October 18, 2023 • 33 mins
Big Ben talks about the Philadelphia Phillies stomping all over an inferior Diamondbacks team, the reaction to the viral Chargers fan, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Now.
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That is how you beat off a weaker opponent. Write
a book and send it to Dave Roberts. Okay, send
that Philadelphia, Send that to Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That's how you play the Diamondbacks in a postseason game.
My god.
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the Delaware Valley was Game two of the NLCS. I
had no idea that they would activate the Little League
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Mercy rule.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
In Game two of the National League Championships is But
who we are?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The Diamondbacks driving their station wagon right in to the
face of the sun at Citizens Bank Park will play
date with the Phillies. They could have saved everyone some
trouble by just going back to Arizona with their tails
between their legs. I didn't know snakes had tails, But
my god, if you saw the game, you know what
I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But perhaps not. Kyle Schwarber, bang bang, pair.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Of home runs, the rotund phy leadoff hitter walloping Arizona
with a couple of home runs.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Philly hit three home runs and scored the total of
ten runs.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
They won a playoff game ten to nothing, Game two
of the National League Championship Series. So if you aren't
keeping score, and I don't know why you would be
doing that. Everything's on the internet these days. But Philadelphia
up two to Ozho heading to the Land of Cacti
and Sunshine for a Thursday afternoon Game three and more carnage.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This time in the Valley of the sun.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So let us discuss the question, how impressive have the
fighting Phil's been here to start the NLCS. Now, normally
we start with the losing team, but there ain't much
to talk about with that team they they blow. So
we're gonna start with the team that's good here. How
impressive have the Phillies been here to start the NLCS?
So I've got midway guam and shiny buttons, and we
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will tie all of these things together and we will
make oh Mercy nurse because that's where the Diamondbacks were.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Screaming, Oh Mercy please.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All right, So my first thought on the NLCS this
is how you do it poetry in motion.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And I continue to be jealous.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Now I've gotten feedback from Philly fans, like the Fry Daddy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
For example, who are upset with me.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
They feel like I'm some kind of jinx here because
I have been Benny Brightside when talking about the Philadelphia
baseball team.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
But that's all I can do.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
The Phillies, much like the team that I like the
Dodgers have a pair of three hundred million dollar batters.
But unlike Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, the guys in
Philly actually get it done, Bryce Harper and Trey Turner.
And even when they don't get it done, the Phillies
still find ways to win the game. And they live
up to the contract. All right now, I know the
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Dodgers don't care, and Mookie Bets is probably bowling right now.
I don't even know what's going on with the Baseball playoffs,
and Freddie Freeman's probably out somewhere fishing. But those two
guys the Exon Valdees in the Baseball Playoffs here against Arizona.
But you see the talent disparity between Philadelphia and Arizona
on a nightly basis, and spoiler alert, it was the
same way in the divisional round, but it didn't play
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out that way. The Phillies have put a clinic out
on the field, varsity versus junior varsity. It looks like
a family get together at Thanksgiving when you try to
go down to the park, or you said, I'm gonna
go down to the park and we'll have the the
adults play the kids and the adults in the room
would be the fighting Phils.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Philly has been a team that has played like they
are possessed. Kyle Schwarbers started getting into the act here
in the Nation League Championship Series, but the fight in
Phils have turned into a classic nineteen eighties arcade game
from Midway called Rampage.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
They are on a rampage here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They're destroying and devouring everything in sight at this point.
It's like the Navy slogan by laying by air by sea.
There's all kinds of Philly stat porn.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We call it going around.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
For example, did you know that Philadelphia has out homed
their opponents by fifteen long balls so far this postseason?
Does that sound outrageous? Does that sound crazy? Well, it
is the greatest home run differential for any team in
any eight game span within a single postseason in history.
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Of course, they try to hit home runs every time off.
That's kind of the way they play baseball. How about
the Philly's not known for having dynamics starting pitching. You
wouldn't know it from the postseason. Philadelphia starters now are
six to zero this postseason, with a sparkling one point
five to five er and the number that is staggering,
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fifty one strikeouts compared to four walks. Fifty one strikeouts
and four walks. And as a pitching coach told me
years ago about professional baseball, as long as you don't
walk batters, the hitter will get himself out the majority
of the time. If you merely put the ball within
the strike zone and force the hitter to make contact,
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they will get themselves out more times than not. It
won't because of your great pitching, but over the years,
that of course has gone away.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You don't challenge certain hitters and all that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But anyway, as a result of all these numbers, this
Philly stat poorn the fight in Phills are seven to
one in the playoffs and they are knocking on the
door for a return to the Classic and another matchup
with a Texas baseball team, hopefully this time the Rangers
and not the ass you know, one one thousand and two,
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one thousand holes there from Houston. So the Phillies have
trailed at the end of only two full innings in
the postseason. That is the fewest of the first eight
games of the postseason of all time. So it just
gets better and better for Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Now we pivot.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I think we've covered all the stat porn for the
Philly suffice to say, so we go to the losing
locker room, which is not the better story.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Because there's just it's just morbid. It is just morbid.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And so let's ask Tory Lavello, that is the manager
of the Arizona baseball team, who looked like a genius
when matched up against the Dodgers, and now not so much.
Here's Tory Leavello asked about what the heck his team
can do at this point.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Look, well, you could be playing on the moon.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Everybody's talking about coming into this environment.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Like, we got to play better baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Everybody's got to be better.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
You start with the manager and then trickle all the
way down through the entire entire team. We got we
gotta play diamondback baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What we watched out.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
There was not anything that we have done for a
long period of time.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So we gotta regroup.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We gotta regroup the troops.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You gotta find a way to get done.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, well, I gotta tell you that kind of looked
like the Diamondbacks, like what they did against the Dodgers
didn't look like the Arizona Diamondbacks. That's diamondback baseball, right,
that's in my life. That's the Arizona Diamondbacks. The way
they played the first two games of the National League
Championship Series was a return to normalcy. So why don't
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we answer the question. We'll help out Tory Leavello because
he obviously has no answers. If he's saying get back
to play diamondback baseball, what can the Diamondbacks do to
at least make this appear like a competitive series?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So I've got two words, lost baggage.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
If the Phillies bats and helmets end up in Guam,
they likely will have trouble hitting. The way things are going, though,
they'll go down to like a Big five or something
like that. They'll pick up or a foot locker, they'll
pick up some pickleball paddles, and they'll start hitting home runs.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Hell, at this point, Tory Levello, the manager, should contact
I don't know if this guy's still around. I know
his show got canceled a couple of years ago. Less
Stroud Survivor Man. And because you look at the Phillies
here and they're cooking with gas, right, they've got the
gas going. They are just cooking, and the Diamondbacks are
rubbing a couple of rocks together, looking for a spark
here far away from civilized baseball. They're hiking out in
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the wilderness, out in the woods.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The good news is the Phillies do not have another
big name starter for Game three. The bad news is
the guy they're going to pitch has been wonderful in
his two playoff appearances. Ranger Suarez, left handed pitcher, will
be on the mound there, and he wasn't very good
during the regular season, but he was very impressive against
the Atlanta Braves in the divisional round. And the Rangers
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are going with the guy who's got a very hard
name to pronounce, Brandon Fat or fight fought, fought, not fat.
He looks it looks like fat. It's it's fought PFAA
d T was somewhere in the family tree. They probably
should have said, maybe we should change that name, you know,
maybe we should have kind of dumb it down a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But Brandon fought. He of an era of close to six.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Of course, he also looked great against the Dodgers, as
everyone did for Arizona. Not exactly Kurt Schilling versus Roy
Holliday in Game three between the Phillies and the Diamondbacks.
All right, last word here, if you haven't been paying attention,
there seems to be a common thread. As I get
out some frustration, We're gonna go to Los Angeles where
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they've made it official.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
The chief nerd Andrew.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Friedman, has announced that manager Dave Roberts and the entire
coaching staff will return for the twenty twenty four season.
It's not a surprise, but it is now official. This
move coming days after the lowly Diamondbacks swept the Dodgers
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in embarrassing best of five exit stage left from the postseason.
Roberts under contract through twenty twenty five. So what message
are the Dawyers sending by keeping Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
In the dugout?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
All right, so this is easy. They're they're announcing to
the entire world here they're buying advertising that Dave Roberts
is simply pushing shiny buttons. That's all Dave Roberts is doing.
He's pushing shiny buttons. Following the three ring binder. It's
like we have discussed on these airwaves over the last
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number of years here that Roberts is merely a middle
manager between the front office liaison from the locker room
to the front office. He's an android skipper. It's Dodger
Baseball automation. However, he does not write, Roberts or edit
the script, and he merely follows the orders of his
higher ups there and so therefore the Dodgers cannot hold
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Roberts accountable. It's no different than the Yankees allowing Aaron
Boone to come back. It's the same thing. The Dodgers
and Yankees might as well be one franchise because they're
operating the same exact way.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You've got a group of super nerds who ultimately make all.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
The big decisions, and the manager is just merely there
to relay the messaging from above. And you look at
what's happening. We hope there's a great awake.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I have a dream.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
My dream is the fight in Phil's play the Texas
Rangers in the World Series. Because Philadelphia, while they do
use some analytics, and so do the Texas Rangers, they
are not completely obsessed with the analytics. Now, I look
at Philly and old school GM Dave Dombrowski, who all
the this guy does his build teams to get to
the World Series. Is he mister analytical? No, no, but
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clearly he knows a thing or two about playoff baseball
and what it takes in the postseason, unlike many of
these analytical driven franchises that seem to vanish after winning
one hundred games during the regular season. And you've got
Bruce Bochie, who's not someone that's just following blindly what
he's told from higher ups there. And these teams have
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right now, they've got that mamba mentality. And meanwhile, the
Atlanta Braves, the Dodgers and others are enjoying a nice
tropical vacation.
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I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're in here.
We're talking about a fan, not the franchise player.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
A fan. What is that about?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
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a story that we talked about in a previous episode
of this show has continued to be the forefront of
our little dopey sporting world. No funny business here, very serious.
All right, we're gonna go to TV land now. The
Dallas Cowboys beat the Chargers and a rather blah.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Monday night football game. Nothing on the field was all
that memorable.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It was a cookie cutter standard NFL game, low scoring,
supposed to be high scoring, a lot of penalties, a
lot of sloppy play, nothing out of the ordinary, certainly,
nothing that is all that memorable. But the story that
stands out, and I'm never wrong about this stuff, is
someone that was sitting in a luxury cabana say why,
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I assume you know what I'm talking about if you've
been listening and paying attention and been engaged. But there's
a chance maybe you haven't. Maybe you've been in a
fog somewhere and your memory's a little gummy. So the
Chargers are a football team still trying to build a
fan base after leaving San Diego years ago, and a
random woman wearing what appeared to be a brand new,
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brand new Chargers powder blue jersey, she was there. She
went viral. Now, I was at the game and I
didn't really pay attention to it. I saw the clips
online and I was bombarded with people who had hot
takes on this. So this woman wearing what appeared to
be a brand new powder blue Charger jersey went viral
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for her over the top emotion. She was very emotional
during the Monday night football game. And that woman has
been tracked down. She has passionately appropriately enough denied that
she is a paid actress.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
A plant ai bought any of those things. Her name,
according to the Internet, is Mary Anne. Do that's her name, Marian.
She's become an overnight celebrity.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Of course, welcome to the club. I'm an overnight celebrity.
It's not that great anyway. Maryanne Do very famous now,
I guess Internet famous because she's animated, very animated there
in her love of Justin Herbert and the Chargers, who
did what the Chargers often do, visited the Heartbreak Hotel,
lost twenty to seventeen to the Cowboys at Sofi Stadium,
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and many people, many people from near and far, accusing
this woman of being planted either by the NFL, by
the Chargers, manufactured, manufactured to increase female fan engagement, and
that this is not legitimate. So let us discuss, now,
how do you process the reaction reaction? How do you
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process the reaction to the viral Charger fan again, her
name Mary Ann Do So it does not pass the
kosher test.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
For me, it does not.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I've got Will Ferrell, Pillsbury, dough Boy, and Career Expo,
and we're gonna either sink or swim in this Malard monologue,
and we'll start with this number. It's embarrassing, right, this
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whole story is embarrassing for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
And the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And I'll tell you why the fact that the NFL
has done so many shady things over the years that
it seems like most people think that this is a
fake story.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Me included that it's not.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
We're not getting the whole story right, and many people
seem to think it's more believable that the NFL either
planted a fan or encouraged the fan to act a
certain way, and that this is not a die hard
Charger fan. It speaks volumes about the funny business that
the NFL has been engaged in.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Over the years.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Now, she may or may not have been paid by
the NFL, but we know she popped up on the
Pat McAfee show, and we know that he pays apparently
everyone that goes on the show. He also is in
bed with the NFL because he works at ESPN, which
is a partner of the NFL, and happens to broadcast
the Monday night game. And just hours after that game
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ended the very next day, they tracked down this woman.
How do they track down the lady's number? I don't know,
maybe they already had her number, who knows, But she
popped up there on the show. Of course, she claimed
it was all harmless, fun, very organic and all that.
Something just doesn't smell right when you do the smell
test on this, and I've done my own investigating.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's just an extreme phony vibe.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I understand there's a.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Lot of glible people out there that believe everything they're told.
I mean, look at what happened in twenty twenty, and
I'm sure those people still exist and they live amongst us.
But this woman was so over the top. It reminded me.
I haven't watched Saturday Night Live in years, but when
back in the days I did watch Saturday Night Live.
Will Ferrell was on there back in the nineties. There
was a character. He was a cheerleader. He was a
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spartan cheerleader if I remember correctly, and just overly spirited.
Ride just annoyed everyone that whole thing. And that was
for a TV show. This woman acted like you would
act if you knew you were on television and you
wanted to make sure the camera kept coming back to you.
It reminded you of if you've ever watched the Game
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show people have bought up our buddy Jim Everett, the
old Rams quarterback, brought up the prices right and how
they look for the peppie.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Cheerleader to be on the game show.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
The laughing the clapping, the acting enthusiastic, and all that
over the top. Right over the top, trying too hard
is the phrase often used in athletics, trying too hard.
You also have the photo which shows her as a
Viking fan. That certainly that right there smells like a rat.
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I think the code of conduct, if we as a fan,
we all know the fan code of conduct.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You decide as a child what your favorite team is
going to be. It's a very important life choice.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You make that decision normally around the age of eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
somewhere in that area. Now, oftentimes you pick the team
because of family reasons, either because your family is a
fan of a team or because you don't like your family,
and so you pick their rival.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So that's one way to do it. Another way to
do it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Would be logistically that you're live in a certain city,
you're a fan of a certain team, but that's your
team right the rest of your life. And it's like
the Oklahoma Fight song, which sums up what being a
fan is. And the Oklahoma Fight song is sooner born,
sooner bred, and when I die, I'll be sooner dead.
And that's the way it goes in this photos of
this woman wearing a Viking jersey around and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's not a real fan.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And certainly if you're a Viking fan at one point
and you become a Charger fan, you're not gonna act
with that much emotion as a Charger fan. It's like Eddie.
Eddie's a fraud too. Eddie's a Steeler fan, but through
marriage he goes to Charger games and where's the stuff,
But he's not a real Charger fan. He's a Steeler fan,
and he didn't act like that. But maybe if he
was on camera and they put a they said, hey,
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you're on TV. You know the little song and dance,
come on the little tap dance?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
All right now.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Secondly, as for the game itself, the Cowboys not to
rehash of the game. They won a close game, but
Jerry Jones his weekly paid radio appearance, Jerry was very
critical of the way the game was played. He said,
I felt it was as disjointed or sloppy a game
as maybe that's a strong word.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
For both sides. He said.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
He tacked on the both sides thing, and then later
he did damage control because he said he realized he
had said the thing he shouldn't have said, and that
was going to be the big quote, that it was
a sloppy game. And then he said he was proud
of the Cowboys forgetting the wins. He's proud of his
Dallas football team. So what is your reaction to Jerry
Jones though calling the Cowboys win sloppy? So my reaction
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is it was sloppy. And it is also a subtle
jab at Mike McCarthy. It is a low key poke
to the Pillsbury dough boy coaching the Dallas coveries. The
devil is in the details. Mike McCarthy's team was lacking punctuality, discipline,
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don't beat yourself, clock management issues, at the end of
the first half, mental mistakes. It was shambalic and Walt
Dallas won the game, and that is the ultimate body
spray when you win, right, we all know that when
you win. So we like talking about losers because losers
are more fun because it's finger pointing. When you win,
everyone just says, oh, it doesn't matter, we won the game, right,
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Oh care, who cares?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
We won the game? All right?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Final point, let's go to Arizona. We're not gonna talk baseball,
gonna Talk Football. Why Jonathan Gannon, the coach and air
quotes of the Cardinals. He is very optimistic that Kyler
Murray will return is imminent. The little guy alligator arms Murray,
who is rehabbing from a torn acl may may that's
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what he is. The word it's also a month may
appear on the practice Fuel soon now. Speaking on his
paid radio gig, Jonathan Gannon said, things are quote trending
in the right direction. So here's the question. The Cardinals
suck like we thought they were gonna suck. Will Kyler
Murray's return make things better, worse or keep them the same?
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So I'll go first on this. This is what's known
as a lateral move, the sideway shuffle, And I'll tell
you why. Joshua Dobbs, while limited, not given the great
gifts from the football gods, Joshua Dobbs has gotten every
inch of his ability, the most of his talents, and
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Murray he brings a different.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Set of problems.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
He's not a leader, He's a bad lock room guy.
He's inconsistent on the field that there are stretches where
he's very good. Then when the defense figures him out
for a stretch, he sucks. He's passive, aggressive, he's got
the powdy face, and he is the polar opposite, right,
He's the epitome of the opposite of joshuas Joshua Dobs,
the guy.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
That gets every ounce of his bility. Kyler Murray. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
And and this is a guy, Murray that failed when
he had pretty good talent around him in Arizona. And
I don't know if you've been paying attention, but those
guys are all gone, right. They have demoed the roster.
They are in the suck business. And so if Murray
does come back, I don't think he'll be back.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
For like another month.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I think they're gonna they're gonna get there. Right now,
they're one in five the Cardinals. They've got to get
to like one in ten, something along those lines. Then
you bring Murray back because maybe he'll have that one
good game and you might win a game you're not
supposed to win. But two wins doesn't necessarily kill you.
But that's the thing. Murray's return will be a career
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expo is what it's going to be. He will be
showcasing his skills because there is no way on gods
Green Earth. The Cardinals are gonna bring him back. They're
going to trade him.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Trade trade trade trade trade track trad trick, red trid.
Dray trade's asked.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So he will be auditioning doing a dummy run for
the Atlanta Falcons they don't have a quarterback. The Washington Commanders,
they don't really have a quarterback. The Tennessee Titans, the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, those teams and a few others that
are all horny to get a quarterback. So Kyler Murray
will be out there performing and should he do well,
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and he can convince some team to trade for his
massive contract. But Murray, one way or another, is Gonzo.
He's on the auctioning block after the season. And the
Cardinals right now they're one in five. They're one of
five teams that are one in five. Carolina is the
only win this team. So for now, Carolina would have
the number one pick. Actually that would be the Chicago
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number four pick if the season ended today.
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Here we Go Cool.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
It's being reported by Pat McAfee that the Broncos could
be making a change a defensive coordinator and that Rex
Ryan is in the mix. Ben, could you see that
change being made before the season is over?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
No, because the Broncos have already been eliminated, and that
would be Sean Pateon admitting Hey.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I've I've failed. Plus the other thing is you hire
Rex Ryan.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
It's not like the Broncos are gonna be any good
on defense because he's he's got bad players. You got
to get some better players in there. So it's a
it's just it's a no win situation. You're gonna hire
Rex at least you'll get him off TV and save
us from Washington on TV. But it doesn't make a
lot of sense of you the Broncos. Now at the
end of the year, it makes it makes sense, but
not now next.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Klay Thompson is in the final season of his contract
with the Warriors, and according to a report from WOJ,
the team isn't anywhere close to making an extension. Happen, Ben,
do you think this season is it for Clay and
the Bay No.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I don't believe the Warriors ownership is married to this era.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
It's a great year. They don't want to let the
glory days go away.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I understand it's great blah blah blah blah blah, but
they're gonna hold on to all those guys until they're
completely washed up and they need wheelchairs. Klay Thompson, Draymond
Green and Steph Curry, those guys are gonna be there
until they're done. I don't see them going anywhere else
and plus Clay's got a spotty resume. Since he got hurt,
he hasn't been the most consistent guy.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Next, the Browns defense is off to and historic start,
a historic STARp, allowing only one thousand and two yards
to five games. Do you think the defense is good
enough to keep the Browns in the mix all season?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, it's not gonna lead them anywhere like it's sorts
of a winning an AFC championship, but they can make
the playoffs with the defense they you know, I'm still
not convinced it's sustainable all year. But Jim Schwartz made
a Schwartz be with you defensive coordinator with Miles Garret,
they've done a great job.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
How do we know? You pass this a viision? That
is a win. You can put it on the bar. Yeah,
I won the game. I won Iowa, Sam, congrats, Thank you.
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We say hello to Uncle Mo.
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Speaker 5 (30:39):
Ben has a long time Jets fan. I completely cry
foul on the guy who wants to drop out of
being a Patriots fan.
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That is that was the most controversial call we've taken
in years.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Robin Maine. Everyone's upset with Robin Maine.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
All right, uncle, Yeah, I have Eddie for a second. Eddie,
could I talk to you on the phone after the showed,
just so I could make up with you? How to
meet you at the jat game?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
H Yeah, sure, no problem.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Oh cokay, amazing.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Are you guys meeting up? Are you? I guess so? Sure? Okay,
very nice. You didn't meet me when I was in
New York Oncomo. What's up with that? Who's Oh that's
my fault. That's a good point. Yeah, that is a
fair point.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
All right, Hold on, Uncle Moe. And we have Ernesto
in the bay. Are this guy die Hard forty nine?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Or Nesto?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
What's that big?
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Look at this guy travels and we've met her in Esta,
he travels to. He was in Minnesota the Malor meeting
Greek by the way.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Wild.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
That's right. I think the forty nine is gonna be okay.
Rockfordy just needs to handle learn how to handle those
wet balls.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
The wet balls or you gotta learn one way or another. Ernesto,
what's your next road trip Ornesta with the Niners?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Where are you going next?
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Going to Jacksonville in November and then Philadelphia in December?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Oh? God speed on that last luck on Philly there man,
jeez yep.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
Trying to hook up with anger Bill and Fat from Philly.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Well yeah, well Fats will be a good time. Angry
Bill would be a bad time, but Fats would be
a good time.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
All right, Uh, very nice, Ernesto, Uncle Moe, who do
you want to partner up with?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Uncle Mo?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
And place? I'm going with you Ben?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
All right? Ernesto, who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 9 (32:20):
Or Nesto, I'll go with Eddie?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
That is the matchup. We have a list of words
one to ten. We start out with ten points. We
work our way down nine, eight, seven, six, five, et cetera,
et cetera. Uncle Moe, you were on the air first,
So please pick a number.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Let's go with one for the amount of Patriot wins
this year.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Number. You got to say it the right way, the
number number thing like you're on Broadway, bring back the races. Struck,
let's yes, let's go. Let's see here. I don't know
if I could use that word. Oh yeah, I think
I can resuscitate. Yeah. Ten nothing good, guys, we got
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the lead. We were twenty seconds left ahead. Oh that
seems fair. Hurry up or that still? Pick a number,
number five? Go ahead, Eddie damp d A m P
damp What No, you lost Eddie, you lost it. That
was a terrible We had to play small small talk, Eddie.
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We did small talk. The word was moist. The word
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That is how you beat off a weaker opponent. Write
a book and send it to Dave Roberts. Okay, send
that Philadelphia, Send that to Dave Roberts.
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That's how you play the Diamondbacks in a postseason game.
My god.
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the Delaware Valley was Game two of the NLCS. I
had no idea that they would activate the Little League
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Mercy rule.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
In Game two of the National League Championships is But
who we are?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The Diamondbacks driving their station wagon right in to the
face of the sun at Citizens Bank Park will play
date with the Phillies. They could have saved everyone some
trouble by just going back to Arizona with their tails
between their legs. I didn't know snakes had tails, But
my god, if you saw the game, you know what
I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
But perhaps not. Kyle Schwarber, bang bang, pair.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Of home runs, the rotund phy leadoff hitter walloping Arizona
with a couple of home runs.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Philly hit three home runs and scored the total of
ten runs.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
They won a playoff game ten to nothing, Game two
of the National League Championship Series. So if you aren't
keeping score, and I don't know why you would be
doing that. Everything's on the internet these days. But Philadelphia
up two to Ozho heading to the Land of Cacti
and Sunshine for a Thursday afternoon Game three and more carnage.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This time in the Valley of the sun.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So let us discuss the question, how impressive have the
fighting Phil's been here to start the NLCS. Now, normally
we start with the losing team, but there ain't much
to talk about with that team they they blow. So
we're gonna start with the team that's good here. How
impressive have the Phillies been here to start the NLCS?
So I've got midway guam and shiny buttons, and we
(03:19):
will tie all of these things together and we will
make oh Mercy nurse because that's where the Diamondbacks were.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Screaming, Oh Mercy please.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All right, So my first thought on the NLCS this
is how you do it poetry in motion.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
And I continue to be jealous.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Now I've gotten feedback from Philly fans, like the Fry Daddy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
For example, who are upset with me.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
They feel like I'm some kind of jinx here because
I have been Benny Brightside when talking about the Philadelphia
baseball team.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
But that's all I can do.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
The Phillies, much like the team that I like the
Dodgers have a pair of three hundred million dollar batters.
But unlike Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman, the guys in
Philly actually get it done, Bryce Harper and Trey Turner.
And even when they don't get it done, the Phillies
still find ways to win the game. And they live
up to the contract. All right now, I know the
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Dodgers don't care, and Mookie Bets is probably bowling right now.
I don't even know what's going on with the Baseball playoffs,
and Freddie Freeman's probably out somewhere fishing. But those two
guys the Exon Valdees in the Baseball Playoffs here against Arizona.
But you see the talent disparity between Philadelphia and Arizona
on a nightly basis, and spoiler alert, it was the
same way in the divisional round, but it didn't play
(04:39):
out that way. The Phillies have put a clinic out
on the field, varsity versus junior varsity. It looks like
a family get together at Thanksgiving when you try to
go down to the park, or you said, I'm gonna
go down to the park and we'll have the the
adults play the kids and the adults in the room
would be the fighting Phils.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Philly has been a team that has played like they
are possessed. Kyle Schwarbers started getting into the act here
in the Nation League Championship Series, but the fight in
Phils have turned into a classic nineteen eighties arcade game
from Midway called Rampage.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
They are on a rampage here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They're destroying and devouring everything in sight at this point.
It's like the Navy slogan by laying by air by sea.
There's all kinds of Philly stat porn.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We call it going around.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
For example, did you know that Philadelphia has out homed
their opponents by fifteen long balls so far this postseason?
Does that sound outrageous? Does that sound crazy? Well, it
is the greatest home run differential for any team in
any eight game span within a single postseason in history.
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Of course, they try to hit home runs every time off.
That's kind of the way they play baseball. How about
the Philly's not known for having dynamics starting pitching. You
wouldn't know it from the postseason. Philadelphia starters now are
six to zero this postseason, with a sparkling one point
five to five er and the number that is staggering,
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fifty one strikeouts compared to four walks. Fifty one strikeouts
and four walks. And as a pitching coach told me
years ago about professional baseball, as long as you don't
walk batters, the hitter will get himself out the majority
of the time. If you merely put the ball within
the strike zone and force the hitter to make contact,
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they will get themselves out more times than not. It
won't because of your great pitching, but over the years,
that of course has gone away.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You don't challenge certain hitters and all that.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But anyway, as a result of all these numbers, this
Philly stat poorn the fight in Phills are seven to
one in the playoffs and they are knocking on the
door for a return to the Classic and another matchup
with a Texas baseball team, hopefully this time the Rangers
and not the ass you know, one one thousand and two,
(07:09):
one thousand holes there from Houston. So the Phillies have
trailed at the end of only two full innings in
the postseason. That is the fewest of the first eight
games of the postseason of all time. So it just
gets better and better for Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Now we pivot.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I think we've covered all the stat porn for the
Philly suffice to say, so we go to the losing
locker room, which is not the better story.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Because there's just it's just morbid. It is just morbid.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And so let's ask Tory Lavello, that is the manager
of the Arizona baseball team, who looked like a genius
when matched up against the Dodgers, and now not so much.
Here's Tory Leavello asked about what the heck his team
can do at this point.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Look, well, you could be playing on the moon.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Everybody's talking about coming into this environment.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Like, we got to play better baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Everybody's got to be better.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
You start with the manager and then trickle all the
way down through the entire entire team. We got we
gotta play diamondback baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What we watched out.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
There was not anything that we have done for a
long period of time.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So we gotta regroup.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
We gotta regroup the troops.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You gotta find a way to get done.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, well, I gotta tell you that kind of looked
like the Diamondbacks, like what they did against the Dodgers
didn't look like the Arizona Diamondbacks. That's diamondback baseball, right,
that's in my life. That's the Arizona Diamondbacks. The way
they played the first two games of the National League
Championship Series was a return to normalcy. So why don't
(08:43):
we answer the question. We'll help out Tory Leavello because
he obviously has no answers. If he's saying get back
to play diamondback baseball, what can the Diamondbacks do to
at least make this appear like a competitive series?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So I've got two words, lost baggage.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
If the Phillies bats and helmets end up in Guam,
they likely will have trouble hitting. The way things are going, though,
they'll go down to like a Big five or something
like that. They'll pick up or a foot locker, they'll
pick up some pickleball paddles, and they'll start hitting home runs.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Hell, at this point, Tory Levello, the manager, should contact
I don't know if this guy's still around. I know
his show got canceled a couple of years ago. Less
Stroud Survivor Man. And because you look at the Phillies
here and they're cooking with gas, right, they've got the
gas going. They are just cooking, and the Diamondbacks are
rubbing a couple of rocks together, looking for a spark
here far away from civilized baseball. They're hiking out in
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the wilderness, out in the woods.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The good news is the Phillies do not have another
big name starter for Game three. The bad news is
the guy they're going to pitch has been wonderful in
his two playoff appearances. Ranger Suarez, left handed pitcher, will
be on the mound there, and he wasn't very good
during the regular season, but he was very impressive against
the Atlanta Braves in the divisional round. And the Rangers
(10:08):
are going with the guy who's got a very hard
name to pronounce, Brandon Fat or fight fought, fought, not fat.
He looks it looks like fat. It's it's fought PFAA
d T was somewhere in the family tree. They probably
should have said, maybe we should change that name, you know,
maybe we should have kind of dumb it down a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But Brandon fought. He of an era of close to six.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Of course, he also looked great against the Dodgers, as
everyone did for Arizona. Not exactly Kurt Schilling versus Roy
Holliday in Game three between the Phillies and the Diamondbacks.
All right, last word here, if you haven't been paying attention,
there seems to be a common thread. As I get
out some frustration, We're gonna go to Los Angeles where
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they've made it official.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
The chief nerd Andrew.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Friedman, has announced that manager Dave Roberts and the entire
coaching staff will return for the twenty twenty four season.
It's not a surprise, but it is now official. This
move coming days after the lowly Diamondbacks swept the Dodgers
(11:16):
in embarrassing best of five exit stage left from the postseason.
Roberts under contract through twenty twenty five. So what message
are the Dawyers sending by keeping Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
In the dugout?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
All right, so this is easy. They're they're announcing to
the entire world here they're buying advertising that Dave Roberts
is simply pushing shiny buttons. That's all Dave Roberts is doing.
He's pushing shiny buttons. Following the three ring binder. It's
like we have discussed on these airwaves over the last
(11:55):
number of years here that Roberts is merely a middle
manager between the front office liaison from the locker room
to the front office. He's an android skipper. It's Dodger
Baseball automation. However, he does not write, Roberts or edit
the script, and he merely follows the orders of his
higher ups there and so therefore the Dodgers cannot hold
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Roberts accountable. It's no different than the Yankees allowing Aaron
Boone to come back. It's the same thing. The Dodgers
and Yankees might as well be one franchise because they're
operating the same exact way.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You've got a group of super nerds who ultimately make all.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
The big decisions, and the manager is just merely there
to relay the messaging from above. And you look at
what's happening. We hope there's a great awake.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I have a dream.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
My dream is the fight in Phil's play the Texas
Rangers in the World Series. Because Philadelphia, while they do
use some analytics, and so do the Texas Rangers, they
are not completely obsessed with the analytics. Now, I look
at Philly and old school GM Dave Dombrowski, who all
the this guy does his build teams to get to
the World Series. Is he mister analytical? No, no, but
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clearly he knows a thing or two about playoff baseball
and what it takes in the postseason, unlike many of
these analytical driven franchises that seem to vanish after winning
one hundred games during the regular season. And you've got
Bruce Bochie, who's not someone that's just following blindly what
he's told from higher ups there. And these teams have
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right now, they've got that mamba mentality. And meanwhile, the
Atlanta Braves, the Dodgers and others are enjoying a nice
tropical vacation.
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Speaker 1 (13:49):
I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're in here.
We're talking about a fan, not the franchise player.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
A fan. What is that about?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well, gum, In the beginning of another hour of The
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(14:55):
a story that we talked about in a previous episode
of this show has continued to be the forefront of
our little dopey sporting world. No funny business here, very serious.
All right, we're gonna go to TV land now. The
Dallas Cowboys beat the Chargers and a rather blah.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Monday night football game. Nothing on the field was all
that memorable.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It was a cookie cutter standard NFL game, low scoring,
supposed to be high scoring, a lot of penalties, a
lot of sloppy play, nothing out of the ordinary, certainly,
nothing that is all that memorable. But the story that
stands out, and I'm never wrong about this stuff, is
someone that was sitting in a luxury cabana say why,
(15:39):
I assume you know what I'm talking about if you've
been listening and paying attention and been engaged. But there's
a chance maybe you haven't. Maybe you've been in a
fog somewhere and your memory's a little gummy. So the
Chargers are a football team still trying to build a
fan base after leaving San Diego years ago, and a
random woman wearing what appeared to be a brand new,
(16:01):
brand new Chargers powder blue jersey, she was there. She
went viral. Now, I was at the game and I
didn't really pay attention to it. I saw the clips
online and I was bombarded with people who had hot
takes on this. So this woman wearing what appeared to
be a brand new powder blue Charger jersey went viral
(16:21):
for her over the top emotion. She was very emotional
during the Monday night football game. And that woman has
been tracked down. She has passionately appropriately enough denied that
she is a paid actress.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
A plant ai bought any of those things. Her name,
according to the Internet, is Mary Anne. Do that's her name, Marian.
She's become an overnight celebrity.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Of course, welcome to the club. I'm an overnight celebrity.
It's not that great anyway. Maryanne Do very famous now,
I guess Internet famous because she's animated, very animated there
in her love of Justin Herbert and the Chargers, who
did what the Chargers often do, visited the Heartbreak Hotel,
lost twenty to seventeen to the Cowboys at Sofi Stadium,
(17:16):
and many people, many people from near and far, accusing
this woman of being planted either by the NFL, by
the Chargers, manufactured, manufactured to increase female fan engagement, and
that this is not legitimate. So let us discuss, now,
how do you process the reaction reaction? How do you
(17:39):
process the reaction to the viral Charger fan again, her
name Mary Ann Do So it does not pass the
kosher test.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
For me, it does not.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I've got Will Ferrell, Pillsbury, dough Boy, and Career Expo,
and we're gonna either sink or swim in this Malard monologue,
and we'll start with this number. It's embarrassing, right, this
(18:14):
whole story is embarrassing for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
And the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And I'll tell you why the fact that the NFL
has done so many shady things over the years that
it seems like most people think that this is a
fake story.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Me included that it's not.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
We're not getting the whole story right, and many people
seem to think it's more believable that the NFL either
planted a fan or encouraged the fan to act a
certain way, and that this is not a die hard
Charger fan. It speaks volumes about the funny business that
the NFL has been engaged in.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Over the years.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Now, she may or may not have been paid by
the NFL, but we know she popped up on the
Pat McAfee show, and we know that he pays apparently
everyone that goes on the show. He also is in
bed with the NFL because he works at ESPN, which
is a partner of the NFL, and happens to broadcast
the Monday night game. And just hours after that game
(19:15):
ended the very next day, they tracked down this woman.
How do they track down the lady's number? I don't know,
maybe they already had her number, who knows, But she
popped up there on the show. Of course, she claimed
it was all harmless, fun, very organic and all that.
Something just doesn't smell right when you do the smell
test on this, and I've done my own investigating.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's just an extreme phony vibe.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I understand there's a.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Lot of glible people out there that believe everything they're told.
I mean, look at what happened in twenty twenty, and
I'm sure those people still exist and they live amongst us.
But this woman was so over the top. It reminded me.
I haven't watched Saturday Night Live in years, but when
back in the days I did watch Saturday Night Live.
Will Ferrell was on there back in the nineties. There
was a character. He was a cheerleader. He was a
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spartan cheerleader if I remember correctly, and just overly spirited.
Ride just annoyed everyone that whole thing. And that was
for a TV show. This woman acted like you would
act if you knew you were on television and you
wanted to make sure the camera kept coming back to you.
It reminded you of if you've ever watched the Game
(20:20):
show people have bought up our buddy Jim Everett, the
old Rams quarterback, brought up the prices right and how
they look for the peppie.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Cheerleader to be on the game show.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
The laughing the clapping, the acting enthusiastic, and all that
over the top. Right over the top, trying too hard
is the phrase often used in athletics, trying too hard.
You also have the photo which shows her as a
Viking fan. That certainly that right there smells like a rat.
(20:52):
I think the code of conduct, if we as a fan,
we all know the fan code of conduct.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You decide as a child what your favorite team is
going to be. It's a very important life choice.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
You make that decision normally around the age of eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
somewhere in that area. Now, oftentimes you pick the team
because of family reasons, either because your family is a
fan of a team or because you don't like your family,
and so you pick their rival.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So that's one way to do it. Another way to
do it.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Would be logistically that you're live in a certain city,
you're a fan of a certain team, but that's your
team right the rest of your life. And it's like
the Oklahoma Fight song, which sums up what being a
fan is. And the Oklahoma Fight song is sooner born,
sooner bred, and when I die, I'll be sooner dead.
And that's the way it goes in this photos of
this woman wearing a Viking jersey around and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That's not a real fan.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And certainly if you're a Viking fan at one point
and you become a Charger fan, you're not gonna act
with that much emotion as a Charger fan. It's like Eddie.
Eddie's a fraud too. Eddie's a Steeler fan, but through
marriage he goes to Charger games and where's the stuff,
But he's not a real Charger fan. He's a Steeler fan,
and he didn't act like that. But maybe if he
was on camera and they put a they said, hey,
(22:08):
you're on TV. You know the little song and dance,
come on the little tap dance?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
All right now.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Secondly, as for the game itself, the Cowboys not to
rehash of the game. They won a close game, but
Jerry Jones his weekly paid radio appearance, Jerry was very
critical of the way the game was played. He said,
I felt it was as disjointed or sloppy a game
as maybe that's a strong word.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
For both sides. He said.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
He tacked on the both sides thing, and then later
he did damage control because he said he realized he
had said the thing he shouldn't have said, and that
was going to be the big quote, that it was
a sloppy game. And then he said he was proud
of the Cowboys forgetting the wins. He's proud of his
Dallas football team. So what is your reaction to Jerry
Jones though calling the Cowboys win sloppy? So my reaction
(23:03):
is it was sloppy. And it is also a subtle
jab at Mike McCarthy. It is a low key poke
to the Pillsbury dough boy coaching the Dallas coveries. The
devil is in the details. Mike McCarthy's team was lacking punctuality, discipline,
(23:24):
don't beat yourself, clock management issues, at the end of
the first half, mental mistakes. It was shambalic and Walt
Dallas won the game, and that is the ultimate body
spray when you win, right, we all know that when
you win. So we like talking about losers because losers
are more fun because it's finger pointing. When you win,
everyone just says, oh, it doesn't matter, we won the game, right,
(23:44):
Oh care, who cares?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
We won the game? All right?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Final point, let's go to Arizona. We're not gonna talk baseball,
gonna Talk Football. Why Jonathan Gannon, the coach and air
quotes of the Cardinals. He is very optimistic that Kyler
Murray will return is imminent. The little guy alligator arms Murray,
who is rehabbing from a torn acl may may that's
(24:07):
what he is. The word it's also a month may
appear on the practice Fuel soon now. Speaking on his
paid radio gig, Jonathan Gannon said, things are quote trending
in the right direction. So here's the question. The Cardinals
suck like we thought they were gonna suck. Will Kyler
Murray's return make things better, worse or keep them the same?
(24:32):
So I'll go first on this. This is what's known
as a lateral move, the sideway shuffle, And I'll tell
you why. Joshua Dobbs, while limited, not given the great
gifts from the football gods, Joshua Dobbs has gotten every
inch of his ability, the most of his talents, and
(24:53):
Murray he brings a different.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Set of problems.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
He's not a leader, He's a bad lock room guy.
He's inconsistent on the field that there are stretches where
he's very good. Then when the defense figures him out
for a stretch, he sucks. He's passive, aggressive, he's got
the powdy face, and he is the polar opposite, right,
He's the epitome of the opposite of joshuas Joshua Dobs,
the guy.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
That gets every ounce of his bility. Kyler Murray. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
And and this is a guy, Murray that failed when
he had pretty good talent around him in Arizona. And
I don't know if you've been paying attention, but those
guys are all gone, right. They have demoed the roster.
They are in the suck business. And so if Murray
does come back, I don't think he'll be back.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
For like another month.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I think they're gonna they're gonna get there. Right now,
they're one in five the Cardinals. They've got to get
to like one in ten, something along those lines. Then
you bring Murray back because maybe he'll have that one
good game and you might win a game you're not
supposed to win. But two wins doesn't necessarily kill you.
But that's the thing. Murray's return will be a career
(26:05):
expo is what it's going to be. He will be
showcasing his skills because there is no way on gods
Green Earth. The Cardinals are gonna bring him back. They're
going to trade him.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Trade trade trade trade trade track trad trick, red trid.
Dray trade's asked.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So he will be auditioning doing a dummy run for
the Atlanta Falcons they don't have a quarterback. The Washington Commanders,
they don't really have a quarterback. The Tennessee Titans, the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, those teams and a few others that
are all horny to get a quarterback. So Kyler Murray
will be out there performing and should he do well,
(26:37):
and he can convince some team to trade for his
massive contract. But Murray, one way or another, is Gonzo.
He's on the auctioning block after the season. And the
Cardinals right now they're one in five. They're one of
five teams that are one in five. Carolina is the
only win this team. So for now, Carolina would have
the number one pick. Actually that would be the Chicago
(26:58):
Bears who have Carolina's but Arizona they would have the
number four pick if the season ended today.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
But they're in a.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Neck and neck race down the stretch. They come to
figure out who's gonna get the first pick.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
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Speaker 7 (27:52):
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Here we Go Cool.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
It's being reported by Pat McAfee that the Broncos could
be making a change a defensive coordinator and that Rex
Ryan is in the mix. Ben, could you see that
change being made before the season is over?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
No, because the Broncos have already been eliminated, and that
would be Sean Pateon admitting Hey.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I've I've failed. Plus the other thing is you hire
Rex Ryan.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
It's not like the Broncos are gonna be any good
on defense because he's he's got bad players. You got
to get some better players in there. So it's a
it's just it's a no win situation. You're gonna hire
Rex at least you'll get him off TV and save
us from Washington on TV. But it doesn't make a
lot of sense of you the Broncos. Now at the
end of the year, it makes it makes sense, but
not now next.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
Klay Thompson is in the final season of his contract
with the Warriors, and according to a report from WOJ,
the team isn't anywhere close to making an extension. Happen, Ben,
do you think this season is it for Clay and
the Bay No.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I don't believe the Warriors ownership is married to this era.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
It's a great year. They don't want to let the
glory days go away.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I understand it's great blah blah blah blah blah, but
they're gonna hold on to all those guys until they're
completely washed up and they need wheelchairs. Klay Thompson, Draymond
Green and Steph Curry, those guys are gonna be there
until they're done. I don't see them going anywhere else
and plus Clay's got a spotty resume. Since he got hurt,
he hasn't been the most consistent guy.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Next, the Browns defense is off to and historic start,
a historic STARp, allowing only one thousand and two yards
to five games. Do you think the defense is good
enough to keep the Browns in the mix all season?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Well, it's not gonna lead them anywhere like it's sorts
of a winning an AFC championship, but they can make
the playoffs with the defense they you know, I'm still
not convinced it's sustainable all year. But Jim Schwartz made
a Schwartz be with you defensive coordinator with Miles Garret,
they've done a great job.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
How do we know? You pass this a viision? That
is a win. You can put it on the bar. Yeah,
I won the game. I won Iowa, Sam, congrats, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
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Speaker 3 (30:19):
And No Way we go.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Password, the word game of the Star best on the
knowledge of the random sports radio consumer. Hey, let's welcome
in our contestants from the mean streets of Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We say hello to Uncle Mo.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Hello, Uncle Mo, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Ben has a long time Jets fan. I completely cry
foul on the guy who wants to drop out of
being a Patriots fan.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
That is that was the most controversial call we've taken
in years.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Robin Maine. Everyone's upset with Robin Maine.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
All right, uncle, Yeah, I have Eddie for a second. Eddie,
could I talk to you on the phone after the showed,
just so I could make up with you? How to
meet you at the jat game?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
H Yeah, sure, no problem.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Oh cokay, amazing.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Are you guys meeting up? Are you? I guess so? Sure? Okay,
very nice. You didn't meet me when I was in
New York Oncomo. What's up with that? Who's Oh that's
my fault. That's a good point. Yeah, that is a
fair point.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
All right, Hold on, Uncle Moe. And we have Ernesto
in the bay. Are this guy die Hard forty nine?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Or Nesto?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
What's that big?
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Look at this guy travels and we've met her in Esta,
he travels to. He was in Minnesota the Malor meeting
Greek by the way.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Wild.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
That's right. I think the forty nine is gonna be okay.
Rockfordy just needs to handle learn how to handle those
wet balls.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
The wet balls or you gotta learn one way or another. Ernesto,
what's your next road trip Ornesta with the Niners?
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Where are you going next?
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Going to Jacksonville in November and then Philadelphia in December?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Oh? God speed on that last luck on Philly there man,
jeez yep.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
Trying to hook up with anger Bill and Fat from Philly.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Well yeah, well Fats will be a good time. Angry
Bill would be a bad time, but Fats would be
a good time.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
All right, Uh, very nice, Ernesto, Uncle Moe, who do
you want to partner up with?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Uncle Mo?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
And place? I'm going with you Ben?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
All right? Ernesto, who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 9 (32:20):
Or Nesto, I'll go with Eddie?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
That is the matchup. We have a list of words
one to ten. We start out with ten points. We
work our way down nine, eight, seven, six, five, et cetera,
et cetera. Uncle Moe, you were on the air first,
So please pick a number.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Let's go with one for the amount of Patriot wins
this year.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Number. You got to say it the right way, the
number number thing like you're on Broadway, bring back the races. Struck,
let's yes, let's go. Let's see here. I don't know
if I could use that word. Oh yeah, I think
I can resuscitate. Yeah. Ten nothing good, guys, we got
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the lead. We were twenty seconds left ahead. Oh that
seems fair. Hurry up or that still? Pick a number,
number five? Go ahead, Eddie damp d A m P
damp What No, you lost Eddie, you lost it. That
was a terrible We had to play small small talk, Eddie.
(33:29):
We did small talk. The word was moist. The word
was moist. It was moist. The game was moist. That
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