabbled in something that our president does a
lot of Donald Trump, the puffery and embellishment. Puffery and embellishment.
Now you can smell, you can smell the fraud around

(45:27):
this story. It's literally in the air everywhere, right, it
is in the air everywhere. Now, we as I mentioned vaguely,
kind of goofed on the mold and all that that
Baker threw out there. Unfortunately, only a rube is gonna
buy what the Nationals are trying to sell. There are

(45:48):
clearly some other factors in play around this. Now. My
belief is that Steven Strasburg was given some kind of
a pep talk by a medley of people, including Scott
Boris's agent, those that are in the inner circle of
Steven Strasburg. My belief is there was internal pressure. Internal

(46:09):
pressure why because what is Steven Strasburg's reputation. He is
known around baseball as a mister softie. That's what he's
known as right, one of these guys that doesn't have
a backbone, and at the first sign of a hangnail,
he's in the trainer's room. I can't pitch in the
old days, are lacking toughness and guts. Those are very

(46:30):
offensive things to say about someone, right, But that's the
reputation he's gotten mainly because of that first first rodeo
with the Nationals when they shut her down, shut her down,
artificial pitch count, innings count, shut her down. And the
Nationals were the favorite that year to get to the
World Series and he could not pitch, not because he
was hurt, but because they had this artificial amount of

(46:53):
time he could pitch. And so all of that is
in play here. All of that is in play. And
Strasburg was called out by me. I'm gonna take credit
for this. I called him out, We call him gutless.
Clearly he listens to the show, and he responded because
of my tough love, right, because of my tough love.

(47:13):
He didn't want that on his resume. Again, gutless wonder
and all that. And I really believe without that tough
love and the pressure being cranked up, he didn't pitch
that game at Wrigley Field. I believe that, truly that
this is all a big as I said, I used
the word fraud here, and so this was a chance

(47:33):
to change the narrative. This was a chance to change
the narrative. Now here's a Strasburg who you'll hear the
question here. Do you think he's going to admit to this?
Of course he will, right, of course Strasburg, You're gonna
hear the question here. But I'm sure he'll admit that.
I am absolutely right. Let's listen, here we go, Stephen,
given all the drama of the past twenty four hours,
a j feel you had something to prove in this
game and this start tonight. Not to you, guys, No,

(47:57):
you know, you guys create the drama. But you know,
I know, like I said earlier, you know I have
faith in every other guy in this in this clubhouse,
and I know the coaching staff feels the same. Yeah,
he's a liar. You know he's lying for there's two
reasons I got him gonna lie. Two things he lied about.
Number One, you're part of the human condition is you
are bothered by what other people say. Right, We're all

(48:19):
wired the same way in that respect. So he's not
some kind of superhuman. And number two, it wasn't the
media that created the drama. Steven Strassburg. You know who
created the drama, Dusty eff and Baker. Dusty Baker's the
guy that made up the lie about the mold in
the hotel in Chicago and said you're such a push
you can't pitch. He's the guy that did it. So

(48:41):
it's not the media that created this drama. It's Dusty
Baker that tossed this out. And I don't even think
here's what happened. I believe Dusty didn't. He didn't make
the whole thing up. The mold part was just ridiculous.
Maybe that was that was absurd, that part of it.
But he had to come up with some kind of
alibi to cover for his our pitcher. That's what he

(49:02):
had to do. But he's Strasburg. He's doubling trippling down
on this, and he's making you seem like he's he was.
He was very, very very It seemed like once we
got here, you know, I got hit pretty hard with
this virus, and you know, it just seemed to suck
the life out of me every single day. And you know,
they got me on antibiotics and just wasn't really wasn't
really working or anything. And luckily they switched it yesterday

(49:23):
and just hopes that it would kind of kick in.
And you know, I woke up this morning and I
wouldn't say I felt like great, but um, I felt
like I was better than what I was the day before.
And so games like this, you know, you just you
have to go out there and give it everything you have,
whatever it is. And so I called Matt dogg and
in the morning and said, just give me the ball. Hey,

(49:43):
do we have that Romo music? I think we should
play that. That needs the Romo music bag. We got
to give that the full Romo treatment. There, what a
load of crap? Is anyone behind that? Am I too cynical? Here?
Am I hear that? I'm like, well, that's a load
of crap. Who's believing that? I mean, my god, let's
get the n nice Hollywood treatment for this year's let's go,

(50:03):
here we go. This is Steven Strassburg right out of
a good sport, a good hokey, corny sports movie. It
seemed like once we got here, you know, I got
hit pretty hard with this virus, and you know, it
just seemed to suck the life out of me every
single day, and you know, they got me on antibiotics
and just wasn't really wasn't really working or anything. And
luckily they switched it yesterday and just hopes that it

(50:24):
would kind of kick in. And I woke up this
morning and I wouldn't say I felt like great, but um,
I felt like I was better than what I was
the day before. And so games like this, you know,
you just you have to go out there and give
it everything half, whatever it is. So I called Nat
dog and in the morning and said, just give me
the ball. I think he's gonna win the awarding courage

(50:45):
in sports for that performance. I think so. Not the
actual game he pitched, but that BS was spewing at
the end of the game. I think he's gonna win
an award and court encourage for that. I think it
was Shakespeare that taught us years ago in Hamlet, the
GM the picture doth protest too much, methinks I believe
that was from Hamlet. You do turn to overnight sports

(51:06):
radio for Hamlet. That's what you tune to Fox Sports
Radio FO Mike Rizzo, in particular, was land on thick.
He was going for it. He said. Now you're at
Strasburg's line there, Rizzo, the nats GM said Strasburg was
suffering from fever's chills and a sinus infection. But wait,
there's more. He had no endurance, was feeling weak. Rizzo

(51:30):
went on to say, was aggressively treated with antibiotics and
anti inflammatories, treated with ivys for several days. You would
have thought Steven Strasburg was on his deathbed. Was the
man was on his deathbed? He's little on his deathbed,
Thank you, coach. Now the parting shot on this, we're

(51:53):
led to believe that just twelve hours, twelve hours after
all of that with Dusty Baker, aam making up the
pollen in the hotels in Chicago or the mold. Excuse me,
not the pollen. That would be believable, the mold. Twelve
hours later, Strassburg is able to shut down the defending
World Champion Cup lineup, and then he made him look

(52:14):
like a bunch of little leaguers. This is textbook myth
making by the Washington Nationals. They got their hundred and
seventy five million dollars ace ACE to the franchise one
hundred seventy five million dollars. Man, they're trying to position
this as a Jordan flu game or that diculous Willis reagame,

(52:35):
which drives me nuts every time people bring that up,
because he played like three minutes and that was it
in that game for the Knicks back in the day.
All right, Spell Mallers show on Fox on Fox Edmund
Dallas steamboat Willie Garcia dragged my ass out of bed
this morning and turned the TV on right in time

(52:58):
to see Steven Strasburg or his first pitch, and I'm like,
what the hell is this? Yeah, little Dusty Baker gamesmanship.
I tweet, I texted you, like what's going on here,
so that it was a little bit of a surprise.
I think. I think Strasburg, you know, felt the blowback
from all the people saying, you gotta be kidding me.
This guy four days rest, he's the ace your team

(53:22):
needs you facing elimination, you better be half dead if
you're not going to pitch in that game. And he said,
I gotta get my ass out there and pitch. I
think that is the more likely scenario. But the Nationals, man,
they are really really wants you to believe that this
is all They didn't make any of this up, and
this is all all git. I am very very skeptical,

(53:47):
very skeptical of that. But it is the The Ben
Maller Show on Fox. The other playoff game. The Indians
have been beaten, the Cleveland Indians. If you had them
winning the World Series, a lot of people from Ohio
traveled to Nevada. You don't have to travel there anymore.
You can just bet online illegally and bet on the
Cleveland Indians to win the World Series. This year when

(54:08):
they had that twenty was a twenty two game winning
streak and all that. How did that work out? I
really thought they were going to win this game five
at home. I really did. Really. I was like the
choke factor and I thought club, I mean, come on, man,
they's solid. It's not if you're a Yankee fan. He
was very solid. Yeah, great start, you know, lyingdeed Gregorious
to look like Babe Ruth there. For the one thing

(54:30):
I love about postseason baseball is just, uh, you know,
the flip of the coin as far as the emotion
of the of the stadium. You could hear a pin
drop when he hit that home run. I don't know
if you literally I mean it. But when you see
I mean in the postseason baseball stadiums and were like
football stadiums. You know, during the regular season, you know

(54:50):
they allowed here and there, but I mean it just
goes up and hold another level. And when you have
a full stadium of people just sitting there that are disbelieved,
like Billy Choose. You hear from the Yankee dugout, it's like,
oh my god, the tight torture. It's like a torture
chamber and the players have tight took a syndrome. There's
a lot of stuff going on there, Eddie, a lot
of stuff. But this was this was really we talked

(55:11):
about the other the Yankees were playing with house money
they had. It's hard to say a Yankee team never
has pressure, because there's always a certain amount of pressure
when you play in New York to win. But after
the way they lost the first two games, no offense
in game one, game two, you had the game one,
you regurgitated the lead, and just to get to a
game five, just to get to a game five, they

(55:34):
were they were relaxed, and they didn't have the HEB
gbs in that game. There's no reason too. Although Aaron Judge, man,
I love the Yankee fan too, because I was pointing
out some of the issues Aaron Judge was having with
things like making contact, and you would have thought I
was public Enemy number one. They were blaming the umpire,

(55:56):
that the strike zone, some of the calls were terrible,
Aaron Judge, that they were blaming him for these strikeouts
the umpire. Really, come on, I mean, all sixteen strikeouts
are not the umpire's fault. I did the math though,
I updated the math mallor math Now, Aaron Judge in
the American League Divisional Series had twenty four at bats

(56:17):
he struck out sixteen times. Now the math on that
works out to the sign of the Devil sixty six
point six percent of the time Aaron Judge ended up
striking out in the American League Divisional Series. And the
stat that's gone around a bunch here, and it's a
great stat, mister Padre. Tony gwyn may he rest in
peace there, which I guess is what you're supposed to say.

(56:39):
Tony Gwynn in nineteen ninety five, remember this, Eddie, he
strike out fifteen times. That fifteen times in five hund
I think it was five hundred and seventy seven played
appearance or something like that. It's around five hundred, you're saying, yeah,
So he had fifteen strikeouts in nineteen ninety five in
the regular season, and Aaron Judge had sixteen strikeouts in
five games of the division different type of hitters. But wait,

(57:02):
there's more, Eddie. The Houston Astros had twenty three strikeouts
their entire team against the Red Sox in the divisional series.
Judge by himself had sixteen. And how about our guys
Matt vest Gerson and John Smoltz, who were doing their best.
I understand they're in a tough spot. They're pr guys
for Baseball. Best Gursion has been a show for baseball
for years at the MLB Network. They're in a tough
spot there, Like they can't just be honest and say, boy,

(57:23):
this guy really sucks right now. So they've got to
spin it, and they've got to put a positive angle
to Aaron Judge being a human screwdriver or corkscrew rather
and just just corkscrewing himself into the ground. But they
can't just say that. They have to give you some spin.
But they do the yah butt thing like Mike Martz
would go to, yeah, but yeah, but look at the

(57:45):
things he did in the regular season. Yeah, but it's
not his fault, you know. Yeah, but they're pitching him
lowing away. It's yeah, but it's not you know, it's
a shout up. All right, he'll bounce back. He might,
maybe he won't. Maybe he will, he might not. I
think the Indians kind of showed everyone in baseball how
to pitch to Aaron Jude. Yes. Now, whether you can
execute that or not, that's that's up for debate. All rights.

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He is the liar, liar and the menace of the
Fox Sports Radio network. It's the Coop de Loop Justin
Cooper and he's at you, h Bronco fan, but I
want to mount it. And I live from the Geico
Fox Sports radio studios. It's Ben Maller. We'll get to
my pet Peeve in a moment. He said, A nice man.

(58:49):
It was. It was therapy for me and you had
to listen to it. About Steven Strasburg, the national starter.
Here's a Parker writing in stays Steven Strassburg has been
chosen for the role of mister Glass in the remake
of Unbreakable. Alex says, Ben, you're one spot on. I
am a Cub fan, but did not believe for one

(59:12):
second this guy. Alex says that Strasburg was not going
to pitch, pretty sure that everyone knew it. And then
in the very next message I get from the listeners
from Carrie and this guy Carry, who I believe lives
in Iowa, he says, Ben believed the flu bug completely
zaps you. So back to Bay. This is very polarizing issue.

(59:33):
This is more polarizing than whether to stand or not
to stand for the national anthem? Was Steven Strasburg sandbagging?
Were the Washington Nationals complicit in this particular situation. Brian
says he's an ACE fan. He says, they don't give
you antibiotics for a virus. M Y go to web

(59:53):
md and look that up here. Let me see if
that's let' see if that's accurate. Lewis says, Mallard, you
are right on biggest crock of blank. The Nats and
Strasburg were shamed into him pitching. It's absolutely correct. I
take credit for that. By the way, the national fans
should thank me. The national fans should thing. We call

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them gutless, we call them names last night. Clearly you
grew up in San Diego, probably listened to me on
the radio. And he's a kid, and he wanted to
make make amends, is what he wanted to do. Strasburg.
Let's go now to a woman that will be celebrating
in a float down the street in Los Angeles, figure
Roll Boulevard. They're in Manna. Bellow Rachel Is on Fox

(01:00:38):
Sports Radio. Hello Rachel, Hello, Ben, blue Skuys smiling at me.
Nothing but blue Skuys, Do I see, Ben? I you
know the unpredictable. Hey, Rachel, listen to me right now,
say it with me? Is enough? Eight more wins, more wins.

(01:01:06):
They can lose every game next year. The Dodgers, I
don't give a crap. Eight more wins this year. I'm good.
They can be one hundred lost team next year. I'll
be happy, you know, Ben. What surprised of me so
much is the unpredictability of the of the game. Can
you imagine that the Yankees, I mean, Joe Girardi was
literally I mean they were burning him at the stake,

(01:01:28):
poor guy, and he ends up winning the game. In
may be a strong candidate for Major Manager of the
Year in the American League. I'm Paul Molitor. Give it
to Molitor's got my vote. Oh no, oh, my god.
The Twins were supposed to suck and they made the
playoffs as a wild card. They didn't win a lot
of games where they made the plaffs enough to get in.

(01:01:50):
I gave my vote to him. Don't don't worry about
any of that. Listen to me, Rachel. The Los Angeles
Dodgers this weekend will begin the Nationally Championship Series at home.
At home. That is a pit of vipers for other teams.
They are intimidated by Dodgers state. No one's gonna go
in there and win a bunch of games. At Dodgers stated,
it is not gonna happen. Do you see how scared

(01:02:11):
Robbie Ray was on the mound for the Diamondbacks last weekend?
He was intimidated. Well, they unplugged his Apple watch or
whoever was right. That's right, the Diamondbacks with that app
they were cheating, cheaters. They took a difference. They deserved
to lose because they clearly planned out. If they lose,
they need the cavalry to guard the pool. So that's embarrassing.

(01:02:34):
But it was embarrassing as those cops on horseback. That's
there were twenty two people guarding a swimming pool. I mean,
that was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. You
had six police officers from the Greater Phoenix area standing guard.
So ya peak doesn't do a cannon ball into the
deep end of the pool. It's embarrassing. They would have

(01:02:58):
drowned him if he tried to get in there. But
I saw some video there was a renegade Dodger fan.
Did you see this video going around the internet. This
guy this great, this guy's my hero. This guy should
throw out the first pitch A Game one of the NLCS.
This guy had a Fernando Valence Whiler jersey. You know,
he's old schools. He had the Fernando number thirty four
jersey and then he did he jumped in there with

(01:03:18):
full clothing. Yeah. Did the jump into the pool was great. Yeah,
he was sitting in that section, so there was nothing
they could do about it. I want to know what
he did though, with like his phone and his keys
and stuff. I always what do you do with that?
He had a plane out a little bit. I he
had to give it to his friend or something like that. Yeah,
well he said, the hell with it. I'm going to
have my own pool party. Yeah, he had a pool party.
And the cool thing is he got out and he

(01:03:39):
did that. He did that like bench McMahon wrestling move
or LaVar ball or he just kind of did a
little walk there, put his hands out. Hey boom, my ass.
That's what he You know what he said, So all
I gotta go thank you Rachel. Oh look at that
minus ten and counting Captain Ben Maller in command. You

(01:04:00):
guys don't have to laugh at that. Some of her
classic work, she's great. It's a show legend talking about
and we've got two women left. We've chased all the
other women at a regular cause. I know, I know,
people say, well what about Leslie and she calls once
a week, and I'm talking about like people have just
called not for a bit. We got Tammy and Montana
and we have Rachel. That's it. We have no there's

(01:04:24):
no other Estridge. There's no other female presence on the show.
We're down to two, right and once they're once they
stopped calling, we'll have none. It'll be the ultimate boys
club here. That's what we've got. Sausage party is Danny
g likes to say yes. All right, So the Ben
Mallors Show when when it was a club with way
too many dudes in there, they called it a sausage factory.

(01:04:44):
Oh I'm sorry, yeah, I thought it was a sausage fest.
Mark tape on that, all right, all right, we deserve
to be Mark. All right, good job, Eddie. We'll get

(01:05:08):
to the pet Peeve. We'll get to that and all hey,
let's go Coop's great work in the past. We will
get to Mallard to the third degree. We'll do that
as you listen to Fox Sports Radio right now. Eddie
Garcia is gonna give you the latest, Eddie. I'm gonna
try and be a professional. Here, give a broad calf
at what I just did. Be a broadcaster, Eddie. Postseason
baseball Ben Game five American League Division Series, and the

(01:05:30):
Yankees did it. They go to Cleveland be at the
Indians five to two. D D Gregorious one of the
heroes with the pair of home runs a solo shot
in the first, like two runs shot in the third,
both off. Corey Kluber, Brett Gardner and Todd Fraser helped
out driving and runs in the ninth to seal the victory.
As New York rallies from down two games to nothing
to win three straight and advanced to the American League
Championship Series of Lay will take on the Houston Astros

(01:05:52):
Game four National League Division Series. Nationals force the deciding
game five back home thanks to a five nothing to
win in Chicago over the Cubs. Steven Strassburg did start
this game, despite supposedly having the flu. He was great.
Seven shutout endings, only left three had struck out twelve,
and Michael A. Taylor with a grand slam home on
the eighth with the big big blast of the game.

(01:06:13):
First postseason Grand Slam in NAT's history, and again that
series is tied to two, a deciding Game five coming
up later today in DC News from the NFL, where
Oakland Raiders head coach Jack del Rio says he expects
quarterback Derek Car to start Sunday against the Chargers. If
that's the case, Car would have missed only one game
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as the league and the Players Association released a joint
statement yesterday saying that next week's leagues meeting they're gonna
center on how to make progress on social issues. I'm
sure they'll fix all of the world's problems. As of
right now, no change has been made to the current

(01:06:57):
national anthem policy, but the anthem see we'll be discussed
at the name now. I saw several of the broadcast
networks in my corrector are not going to show the
national anthem anymore? Do you think that the rest of them?
Do you think that Edic came down from the NFL.
That's what I kind of thought, but I don't. I

(01:07:19):
don't know the chain of command on that. All right,
So here's my pet peep. We're gonna get We're gonna
get to the phones. And also Mallard to the third degree,
as we come to you from the Geico Fox Sports
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com for a free rate quote. So the the weather
was not great at Wrigley Field, and Michael Taylor ended

(01:07:42):
up hitting a grand Slam. No, Ben, it's Michael A.
Taylor for the that's my pet peep for the Nationals.
I literally, Eddie, I was screaming at my TV. You're
a douche. You're a douche. You're a douche. That's what
every one of these guys on t V. Michael Hey Taylor.
When I hear a middle initial, I go crazy. It's

(01:08:04):
Michael Taylor's crazy. It's annoying, it's unnecessary. It's like Homer J. Simpson. No,
he's Homer Simpson. No one says Hamer, Jay Simpson, Homer Simpson, Michael,
it's Michael Taylor. Don't. And at least the guy who
was doing the updates on Fox when they did the highlights,
he said Michael Taylor. So I was like, I approve
of that. I like that, but these guys on TV

(01:08:26):
has to stop. I've been calling him Michael A. Taylor.
You're annoying me too. It's Michael Taylor. Do you think
his friends call him, Hey, Michael A Taylor, Michael A Taylor. No,
they say Mike or Michael or Michael Taylor, Michael A. Taylor.
This is what he wants to be called. Name. It
makes me hey him, Eddie, It makes me a brute

(01:08:48):
against him. Pet peeves are not based in logic. So
name another baseball player. You say his middle initial? Go ahead?
Uh let's see you now, go ahead, right now, active
baseball player, you say the middle initial. He can't do it, Eddie,
you can't do it. You don't even know these guys
have middle names. You can't. I defy you, Eddie. Tit

(01:09:08):
right now. I know you have you a little Twitter machine.
They'll crank up a bunch of names. These other guys
will come up with they'll go to baseball reverence. But
there's not one active player I can think of that
uses their middle initial I don't like it. I believe
baseball for the good of the game. Rob Manford should
put an end of this. For the health of baseball. Seriously,
I'd like to see the powers of the Commissioner's office

(01:09:30):
stop calling him Michael A. Taylor. He's Michael fin Taylor.
You don't have to use the fan Michael Taylor. So
like Susan B. Anthony, that drives you crazy. That bothers me. Also,
I don't like it. And she's a historical figure Eddie,
so she's probably racist. I learned that the last couple
of months, anybody in history is probably bad, all right?
George C. Scott bad guy? Yes, anybody with an initial

(01:09:54):
is bad, bad, bad, bad bad bad, very odd. So
Ben Mallis show on Fox as we can do. What's
your your Your middle name is Dallas, say it all
the time? So good? Why? Why why aren't you Eddie
d garcia Um? Why not? I don't know what Danny's

(01:10:15):
name is at all. First name Danny, middle name Radio,
middle name G last name radio. Oh, that's right. See
Danny does use the middle initial way before, way before Kanye,
before Kanye. My mom gave me the middle name West. No, really, yeah,
all right, that's a little revealed by Danny. Gee, look

(01:10:37):
at that. West is his middle name. Now people are
running the Facebook. They try to find you. They're trying
to find you on Facebook. Angry Bill is angry about
something and he's on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, angry Bill,
what about a nine year old girl? Win? Didn't you

(01:11:00):
just have? You're already fired as these terrible manager the
other day. Well, it's got nothing to do with it.
That's got nothing to do it. And I want to
thank you for putting me on behind Rachel. I always
like coming behind her, and I thank you for it.
The Yankees have stretched it out as far as these young,
great young players can do it. They're doing a fantastic job.

(01:11:22):
And I would love to see them play your Dodgers
in the World Series. I would too, because you will
be you will be a wrecking ball of emotions and
you are going to be very upset at the end
of that World Series. I pray that happened you and
we men, hippieam Yankees, go ahead and be the team
that had the most wins in a row in history. Okay,

(01:11:45):
and then they turn around and no moment momentum does
not there's no momentum. There's no momentum. It does not exist. Stupid,
Does it exist? Yes, you go to defend your guy. There,
defend your guy. Go ahead. They were good at bats, right, yes,

(01:12:06):
wonderful at bat. The momentum is unbelievable. You know, I'm
done with you. Here we go, get that guy. He's done.
All right, Here we go, let's do it. It's how
about that? To the third degree? This is one big
Ben gets grilled and it is mall to the third degree,
the master of ceremony. The Coop Ben reports say that

(01:12:31):
the Warriors believe that Russell Westbrook is quote, what's your
middle name? Coop's I just give you the first initial?
What's that? What's your the first initial of your middle name?
I can't tell you that. You can't tell me the
first initial of your middle name. Ben, we're in the
middle of third degree. What I want to give you
the Michael Taylor treatment. That's all right, all right, Michael

(01:12:53):
or justin a Cooper go ahead. The Warriors believe that
Russell Westbrook is easy to guard. Now it seems ridiculous
considering his stats just average a triple double. But do
you believe that the Warriors? Do you think they're They're
right about that? Absolutely? This is what I've been talking about.
Russell Westbrook is kind of like me when I was
at my fattest. It's quantity over quality. That's his brand

(01:13:16):
of basketball. So yeah, I agree with the wars. First
of all, Russell Westbrook plays reckless, out of control oftentimes,
and he is a classic stat stuffer. He's the greatest
stat stuffer in NBA history. He was able to pull
the wool over many people, but not me. Not me.
When you go behind the curtain, right, you put this

(01:13:37):
under the microscope, you can see the shortcomings in Westbrooks game.
And so I don't know why Golden State would make
this public. It's kind of stupid to do that. But
the defense is pretty simple. Second thing here, they sag
off Westbrook. They dare him to shoot jump shots. You
want to make him shoot three point shots. He's averaged
to below average from three point range. You want him
shooting from the outside. And then when he does go

(01:13:59):
in the mid all you want to force him to
make a decision and because he usually makes the wrong decision.
You look at the numbers last year, Russell Westbrook against
Golden State four games, thirty two turnovers in four games,
and he needed He did average twenty seven points a game,
but he needed to take twenty shots. He also got
to the foul line, had to shoot twelve and a

(01:14:19):
half foul shots to get to twenty seven points. He
was not an effective efficient player. So yeah, based on
what I saw last year and based on what I
know of Russell Westbrook, I agree with him. I agree
with the Warriors. Next been. One of the more popular
narratives in the NFL right now is that Cam Newton
is back. He has returned to form with back to

(01:14:41):
back wins over the Patriots and the Lions. Do you
think that Cam Newton really has regained his form? Well,
there's no debating he listen, he's been really good the
last couple of HEAs. I am not convinced that that
means he's arrived at all at all. A couple of things.
Number One, you can throw out the Patriots game. Everyone

(01:15:02):
is spit roasting the New England secondary at this point. No,
they can't stop anybody the Lions game last week. That
to me is more impressive because the Lions have an
effective defense. I've got a ball hawking defense. This is unusual.
Do you know? This is the first time Cam Newton
has thrown for three hundred plus yards in back to
back games since the first two games of his NFL
career back in twenty eleven. This is out of the

(01:15:25):
norm for Cam Newton. Think about that. That's mind boggling.
And then number two, it is all about rhythm and consistency,
and Cam Newton has been easily distracted. He's been thrown
off his rhythm and that messes up his performance. He
got a short week this week, and he's also someone
that's affected by the mental warfare. We'll call him by

(01:15:46):
his new nickname, Rosie the Riveter. So he's been impressive,
but you got to do it for more than a
couple of games for me to say you are back next.
So far, things have gone pretty great for Boy Wonder,
Sean McVay and the Rams offense. You can ramman all day,
you can ramman all night. Yes. However, Sammy Watkins sent
out a cryptic tweet in regards to his role in

(01:16:06):
the offense basically insinuating that he wasn't getting the ball enough.
Ben as a diehard Rams fan, Well, I'm I've died
many times because of the Rams. Yes, do you have
any concern about potential unrest in the locker room? Zero?
You know why the Rams aren't good enough to have
unrest in the locker room. They're not. I'm realistic about this,

(01:16:26):
Sammy Watkins. I will say this, Sammy Watkins is being
wasted right. I mean a couple of things. The Rams
first of all, went out and traded for their stud receiver,
and they treat him like he's just another guy. Sammy
Watkins had zero catches against the Seahawks, and the last
couple of weeks, last two games, this guy's been targeted
six times. That is on the coaching staff, that's on

(01:16:50):
Jared Golf. Now some of that's on Sammy Watkins too,
because let's be honest here, he's he's had a couple
of dog moments out there where he's he's not gone
through the route or root he's supposed to run. But
it's kind of like having a Porsche, getting a really
nice Porsche your midlife crisis. You buy a Porsche and
then you keep it in the garage, you never drive it.
What's the point of getting Sammy Watkins if you're not

(01:17:12):
gonna throw the damn ball his way. The guy's got
game breaking ability, but he can't have game breaking ability
if he's used as a decoy. And the second year
the Rams, if you look at their success, part of
it is because they have spread the ball around evenly
to a gaggle of receivers. But think how much better
the Rams could be than they have been if they

(01:17:32):
involve Sammy Watkins more, make him more of a focal
point of the offense. I believe that's got to happen.
I'm not foreshadowing any locker room drama here because the
way it works, the rules are, when you get a
diva receiver, you gotta deal with soap up. It's part
of the package. All right, there, it is Mallard of
the third degree? How Dad we do? Then you pass

(01:17:55):
this edition? Who that's a winter? All right? Time out
for the instant trivia And here we go. We're looking
for the name of the NFL pass catcher that has
had the most targets called back this season because of penalty. Again,
the name of the NFL pass catcher that has had
the most targets called back taken off the board because

(01:18:20):
of penalty. That's the Insta trivia, your answers. Next, The
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(01:18:42):
We'll go all in in a moment. But here's the
instat trivia. We're looking for the name of the NFL
pass catcher who has had the most targets called back
this season because of penalty. All right, let's see if
anybody has it right. We're looking here Stoner Marvin's going
with Dolly Dooby Tooker, John checks in with Julio Jones,

(01:19:03):
Julio Jones, Mark Duper thrown out by Captain Cliche, Sammy
Watkins from that Guy, Robert E. Lee from Oh That's
the ESPN Broadcaster. From Just Josh, we have Dusty Rhodes
guess by Ernie sam Mills from the Rooster Webster Slaughter.

(01:19:24):
I always loved that name. What you've got to be
a really good player with your name, Webster Slaughter. That
was a great name for the past. From Eric in Ohio.
Who else do we have? S Antonio Brown? From Anders
Willie Flipper Anderson guests by Richard Frank whycheck? From Travis
I see what you did there. Anthony's going with me
as the answer, Big Boy, says Dez Bryant. What say you, Eddie?

(01:19:45):
I'm gonna go with Steve Watson, Steve Watkins. Watson Watson,
Oh no, you're the correct answer. From the Houston Texans
de Andre Hopkins. Eleventh time MC has been targeted, but
they've come back because the penalty Number two is Antonio'brown.

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Number three. Oh Dell Beckham Junior. He's not gonna be
in that list long. And then Rob Gronkowski is also
on the list. Here we go, let's do it. It's
Ben Mahler and he's going, Oh, I'm gonna go all in.
Let's get at it. We don't mean we do this yesterday.

(01:20:27):
The Cubs and the Nationals Game five NLDS. Cubs are
a slight one eleven favorite minus one eleven. It means
they have a fifty two percent chance of winning. I
like Kyle Hendrix, and I want the Dodgers to beat
the Cubs. So I'm picking the Cubby's Eddie Thursday Night
Football Eagles at Panthers over under a forty five and
a half. I'll take the OVA, all right, Who you

(01:20:48):
got Big? Ben? Also going with that Cubs in NAT's
game the over under seven and a half. I'm taking
the over all right, and Coop, who you got, Ben?
I'm gonna take an NHL team. I'm gonna go Dallas.
I know why. I know why you're picking Dallas. As
there's one spot left in the final four of Major
League Baseball. An NFL coach is being peppered with negative

(01:21:12):
comments because of something that happened back in April. We
will discuss as we get your set for the upcoming weekend.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben
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I'm gonna get too this NFL thing which is, well,
it's not a thing. It's a story, and it's a
story that got my attention because I think it's kind

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of little silly, little silly. We'll get to that in
a moment. But the two winners in baseball, the Yankees
have eliminated the one to win, Cleveland Indians. They are
out twenty two wins in a row, and they had
been anointed as the team to beat in baseball. They
had zoomed past the Astros, had skyrocketed above the Dodgers,

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and they have to put their tail between their legs
and walk off the field a loser at Progressive Field
as the Gregorious and a gaggle of Yankee pitchers led
by CC Sabathia, who did not go long enough to
win the game. He won four innings and then he
had problems in the fifth inning, but Arold's Chapman pitched

(01:22:34):
well in relief, and a couple of other guys as
well getting it done David Robertson as well, and so
the Yankees end up getting the win and the Indians
go home. So we have the Yankees and the Astros
in the American League Championship Series that will begin shortly
and the Yankees, of course be the road team as

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the wild car we have Sonny Gray and Dallas Kaikel
in Game one of the American League Championship Series that
will begin tomorrow. And then in the National League, the
Chicago Cubs. All they had to do is win at home,
and they were going to go on their way to
Los Angeles to play the Dodgers. But now now they

(01:23:15):
gotta go to Washington instead of going west, They've got
to go east to Washington, DC. Why because a man
that had been diagnosed with the bubonic plague, Steven Strasburg,
went out and this must have been some kind of
act of God, and he pitched with flu like symptoms
or mold or whatever the hell he had. Who cares.

(01:23:37):
They probably made the whole thing up. But Strasburg's seven
scoreless in his twelve strikeouts, and Michael Taylor, not Michael A. Taylor.
Michael Taylor hit a grand slam for the Washington Nationals.
So that set now for Game five and the matchup
in that game Kyle Hendricks against Geo Gonzalez. That's the

(01:24:00):
matchup Lefty for the Nationals, Hendricks for the Cubs, and
the Cubs opened as one fifteen favorite. They are currently
a one eleven, which means the implied odds are this
is essentially a toss of the coin. The Cubs are
the favorite, but they're being given now a fifty two
percent chance of winning that game, so they're a very

(01:24:21):
slight favorite in that one. Now I want to pivot
away from baseball. I want to pivot away from baseball
because one of the more lopsided matchups this weekend in
the NFL involves a team deep in the heart of Texas,
and ain't the Cowboys because they're not playing Houston is
a rather large favorite, rather large favorite, a bunch of big,

(01:24:43):
big point spreads in this NFL this weekend. The Texans
opened up a ten and a half point favorite against Cleveland.
Now they're nine and a half right now. But it's
the story within the story that I would like to
get into here, and the storyline here the game itself.
Who cares? Who cares? But Hugh Jackson. He's on the

(01:25:07):
hot seat. Any coach of the Browns is on the
hot seat. That goes with the job. That's how it is.
But Hugh Jackson and the Browns are being charboiled like
a nice fast food Burger because they passed on Deshaun
Watson not once, not once, but twice and instead picked
later on Deshan Kaiser in the draft. So I wanted

(01:25:29):
to talk about this because the question is rather simple.
Is it fair or not fair to slam Hugh Jackson
over this personnel decision? Now? I'm gonna stand in defense
of Hugh Jackson. I want to I got Hugh Jackson's
back on this one. I believe it is not fair.

(01:25:49):
It is not fair. And my thoughts on this premature,
miserable failures and hoarding, compulsive hoarding, those are my are
your thoughts on this? Now? The first thing, Deshaun Watson,
even with his success in a handful of games lately,
is far from a guarantee. This is not a sure thing.

(01:26:13):
Is he off to a great start? Yes? Do early
returns mean that you're going to have a Hall of
Fame career? No? No, absolutely does this mean that he's
going to be a transcendent player? The book is still
out on all of this is very very premature, and

(01:26:34):
for all the touchdowns that Shaun Watson has racked up here,
there are some signs of inaccuracy still being an issue.
In fact, Watson, even with this great run, is twenty
second in completion percentage in the NFL. Do you know
Deshaun Watson's behind Tyrod Taylor and Jay Cutler. That's a
caution light. That is a caution light on your dashboard

(01:26:58):
in your automobile because things are going very well right now. Inaccuracy, though,
is the kind of thing that can haunt you as
a quarterback. We have seen players get off the great
starts and vanish and vanish. Now. The greatest example of
this that I can remember, it's certainly in recent NFL
history is Nick Foles. Do you remember Nick Foles, the

(01:27:21):
quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles who had this amazing epiphany
playing quarterback in Philadelphia, and he came out of nowhere
right well, he did come out actually the University of Arizona,
but he was a third round picks, a third round pick,
and he ended up playing for the Philadelphia Eagles. And
not only did Nick Foles play for the Philadelphia Eagles,

(01:27:43):
he lit the world on fire. He had twenty seven
touchdown passes and two interceptions that twenty thirteen season. He
had a quarterback rating of one hundred and nineteen point two.
He was wonderful. And where's Nick Foles right now? Where's well,
you don't know where he is because he's in like
the witness protection program at this particular point. Now, he

(01:28:08):
played for the Eagles, played for a bunch of different teams.
Here in fact, he's back with the Philadelphi Eagles right now.
I haven't played as the backup. But the point of
all this is is we don't know yet whether or
not Deshaun Watson is a one hit wonder or has
staying power. And the next part of this story, as
you turn the page, is going to be when NFL

(01:28:30):
defenses figure out the weak spots for Deshaun Watson, and
there are some, there are some, and then it's up
to him to adjust. And at that particular point we'll
have a better idea whether or not Deshaun Watson is
the real McCoy or a pretender because at this moment,

(01:28:50):
at this moment, we don't know for sure. The size
thing was a red flag for many the high bust potential.
I am one of the skeptics. I am thin skinned
in my interactions with the Shaun Watson. I'm not convinced
that this is more of a fad as opposed to
a trend and as far as critiquing the head coach

(01:29:13):
of the Browns, Hugh Jackson, here we know the draft
is much like the Major League Baseball playoffs. It is
a crapshoot. It is blind dart throwing. And your success raid,
your success raid would be about the same as if
I gave blind Scott in his apartment in Boston a
bunch of darts and I had him walk out a

(01:29:34):
few steps, turn around and throw the darts, and I
just whatever he whatever he landed on, that would be
who I drafted. Whatever names he landed on, you'd have
about the same success. Now. Secondly, the Browns as a
franchise miserable failures, right, miserable fails. You look at the
Brownies and I promise you that had Deshaun Watson been

(01:29:57):
drafted by the Browns, we wouldn't have had this conversation
about some other team passing on him, because he wouldn't
be lighting the world on fire. The Bermuda Triangle is
actually not off the coast of Florida. That's a myth.
It's the Cleveland Browns locker room that is the Bermuda Triangle.
For quarterbacks, they enter the facility with great expectation and

(01:30:19):
they disappear. And it's always because of mysterious circumstances. In Cleveland,
We've talked about that in the past. You are a
product of your environment and the easiest thing in all
of sports. That is a stone cold guarantee. You know
what it is, predicting failure for the new hotshot quarterback

(01:30:40):
of the Cleveland Browns. This is a self fulfilling prophecy
when you are drafted by the Brownies. It is a guarantee.
And if you flip Watson for Kaiser, the results would
be drastically different. What I mean by that is, I'm
not gonna say that Kaiser is good, because he's not.
Sean has already been benched in favor of Kevin Hogan.

(01:31:01):
The Hogi sandwich has replaced Kaiser. Keep in mind, Hogan's
the twenty eighth different quarterback for the Browns. Right said,
we keep adding numbers to that since nineteen ninety nine.
But my point is simply was Kaiser would not be
the worst quarterback in the NFL, which statistically he is
right now, and Deshaun Watson wouldn't be having a field

(01:31:23):
good moment week after week and would not be massaged
his feet being massaged by the mainstream football media. That
would not be happy. So the final word, he you
can pin this on Hugh Jackson, You'd be wrong. He's
not the one that has the ultimate power to pick
these players. And the Browns have decided as a franchise,

(01:31:44):
their franchise charter is to kick the can down the road.
That is what the Browns do. They have been compulsively
hoarding draft picks for several years. It is the football
version of snake oil trust. The process they call it
in basket Paul and this, of course is a fiasco.

(01:32:05):
But the reason it works is because it's a socially
acceptable phenomena. Low information fans buy this. They truly believe
the same dopes that are putting this ros together are
gonna just because they have a quantity of draft picks,
are going to make good selections. Right, no matter how
many mistakes, no matter how many errors miscalculations they've made

(01:32:30):
along the way, they're still like, Oh, this will be
the year We're gonna have a great draft class. This
will be really okay. So the Benn Maller Show on
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Did I give you enough notice? There are you gonna

(01:32:51):
dazzle us with amazing hockey factoids? And you just said
Benny versus the Did I say Benny us? But we
have that next hours? Okay, you will have Punk. We'll
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the world. Okay, all right? Are you okay with it?
I'm perfectly fine with that. All right, there you go. Now, Ben,
I don't I don't mean to roll you up. Then
don't do it. Just don't whatever you're about to say,

(01:33:13):
don't say. Well, but I did see that Justin on
Twitter my partner, my championship partner and password. By the way,
I don't know who that is or was it Mellor's
amount of money? I get my all my wins confused
so much or some of them, but I have the
all time wins. Where can you imagine what I'm going?
But anyway, Justin on Twitter says that you have a
pet peeve about the middle initial, but that you, on

(01:33:34):
many occasions have said Donald J. Trump, what do you
have to say about that, Well, he's the president. You
give the president of the ultimate respect. That's how you
do it, the ultimate respect. You give it the president.
But generally I do have an issue with the middle initials.
I do. That was the Cooper loop right there. I'll
never forget it. It's something I will never ever forget.

(01:33:57):
Absolutely do you hear the president stealing material? By the way,
what did I I said for several weeks that Roger
Goodell should have been he should have suspended Colin Kaepernick,
would have nipped this in the bud. And what did
Donald Trump say on I think it was on Sean
Hannity yesterday on Fox He pretty much pretty much parody.
We have the audio, all right, listen to the press again.

(01:34:18):
How many monologues have got five mallar monologues over the
last handful of months about this about how the NFL
should have suspended Kaepernick and they nipped this in the
bud and then we will Kaepernick be in the NFL
right now and all this this angst and outrage would
not be from the NFL fans. Listen to Trump on
on Fox News last night, Oh watch Colin Tepernick, And

(01:34:39):
I thought it was terrible, and then it got bigger
and bigger and started mushrooming. And frankly, the NFL should
have suspended him for one game and he would have
never done it again. They could have then suspended it
for two games, and they could have suspended him if
he did it a third time for the season, and
you would never have had a problem. But I will
tell you you cannot distress effect our country, our flag,

(01:35:02):
our anthem. You cannot do that, all right, He agrees
with my position. Do you think he downloads the podcast
at iTunes and iHeartRadio. Well, as you know, Ben, he
likes to tweet out first thing in the morning, that's true.
And I'm sure that while he does that, he's listening
to the podcast. He's got the podcast in one ear
and his mobile phone in the other hand. There And

(01:35:24):
to keep the theme going, as potus, yeah, we will
have Donald Trump sort of in Lee Puck the world.
Really Ye, very well, that's a tease, Eddy, way to
promote ahead, he fired, way to promote ahead. Good job
by you man. All right, So the Ben Mallor Show
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(01:36:55):
Ask Ben your questions are answers straight ahead and a
puffy plan as well to a puffy plan. Got puck
the world. We've got a lot of stuff, a lot
of stuff. We got the phones though. Jet Fuel George
is on Fox Sports Radio. Hello George, not paying any attention. Hello,

(01:37:20):
you're on the air. Hello jet Fuel George headed over
to Roswell. You're going to Roswell. I hope you don't
run into any of those those aliens out there right
to space and the where the spaceship crash. Eighty seven
hundred gallons. This guy's got I hope he doesn't already.

(01:37:40):
I believe in about ten minutes. You're leaving in ten minutes.
He must have two phones on. He's got double phone
actually going on, so he's got eight. We've learned he's
at eighty seven hundred gallons of gas? Is that right?
And he's going to Roswell, New Mexico. How long do
you think we can continue this year's he's gonna pick
the three twenty four. I don't know, not too busy.

(01:38:03):
All right, that's good, all right, thank you, all right,
all right, thank you, that's good. Yeah, let's see if
he picks up the other you think you'll pick up
the other phone. Now, what do you think, Georgia there, George, Now,
why would you call and do that? I was just
thinking the same. Rude? Right, isn't that rude? He's moving

(01:38:27):
a lot of stuff around. Let's see here, here's no
concern like this. Maybe he forgot that he called in.
You think there's a chance he forgot that he called in.
Maybe he's loading up the aliens. Wow, Roswell, New Mexican.
There's any good restaurants in Roswell, New Mexico. If I
was a truck driver, I'd have to plan out all
the good places to eat along the way. That would
be very important. Why do they need jet fuel in Roswells?

(01:38:48):
What's going on? Fair point? I think that's a government conspiracy.
Good thing. Possibly that's that you know, your your smartphone
alien technology. You know that. But I was told read
that years ago. One more. Georgie there, George Noah put
him back, very very enjoyable. Phone was a very top secret. Yeah,

(01:39:12):
very good. Let's go to Dan the Man who's in
Orlando on Fox Sports Radio where the Magic used to
have a good team. Hello, Dan the Man, Dann big Ben,
how you've been man, it's been about two years. You know,
super Bowl fifty. Where are you been then? What you
don't call me for two years? That's I've been hurt. Man,

(01:39:34):
I've been hurt Dan, and you know you predicting the
team to lose and that heard him? I hurt him
a prior everything. Man, I've been I've been in the
slump for two years, Dan, two years. You need a
slump buster is what you need? You know it? So
get guess what I mean. I'm calling you to day
because I know you're the man. And uh yeah. First
of all, let's talk about Deshaun's Watson. Man, I think

(01:39:54):
you got it wrong. Man. He might be don't take
cold pepper. What do you think about that? No, he's not.
They called pepper. Everyone's projecting. He was an awkward too. Man.
You know that you might be. I'm not ready to
hand him the keys to the castle. After what a
couple of good games. Let's see, let's see how he
does the now he's off to a great start. I

(01:40:15):
gotta I gotta admit that. You can't deny that Watson
has been great with the touchdown passes and all that,
But the completion percentage isn't great and what's gonna what's
gonna happen when the defenses start figuring out his weaknesses
and then attacking. Yeah, you might be right, you know,
and I'll give that to you because you see that.
That's why I miss you, Dan the man. At thirty

(01:40:37):
seconds of conversation, you've already you've acknowledged my greatness and
I appreciate that. Okay, one more things for you. So
the car versus of the Yankees, Right, you think the
cub is gonna win? I got a bit here with
my employ person I worked with. He's saying that if
the cab is win, he will get a Dodger's tattoo.
Now what do you think of that? Oh? So this

(01:40:59):
is good. So now if the now, the Cups have
to win today, right, the Cups have to play the
Dodgers for this to be an active wager. Yes, no, yes, yeah.
The way they have to they play the Nationals and
then they you're all confused, Dan, You're okay, because they
The only way the Cubs would play the Yankees is
if they beat the Dodgers and then they play the Yankees.

(01:41:20):
Would have to beat the Astros. That's the only way
that would work. So that's that's that's a bet. So
I guess he must think that the Yankees are going
to beat the Astros and the Cups an advanced I think,
all right, very good. Now where is this tattoo going
to be located? He did not think. I think I
have leeway on that one. So you can decide. That's
a very important part of this. That's you decide, Well,

(01:41:45):
does this guy have a lot of tattoos already? He
doesn't have none. Oh, it's got to be a tramp stamp.
Then lower bat, lower back, imagine, imagine him at the pool.
This brings up a funny story years ago when I
was at I was visiting our friends at w EI
and Boston, and the night guy was Mike Adams, Mikey Adams,

(01:42:07):
and he's a he was a crazy guy, still is
good guy. And he told me that he had this
this tattoo of the Orlando Magic and the New York
Yankees on his ass, right, And I said, I said,
I'm sitting across him in the radio station. I said, no,
full of crap. You know you don't have that. Mikey.
Then in a break, I think it was in a
break he might have been on the air. He then

(01:42:29):
pulls his pants down and on his ass cheek. He
had an Orlando Magic tattoo and a Yankee tattoo from
bets he had lost in the past that he had
to he had to pay up the bet and get
those tattoos. So now, but at least they're hidden. I mean,
you can't. You wouldn't know unless you know you're gonna

(01:42:50):
tell them. Stamp. I'm gonna tell him about that. I
don't think he's what would what would be origin not
to go for it? I don't know why, guy, I
wouldn't want to get a tramp stamp? What's wrong with that?
I mean, that's women women. Women find that very attractive,
very enticing. It isn't a it's something that gets women excited.
It is when they see a man with a tramp stamp.

(01:43:11):
They're like, that's my man, that's my burly man. That's
what they say. So gift. So if the if the
cops Yankees play each other, and then the bed is on,
the bet is on, the bet is on, and now
that's his part. What's your part of it? What's your
part of it? You gotta get tattoo, get some Yankees
per from earlier. But you know the thing is, I'm

(01:43:31):
a Bostons fan, so me talk touching anything Yankees is
not happening. So I'm g that's a non starter. All right, Well, Dan,
I'll talk to you in two years, in twenty nineteen. Dan,
I look forward to that our next conversation. Okay, no, no,
go all the way. So it's going to be Danna
this year. Like I said, I'll talk to you in
twenty nineteen. Be good. All right, there you go. There's

(01:43:52):
a Dan the man. I'm curious what's going on with
Jed fuel George? You think he said let's go back,
Let's check in here. Hey, hey, George, you're I'm a psychic, George,
I'm a psychic. You know I'm a psych You know that.
I'm gonna I'm a I have psychic ability. I'm a
distant relative of the great Nostre damas no, no I am.

(01:44:14):
I'm gonna make some predictions right now. Okay, you ready,
actually hold on a seck, Hold on se because I'm
gonna do this. I'm gonna I'm gonna make three predictions. Okay,
I'm gonna make three predictions. And if I get all
three right, you have to give me a million dollars, okay,
or at least how about a hundred. Just give me
a hundred, you know, dude, I'm giving my money that bad. Now,

(01:44:36):
hold on, I say, hold I'll get to that, all right.
I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I can. I've I
have no you know, I'm not. Maybe I'll get it wrong,
maybe I'll get it wrong. I'm my three bold predictions
for jet Field, George. We'll see if I'm right. We'll
get to that right now. Though, as you listen to
Fox Sports Radio, Eddie Garcia is here on the Ben
Mallers Show. He'll also have fuck the World in the moment.
But well, right now, get your little latest, Eddie. All right, Well,

(01:44:59):
let's start off with the post Us. In baseball, the
Yankees beat the Indians in Cleveland five to two, d d.
Gregorious with a pair of home runs off of starter
Corey Kober for Cleveland and Brett Gardner and Taught for Asia,
droping runs in the knife to wrap up the victory
and get the series win for the Yankees. They trailed
two games to nothing and then won three in a
row and advanced to face the Astros in the America

(01:45:20):
League Championship Series. Nationals shut out the Cubs in Chicago
five nothing behind Steven Strassburg. And he was supposed to
be sick, wasn't gonna pitch. Well, he did pitch, and
he taught seven shutout innings, allowing three hits with twelve strikeouts.
Michael A. Taylor had a Grand Slam home run to
provide plenty of offense as that series is now tied
at two, a deciding Game five coming up later today

(01:45:40):
in DC, the Red Sox announced that manager John Farrell
will not return next season after five years with the team.
Boston won back to back ALIAS titles under Farrell, but
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(01:46:02):
head coach Jack del Rio says he expects quarterback Derek
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procedure of his back in his career. Yeah, alright, alright,

(01:46:27):
very good. Thank you for that, Eddie. As we come
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rate quote. Let's go back to jet fuel. George. Uh,
we don't have time for three. I'm gonna only do two,
two predictions because we gotta get to ask Ben and
Eddie's got to do his puck the world. Okay, George,

(01:46:49):
So I'll do two things here. I'm gonna predict here,
I'm gonna I'm gonna read your mind right now. Okay,
let read your mind. No, No, I'm reading. I'm reading.
I'm reading in your mind. Hold on a sec here,
I'm reading your mind. Here, I am seeing you hauling
fuel over eight thousand gallons of fuel. I see the

(01:47:13):
number eighty seven, eight thousand and seven hundred around that number.
I correct, Yeah, I'm loading it right now. All right,
I see that, all right, I see that. And one
more prediction here. I see you going to a desert location.
I see spaceships, I see little green goblins. I see

(01:47:37):
not Mexico. But is that I see New Mexico? Is that?
Are you going to Roswell, New Mexico. Well, then you're
almost right. I actually got my load change. I was
supposed to go to Roswell, but now I'm going a
little bit to carl to Mexico. No, that's a lie.
You are you are I have psychic ability and you're

(01:47:59):
a liar. You my life. No, no, no, no, no,
no no no, that's incorrect. Incorrect. Then I thought you
were banned from making fun of teams blowing playoff league
and people not being able to show up work because
they're sick. After the Clippers got their butt kicked. You
called I did not That is a lie. That is

(01:48:23):
a lie. And you said you were hooked up to
an IV because that is it. That food was a lie.
That's all scheduled, it was all planned. These guys, they've
gone along with it. They know the real stories. Liars scheduled,
they are all liars. I'm gonna call you the pipe
piper of the geriatric genre because I don't think anybody

(01:48:46):
under fifty has called your show tonight. Anyways. You're an
old You're an old far too, so that's that goes
with you too. I am, oh, that's great, all right,
go away there. He I don't know how many phones
is that for the other the girls and all that.
He's gonna have multiple phones. All right, we'll get to

(01:49:07):
We're gonna get to ask Ben. Your questions are answers
right now. Though it's hockey season and Eddie Garcia is
gonna puck the world Eddie Well Ben protests and controversy
are getting plenty of attention to the NFL, but there
are protests and controversy in the NHL. All right, Yeah,
anything you can do, we can do better. Tampa Bay
Lightning forward J T. Brown raised his right fist during

(01:49:29):
the playing of the national anthem before the Blacker sign
first road game of the season. He said afterwards, quote,
I want to do something to show my support. There's
some issues we have to talk about, so in my mind,
I'm just trying to bring a little awareness and quote,
a lot of problems with hockey. Yeah, that's that's the
only the only game he's played, and so we don't
know if he's gonna do this all season or whatever.
Will you do it in the minor leagues when he

(01:49:49):
gets sent to the minor leagues? Will they do it also? Uh?
Maybe maybe, But he's the only NHL player so far
that it has done anything during He's like that backup
catcher for the as no one knows he is. He
does it too. Yes, and the two time defending Stanley
Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins visited the White House on Tuesday.
They met with President Donald J. Trump anyway, Uh, in

(01:50:11):
recognition of their title obviously, like is the tradition that
some teams take part in and some teams don't. But
interesting that you would never have known that the Penguins
visited the White House if you looked at their Twitter feed.
They made absolutely no reference whatsoever, you know, the team
visiting the White House because they're the cowardly Penguins, But
they were afraid of social media pushback. If you're gonna go,

(01:50:35):
I mean, what a bunch of And that was do
they realize that not everyone hates the president? I know?
The media makes it seem that not everyone. There's some
people that don't care, not even like one picture of
the team at the White House. Nothing. Well, the NHL
season started last Wednesday, so we've got a full week
of action and Alexander Rovetkin to the Washington Capitals. He's

(01:50:55):
on fire right now. He became the first He's not
a fire like that cowboy fan, yess he is. Yeah,
he became the first player since nineteen sevent team to
score three goals in the first two games of the season.
So far, through four games, he's got eight goals. James
Neil the Vegas Golden Knights is about as clutch as
they come, at least so far. Three games with his
new team, three game winning goals, spitting in Vegas. Yeah

(01:51:18):
you know, he's the all time leading scorer in Vegas history.
Did you know that? I did not know that. That
is some good hockey knowledge. Why that is why I'm
here at speaking of the Vegas Golden Knights, the first
year expansion franchise, making NHL history, first expansion team ever
to win their first three games in the franchise history.
So they've done a big story so far. The New

(01:51:38):
Jersey Devils, who had the first overall pick in this
last year's draft because they were so terrible. They're three
and oh, shockingly enough now it's only three games, but
still it's a surprise. But they're still in New Jersey.
Hand out. They're not winning everything they did. Hand the
Maple Leafs their first lost the season last night, and
the Saint Louis Blues, who were besieged by injuries in
the preseason, have gotten off to the best start so far.

(01:51:58):
They're now four and oh and that's the best record
in the NHL. And that is your world. Eddy, You've
you've buried the lead here, Eddie, you didn't even get
to the lead story. Oh really, what was at mister
forty five year old himself? Ya? Did you go to
the game? To the game at Kings and Calgary Flames

(01:52:19):
going at it there? Oh? Man Yager still doing it
and he got thirteen minutes a little over thirteen minutes
of ice time was minus one, Eddie. How do you look? Ah,
he looks. He's not very fast, not that he was
ever a speed burner, but you know he's smart. He's
a wily veteran. I recommend the Hair Club for men
he's got plenty of hair, he's got the mullet rocking.

(01:52:41):
All right, then not that, then what's the die one?
What's the one with the die me? No play for
mister Gray. Yeah, you know you can play hockey. Gotta
go for it. He's playing with guys who weren't even
born when he entered the league. All right, So the
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(01:54:06):
none caller? You know what I like? I don't. He's
not technically a one and done. The guy in Houston
had dropped his cell phone in the uh in the tank. Remember,
he couldn't call. He called during the Super Bowl last
year and said there were helicopters flying over. I asked him, Yeah,
I forget the guy even get the guy's name, but
you know what I'm talking about, right, He called up

(01:54:26):
around the Super Bowl. Oh, these nuts are something like
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. He gave a
helicopter up hot hot nuts. Hot nuts, not these nuts,
hot nuts, different nuts. But yeah, he called up and
he was great. We loved him, and then he like
stopped calling all together and we haven't heard from him since.
So I go with hot Yeah, Ed. He was really

(01:54:47):
a fan of that. He loved his work, and he
won one of the games with me. Oh was that way? Yeah?
And so hot Nuts went away and yeah, that's actually
a good thing when hot nuts goes away. But all right, next,
all right, but another rushing for you, back to back
and belly to belly astonishing. This is from high May.
I believe he asked it on Twitter and face he
really wants an answer. Yeah. I have no idea what

(01:55:09):
he's talking about, but but maybe you do. Yeah. For Ben,
what happened to that segment that you said, you dude
defining how words or sentences came to be like paint
the town red? Oh words? Yeah? Yeah, the word? Uh well,
the feedback was okay, wasn't great? I did that for
like a year and a half or something like that.
And was this during the uh the Robert era. That

(01:55:30):
was the Bob Garra era, Bob Gara who used to
work here. Uh yeah, yeah, so I did did stuff.
I did that for what I liked. I would bring
him back, but people kind of I thought it was
kind of played out, you know, not the format for it.
All right, Next, ask Ben your questions and our answers.
We are loaded with ammunition here. I've got my machete, coop.

(01:55:52):
I'm ready. I'm gonna swash buckle my way out of this.
This is a deep one. Okay, this is for the crew.
This is from Brandon on Facebook. Brandon, what would you
say is your greatest accomplishment in life? My greatest accomplishment
in live? See what is? It? Can't be radio? I'm
a failure. I'm still doing overnights be here. If I

(01:56:12):
haven't gotten bankrupt, I'm gonna go with that. I haven't. Yeah,
I'm working in radio and buying a Mallard mansion that's
been underwater since twenty o eight. I've been able to
navigate my way financially. I got married. That was kind
of cool. I think that would happen. What about you, Eddie?
Your greatest accomplishment in life? Um? Well, considering that neither
of my parents graduated high school, I would say graduating college.

(01:56:36):
There you go, look at you making making your parents
proud Eddie? What about you, Danny G? I would say,
early on in my radio career, at one of my
first stations, kat M in Northern California, we did a
telethon and we raised one million dollars for Saint Jude.
One million. Wow, very cool. That is pretty cool. That's

(01:56:58):
all right? What about you, Coop? Greatest accomplished? Last week?
I went to Red Lobster for Yeah, I had sixty
two shrimp. Damn really yep, how how are you the
next day? Oh? It was awful. Did you have the biscuits?
I did? I had three cheddar Bay biscuits. Three. I

(01:57:20):
would have eaten sixty the bisus. I knew. I knew
I was gonna be doing a shrimp count, so I
didn't want to fill up too much on the on
the biscuits. They were happy when you left, Coop, get
out of here. But that was a pretty I'm pretty
proud of that accomplishment. It's impressive. Alright, going next question
be good job, thank you. That whole Hollywood career overrated.

(01:57:41):
But you go to Red Lobster starring in future film
and succeed in a major iconic film like eating cheddar
Bay biscuits and lobster and shrimp and all that. Well,
sixty two shrimp very impressive. All right. This is from
Adrian on Facebook. This is a quick one for everybody
in the crew. Whoopee pie or ice cream Sandwichami? We

(01:58:06):
sandwich good, but come on, ice cream sandwich is best
of both words. I actually took one of the whoopie
pies that got mailed to us, and I put a
scoop of vanilla ice cream next to it and ate
it like that. I turned it into a whoopee ice
cream sand I'm gonna tell our friends in Maine, Danny,
You're gonna be blacklisted in Maine. Bad job by you, coop? Yeah,
I scream of sandwich. Definitely, It's not even close. All right?

(01:58:27):
Next question, Yes, this is uh from Aaron on Facebook
to the crew. Hello, Aaron, what's the worst job that
you've ever had in your life? I did an overnight
radio show. Uh, No, I've been all I've I've had
a bad job. It's a radio bad job. Radio bad job.
It's not a real bad job like i've that was

(01:58:49):
a newspaper delivery guy when I was a kid. I mean,
I've mostly worked in media jobs. That's not even the
worst media job is not a bad I just there's
a guy fixing the air conditioning here. I went back.
Guy like he was all bummed out that I tried
to talk to him. He's all bummed out, he's hating life.
I've never really had that experience. I mean, I've I've
worked for terrible bosses and things like that in the past.

(01:59:09):
And I've had, you know, unappreciative management, but minor thing.
What about you, Eddie. I had a radio research job,
but it was basically a telemarketing job, and he would
I had to get but like four in the morning
and call people on the East Coast. And I tried
to convince him I wasn't selling them anything, because I
actually wasn't, but I was trying to figure out what
radio stations they listened to. And they, you know, curse

(01:59:30):
me out, tell me you go to hell, and you know,
blah blah blah, hang up on me and all that
kind of stuff. Yeah. I did that for two weeks. Yeah,
me too, and then I I quit. Yeah, I said,
screw this. Yeah, what about you? Danny. As a kid,
I had a paper route and there were so many
houses on my route that the bag with all the
papers would constantly tip my BMX over. It was still worse.

(01:59:52):
I would just have to get off and walk the
damn bike. Well, my problem with the newspaper. They eventually
my mom just drove me around. But my problem originally
was the fact cheating, Like I couldn't just delivered all
the houses like we selective houses, and it was a
pain in the ass, like who gets you don't get
a paper, you get a paper. And I hated that
I had a job where I had to call the
paper boys and tell them, Hey, you didn't deliver to

(02:00:13):
missus Smith's house. You got to go back out there
and do it. I hated getting those calls. You were
the grim Reaper? What about you, Coop? I mean, aside
from from acting gigs, I've only ever had two jobs.
Uh so, no answer. I mean, if I were to pick,
I guess one of the uh one of the movie
I did, Like I don't know if I brought this
up on this show before, but I did a movie
with a miniature horse. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, The Adventures

(02:00:37):
of Ragtime. You can get that in the bargain been
at Walmart. You can pick out. I don't even know
that you can find it there. To be honest, that
was pretty bad. I don't think I ever got paid
for that, to be honest, Wow, fortunate, Yeah suh. Start
in that movie we do A quick one was that
it Shelley long cheers from Cheers fame well that she

(02:00:58):
made the right decision too to leave. Yeah, that show,
that show was not gonna last. She was right she
caught that right. Good job by her and her agent.
She wanted to be taken seriously and she did a
great job. Yeah, all right, good job, Thank you, Coop,
and thank you for your questions. We'll do that again
next week next week. And should have had a better

(02:01:18):
answer for the worst job. I've never had a really
bad job. In the post mortem on the Cleveland Indians
sudden demise in the baseball postseason, on the age old
traditions in baseball has continued. It happened late into the night.
We will tell you welcome in the beginning of another hour.

(02:01:39):
It's the Ben Mathers Show. We are in the air
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(02:02:00):
penny will make an appearance coming up here in a
couple of minutes. So the big stories in baseball, you
had the Nationals in the day game, behind a out
of body experience by Steven Strassburg, beat the Cups. So
that means we get one of the great things in sports.
One game winner advances in the Baseball Playoffs. The choke factor,

(02:02:24):
the suffocation factor, the regurgitation factor, tight took his syndrome
we call it in these parts, will be very high
in that particular matchup between the Nationals and the Chicago Cups.
Cups are a slight favorite slight favorite games back in DC.
So it doesn't matter who wins this game. The team

(02:02:44):
that comes out ahead here is the Los Angeles Dodgers
because the Dodgers now they've been sitting back and waiting
for a couple of days. And then after that game
on Thursday, the winner, if it's the Cups Nationals, doesn't matter,
they head to Los Angeles. The Dodgers host Game one
of the NLCS on Saturday. So it is a competitive

(02:03:05):
advantage for the Dodgers again, much like they had in
the first round against the Diamondbacks when Arizona had to
play in the wild card game against Colorado and they
started a bum in Game one of that series. With
the Dodgers have a same advantage in Game one of
the NLCS, no matter who wins. But I began this

(02:03:27):
hour by saying it's a tradition that goes back many
generations in Baseball, and this involves the Cleveland Indians, who
meekly exited the playoffs. The Yankees got them five to
two in Game five of the Alds. So the Bronx
Bombers win. They come back from down oh two and
they advanced now beating the one hundred and two win Indians,

(02:03:49):
and so they move on and they'll take the Astros
on in the American League Championship Series starting on Friday night.
But at the beginning of that game it seemed like
a epic mismatch. You had Corey Kluber, who has already
won a cy Young and is expected to win the
Cy Young again. Now. He won eighteen games, he led

(02:04:11):
the American League and earned run average, and he's been
very consistent in the good column over the last couple
of years. So you had him against a washed up
old geezer of a pitcher in cc Sabathia advantage Indians
until the game started, and Corey Kluber was not effective,
could not get d. D. Gregorious out or even keep

(02:04:34):
him in the ballpark at the beginning of the game.
So when everything was done, the dust had settled. Corey
Kluber in the postseason allowed nine runs four home runs
in six and a third innings in a couple of
postseason starts. Now, what do you think happened after the game?
What do you think happened after the game? Yes, the

(02:04:55):
time tested fall guy of Major League Baseball reared its
ugly head again. Terry Francona hinting that Corey Kluber has
an injury, a back injury. There it is again. Now
I want to talk about this for a second because
my thoughts on this predictable, expected, and you gotta have

(02:05:20):
a fall guy. Gotta have a fall guy. It's predictable
because this is the kind of thing that always happens
in professional sports, but in particular because we're talking baseball here,
it is socially unacceptable to just say a pitcher went
out and urinated down his leg. You can't just say that.
He can't say a guy was bad. There has to

(02:05:40):
be a reason, right, So it is expected that these
kind of things pop up. I tweeted about this during
the game, but it's it's such an easy thing to
predict because it happens every single time. I can't remember
the last time a pitcher, a good pitcher went out
and had a bad game and then just said, hey,

(02:06:00):
I'll take ownership of it. I wasn't very good. The
other team they get paid too, as the cliche goes,
and they just bashed my head in And that's that's
on me. I sucked at a time I should not suck.
But guy, that's right. But rather than do that, rather
than than have that, you get little whispers and vague

(02:06:21):
statements about phantom back injuries. The funny thing is this one.
The Indians want us to believe that Klueber. They're they're
hinting around that his back was a problem because he
heard it back in May. He heard his back in May,
and then he came back and pitched and pitched well
enough to win the cy Young But now all of

(02:06:42):
a sudden, the playoffs. That's too much. Come on. I
don't I don't buy. He wasn't good. He wasn't good.
I don't believe that's the reason he was not good.
But you gotta have, as I said, you gotta have
a fall. Guy. Meanwhile, I want to pivot away from baseball.
I want to go over to the National Football League
and we'll get to the penny in a moment. But

(02:07:03):
von Miller, see what Von Miller was chirping about here
that Broncos are playing the Giants, and that games in
Sunday night coverage. I'm sure Al Michaels is excited about that.
A lot of mismatches according to the point spreads this
weekend in the NFL, and that is one of them.
Denver is a team that's relatively healthy compared to the Giants, who,

(02:07:27):
even when they're healthy, not only the an NFL team
they blow And the Broncos opened a nine point favorite.
They're an eleven and a half point favorite in that game,
So nobody wants to talk about Dad. Thank goodness for
von Miller though, because Vaughan dropped this gem. This gem
while discussing the upcoming matchup with the Giants. Von Miller

(02:07:51):
believes that Odell Beckham should be the highest paid player
in the history of the NFL, and not just a
non quarterback. He believes any player in the NFL. So
I wanted to talk about this now. The quote from
von Miller. Just imagine I'm von Miller. I'm not von Miller,

(02:08:12):
but just pretend I'm von Miller. It's theater of the mind.
Play along. Here it is quote he meaning Beckham should
be the highest paid player ever, regardless of position. Von
Miller shouted, that's just the type of player he is.
Miller continues, the type of impact here's my favorite part.

(02:08:34):
The type of impact that he has on the globe,
the type of viewers that he brings. Just him as
a player. Miller continued, that makes up for him not
playing quarterback. So he's once in a lifetime, a once
in a lifetime player. That's the affirmation of von Miller.

(02:08:56):
All right, so let's talk about this. Do you agree
with von Miller Odell Beckham be the highest paid player
in the NFL, not just non quarterback everybody? All right,
here's my my thoughts on this now to a point,
to a point, My belief is that you've got the
fraternity in play good for everyone popularity contest, and I'm

(02:09:20):
gonna throw Danna ka Patrick's name out there because I
believe it applies to this story. To begin with. The
Von Miller does not, unfortunately, get a vote on whether
or not Beckham gets paid. You know that I know
that he knows that he's not a being counter for
the Giants. He doesn't own an NFL team. You can
bind that with being members of the same fraternity, the

(02:09:42):
Fraternal Order of Football Players, part of the same union.
And you can take this with a grand assault. But
we'll engage in some friendly banter here. If Odell Beckham,
I'll make a deal with you if he breaks the
glass ceiling for salari. We know that's good for everybody, right,
we know that's good for everybody. And I've often said

(02:10:04):
that you're Coonian. Salary cap in the NFL is absurd.
It's sports socialism. I don't like it. Now. Nevertheless, the
NFL is not going to drop that anytime. So the
other point here, Odell Beckham has to prove he's not hobbled.
There's no way the Giants can hand over a bunch

(02:10:24):
of money, a bunch of brient trunks full of money
there without knowing for sure whether or not Beckham has
lost a step because of that ankle fractured his ankle. Now,
I would give Odeo Beckham a record contract if he's
healthy and he's got to do one other thing. You
want to take a guess what that one other thing
is that Beckham has to do. I'll give him the money,

(02:10:48):
but Beckham has to show me that he can take
a snap, throw the ball, fifty yards down the field,
run down and catch it. If he can do that
as a one man operation, I'll make him the high
paid player in the NFL. There's no amount of money
I won't pay him. There's none. I don't salary cap
be damn right, I'll give him the money. But this

(02:11:08):
is another example, right, another example of a value. Right,
you have a pay skill for I'll give I'll give
you a better point of reference for you. I know
it's early in the morning's late at night, depending on
where you are. Just for example's sake, here, why do
I make more money than Colin Cowherd at Fox Sports Radio.
The reason I make more money is because the two

(02:11:29):
am six am time slot is more valuable to the company. Right,
the Bennetts here, these guys that work on the show,
these guys, they make more money than the Danets because
they're so positive and uplifting and they don't do any
kind of negative banter. That's what Again, value your cost
value benefit, You've got to look at the cost benefit
of you. Are you worth the money? Yeah? And it

(02:11:52):
is a popularity contest, and it's clearly a popularity contest.
That's a part of this, especially for Odell Beckham. He's
in the right place. If Odell Beckham was the same
exact player and played in Jacksonville, no one would be
saying this. But wins and losses do not matter. Odell
Beckham is the biggest star in the Big Apple. Even
with him being hurt. He's got the huge Q rating,

(02:12:16):
very popular with the millennial crowd. They love this guy.
Beckham is to football what Danika Patrick is to the NFL,
or was to the world of Nascar. Right, Danika Patrick
in NASCAR was pretty popular for a while, but didn't
win anything. Back. I don't belief she's ever won a
NASCAR race in North America, but she made a lot

(02:12:39):
of money, and she would blame her crew or other
factors or other drivers. And Odell Beckham similarly blame the
coach or blame the teammates. And there's always someone to blame, right,
the fall guy. I'd have a fall guy. I will
give von Miller this. He used Donald Trump level puffery

(02:13:02):
when he mentioned the global impact of Odell Beckham's absolutely right.
I'm sure that if you were to travel to Bangladesh
or Papua New Guinea, there'd be a bunch of guys
running around with Odell Beckham Jerseys on right the Vatican.
Sure that's going on right now, absolutely, so you know,

(02:13:23):
you know what von Miller want. He wants He's fonding
over Odell Beckham so he can continue to be on
that VIP list. When Beckham has these big, big hooting
nannies in New York, there these big hodowns in the Gotham.
He wants to be on the right side of the
velvet ropes and all that. I gotta sa a couple
a little bit, all right, send Malla show on Fox.
Here we go. You know what time it is? Yeah,

(02:13:43):
that's right. Welcome, players, Welcome, It's time now, Benny, look
at this. Where's the time, gun? It's week six in
the NFL. Think of this as your appetiteiser. A programming
note tomorrow an hour number two, the full monty of

(02:14:06):
week six. We'll get to all the Sunday and Monday
night game action, but we'll just do the game tonight,
and we'll begin right now, and we start out with
the Philadelphia Eagles at four and one, playing their fourth
road again there, two and one on the road right now,
taking on Carolina at four and one, and you do
the math on this you realize that one of these

(02:14:28):
teams is going to be a five win team after
six games. Who is it going to bait? Who is
it going to be? Now? The point spread in this
game opened up in favor of the home team. The
Carolina Panthers opened up a three point favorite, and they've
moved up a half a point. So Carolina is favored

(02:14:50):
by three and a half. Almost eighty five percent of
the money here is in favor of the road team.
The Philadelphia Eagles is a live road dog. Now, this
is a toss up game. This is a flip the
coin game. That's why we do benny versus the penny.
I typically like to side with the underdog. I don't

(02:15:10):
trust the Philadelphia Eagles. I know that Carson Wentz has
been the top third down quarterback in the NFL. He's
got insane numbers. The Eagles are a grind it type team.
They're a grinder team, which means they run the ball
a ton. They don't play an aesthetically pleasing style of football.
It has clearly worked for them. It's clearly worked for them,
and I know Jim Nance will be very excited with

(02:15:32):
Tony Romo to call that game tonight, But my pick
is Carolina. Believe the war of attrition, I'm gonna side
with the home team here, and Carolina will pull away
in the fourth quarter. The Carolina Panthers twenty and the
Philadelphia Eagles thirteen. The penny picks Philadelphia. All right, we

(02:15:58):
have a disagreement, so I'm going with the favorite and
the Penny's going with the dog. There, we'll see how
it plays out. Ben Mather's show on Fox will bring
Eddie in in a moment here, but right now, right now,
the phone number eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
eight seven seven ninety nine six six three six nine.
I'm sure Eddie will be watching hockey tonight. You will

(02:16:20):
not have to be watching the Panthers and the Eagles. No,
maybe maybe flip back and forth. What's the big hockey
game tonight, Eddie. I don't know what that would be tonight.
That's a good question. I'll check the schedule. I'm watching
the the football game to help out the people protesting
that aren't watching football game. So that's what I'm doing, Eddie.

(02:16:42):
That's very big of you. Public service. Yeah, it's my
job at a Penguin's Lightning. I would say, would be
the big guy, the big game, big game of the night. Yeah,
where's that game? Is that in Tampa? That's in Tampa? Yah?
Our tickets still available? M a few. You could go
to the airport and make it in time for that game.

(02:17:03):
You gotta leave right afterward. I could You could know
it's a big game. Well, there's plenty of big games. Really, yeah,
you sure about that? It's a big game every night. Okay, Hey,
did you see what Sean Combs was yapping about? Here?
Here a big pete? Did he? Guy? Right? What's he
called them? He's not called puffy anymore? Did you get

(02:17:23):
rid of that? Danny would saying? That's the music? Sean Combs,
Now he listens to the show Ben and he knows
that you say faux drizzle a lot? So did he did? Okay?
Foe did? He said? Quote I I did have a
dream to own an NFL team? But now Sean did

(02:17:45):
he what what's he called? Foe? Did? He said that?
He said this on social media? He says, Now, my
dream is to own our own league. Foe drizzle? Yeah,
that sounds realistic, he says, a league where check out?
What's not attractive about this? A league where we can
be yourself, have a retirement plan, have freedom to be

(02:18:06):
a great human and protest for your people without being
demonized for your beliefs as a king. New dream alert
that's from was it Folk Folk Combs? Is that? Yeah?
I'm sorry fo drizzle Foe did he might want to
write it down. I won't say it again. Yeah, So

(02:18:28):
I recommend that that Sean Combs does this. I think
there's no better way to go bankrupt than to start
a football league. This reminds me of that that three
on three league that we were all excited about. How
I was never excited about that? Well, Coop was. I
was mildly excited. But how did that work out? I
go pretty well, I was excited about it. You want

(02:18:49):
to know how much I've watched? So how much did
you watch Coop? Zero minutes? That's a lie? It was.
It was on the hallways here, when we walked down
by the toilet, it was on. They were highlighted. It
wasn't live. Yeah. Hey, ice Cube's promotional songs pretty dope. Yes, Yeah,
I think that mister Coombs should spend all of his
money starting in football league. I think that's a great investment.

(02:19:11):
And especially if you sell it as a league that
wants protesting. I think everyone will tune in. Who doesn't
want to watch a sporting event to see protesting? Many
of us agree that we watch the games to see
acts of protests. Who does not want to see that?
It's a great idea. All right, we will get to
the we have the CFL guy. We'll get to the
CFL guy, the CFL report. We go from the NFL

(02:19:34):
to the CFL. We'll do that. We'll do it next
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(02:19:59):
Brett says, Hey, ask Vince McMahon how that CFL thing
worked out as a league. X. I've CFL on the minded.
He did, we all do. I'm excited about this CFL report.
Man who has been red hot, given out picks and great.
I am Benny the Canadian giving out these picks. That's
what I am. Big big winners, big winners. There no

(02:20:21):
question about a Bubba. The Eagle fan is convinced that
I've given out the wrong pick. He says, fly, Eagles Fly.
He says, you are wrong. Love your show, but Eagles
will be five and one. It's not what I foreshadow.
It's not what I see. I do not see it.
Dan says Odell should be the highest paid athlete in

(02:20:41):
all of sports. Dan's actually his agent. I believe that's
say that's Odell's agent is listening to the show. Believe
that's accurate. All right, let's let's go now to Ottawa,
and it's time yet again our weekly feature. The Canadian
Football League is number one and there's no protest? Are
people protesting in the CFL? Jason? And they protesting the

(02:21:05):
Canadian government to the Canadian flags? That going on in Canada?
Absolutely not. You know, I'm not a big fan of
the government. But actually we here in Ottawa, we actually
fly the flag in the crowd. We passed out through
the crowd during the ansome so patriot says them up
here in the great great White North end. All right, well,
let's get to the CFL report here a weekly statements.

(02:21:28):
All right, what do we got? All right? Well, Ben
all good things coming to an end. Your hot streak
of picks ends the Saskatchewan be Toronto twenty seven to
twenty four. Canadian quarterback Brandon Bridge off the bench with Saskatchewan.
He went twenty of twenty eight for two or ninety
two yards and two touchdowns. It looks to be the
starter moving forward. Huge upset. Hamilton goes into Winnipeg and
was thirty to thirteen. They're keeping their playoff folks alive.

(02:21:50):
Jeremiah is only the quarterback for Ambulan. Since being named
the starter, he's been white hot. He had three hundred
three eight yards passing this one and a couple of
big comebacks outaway down twenty two to six. Quarterback Trivi Harris,
He's gonna be the first of our malor and mopiece.
His first starts since injuring his shoulder a month ago.
He rallies the Red Blacks thirty to twenty five, twenty
eight of thirty eight three years. That's the name of

(02:22:14):
the team, you know. He was aided by the CFLs
leading receiver Red Blacks receiver Greg Ellingson. He continued his
tourd base. He had seven receptions four hundred and forty
nine yards and two touchdowns and the second big comeback.
Edmonton was down fifteen nothing in Montreal early. Hey O,
it's for the Alouets forty two to nine. From there,
they stracked that sixth game, losing Street forty two to

(02:22:35):
twenty four. Second malor mp Edmonton wide receiver Brandon Zilstra
seven receptions, two hundred one yards and a touchdown. Open
with a week seventy only four weeks left of the
regular season, Ben doubled enter on Friday, the third Calgary
ten point favorites stay in Hamilton, Hamilton hoping to stay
alive there Ottawa in Saskatchewan Scatchew a three point favorite.

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There's our dangy game of the week where he got there. Ben, Well, listen,
I'm gonna I'm gonna pick the Calgary Hamilton game. I
know you're just pumping up. You were tooting the horn
of Hamilton, but that ends this week. I don't typically
bet road favorites. And I know you said the line
was ten. I see it at nine and a half,
not at a half in favor of Calgary the Stampeters.

(02:23:15):
But the pick here, I am going with Calgary. They
should win this game by at least two touchdowns. The
point spreads between nine and a half and ten. That
gives you a little bit of cushion. But I see
this being you know, like thirty four or so to
like fourteen something in that area. So I'm gonna take

(02:23:35):
the road team Calgary to put Hamilton out of their misery. Okay,
sounds good. I'm gonna roll with Ottawe in this one.
Three point dogs on the road. I think they're gonna
win out right. They need this one to get into
playoffs Saturday. We have to pick them right now because
quarterback Matt Nichols for Winnipeg he's out, probably with the
shoulder injury PC's. I went to think, oh, they came
to the slim playoffs Hope Away and the big one

(02:23:58):
Toronto in Emmitton. All of a sudden ematon ends. Now
they're seven point favorites. I hold that the fitching way
points for me. I would take Toronto in that one.
Munch girls on a buy quick checking the day every
days the last playoff spot in the East. Now, Ben, Yes, yes,
Canada is the third most sleep deprived Nisan role. So
I'm thinking maybe I should check out a sleep number
bed and I hope everyone, Yeah, yourself away. Well, yeah,

(02:24:21):
there's a bunch of locations and they're all over the place.
Go to sleep number dot com tell them. Ben Malli
sent you right, got sleep on these performances. If you're
gonna sleep, sleep on sleep number bed enjoy. All right,
there he goes Jason and Ottawa again. Remember the pick here,
It's very important you remember the pick. I'm going on

(02:24:44):
a limb. I'm taking a nine and a half point,
the ten point road favorite, like the Calgary Stampeters, the
Hamilton Tiger Cattle. You know that Hamilton play was pretty
popular for a while. But the Hamilton football team New New,
New New Calgary's nine to four and one against the spread,

(02:25:04):
pretty impressive, pretty minute, much better overall, but against the
spread nine for one. All right, Ben mallows Shaw on
Fox we are going to have factor fiction. But right now,
let's get you the latest on Fox Sports Radio from
Eddie Garcia. Eddie D. Garcia. That's correct, well, Ben. Postseason baseball,
the Yankees have eliminated the top team in the American League,

(02:25:27):
beating the Indians in Cleveland in Game five of the
Alds five to two. D D. Gregoria's hit a pair
of home runs, a solo shot in the first and
a two run homer in the third inning off of
starter Corey Klueber to help the Yankees get the lead
that they would never relinquish. Bred Gardner and Todd Fraser
also drove and runs in the ninth inning to wrap
up the victory. Again, New York takes a series three
games to two after losing the first two games in

(02:25:49):
the series, and they advanced to face the Houston Astros
in the ALCS. Game four, the NLDS saw the national
stay alive with a five nothing win in Chicago over
the Cub. Steven Strasburg, who we were told wasn't going
to pitch in this game because he was under the weather,
did pitch and he tossed seven shutout innings. He only
allowed three hit, struck out twelve and a great or
former amazing medical miracle, Eddie, I mean to overcome that

(02:26:13):
mold in Chicago. I don't even think it's medical miracle.
Then it's it's it's a play flat out miracle. By
the way, Eddie, Yes, I got a text from a
guy that knows some people of baseball the Chicago and
not think comes the Nationals rather the Washington Nationals are concerned, Eddie.
They could face litigation because if Dusty Baker's comments there

(02:26:37):
from the hotel that they he slandered the hotel with
his comment. Well, he didn't say the name of the hotel,
though it's not hard to find on this thing. I
think if he says the name, then you got something.
By the way, your favorite player Michael A. Taylor with
a grand slam that Michael Taylor first ever Grand slammer

(02:26:59):
or Nationals street that series is time TEG Radio deciding
Game five coming up tonight in DC. Very excited with
the barbecue is fresh? And yes, this report is brought
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(02:27:19):
and enjoy more confident car buying experience. And Ben is
now is barbecue good in DC? Or none? I've never been.
I'd like to go. Actually, I'd really like some out
to check out. Yeah, I want to go to do
the tourist things and all that. Me too, Me too.
One note from the NBA, The Minnesota Timberwolves signed guard
Andrew Wiggins five years one hundred and forty eight million
dollars champions Championship. Oh Canada. He's Canadian, Eddie. It's a

(02:27:45):
good Canadian lad. He is all right, thank you for that.
It is the Ben Mathers Shows. We emanate from the
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as we yap the night away here, you just heard

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that great testimonial from Jason and Ottawa. And Jason's like, man,
I you know us Canadians, we don't sleep very well.
I need a bed and he just I did not
ask him to do this in any way. I did
not ask him at all. He just randomly tossed out
sleep humber, which it's I'm sure it's a coincidence, a
coinkie dick. But I happened at the Mallard Mansion. If

(02:28:27):
you come to the holiday party this year, the Ugly
Sweater Party, which Coop's not invited to because he hasn't
shown up the last two years. But if you come
to the Ugly Sweater Party at the Mallard Mansion, I
will give rides on the Sleep Number bed. I will
show you how it works. I will give demonstrations of
the perverts. I will show you how the bed works. Okay,
it's a wonderful thing. I don't I don't want to

(02:28:49):
ride on your No. No, I don't mean you guys
have dirty mind. I mean the technology in the bed
is amazing. So now that it's fall, your life is
a little more hectic. It's more hectic than ever here.
That's why I care about getting my best quality sleep,
and it's why I love my Sleep Number bed. To

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each side. It's the perfect bed for couples. For example,
you know we have our friends Leslie and Jack, the Judge,
the power couple that call the show. I don't know
what kind of bed they like, but if Leslie likes
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(02:30:16):
Remember when you were a kid, you know, your mom
would come in and make sure you were sleeping all right.
And I'm not saying the bed's gonna replace that feeling,
but it'll keep you sleeping. It'll move around as you
move around, which is really really cool. I think that's
really really neat. And they even have an adjustment for snoring.
My sleep number setting is fifty, right in the middle

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of the spectrum. You don't know what that means yet
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Number at any of the five hundred and fifty sleep
number stores nation why, nationwide, and I recommend going over
to sleep number dot com, especially for our friends in Canada,
and be sure to tell them that Ben Maller sent you,
please France. Bit of media? Is it fact fiction? Let's

(02:31:23):
face some raw facts on the Ben Maller Show. Let's
do this here we go, you know, but it's Thursday.
It's time now for fact or fiction. We have our
celebrity panel of judges, the best and the brightest to
have checked in from all over North America and beyond
to grade this edition of fact or fiction. Let's see

(02:31:47):
who do we have. We always start out with the
Power Couple and we go to Bradenton, Florida, and we say,
good morning. Is it going to be Jack the judge
or Leslie? Let's find out right now? Hello Leslie? You
are right Ben as always? Uhh uh? So now what
was I right about? Just to repeat there it was me?

(02:32:07):
I thought it was you. Now, what what kind of
about do you? Guys? You you like the same type
of beat you and Jack the judge You when you're
sleeping and I agree on everything? Oh really, wow, almost everything? Okay,
what do you have big disagreements about? What's um? Politics? Oh? Politics,

(02:32:28):
that's a big one. That's that's a big one. Admitting girls?
Oh that okay, yeah, I saw that. That's Uh, can
boys being the girl scouts? How does that work? Because
that could be yeah, yeah, that could be pretty interesting.
All right. Well hold on, thank you, Leslie. And I
like the photo. Let's sent me a nice photo of

(02:32:48):
Jack the Judge there and he had he had a razor,
Harry's razor that we were doing commercials for last year. Right,
thank you, Leslie. Hold on, there she goes. And who
else do we have? Let's see here? How about we
say hello to Robert who's in the Saint Paul, Hello, Robert?
How are you doing? Ben? Robert? If I was any better,

(02:33:10):
I would be a Bradford, but not a Sam Bradford,
because he looked dazed and confused. And that Monday Nika, Yeah,
it looks like a lingering knee injury that might gone
for a while. Yeah. Well, the Vikings know about injured quarterbacks.
They've mastered that they have. All right, well, very good.
Hold on second, Robert, hold on secon buddy, And who

(02:33:30):
else do we have? Jed? Who fled? Hello Jed? What's
going on? Then? Yeah, girls can be in the Boy Scouts.
The boys can be in the Girls Scouts and weed
man hippy and can have a good phone call. It
can happen. I look at you, man, unloading weed man.
How do you feel about that? Weed man, hippie, I
don't care. Att listen Ben, listen Judge Bret Gardener or

(02:34:01):
two different aliens from two different aliens systems. No no, no, no, no,
no no, thank you. Tammy in Montana, Hello, Tammy, he Ben,
I think you better invite Rachel to your Christmas party
because I'm sure she'd like a ride on your bed
with you. That's a no fly zone. It's more of

(02:34:24):
a misspoke there. It's more of a technology seminar that
I was offering that was, Oh yeah, I love you.
Calm down, weed man, I know you're a big thing. You.
Calm down, Calm down, all right, I'd like to rustle
with bloody. Calm down, weed man. It's all right, buddy,

(02:34:48):
all right, let's go to Wheeling, West Virginia, the curmudgeon
of callers and regular purveyor of prostitutes. Radio Rich Hello,
a Radio Rich Hello. Hello. Your bogan says hello, October
Fest is over. None of the questions to ask Ben

(02:35:09):
was how is your greatest accomplished played in life? I'm
being the person I don't know. This is kind of small,
the being the person who has called many more. All right,
here we go. Let's do this factor fiction time. I'll
give you three stories. Figure out which of the three
is not true. You can play along as you listen.
We call that the car version, the work version, or

(02:35:30):
if you're listening at home, God love you. All right,
here we go. Lamello gets tutors. A few weeks ago,
we learned that LaVar ball and pulled out his youngest
basketball phenom's son, LaMelo took him out of high school
so we can take full control over his basketball training.
And earlier this week, LaVar revealing that he has hired

(02:35:52):
private tutors, a gaggle of tutors to take care of
Lamello's educational leads. LaMelo will focus on two subjects, math
in English, so he can count his money and communicate
when it's not right. All right, it's very important. Story

(02:36:12):
number two Travis Kelsey challenging a fellow tight end. Now,
just because Greg Olson he's the other tight ends, greg
Olson has been injured, it does not mean that he's
shying away from competition. In fact, Travis Kelsey recently called
out Olson to participate in the one Chip Challenge. Hell's
that both tight ends had to eat the Carolina Reaper

(02:36:37):
Madness chip that holds the Guinness World Record for the
hottest tortilla chip. That sounds pretty good. Both guys had
a glass of milk and pepto on standby. This is
not a product placement situation at all. Olsen was the
first goal for the milk, so he was the first
to go with the milk, all right. Story number three

(02:36:59):
Cam Newton auctioning off his shoes or cleats. Cam Newton
apparently still attempting to make amends for his faux paw
with the ladies last week. Now, earlier this week he
made headlines. You remember he wore the rosie, the riveter,
a pin in the hat, the whole thing. Well, every

(02:37:22):
woman I know said, we're good. He wore the rosie
the river We're good. Anyway, During the practice before the
Thursday night game the last practice, Cam Newton will be
wearing again Rosie the Riveter cleats and he will those
will be auctioned off after the game. The proceeds will
go to the Women's Empowerment Foundation. Whatever that is? All right,

(02:37:44):
Here we go, let's do it. Here we go right
now those other stories, which of these is not true?
We start out in Bradenton, Florida, and we say hello
to the lovely and talented Leslie. Leslie, what's the answer two?
Number two? She's says, with confidence, with swagger, the whole thing.
All right, thank you, Leslie, have a good weekend, all right,

(02:38:06):
bye bye? There she goes, there's Leslie Robert in Saint Paul. Robert,
what what's the answer here? Buddy? Um, it's actually Robert
p from Saint Paul. But I'm gonna see story number two. Leslie. No,
there's no mental initial, Robert. You are not allowed to
use your mental initial, just like Michael Taylor's not Michael A. Taylor.

(02:38:30):
All right, hold on, Jed who fled? I hope it's
number one? And Lamello turns out like Bobby Bouche said,
Daddy said much left. Fellas have a going thank you,
weed Man, hippie from another planet. Iron Judge doesn't understand
the strike. No, he doesn't understand. He doesn't nderstand. He

(02:38:54):
just can't hit that pitch low and away. He doesn't
see the line. Don't get it. He's an alien. Don't
get it. You do understand that that that Fox box
or the TBS strike zone is not actually real, like
they can't see it in the sea. Who else do
we have here? There's Oh Tammy and Montana. Hello Tammy. Well,
in light of Coop's sixty two shrimps, I'm sure it's

(02:39:17):
number two, and we are still waiting for Jed to
have a good call. I love you, wet band salute
that makes you feel good? Weed Ban done it? Who Tammy?
I love you? All right? Radio Rich the curmudgeon of
callers in Wheeling, West Virginia. I'm taking a shot at

(02:39:39):
number one and pertaining to the subject of callers cheating
on you. I can't imagine any other caller to cheats
on you. Ah, I don't. Does anyone want to hear
the end of that? I don't. We're good, Okay. Nobody
got it right. The fake story was the Cam Newton
story with the auction to the cleats, the hot Spicy
chip story, mellow LaVar stories, both true. We'll get the

(02:40:04):
cowboys corner. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
There's a world one of excitement going on around our
show reddit page. Search for our subreddit Ben Maller Show
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Maler Militia. Now live from the Guy Coo Fox Sports
Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. All right. So there's this
myth going around that soccer is more popular than ever.
This is according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association,

(02:40:29):
the number of soccer players in America twenty thirteen. There
were twelve point nine million in twenty sixteen, eleven point
nine million US A million soccer players. From twenty thirteen
to twenty sixty million less people playing soccer. Hey, real quick,
Doc Mike. Who wins tonight? Cubs or Nationals? Doc Mike Chicago. Yeah,

(02:40:52):
we're over for the Cubs. But they were said to
us three jumpers last night. All right, get the same
material every Hey, doc, what's what's my producer's name? Doc?
Go ahead, I wrote it down, Jason. Yes, that's right. Okay,
let's cowboy up on the Benn Mallor Show Cowboy John

(02:41:14):
Brad and wins there Ontario yea by fifty two amater
in the daylight Time on Thursday October twelfth, twenty seventeen,
Chris Forrester and a thank you or fifty sixth to day.
The Great Will Chamberlain died eighteen years ago the day
three I was on the radio that day. Wow a movie.
It's the Great Tiger's first base to drown thirty one
years and go I'm out of the plazacare at eighty five.

(02:41:37):
Today is grandsfth awful NASCAR driver Jason Jarard will the
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