October 1, 2024 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about the Seahawks getting trounced by the Lions on MNF, Pete Rose passing away at the age of 83, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Zach Galifianakis Edition, and much more!
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Show to be Hope all is well with you and
lead is gonna be from football. Got a number of
you reached out to me throughout the day the passing
of Pete Rose, and we will talk about that as
we go through the overnight hours. In certainly open to
calling up and sharing some of your memories of Pete Rose,
but we're gonna start with football and we'll work our
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way through. We've got a long trip on the Red
Eye overnight, but we'll start in Motown, the scene of
the main event. Now, there were two games on Monday Night.
You get the A side and the B side. Now
the A side on the twin bill, that would be
where Troy Aikman and Joe Buck, the Fox refugees had
to call there in NFC Battle Royale that was billed
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the MotorCity Kitties playing host to the Sea Birds in
this game starting about forty five minutes or so after
the first Monday Night game, which we'll try to avoid
talking about for as long as we can, involving the
Tennessee backup versus the Miami like four string guy. It
was bad, bad at the moment, but it was not
bad if you like touchdowns. In the game that was
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played in Michigan, as Jared Goff ram trash. Jared Goff
went out there and threw a perfect game, a perfect game,
el perfecto for Jared Goff. He sets an NFL record. Now,
he didn't reach the threshold that is required for the
all time record of twenty pass attempts, but he had
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eighteen pass attempts, all eighteen of them, Coplay eighteen for eighteen,
helping the Lions roar pass the Seahawks forty two to
twenty nine Monday night. And he had a pair of
touchdown passes as well. Mixed in he also caught a
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touchdown reception for the first time in his career, a
trick play from aman Ra Saint Brown. Now, Kurt Warner
had the previous record, previous record, we're going ten for
ten for Arizona against Houston. That was back many years
to go, almost twenty years ago in twenty five. But
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the better story here is not in the Detroit locker room.
There'll be plenty of people talking heads over the next
twenty four to forty eight hours that will be licking
the toes of Jared Goff, a lot of I told
you so. So Instead we will focus where the real
drama is Seattle. We got a problem. Let us discuss
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the question, right, how does this performance leave Mike McDonald,
the new coach there, and that Seattle defensive unit. How
does it hit you? How does this performance hit you?
All Right? So I've got Gucci handbag, mister peanut, and
form letter and we will combine all of these things
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together and we were going to reduce swelling is what
we're gonna We're gonna reduce we do it. Yeah, all right,
So a this hit me like a dereliction of duties
is what it hit me like. I got no skin
in the game. As you know, I'm neutral. I'm Switzerland
when it comes to these things. But watching this game
play out, it flashed back to a conversation I had
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on the TV show we did this past weekend, Benny
versus the Penny, and we were talking about the Seattle Seahawks,
and we were like, Wow, that Seattle team. I'd been
feasting on the hostess schedule. They hadn't really playing anybody,
and then this is about the point in this schedule
now where you start looking around. They hadn't been tested,
and they had the three and zero and raw Rah
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and the low information fan, the unknowledgeable fan, gets all
horny because their team's undefeated, and you're like, well, wait
a minute, this is this is a checkpoint on the schedule.
It's like, okay, so now's four weeks in to the season.
You played Bo Nicks in his first start. Now he's
not very good right now, he was really bad in
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start number one. You had Jacoby Burssett, who should be
doing uber eats at this point rather than playing quarterback
for the Patriots. And someone named Skuyler Thompson who sounds
like a w NBA player who started for the Dolphins.
So that's that's who you face. That's it. I mean,
so is this real or is this a mirage? And
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after four weeks, at this moment in time, remember we
do the show today. We don't need the show tomorrow.
This is not yesterday shows, Today's show. So, in this
moment in time, the Seattle Seahawks with all precincts reporting
in after four weeks of NFL football, this Mike McDonald
defense is a handbag. It's a Gucci handbag, but it's
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a knock Gon version. It's a knock gone version, counterfeit.
And if I hear one more NFL tody tell me, well,
he's got the Ravens pedigree. Okay, okay, that's that Ravens pedigree.
How'd that work out? How'd that work out? In this game?
Demoralizing the D word, demoralizing performance here, and it was
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on island time. It was on island. Now that other
game was unwatchable, Like I watched it because I have
no life. But if you have a life, you got
text and friends of mine during the Tennessee Miami games, like, hey,
you watching this game? No, you only get one life.
Time is limited. Why would I waste my time watching
that game? But I was watching. I was slipping back
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and forth. But my god, this Seattle Seahawk defense living
the eye li. If this was it and the Seahawks
could not get Jared Goff, Jared Goff to throw one
incomplete pass, you should be sent to the CFL as
a defense and bring in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Bring
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the Blue Bombers in. If you can't get Jared Goff
to throw an incomplete pass, for the love of god,
what is wrong with you? Right? It was hideous on
every level, every level. Now, I know the Seattle suckops
that you know they Oh you're wrong you're just a
ram fit. No, I'm not. I'm just reporting what I saw,
that's all I'm reporting. Okay, Lions had ten possessions. We're
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not gonna include the kneel down at the end of
the game. That doesn't count. So ten possessions to scort
Detroit score touchdowns on six of the ten. They're like
they were like the Navy against the Seahawks defense bright
by land, by air, by sea, by all a pre
I could run bro this, that and the other thing.
You want a trick play, Yeah, we'll do a trick play.
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Run it over there, touchdown, pass up ahead, all that,
five trips to the red zone, one hundred percent conversion,
one hundred percent, five for five in red zone play. Now,
old MacDonald had a farm, he'll be back on a farm.
And if they keep playing defense like that, my god,
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there's a lot of adjustments to make, like maybe force
an incomplete pass now and again that would help as well. Unfortunately,
I don't think you have any more games against Skyler
Thompson the rest of the year, which is a problem.
Now page two. Here on the other side, the winning side, here,
where are you on? Where are things? Rather, where are
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things for Dan Campbell and the Lions after this that
this particular win. So as far as the Lions are concerned,
while it was a absolute masterpiece, a total masterpiece for
the Lions getting the victory here on offense, we are
ambivalent in terms of the big picture for Detroit because
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they also have a lot of issues. Even though they won,
and they won by double digits and that's great and
all that, it was what I call it a planter's performance,
a mister peanut performance is when you get out the monocle.
It's a mixed nuts kind of night here. Because you
got the peanuts, you got the all means, you got
the cashews, you got those brazil nuts. I don't like those.
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The pecans, you get all that. In the offense, while
it was a chef's kiss, we also truth and broadcasting
must point out the Lions defense continues to be the
weakest link. You are the weakest link. Gino Smith, another
suck back court of this guy blows. You wouldn't know
it from watching this game. Gino Smith second rate and
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we all know these it's a temporary fill in guy
there in Seatti. They decided they actually want to try
to win a championship again. Yeah, win with Gino Smith,
but Gino Smith put up three hundred and ninety five
passing yards. Seattle had like thirty eight first downs. I
believe in this game it was ridiculous. Over five hundred
yards of offense and the Motor City Kitties. We saw
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it when the Rams took them to overtime in Week one.
We saw it against the Buccaneers in Week two. Not
so much against Arizona though. Were their options were there
were plays open. But there is this stigmatism to the
Lions defense in that secondary, and we saw it with
DK Metcalf who went ballistic in this particular game for Seattle.
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Every other receiving corps has their way pushing around this
Lion's defense. It's open season. It is open season. And
it's not like the Lions defense is going to be
saved because they play a bunch of cold weather games.
They played a dome, so the elements are not going
to help them defensively. They got issues sighed, and the
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trade deadline's coming up about a month from now, so
we'll see what they do. All right. Last word here,
we're gonna pivot over to Dallas. The Cowboys did not
play on Monday Night. But we have learned now the
Cowboys are preparing to play without linebacker Micah Parsons. He's
got a high ankle spray. Now. He tried to downplay
at Michael Parsons and say it's not that big a deal,
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but the word in the street is he's gonna miss action.
Here is there a silver lining to the injury to
Michaeh Parsons. So there is absolutely for Mike Zimmer, the
defensive guru, wink wink, and for Mike McCarthy, the rotn
coach of the Dallas Cowboys. It's my opinion you consider
this injury to Michael Parsons. It's like a form letter.
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It's an excuse note from your parents because you were
you were absent, guilty of absenteeism. The Cowboys play the
Steelers Sunday Night Football this upcoming week Must see TV
be the highest rated game in Week five. Everyone's gonna
be watching this. You got two national fan bases of
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the Steelers and the Cowboys in the land of the
inser as they get together, and the Cowboys, it would appear,
will be without DeMarcus Lawrence and Micaeh Parsons. On defense
against the Pittsburgh football team, and now they have an alibi.
They have an alibi for lose. Now I used place
that if you're Mike McCarthy, you take out your bag
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of potato chips and you put that excuse in your pocket. There,
your back pocket, just in case you happen to need it.
Will you probably will Dak Prescott primetime game against a
pretty good defense. It's usually a recipe for heartache, a
absolute recipe for heartache.
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feels like over the years I've gotten ten thousand calls
from a character named Dick and Dayton, and almost all
of them have mentioned either Bernie Cosey or Pete Rose
about ten thousand times over the years. And the big
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story here, our leader, the other Monday night football game
was so bad? How bad was it? I've made the
editorial decision, the rare and appropriate editorial decision, that the
death of a baseball legend more interesting than the MLB
competition Monday night football, the early Monday night football game.
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But I lead this hour is from baseball. It is
not what I thought I would be talking about. The
Mets and the Braves playing a doubleheader on Monday. They split,
and so that means they're both Ink and the Metropolitan
play the Brewers. The Bravos will visit the Padres. More
on that later, but they were upstaged by Charlie Hustle.
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I assume you've heard by now. It's been bouncing around.
There's nothing human beings love more than to share bad news,
but maybe not. Pete Rose is dead. The all time
hits leader, who of course banned for betting on baseball,
ban for betting on baseball, has died at his home
in Vegas at the age of eighty three. I heard
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a couple months ago that Pete was in poor health.
It turns out he has died. We do not have
many details, but not that it really matters. We'll hear more,
I'm sure in the coming days here and what happened
exactly that led to the death of Pete Rose. But
he was in his early eighties. So let us discuss
the question, how are you going to remember Pete Rose?
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So first of all, I've got a bunch of things
that are run through my head here, a bunch of
things arachnophobia, still water, and ferris wheel. And we'll combine
all of these things together and try not to slip
and fall. So, first of all, for generations and multiple
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generations that are a little bit older than I am,
Pete Rose was the personification of baseball. He was he's
the epitome of what it meant to be a baseball player,
and he is why so many fell in love with
the sport of baseball and the number fourteen. When I
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came along, he was long in the tooth and then
became the Reds manager. Those are my memories of Pete
Rose as a player, but I did see him play
when he was a player manager at the end of
his career. But number fourteen, the big red machine, no
days off, the antithesis of the modern ballplayer, the modern
woost ballplayer that doesn't play hard. And it's like, we
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had a what a great dichotomy between what happened on
Sunday with Blake Snell, who chose not to pitch on
Sunday for the Giants in the final game, and the
quote that he gave to a reporter, a beat reporter
covering the Giants was, and I'm paraphrasing here, was something
to the effect, well, if the other team had been
in contention, I would have pitched. Since they're not, I
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chose not to. That was these polar opposite of what
Pete Rose was. It's funny if Pete had played in
today's game, they would have said, you got to slow
him down. He's going to hurt the team. He's trying
too hard. He works too hard. But he was a
no nonsense player. You got the shaggy hair, a byproduct
of the time that he played in dive in head first,
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covered in dirt, taking out Ray Fosse in an all
star game of all things. But overall, right, you go
from top to bottom of the life of Pete Rose
and the legacy that he leaves behind as he leaves
this mortal coil, and it's rachnophobia. R it's that tangled
web that we weave, or go the spider web of chaos.
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Pete reinvented himself a few years been probably about ten years.
He popped up on Fox baseball coverage and was the
most entertaining baseball commentation. Baseball players generally are boring, they
are dull. On television, Pete was engaging and entertaining and
fun and people really enjoyed him on television. Of course
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that didn't last for reasons off the field. But Pete
had a little bit everything, right. He had the gambling,
He had the booze, the sex, the rock and roll,
a little bit of all that. And of course the
gambling is what did him in, right, That's the story
why he wasn't allowed in the Hall of Fame. And
Pete Rose bet on baseball, and now you watch baseball
and it's sponsored by Everything is promoted or sponsored by
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a gambling company. And listen, I love gambling. I do
a TV show about gambling. We have advertisers here that
are gambling companies. But it's just the irony of what
was illegal then is legal now. It's like this happens
all the time. Things change, perceptions change and whatnot. But
even today you would not be allowed to bet the
way Pete Rose was betting on baseball from the clubhouse
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as he was managing the Reds, bets in and whatnot.
But there's a famous quote from Abraham Lincoln. I believe
it was Lincoln who said, we can complain because rose
bushes have thorns, or we can celebrate the fact that
thorns have roses. That depends you look at it. But
Pete had a little bit of that and a little
bit of this, and was a heck of a player
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in a bigger than life personality and all that. Now, secondly,
the big question that everyone's yapping about here, everyone's talking
about this, Well, now he's dead, so Charlie Hustle, he's
not coming back. Does he get into the Hall of Fame?
Is it now time for Pete Rose to be inducted
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into that little town in New York, Cooperstown. And my
initial thought when I first heard the news and I
was getting my phone was blown up. Pete Rose is dead.
You know, people love sharing bad news, So my initial
thought was he's going to get in. But then I
started futzing around some people, talking to different people, and
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it's not a lot even in death, it's complicated. Right,
here's the issue. There's a lot of people that think, well,
it's a lifetime ban, his life is over, so therefore,
since he's dead, Pete Rose should be allowed into the
Hall of Fame. But, as Lee Corso likes to say
on TV, not so fast, my friends. Turns out that
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still water runs deep, and there is a technicality that
could still prevent Pete Rose from getting into the Hall
of Fame. You see, Pete Rose was not banned for life.
The actual legal language was permanently ineligible, which is not
the same as lifetime man. Lifetime man means you're dead, okay,
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ban's over, but permanently ineligible means even in death, you're
not allowed into the Hall of Fame. So it depends
whether or not Baseball is willing to bend a little
bit like Rob Manford is a Weasley commissioner. I don't
know anybody that thinks he's doing a good job, just
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a terrible commissioner. But this is a way for him
to get a little good karma. I said, Oh, Pete's dead,
so we'll encourage him. Baseball will claim they're not in
charge of the Hall of Fame. It's an independent operation,
which is bull crap in my opinion. But this would
have to be finessed by the commissioner. And I have
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said this since I first learned about the story. When
I first got into talk radio in the Stone Age,
this was the go to topic if you were ever
having a slow day as a talk show host, it
was Pete Rose, Should he be in the Hall of Fame?
Give out the number right, everything lights up like a
Christmas tree, and boys would call up and debate it.
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You know, you should never be in the Hall of It.
Put him in the Hall of Fame, back and forth,
go to topic if you're a lazy talk show host,
Pete Rose for the Hall of Fame. But having worked
around baseball and been privy to baseball hardcore people, the
hard o's in baseball, this has been passed down from generations.
The commissioner bart Giamani probably don't know who that is
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his kid. He still is a famous actor. But Bargiamani
died eight days after Pete Rose was banned for life.
And while Bartiaomanni had a lot of health issues, didn't
have a great diet. I believe he smoked a lot.
The connection was that Pete Rose had a role in
the death of bart Giomoni right because of the stress
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of all this. Bartiomonni died a little over a week
after Pete Rose was banned for baseball, and Cooperstown was
what he wanted. Now, you could argue that Pete actually
benefited more from not getting into the Hall of Fame.
He became a notorious figure and had autograph signings in
Vegas for years at different hotels, and for many years
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go to New York and like across the street from
the Hall of Fame or down the street, they would
have autograph signings in New York. But as far as
putting him in, now, even if Baseball put him in,
to me, it's pointless because the whole point of it
is you're alive, you get to enjoy it. Like Pete's dead,
He's not gonna be able to enjoy it, Like who cares?
At this particular point, he's crossed over the Rubicon and
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major League Baseball and they have the ability if they want,
they can encourage Pete Rose to get into the Hall
of Fame. But the whole thing is insane to the membrane,
it really is. And Pete used to live right across
the well, not across the street, but up the hill
from where we broadcast from. When I first started here
at Fox Sports Radio, it was an Italian restaurant right
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across so Pulvity here and Pete was in there four
or five days a week. We always knew exactly when
it was like happy hour, Pete would be in there
at the bar holding court. And then eventually he moved
to Vegas to sign autographs all the time, and that
was it. We didn't see Pete after that. But anyway,
rest in peace to Pete Rose. And it's not a guarantee,
even in death that he gets into the Hall of
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Fame because of the legallees permanently ineligible for the Hall
of Fame. All right, A final thought I did want
to mention modern baseball. The playoffs begin. Playoffs, playoffs begin
here on this Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, and what is your
reaction to the Atlanta Braves. The Atlanta Braves winning a
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playoff spot and losing their cy young favorite starting pitcher
Chris Sayle for the wild card round. As the announcement
came down, he will likely not be pitching in the
wildcard round. So this is a Ferris wheel over the
lagoon at the Putt putt Golf meaning it is par
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for the course as the Braves. If we're being told
the truth here the Atlanta Braves, this is what this
season has been the fact that they made the playoffs
is an embarrassment to the diamond Backs and all these
other teams that were fighting for that last wildcard spot.
Yet the Braves, with five six key players, big money
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players knocked out, still made the playoffs. That's an indictment
of these other teams that did not make the playoffs here,
But it's a Murphy's loss situation. Anything and anything that
can go wrong will go wrong. And Brian Snicker, the manager,
claimed that Sale will not be able to pitch in
the wildcard round which begins in hours and that's that. However,
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there is a conspiracy that Chris Sale could have pitched,
but they didn't want to pitch him. And I don't
know if I believe that because the Mets won game won,
so why would you not pitch him if he's able
to pitch? But the argument he wrapped up the triple
Crown of pitching and had Chris sale gun out there
and not pitched, well, he could have conceivably lost that
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triple crown title. On the mound. The conspiracy theorists are
having a feel day with that.
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So after looking pretty bad the first couple of weeks
of the season, Kayleb Williams has been much improved over
the last two weeks. Ben should Bears fans be thrilled
with Caleb's progress?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
No, because the guy that was drafted third in the
draft or second in the draft rather has been the
total breakout stud of the NFL, Jaden Daniels. That's the problem.
And the numbers that Caleb Williams had against the Colts
were inflated. If you watch that game, he had the
hail Mary passed that came up short of an end
of the end zone. Was I think he's like even
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the last two weeks, I think he's the twenty th
rank quarterback. So that's still not good. I mean it's
not It's better than he was, but not that good.
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Next, Luis a Ryan just became the first player in
MLB history to win three consecutive batting titles with three
different teams.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Ben, do you think Ryan is being undervalued?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well in yeah, in real baseball, yeah, but in nerd ball,
in analytics baseball. He doesn't hit the ball out of
the ballpark. He's not that valuable. I wouldn't be shocked
if the Padres trade his ass to another team this offseason.
It's the thing to do. The guys won batting titles
with multiple teams now, and he's on his third team already,
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and he's not even twenty eight years old. Next when
that's been up, potentially making a change of quarterback. Patriots
head coach Jerrod Mayo said, at this point, Jacobe is
our starting quarterback. But then he said, we have a
long flight to go back and watch the film, and
Roy's evaluating every single position.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Ben, you think Drake May starts next week?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well, if you're trying to win, you would not start
Jakoby Brissett, anybody but Jacoby Brissett. So if I was
running the Patriots, I would start Drake May. Do I
think they're gonna start Drake May. No, I think they're
gonna continue ancers. They're pig headed, and we'll talk more
about this later, but they're gonna go with Jacoby Brissett.
How did we die? That is a winner? He rose
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So anyway, the categories are the hangover, do date, the campaign?
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And missing link? And uh man, well was on first?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Man?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Well?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Which one do you want? Man? Well?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Hold on?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Just like that? Oh w w F superstar.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
In the States.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
We didn't hear any of the first part. Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Missing and Maddie, which one would you like? There? With
a hangover? All right? Really good? If everyone hold on
there we will have in its entirety, We're gonna have
Malors Mountain of Money. You got Maddie and Coop Joe
Loop I think is that what we called you and
Grouple Loop? Yeah? And then me Ben with Manuel in Guardina.
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Put your bets in right now. It's gonna be a doozy.
Remember I'm the all time wins king at these game shows.
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
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And away we go. Let's welcome in our contestants again.
We have Maddie in South Carolina who's teamed up with well,
we call him Pop, but he called him something else.
And we have Manuel in Guardena in southern California, who
is a veteran savvy's sports clock radio caller, and he
has teamed up with me, and we are gonna go first.
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Manuel in Guardina, all right, I'm the easy category. I
don't know about that. As Zach Galifanakis fifty five today,
Double Nichols and you picked the missing link. The athletes
won a championship their first year on a team we'll
put forty five seconds on the clock. We need the
first and last name. Are you ready? Manuel and Guardina?
(31:32):
All right, here we go. Quarterback, greatest of all time
for the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I'm Brady.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yes, there's the clock. Point guard for the Lakers. Number
three two for the Lakers. I couldn't hear it with
Eddy for the point guard for the league. Yeah. I
won a championship out of Michigan State. Oh, Matthew Angels
starting pitcher. Kind of looks like me. I won the
two thousand and two World Series. Was also on the
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Red Sox and twenty three team. Big, big white guy. Yes,
running back for the Cowboys before Herschel Walker, great running back. Yes, Uh,
the big o in the NBA. Yes, uh it always injured,
Clipper Star, always injured.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Ah, damn it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I know who it was.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
It was Kawhi.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, that was he's always hear two twenty points. We
got talking about two ten.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
That's so you shared to twenty.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I'll go with Eddie's scoring. I think he's right two
twenty Yeah, he's a math major, absolutely on this, he said.
To twenty twenty. He said to it doesn't matter. I've
already won the game. Sure, yeah, you're probably right. Actually, alright, Maddie,
attitude latitude. Alright, Maddie, we've got the hangover. Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
These athletes all have had or have a drinking problem.
Forty five seconds on the clock, Mattie, are you ready? No,
stop it, Labrena. I will say, go why Coop boss?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Because he knows you're gonna lose. He is quick on
the trigger.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Hold on you hold your horses, Maddie.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Are you ready? I'm ready?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
All right, go all right.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Hall of Fame quarterback War number four for the Packers,
far full name please, yes, all right. One of the
best linebackers of all time for.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The New York Giants, Lawrence Taylor. Yes.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Uh. This guy hit for the Triple Crown with the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
He was also on the Marlins.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Oh all right, I.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Know we'll skip this one.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Old Yankees outfielder. Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
He has the same first name as the Disney mouse.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Wow, Mickey Mantle. Yes uh.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
This guy was a tight end for the Raiders. He
wrote like a song for his wife that he's now divorced. Yeah,
he's all right, well, compressive score.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
That's forty two.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Miguel Cabrera was the one, right, what do you think again.
Darren Waller, Yes, Dan, Darren Waller, not Maller Waller.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yes, all right, we're up again, Maddie. Would you like
do date or the campaign? Okay, these athletes are expecting
a child. Forty five seconds on the clock, begin, all right.
The current quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Yes, wide receiver for the Dolphins. He got arrested before
the game the Cheetah. He was on the Kansas City
Chiefs and now he's on the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Terrible clues, it's really bad, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Defense line linebacker for the Steelers. He's got a bunch
of sacks. His brother was in the league also.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
All right?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yes, Uh, Spanish center for the Lakers. He won championships
with Kobe. Uh could that be usc quarterback that handed
off the reggie?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
But oh, Coop, I'm meanness, I'm terrible. I'm sorry. You
know what, I thought you did a great job. I
thought it was really Coop. That was you were you want?
You want to run up this four man? Well, yeah,
we're gonna run up four were talking? All right? The
last category is the campaign. These athletes have all run
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for elected office. Are you ready ready? All right, forty
five seconds on the clock, and we're on our way go.
He started early, the governor of California and active famous actor. Yes,
uh started started out as an Olympic hero. Now he's
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a woman. Yes, what's the other name? He said it? Yeah?
All right, running back after, but here we go after
Tony Doors set with the cowboy Walker. Yes, first first
baseman for the Dodgers in the seventies and yes, a
white wide receiver for the Seahawks in the eighties. Market Yes,
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Minnesota Supreme Court justice. First NFL defensive No, first NFL
defensive player to win MVP award. He's now he was
in politics, all right. We didn't run the table, but
Allan Page was the name we were looking for.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
That.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Well, I think it's still alive. But I think he's
still alive. But yeah, yeah, I think so. All right,
Well we won. What was the score, It doesn't matter.
We won. Buy a lot to a level, another win,
a golden ticket for Manuel and guard all time wins King.
Put another one on the board, Eddie, all time wins King.
Right here me now, poop pill may
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Show to be Hope all is well with you and
lead is gonna be from football. Got a number of
you reached out to me throughout the day the passing
of Pete Rose, and we will talk about that as
we go through the overnight hours. In certainly open to
calling up and sharing some of your memories of Pete Rose,
but we're gonna start with football and we'll work our
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way through. We've got a long trip on the Red
Eye overnight, but we'll start in Motown, the scene of
the main event. Now, there were two games on Monday Night.
You get the A side and the B side. Now
the A side on the twin bill, that would be
where Troy Aikman and Joe Buck, the Fox refugees had
to call there in NFC Battle Royale that was billed
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the MotorCity Kitties playing host to the Sea Birds in
this game starting about forty five minutes or so after
the first Monday Night game, which we'll try to avoid
talking about for as long as we can, involving the
Tennessee backup versus the Miami like four string guy. It
was bad, bad at the moment, but it was not
bad if you like touchdowns. In the game that was
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played in Michigan, as Jared Goff ram trash. Jared Goff
went out there and threw a perfect game, a perfect game,
el perfecto for Jared Goff. He sets an NFL record. Now,
he didn't reach the threshold that is required for the
all time record of twenty pass attempts, but he had
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eighteen pass attempts, all eighteen of them, Coplay eighteen for eighteen,
helping the Lions roar pass the Seahawks forty two to
twenty nine Monday night. And he had a pair of
touchdown passes as well. Mixed in he also caught a
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touchdown reception for the first time in his career, a
trick play from aman Ra Saint Brown. Now, Kurt Warner
had the previous record, previous record, we're going ten for
ten for Arizona against Houston. That was back many years
to go, almost twenty years ago in twenty five. But
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the better story here is not in the Detroit locker room.
There'll be plenty of people talking heads over the next
twenty four to forty eight hours that will be licking
the toes of Jared Goff, a lot of I told
you so. So Instead we will focus where the real
drama is Seattle. We got a problem. Let us discuss
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the question, right, how does this performance leave Mike McDonald,
the new coach there, and that Seattle defensive unit. How
does it hit you? How does this performance hit you?
All Right? So I've got Gucci handbag, mister peanut, and
form letter and we will combine all of these things
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together and we were going to reduce swelling is what
we're gonna We're gonna reduce we do it. Yeah, all right,
So a this hit me like a dereliction of duties
is what it hit me like. I got no skin
in the game. As you know, I'm neutral. I'm Switzerland
when it comes to these things. But watching this game
play out, it flashed back to a conversation I had
(04:43):
on the TV show we did this past weekend, Benny
versus the Penny, and we were talking about the Seattle Seahawks,
and we were like, Wow, that Seattle team. I'd been
feasting on the hostess schedule. They hadn't really playing anybody,
and then this is about the point in this schedule
now where you start looking around. They hadn't been tested,
and they had the three and zero and raw Rah
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and the low information fan, the unknowledgeable fan, gets all
horny because their team's undefeated, and you're like, well, wait
a minute, this is this is a checkpoint on the schedule.
It's like, okay, so now's four weeks in to the season.
You played Bo Nicks in his first start. Now he's
not very good right now, he was really bad in
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start number one. You had Jacoby Burssett, who should be
doing uber eats at this point rather than playing quarterback
for the Patriots. And someone named Skuyler Thompson who sounds
like a w NBA player who started for the Dolphins.
So that's that's who you face. That's it. I mean,
so is this real or is this a mirage? And
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after four weeks, at this moment in time, remember we
do the show today. We don't need the show tomorrow.
This is not yesterday shows, Today's show. So, in this
moment in time, the Seattle Seahawks with all precincts reporting
in after four weeks of NFL football, this Mike McDonald
defense is a handbag. It's a Gucci handbag, but it's
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a knock Gon version. It's a knock gone version, counterfeit.
And if I hear one more NFL tody tell me, well,
he's got the Ravens pedigree. Okay, okay, that's that Ravens pedigree.
How'd that work out? How'd that work out? In this game?
Demoralizing the D word, demoralizing performance here, and it was
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on island time. It was on island. Now that other
game was unwatchable, Like I watched it because I have
no life. But if you have a life, you got
text and friends of mine during the Tennessee Miami games, like, hey,
you watching this game? No, you only get one life.
Time is limited. Why would I waste my time watching
that game? But I was watching. I was slipping back
(06:55):
and forth. But my god, this Seattle Seahawk defense living
the eye li. If this was it and the Seahawks
could not get Jared Goff, Jared Goff to throw one
incomplete pass, you should be sent to the CFL as
a defense and bring in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Bring
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the Blue Bombers in. If you can't get Jared Goff
to throw an incomplete pass, for the love of god,
what is wrong with you? Right? It was hideous on
every level, every level. Now, I know the Seattle suckops
that you know they Oh you're wrong you're just a
ram fit. No, I'm not. I'm just reporting what I saw,
that's all I'm reporting. Okay, Lions had ten possessions. We're
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not gonna include the kneel down at the end of
the game. That doesn't count. So ten possessions to scort
Detroit score touchdowns on six of the ten. They're like
they were like the Navy against the Seahawks defense bright
by land, by air, by sea, by all a pre
I could run bro this, that and the other thing.
You want a trick play, Yeah, we'll do a trick play.
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Run it over there, touchdown, pass up ahead, all that,
five trips to the red zone, one hundred percent conversion,
one hundred percent, five for five in red zone play. Now,
old MacDonald had a farm, he'll be back on a farm.
And if they keep playing defense like that, my god,
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there's a lot of adjustments to make, like maybe force
an incomplete pass now and again that would help as well. Unfortunately,
I don't think you have any more games against Skyler
Thompson the rest of the year, which is a problem.
Now page two. Here on the other side, the winning side, here,
where are you on? Where are things? Rather, where are
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things for Dan Campbell and the Lions after this that
this particular win. So as far as the Lions are concerned,
while it was a absolute masterpiece, a total masterpiece for
the Lions getting the victory here on offense, we are
ambivalent in terms of the big picture for Detroit because
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they also have a lot of issues. Even though they won,
and they won by double digits and that's great and
all that, it was what I call it a planter's performance,
a mister peanut performance is when you get out the monocle.
It's a mixed nuts kind of night here. Because you
got the peanuts, you got the all means, you got
the cashews, you got those brazil nuts. I don't like those.
(09:34):
The pecans, you get all that. In the offense, while
it was a chef's kiss, we also truth and broadcasting
must point out the Lions defense continues to be the
weakest link. You are the weakest link. Gino Smith, another
suck back court of this guy blows. You wouldn't know
it from watching this game. Gino Smith second rate and
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we all know these it's a temporary fill in guy
there in Seatti. They decided they actually want to try
to win a championship again. Yeah, win with Gino Smith,
but Gino Smith put up three hundred and ninety five
passing yards. Seattle had like thirty eight first downs. I
believe in this game it was ridiculous. Over five hundred
yards of offense and the Motor City Kitties. We saw
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it when the Rams took them to overtime in Week one.
We saw it against the Buccaneers in Week two. Not
so much against Arizona though. Were their options were there
were plays open. But there is this stigmatism to the
Lions defense in that secondary, and we saw it with
DK Metcalf who went ballistic in this particular game for Seattle.
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Every other receiving corps has their way pushing around this
Lion's defense. It's open season. It is open season. And
it's not like the Lions defense is going to be
saved because they play a bunch of cold weather games.
They played a dome, so the elements are not going
to help them defensively. They got issues sighed, and the
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trade deadline's coming up about a month from now, so
we'll see what they do. All right. Last word here,
we're gonna pivot over to Dallas. The Cowboys did not
play on Monday Night. But we have learned now the
Cowboys are preparing to play without linebacker Micah Parsons. He's
got a high ankle spray. Now. He tried to downplay
at Michael Parsons and say it's not that big a deal,
(11:23):
but the word in the street is he's gonna miss action.
Here is there a silver lining to the injury to
Michaeh Parsons. So there is absolutely for Mike Zimmer, the
defensive guru, wink wink, and for Mike McCarthy, the rotn
coach of the Dallas Cowboys. It's my opinion you consider
this injury to Michael Parsons. It's like a form letter.
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It's an excuse note from your parents because you were
you were absent, guilty of absenteeism. The Cowboys play the
Steelers Sunday Night Football this upcoming week Must see TV
be the highest rated game in Week five. Everyone's gonna
be watching this. You got two national fan bases of
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the Steelers and the Cowboys in the land of the
inser as they get together, and the Cowboys, it would appear,
will be without DeMarcus Lawrence and Micaeh Parsons. On defense
against the Pittsburgh football team, and now they have an alibi.
They have an alibi for lose. Now I used place
that if you're Mike McCarthy, you take out your bag
(12:29):
of potato chips and you put that excuse in your pocket. There,
your back pocket, just in case you happen to need it.
Will you probably will Dak Prescott primetime game against a
pretty good defense. It's usually a recipe for heartache, a
absolute recipe for heartache.
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feels like over the years I've gotten ten thousand calls
from a character named Dick and Dayton, and almost all
of them have mentioned either Bernie Cosey or Pete Rose
about ten thousand times over the years. And the big
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story here, our leader, the other Monday night football game
was so bad? How bad was it? I've made the
editorial decision, the rare and appropriate editorial decision, that the
death of a baseball legend more interesting than the MLB
competition Monday night football, the early Monday night football game.
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But I lead this hour is from baseball. It is
not what I thought I would be talking about. The
Mets and the Braves playing a doubleheader on Monday. They split,
and so that means they're both Ink and the Metropolitan
play the Brewers. The Bravos will visit the Padres. More
on that later, but they were upstaged by Charlie Hustle.
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I assume you've heard by now. It's been bouncing around.
There's nothing human beings love more than to share bad news,
but maybe not. Pete Rose is dead. The all time
hits leader, who of course banned for betting on baseball,
ban for betting on baseball, has died at his home
in Vegas at the age of eighty three. I heard
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a couple months ago that Pete was in poor health.
It turns out he has died. We do not have
many details, but not that it really matters. We'll hear more,
I'm sure in the coming days here and what happened
exactly that led to the death of Pete Rose. But
he was in his early eighties. So let us discuss
the question, how are you going to remember Pete Rose?
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So first of all, I've got a bunch of things
that are run through my head here, a bunch of
things arachnophobia, still water, and ferris wheel. And we'll combine
all of these things together and try not to slip
and fall. So, first of all, for generations and multiple
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generations that are a little bit older than I am,
Pete Rose was the personification of baseball. He was he's
the epitome of what it meant to be a baseball player,
and he is why so many fell in love with
the sport of baseball and the number fourteen. When I
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came along, he was long in the tooth and then
became the Reds manager. Those are my memories of Pete
Rose as a player, but I did see him play
when he was a player manager at the end of
his career. But number fourteen, the big red machine, no
days off, the antithesis of the modern ballplayer, the modern
woost ballplayer that doesn't play hard. And it's like, we
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had a what a great dichotomy between what happened on
Sunday with Blake Snell, who chose not to pitch on
Sunday for the Giants in the final game, and the
quote that he gave to a reporter, a beat reporter
covering the Giants was, and I'm paraphrasing here, was something
to the effect, well, if the other team had been
in contention, I would have pitched. Since they're not, I
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chose not to. That was these polar opposite of what
Pete Rose was. It's funny if Pete had played in
today's game, they would have said, you got to slow
him down. He's going to hurt the team. He's trying
too hard. He works too hard. But he was a
no nonsense player. You got the shaggy hair, a byproduct
of the time that he played in dive in head first,
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covered in dirt, taking out Ray Fosse in an all
star game of all things. But overall, right, you go
from top to bottom of the life of Pete Rose
and the legacy that he leaves behind as he leaves
this mortal coil, and it's rachnophobia. R it's that tangled
web that we weave, or go the spider web of chaos.
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Pete reinvented himself a few years been probably about ten years.
He popped up on Fox baseball coverage and was the
most entertaining baseball commentation. Baseball players generally are boring, they
are dull. On television, Pete was engaging and entertaining and
fun and people really enjoyed him on television. Of course
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that didn't last for reasons off the field. But Pete
had a little bit everything, right. He had the gambling,
He had the booze, the sex, the rock and roll,
a little bit of all that. And of course the
gambling is what did him in, right, That's the story
why he wasn't allowed in the Hall of Fame. And
Pete Rose bet on baseball, and now you watch baseball
and it's sponsored by Everything is promoted or sponsored by
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a gambling company. And listen, I love gambling. I do
a TV show about gambling. We have advertisers here that
are gambling companies. But it's just the irony of what
was illegal then is legal now. It's like this happens
all the time. Things change, perceptions change and whatnot. But
even today you would not be allowed to bet the
way Pete Rose was betting on baseball from the clubhouse
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as he was managing the Reds, bets in and whatnot.
But there's a famous quote from Abraham Lincoln. I believe
it was Lincoln who said, we can complain because rose
bushes have thorns, or we can celebrate the fact that
thorns have roses. That depends you look at it. But
Pete had a little bit of that and a little
bit of this, and was a heck of a player
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in a bigger than life personality and all that. Now, secondly,
the big question that everyone's yapping about here, everyone's talking
about this, Well, now he's dead, so Charlie Hustle, he's
not coming back. Does he get into the Hall of Fame?
Is it now time for Pete Rose to be inducted
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into that little town in New York, Cooperstown. And my
initial thought when I first heard the news and I
was getting my phone was blown up. Pete Rose is dead.
You know, people love sharing bad news, So my initial
thought was he's going to get in. But then I
started futzing around some people, talking to different people, and
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it's not a lot even in death, it's complicated. Right,
here's the issue. There's a lot of people that think, well,
it's a lifetime ban, his life is over, so therefore,
since he's dead, Pete Rose should be allowed into the
Hall of Fame. But, as Lee Corso likes to say
on TV, not so fast, my friends. Turns out that
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still water runs deep, and there is a technicality that
could still prevent Pete Rose from getting into the Hall
of Fame. You see, Pete Rose was not banned for life.
The actual legal language was permanently ineligible, which is not
the same as lifetime man. Lifetime man means you're dead, okay,
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ban's over, but permanently ineligible means even in death, you're
not allowed into the Hall of Fame. So it depends
whether or not Baseball is willing to bend a little
bit like Rob Manford is a Weasley commissioner. I don't
know anybody that thinks he's doing a good job, just
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a terrible commissioner. But this is a way for him
to get a little good karma. I said, Oh, Pete's dead,
so we'll encourage him. Baseball will claim they're not in
charge of the Hall of Fame. It's an independent operation,
which is bull crap in my opinion. But this would
have to be finessed by the commissioner. And I have
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said this since I first learned about the story. When
I first got into talk radio in the Stone Age,
this was the go to topic if you were ever
having a slow day as a talk show host, it
was Pete Rose, Should he be in the Hall of Fame?
Give out the number right, everything lights up like a
Christmas tree, and boys would call up and debate it.
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You know, you should never be in the Hall of It.
Put him in the Hall of Fame, back and forth,
go to topic if you're a lazy talk show host,
Pete Rose for the Hall of Fame. But having worked
around baseball and been privy to baseball hardcore people, the
hard o's in baseball, this has been passed down from generations.
The commissioner bart Giamani probably don't know who that is
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his kid. He still is a famous actor. But Bargiamani
died eight days after Pete Rose was banned for life.
And while Bartiaomanni had a lot of health issues, didn't
have a great diet. I believe he smoked a lot.
The connection was that Pete Rose had a role in
the death of bart Giomoni right because of the stress
(22:35):
of all this. Bartiomonni died a little over a week
after Pete Rose was banned for baseball, and Cooperstown was
what he wanted. Now, you could argue that Pete actually
benefited more from not getting into the Hall of Fame.
He became a notorious figure and had autograph signings in
Vegas for years at different hotels, and for many years
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go to New York and like across the street from
the Hall of Fame or down the street, they would
have autograph signings in New York. But as far as
putting him in, now, even if Baseball put him in,
to me, it's pointless because the whole point of it
is you're alive, you get to enjoy it. Like Pete's dead,
He's not gonna be able to enjoy it, Like who cares?
At this particular point, he's crossed over the Rubicon and
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major League Baseball and they have the ability if they want,
they can encourage Pete Rose to get into the Hall
of Fame. But the whole thing is insane to the membrane,
it really is. And Pete used to live right across
the well, not across the street, but up the hill
from where we broadcast from. When I first started here
at Fox Sports Radio, it was an Italian restaurant right
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across so Pulvity here and Pete was in there four
or five days a week. We always knew exactly when
it was like happy hour, Pete would be in there
at the bar holding court. And then eventually he moved
to Vegas to sign autographs all the time, and that
was it. We didn't see Pete after that. But anyway,
rest in peace to Pete Rose. And it's not a guarantee,
even in death that he gets into the Hall of
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Fame because of the legallees permanently ineligible for the Hall
of Fame. All right, A final thought I did want
to mention modern baseball. The playoffs begin. Playoffs, playoffs begin
here on this Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, and what is your
reaction to the Atlanta Braves. The Atlanta Braves winning a
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playoff spot and losing their cy young favorite starting pitcher
Chris Sayle for the wild card round. As the announcement
came down, he will likely not be pitching in the
wildcard round. So this is a Ferris wheel over the
lagoon at the Putt putt Golf meaning it is par
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for the course as the Braves. If we're being told
the truth here the Atlanta Braves, this is what this
season has been the fact that they made the playoffs
is an embarrassment to the diamond Backs and all these
other teams that were fighting for that last wildcard spot.
Yet the Braves, with five six key players, big money
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players knocked out, still made the playoffs. That's an indictment
of these other teams that did not make the playoffs here,
But it's a Murphy's loss situation. Anything and anything that
can go wrong will go wrong. And Brian Snicker, the manager,
claimed that Sale will not be able to pitch in
the wildcard round which begins in hours and that's that. However,
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there is a conspiracy that Chris Sale could have pitched,
but they didn't want to pitch him. And I don't
know if I believe that because the Mets won game won,
so why would you not pitch him if he's able
to pitch? But the argument he wrapped up the triple
Crown of pitching and had Chris sale gun out there
and not pitched, well, he could have conceivably lost that
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triple crown title. On the mound. The conspiracy theorists are
having a feel day with that.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
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Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's how about that to the third degree? This is
one big vn gets grilled coop ollop Justin krup.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
So after looking pretty bad the first couple of weeks
of the season, Kayleb Williams has been much improved over
the last two weeks. Ben should Bears fans be thrilled
with Caleb's progress?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
No, because the guy that was drafted third in the
draft or second in the draft rather has been the
total breakout stud of the NFL, Jaden Daniels. That's the problem.
And the numbers that Caleb Williams had against the Colts
were inflated. If you watch that game, he had the
hail Mary passed that came up short of an end
of the end zone. Was I think he's like even
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the last two weeks, I think he's the twenty th
rank quarterback. So that's still not good. I mean it's
not It's better than he was, but not that good.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Next, Luis a Ryan just became the first player in
MLB history to win three consecutive batting titles with three
different teams.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Ben, do you think Ryan is being undervalued?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well in yeah, in real baseball, yeah, but in nerd ball,
in analytics baseball. He doesn't hit the ball out of
the ballpark. He's not that valuable. I wouldn't be shocked
if the Padres trade his ass to another team this offseason.
It's the thing to do. The guys won batting titles
with multiple teams now, and he's on his third team already,
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and he's not even twenty eight years old. Next when
that's been up, potentially making a change of quarterback. Patriots
head coach Jerrod Mayo said, at this point, Jacobe is
our starting quarterback. But then he said, we have a
long flight to go back and watch the film, and
Roy's evaluating every single position.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Ben, you think Drake May starts next week?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Well, if you're trying to win, you would not start
Jakoby Brissett, anybody but Jacoby Brissett. So if I was
running the Patriots, I would start Drake May. Do I
think they're gonna start Drake May. No, I think they're
gonna continue ancers. They're pig headed, and we'll talk more
about this later, but they're gonna go with Jacoby Brissett.
How did we die? That is a winner? He rose
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at Bob Evans. That's a letter.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
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Speaker 1 (28:25):
That's welcome our contestants. We have Manuel in Guardina who
wants to play Mallards Mountain Money. Hello, Manuel, welcome. You're
a regular on the show. Who would you like to
be partnered up with? Manuel?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
You?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Benny?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
All right?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That guy hey man growing pains man?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Boner Bone? And Mike Siebert get the winner in there?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Man here you are right hold on, And we have
Maddie from South Carolina, Hello, Maddie, you're gonna play our game. Maddie,
who would you like to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Got? Eddie? Or Kooper? Loop?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Group Loop?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I guess? All right, group a loop? All right, group
A loop? Very nice? What are the categories? You're going?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
All right, gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
This is the Zach Gallifanakis edition of Mallard's Mountain of Money?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Do you guys know who that is? I know who
that is. I didn't ask you, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Do you know who it is?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
What was this big starring movie with Mike Tyson in
the talk over Las Vegas? Didn't I did not know?
The guy didn't give me time to say it.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
All right, all right?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
So anyway, the categories are the hangover, do date, the campaign?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
And missing link? And uh man, well was on first?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Man?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Well?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Which one do you want? Man? Well?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Hold on?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Just like that? Oh w w F superstar.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
In the States.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
We didn't hear any of the first part. Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Missing and Maddie, which one would you like? There? With
a hangover? All right? Really good? If everyone hold on
there we will have in its entirety, We're gonna have
Malors Mountain of Money. You got Maddie and Coop Joe
Loop I think is that what we called you and
Grouple Loop? Yeah? And then me Ben with Manuel in Guardina.
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Put your bets in right now. It's gonna be a doozy.
Remember I'm the all time wins king at these game shows.
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
Malor's Mountain of money. Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
And away we go. Let's welcome in our contestants again.
We have Maddie in South Carolina who's teamed up with well,
we call him Pop, but he called him something else.
And we have Manuel in Guardena in southern California, who
is a veteran savvy's sports clock radio caller, and he
has teamed up with me, and we are gonna go first.
(31:07):
Manuel in Guardina, all right, I'm the easy category. I
don't know about that. As Zach Galifanakis fifty five today,
Double Nichols and you picked the missing link. The athletes
won a championship their first year on a team we'll
put forty five seconds on the clock. We need the
first and last name. Are you ready? Manuel and Guardina?
(31:32):
All right, here we go. Quarterback, greatest of all time
for the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I'm Brady.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yes, there's the clock. Point guard for the Lakers. Number
three two for the Lakers. I couldn't hear it with
Eddy for the point guard for the league. Yeah. I
won a championship out of Michigan State. Oh, Matthew Angels
starting pitcher. Kind of looks like me. I won the
two thousand and two World Series. Was also on the
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Red Sox and twenty three team. Big, big white guy. Yes,
running back for the Cowboys before Herschel Walker, great running back. Yes, Uh,
the big o in the NBA. Yes, uh it always injured,
Clipper Star, always injured.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Ah, damn it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I know who it was.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
It was Kawhi.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, that was he's always hear two twenty points. We
got talking about two ten.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
That's so you shared to twenty.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I'll go with Eddie's scoring. I think he's right two
twenty Yeah, he's a math major, absolutely on this, he said.
To twenty twenty. He said to it doesn't matter. I've
already won the game. Sure, yeah, you're probably right. Actually, alright, Maddie,
attitude latitude. Alright, Maddie, we've got the hangover. Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
These athletes all have had or have a drinking problem.
Forty five seconds on the clock, Mattie, are you ready? No,
stop it, Labrena. I will say, go why Coop boss?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Because he knows you're gonna lose. He is quick on
the trigger.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Hold on you hold your horses, Maddie.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Are you ready? I'm ready?
Speaker 3 (33:09):
All right, go all right.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Hall of Fame quarterback War number four for the Packers,
far full name please, yes, all right. One of the
best linebackers of all time for.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The New York Giants, Lawrence Taylor. Yes.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Uh. This guy hit for the Triple Crown with the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
He was also on the Marlins.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Oh all right, I.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Know we'll skip this one.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Old Yankees outfielder. Uh.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
He has the same first name as the Disney mouse.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Wow, Mickey Mantle. Yes uh.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
This guy was a tight end for the Raiders. He
wrote like a song for his wife that he's now divorced. Yeah,
he's all right, well, compressive score.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
That's forty two.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Miguel Cabrera was the one, right, what do you think again.
Darren Waller, Yes, Dan, Darren Waller, not Maller Waller.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yes, all right, we're up again, Maddie. Would you like
do date or the campaign? Okay, these athletes are expecting
a child. Forty five seconds on the clock, begin, all right.
The current quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Yes, wide receiver for the Dolphins. He got arrested before
the game the Cheetah. He was on the Kansas City
Chiefs and now he's on the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Terrible clues, it's really bad, all right.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Defense line linebacker for the Steelers. He's got a bunch
of sacks. His brother was in the league also.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
All right?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yes, Uh, Spanish center for the Lakers. He won championships
with Kobe. Uh could that be usc quarterback that handed
off the reggie?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
But oh, Coop, I'm meanness, I'm terrible. I'm sorry. You
know what, I thought you did a great job. I
thought it was really Coop. That was you were you want?
You want to run up this four man? Well, yeah,
we're gonna run up four were talking? All right? The
last category is the campaign. These athletes have all run
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for elected office. Are you ready ready? All right, forty
five seconds on the clock, and we're on our way go.
He started early, the governor of California and active famous actor. Yes,
uh started started out as an Olympic hero. Now he's
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a woman. Yes, what's the other name? He said it? Yeah?
All right, running back after, but here we go after
Tony Doors set with the cowboy Walker. Yes, first first
baseman for the Dodgers in the seventies and yes, a
white wide receiver for the Seahawks in the eighties. Market Yes,
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Minnesota Supreme Court justice. First NFL defensive No, first NFL
defensive player to win MVP award. He's now he was
in politics, all right. We didn't run the table, but
Allan Page was the name we were looking for.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
That.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Well, I think it's still alive. But I think he's
still alive. But yeah, yeah, I think so. All right,
Well we won. What was the score, It doesn't matter.
We won. Buy a lot to a level, another win,
a golden ticket for Manuel and guard all time wins King.
Put another one on the board, Eddie, all time wins King.
Right here me now, poop pill may
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