October 3, 2024 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about the AL Wild Card matchups including the Astros getting eliminated by the Detroit Tigers, the Brewers evening up their NL Wild Card series with the Mets, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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from October Baseball, and for the purposes of this show,
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we're going to start in our little world where it
matters most, the American League side of the bracket and
the big story out of the own star state. And
if you didn't see it, perhaps not somebody named Andy Byes.
We don't really know who that is, but we like him.
Andyes hit a tie breaking three run double in a
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four run eighth for the Detroit baseball team as the Tigers,
the Terrible Tigers sweet the cheating a.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Rows five to two of the final in Game two.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Da da da.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Hey, goodbye, you cheating a holes, you losers, ha done
what a waste two games at out, you pathetic pieces
of crap, the a holes from Houston.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh, it was so good.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I don't even know half these guys are the Tigers are,
but I like him, and I don't like it as
much because A Hinch, the manager of the Tigers, is
the old the astro trash there, but another no name,
Parker Meadows. Parker is our fake name. Parker medals, Yeah homework.
Detroit ending a run of seven consecutive appearances.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
In the America.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Houston's run is over from Detroit winning the seven consecutive
American League Championship Series appearances. So Detroit will play the
Cleveland Guardians and a matchup not made for television in
the American League Divisional Series, and the winner of that
matchup will go to the Final four of the American League.
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But the better story is in the losing locker room.
It's always a great day. We always look forward to
this day. You just you're happy. You don't really know
why you're happy. You you're just happy. It's just good.
It's just good all the way around. So how did
you react to the cheating eh Stros meekly being eliminated
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from the postseason.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So I've got feline Tim Allen.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And secret recipe, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice vacation.
Because you're on vacation, No need to worry about baseball
if you're an astro until sometime in February when spring
training gets underway. But my first thought here after I
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was watching from the comfort of the mal or sofa there,
enjoying the festivities and a little concern maybe the Tigers
would gag here and into some offense there late to
turn the game around. I had to sound off because
I hate most of these broadcasts, just so I had
to sound off. I would classify my reaction as I
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was singing.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Nana, Nana good bye.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
As I was doing that, I would classify it as
a feline like reaction, or go, that's the cat's mew.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Right there, that's the cats mew.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And I had a cheshire cat smile from ear to
ear on my I was so happy. I was, ah,
this is great man. We only get this day once
a year. It's so much fun. I wish we could
do it more than once. Maybe we can have like
double triple elimination. So good, right, Really a good day
for baseball fans, not baseball itself. Because they insulated and
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protected the cheating a holes. They protected them. They're still
protecting them to this day. Rob manfraud the commissioner. But
the team from Houston losing their mojo, and I guess
they've got an upgrade and talk about trash cans and buzzers,
and they've got to get better contraband there in Houston.
But they're jumped the Shark moment. I was actually texting
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a friend of mine does radio back East. We were
going back and forth like the jump to Shark moment
was when we had public nudity from this baseball team.
That was it. It was all over. It happened in
San Diego late in the season regular season when Jose
Albouve thought he was a Chippendales dancer there and did
a strip tease showing his ugly, disgusting toes and taking
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his sock off like some kind of Neanderthal. Now, it
is a crying shame that the Astros, with all of
these playoff games have not won a championship in franchise history,
no World Series to show for all the cheating and
all of this. It really is a crime shame. I
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think we can agree on that now. Page two here,
following the extermination of the Houston baseball team.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
How great is it that they're done. They're done. We've
killed the monster. They're dead.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So cheater, Jose alboove, the little fella, Jose alboo ooovey
now he urged, urged publicly the cheating asstros to pay back.
In his words, fellow cheat Alex Bregman, you know the
guy with the punchable face of their Bregman, Yeah, saying
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make him stay was the quote from al Booby.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
So what does that tell you? What does that tell you?
Where that signal to you?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So for me, my my position is Houston obviously is
at a crossroads. It's it's not quite working the same
as it did work there for a while. And al Tuve,
he's he's got a small problem. He never has a
big problem. Every problem he has is a small problem.
But he's over in the corner of the room, biting
his fingernails. He's having anxiety here, Altuve, and he's having anxiety.
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Is concerned that he's going to become Tim Allen from
the remake of The Last Man Standing. And he didn't
want that. I didn't want that. And now we believe
he has a little to worry about. Reason being for
a guy like Alex Bregman, who's a pending free agent
and all these other miserable cheaters. That's a member of
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Congress who nicknamed them miserable cheaters. Congressman from Nebraska, I
believe back in the day anyway. So for Bregman and
these other guys in Houston that are still tied to it,
the Astros, that's their safe space, you see, that's their
safe space there. Bregman has tangibly less value in every
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other Major League Baseball city, because every other Major League
Baseball fan base would be like, we want with that guy?
Why we want that guy? Guy's a punk? Want that
got our team?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And there's also no other fan base that is morally
bankrupt quite like the Houston Astro fan base. There a
bunch of dopes that supported that crap with no punishment.
All right, last word here, Well, quickly skidaddle to the
other side of the ale bracket where Bobby Witt Junior
has now passed my trout by in career postseason RBIs
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as he hustled, he beat out an infield single and
drove in the go ahead run and the Royals have
saying turn.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Out the lasts. The parties over for the Orioles.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
They're done two to one the final at Camden Yards
two games sweep AROOO.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Question for the esteem.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Panel are the Gunner Henderson Orioles going to be tormented
by losing yet again in the playoffs. So I'm nodding
my head, Yes, I believe that to be the case
here and Baltimore.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
They are not.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Paper tigers, they're paper birds, bird brains this time of
the year, here in this era, this part of the
orient that they tanked for years to get all these
top players, and yet.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
They really are putting the o in oriole this time
of the year.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Was it ten straight playoff losses of the anemic offense.
Gunner Henderson, They're one of the big headliners on the
Oriols zero for seven in the series. Adlie Rushman one
for eight, Anthony Santander one for eight. Baltimore's all star roster,
their lineup of all stars suffered a malfunction of epic proportions.
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They did the thing you can't do at the time
you can't do it. They sucked at a time you
can't suck. There's no other way.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
To say it.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Now, if you look at the way sports is operated
over the years, you would say something needs to change.
There's got to be some kind of change in Baltimore.
It's not working that they're fine during the regular season
and then when all the chips are on the line,
they get down on their hands and knees and say,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Know what to do.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I have no idea, but I would say, don't hold
your breath in Baltimore. And here's why it is the
prototype of modern baseball drives me nuts as someone that
grew up in an era where if you didn't perform well,
you were held accountable and you were fired. Manager was fired,
people were traded. That's not the way baseball's run today.
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And it's because of the nerds. The nerds took over
and it's the modern baseball. You've got the cousins of
the nerds who run the Dodgers and the Yankees are
in charge of the Orioles in Maryland. Now, in the
previous generation, a guy like Brandon Hyde, the manager in Baltimore,
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would be whacked. Now, Nah, buzzwords are used there, stability
and sustainability.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
That those are the ones that matter, not accountability.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It's sustainability and stability, not accountability. And the person that
let us know what's really going on with these teams
that don't hold anyone accountable was, of all people, Jerry Depoto,
the GM of the Seattle Mary owners who said, in
a moment of weakness, he took a lot of crap
for this because he said the quiet part out loud.
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But he said this a couple of years ago. I
said that the secret recipe of nerd ball. He gave
it away. He gave all the spices, all the eleven
herbs and spices away for the secret recipe. And it's
never go all in. You never go in. No, no,
no no. The goal every year is to win fifty
four percent of your games. He said it, he said
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Marriners Jim said, this is all these teams are using
the same same playbook, right, whin fifty four percent of
your games? Do you do that over ten years of time?
And almost always you're going to make the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Almost every year you'll be in contention.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
You'll sell a lot of tickets, a lot of hot dogs,
a lot of popcorn, a lot of beer. Right, people
me engaged, there'll be no apathy. So fifty four percent
of your games you can win. That you'll make the
playoffs most year, some years you won't. You'll find yourself
in the World Series, and at some point you're going
to win the World Series. More likely than not over
ten years. That is the secret recipe. That's what all
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these teams are doing. And so the oars are like, well,
Brandon Hidees just a middle manager like Dave Roberts or
Aaron But I'd be very surprised if he gets fired
because I'll just hire someone else that does the same thing.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So what's the point of firing him?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
You want again the.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Buzzwords stability and sustainability.
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be an oviva los VICKI a fan of that, So
our lead this hour will stick to baseball. We talked
about the al side of the bracket in a previous hour.
If you miss that, the podcast will be up shortly
after we get done and you can download that and
hear all the fun of that hour. But our lead
this hour is from the other half of the bracket
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in Wisconsin and the dramatic moment of the day, and
one of them, there was one in Houston, but the
other one was in the National League bracket, and that
would be involving the New York match looking to close
out the Brewers and advance onto Philadelphia.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
As two of them most annoying fan.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Basis could duke it out playdate with the Phillies on
the line. Mets win, they advance, Mets lose, they have
to play an elimination game later on on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
So how did that go? Well?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Jackson Churio said, you know what, I'd like to play
another game. He tied the game in the eighth inning
with his second homer of the night, and someone named
Garrett Mitchell don't know who that is, but Garrett Mitchell
had a two run shot later in that same eighth inning,
a dramatic plot twist. As now, the Brewers end up
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winning five to three over the New Yorkers, and that
means that everything's even up. Best of three, one to
one Wildcard round. The teams will play decisive Game three
on this night to night Thursday night here in Wisconsin,
and I believe it will go head to head with
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the NFL Thursday Night game. So we'll see what happens
with that. Will anyone be watching the baseball'll be trying
to flip back and forth. But the brew crew, I'm
going to try to become the first team to rally
and win this best of three wild Card series after
losing the opener. Major League Baseball went to this format
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just a few years ago in twenty twenty two, and
the Brewers can be the first team that has been
able to come back. All the games being played in Wisconsin.
So let us discuss the question who gets the finger
of blame for the New York Mets.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Blowing a lead late?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So I've got the Duke presidential and spam and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a pencil, a number two pencil with
a nice eraser on. That's what we're gonna make.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
So number.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Yeah is easy.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
There's one person that gets to wear the dunce cap.
You point the finger at that one person, the finger
of blame, and that would be a relief pitcher, a
journeyman vagabond relief pitcher named Phil Maydan. He was on
the mound there, the former cheating astro. He's bounced all
over the place around baseball Cleveland, Tampa Bay. But he
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did play on the A holes when they were in
the World Series a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
But here's looking at you, kid.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Okay, this guy came in there, and Phil Maton came
in there, and he was the Duke, the Duke of
puke on the mound as all over his uniform. Now
we had to call her last hour from this lunatic
from New Jersey who now lives in Florida, who's like, well,
you should just use a different picture of every evening.
Of course, that's great if no one has food poisoning,
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has a bad breakfast, and everyone's in a good frame
of mind and all that. But it's the age old
problem we have in baseball, that no one has machismo anymore.
It's a conga line of relief. He fetches one after another.
Everyone does it. You know, everyone's doing it. All it
takes is one guy to not be feeling it right.
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The algorithms are off a little bit for that particular guy,
and all of a sudden, you have what happened. Things
go haywire. Good news for Milwaukee, bad news for the
New York Metropolitans, who are now in an elimination situation
right now. So who's got more pressure? Game five Thursday, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Who's got more pressure? The Mets or the Brewers. So,
after eight minutes long review of this particular matchup, the
scales are squarely pointing to the Metropolitans and it's not
even close.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
The Mets people don't realize this because they think the
Dodgers had the highest payroll, and ever, the.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Dodgers deferred a bunch of money, So.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Technically the New York Metropolitans had the highest payroll in
baseball three hundred and seventeen million dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
They're also the.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Number one medium media market, led by hedge fund Robert Baron,
Steve Cohen. The Brewers, on the other hand, are twenty
first in the money game, if you're into such things here,
and they're just happy that their cheese curds are hot,
and they're playing with house money once they lost that
first game, even though the games are in their home ballpark,
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they're playing with house money. So the Mets here they
have the curse of the tight Touki syndrome, and the
pressure's on them going into an elimination elimination game. And
usually the team that scores first in an elimination game,
the other team starts panicking, they get that flop sweat
and it's on like Donkey Kong. They're gonna need a defibrillator.
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We'll see if that's the case in this game. Now
page two. Here to Sunday Ago, we go the other
half of the National League Wild Card bracket, and that
is where Manny Machutto had a two run double and
Action Merrill.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
He also had a two run triple, five run rally
against Max Freed or Fried as he looked at the
end of the year for the Bravos there and all
of that with not one but two outs in the
second inning, and good afternoon, good evening, and good night
for Atlanta. The Padres hold on by the skin on
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their chinny chin chin. They sweeped the Braves five to
four the final in game two of the nationallygue wild
card round.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So bye bye. So what is the story?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
We know the better stories in Atlanta, But what is
the story for the twenty twenty four Braves. Here where
we at on the twenty twenty four Braves, Well, this
one's not that hard, Atlanta. I'm not giving them a
pass on my score card. The guys that were the
backups who got them into the playoffs, they malfunction.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
They did not get it done here. They failed.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The secondary players failed, But Max Freed is not a
secondary player. It's the other flotsam and jetsam on the
Atlanta Braves that were not good enough. Now that said, overall,
the baseball world will give out. Well, I'm not giving
it out. The baseball world will give the Atlanta Braves
a presidential pardon, a federal pardon. And here's why. If
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you look back to opening day in late March early April,
the Atlanta Braves ten players on the field, the nine players,
the eight position players, plus the Pitcher plus the DH.
Six of the ten on the opening day lineup for
the Braves this year missed at least two months and
some of them are out now. Chris Sale not on
the playoff roster, he out, he's gone, Ronald Lacuda Junior
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missing most of the year, Spencer Streider out, Austin Riley
missed a bunch of time as well. Those are the
name band players. The secondary guys didn't get it done.
But Max Freed was supposedly a headline type guy. You've
heard of him. He had that mass of performance in
the World Series against the cheating a Holes a couple
of years back, and you had zippo zero on the
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mount Now final point. Many of you have asked my
thoughts on the upcoming National League Divisional Series Western Edition,
Western Edition, Western, the Mississippi, the Pod Squad. They hit
up I five now for a matchup with shohe Oh,
Tony the Gambling Man and the Doyers. The top seed
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in all of Major League Baseball, the Dodgers here in
the Nation League Divisional Series that begins on Saturday Saturday
Saturday evening at Chavez Ravine. So who's got the edge? Question,
Who's got the edge Dodgers and Podrey's matchup in the
National League Divisional Series. So you might think, well, I've
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been down on the Dodgers. I am down on the Dodgers,
but they'll still win this They're gonna win this series, right,
The Dodgers will win this series, all the way across
the board, and no excuses. I don't want to hear
about the tattered pitching staff and all that. You look
at who the Dodgers are sending out to the mound
in the first couple of games. They should win both
those games. Best of five series, best of five series.
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You got Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the star from Japan, still waiting
for him to be a star in America, but he
was a big deal in Japa. He got paid a
bunch of money, bamboozl a bunch of money out of
the Dodgers to miss most of the year.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
So Yamamoto's on the mound.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And then Jack Flaherty also in those first two games,
some combination of Jack Flaherty and Yamamoto for the Dodgers.
Now after that it will mostly be a combination of
relief pitchers and walker Bueler. Bueler Buehler, that guy blows.
But playoff baseball right, playoff baseball. Odd things happen in
the playoffs. And the thing that I've learned over the
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years because of the ruination of Baseball Nation, and this
is what happened. The starting pitching, Well, it's important. It's
it's how those other secondary actors, the spam filler players
on your roster performed. They're equally important. Sway baseball is
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designed more now than ever. For reference, last October, the
starting pitchers in baseball were on the mound for fifty
two percent of all plate appearances. So it was like
a fifty two to forty eight split between starter and
relief pitcher. And all that matters, as we know, is
who performs well in the moment, and I will be
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Benny Brightside. Dodgers have better players, they have better fans,
they have a better ballpark. And it's also time for
Mookie Bets to start earning that three hundred and sixty
five million dollar contract again. MOOKI has played like an
absolute Dingleberry the last couple of years. I went back
and looked the last two years in the playoffs, Mookie
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Bets is batting eighty, which is I think a highway
somewhere in the Midwest hitting eighty Okay, how about Freddy
Freeman blah blah, vanilla ice cream, Freddy Freeman in the playoffs,
two fifty batting average as a Dodger in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
And then you have the great mystery of it all,
the Heela Monster in.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
The room show Haltani. Otani has been compared to Barry Bonds,
the impact that he has. We don't think he's doing steroids,
but who knows. But Barry Bonds often failed in October.
We don't know what Otani's going to do. He's never
had the stage, never had the opportunity. Is he built
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for prime time? And is he going to be able
to elevate his play in these moments where he will
have opportunities The Dodgers. You assume we'll have chances with
the runners on and we'll see how this goes here.
But the Dodgers will beat the Padres and they'll play
in the Nation League Championship Series. But we'll see what happens.
Starting on Saturday Saturday, Saturday Saturday.
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Speaker 7 (26:03):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It's Mallard.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
This is one big.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Gets grall probo.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
So, Ben, you already said that you think the Titans
should be sticking with Mason Rudolph if they care about winning.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
It doesn't seem like they're gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
It's a great take. Yeah, exactly, I love my take.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Do you think the Colts should stick with Joe Flacco?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I would rather If I'm a Colts fan, I would
rather see Joe Flacco out there because the defense and
the special teams, you can win enough to get into
the playoffs with that combination. And we've seen Joe Flacco,
who's not very good, play elite football in the playoffs,
not last year, but in years past.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So yeah, I would go that way.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I mean, it's not really much of Anthony Richardson is
the thirty second rate quarterback.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
The only quarterback worse is Bryce Young next.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Patrick Mahomes is the favorite to win MVP after four weeks.
Josh Allen isn't too far behind. But I think it's
safe to say that neither of these guys have been
mind blowing to start the season. Ben, are there any
long odds dark horses that you like for the award.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well, I Mahomes is the easy one because with all
these injuries, he'll get extra credit. I don't trust Sam Donald,
as I mentioned CJ. Stroud not playing as well as
he did last year. I would keep an eye on
Jayden Daniels and this thing seems real to me. I
would keep an eye on him with Washington because he's
he's the hot the hot guy and Cope, you always
love the hot guy.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
You told me that, right.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
What's next?
Speaker 7 (27:29):
The Lamar Jackson Derek Henry pairing looks like it's starting
to click, as the Ravens have won two in a
row and Henry is rushed for over three hundred and
fifty yards in the last two weeks. Ben, are they
the best two and two team in the league? Well,
they're the team that everyone's buzzing about.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Right. There's a bunch of teams to and too, but
Henry that win. They absolutely ran over as the Stampede
against the Buffalo Bills. They're the How about the top
regular season two and two team that you don't trust?
They're better than the Falcons and the Saints and then
the Cowboys and teams like that. But you still don't
trust them in the playoff because Lamar Jackson malfunctions in
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the plus. But yet you asked me I during the
regular season. Sure, I'll agree with that. There it is
malol the third degree. How did we know you failed
this edition?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
That is a win.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I won the game, Thank you very much. That is
a win, my Jayden Daniels take. I won, Thank you.
It's a win.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
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Speaker 1 (28:29):
Nor wait ask bad Twitter said?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is your questions on Twitter?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Nah?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Your questions are answers? Been in friends? And what's worst?
Hoople loop the reading of the question.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
All right, We're gonna start with a question from Alf,
the alien opiner hi Alf. He wants to know for everybody,
do you ever eat food that tastes bad or is
cooked wrong just because you paid for it?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I thought he was going to ask you about was
at someone else's house. I have eaten bad food. If
I'm a guest at someone's house, I'll like try to
eat it. I'll put a lot of it, like I'll
spit into my napkin, but it'll look like I'm eating it.
But if I pay for the food and it sucks,
I'm going to get the food replaced. So I I
don't have I'll probably do that any Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
I concur with that. I think I used that move
when I was.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
A kid sitting.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Yeah, and I don't think I've done it as an adult.
But yeah, if I get bad, bad food that I'm
paying for, I'm getting that replaced.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
I mean it's harder in money. We get paid by
the word day God with costs.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Of particular food and price increases.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah, what about.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
You, right?
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie guys. I'm kind of a
pushover sometime. So I was at Bunn Street the other
day and I got my peanut butter jelly bacon burger.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I've been to bun Street burger place, always good, but
Gabriel Valley, this burger was.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
I tasted.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
It tasted like it was burnt, and I through the
first path and then when she came over, she is
everything great. I'm like, oh, it's so good, and I'm
literally choking it down.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
It's so bad.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
I even took it to go box and I threw
it away when I got home.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
You didn't give it to a homeless person something.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
Man, No, no one deserves that.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Really, Oh Mankopolop.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
So I'm kind of the same as Lorena.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
I just I if it's really really bad, then I will,
you know, have it replaced.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
But it has to be pretty bad for me to
do that.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Otherwise I'll just be like, well, this is a bummer,
and I'll just eat it until.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I'm full of money, time and money, right, And you
only get a certain number of meals in your life
before you croak, so you want to make them count.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
You want to enjoy those meals.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
I'm going to say that next time my food sucks.
You know, I only have so many meals.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Before I fine out.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
At some point I'm gonna kick the bucket and I
want to have a good meal.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Morbid.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, all right, but that's your fault from earlier. It
is Halloween season, all right, as you know. Oh, and
your birthday birthday, it's Lorena's birthday month.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
This is very saying, well me, I don't get a
birthday month.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You're too old for that.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Now.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
She's still happy.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You're not happy. She's excited about life. You're beaten by.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Why you should try and make me happy.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I provide you amazing sports talk radio five nights a week.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
What more do you need?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Come on, hot takes? You know, just hit a button
and a hot take spits out of my mouth. Anyway,
why don't we leave it there? So I have a
long segment. That's just the appetizer. It's asked Ben, Your
questions are answers. It rolls on and on and on.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Fuck this,
fuck that, fuck all of it. Puck the World with
Eddy Garcia.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
We are one day away from the start of the
NHL season. Oh my god, the first game of the year.
It's one of those overseas games that we've seen leagues
do lately. In Prague in the Czech Republic, on October
the fourth, New Jersey Devils against the Buffalo Sabers. It's Friday,
two pm Eastern time here, and that would be tomorrow. Ay, yeah, yeah,
I just looked at my phone.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yeah, that's what you said. One day away The first
North American regular season games will.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Be next week on October the eighth.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
October eighth, If case.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Plain that night, will you be out at the arena
in skid rowdown.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
They're opening up on a seven game road trip.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Really, why else a long road trip? I think going
back to East it's better to get.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
There they are they started off in Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
No, it's good to get the East Coast road games
out before the weather.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Term is nasty. That's good, that's fair. The NHL and
NHL Players Association expected to begin talks on a new
collective bargaining agreement early in twenty twenty five. Commissioner Gary
Bedman says the NHL salary cap for season expected to
be around ninety two point five million. That's up four
point five million from the eighty eight million this season contracts.
Stand up Boston, in Boston, Oh yeah, call out Jeremy Swayman.
(33:13):
Reaching a new level of contentiousness. They went public. Bruins
president Cam Neely said at a press conference, I know I
have sixty four million reasons why I'd be playing right
now talking about I'll touch that. I'll take Swayman's agent,
Lewis Gross took to social media say that that sixty
four million was never offered Bruins and reportedly offered him
a sixty two point four million while he's looking for
(33:35):
sixty eight million, So they're closed who think they'll get
it done? But there already said the Bruins have said, uh,
Jonas Corposalo is there going to starting goalie for the
beginning of the season, so it's going to extend into
the regular season. He will not be ready to go.
Columbus Blue Jackets, of course, lost star player Johnny Gudrou
in the offseason tragic accident, killed by a drunk driver
while he was biking with his brother. One of the
(33:55):
financial realities is now that the Blue Jackets, his old team,
doesn't have that nine point seventy five million cap hit
because of drow, so they're actually under the sixty five
million dollar salary cap floor. So then he had players
to reach the four all they do, and because of that,
the NHL and the NHLPA told the team they did
(34:16):
not have to comply reaching the salary cap floor once
the season starts, which all the other teams have to do.
So they're giving him a rare special exemption and appropriate
for sure. LA King's veteran defenseman Drew Dowdy going to
be out ten to fourteen weeks after a ankle surgery
for the ankle went awkwardly into the boards in a
preseason game against Vegas. Montreal Canadians Ford Patrick Line escaped
(34:39):
a serious knee injury ne on knee collision in a
game against the may Poleice, but he's still going to
be out two to three months. His teammate David Ryan
Bucker going to miss five to six months after knee searchery.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Do you have your standard bet with Andy the comic
book Guy and the Sabers making the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (34:54):
He still needs to pay off his bet from last year.
He has failed to do.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
That yet thirteen straight seasons, right, they haven't made the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Four teams track so many. San Jose Sharks forward and
number one overall pick Maclin Celabrini picked up a scare
in a preseason game, went down crashing the boards, but
they're saying he escaped any serious injury day to day
lower body injury, so he's fine. Speaking of Andy the
comic book Guy, I'm sure he cares about this Buffalo
Sabers named Rasmus Dallen as their new captain for this
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coming season. And since it is the final Puck the
World Report before the start of the season, it's time
for my NHL predictions.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
NHA prediction. Coop's excited.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Look she's doing her dance moods man a lot.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Oh my god, are we lucky to be alive?
Speaker 5 (35:43):
All right, mark it down and then forget if I'm wrong.
Your Stanley Cup Finals will feature no, no, god, no,
the Dallas.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Stars come on and you'll suck up those against the
New York Rangers. Not a range.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
We don't need the Rangers in there. Come on, stale
like winners, the Dallas Stars.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I'm going Vancouver Canucks versus the Toronto Maple Leafs. That's
what I'm going with, right there, Boob done.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Huh Well, we would would be assured of having a
Canadian Cup winner for the first time.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
That's the only way we need two Canadian Edmonton or whoever,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Get two Canadian team.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
I think it's gonna be the Yettie the YETI
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Yes, gott Gill Lorraino that jersey once it officially comes out,
and that's your Puck the World Report
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from October Baseball, and for the purposes of this show,
(01:51):
we're going to start in our little world where it
matters most, the American League side of the bracket and
the big story out of the own star state. And
if you didn't see it, perhaps not somebody named Andy Byes.
We don't really know who that is, but we like him.
Andyes hit a tie breaking three run double in a
(02:16):
four run eighth for the Detroit baseball team as the Tigers,
the Terrible Tigers sweet the cheating a.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Rows five to two of the final in Game two.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Da da da.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Hey, goodbye, you cheating a holes, you losers, ha done
what a waste two games at out, you pathetic pieces
of crap, the a holes from Houston.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh, it was so good.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I don't even know half these guys are the Tigers are,
but I like him, and I don't like it as
much because A Hinch, the manager of the Tigers, is
the old the astro trash there, but another no name,
Parker Meadows. Parker is our fake name. Parker medals, Yeah homework.
Detroit ending a run of seven consecutive appearances.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
In the America.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Houston's run is over from Detroit winning the seven consecutive
American League Championship Series appearances. So Detroit will play the
Cleveland Guardians and a matchup not made for television in
the American League Divisional Series, and the winner of that
matchup will go to the Final four of the American League.
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But the better story is in the losing locker room.
It's always a great day. We always look forward to
this day. You just you're happy. You don't really know
why you're happy. You you're just happy. It's just good.
It's just good all the way around. So how did
you react to the cheating eh Stros meekly being eliminated
(04:07):
from the postseason.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So I've got feline Tim Allen.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And secret recipe, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice vacation.
Because you're on vacation, No need to worry about baseball
if you're an astro until sometime in February when spring
training gets underway. But my first thought here after I
(04:33):
was watching from the comfort of the mal or sofa there,
enjoying the festivities and a little concern maybe the Tigers
would gag here and into some offense there late to
turn the game around. I had to sound off because
I hate most of these broadcasts, just so I had
to sound off. I would classify my reaction as I
(04:54):
was singing.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Nana, Nana good bye.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
As I was doing that, I would classify it as
a feline like reaction, or go, that's the cat's mew.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Right there, that's the cats mew.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And I had a cheshire cat smile from ear to
ear on my I was so happy. I was, ah,
this is great man. We only get this day once
a year. It's so much fun. I wish we could
do it more than once. Maybe we can have like
double triple elimination. So good, right, Really a good day
for baseball fans, not baseball itself. Because they insulated and
(05:30):
protected the cheating a holes. They protected them. They're still
protecting them to this day. Rob manfraud the commissioner. But
the team from Houston losing their mojo, and I guess
they've got an upgrade and talk about trash cans and buzzers,
and they've got to get better contraband there in Houston.
But they're jumped the Shark moment. I was actually texting
(05:52):
a friend of mine does radio back East. We were
going back and forth like the jump to Shark moment
was when we had public nudity from this baseball team.
That was it. It was all over. It happened in
San Diego late in the season regular season when Jose
Albouve thought he was a Chippendales dancer there and did
a strip tease showing his ugly, disgusting toes and taking
(06:18):
his sock off like some kind of Neanderthal. Now, it
is a crying shame that the Astros, with all of
these playoff games have not won a championship in franchise history,
no World Series to show for all the cheating and
all of this. It really is a crime shame. I
(06:38):
think we can agree on that now. Page two here,
following the extermination of the Houston baseball team.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
How great is it that they're done. They're done. We've
killed the monster. They're dead.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So cheater, Jose alboove, the little fella, Jose alboo ooovey
now he urged, urged publicly the cheating asstros to pay back.
In his words, fellow cheat Alex Bregman, you know the
guy with the punchable face of their Bregman, Yeah, saying
(07:15):
make him stay was the quote from al Booby.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
So what does that tell you? What does that tell you?
Where that signal to you?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So for me, my my position is Houston obviously is
at a crossroads. It's it's not quite working the same
as it did work there for a while. And al Tuve,
he's he's got a small problem. He never has a
big problem. Every problem he has is a small problem.
But he's over in the corner of the room, biting
his fingernails. He's having anxiety here, Altuve, and he's having anxiety.
(07:47):
Is concerned that he's going to become Tim Allen from
the remake of The Last Man Standing. And he didn't
want that. I didn't want that. And now we believe
he has a little to worry about. Reason being for
a guy like Alex Bregman, who's a pending free agent
and all these other miserable cheaters. That's a member of
(08:07):
Congress who nicknamed them miserable cheaters. Congressman from Nebraska, I
believe back in the day anyway. So for Bregman and
these other guys in Houston that are still tied to it,
the Astros, that's their safe space, you see, that's their
safe space there. Bregman has tangibly less value in every
(08:30):
other Major League Baseball city, because every other Major League
Baseball fan base would be like, we want with that guy?
Why we want that guy? Guy's a punk? Want that
got our team?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And there's also no other fan base that is morally
bankrupt quite like the Houston Astro fan base. There a
bunch of dopes that supported that crap with no punishment.
All right, last word here, Well, quickly skidaddle to the
other side of the ale bracket where Bobby Witt Junior
has now passed my trout by in career postseason RBIs
(09:03):
as he hustled, he beat out an infield single and
drove in the go ahead run and the Royals have
saying turn.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Out the lasts. The parties over for the Orioles.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
They're done two to one the final at Camden Yards
two games sweep AROOO.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Question for the esteem.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Panel are the Gunner Henderson Orioles going to be tormented
by losing yet again in the playoffs. So I'm nodding
my head, Yes, I believe that to be the case
here and Baltimore.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
They are not.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Paper tigers, they're paper birds, bird brains this time of
the year, here in this era, this part of the
orient that they tanked for years to get all these
top players, and yet.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
They really are putting the o in oriole this time
of the year.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Was it ten straight playoff losses of the anemic offense.
Gunner Henderson, They're one of the big headliners on the
Oriols zero for seven in the series. Adlie Rushman one
for eight, Anthony Santander one for eight. Baltimore's all star roster,
their lineup of all stars suffered a malfunction of epic proportions.
(10:24):
They did the thing you can't do at the time
you can't do it. They sucked at a time you
can't suck. There's no other way.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
To say it.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Now, if you look at the way sports is operated
over the years, you would say something needs to change.
There's got to be some kind of change in Baltimore.
It's not working that they're fine during the regular season
and then when all the chips are on the line,
they get down on their hands and knees and say,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Know what to do.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I have no idea, but I would say, don't hold
your breath in Baltimore. And here's why it is the
prototype of modern baseball drives me nuts as someone that
grew up in an era where if you didn't perform well,
you were held accountable and you were fired. Manager was fired,
people were traded. That's not the way baseball's run today.
(11:12):
And it's because of the nerds. The nerds took over
and it's the modern baseball. You've got the cousins of
the nerds who run the Dodgers and the Yankees are
in charge of the Orioles in Maryland. Now, in the
previous generation, a guy like Brandon Hyde, the manager in Baltimore,
(11:33):
would be whacked. Now, Nah, buzzwords are used there, stability
and sustainability.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
That those are the ones that matter, not accountability.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It's sustainability and stability, not accountability. And the person that
let us know what's really going on with these teams
that don't hold anyone accountable was, of all people, Jerry Depoto,
the GM of the Seattle Mary owners who said, in
a moment of weakness, he took a lot of crap
for this because he said the quiet part out loud.
(12:05):
But he said this a couple of years ago. I
said that the secret recipe of nerd ball. He gave
it away. He gave all the spices, all the eleven
herbs and spices away for the secret recipe. And it's
never go all in. You never go in. No, no,
no no. The goal every year is to win fifty
four percent of your games. He said it, he said
(12:25):
Marriners Jim said, this is all these teams are using
the same same playbook, right, whin fifty four percent of
your games? Do you do that over ten years of time?
And almost always you're going to make the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Almost every year you'll be in contention.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
You'll sell a lot of tickets, a lot of hot dogs,
a lot of popcorn, a lot of beer. Right, people
me engaged, there'll be no apathy. So fifty four percent
of your games you can win. That you'll make the
playoffs most year, some years you won't. You'll find yourself
in the World Series, and at some point you're going
to win the World Series. More likely than not over
ten years. That is the secret recipe. That's what all
(13:01):
these teams are doing. And so the oars are like, well,
Brandon Hidees just a middle manager like Dave Roberts or
Aaron But I'd be very surprised if he gets fired
because I'll just hire someone else that does the same thing.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So what's the point of firing him?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
You want again the.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Buzzwords stability and sustainability.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
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be an oviva los VICKI a fan of that, So
our lead this hour will stick to baseball. We talked
about the al side of the bracket in a previous hour.
If you miss that, the podcast will be up shortly
after we get done and you can download that and
hear all the fun of that hour. But our lead
this hour is from the other half of the bracket
(14:41):
in Wisconsin and the dramatic moment of the day, and
one of them, there was one in Houston, but the
other one was in the National League bracket, and that
would be involving the New York match looking to close
out the Brewers and advance onto Philadelphia.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
As two of them most annoying fan.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Basis could duke it out playdate with the Phillies on
the line. Mets win, they advance, Mets lose, they have
to play an elimination game later on on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
So how did that go? Well?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Jackson Churio said, you know what, I'd like to play
another game. He tied the game in the eighth inning
with his second homer of the night, and someone named
Garrett Mitchell don't know who that is, but Garrett Mitchell
had a two run shot later in that same eighth inning,
a dramatic plot twist. As now, the Brewers end up
(15:36):
winning five to three over the New Yorkers, and that
means that everything's even up. Best of three, one to
one Wildcard round. The teams will play decisive Game three
on this night to night Thursday night here in Wisconsin,
and I believe it will go head to head with
(15:57):
the NFL Thursday Night game. So we'll see what happens
with that. Will anyone be watching the baseball'll be trying
to flip back and forth. But the brew crew, I'm
going to try to become the first team to rally
and win this best of three wild Card series after
losing the opener. Major League Baseball went to this format
(16:18):
just a few years ago in twenty twenty two, and
the Brewers can be the first team that has been
able to come back. All the games being played in Wisconsin.
So let us discuss the question who gets the finger
of blame for the New York Mets.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Blowing a lead late?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So I've got the Duke presidential and spam and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a pencil, a number two pencil with
a nice eraser on. That's what we're gonna make.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
So number.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Yeah is easy.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
There's one person that gets to wear the dunce cap.
You point the finger at that one person, the finger
of blame, and that would be a relief pitcher, a
journeyman vagabond relief pitcher named Phil Maydan. He was on
the mound there, the former cheating astro. He's bounced all
over the place around baseball Cleveland, Tampa Bay. But he
(17:21):
did play on the A holes when they were in
the World Series a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
But here's looking at you, kid.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Okay, this guy came in there, and Phil Maton came
in there, and he was the Duke, the Duke of
puke on the mound as all over his uniform. Now
we had to call her last hour from this lunatic
from New Jersey who now lives in Florida, who's like, well,
you should just use a different picture of every evening.
Of course, that's great if no one has food poisoning,
(17:47):
has a bad breakfast, and everyone's in a good frame
of mind and all that. But it's the age old
problem we have in baseball, that no one has machismo anymore.
It's a conga line of relief. He fetches one after another.
Everyone does it. You know, everyone's doing it. All it
takes is one guy to not be feeling it right.
(18:08):
The algorithms are off a little bit for that particular guy,
and all of a sudden, you have what happened. Things
go haywire. Good news for Milwaukee, bad news for the
New York Metropolitans, who are now in an elimination situation
right now. So who's got more pressure? Game five Thursday, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Who's got more pressure? The Mets or the Brewers. So,
after eight minutes long review of this particular matchup, the
scales are squarely pointing to the Metropolitans and it's not
even close.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
The Mets people don't realize this because they think the
Dodgers had the highest payroll, and ever, the.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Dodgers deferred a bunch of money, So.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Technically the New York Metropolitans had the highest payroll in
baseball three hundred and seventeen million dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
They're also the.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Number one medium media market, led by hedge fund Robert Baron,
Steve Cohen. The Brewers, on the other hand, are twenty
first in the money game, if you're into such things here,
and they're just happy that their cheese curds are hot,
and they're playing with house money once they lost that
first game, even though the games are in their home ballpark,
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they're playing with house money. So the Mets here they
have the curse of the tight Touki syndrome, and the
pressure's on them going into an elimination elimination game. And
usually the team that scores first in an elimination game,
the other team starts panicking, they get that flop sweat
and it's on like Donkey Kong. They're gonna need a defibrillator.
(19:47):
We'll see if that's the case in this game. Now
page two. Here to Sunday Ago, we go the other
half of the National League Wild Card bracket, and that
is where Manny Machutto had a two run double and
Action Merrill.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
He also had a two run triple, five run rally
against Max Freed or Fried as he looked at the
end of the year for the Bravos there and all
of that with not one but two outs in the
second inning, and good afternoon, good evening, and good night
for Atlanta. The Padres hold on by the skin on
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their chinny chin chin. They sweeped the Braves five to
four the final in game two of the nationallygue wild
card round.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So bye bye. So what is the story?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
We know the better stories in Atlanta, But what is
the story for the twenty twenty four Braves. Here where
we at on the twenty twenty four Braves, Well, this
one's not that hard, Atlanta. I'm not giving them a
pass on my score card. The guys that were the
backups who got them into the playoffs, they malfunction.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
They did not get it done here. They failed.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
The secondary players failed, But Max Freed is not a
secondary player. It's the other flotsam and jetsam on the
Atlanta Braves that were not good enough. Now that said, overall,
the baseball world will give out. Well, I'm not giving
it out. The baseball world will give the Atlanta Braves
a presidential pardon, a federal pardon. And here's why. If
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you look back to opening day in late March early April,
the Atlanta Braves ten players on the field, the nine players,
the eight position players, plus the Pitcher plus the DH.
Six of the ten on the opening day lineup for
the Braves this year missed at least two months and
some of them are out now. Chris Sale not on
the playoff roster, he out, he's gone, Ronald Lacuda Junior
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missing most of the year, Spencer Streider out, Austin Riley
missed a bunch of time as well. Those are the
name band players. The secondary guys didn't get it done.
But Max Freed was supposedly a headline type guy. You've
heard of him. He had that mass of performance in
the World Series against the cheating a Holes a couple
of years back, and you had zippo zero on the
(22:07):
mount Now final point. Many of you have asked my
thoughts on the upcoming National League Divisional Series Western Edition,
Western Edition, Western, the Mississippi, the Pod Squad. They hit
up I five now for a matchup with shohe Oh,
Tony the Gambling Man and the Doyers. The top seed
(22:27):
in all of Major League Baseball, the Dodgers here in
the Nation League Divisional Series that begins on Saturday Saturday
Saturday evening at Chavez Ravine. So who's got the edge? Question,
Who's got the edge Dodgers and Podrey's matchup in the
National League Divisional Series. So you might think, well, I've
(22:52):
been down on the Dodgers. I am down on the Dodgers,
but they'll still win this They're gonna win this series, right,
The Dodgers will win this series, all the way across
the board, and no excuses. I don't want to hear
about the tattered pitching staff and all that. You look
at who the Dodgers are sending out to the mound
in the first couple of games. They should win both
those games. Best of five series, best of five series.
(23:13):
You got Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the star from Japan, still waiting
for him to be a star in America, but he
was a big deal in Japa. He got paid a
bunch of money, bamboozl a bunch of money out of
the Dodgers to miss most of the year.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
So Yamamoto's on the mound.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And then Jack Flaherty also in those first two games,
some combination of Jack Flaherty and Yamamoto for the Dodgers.
Now after that it will mostly be a combination of
relief pitchers and walker Bueler. Bueler Buehler, that guy blows.
But playoff baseball right, playoff baseball. Odd things happen in
the playoffs. And the thing that I've learned over the
(23:49):
years because of the ruination of Baseball Nation, and this
is what happened. The starting pitching, Well, it's important. It's
it's how those other secondary actors, the spam filler players
on your roster performed. They're equally important. Sway baseball is
(24:10):
designed more now than ever. For reference, last October, the
starting pitchers in baseball were on the mound for fifty
two percent of all plate appearances. So it was like
a fifty two to forty eight split between starter and
relief pitcher. And all that matters, as we know, is
who performs well in the moment, and I will be
(24:33):
Benny Brightside. Dodgers have better players, they have better fans,
they have a better ballpark. And it's also time for
Mookie Bets to start earning that three hundred and sixty
five million dollar contract again. MOOKI has played like an
absolute Dingleberry the last couple of years. I went back
and looked the last two years in the playoffs, Mookie
(24:54):
Bets is batting eighty, which is I think a highway
somewhere in the Midwest hitting eighty Okay, how about Freddy
Freeman blah blah, vanilla ice cream, Freddy Freeman in the playoffs,
two fifty batting average as a Dodger in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
And then you have the great mystery of it all,
the Heela Monster in.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
The room show Haltani. Otani has been compared to Barry Bonds,
the impact that he has. We don't think he's doing steroids,
but who knows. But Barry Bonds often failed in October.
We don't know what Otani's going to do. He's never
had the stage, never had the opportunity. Is he built
(25:38):
for prime time? And is he going to be able
to elevate his play in these moments where he will
have opportunities The Dodgers. You assume we'll have chances with
the runners on and we'll see how this goes here.
But the Dodgers will beat the Padres and they'll play
in the Nation League Championship Series. But we'll see what happens.
Starting on Saturday Saturday, Saturday Saturday.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It's Mallard.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
This is one big.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Gets grall probo.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
So, Ben, you already said that you think the Titans
should be sticking with Mason Rudolph if they care about winning.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
It doesn't seem like they're gonna do that.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
It's a great take. Yeah, exactly, I love my take.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Do you think the Colts should stick with Joe Flacco?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I would rather If I'm a Colts fan, I would
rather see Joe Flacco out there because the defense and
the special teams, you can win enough to get into
the playoffs with that combination. And we've seen Joe Flacco,
who's not very good, play elite football in the playoffs,
not last year, but in years past.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So yeah, I would go that way.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I mean, it's not really much of Anthony Richardson is
the thirty second rate quarterback.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
The only quarterback worse is Bryce Young next.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Patrick Mahomes is the favorite to win MVP after four weeks.
Josh Allen isn't too far behind. But I think it's
safe to say that neither of these guys have been
mind blowing to start the season. Ben, are there any
long odds dark horses that you like for the award.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well, I Mahomes is the easy one because with all
these injuries, he'll get extra credit. I don't trust Sam Donald,
as I mentioned CJ. Stroud not playing as well as
he did last year. I would keep an eye on
Jayden Daniels and this thing seems real to me. I
would keep an eye on him with Washington because he's
he's the hot the hot guy and Cope, you always
love the hot guy.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
You told me that, right.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
What's next?
Speaker 7 (27:29):
The Lamar Jackson Derek Henry pairing looks like it's starting
to click, as the Ravens have won two in a
row and Henry is rushed for over three hundred and
fifty yards in the last two weeks. Ben, are they
the best two and two team in the league? Well,
they're the team that everyone's buzzing about.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Right. There's a bunch of teams to and too, but
Henry that win. They absolutely ran over as the Stampede
against the Buffalo Bills. They're the How about the top
regular season two and two team that you don't trust?
They're better than the Falcons and the Saints and then
the Cowboys and teams like that. But you still don't
trust them in the playoff because Lamar Jackson malfunctions in
(28:03):
the plus. But yet you asked me I during the
regular season. Sure, I'll agree with that. There it is
malol the third degree. How did we know you failed
this edition?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
That is a win.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I won the game, Thank you very much. That is
a win, my Jayden Daniels take. I won, Thank you.
It's a win.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
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Speaker 1 (28:29):
Nor wait ask bad Twitter said?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is your questions on Twitter?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Nah?
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Your questions are answers? Been in friends? And what's worst?
Hoople loop the reading of the question.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
All right, We're gonna start with a question from Alf,
the alien opiner hi Alf. He wants to know for everybody,
do you ever eat food that tastes bad or is
cooked wrong just because you paid for it?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I thought he was going to ask you about was
at someone else's house. I have eaten bad food. If
I'm a guest at someone's house, I'll like try to
eat it. I'll put a lot of it, like I'll
spit into my napkin, but it'll look like I'm eating it.
But if I pay for the food and it sucks,
I'm going to get the food replaced. So I I
don't have I'll probably do that any Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
I concur with that. I think I used that move
when I was.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
A kid sitting.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Yeah, and I don't think I've done it as an adult.
But yeah, if I get bad, bad food that I'm
paying for, I'm getting that replaced.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
I mean it's harder in money. We get paid by
the word day God with costs.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Of particular food and price increases.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah, what about.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
You, right?
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie guys. I'm kind of a
pushover sometime. So I was at Bunn Street the other
day and I got my peanut butter jelly bacon burger.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I've been to bun Street burger place, always good, but
Gabriel Valley, this burger was.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
I tasted.
Speaker 9 (30:00):
It tasted like it was burnt, and I through the
first path and then when she came over, she is
everything great. I'm like, oh, it's so good, and I'm
literally choking it down.
Speaker 8 (30:11):
It's so bad.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
I even took it to go box and I threw
it away when I got home.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
You didn't give it to a homeless person something.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
Man, No, no one deserves that.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Really, Oh Mankopolop.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
So I'm kind of the same as Lorena.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
I just I if it's really really bad, then I will,
you know, have it replaced.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
But it has to be pretty bad for me to
do that.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Otherwise I'll just be like, well, this is a bummer,
and I'll just eat it until.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I'm full of money, time and money, right, And you
only get a certain number of meals in your life
before you croak, so you want to make them count.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
You want to enjoy those meals.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
I'm going to say that next time my food sucks.
You know, I only have so many meals.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Before I fine out.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
At some point I'm gonna kick the bucket and I
want to have a good meal.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Morbid.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, all right, but that's your fault from earlier. It
is Halloween season, all right, as you know. Oh, and
your birthday birthday, it's Lorena's birthday month.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
This is very saying, well me, I don't get a
birthday month.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You're too old for that.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Now.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
She's still happy.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You're not happy. She's excited about life. You're beaten by.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Why you should try and make me happy.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I provide you amazing sports talk radio five nights a week.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
What more do you need?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Come on, hot takes? You know, just hit a button
and a hot take spits out of my mouth. Anyway,
why don't we leave it there? So I have a
long segment. That's just the appetizer. It's asked Ben, Your
questions are answers. It rolls on and on and on.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Fuck this,
fuck that, fuck all of it. Puck the World with
Eddy Garcia.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
We are one day away from the start of the
NHL season. Oh my god, the first game of the year.
It's one of those overseas games that we've seen leagues
do lately. In Prague in the Czech Republic, on October
the fourth, New Jersey Devils against the Buffalo Sabers. It's Friday,
two pm Eastern time here, and that would be tomorrow. Ay, yeah, yeah,
I just looked at my phone.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
Yeah, that's what you said. One day away The first
North American regular season games will.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Be next week on October the eighth.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
October eighth, If case.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Plain that night, will you be out at the arena
in skid rowdown.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
They're opening up on a seven game road trip.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Really, why else a long road trip? I think going
back to East it's better to get.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
There they are they started off in Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
No, it's good to get the East Coast road games
out before the weather.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Term is nasty. That's good, that's fair. The NHL and
NHL Players Association expected to begin talks on a new
collective bargaining agreement early in twenty twenty five. Commissioner Gary
Bedman says the NHL salary cap for season expected to
be around ninety two point five million. That's up four
point five million from the eighty eight million this season contracts.
Stand up Boston, in Boston, Oh yeah, call out Jeremy Swayman.
(33:13):
Reaching a new level of contentiousness. They went public. Bruins
president Cam Neely said at a press conference, I know I
have sixty four million reasons why I'd be playing right
now talking about I'll touch that. I'll take Swayman's agent,
Lewis Gross took to social media say that that sixty
four million was never offered Bruins and reportedly offered him
a sixty two point four million while he's looking for
(33:35):
sixty eight million, So they're closed who think they'll get
it done? But there already said the Bruins have said, uh,
Jonas Corposalo is there going to starting goalie for the
beginning of the season, so it's going to extend into
the regular season. He will not be ready to go.
Columbus Blue Jackets, of course, lost star player Johnny Gudrou
in the offseason tragic accident, killed by a drunk driver
while he was biking with his brother. One of the
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financial realities is now that the Blue Jackets, his old team,
doesn't have that nine point seventy five million cap hit
because of drow, so they're actually under the sixty five
million dollar salary cap floor. So then he had players
to reach the four all they do, and because of that,
the NHL and the NHLPA told the team they did
(34:16):
not have to comply reaching the salary cap floor once
the season starts, which all the other teams have to do.
So they're giving him a rare special exemption and appropriate
for sure. LA King's veteran defenseman Drew Dowdy going to
be out ten to fourteen weeks after a ankle surgery
for the ankle went awkwardly into the boards in a
preseason game against Vegas. Montreal Canadians Ford Patrick Line escaped
(34:39):
a serious knee injury ne on knee collision in a
game against the may Poleice, but he's still going to
be out two to three months. His teammate David Ryan
Bucker going to miss five to six months after knee searchery.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Do you have your standard bet with Andy the comic
book Guy and the Sabers making the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (34:54):
He still needs to pay off his bet from last year.
He has failed to do.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
That yet thirteen straight seasons, right, they haven't made the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Four teams track so many. San Jose Sharks forward and
number one overall pick Maclin Celabrini picked up a scare
in a preseason game, went down crashing the boards, but
they're saying he escaped any serious injury day to day
lower body injury, so he's fine. Speaking of Andy the
comic book Guy, I'm sure he cares about this Buffalo
Sabers named Rasmus Dallen as their new captain for this
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coming season. And since it is the final Puck the
World Report before the start of the season, it's time
for my NHL predictions.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
NHA prediction. Coop's excited.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Look she's doing her dance moods man a lot.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Oh my god, are we lucky to be alive?
Speaker 5 (35:43):
All right, mark it down and then forget if I'm wrong.
Your Stanley Cup Finals will feature no, no, god, no,
the Dallas.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Stars come on and you'll suck up those against the
New York Rangers. Not a range.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
We don't need the Rangers in there. Come on, stale
like winners, the Dallas Stars.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I'm going Vancouver Canucks versus the Toronto Maple Leafs. That's
what I'm going with, right there, Boob done.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Huh Well, we would would be assured of having a
Canadian Cup winner for the first time.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
That's the only way we need two Canadian Edmonton or whoever,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Get two Canadian team.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
I think it's gonna be the Yettie the YETI
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Yes, gott Gill Lorraino that jersey once it officially comes out,
and that's your Puck the World Report
Host
Ben Maller
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