October 4, 2023 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the opening games of the MLB Playoffs, Raiders owner Mark Davis verbally sparring with fans, Maller to the Third Degree, The Iowa Minute w/ Iowa Sam, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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So I did that for a little bit. I was
actually watching the early American League games, and then then
that got done. I then watched the National League games,
and now here I am.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But our lead does come from the I know it's
paving roads in the summer. Unless I'm not these hot takes.
I gotta tell you, hot take. Creating not easy. I'm
a content creator. I am a content creator, not the
kind that makes a ton of money like those people
on YouTube, but I'm a content content creator. I can't
even talk all right anyway, So our league does come
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from the wild card round of the playoffs. The curtain
goes up and the party is underway. I assume you watched,
but maybe not the American League winners, the Texas Rangers
kaoed Tampa Bay in their first game, and the Minnesota Twins.
You can't spell wins without twins. The Minnesota Twins using
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the good karma of the Minneapolis mallord meet and greet
at the Mermaid months ago and carrying that that good
vibration into the win column and they finally win and
they end their slide. They st have to win another
game to advance and they Diamondbacks and the Phillies also victorious,
and the NL side of the bracket, the Phillies had
a surgical win.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It looked like a wild madhouse.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
There in Philadelphia. That looked like a fun place. They
were going nuts. Man, all those animals in Philadelphia were
having a field day. And Arizona they stormed back. They
were down three to nothing. What a tough day for
the crew, the brow crew. They choked on the cheese
curd and they go down. But in that Texas game,
the story here, and it's a story. A lot of
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people are buzzing around and Baseball doesn't like it. So
when I hear that baseball doesn't like a story, I
then am attracted to the story. I think, well, now
this is interesting. See now I'm into the story because
Baseball is trying to put the cabash on the story.
So I'm like, Okay, this is something I want to
get into here and wrap my hands around. So anyway,
the story is Game one. It comes from Florida. The
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sight of the game. The Texas the road team because
they couldn't win the final day of the year because
apparently they partied too much the night before. Anyway, Game
one American League Wild Card Series was played aid in
front of a crowd so sparse.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
How sparse was it?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It was so sparse that baseball had not seen that
level of attendance in a playoff game in over a century,
which I believe is one hundred years. I believe that's
one hundred years a century. I might be wrong on that,
but I think I'm right. So we were told the
attendants announcement was nineteen thousand, seven hundred and four for
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a playoff game playoffs, for a playoff game at the
trop And that is the lowest for a postseason game
outside of some kind of act of God since at
least nineteen nineteen. Put that in your pipe and smoking.
So let us discuss the question, how do the raise
and more importantly, have of Major League Baseball officials? Spin spin, spin, spin,
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spin the amazingly embarrassing attendance for a playoff game there
in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Throwback Canadian Baker and Winston Churchill things that have never
been tossed into a Mallard monologue before or any other
monologue for that matters. I blatantly try to suck up
to our new listeners in Edmonton. That's really what this
is about, right, We're on a new affiliate in Edmonton,
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and so I'm trying to stuck up anyway. All right,
so a we'll start here. Baseball as a whole. I've
learned this over the years. I've had firsthand experience from
working behind these microphones because they do monitor what we
do here. Trust me, I find out every once in
a while when I cross the line. But the people
at Major League Baseball I call them artisans. They are
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artisans of mumbo jumbo, is.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What they are.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And they always have the built in excuse for whatever
they're talking about. This one, they're gonna chalk up the
Tampa Bay attendants are gonna chalk up to a scheduling
snaff foo. I will dare wrong, Tay. They're gonna say
it's a scheduling snaff foo. That's what the gonna do.
They're gonna it's a midday game, midweek game. People have jobs.
Because I thought that's God's waiting room in Florida. I
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thought's what's where you go when you're retired. You go
to Florida to hang out, right, it's the pearly gates
are right around the corner when you're hanging out in
the sunshine. I say, anyway, that might play in Peoria,
or maybe it plays in Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But on this side of the microphone, we smell, as
our Ukrainian friend Jayscoop would say, bull pucky. That's what
we smell. We smell bullpucky.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Tampa. Listen.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
We know it's not exactly breaking a new ground here.
We're not cracking the glass ceiling saying that Tampa has
no passion for baseball.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The Rays going into.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The Plauf now, in the last couple months of the
regular season, they lost their top pitcher, Shane McClanahan because
of injury, their top position player Wander Franco because apparently
he's a pervert, and and so they're gone, right, they're out,
and so in the rain are not a draw. With
all apologies to our friends in Dallas and the great
state of Texas, you're not going to go out of
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your way to watch Corey Seager play as good as
he is. He's a good ball player, but you're not
gonna go out of your way to watch Corey Seger
play or anyone else on that. They don't sell tickets,
they don't create buzz. But so much for the theory.
If you build it, they will come, unless they don't
show up, unless they say, you know what, we don't
want to show up. Bottom line, though, this was a throwback,
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throwback kind of a day to the pandemic era of
a few years ago when Fox Sports Radio had the
highest ratings they've ever had with no sport. That's true,
we had more people listening in a global pandemic that
we've ever had before or since, by the way, and
it shows you that apparently the sports or what's holding
us back anyway, listen the point I know, sporty, but
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if we remember listen, we watched, we watched the games.
There was no sports for over one hundred days or
whatever it was, and then we watched the games and
the stadiums were mostly burned. Other than like Florida and Texas, spiritless,
lacking atmosphere, lacking a soul. That was soulless, right, that
was soulless. That's the rais in a nutshell. Though Tampa
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has struggled to get anyone to consistently attend their games
and listen, the stadium looks like a dump. I've never
been there. Maybe it's not that bad. It looks terrible
on television. It's not esthetically pleasing. And this season the
Rays is a pretty good team. Another playoff appearance for
Tampa and they ranked twenty seventh out of thirty teams
in attendance. But here's how baseball can also spin it.
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The pr delegates of Major League Baseball will crunch the
numbers and say, listen, yeah, the attendance was the worst
in over one hundred years, but compared to the regular season,
the attendance was actually ten point eight percent higher for
the rais than the regular season, so that actually increased
their attendance side by side regular season to the postseason. Now,
page two. As for the ball, because we're all about
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the ball, we're all about the ball. As for the
activity on the field, right and regular season, we had
four teams now four of them facing an elimination situation,
and those teams are the Toronto Blue Jays, the Tampa
Bay Rays, the Miami Marlins, and the Milwaukee Brewers. They
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all lost on Tuesday. That means if they lose again
later on. Here they're done. That's it. Turn out the
last the parties over. Just like that, a couple of games,
you're done. So the question, the question for the distinguished Panel,
which of the wild card losers has the top opportunity,
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the best chance to come back and win the series?
Out of the four teams that lost, and again for
those of you a little bit slow, that's the Jays, Rays,
Marlins and crew. Out of those four teams, which team
has the top opportunity to come back? So I am
going with Canadian Bacon all Cada.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, I'm going with the Jayson.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Now, this is not a shot at the Minnesota Twins,
but the Jays have star power, They've got firepower. Plus
we know the rich history of Twins baseball, and that
tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
And sure, Royce Lewis looked great. It looked like a
Rolls Royce couple of dingers first to at bats for
the Twinkies in Game one. However, that came after eighteen
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consecutive losses. That win ended a biblical streak of futility
for the Twinkies. They won a playoff game after six
than three hundred and ninety seven days without a playoff win.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
George W.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Bush was the president. So forget Biden, forget Trump, forget Obama.
You got to go back to George W.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
In four, the last time the Twins won a playoff game,
some movie called Shark Tale. I don't en remember that
movie from DreamWorks was the number one movie. And so
any I'm going with Toronto. I can give you a
million reasons, Vladimir Guerrero's spawn and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I can go on and on, but I am.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Taking the big bazookas there as and again, it doesn't
mean they're gonna come back. But of the four, if
I were to bet money, if you gave me a
thousand dollars of fundy money, I would take Toronto and
a former Twinkie on the Mount Jose Burrios on the
mound there and he's got okay playoff numbers. He's on
the mound in the elimination situation. Betwins win the advance.
If the Jays win, there's a game three. I want
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to see all these teams win. All the teams that
lost I want to see win. I want to see
elimination game elimination game, elimination game, elimination game. There are
a few things better than elimination game, single elimination winner.
Go gets it all all right? Last word here, some
new revelations going to turn the page completely away from
the playoffs and to a guy who's not in the
playoffs because he's not in baseball right now, not in
professional American baseball.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This story is nuts, right, This is like a horror story,
the Trevor Bauer story.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
We talked about it in a previous episode.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But the cy young winner of years past, now we
know he's settle the civil lawsuit with the San Diego
a woman some call her a wench, who appears to
have falsely accused him of sexual assault. And now the
reporter who gave some of the claims a megaphone behind
a paywall on the Athletic has been put on blast.
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According to Trevor Bower, some legal papers that were released
on the interweb, the Athletic, which is now owned by
the old Gray Lady, the New York Times, and a
I say this in quotes reporter someone named Molly Knight.
We're not sure who that is. Parently, she's got a substack.
So things aren't going well for but she reported that
Bauer had fractured the skull of the accuser. And now
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new information has revealed that she reported that despite having
possession of her medical records that pointed out she did not.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Have a fractured skull. Who goofed.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I've got to know now the question, and how does
this update in Trevor Bauer's story change the playing field? Well,
if this is true, and by most accounts I've read,
you know, from what I've read, it is it is
actually the gospel. It's got to be the end of
Molly Night right. She moves into Brian Williams territory, Jason Blair,
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the guy that made stuff up at the New York Times,
that she's that level of reporter. I mean, if this
is true, am I wrong on that? I don't think
I am wrong on that. But it's also a reminder
of the power of the media. And this got repeated
over and over and over and over. It's like that
quote that is attributed to Winston Churchill that you know,
a lies is going to travel halfway around the world
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before the truth even has its boots on. But the
story by the athletic got picked up all over the
blog sphere. It was repackaged to buy aggregators. Prominent baseball
reporters demanded that Trevor Bauer be kicked out of baseball, suspended,
et cetera. And I haven't seen a single one of
those reporters retract their claims, not a single one. They've
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gone to the Ostridge plan where you just bury your
head in the sand, but nobody's gonna pay attention. And
you know what, it actually works, because it's what we
always talk about. When the legend becomes the fact, you
go with the legend. The legend is, this is what happened.
The facts have come out, Ignore the facts, go with
the original story, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's a rather scary situation.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Bower is never gonna pitch in Major League Baseball again,
and that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
So he's eating tempura right now, drowning his sorrows with
sake somewhere in Japan.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
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and Snap.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
If you will. I know that's like tons of fun
with Iowa Sam, But.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Anyway, I mean, that's our lead does come from lost
Wages Nevada indirectly. The Raiders are yet again circling. So
if you're a Raider hater, things are going very well
for you. Another lost season on the Raiders docket ahead
of them. Now the owner of that particular team making
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some headlines. So this has been bouncing around. It went
viral and if you don't know what we're talking about here,
maybe you don't, hopefully you don't. The Raiders owner Mark Davis,
he's the guy with the funny hair. Yeah, Mark Davis
melted down and he was upset. What triggered Mark Davis?
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Was it the incompetence of the fill in quarterback for
the Raiders?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Was it the coaching of Josh McDaniels. What was it?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
What was it that caused Mark Davis, the owner of
the Raiders to lose it?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well, that would be none of the above.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It was a group of passionate fans of the Raiders.
You see in a candid camera moment to Mark Davis exploding.
Say that for dramatic purposes, but he was unhappy because
a group of fans walked by his throne and said, hey,
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fire Josh McDaniels. The guy's a bump. I added that part,
but fire Josh McDaniels. This is during the Charger Raider
game there. I think it was moments after now in
a video posted on TikTok, now I have a TikTok
advisor Alf the Alien of Potter. I'm not on TikTok,
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but alf is and so anything good on TikTok, alf
will send my way. He's my he's my liaison. Alf
is with with TikTok. Anyway, the video posted on the TikTok,
Mark Davis was overheard yelling at the pack of angry
fans to smarten up wallet Sofi Stadium in the hood
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in Inglewood. So let us discuss the question. You don't
only pick one whose side are you on in the
Mark Davis sparring match with a group of upset Raider fans?
Are you on the side of Mark Davis? Are you
on the side of the fan? So the scales on
this one are leaning heavily on the side of the customer.
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On the side of the customer. That is what the
right side of this is. Now, I've got Gillette clown
shoes and Morton salt and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
sour puss, which is what Mark Davis looks like a
sour puss in all this. So, first of all, Mark
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Davis did the thing you can't do at the time.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You are the one in power. You can't have that happen.
You just can't do it now. You can go behind
closed doors and mf the fans all you want, but
you can't have that reaction. You are the owner of
an NFL franchise worth over five billion dollars. That's the
value of the Raiders. You're sitting high at top in
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the aristocrats suite there with some other uber rich people.
Good for you, you won the lottery. Congratulations, you won
the genetic lottery because your dad had all the money.
But you're sitting in a lap luxury there and you
are worried about Joe six pack. You are concerned about
Joe Schmoe yelling at you. That's what you're worried about.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
That is unbecoming. That is unbecoming.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Davis needs to contact the people that did the marketing
for Jillette back in the day because this is the
perfect deodorant commercial. Never let them see a sweat. Mark
Davis violated that. He let everyone see and he had
sweaty armpits. Sweaty armpits for Mark Davis. You're the billionaire.
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Remain come remain calm and find a way to deal
with the university.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And this is a huge win for the fan.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's a huge win for the fan because you're not
aloof you don't have apathy.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You care, right, you care.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
The Raiders mean somebody and Mark Davis looking at his reaction,
My theory is rather simple that Mark Davis realizes he
f this up right, but he's dug himself a hole.
He's worried about having to pay John Gruden a bunch
of money because John Gruden's suing the NFL, and there's
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questions about whether or not the Raiders and the NFL
are going to have to cook up some money for
John Gruden for wrongful termination, and so that'll cost some money,
and so they're worried about that, and Davis doesn't want
to have to fire McDaniels and then pay another.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Coach, which would be a third coach.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
But he also realizes at this point that josh Ba
Daniels is not it like he's got the cooties.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
He don't know what he's doing. The guy's a stiff,
and so what do you do?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So that's why he reacted the way he reacted was
smart en up. McDaniels is seven and fourteen as coach
of there is is there any reason for optimism? That
this is going to get better for the Raiders in
the near future. I don't see anything. I'm not Benny
Bright's out on this. I'm a realist. I look at
the Raiders. Well, Garoppolos, he go already missed one game.
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He'll probably miss three or four more games. If everything
goes right for Garoppolo, he'll miss three or four games.
He'll lose all four of those. You've already lost three games.
So that'll get you up. You know, by the time
you do the math on that, you know everything goes right,
best case scenarios, you end up winning like six games.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
You're like six and eleven. That doesn't seem good to me.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Now, Secondly, we go to Jersey. We go to Jersey. Now,
what's going on in Jersey? The fallout from the Monday
night football game continues to bounce around the pinball machine
of sports chatter and my, oh my.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh my.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Now Seattle, the Seattle football team took a can of
whoop ass to the New York NFC football team. They're
in the swamplands of New Jersey and the depths of
the carnage. We are now learning. Giants coach Brian Dable
embarrassingly announced that the tight end for the Giants someone
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named Daniel Bellinger. I have no idea who this is,
but Daniel Bellinger and the rookie center John Michael Schmitz,
may the Schmidz be with you, both suffered injuries trying
to execute the tush push, the tush he push. Hey,
they were injured by that tush hey pushey. Now Bellinger
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suffered a knee injury. This guy Schmidts a shoulder injury.
So how do you explain Brian Dabeles giants failure of
epic proportions to execute the tush push. So this is
football negligence, is what it is. And they deserve to
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be mocked. Mock them, mock them. They deserve it, all right.
The Giants can wear the clown shoes. They can wear
the red nose, the puffy red nose on this one.
This is vad It's Vaudvillian, is what it is. It
is vadvillion Keystone Cops territory. The tush push is the
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most straightforward. But this is one of the most mind
bogging things I know. All these Philadelphia Eagle pod just
will send me messages those because they've got the great
host offensive line, and Jalen hurts and they squats six
hundred pounds.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I save it, Save it all right, Fried Daddy, save
it all right.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Listen the qby here's the tushbush all right? What do
I know? I just see the old red ye the tush.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
The quarterback takes the snap, all right, gets very low,
get low, do the mumbo, get low, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Begins to push forward.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
There's a wall of defensive players, a wall of humanity
that is up against him to try to stop, and
they're trying to prevent him from picking up the yard
of the yard and half and usually.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Just inches for a first down. So right behind the quarterback,
this is the key part. Here.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You have a combination of a tight end, a wide receiver,
running back and they're doing the pushy on the tushy.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
They're doing the pushy on the tae and so they.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Push and then all you need is a few inches
you'll get the first down. And these stumble bumbs with
the Giants, they couldn't even figure it out. Micah Parsons
called this a cheat code. The Cowboys guy said, that's
a cheap code, and so is it nobody else in
the NFL squats? How about you go to a gym
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and squa a little bit and do better, be better
and have two guys injured on same play? What is
Poppy and San Diego their offensive coordinator?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
All right? Now, final fight, last stop.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
We go to Sweet Home, Chicago, and we have increased
our audience tenfold. We used to only have Doc Mike
in Chicago that was listening to the show, but now
we've got.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
A wild pack of die hard.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Connoisseurs of marginal overnight sports radio in the Windy City
that have picked up on the show.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
And we talked about this story a little bit the
other day.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It's back and we're hearing now that it's It would
quote not be surprising if the Bears fired Matt Eberflus.
Should they lose on Thursday night to the Commanders. That's
the game tomorrow in DC. A veteran NFL scribe, Peter Kank,
he made that declaration. Now we'll follow up on the
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previous man of monologu. See if we have changed our position.
Do you do you, the respected consumer, do you believe
that the Chicago Bears would actually fire Matt Eerraflus if
they get run off the field by the Washington football
team on Thursday night. So I am agnostic on this.
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I am not a believer. I am a heathen. I
don't buy it. I didn't believe it two days ago.
I didn't believe it a year ago. I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Now I don't believe it, Sam, I am, I don't.
I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I take this with a grain of Morton Salt, which,
by the way, is headquartered in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Did you know that Morton Salt from Chicago? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And listen, seeing is believing and coaching stability is one
of the only things they have at hallis Hall coaching stability.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
They that's their claim to fame.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
It's not winning super Bowls, it's not having great quarterbacks.
God knows, they haven't had great quarterbacks and they haven't
any super bowl. But it's all about, Hey, we don't
fire coach. That's our thing, our that's our deal. And
they've never done it, and I don't believe they would
do it now. And the main problem here's the flaw,
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the fly in the ointment, if you will, for piticking.
Who are they gonna hire, right, who are they gonna
you look around Matt Eberflus is not only the head coach,
he's the defensive coordinator. So you fire him, you get
rid of your defensive quarter and your hydgard the offensive coordinator.
This guy Luke Getsy apparently doesn't know. I think there's
guys playing Madden that are better at calling plays than
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Luke Getsy. So he's the offensive quarter, so you can't
hire him as the head coach, can't promote him bad
to the bone. And then you're like, well, what about
the special teams? So somebody named Richard high Tower. I
would rather have the guy name that played High Tower
in those old Police Academy movies than Richard high Tower,
which is a dated reference I know, but just bear
with me. But no, the special teams stink, so you
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can't hire him.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So what would you do?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
The only scenario where this would work, where the Bears
fire their coach, there's only one scenario. They would have
to channel Jim Rsay and hire a TV guy. Remember
when Urse fired the Colts coach and hired Jeff Saturday
from ESPN. Yeah, so how about Skip Bayless as coach
of the Chicago Bears. Does anyone say no, I don't
(28:23):
see no how about Stephen A. Smith coaching the Bears,
who says, no, I don't hell at this point hired
Craig Carton.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
To coach the Bears.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Why not just go like flip on the TV. Maybe
you'll watch Benny versus the Penny. I'll get a phone call.
I don't know, it might happen, and that's the only path.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Hey, this is Tom Berducci from Fox Sports MLB Networking
Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
And I'm Joe madden A.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
We're going to be around to talk a little bit
about managerial decisions and what may have occurred to that
I got maybe in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
It's the book of podcast. I can't wait for this, Joe.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
We're gonna dive into what goes on in the dugout
and behind the scenes in Major League.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Baseball, cars, wind whatever else we want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yeah, well, there are no boundaries, right. Listen to the
Booker Joe Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, on Apple Podcasts
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
To the third degree.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
This is one big fan gets grail comeloop Right.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Now, every team in the AFC South sits at two
and two. Do you think that division is really that
wide open or do you think we'll see a team
separate from the path.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
No, it should not be that wide open. You know,
I went on television. I was praising Jacksonville. They've made
me look like a total donkey. Jacksonville's the most talented
team by a country mile. The Jags have been sleepwalking
the beginning of the year, so big weekend then for them.
They played Buffalo this weekend. They can snap out of
it turn their thing around. But the Texas have surprised.
(29:55):
The Colts are what we thought they would be a
bad team, and the Tennessee Titans are kind of a mediocre.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
So I'm going Duvall County next.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
A running back hasn't won the MVP Awards since Adrian
Peterson in twenty twelve. Many around the league are saying
that Christian McCaffrey should be the front runner through four weeks.
Do you agree, Well, I would say that is a
premature take. Yeah, he's been wonderful through the first part
of the season. He's been electric but as great as
he is is a lot of real estate to navigate,
and his big bugaboo is the injury grim Reaper. And ultimately,
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if it's even, if all things are equal, it's a
quarterback that has similar numbers.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
The quarterback's gonna win the MVP. Now default, the default
position goes to the quarterback. But yeah, he's the four
week MVP. Christian McCaffrey. Congratulations, have a party next.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
This past Sunday, Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown was threatened
with being removed from the game if he didn't change
his highlighter green cleats. Brown said he wore them so
that his daughter could see him easier on TV. He
told reporters after the game that the rule sucks and
players around the league should revolt and wear whatever they
want because they're not gonna be able to find everyone. Yo, Ben,
do you think a revolt like that would work?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I like that he played the kid card from the
bottom of the deck. First of all, what about the daughter?
What about my daughter? The other thing is, never underestimate
the pettiness of the NFL. They would absolutely find everyone.
Here's what the players need to do. The NFL owners
won an eighteenth game, and if the players agree to
an eighteenth game, the owners will agree to allow them
to wear rainbow cleats every week. They won't care as
long as they get that extra game. There, it is
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malow the third degree.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
How do we know passes? That is a when I won?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Iowa save I won, Iowa Save, I won.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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listen live. Hey got a minute?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Hey to heaven?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Oh Iowa like you give a damn now? Presenting the
most up to date half it needs from Iowa's four
Division one teams, ladies and gentlemen, cows and pigs. It's
the Iowa Minute. Here's Iowa Sam.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Get out the tractor, Grandma into the barn.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
We go with the Iowa Minute.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Well, I know you people are licking your chops, more
specifically your pork chops, Iowa pork chops. For this next
Iowa minute, Listen, listen, listen. This Iowa minute promises to
be meaner, greener, and leaner, leaner like a pork chop,
but not a pork belly. Yeah, it's the other white meat. Yes,
actually pork. Some part parts of the pig are quite nutritious.
(32:40):
Look at that there, that's swine though, Iowa swine. You
eat swine, don't you been?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
No, you don't. I don't know. I don't. That's okay,
that's the only bad thing I don't do. You loves
pig Delicious? Is it sponsored by the Iowa Farm Bureau?
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yes, it should be, of course. Listen, Okay, guys, we
gotta get into the nitty gritty here. According to the
latest report from the US Department of Agriculture, about sixteen
percent of Iowa's corn and twenty four percent of the
Stained States soybeans easier for me to say have been harvested,
which is almost a doubling of production from last week.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Look at that the soybean I made.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah, let's go to des Moines. I feel better knowing
that Iowa.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
It's called Desmoin's des Mooy's. Actually, let's go to Morehead, Kentucky,
where by some miracles.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Now this is not Iowa, is not the Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Minutes.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
We're coming back to Iowa. Don't worry. We can't go
to Kentucky. What we got we got an Iowa team
in Kentucky. Are you smoking bluegrass? Oh?
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Yeah, yeah, some miracle. The Drake Bulldogs pulled out a
victory sixteen to nine over the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Hooray, the first victory of the season.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Running back Dorian boiling one hundred and twenty three yards
and a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Boiling those pork Bellieslan Park Bellies. Congrats, tout Todds Stepsis's crew. Oopsis.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
That sounds like stepsister, but it sounds like it's like sepsis,
like septic sepsis in your bludget.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
You don't, that's but congrats to Todds and his crew
for that victory.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Up next at home against a Valparaiso. What is their mascot, Drake?
What is it? It's a bulldog? They should be the soybeans.
I don't know. Soybeans are just sort of they're just.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
There's a million, there's a million bulldogs, but there's no
one named the soybeans.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
You could literally drop a million soybeans onto somebody and
it would overwhelm them and suffocate them, like in that
scene from The Witness, except they used corn. You know,
the guy gets buried. Every time I hear soybeans.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I think of that movie Soybeans and Pork Belly, So
that's always the line.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I think that's right. Yeah, it was, yes, yes, get
out there and sell sell. Yeah. Man, we got some
winners this week.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
What a whild one at the Unidome, Mark Farley's Panthers
escape with a forty four to forty one win over
Youngstown State to improve too two and two and one and.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
O in the Missouri Valley Conference. Big win, big win.
We're all excited, hear in the Iowa minute.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
So excited quarterback THEO day coming someday to an NFL
stadium near you. Hell of a day for THEO. Three
hundred and thirty seven yards in four touchdown.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Remember, the Iowa minute is only one minute, so if
you hate it, it's only one minute. If you like it,
it's like, how long, Eddie, where are we at now?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Too much? Too much? Not enough?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Listen, I think we're over three minutes. I gotta give
the disclaimer to the Iowa minute. Main In fact, sometimes
the clip sixty times seconds.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Time is the most valuable thing we have Iowa saym.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
And it's wasting away right now. And up next for
the Panthers at Indiana State. All right, well, they all
can't be winners, but the Cyclones did keep this game
close for about a quarter and a half against the
number fourteen Sooners in Norman.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Now the shift Noll out and Rocco drops to throw.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It, fires to the right side, and it is caught.
And here goes Jane Phiggins on a.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Breakaway Nicholas the thirty to twenty to the ten touchdown
Iowa stake.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
That was John Walters from Lairfield.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
And we now go to exclusive I with a minute
audio of Shane in Des Moines. Dear God, it's good,
but the Sooners would soon pull away.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Gabriel's got it looking left, looks back middle, throws across
the middle, is.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Caught, touchdown. Drake Stoops on the back line of the inside. Peter, Hey,
that was Bob Stoops' son. How about that one? And
that was Toby Rowland from Learfield. How about that Bob.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Stoops Stoops Oklahoma won that game because sooner born and
sooner bred, and when they died, they'll be sooner dead.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
That's true. Oh my god, it's loud and they're just better.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
How did Bob Stoops kid end up at Oklahoma? How'd
that happen? Shocking?
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Yes, Sooners winning fifty to twenty. Up next back at
the Jack hosting tc.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
YEA The Jack in the Body, Jack in the Box, No.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Jack Trice Stadio Okay in aims, is it already not yet?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Not over? It's got a minute forty five. We're gonna use.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Every damn seconek Jesus, sweet Jesus making it eddy five minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Don't have the power to do that. He's controlling. It's
a style takeover the FSR airways.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
We close with a winner because that's what we do
here at the Iowa Minute, and all winners are sponsored by.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Up to the minute grain prices.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Iowa hosting Michigan State, got off to an ominous start.
Iowa quarterback Cad mcnameric goes down with an injury earlier
in this game, and sadly it would turn out to
be a torn a cl as Eddie reported yesterday. So
fade Cad and run up that Deacon Hill at quarterback
in this game would be a struggle for Iowa, a
real struggle until this happened.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Where's my play there? It is. It's a good wobbly putt,
but high enough.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
The Jeene can return at the thirty thirty five forty
midfield still gone Oby thirty five twenty.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Five, twenty ten touchdown, touchdown, Iowa touchdown.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Ah Gary Dolphin from Learfield. Iowa wins twenty six to sixteen.
Up next, hosting Purdue. Hey, and shout out to Troy.
I know we don't give shout outs, but real quick,
we don't. He gave me a call in studio. We
talked to a little Iowa city. How about that.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
You don't need to suck up the people. I well
call it here. That's kind You've been there before.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Okay, I didn't get to this last week, Ben, But
in case you didn't catch this from last week, big
nil news coming out of Ames and what guys, what
do you get when you line up these four cyclones
shoulders shoulder in their jerseys, Myles Purchase, Tyler Moore, Tommy
Hammond and Caleb Bacon?
Speaker 3 (38:24):
You get a headache Bacon, you get purchase more ham
and Bacon.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
Yeah, and they're teaming up with the Eye of Pork
Producers Association. Winkin oinkint wint Do you pull off that
kind of magic?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
And with seven seconds to go, that's the Eye of
a minute. Thank you. Hey, no, you still got three seconds.
You're killing time.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Iowa Sam six minutes over six and a half minutes, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Attention everyone, and the word.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Is password, you idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.
Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Hey, wait we go password time. Let's welcome in to
our concessus. Now we have options. He I'm gonna let
Edie aside because he cannot see what I can see.
We have a legends category. We have We have a
couple of legends that want to play, that are regular
guys on the show that play semi often.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
And we have the newbies.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So Eddie, would you like to do a legend versus
Nuby All Legends, all newbies.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
I'm gonna go all legends.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
All legends, strewing over the new people. Okay, we welcome
in on the legends bracket. We say hello to let
me punch up the right line. Milkman Mike is in Colorado. Hello,
Milkman Mike. Finally, the Mike has called back to Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Yes, the home of the champions of the NBA. The
denver N gets there in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Finally, Yes, our long national nightmare is over all right, man, Mike,
who do you want to partner up with? Milkman Mike, Oh,
give me the king of Password himself, Heady Gardner.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Yeah, that's a terrible I mean, that's embarrassing. It's absolutely embarrassing.
All right, clueless in Colorado. Hold on a second, we
have Uncle Mo. Hello, Uncle Mo.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
Hey, Ben, Ben, not for now, but I went to
the Tampa Bay raysed game today and I thought the
stadium it's overrated, how bad it is? Actually enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
No, you're in Florida.
Speaker 8 (40:36):
I'm in Orlando for the Sukas holiday.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Oh congratulations, eat some fruit.
Speaker 8 (40:42):
All right, I'm gonna go strict rotation in place. I'm
gonna go with Coop.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Come on and uncle on. Ben is so mad.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
You're part of the tribe. Uncle, that's wrong with you.
You better watch my You better watch the damn show.
At least Uncle Mos never played Password before, so we don't.
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Know if he's good at played this game before.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
So that's a good point. All right, and play. You
know it's a holiday. You're probably all hammered and all that.
All right, all of them. Okay, we have a listen
of words one to ten. If you can see them,
you're cheating. And Milkman Mike was on the air first,
so go ahead there, Milkman.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Mike, pig number.
Speaker 8 (41:24):
Let's start.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Let's cover number.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Four, number four, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
By the way, I'll be doing a new voiceover for
a commercial coming up here. You will not hear it
on the air voiceover session coming up.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Let me ask if I can say say this.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
If you have to ask, Eddie, leave it out, win
in doubt, leave it out. I learned that I went
to iHeart College. Win in doubt, leave it out, the
only college I've graduated from. iHeart College.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
And I gotten the okay from Coop and uh and
there's guys are cheaters too. The password is Nichols.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Oh, I don't know about that, milkman.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yes, well, if I was Uncle Moe, i'd file a protest.
But that's ten points. We go over to Cooper Loop
and Uncle Mo, allow it. You're from Iowa.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Allow it. I don't think it's a proper noun. All right.
So it's a name brand for the.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
All right, mom, number more number one, Oh, thank that's
a tribute to me from uncle mode. All right, kicking
me in the shins here, Uncle Moe, is what you
do hairless?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah you go.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
We're tied to ten, TI to ten. We're listening to
pass word the word Game of the Stars. We go
back to Milkman Mike. Anything but one or four?
Speaker 5 (42:54):
Number nine?
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Number nine? Eddy, Uh, let's go with m oh boy,
oh boy, choking choking, choking online one.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
How about get distill, distill to distill something what no correct?
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Back to this could be for the wind, coolpe could
be for the win. Let's go with I mean this
is a tough one.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Uh sieve, Oh boy, No, back to eight points, next one?
Speaker 3 (43:34):
That gets it right.
Speaker 7 (43:35):
How about filtrate?
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Oh that is a violet. You're not allowed to use
that word.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
The word was filtered, cheated and that means oh, come come,
the word was filter.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
You can't say you.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Gotta go the tag you gotta go that take yet again, Garcia,
you're looking.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
At the day was so much better without betting.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Too bad said with no integrity, no integrity by you
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So I did that for a little bit. I was
actually watching the early American League games, and then then
that got done. I then watched the National League games,
and now here I am.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But our lead does come from the I know it's
paving roads in the summer. Unless I'm not these hot takes.
I gotta tell you, hot take. Creating not easy. I'm
a content creator. I am a content creator, not the
kind that makes a ton of money like those people
on YouTube, but I'm a content content creator. I can't
even talk all right anyway, So our league does come
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from the wild card round of the playoffs. The curtain
goes up and the party is underway. I assume you watched,
but maybe not the American League winners, the Texas Rangers
kaoed Tampa Bay in their first game, and the Minnesota Twins.
You can't spell wins without twins. The Minnesota Twins using
(02:38):
the good karma of the Minneapolis mallord meet and greet
at the Mermaid months ago and carrying that that good
vibration into the win column and they finally win and
they end their slide. They st have to win another
game to advance and they Diamondbacks and the Phillies also victorious,
and the NL side of the bracket, the Phillies had
a surgical win.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It looked like a wild madhouse.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
There in Philadelphia. That looked like a fun place. They
were going nuts. Man, all those animals in Philadelphia were
having a field day. And Arizona they stormed back. They
were down three to nothing. What a tough day for
the crew, the brow crew. They choked on the cheese
curd and they go down. But in that Texas game,
the story here, and it's a story. A lot of
(03:24):
people are buzzing around and Baseball doesn't like it. So
when I hear that baseball doesn't like a story, I
then am attracted to the story. I think, well, now
this is interesting. See now I'm into the story because
Baseball is trying to put the cabash on the story.
So I'm like, Okay, this is something I want to
get into here and wrap my hands around. So anyway,
the story is Game one. It comes from Florida. The
(03:46):
sight of the game. The Texas the road team because
they couldn't win the final day of the year because
apparently they partied too much the night before. Anyway, Game
one American League Wild Card Series was played aid in
front of a crowd so sparse.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
How sparse was it?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It was so sparse that baseball had not seen that
level of attendance in a playoff game in over a century,
which I believe is one hundred years. I believe that's
one hundred years a century. I might be wrong on that,
but I think I'm right. So we were told the
attendants announcement was nineteen thousand, seven hundred and four for
(04:26):
a playoff game playoffs, for a playoff game at the
trop And that is the lowest for a postseason game
outside of some kind of act of God since at
least nineteen nineteen. Put that in your pipe and smoking.
So let us discuss the question, how do the raise
and more importantly, have of Major League Baseball officials? Spin spin, spin, spin,
(04:49):
spin the amazingly embarrassing attendance for a playoff game there
in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Throwback Canadian Baker and Winston Churchill things that have never
been tossed into a Mallard monologue before or any other
monologue for that matters. I blatantly try to suck up
to our new listeners in Edmonton. That's really what this
is about, right, We're on a new affiliate in Edmonton,
(05:17):
and so I'm trying to stuck up anyway. All right,
so a we'll start here. Baseball as a whole. I've
learned this over the years. I've had firsthand experience from
working behind these microphones because they do monitor what we
do here. Trust me, I find out every once in
a while when I cross the line. But the people
at Major League Baseball I call them artisans. They are
(05:42):
artisans of mumbo jumbo, is.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What they are.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And they always have the built in excuse for whatever
they're talking about. This one, they're gonna chalk up the
Tampa Bay attendants are gonna chalk up to a scheduling
snaff foo. I will dare wrong, Tay. They're gonna say
it's a scheduling snaff foo. That's what the gonna do.
They're gonna it's a midday game, midweek game. People have jobs.
Because I thought that's God's waiting room in Florida. I
(06:07):
thought's what's where you go when you're retired. You go
to Florida to hang out, right, it's the pearly gates
are right around the corner when you're hanging out in
the sunshine. I say, anyway, that might play in Peoria,
or maybe it plays in Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
But on this side of the microphone, we smell, as
our Ukrainian friend Jayscoop would say, bull pucky. That's what
we smell. We smell bullpucky.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Tampa. Listen.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
We know it's not exactly breaking a new ground here.
We're not cracking the glass ceiling saying that Tampa has
no passion for baseball.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The Rays going into.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The Plauf now, in the last couple months of the
regular season, they lost their top pitcher, Shane McClanahan because
of injury, their top position player Wander Franco because apparently
he's a pervert, and and so they're gone, right, they're out,
and so in the rain are not a draw. With
all apologies to our friends in Dallas and the great
state of Texas, you're not going to go out of
(07:06):
your way to watch Corey Seager play as good as
he is. He's a good ball player, but you're not
gonna go out of your way to watch Corey Seger
play or anyone else on that. They don't sell tickets,
they don't create buzz. But so much for the theory.
If you build it, they will come, unless they don't
show up, unless they say, you know what, we don't
want to show up. Bottom line, though, this was a throwback,
(07:27):
throwback kind of a day to the pandemic era of
a few years ago when Fox Sports Radio had the
highest ratings they've ever had with no sport. That's true,
we had more people listening in a global pandemic that
we've ever had before or since, by the way, and
it shows you that apparently the sports or what's holding
us back anyway, listen the point I know, sporty, but
(07:50):
if we remember listen, we watched, we watched the games.
There was no sports for over one hundred days or
whatever it was, and then we watched the games and
the stadiums were mostly burned. Other than like Florida and Texas, spiritless,
lacking atmosphere, lacking a soul. That was soulless, right, that
was soulless. That's the rais in a nutshell. Though Tampa
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has struggled to get anyone to consistently attend their games
and listen, the stadium looks like a dump. I've never
been there. Maybe it's not that bad. It looks terrible
on television. It's not esthetically pleasing. And this season the
Rays is a pretty good team. Another playoff appearance for
Tampa and they ranked twenty seventh out of thirty teams
in attendance. But here's how baseball can also spin it.
(08:32):
The pr delegates of Major League Baseball will crunch the
numbers and say, listen, yeah, the attendance was the worst
in over one hundred years, but compared to the regular season,
the attendance was actually ten point eight percent higher for
the rais than the regular season, so that actually increased
their attendance side by side regular season to the postseason. Now,
page two. As for the ball, because we're all about
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the ball, we're all about the ball. As for the
activity on the field, right and regular season, we had
four teams now four of them facing an elimination situation,
and those teams are the Toronto Blue Jays, the Tampa
Bay Rays, the Miami Marlins, and the Milwaukee Brewers. They
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all lost on Tuesday. That means if they lose again
later on. Here they're done. That's it. Turn out the
last the parties over. Just like that, a couple of games,
you're done. So the question, the question for the distinguished Panel,
which of the wild card losers has the top opportunity,
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the best chance to come back and win the series?
Out of the four teams that lost, and again for
those of you a little bit slow, that's the Jays, Rays,
Marlins and crew. Out of those four teams, which team
has the top opportunity to come back? So I am
going with Canadian Bacon all Cada.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, I'm going with the Jayson.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Now, this is not a shot at the Minnesota Twins,
but the Jays have star power, They've got firepower. Plus
we know the rich history of Twins baseball, and that
tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
And sure, Royce Lewis looked great. It looked like a
Rolls Royce couple of dingers first to at bats for
the Twinkies in Game one. However, that came after eighteen
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consecutive losses. That win ended a biblical streak of futility
for the Twinkies. They won a playoff game after six
than three hundred and ninety seven days without a playoff win.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
George W.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Bush was the president. So forget Biden, forget Trump, forget Obama.
You got to go back to George W.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Bush.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
In four, the last time the Twins won a playoff game,
some movie called Shark Tale. I don't en remember that
movie from DreamWorks was the number one movie. And so
any I'm going with Toronto. I can give you a
million reasons, Vladimir Guerrero's spawn and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I can go on and on, but I am.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Taking the big bazookas there as and again, it doesn't
mean they're gonna come back. But of the four, if
I were to bet money, if you gave me a
thousand dollars of fundy money, I would take Toronto and
a former Twinkie on the Mount Jose Burrios on the
mound there and he's got okay playoff numbers. He's on
the mound in the elimination situation. Betwins win the advance.
If the Jays win, there's a game three. I want
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to see all these teams win. All the teams that
lost I want to see win. I want to see
elimination game elimination game, elimination game, elimination game. There are
a few things better than elimination game, single elimination winner.
Go gets it all all right? Last word here, some
new revelations going to turn the page completely away from
the playoffs and to a guy who's not in the
playoffs because he's not in baseball right now, not in
professional American baseball.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This story is nuts, right, This is like a horror story,
the Trevor Bauer story.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
We talked about it in a previous episode.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But the cy young winner of years past, now we
know he's settle the civil lawsuit with the San Diego
a woman some call her a wench, who appears to
have falsely accused him of sexual assault. And now the
reporter who gave some of the claims a megaphone behind
a paywall on the Athletic has been put on blast.
(12:20):
According to Trevor Bower, some legal papers that were released
on the interweb, the Athletic, which is now owned by
the old Gray Lady, the New York Times, and a
I say this in quotes reporter someone named Molly Knight.
We're not sure who that is. Parently, she's got a substack.
So things aren't going well for but she reported that
Bauer had fractured the skull of the accuser. And now
(12:45):
new information has revealed that she reported that despite having
possession of her medical records that pointed out she did not.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Have a fractured skull. Who goofed.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I've got to know now the question, and how does
this update in Trevor Bauer's story change the playing field? Well,
if this is true, and by most accounts I've read,
you know, from what I've read, it is it is
actually the gospel. It's got to be the end of
Molly Night right. She moves into Brian Williams territory, Jason Blair,
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the guy that made stuff up at the New York Times,
that she's that level of reporter. I mean, if this
is true, am I wrong on that? I don't think
I am wrong on that. But it's also a reminder
of the power of the media. And this got repeated
over and over and over and over. It's like that
quote that is attributed to Winston Churchill that you know,
a lies is going to travel halfway around the world
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before the truth even has its boots on. But the
story by the athletic got picked up all over the
blog sphere. It was repackaged to buy aggregators. Prominent baseball
reporters demanded that Trevor Bauer be kicked out of baseball, suspended,
et cetera. And I haven't seen a single one of
those reporters retract their claims, not a single one. They've
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gone to the Ostridge plan where you just bury your
head in the sand, but nobody's gonna pay attention. And
you know what, it actually works, because it's what we
always talk about. When the legend becomes the fact, you
go with the legend. The legend is, this is what happened.
The facts have come out, Ignore the facts, go with
the original story, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's a rather scary situation.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Bower is never gonna pitch in Major League Baseball again,
and that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
So he's eating tempura right now, drowning his sorrows with
sake somewhere in Japan.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
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Speaker 3 (15:45):
If you will. I know that's like tons of fun
with Iowa Sam, But.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Anyway, I mean, that's our lead does come from lost
Wages Nevada indirectly. The Raiders are yet again circling. So
if you're a Raider hater, things are going very well
for you. Another lost season on the Raiders docket ahead
of them. Now the owner of that particular team making
(16:14):
some headlines. So this has been bouncing around. It went
viral and if you don't know what we're talking about here,
maybe you don't, hopefully you don't. The Raiders owner Mark Davis,
he's the guy with the funny hair. Yeah, Mark Davis
melted down and he was upset. What triggered Mark Davis?
(16:35):
Was it the incompetence of the fill in quarterback for
the Raiders?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Was it the coaching of Josh McDaniels. What was it?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
What was it that caused Mark Davis, the owner of
the Raiders to lose it?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well, that would be none of the above.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
It was a group of passionate fans of the Raiders.
You see in a candid camera moment to Mark Davis exploding.
Say that for dramatic purposes, but he was unhappy because
a group of fans walked by his throne and said, hey,
(17:17):
fire Josh McDaniels. The guy's a bump. I added that part,
but fire Josh McDaniels. This is during the Charger Raider
game there. I think it was moments after now in
a video posted on TikTok, now I have a TikTok
advisor Alf the Alien of Potter. I'm not on TikTok,
(17:38):
but alf is and so anything good on TikTok, alf
will send my way. He's my he's my liaison. Alf
is with with TikTok. Anyway, the video posted on the TikTok,
Mark Davis was overheard yelling at the pack of angry
fans to smarten up wallet Sofi Stadium in the hood
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in Inglewood. So let us discuss the question. You don't
only pick one whose side are you on in the
Mark Davis sparring match with a group of upset Raider fans?
Are you on the side of Mark Davis? Are you
on the side of the fan? So the scales on
this one are leaning heavily on the side of the customer.
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On the side of the customer. That is what the
right side of this is. Now, I've got Gillette clown
shoes and Morton salt and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
sour puss, which is what Mark Davis looks like a
sour puss in all this. So, first of all, Mark
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Davis did the thing you can't do at the time.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You are the one in power. You can't have that happen.
You just can't do it now. You can go behind
closed doors and mf the fans all you want, but
you can't have that reaction. You are the owner of
an NFL franchise worth over five billion dollars. That's the
value of the Raiders. You're sitting high at top in
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the aristocrats suite there with some other uber rich people.
Good for you, you won the lottery. Congratulations, you won
the genetic lottery because your dad had all the money.
But you're sitting in a lap luxury there and you
are worried about Joe six pack. You are concerned about
Joe Schmoe yelling at you. That's what you're worried about.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
That is unbecoming. That is unbecoming.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Davis needs to contact the people that did the marketing
for Jillette back in the day because this is the
perfect deodorant commercial. Never let them see a sweat. Mark
Davis violated that. He let everyone see and he had
sweaty armpits. Sweaty armpits for Mark Davis. You're the billionaire.
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Remain come remain calm and find a way to deal
with the university.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
And this is a huge win for the fan.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's a huge win for the fan because you're not
aloof you don't have apathy.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You care, right, you care.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
The Raiders mean somebody and Mark Davis looking at his reaction,
My theory is rather simple that Mark Davis realizes he
f this up right, but he's dug himself a hole.
He's worried about having to pay John Gruden a bunch
of money because John Gruden's suing the NFL, and there's
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questions about whether or not the Raiders and the NFL
are going to have to cook up some money for
John Gruden for wrongful termination, and so that'll cost some money,
and so they're worried about that, and Davis doesn't want
to have to fire McDaniels and then pay another.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Coach, which would be a third coach.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
But he also realizes at this point that josh Ba
Daniels is not it like he's got the cooties.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
He don't know what he's doing. The guy's a stiff,
and so what do you do?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So that's why he reacted the way he reacted was
smart en up. McDaniels is seven and fourteen as coach
of there is is there any reason for optimism? That
this is going to get better for the Raiders in
the near future. I don't see anything. I'm not Benny
Bright's out on this. I'm a realist. I look at
the Raiders. Well, Garoppolos, he go already missed one game.
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He'll probably miss three or four more games. If everything
goes right for Garoppolo, he'll miss three or four games.
He'll lose all four of those. You've already lost three games.
So that'll get you up. You know, by the time
you do the math on that, you know everything goes right,
best case scenarios, you end up winning like six games.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
You're like six and eleven. That doesn't seem good to me.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Now, Secondly, we go to Jersey. We go to Jersey. Now,
what's going on in Jersey? The fallout from the Monday
night football game continues to bounce around the pinball machine
of sports chatter and my, oh my.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh my.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Now Seattle, the Seattle football team took a can of
whoop ass to the New York NFC football team. They're
in the swamplands of New Jersey and the depths of
the carnage. We are now learning. Giants coach Brian Dable
embarrassingly announced that the tight end for the Giants someone
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named Daniel Bellinger. I have no idea who this is,
but Daniel Bellinger and the rookie center John Michael Schmitz,
may the Schmidz be with you, both suffered injuries trying
to execute the tush push, the tush he push. Hey,
they were injured by that tush hey pushey. Now Bellinger
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suffered a knee injury. This guy Schmidts a shoulder injury.
So how do you explain Brian Dabeles giants failure of
epic proportions to execute the tush push. So this is
football negligence, is what it is. And they deserve to
(23:10):
be mocked. Mock them, mock them. They deserve it, all right.
The Giants can wear the clown shoes. They can wear
the red nose, the puffy red nose on this one.
This is vad It's Vaudvillian, is what it is. It
is vadvillion Keystone Cops territory. The tush push is the
(23:35):
most straightforward. But this is one of the most mind
bogging things I know. All these Philadelphia Eagle pod just
will send me messages those because they've got the great
host offensive line, and Jalen hurts and they squats six
hundred pounds.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I save it, Save it all right, Fried Daddy, save
it all right.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Listen the qby here's the tushbush all right? What do
I know? I just see the old red ye the tush.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
The quarterback takes the snap, all right, gets very low,
get low, do the mumbo, get low, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Begins to push forward.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
There's a wall of defensive players, a wall of humanity
that is up against him to try to stop, and
they're trying to prevent him from picking up the yard
of the yard and half and usually.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Just inches for a first down. So right behind the quarterback,
this is the key part. Here.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
You have a combination of a tight end, a wide receiver,
running back and they're doing the pushy on the tushy.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
They're doing the pushy on the tae and so they.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Push and then all you need is a few inches
you'll get the first down. And these stumble bumbs with
the Giants, they couldn't even figure it out. Micah Parsons
called this a cheat code. The Cowboys guy said, that's
a cheap code, and so is it nobody else in
the NFL squats? How about you go to a gym
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and squa a little bit and do better, be better
and have two guys injured on same play? What is
Poppy and San Diego their offensive coordinator?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
All right? Now, final fight, last stop.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
We go to Sweet Home, Chicago, and we have increased
our audience tenfold. We used to only have Doc Mike
in Chicago that was listening to the show, but now
we've got.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
A wild pack of die hard.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Connoisseurs of marginal overnight sports radio in the Windy City
that have picked up on the show.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
And we talked about this story a little bit the
other day.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It's back and we're hearing now that it's It would
quote not be surprising if the Bears fired Matt Eberflus.
Should they lose on Thursday night to the Commanders. That's
the game tomorrow in DC. A veteran NFL scribe, Peter Kank,
he made that declaration. Now we'll follow up on the
(25:58):
previous man of monologu. See if we have changed our position.
Do you do you, the respected consumer, do you believe
that the Chicago Bears would actually fire Matt Eerraflus if
they get run off the field by the Washington football
team on Thursday night. So I am agnostic on this.
(26:21):
I am not a believer. I am a heathen. I
don't buy it. I didn't believe it two days ago.
I didn't believe it a year ago. I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Now I don't believe it, Sam, I am, I don't.
I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I take this with a grain of Morton Salt, which,
by the way, is headquartered in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Did you know that Morton Salt from Chicago? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And listen, seeing is believing and coaching stability is one
of the only things they have at hallis Hall coaching stability.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
They that's their claim to fame.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
It's not winning super Bowls, it's not having great quarterbacks.
God knows, they haven't had great quarterbacks and they haven't
any super bowl. But it's all about, Hey, we don't
fire coach. That's our thing, our that's our deal. And
they've never done it, and I don't believe they would
do it now. And the main problem here's the flaw,
(27:14):
the fly in the ointment, if you will, for piticking.
Who are they gonna hire, right, who are they gonna
you look around Matt Eberflus is not only the head coach,
he's the defensive coordinator. So you fire him, you get
rid of your defensive quarter and your hydgard the offensive coordinator.
This guy Luke Getsy apparently doesn't know. I think there's
guys playing Madden that are better at calling plays than
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Luke Getsy. So he's the offensive quarter, so you can't
hire him as the head coach, can't promote him bad
to the bone. And then you're like, well, what about
the special teams? So somebody named Richard high Tower. I
would rather have the guy name that played High Tower
in those old Police Academy movies than Richard high Tower,
which is a dated reference I know, but just bear
with me. But no, the special teams stink, so you
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can't hire him.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So what would you do?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
The only scenario where this would work, where the Bears
fire their coach, there's only one scenario. They would have
to channel Jim Rsay and hire a TV guy. Remember
when Urse fired the Colts coach and hired Jeff Saturday
from ESPN. Yeah, so how about Skip Bayless as coach
of the Chicago Bears. Does anyone say no, I don't
(28:23):
see no how about Stephen A. Smith coaching the Bears,
who says, no, I don't hell at this point hired
Craig Carton.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
To coach the Bears.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Why not just go like flip on the TV. Maybe
you'll watch Benny versus the Penny. I'll get a phone call.
I don't know, it might happen, and that's the only path.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
And I'm Joe madden A.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
We're going to be around to talk a little bit
about managerial decisions and what may have occurred to that
I got maybe in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
It's the book of podcast. I can't wait for this, Joe.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
We're gonna dive into what goes on in the dugout
and behind the scenes in Major League.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Baseball, cars, wind whatever else we want to talk about.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
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Booker Joe Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, on Apple Podcasts
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Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
To the third degree.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
This is one big fan gets grail comeloop Right.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Now, every team in the AFC South sits at two
and two. Do you think that division is really that
wide open or do you think we'll see a team
separate from the path.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
No, it should not be that wide open. You know,
I went on television. I was praising Jacksonville. They've made
me look like a total donkey. Jacksonville's the most talented
team by a country mile. The Jags have been sleepwalking
the beginning of the year, so big weekend then for them.
They played Buffalo this weekend. They can snap out of
it turn their thing around. But the Texas have surprised.
(29:55):
The Colts are what we thought they would be a
bad team, and the Tennessee Titans are kind of a mediocre.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
So I'm going Duvall County next.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
A running back hasn't won the MVP Awards since Adrian
Peterson in twenty twelve. Many around the league are saying
that Christian McCaffrey should be the front runner through four weeks.
Do you agree, Well, I would say that is a
premature take. Yeah, he's been wonderful through the first part
of the season. He's been electric but as great as
he is is a lot of real estate to navigate,
and his big bugaboo is the injury grim Reaper. And ultimately,
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if it's even, if all things are equal, it's a
quarterback that has similar numbers.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
The quarterback's gonna win the MVP. Now default, the default
position goes to the quarterback. But yeah, he's the four
week MVP. Christian McCaffrey. Congratulations, have a party next.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
This past Sunday, Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown was threatened
with being removed from the game if he didn't change
his highlighter green cleats. Brown said he wore them so
that his daughter could see him easier on TV. He
told reporters after the game that the rule sucks and
players around the league should revolt and wear whatever they
want because they're not gonna be able to find everyone. Yo, Ben,
do you think a revolt like that would work?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I like that he played the kid card from the
bottom of the deck. First of all, what about the daughter?
What about my daughter? The other thing is, never underestimate
the pettiness of the NFL. They would absolutely find everyone.
Here's what the players need to do. The NFL owners
won an eighteenth game, and if the players agree to
an eighteenth game, the owners will agree to allow them
to wear rainbow cleats every week. They won't care as
long as they get that extra game. There, it is
(31:25):
malow the third degree.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
How do we know passes? That is a when I won?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Iowa save I won, Iowa Save, I won.
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Speaker 3 (31:51):
Hey to heaven?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Oh Iowa like you give a damn now? Presenting the
most up to date half it needs from Iowa's four
Division one teams, ladies and gentlemen, cows and pigs. It's
the Iowa Minute. Here's Iowa Sam.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Get out the tractor, Grandma into the barn.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
We go with the Iowa Minute.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Well, I know you people are licking your chops, more
specifically your pork chops, Iowa pork chops. For this next
Iowa minute, Listen, listen, listen. This Iowa minute promises to
be meaner, greener, and leaner, leaner like a pork chop,
but not a pork belly. Yeah, it's the other white meat. Yes,
actually pork. Some part parts of the pig are quite nutritious.
(32:40):
Look at that there, that's swine though, Iowa swine. You
eat swine, don't you been?
Speaker 3 (32:44):
No, you don't. I don't know. I don't. That's okay,
that's the only bad thing I don't do. You loves
pig Delicious? Is it sponsored by the Iowa Farm Bureau?
Speaker 6 (32:56):
Yes, it should be, of course. Listen, Okay, guys, we
gotta get into the nitty gritty here. According to the
latest report from the US Department of Agriculture, about sixteen
percent of Iowa's corn and twenty four percent of the
Stained States soybeans easier for me to say have been harvested,
which is almost a doubling of production from last week.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Look at that the soybean I made.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah, let's go to des Moines. I feel better knowing
that Iowa.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
It's called Desmoin's des Mooy's. Actually, let's go to Morehead, Kentucky,
where by some miracles.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Now this is not Iowa, is not the Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Minutes.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
We're coming back to Iowa. Don't worry. We can't go
to Kentucky. What we got we got an Iowa team
in Kentucky. Are you smoking bluegrass? Oh?
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Yeah, yeah, some miracle. The Drake Bulldogs pulled out a
victory sixteen to nine over the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Hooray, the first victory of the season.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Running back Dorian boiling one hundred and twenty three yards
and a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Boiling those pork Bellieslan Park Bellies. Congrats, tout Todds Stepsis's crew. Oopsis.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
That sounds like stepsister, but it sounds like it's like sepsis,
like septic sepsis in your bludget.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
You don't, that's but congrats to Todds and his crew
for that victory.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Up next at home against a Valparaiso. What is their mascot, Drake?
What is it? It's a bulldog? They should be the soybeans.
I don't know. Soybeans are just sort of they're just.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
There's a million, there's a million bulldogs, but there's no
one named the soybeans.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
You could literally drop a million soybeans onto somebody and
it would overwhelm them and suffocate them, like in that
scene from The Witness, except they used corn. You know,
the guy gets buried. Every time I hear soybeans.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I think of that movie Soybeans and Pork Belly, So
that's always the line.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I think that's right. Yeah, it was, yes, yes, get
out there and sell sell. Yeah. Man, we got some
winners this week.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
What a whild one at the Unidome, Mark Farley's Panthers
escape with a forty four to forty one win over
Youngstown State to improve too two and two and one and.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
O in the Missouri Valley Conference. Big win, big win.
We're all excited, hear in the Iowa minute.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
So excited quarterback THEO day coming someday to an NFL
stadium near you. Hell of a day for THEO. Three
hundred and thirty seven yards in four touchdown.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Remember, the Iowa minute is only one minute, so if
you hate it, it's only one minute. If you like it,
it's like, how long, Eddie, where are we at now?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Too much? Too much? Not enough?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Listen, I think we're over three minutes. I gotta give
the disclaimer to the Iowa minute. Main In fact, sometimes
the clip sixty times seconds.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Time is the most valuable thing we have Iowa saym.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
And it's wasting away right now. And up next for
the Panthers at Indiana State. All right, well, they all
can't be winners, but the Cyclones did keep this game
close for about a quarter and a half against the
number fourteen Sooners in Norman.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Now the shift Noll out and Rocco drops to throw.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It, fires to the right side, and it is caught.
And here goes Jane Phiggins on a.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Breakaway Nicholas the thirty to twenty to the ten touchdown
Iowa stake.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
That was John Walters from Lairfield.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
And we now go to exclusive I with a minute
audio of Shane in Des Moines. Dear God, it's good,
but the Sooners would soon pull away.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Gabriel's got it looking left, looks back middle, throws across
the middle, is.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Caught, touchdown. Drake Stoops on the back line of the inside. Peter, Hey,
that was Bob Stoops' son. How about that one? And
that was Toby Rowland from Learfield. How about that Bob.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Stoops Stoops Oklahoma won that game because sooner born and
sooner bred, and when they died, they'll be sooner dead.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
That's true. Oh my god, it's loud and they're just better.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
How did Bob Stoops kid end up at Oklahoma? How'd
that happen? Shocking?
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Yes, Sooners winning fifty to twenty. Up next back at
the Jack hosting tc.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
YEA The Jack in the Body, Jack in the Box, No.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Jack Trice Stadio Okay in aims, is it already not yet?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Not over? It's got a minute forty five. We're gonna use.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Every damn seconek Jesus, sweet Jesus making it eddy five minutes.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Don't have the power to do that. He's controlling. It's
a style takeover the FSR airways.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
We close with a winner because that's what we do
here at the Iowa Minute, and all winners are sponsored by.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Up to the minute grain prices.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Iowa hosting Michigan State, got off to an ominous start.
Iowa quarterback Cad mcnameric goes down with an injury earlier
in this game, and sadly it would turn out to
be a torn a cl as Eddie reported yesterday. So
fade Cad and run up that Deacon Hill at quarterback
in this game would be a struggle for Iowa, a
real struggle until this happened.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Where's my play there? It is. It's a good wobbly putt,
but high enough.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
The Jeene can return at the thirty thirty five forty
midfield still gone Oby thirty five twenty.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Five, twenty ten touchdown, touchdown, Iowa touchdown.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Ah Gary Dolphin from Learfield. Iowa wins twenty six to sixteen.
Up next, hosting Purdue. Hey, and shout out to Troy.
I know we don't give shout outs, but real quick,
we don't. He gave me a call in studio. We
talked to a little Iowa city. How about that.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
You don't need to suck up the people. I well
call it here. That's kind You've been there before.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Okay, I didn't get to this last week, Ben, But
in case you didn't catch this from last week, big
nil news coming out of Ames and what guys, what
do you get when you line up these four cyclones
shoulders shoulder in their jerseys, Myles Purchase, Tyler Moore, Tommy
Hammond and Caleb Bacon?
Speaker 3 (38:24):
You get a headache Bacon, you get purchase more ham
and Bacon.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
Yeah, and they're teaming up with the Eye of Pork
Producers Association. Winkin oinkint wint Do you pull off that
kind of magic?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
And with seven seconds to go, that's the Eye of
a minute. Thank you. Hey, no, you still got three seconds.
You're killing time.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Iowa Sam six minutes over six and a half minutes, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Attention everyone, and the word.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Is password, you idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.
Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Hey, wait we go password time. Let's welcome in to
our concessus. Now we have options. He I'm gonna let
Edie aside because he cannot see what I can see.
We have a legends category. We have We have a
couple of legends that want to play, that are regular
guys on the show that play semi often.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
And we have the newbies.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So Eddie, would you like to do a legend versus
Nuby All Legends, all newbies.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
I'm gonna go all legends.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
All legends, strewing over the new people. Okay, we welcome
in on the legends bracket. We say hello to let
me punch up the right line. Milkman Mike is in Colorado. Hello,
Milkman Mike. Finally, the Mike has called back to Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Yes, the home of the champions of the NBA. The
denver N gets there in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Finally, Yes, our long national nightmare is over all right, man, Mike,
who do you want to partner up with? Milkman Mike, Oh,
give me the king of Password himself, Heady Gardner.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Yeah, that's a terrible I mean, that's embarrassing. It's absolutely embarrassing.
All right, clueless in Colorado. Hold on a second, we
have Uncle Mo. Hello, Uncle Mo.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
Hey, Ben, Ben, not for now, but I went to
the Tampa Bay raysed game today and I thought the
stadium it's overrated, how bad it is? Actually enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
No, you're in Florida.
Speaker 8 (40:36):
I'm in Orlando for the Sukas holiday.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Oh congratulations, eat some fruit.
Speaker 8 (40:42):
All right, I'm gonna go strict rotation in place. I'm
gonna go with Coop.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Come on and uncle on. Ben is so mad.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
You're part of the tribe. Uncle, that's wrong with you.
You better watch my You better watch the damn show.
At least Uncle Mos never played Password before, so we don't.
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Know if he's good at played this game before.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
So that's a good point. All right, and play. You
know it's a holiday. You're probably all hammered and all that.
All right, all of them. Okay, we have a listen
of words one to ten. If you can see them,
you're cheating. And Milkman Mike was on the air first,
so go ahead there, Milkman.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Mike, pig number.
Speaker 8 (41:24):
Let's start.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Let's cover number.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Four, number four, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
By the way, I'll be doing a new voiceover for
a commercial coming up here. You will not hear it
on the air voiceover session coming up.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Let me ask if I can say say this.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
If you have to ask, Eddie, leave it out, win
in doubt, leave it out. I learned that I went
to iHeart College. Win in doubt, leave it out, the
only college I've graduated from. iHeart College.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
And I gotten the okay from Coop and uh and
there's guys are cheaters too. The password is Nichols.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Oh, I don't know about that, milkman.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yes, well, if I was Uncle Moe, i'd file a protest.
But that's ten points. We go over to Cooper Loop
and Uncle Mo, allow it. You're from Iowa.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Allow it. I don't think it's a proper noun. All right.
So it's a name brand for the.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
All right, mom, number more number one, Oh, thank that's
a tribute to me from uncle mode. All right, kicking
me in the shins here, Uncle Moe, is what you
do hairless?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah you go.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
We're tied to ten, TI to ten. We're listening to
pass word the word Game of the Stars. We go
back to Milkman Mike. Anything but one or four?
Speaker 5 (42:54):
Number nine?
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Number nine? Eddy, Uh, let's go with m oh boy,
oh boy, choking choking, choking online one.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
How about get distill, distill to distill something what no correct?
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Back to this could be for the wind, coolpe could
be for the win. Let's go with I mean this
is a tough one.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Uh sieve, Oh boy, No, back to eight points, next one?
Speaker 3 (43:34):
That gets it right.
Speaker 7 (43:35):
How about filtrate?
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Oh that is a violet. You're not allowed to use
that word.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
The word was filtered, cheated and that means oh, come come,
the word was filter.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
You can't say you.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Gotta go the tag you gotta go that take yet again, Garcia,
you're looking.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
At the day was so much better without betting.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Too bad said with no integrity, no integrity by you
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