October 20, 2022 • 33 mins
Thursday on the Ben Maller Show, Ben opens the show reacting to the New York Yankees loss to the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the ALCS. Is there cause for concern in the Bronx after Game 1? Ben doesn’t think so, because New York didn’t even trot out their best starter for this game. Ben also reacts to the Padres clawing back to take game 2 of the NLCS, and evening the series at one game apiece. Ben says this a paramount win for the Padres, and a complete collapse for Aaron Nola for the Phillies. Plus, Ben questions if Tom Brady could actually pull the plug on his career and retire mid-season. There’s been some turmoil down in Florida, with Brady missing team workouts, some disconnection and a poor team performance. Ben feels that all of Tom’s issues on and off the field could culminate in him deciding to step away from the game mid-season.
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This is the best of the Ben Mallers Show on
Fox Sports Radio or at leave this hour coming from
deep in the heart of Texas, the den of inequity,
the pit of Cheaters in Houston, Ground zero for elicit
baseball activity, the worst cheating scandal in North American professional
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sport in my lifetime. It happened a few years ago.
Nobody was punished, None of the players were punished. So
the Yankees buses rolled into town for a matchup with
the Stros in Game one of the Americanly Championship Series.
I assume you were aware of this, Houston sending out
the presumptive twenty twenty two Cy Young winner in Justin
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verla Ender against a back of the rotation Yankee starter
Jamison tie On for the Bronx Momber. So if you
were checking this out. You know what happened, but if not,
don't worry. We got your back. We were watching. So
the game was relatively closed for a while, and then
the Astros pulled away. Justin Verlander ended up with eleven
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strikeouts over six innings. Yulee Guriel, I remember him. Chas
McCormick or Chase McCormick and Jeremy Paena all had home runs,
and the cheating Astros got past the Yankees four to two,
so they get to jump on the American League Championship Series.
A lot to discuss, a lot to unpack. Let us
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go to that right now. The question how concerning, how
concerning is this for the Yankees? How concern and should
the Yankees be about this particular Losso we'll dust off
the Mallar scale of concern one to ten with ten
band Oh crap, we're cooked. That's the worst, right So
on the Mallard scale of concern for the Yankees, because
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all of America is a Yankee fan right now, even
the Red Sox fans are pulling for the Yankees, this
is only a three. I'm only at a three on
the Mallard scale of concern, which is discomforting the way
the Yankees played. But it's game number one, so I've
got pasta Chevy chase and garden party, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to make a roasted duck, which is what I hope
the Astros are when this is all over, is a
roasted duck. So hey, listen, we'll start with this. The
Yankees did not send their number one guy out to
the mountain, right, So that's that's what you talk about,
the Mallard scale of concern. That's the main reason I'm
only at a three here. This was a gigantic mismatch
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on paper, and not that people use paper more, but
on your phone. It was a gigantic mismatch when you
look at the matchup, and not saying the Yankees through
the game, I'm saying that they didn't want to lose,
but they knew going in the chances of winning. The
survival rate, if you will, for the Yankees to win
Game one was very low. As when you're starting Jeremy
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tie On against Justin Verlander, it's the equivalent of going
into combat with bean bags against hand grenades. You're probably
not gonna do too well. In that head and head confrontation,
and so the game unfolded and the office. That's the discomforting,
discouraging thing because the Yankees, and I know this is
not a new revelation here, but it was a strikeout
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a palooza, is what it was. Yankees ended up whipping
seventeen times in all eleven against Verland. Go. Yeah, it's
a swing and miss party. Everyone gets a swing, everyone misses. There.
The Astros only swung and miss. That is as far
as striking out two times. And we are told by
the nerds that that is the largest disparity in a
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postseason game in professional history. So congratulations to the Yankees
and Astros. Good job by you. And we know this
is how the modern game of baseball is played. And
the Dorks get very offended when you point out this
is not good, right. The Dorks get upset, The dingle
Berries get upset. They don't like this. But we're from
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the old country and it's just a problem. I was
raised watching ball that you put the ball in play,
you put pressure on the defense, you force defenders to
make plays, and the more you do that, the more
likely it is that either they'll misplay the ball, or
you'll find a hole in the defense. Keep them on
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their toes when you strike out. The only thing you
have to worry about is tripping on the way back
to the dugout. That's the only thing you have to
worry about it right. The Bronx bombers were serving up pasta.
What kind of pasta was It was a macaroni? Was
it a spaghetti? It was extra creamy. Corkscrew pasta is
what they were corkscrewing themselves into the batter's box. There
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is a sawing bad sauce wing bada. Yes he got
And I believe And maybe I'm wrong in this. I
don't know baseball too well. I just do an overnight show.
But I think that was the same Justin Verlander who
took a ride on the vomit comment against the Mariners
and got charb roiled by Seattle's lineup in his last
playoff start. Instead, he looked like he was holding a
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flamethrower on the mound in this game. What happened to
playoff Verlander? Where's that guy? The Yankees made this guy
look like Mozart on the mound. It was a symphony,
tremendous tremendas and so maybe the Yankees had too much
booze and they were celebrating. They might have had a
long trip of alcohol on the way from the New
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York Tri state area there down to to Houston. All right, now,
page two, what did you make of Aaron Boone's managing?
So I wanted to talk about this now, this is
not gonna be a big topic of conversation a lot
of places, but watching the way this game on holden,
it was more of that analytical bullpucky, as our friend
Jay Scoop likes to say, the Yankee bullpen was gassed allegedly,
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right and as the Yankees eve though they had a
bunch of days off against Cleveland, they used a lot
of relievers the day before. And so Jamison tye On
is matching Verlander, not pitch for pitch, but he was
pitching way above his skill set. Tye On went four
and a third innings, He allowed four hits but only
one run. So what did Aaron Boone do? All right?
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What did you know what he did? If he saw
the game, He pulled his starting pitcher as soon as
possible to get into that frazzled bullpen, and tye On
he was taking out two batters into the fifth inning,
after Jeremy Pania had doubled the second batter of the game.
And that is you know what that is. That's a
Dave Roberts like move. That is a Dave Robert and
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Yankee fans ought to be scared. They ought to be
pooping their pitch. Aaron Boone is a little baby Dave Roberts.
That's what Aaron Boone is. Okay, I'm telling you. Tie
On had sixty seven pitches, So a the bulpin supposed
he is all used up. Be the guy. I know
he's not that good time, trust me, he's not. He
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walks a lot of guys, he's wild all that. But
at that point he'd only given up one run. Sixty
seven pitches. You can't get another inning plus out of
that guy. Come on, it's embarrassing. And so the Yankee
bullpen with all those miles on the odometer and the
almighty nerds, whatever they tell Aaron Boone, he doesn't. I
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just like, just like Dave Roberts, right middle manager, mindless
middle manager, you make the move. Someone named Clark Schmidt.
I don't know who that is, and but he was there,
he was pitching come on number eighty six in your program,
I think it was, but number one in your heart. Yeah,
he would eventually give up not one, but two home
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runs and get the loss. And they would have been
better off if they had contacted the Chevy Chase and
have him dress up as Clark Griswold and update the
National Lampoon Vacation movies. They gonna make another one this
old old school movies there, but expect expect more reckless
pitching changes from Aaron Boone because he is a middle
manager and he is beholden to the three ring binder.
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What the dorks come up with, he has to follow,
God forbid. You say, well, wait a minute, the playoff game,
this guy's actually pitching above where he normally is. Let's
let's see how long this thing can go. Instead, you
bring the Congo line in. Let's hope we get four
or five six good relief outings. All right, last word here,
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So what are your thoughts on the Stros taking Game one?
So obviously not fans, We've made that perfectly clear. We
look forward to the day. We think it'll happen soon,
hopefully this series that Houston goes bye bye. We look
forward to that all of America pulling for the Incas.
What does it take to pull for the Yankees? Play
the A hole? That's what it takes. Play the a holes?
You pull for the Yankees? The ass Strokes. They are
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the skunk at the garden party in the playoffs. Everything
they accomplish. And I've gotten long emails manifestos from our
friends that listen to Houston on our affiliate seven ninety
there in Houston, and they've tried to reason with me.
They tried to explain, oh no, no, no, not treating anymore,
why don't you let them go? What's wrong with you?
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Long enough that I get that whole rap, you know?
And I point out every time I sometimes I write back,
sometimes I don't, but I when I do right back,
I point out that every accomplishment this franchise has, and
they made a big deal about how they've been in
the American League Championship Series all these times, been the
World Series much and all that. I take all of
that with a grand assault, and so should you, because
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they're not serial killers. They're serial cheaters, convicted and unpunished.
The faces of the franchise remain the same Jose Alboo.
They Alex Bregman, masterminds behind the twenty seventeen hijacking of
the World Series, the espionage that took place there. It
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appears the buzzers and trash cans are not working right
now for Al Boove, the Pip squeak cheater who will
not make the Hall of Fame because he's a convicted cheater.
Oh for three in this game and now in the playoffs.
Al bouve Is oh for nineteen in the postseason might
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want to put a buzzer on him right now because
the things that are not working out so well now.
Juli Gurriel, the guy that's a racist, remember you made
the racist jesture in the dugout during the twenty seventeen
World Series racist and Baseball said, you know, we're gonna
go woke in a couple of years movie the All
Star Game out of Atlanta. But right now, no, we'll
let you stay in the World Series. Well, we'll suspend
you the following year when no one's watching and you're
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playing the Athletics the beginning the year, we'll suspend you
for that. That's that's leadership by Rob Manford, the spineless, gutlessmmissioner,
Major League baseball. So anyway, Yeah, Julie Guriel, the guy
that made the racist I gesture in the World Series
a couple of years ago, he had a home run.
Makes you wonder if you got a sign or something
like that. And I don't know, I know he's done
that in the past. Yeah, a whistle whistle, whistle, whistle whistle,
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could be any of those. But the way I interpret this, unpunished,
which is what the Astros were, means that you can
go back to it, right, you're not. Baseball's announced that
they don't really care. You can do whatever you want,
Rob Man for It's just a little piece of that
all and Rob was running interference for those scumbags who
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wear Astro uniforms and so again, just to repeat everything,
they go on win the World serious, I'm not gonna
it's not legit. It's not legit. They have no credibilities
a franchise. Their fan base is despicable. The people that
support them. You talk about standing up for cheaters, that's
the Astro fan It's despicable. Yeah, it is. I'd rather
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have slice bread out there is what I'd rather have.
I'll tell you that, right, pull for it. Let me
find out where it comes from. It comes from Kansas,
and we got writers who have said it and done
it off. Slice bread. Yeah, I pull for slice bread.
That's what I pull for anyway. So coming up meanwhile,
we move into game too. Here Framberg Valdez. We'll go
against Louis Severino and that is a little Thursday night
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Actually gonna watch that boy, the Thursday night football games
a dog game though, I don't know. I mean, I
might have to watch the baseball instead. I'll be flipping
back and forth my right hand. We'll be getting a workout.
But my god, what jerk yourself away? What a dog
matchup it is on Thursday night. You got the little
guy Alligator Arms Murray on one side and the New
Orleans Saints nameless faceless franchise on the other side. Wow,
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that's a bat. Al Michaels might want to retire right now.
He might, Al might. What are you talking about? Another
another sixteen thirteen type game if they're lucky Cardinals and
Saints and the Thursday night game anyway, So that is
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lead this hour coming from Sun Diego. And Oh what
a wonderful sighted unless it was Game two of the
National League Championship Series, the Phillies looking to poach another
road win. They already got home field advantages in their
back pocket after winning Game one, and it was on
the Game two against the padres A one thirty one
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thirty pm local start in so Cal ninety two degrees,
ninety two degrees in sun Diego at first pitch there
America's Finest city when I lived. When I lived there,
I worked there. But when I worked in San Diego,
they had the America's Finest City on the police cars.
I don't know if they still do it not. But
Aaron Nola Aaron Nolah on the mound for the fighting
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fills against Blake Snell eight k bro. I'm reason getting
my libra. Yeah that guy. So do you see the game?
Were you watching? It was an afternoon game? Maybe you
missed it. So I'm not playing unless I get minds right,
I get paid. Apparently showed up. We got you covered
there and it's Alrea. It's our good mits for the day.
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So Brandon Drewery Brandon Drewery smack and the go ahead
two runs single part of a five run ambush in
the fifth inning, five on five as the Pod squad
storming back to beat the Phillies eight to five on Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday,
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So they tie up the American League or not the
America the National League Championship Series. It's an all wild
card series. One one the series now shifting to Philadelphia
for three games starting on Friday, and they'll be back
at it Friday night there to have some more baseball action.
Let us discuss the question. So the Phillies had a
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big lead early. Who's the fall guy for the Phillies.
Somebody's got to be the scapegoat. So my observations, you've
got line Cook, President Biden, and science and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make an adequate Mallard monologue. So number one, this
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one's easy. The fall guys easy. The Phillies offense provided
the early artillery. You score four runs in the top
of the second and you are set up on Easy Street.
And then they had to play the rest of the game,
which presented an issue. Turned out to be the So
the Easy Street, it was a wrong turn. They ended
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up on the Highway to Hell, they being the Phillies.
Aaron Nola was given a brass ring opportunity and for
nothing League. He's been pitching great for the Phillies lately,
and he took that ring and dropped it right in
the Pacific Ocean. And I know what that's like, because
I lost a ring in the Pacific Ocean. So meltdown, meltown,
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melt meltdown. Touch a place we have at meltown, Aaronlah, meltdown, meltdown, meltdown. Yeah,
that was bad. That that's I mean, geez. He was
really multitasking Nola for the Phillies. Not only was Nola's
serving on the mound, he was also working as a
line cook. He was serving up spaghetti with extra spicy
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meat balls, a big giant meat balls for the Podre hitter.
San Diego put up six runs and seven hits, including
a couple of home runs. Just eighty one pitches by Noela,
including the brother. His brother plays with the Podres catcher.
He had a hit against his brother, and so the
oil splattering with two strikes and you gotta finish the game.
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You have a four run lead. Very rarely do teams
lose four run leads in the plus. It might seem
like that happens all the time, but just give you
an example, the Phillies blowing a four run lead in
the playoffs. That's only the third time that's ever happened
to the Phillies franchise. They've been around since the eighteen hundreds.
Twenty seven and three. Their record now when they have
a four run lead at any point during a playoff
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game twenty seven and three and they just lost the
game here this week now, page two, How big a
win is this for the Podres right? Well, so the
answer to that is it was paramount Blake Snell's not
very good and Snell lived up to expectation there. He
served up five innings, pitched five innings of four earned runs.
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He was schnockerd in that inning, dazed and confused. And
for San Diego to rise from the ashes and win
a game like that, as obviously it's a good confidence booster.
There is no such thing as momentum. We know that
that's true, and this series has proved there's no such
thing as momentum. Otherwise the Phillies would have won Game two.
They won Game won. The Potres only had one hits.
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They had all the momentum. Why would they give up
the momentum. They own the momentum, It was in their
back pocket. You wouldn't give away the momentum because you
had the momentum and you were winning the game in
game one, you were winning Game two. You had all
the momentum, and I guarantee some dumb dumb will call up.
So no, no, no, no, no, you don't understand, okay,
dumb dumb. Anyway, the story here of San Diego, they
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were staring down the rifle at oh and two in
a playoff series and a road trip to South Philly.
Now it's one one, best of five, just like the
wild card round was best of three and then the
divisional round was best to five. So it's kind of
back to a divisional round set up here. And it
was like, if you will, President Biden swooping in with
another federal bailout because you know he's from Delaware's a
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Phillies fan. Used to bun Biden was just a regular
politician where he became president. Back in the old days.
He would play in the baseball games in Philly with
a media and some politicians would play and things like that.
But but here's the deal, all right, Blake Snell, and
I'll throw Juan Soto into the the ring here. They
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got bailed out. Otherwise they would have been scrutinized, criticized,
and ridiculed had the Padres ended up losing the game
because Juan Soto, who I believe was where sunglasses. Maybe
my eyes were to see me. He had sunglasses on
and still lost a ball in the sun. I'm not
that smart. How does that work? Like, seriously, were they
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just for style? Was it? He just trying to style
and profile And they weren't actually like legitimate sunglasses, Like
they weren't there to serve a purpose. They were just
there so he looked good. Very bizarre, very bizarre. But yeah,
he lost the ball in the sun and that led
to one run in the second inning, and then that
eventually led to four runs. But it's not an error
because he misplayed it but didn't touch it or anything like,
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they didn't drop it. He just he misplayed it. But
Snell was also he was also guilty. He was unable
to stop the bleeding in that inning. And he hasn't
been hadn't been this excited. I think Blake Sell has
not been this excited since he last played video games
on Twitch. I think that was like yesterday. So he's
very very excited. There absolutely no I understand, Yes, you are.
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You think of the great heroes, You think of the
soldiers who storm Normandy, You think of heroes on nine
to eleven, firemen, police officers who ran into a building
that was on fire and about to fall down, and
Blake SNeW right there side by side. Absolutely. I mean
I tipped my cap to Blake SNeW. Every night I
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pray to Blake Snow. I said, what a hero. This
guy is an amazing man, and how lucky are we
to watch him pitch? And I'm gonna playoffs and we
got a money on sign and be getting paid. That's right, bro,
Absolutely no question about it, no question. So the guy
who burned the Phillies the most, Brandon Drewry there and
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Josh Bell. They went five for eight combined, five runs,
batted in Manny Machado had a big game for the Podres,
so they end up getting the win. We're squared up
best of five. Now look forward to Friday night. I
will be watching because I have nothing else to watch
them from other that says basketball, I guess he go.
You know early seas an NBA. I'm good. I don't
need to watch too much of that. I was flipping
around watching some of the games last night. There were
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a bunch of games on the NBA card right final points,
So what is the forecast? Now, I'm gonna use Roberto's
Doppler radar there and the Mexican Doppler radar to look
at the forecast. Racist, well, he came, I didn't come up.
He came up with it. So what's the forecast for
the Phillies Padres Nlcso right now I'm looking at my
long term forecast. We already standoff and as in the
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Sweet Signs, I learned this watching boxing back in the day.
Think of it like the early rounds of a boxing match.
It's called the feeling out process. Feeling out process is
what the fighters do so they don't get their head
ripped off in the opening seconds of the opening round.
First couple rounds. You got to feel each other out there,
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figure what's going on right, get anything straightened out in
your head and all that, and both teams still in
that situation after the bell rung. In game one, we
had a pitchers Duol and Zach Wheel are good better
than you, darbish, And this game was more like a
midway fund zone game. Although that easy a misleading because
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the Phillies jumped out to a big lead and then
the Podres did the heavy lifting after that. It was
it was lopsided, so it wasn't like it was back
and forth. But at this point it is a throw
of the dice between the Phillies and the Podres. And
I would say Philadelphia is a fingernail a head. And
I'll tell you why. Home cooking, cheese, steak, tasty cakes,
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all that final at bat, home field, you have legitimate
advantage in baseball home field, lasted bat. Now, the advantage
to the Podres is to score first play with the lead.
That's the big advantage when you're the road team. We
all know that, right, we all know sports how this
works here. So when you're the road team, you get
the lead, you put pressure on the other team, the
home team there, they have to come back. If they
don't come back, they outstart going by, they start panicking,
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and it's a big, big hot mess. The Phillies outscored
the Braves seventeen to four in those two home games
last weekend, so they were cooking in those games. And
the Podres will go with Joe Musgrove and that's that's
their ace, that's their their guy. There a former cheating
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stro that's right, producer, Brandon, the Podre fan is in
the night a cheating astro. Musgrove was, he was on
the team and a guy with a great name, a
left hander for the Phillies, Ranger Suarez. What a good
name that is, Ranger Swarez. Not a good picture, but
a good name. He will be on the mound for
the Fighting Phills Friday day night. Be there or don't
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daily obligatory Mallard monologue about the latest noise in Tampa Bay.
That's not Tampa Bay, it's Bradyville. And oh my, oh my, ife,
you've not hurt here. So there's a lot of chattered
Tom Brady. A lifeless play against Pittsburgh has been called
out still by pundit from Sea to Shining Sea. Now
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one of his teammates this offensive line in his center,
Robert Hainzey said that he loved and the entire offensive
a line love that Tom Brady's passion when he he
yelled at everybody. Former Buccaneer quarterback Chris Simms thinks that
Tom Brady could could cut this season short because of
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personal issues and his behavior there, that he might just
walk away from the Buccaneers and say that's it. I'm
blowing this popsicle stand. I'm getting out of here, all right.
So let us discussed the question, what are the chances
that Tom Brady actually walks away mid race from the Buccaneers.
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So I'm gonna set the odds on this at plus
nine hundred. Now that implies a ten percent chance. Now
it should be higher than that, but I'm only going
ten percent. I'm only going ten percent. I've got Scar Tissue,
Elton John, and Booby Trap, and we will combine all
of these things together. We're gonna play Connect three. So,
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first of all, Tom Brady has absolutely looked distracted. It
does not look like he's all in. Every Man, woman
and child who has watched the Buccaneers play or even
heard them on the radio can tell you that Brady
has started to let his guard down. He's changed. I've
heard that. I've had people tell me that he's been
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You've changed, well, Tom, you've changed Brady things thinks he
would have never done. He's now doing on a regular basis,
and he's just not as locked in. You don't need
to hire doctor phil to figure out the psychology behind it.
It's understandable if Tom Brady had his brothers, he would
not be playing in Tampa anymore. We know, based on
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a punishment that the Miami Dolphins were where Tom Brady
wanted to go. He wanted to work for the Dolphins.
Maybe he would have played for the Dolphins this year,
maybe it would have just been a front office role.
But he had it all lined up. The Dolphins were
found guilty of tampering. Could have would have shoulda didn't,
but everything was telegraphed and they just needed to cross
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the teas and dot the ice. And then Brian Floras
sued the Dolphins, calling them racist, and so Brady was
forced to put his tail between his legs and walked back.
And you toss in the fact that his marriage to
say it's on the rocks is an understatement according to
the tabloids, that things are falling apart around him. It's
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got a lot of scar tissue. There are things to
be preoccupied with, and he's got them now. Needless to say,
it's not exactly hakuna matata for Tom Brady right now
at this particular point. Now. Secondly, is it possible that
it's not that Brady's distracted, it's just that father time
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has caught up to Brady. We knew this would happen eventually.
You cannot dismiss that Brady taking an eleven day vacation
during training camp and leaving the team for an octogenarian's
wedding would not stand out like a sore thumb if
Tom Brady was actually playing well. But the facts of
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the fact on the surface, for the untrained eye, tom
Brady's fine, believe the eighth ranked quarterback in the NFL
top ten level quarterback play based on the numbers, But
when you dig a little deeper below the surface, you
notice underwhelming Tom Brady. Tom Brady in yards per pass
attempt is twenty third in the NFL six point seven
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yards per pass attempt seven is average, So Brady's actually
below average. He's behind Trevor Lawrence, Derek Carr, and Andy Dalton,
for heaven's sakes, Now that's rinky dinky. The Tampa Bay
is averaging twenty points a game and their twentieth in offense.
Schlockey and the Buccaneers are tied for twentieth in red
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zone touchdown percentage, So they've gotten into the red zone
a fair amount, but they've been bedraggled when they get
in the red zone. For comparisons sake, last season, Tampa
Bay was second to Buffalo in red zone scoring percentage.
So what does that mean? That means it's kind of
like Elton John's song from The Lion King the Circle Alife.
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When you're twenty five years old and you struggle, we
all say, hey, that's just a slump, just a slump,
He'll be fine, nothing to worry about. When you're forty
five years old and you struggle, it's time to stick
a fork and you're done. Go play shuffleboard somewhere. You're terrible,
all right, final fund. So there was another layer to
the frosting on the Tom Brady cake. Here a Steeler legend,
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Ben Roethlisberger recently explained on his podcast Everyone's Got a Podcast,
I got a podcast, He's got a podcast. He explained
that Tom Brady does not appear to be having fun
on the field, Roethlisberger adding that Brady looked like a
different Tom during the game against the Steelers when he
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was on television on Fox, and that was a big deal.
And he mentioned yelling at the offensive lineman, which the
offensive lineman of course said they loved it, they couldn't
get enough of it. So the question is is that
fair or foul of Ben Roethlisberger saying Tom Brady did
not look like he wanted to be there against the Steelers,
So I actually I'm gonna go foul because of the
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way Roethlisberger said this. I'll tell you why. Because Tom
Brady barking like an angry dog at a teammate, that's normalcy.
I recall Brady being a boisterous hothead going back to
his days in New England. He would scream at Josh McDaniels,
he would throw a tablet down, he'd have a hissy
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fit yell at a random Teammate's a big difference here
between here and now and then and there is that
Tom Brady would have never been able to get away
with missing a walkthrough to go to a wedding. And
that's the big difference here. Everything else was standard protocol.
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Brady didn't look that good. He looks like he's lost
a little bit, looks like the Brady with the Patriots
the last couple of years. But him showing indifference towards
the game prep, that is a red flag. It's a
dad get what that is a dad giveaway. That's a
level of apathy that we have not seen from this
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cat before. And Brady fell for the booby trap. He
really did, and it was brilliant by Robert Kraft. You
want to make your head coach look better, you want
to make your head coach look more lovable for the
natives who love the Patriots. Well, Robert Kraft pulled it
off because Robert Kraft invited Bill Belichick and Tom Brady
both to that wedding. You know who didn't show up
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to the wedding because he had a game to get
ready for, even though he wasn't playing in the game.
Ding ding ding ding ding. Bill Belichick. Belichick's like, no,
I'm not going to hang out with Ed Shearon and
Meek Mill and Elton John and all those getting No,
I got a game. I gotta play the Browns. My
job is to get ready for the game. I'm getting
paid a lot of money to do that. Tom Brady.
Nah nah, I'll go hang out. I'll have some of
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those little mini hot dogs and have a good time.
Knock myself out what I will do, all right, But
I will tell you if Brady's not into it, yeah,
he's got enough of money. Although he might not have enough,
he's gonna get money out of this way. I don't
I think have a pre n up or not. He's
gonna be okay. So if you're not into it, just
don't do it. It's not like you need the money.
You don't need the money. You can live a great
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life the rest of the way. We've seen it. Athletes
retire mid season. A lot of baseball players I remember
retiring mid season. I don't remember too many football play
but we had a guy in the Bills that stepped
away at halftime of a game last a couple of
years ago. So anyway,
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This is the best of the Ben Mallers Show on
Fox Sports Radio or at leave this hour coming from
deep in the heart of Texas, the den of inequity,
the pit of Cheaters in Houston, Ground zero for elicit
baseball activity, the worst cheating scandal in North American professional
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sport in my lifetime. It happened a few years ago.
Nobody was punished, None of the players were punished. So
the Yankees buses rolled into town for a matchup with
the Stros in Game one of the Americanly Championship Series.
I assume you were aware of this, Houston sending out
the presumptive twenty twenty two Cy Young winner in Justin
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verla Ender against a back of the rotation Yankee starter
Jamison tie On for the Bronx Momber. So if you
were checking this out. You know what happened, but if not,
don't worry. We got your back. We were watching. So
the game was relatively closed for a while, and then
the Astros pulled away. Justin Verlander ended up with eleven
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strikeouts over six innings. Yulee Guriel, I remember him. Chas
McCormick or Chase McCormick and Jeremy Paena all had home runs,
and the cheating Astros got past the Yankees four to two,
so they get to jump on the American League Championship Series.
A lot to discuss, a lot to unpack. Let us
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go to that right now. The question how concerning, how
concerning is this for the Yankees? How concern and should
the Yankees be about this particular Losso we'll dust off
the Mallar scale of concern one to ten with ten
band Oh crap, we're cooked. That's the worst, right So
on the Mallard scale of concern for the Yankees, because
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all of America is a Yankee fan right now, even
the Red Sox fans are pulling for the Yankees, this
is only a three. I'm only at a three on
the Mallard scale of concern, which is discomforting the way
the Yankees played. But it's game number one, so I've
got pasta Chevy chase and garden party, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to make a roasted duck, which is what I hope
the Astros are when this is all over, is a
roasted duck. So hey, listen, we'll start with this. The
Yankees did not send their number one guy out to
the mountain, right, So that's that's what you talk about,
the Mallard scale of concern. That's the main reason I'm
only at a three here. This was a gigantic mismatch
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on paper, and not that people use paper more, but
on your phone. It was a gigantic mismatch when you
look at the matchup, and not saying the Yankees through
the game, I'm saying that they didn't want to lose,
but they knew going in the chances of winning. The
survival rate, if you will, for the Yankees to win
Game one was very low. As when you're starting Jeremy
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tie On against Justin Verlander, it's the equivalent of going
into combat with bean bags against hand grenades. You're probably
not gonna do too well. In that head and head confrontation,
and so the game unfolded and the office. That's the discomforting,
discouraging thing because the Yankees, and I know this is
not a new revelation here, but it was a strikeout
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a palooza, is what it was. Yankees ended up whipping
seventeen times in all eleven against Verland. Go. Yeah, it's
a swing and miss party. Everyone gets a swing, everyone misses. There.
The Astros only swung and miss. That is as far
as striking out two times. And we are told by
the nerds that that is the largest disparity in a
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postseason game in professional history. So congratulations to the Yankees
and Astros. Good job by you. And we know this
is how the modern game of baseball is played. And
the Dorks get very offended when you point out this
is not good, right. The Dorks get upset, The dingle
Berries get upset. They don't like this. But we're from
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the old country and it's just a problem. I was
raised watching ball that you put the ball in play,
you put pressure on the defense, you force defenders to
make plays, and the more you do that, the more
likely it is that either they'll misplay the ball, or
you'll find a hole in the defense. Keep them on
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their toes when you strike out. The only thing you
have to worry about is tripping on the way back
to the dugout. That's the only thing you have to
worry about it right. The Bronx bombers were serving up pasta.
What kind of pasta was It was a macaroni? Was
it a spaghetti? It was extra creamy. Corkscrew pasta is
what they were corkscrewing themselves into the batter's box. There
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is a sawing bad sauce wing bada. Yes he got
And I believe And maybe I'm wrong in this. I
don't know baseball too well. I just do an overnight show.
But I think that was the same Justin Verlander who
took a ride on the vomit comment against the Mariners
and got charb roiled by Seattle's lineup in his last
playoff start. Instead, he looked like he was holding a
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flamethrower on the mound in this game. What happened to
playoff Verlander? Where's that guy? The Yankees made this guy
look like Mozart on the mound. It was a symphony,
tremendous tremendas and so maybe the Yankees had too much
booze and they were celebrating. They might have had a
long trip of alcohol on the way from the New
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York Tri state area there down to to Houston. All right, now,
page two, what did you make of Aaron Boone's managing?
So I wanted to talk about this now, this is
not gonna be a big topic of conversation a lot
of places, but watching the way this game on holden,
it was more of that analytical bullpucky, as our friend
Jay Scoop likes to say, the Yankee bullpen was gassed allegedly,
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right and as the Yankees eve though they had a
bunch of days off against Cleveland, they used a lot
of relievers the day before. And so Jamison tye On
is matching Verlander, not pitch for pitch, but he was
pitching way above his skill set. Tye On went four
and a third innings, He allowed four hits but only
one run. So what did Aaron Boone do? All right?
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What did you know what he did? If he saw
the game, He pulled his starting pitcher as soon as
possible to get into that frazzled bullpen, and tye On
he was taking out two batters into the fifth inning,
after Jeremy Pania had doubled the second batter of the game.
And that is you know what that is. That's a
Dave Roberts like move. That is a Dave Robert and
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Yankee fans ought to be scared. They ought to be
pooping their pitch. Aaron Boone is a little baby Dave Roberts.
That's what Aaron Boone is. Okay, I'm telling you. Tie
On had sixty seven pitches, So a the bulpin supposed
he is all used up. Be the guy. I know
he's not that good time, trust me, he's not. He
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walks a lot of guys, he's wild all that. But
at that point he'd only given up one run. Sixty
seven pitches. You can't get another inning plus out of
that guy. Come on, it's embarrassing. And so the Yankee
bullpen with all those miles on the odometer and the
almighty nerds, whatever they tell Aaron Boone, he doesn't. I
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just like, just like Dave Roberts, right middle manager, mindless
middle manager, you make the move. Someone named Clark Schmidt.
I don't know who that is, and but he was there,
he was pitching come on number eighty six in your program,
I think it was, but number one in your heart. Yeah,
he would eventually give up not one, but two home
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runs and get the loss. And they would have been
better off if they had contacted the Chevy Chase and
have him dress up as Clark Griswold and update the
National Lampoon Vacation movies. They gonna make another one this
old old school movies there, but expect expect more reckless
pitching changes from Aaron Boone because he is a middle
manager and he is beholden to the three ring binder.
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What the dorks come up with, he has to follow,
God forbid. You say, well, wait a minute, the playoff game,
this guy's actually pitching above where he normally is. Let's
let's see how long this thing can go. Instead, you
bring the Congo line in. Let's hope we get four
or five six good relief outings. All right, last word here,
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So what are your thoughts on the Stros taking Game one?
So obviously not fans, We've made that perfectly clear. We
look forward to the day. We think it'll happen soon,
hopefully this series that Houston goes bye bye. We look
forward to that all of America pulling for the Incas.
What does it take to pull for the Yankees? Play
the A hole? That's what it takes. Play the a holes?
You pull for the Yankees? The ass Strokes. They are
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the skunk at the garden party in the playoffs. Everything
they accomplish. And I've gotten long emails manifestos from our
friends that listen to Houston on our affiliate seven ninety
there in Houston, and they've tried to reason with me.
They tried to explain, oh no, no, no, not treating anymore,
why don't you let them go? What's wrong with you?
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Long enough that I get that whole rap, you know?
And I point out every time I sometimes I write back,
sometimes I don't, but I when I do right back,
I point out that every accomplishment this franchise has, and
they made a big deal about how they've been in
the American League Championship Series all these times, been the
World Series much and all that. I take all of
that with a grand assault, and so should you, because
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they're not serial killers. They're serial cheaters, convicted and unpunished.
The faces of the franchise remain the same Jose Alboo.
They Alex Bregman, masterminds behind the twenty seventeen hijacking of
the World Series, the espionage that took place there. It
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appears the buzzers and trash cans are not working right
now for Al Boove, the Pip squeak cheater who will
not make the Hall of Fame because he's a convicted cheater.
Oh for three in this game and now in the playoffs.
Al bouve Is oh for nineteen in the postseason might
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want to put a buzzer on him right now because
the things that are not working out so well now.
Juli Gurriel, the guy that's a racist, remember you made
the racist jesture in the dugout during the twenty seventeen
World Series racist and Baseball said, you know, we're gonna
go woke in a couple of years movie the All
Star Game out of Atlanta. But right now, no, we'll
let you stay in the World Series. Well, we'll suspend
you the following year when no one's watching and you're
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playing the Athletics the beginning the year, we'll suspend you
for that. That's that's leadership by Rob Manford, the spineless, gutlessmmissioner,
Major League baseball. So anyway, Yeah, Julie Guriel, the guy
that made the racist I gesture in the World Series
a couple of years ago, he had a home run.
Makes you wonder if you got a sign or something
like that. And I don't know, I know he's done
that in the past. Yeah, a whistle whistle, whistle, whistle whistle,
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could be any of those. But the way I interpret this, unpunished,
which is what the Astros were, means that you can
go back to it, right, you're not. Baseball's announced that
they don't really care. You can do whatever you want,
Rob Man for It's just a little piece of that
all and Rob was running interference for those scumbags who
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wear Astro uniforms and so again, just to repeat everything,
they go on win the World serious, I'm not gonna
it's not legit. It's not legit. They have no credibilities
a franchise. Their fan base is despicable. The people that
support them. You talk about standing up for cheaters, that's
the Astro fan It's despicable. Yeah, it is. I'd rather
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have slice bread out there is what I'd rather have.
I'll tell you that, right, pull for it. Let me
find out where it comes from. It comes from Kansas,
and we got writers who have said it and done
it off. Slice bread. Yeah, I pull for slice bread.
That's what I pull for anyway. So coming up meanwhile,
we move into game too. Here Framberg Valdez. We'll go
against Louis Severino and that is a little Thursday night
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Actually gonna watch that boy, the Thursday night football games
a dog game though, I don't know. I mean, I
might have to watch the baseball instead. I'll be flipping
back and forth my right hand. We'll be getting a workout.
But my god, what jerk yourself away? What a dog
matchup it is on Thursday night. You got the little
guy Alligator Arms Murray on one side and the New
Orleans Saints nameless faceless franchise on the other side. Wow,
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that's a bat. Al Michaels might want to retire right now.
He might, Al might. What are you talking about? Another
another sixteen thirteen type game if they're lucky Cardinals and
Saints and the Thursday night game anyway, So that is
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lead this hour coming from Sun Diego. And Oh what
a wonderful sighted unless it was Game two of the
National League Championship Series, the Phillies looking to poach another
road win. They already got home field advantages in their
back pocket after winning Game one, and it was on
the Game two against the padres A one thirty one
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thirty pm local start in so Cal ninety two degrees,
ninety two degrees in sun Diego at first pitch there
America's Finest city when I lived. When I lived there,
I worked there. But when I worked in San Diego,
they had the America's Finest City on the police cars.
I don't know if they still do it not. But
Aaron Nola Aaron Nolah on the mound for the fighting
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fills against Blake Snell eight k bro. I'm reason getting
my libra. Yeah that guy. So do you see the game?
Were you watching? It was an afternoon game? Maybe you
missed it. So I'm not playing unless I get minds right,
I get paid. Apparently showed up. We got you covered
there and it's Alrea. It's our good mits for the day.
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So Brandon Drewery Brandon Drewery smack and the go ahead
two runs single part of a five run ambush in
the fifth inning, five on five as the Pod squad
storming back to beat the Phillies eight to five on Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday,
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So they tie up the American League or not the
America the National League Championship Series. It's an all wild
card series. One one the series now shifting to Philadelphia
for three games starting on Friday, and they'll be back
at it Friday night there to have some more baseball action.
Let us discuss the question. So the Phillies had a
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big lead early. Who's the fall guy for the Phillies.
Somebody's got to be the scapegoat. So my observations, you've
got line Cook, President Biden, and science and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make an adequate Mallard monologue. So number one, this
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one's easy. The fall guys easy. The Phillies offense provided
the early artillery. You score four runs in the top
of the second and you are set up on Easy Street.
And then they had to play the rest of the game,
which presented an issue. Turned out to be the So
the Easy Street, it was a wrong turn. They ended
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up on the Highway to Hell, they being the Phillies.
Aaron Nola was given a brass ring opportunity and for
nothing League. He's been pitching great for the Phillies lately,
and he took that ring and dropped it right in
the Pacific Ocean. And I know what that's like, because
I lost a ring in the Pacific Ocean. So meltdown, meltown,
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melt meltdown. Touch a place we have at meltown, Aaronlah, meltdown, meltdown, meltdown. Yeah,
that was bad. That that's I mean, geez. He was
really multitasking Nola for the Phillies. Not only was Nola's
serving on the mound, he was also working as a
line cook. He was serving up spaghetti with extra spicy
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meat balls, a big giant meat balls for the Podre hitter.
San Diego put up six runs and seven hits, including
a couple of home runs. Just eighty one pitches by Noela,
including the brother. His brother plays with the Podres catcher.
He had a hit against his brother, and so the
oil splattering with two strikes and you gotta finish the game.
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You have a four run lead. Very rarely do teams
lose four run leads in the plus. It might seem
like that happens all the time, but just give you
an example, the Phillies blowing a four run lead in
the playoffs. That's only the third time that's ever happened
to the Phillies franchise. They've been around since the eighteen hundreds.
Twenty seven and three. Their record now when they have
a four run lead at any point during a playoff
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game twenty seven and three and they just lost the
game here this week now, page two, How big a
win is this for the Podres right? Well, so the
answer to that is it was paramount Blake Snell's not
very good and Snell lived up to expectation there. He
served up five innings, pitched five innings of four earned runs.
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He was schnockerd in that inning, dazed and confused. And
for San Diego to rise from the ashes and win
a game like that, as obviously it's a good confidence booster.
There is no such thing as momentum. We know that
that's true, and this series has proved there's no such
thing as momentum. Otherwise the Phillies would have won Game two.
They won Game won. The Potres only had one hits.
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They had all the momentum. Why would they give up
the momentum. They own the momentum, It was in their
back pocket. You wouldn't give away the momentum because you
had the momentum and you were winning the game in
game one, you were winning Game two. You had all
the momentum, and I guarantee some dumb dumb will call up.
So no, no, no, no, no, you don't understand, okay,
dumb dumb. Anyway, the story here of San Diego, they
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were staring down the rifle at oh and two in
a playoff series and a road trip to South Philly.
Now it's one one, best of five, just like the
wild card round was best of three and then the
divisional round was best to five. So it's kind of
back to a divisional round set up here. And it
was like, if you will, President Biden swooping in with
another federal bailout because you know he's from Delaware's a
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Phillies fan. Used to bun Biden was just a regular
politician where he became president. Back in the old days.
He would play in the baseball games in Philly with
a media and some politicians would play and things like that.
But but here's the deal, all right, Blake Snell, and
I'll throw Juan Soto into the the ring here. They
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got bailed out. Otherwise they would have been scrutinized, criticized,
and ridiculed had the Padres ended up losing the game
because Juan Soto, who I believe was where sunglasses. Maybe
my eyes were to see me. He had sunglasses on
and still lost a ball in the sun. I'm not
that smart. How does that work? Like, seriously, were they
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just for style? Was it? He just trying to style
and profile And they weren't actually like legitimate sunglasses, Like
they weren't there to serve a purpose. They were just
there so he looked good. Very bizarre, very bizarre. But yeah,
he lost the ball in the sun and that led
to one run in the second inning, and then that
eventually led to four runs. But it's not an error
because he misplayed it but didn't touch it or anything like,
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they didn't drop it. He just he misplayed it. But
Snell was also he was also guilty. He was unable
to stop the bleeding in that inning. And he hasn't
been hadn't been this excited. I think Blake Sell has
not been this excited since he last played video games
on Twitch. I think that was like yesterday. So he's
very very excited. There absolutely no I understand, Yes, you are.
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You think of the great heroes, You think of the
soldiers who storm Normandy, You think of heroes on nine
to eleven, firemen, police officers who ran into a building
that was on fire and about to fall down, and
Blake SNeW right there side by side. Absolutely. I mean
I tipped my cap to Blake SNeW. Every night I
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pray to Blake Snow. I said, what a hero. This
guy is an amazing man, and how lucky are we
to watch him pitch? And I'm gonna playoffs and we
got a money on sign and be getting paid. That's right, bro,
Absolutely no question about it, no question. So the guy
who burned the Phillies the most, Brandon Drewry there and
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Josh Bell. They went five for eight combined, five runs,
batted in Manny Machado had a big game for the Podres,
so they end up getting the win. We're squared up
best of five. Now look forward to Friday night. I
will be watching because I have nothing else to watch
them from other that says basketball, I guess he go.
You know early seas an NBA. I'm good. I don't
need to watch too much of that. I was flipping
around watching some of the games last night. There were
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a bunch of games on the NBA card right final points,
So what is the forecast? Now, I'm gonna use Roberto's
Doppler radar there and the Mexican Doppler radar to look
at the forecast. Racist, well, he came, I didn't come up.
He came up with it. So what's the forecast for
the Phillies Padres Nlcso right now I'm looking at my
long term forecast. We already standoff and as in the
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Sweet Signs, I learned this watching boxing back in the day.
Think of it like the early rounds of a boxing match.
It's called the feeling out process. Feeling out process is
what the fighters do so they don't get their head
ripped off in the opening seconds of the opening round.
First couple rounds. You got to feel each other out there,
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figure what's going on right, get anything straightened out in
your head and all that, and both teams still in
that situation after the bell rung. In game one, we
had a pitchers Duol and Zach Wheel are good better
than you, darbish, And this game was more like a
midway fund zone game. Although that easy a misleading because
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the Phillies jumped out to a big lead and then
the Podres did the heavy lifting after that. It was
it was lopsided, so it wasn't like it was back
and forth. But at this point it is a throw
of the dice between the Phillies and the Podres. And
I would say Philadelphia is a fingernail a head. And
I'll tell you why. Home cooking, cheese, steak, tasty cakes,
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all that final at bat, home field, you have legitimate
advantage in baseball home field, lasted bat. Now, the advantage
to the Podres is to score first play with the lead.
That's the big advantage when you're the road team. We
all know that, right, we all know sports how this
works here. So when you're the road team, you get
the lead, you put pressure on the other team, the
home team there, they have to come back. If they
don't come back, they outstart going by, they start panicking,
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and it's a big, big hot mess. The Phillies outscored
the Braves seventeen to four in those two home games
last weekend, so they were cooking in those games. And
the Podres will go with Joe Musgrove and that's that's
their ace, that's their their guy. There a former cheating
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stro that's right, producer, Brandon, the Podre fan is in
the night a cheating astro. Musgrove was, he was on
the team and a guy with a great name, a
left hander for the Phillies, Ranger Suarez. What a good
name that is, Ranger Swarez. Not a good picture, but
a good name. He will be on the mound for
the Fighting Phills Friday day night. Be there or don't
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daily obligatory Mallard monologue about the latest noise in Tampa Bay.
That's not Tampa Bay, it's Bradyville. And oh my, oh my, ife,
you've not hurt here. So there's a lot of chattered
Tom Brady. A lifeless play against Pittsburgh has been called
out still by pundit from Sea to Shining Sea. Now
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one of his teammates this offensive line in his center,
Robert Hainzey said that he loved and the entire offensive
a line love that Tom Brady's passion when he he
yelled at everybody. Former Buccaneer quarterback Chris Simms thinks that
Tom Brady could could cut this season short because of
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personal issues and his behavior there, that he might just
walk away from the Buccaneers and say that's it. I'm
blowing this popsicle stand. I'm getting out of here, all right.
So let us discussed the question, what are the chances
that Tom Brady actually walks away mid race from the Buccaneers.
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So I'm gonna set the odds on this at plus
nine hundred. Now that implies a ten percent chance. Now
it should be higher than that, but I'm only going
ten percent. I'm only going ten percent. I've got Scar Tissue,
Elton John, and Booby Trap, and we will combine all
of these things together. We're gonna play Connect three. So,
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first of all, Tom Brady has absolutely looked distracted. It
does not look like he's all in. Every Man, woman
and child who has watched the Buccaneers play or even
heard them on the radio can tell you that Brady
has started to let his guard down. He's changed. I've
heard that. I've had people tell me that he's been
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You've changed, well, Tom, you've changed Brady things thinks he
would have never done. He's now doing on a regular basis,
and he's just not as locked in. You don't need
to hire doctor phil to figure out the psychology behind it.
It's understandable if Tom Brady had his brothers, he would
not be playing in Tampa anymore. We know, based on
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a punishment that the Miami Dolphins were where Tom Brady
wanted to go. He wanted to work for the Dolphins.
Maybe he would have played for the Dolphins this year,
maybe it would have just been a front office role.
But he had it all lined up. The Dolphins were
found guilty of tampering. Could have would have shoulda didn't,
but everything was telegraphed and they just needed to cross
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the teas and dot the ice. And then Brian Floras
sued the Dolphins, calling them racist, and so Brady was
forced to put his tail between his legs and walked back.
And you toss in the fact that his marriage to
say it's on the rocks is an understatement according to
the tabloids, that things are falling apart around him. It's
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got a lot of scar tissue. There are things to
be preoccupied with, and he's got them now. Needless to say,
it's not exactly hakuna matata for Tom Brady right now
at this particular point. Now. Secondly, is it possible that
it's not that Brady's distracted, it's just that father time
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has caught up to Brady. We knew this would happen eventually.
You cannot dismiss that Brady taking an eleven day vacation
during training camp and leaving the team for an octogenarian's
wedding would not stand out like a sore thumb if
Tom Brady was actually playing well. But the facts of
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the fact on the surface, for the untrained eye, tom
Brady's fine, believe the eighth ranked quarterback in the NFL
top ten level quarterback play based on the numbers, But
when you dig a little deeper below the surface, you
notice underwhelming Tom Brady. Tom Brady in yards per pass
attempt is twenty third in the NFL six point seven
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yards per pass attempt seven is average, So Brady's actually
below average. He's behind Trevor Lawrence, Derek Carr, and Andy Dalton,
for heaven's sakes, Now that's rinky dinky. The Tampa Bay
is averaging twenty points a game and their twentieth in offense.
Schlockey and the Buccaneers are tied for twentieth in red
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zone touchdown percentage, So they've gotten into the red zone
a fair amount, but they've been bedraggled when they get
in the red zone. For comparisons sake, last season, Tampa
Bay was second to Buffalo in red zone scoring percentage.
So what does that mean? That means it's kind of
like Elton John's song from The Lion King the Circle Alife.
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When you're twenty five years old and you struggle, we
all say, hey, that's just a slump, just a slump,
He'll be fine, nothing to worry about. When you're forty
five years old and you struggle, it's time to stick
a fork and you're done. Go play shuffleboard somewhere. You're terrible,
all right, final fund. So there was another layer to
the frosting on the Tom Brady cake. Here a Steeler legend,
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Ben Roethlisberger recently explained on his podcast Everyone's Got a Podcast,
I got a podcast, He's got a podcast. He explained
that Tom Brady does not appear to be having fun
on the field, Roethlisberger adding that Brady looked like a
different Tom during the game against the Steelers when he
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was on television on Fox, and that was a big deal.
And he mentioned yelling at the offensive lineman, which the
offensive lineman of course said they loved it, they couldn't
get enough of it. So the question is is that
fair or foul of Ben Roethlisberger saying Tom Brady did
not look like he wanted to be there against the Steelers,
So I actually I'm gonna go foul because of the
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way Roethlisberger said this. I'll tell you why. Because Tom
Brady barking like an angry dog at a teammate, that's normalcy.
I recall Brady being a boisterous hothead going back to
his days in New England. He would scream at Josh McDaniels,
he would throw a tablet down, he'd have a hissy
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fit yell at a random Teammate's a big difference here
between here and now and then and there is that
Tom Brady would have never been able to get away
with missing a walkthrough to go to a wedding. And
that's the big difference here. Everything else was standard protocol.
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Brady didn't look that good. He looks like he's lost
a little bit, looks like the Brady with the Patriots
the last couple of years. But him showing indifference towards
the game prep, that is a red flag. It's a
dad get what that is a dad giveaway. That's a
level of apathy that we have not seen from this
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cat before. And Brady fell for the booby trap. He
really did, and it was brilliant by Robert Kraft. You
want to make your head coach look better, you want
to make your head coach look more lovable for the
natives who love the Patriots. Well, Robert Kraft pulled it
off because Robert Kraft invited Bill Belichick and Tom Brady
both to that wedding. You know who didn't show up
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to the wedding because he had a game to get
ready for, even though he wasn't playing in the game.
Ding ding ding ding ding. Bill Belichick. Belichick's like, no,
I'm not going to hang out with Ed Shearon and
Meek Mill and Elton John and all those getting No,
I got a game. I gotta play the Browns. My
job is to get ready for the game. I'm getting
paid a lot of money to do that. Tom Brady.
Nah nah, I'll go hang out. I'll have some of
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those little mini hot dogs and have a good time.
Knock myself out what I will do, all right, But
I will tell you if Brady's not into it, yeah,
he's got enough of money. Although he might not have enough,
he's gonna get money out of this way. I don't
I think have a pre n up or not. He's
gonna be okay. So if you're not into it, just
don't do it. It's not like you need the money.
You don't need the money. You can live a great
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life the rest of the way. We've seen it. Athletes
retire mid season. A lot of baseball players I remember
retiring mid season. I don't remember too many football play
but we had a guy in the Bills that stepped
away at halftime of a game last a couple of
years ago. So anyway,
Host
Ben Maller
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