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not call the show, who are Yankee fans, who some
of you know who you are. We're sending me messages
prior to the World Series and even after games won,
and surprisingly Game two of the World Series telling me
that the Dodgers were going to be terrible in New York,
they were not going to do well at all. I
didn't get any follow up Emal. I'm sure those are coming.
Maybe they're waiting till tomorrow. I don't know. But our

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lead this hour is from the Bronx zoo. Oh what
a grand stage there, the Big Apple. If you can
make it there, you can make it anywhere. Game three
of the World Series, on a chilly night in the
Big Apple, the hobbled Shohei Otani and the Doyers up
to oh now, John Smoltz pointed out on the Fox broadcast,

(02:33):
and he was there with Joe Davis. John Smoltz pointed
out that while it was not a must win game
for the Yankees, it really was a must win game
for the Yankees right fall classic Aaron Judge home, you'll
fall behind three games to none, and the fat ladies
warming up out in the bullpen and she's not throwing
the baseball, if you know what I'm saying. All right,

(02:54):
So if you did not watch, and maybe you're watching
the football game, I was able to watch both. I
was called multitask. It's called multitasking. So if you didn't
see it. Freddie Freeman, a guy that went over a
month without a home run near the end of the season,
and all of a sudden, he is the spark plug.

(03:15):
He is going to be immortalized forever as the World
Series Most Valuable Player. The way this is going as
Freddie Freeman sparking the LA offense, he had again homeward
for a third straight game, two run shot to get
the Dodgers out of the gates. And then Walker Buehler,
who was absolute dog food when he came back from

(03:38):
the second Timmy John surgery of the season. If you
had told me that Walker Buehler would be this good
in the playoffs, considering how he had pitched the regular season,
I've said, your nuts, you don't know what you're talking about.
Your loser, and yet here we are. Yeah, here we are.
Walker Buehler did a good job of a bullpen. There
was one little glitch at the end there, but other
than that, mostly silent from af You tile New York

(04:01):
Yankee offense and the Yankees. Now I've done the math.
I've done the mal of math. The Yankees have nine
hits in the last two games. That's not good. I
didn't play baseball, but that's not good. And three extra
base hits, one of them that home run by Verdugo
in the ninth inning, but the game was all but
over at that point. They've also also struck out a
bunch eleven strikeouts in the game on Monday, four of

(04:24):
them looking, four of them looking. And so the Dodgers
find themselves now three games to none. Now, you don't
win the World Series when you win three games. You
do not. And the Dodgers do not have all the momentum.
There is no such thing as momentum. I'm not gonna
sit here and tell you the Dodgers have all the momentum.
They don't. But they're up three all they only need
to play well one of the next four games, and

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they are atop the mountain of Major League Baseball. Now,
this is not going to be as impressive of the
as far as the championship has committed to twenty twenty,
which was the hardest championship ever in the middle of
a global pandemic in a different type of baseball season.
But this will shut up a lot of you losers,
okay that are out there, and that's that's nice. That's
always nice. So let us discuss the question who gets

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the biggest slice of the authentic New York Blame pizza
for the Yankees. So I've got jeans, wail of a tail,
and launching pad, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice
tropical vacation, which is where your favorite Yankee players will

(05:32):
be soon enough, on a nice tropical vacation. So my
first thought here is, you gotta give right off the
top half the pie, the entire New York, authentic New
York Blame pizza pie. You gotta give half of it
to Aaron Judge. He's the franchise, he's the forever Yankee,

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and he's living up to the nickname that Hack writer
John Hayman gave him Arson Judge because it has been
ours in the postseason for Aaron Judge time and again,
and it was supposed to be different. You talk about
false advertising, a chance to turn around the narrative, and
that old line Reggie Jackson had back in the day

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is as long you got a bat in your hand,
you have a chance to turn the story around. Well,
Aaron Judge had a chance, and he still has a
little bit of a chance. It's not completely completely over,
but it's all but over at this point, and instead
he is confirmed. It's confirmation bias if you will that

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his name is synonymous with Dave Winfield, who was known
when he played for the Yankees as mister May. It
was a derogatory nickname that the old boss, George Steinberner
gave Dave Winfield. Now George Steinberg walking through that door.
He's dead, but his kids don't have the same gusto. Right,
If the kids had the same fire as George Steinbrenner,

(06:57):
then Aaron Judge would have all kinds of monikers on
his name. And until proven otherwise, so he is mister May.
He's got defective genes. I have determined he's lacking the
clutch ginge. Now what is my evidence, Judge in twelve
World Series at bats is hitting eighty three, which I
believe is an interstate in the Midwest. He's hitting eighty three,

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where he's one for twelve in the World Series with
seven strikeouts. He's hitting one forty with twenty strikeouts in
the postseason altogether. And if you look at the big
picture from thirty thousand feet up in the sky, the
presumptive twenty twenty four American League Most Valuable Player is
a lifetime one ninety six hitter. He's under the Mendoza

(07:41):
line with fifteen home runs, thirty one RBIs, and eighty
six strikeouts in his postseason career. Anyway you slice it,
you're getting some poo with Aaron Judge. That's a reality.
But wait, there's more so page two here, Where do
the Yankees go from now? For now, I mean the
Yankees are down three games to none and all that,

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and the series is not over. They still have to
play again on Tuesday. It'll be on Fox. So for
the Yankees, where do the Yankees go from here? Well,
it's a whale of a tail, the old whale of
a tail. So if you're approaching this measurably, you would say, Okay,
how do you eat a whale one bite at a time.

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The Dodgers are a blue whale right now, the biggest
whale out there. They take up half the ocean, the
Dodgers massive whale. And so you want to eat that whale.
You got to get one bite of blubber at a time,
one delicious bite of blubber, and chew on that blubber.
And Dave Roberts, now, I'll tell you this, Dave Roberts
has given the Yankees a lifeline. I do not like this.

(08:47):
I hope it works out for the Dodgers, but I
do not like it. Sam I am. I do not
these fugazy bullpen games. I cannot stand them. So you
start with that. If you're the Yankees, now, then I
would have Alex Dugo walk around the New York Yankee
Clubhouse there in the stadium burning sage, bring out the
special smoke clouds, cleansing the area of the negative energy

(09:12):
and the evil spirits that are haunting the Yankees and
clear the way for the comeback. But the plan for
the Dodgers just keep on keeping on at this particular
point here, you finish the race. Be persistent, be determined.
Otani is a decoy like his dog. It looks like
he can't hit. It's fine. They can still win one
game without him. They won this game without him, even
though he was in the lineup. He walked one time,

(09:35):
but it's unlikely he's going to get a hit the
way he looked. So as long as he's in there,
that's fine. If you're persistent, you're determined here, you're gonna
win this thing. Probably not in four would be really
nice because the Mighty Yankees, all those championships and all
that championship pedigree for the New York Yankees. The Yankees
have been swept just three times in the World Series

(09:58):
by the twenty two New York Giants, but that doesn't
really count because there was a tie. Yeah, they had
ties back then, one hundred years ago, over one hundred
years ago. Nineteen sixty three Dodgers, the Doyers, the La
Variety of the Dodgers, and the nineteen seventy six Big
Red Machine, the Cincinnata Reds. That's it. So the Dodgers

(10:19):
have a shot, not a great one, because they're going
with a bullpen game. We call it spring training game,
but that's what they have. On Tuesday night, they get
to win. They sweep the Yankees out, and first time
the Yankees will have been swept in the World Series
since nineteen seventy six. And you normally say that that
would cost Aaron Boone his job, But this is again
not the kids. The kids are running the team here.

(10:41):
They're not as passionate as the old Steinbrenner clan. So
who knows now the last word and number of you
were fascinated by what happened before the game, and I
will try to describe to you what happened before the game,
because it's more of a visual thing there is audio.
Major League Baseball's marketing arm decided to send out Fat

(11:04):
Joe to entertain. That was their counter. If you remember,
at the earlier moment here in the World Series in LA,
they had ice Cube come out, and so the Fat
Joe's turned to hype up the crowd there at Yankee
Stadium before Game three, and he walked out and had
the mike and he was humming bars out there at

(11:24):
Yankee Stadium. And how did that go? So the way
I will answer that is that what I'm biased. I
obviously like the Dodgers and all that, but I would
argue that the effort was made, the success of that
effort did not actually did not happen. Now are the
conspiracy theories true, because the obvious one would be, Hey,

(11:44):
if you're gonna take somebody out there to just throw
some bars out, you'd get jay z Is. Now, there
were two theories going around the internet. One is that
jay Z is too big a star to be bothered
to go to a baseball game. The other is he's
too toxic now because he's tied to Diddy and that
there might be some funny business coming out about jay Z.
I don't know if any of that's true, but you

(12:05):
would think you'd try to get if you're baseball, wouldn't
you try to get jay Z rather than Fat Joe
to do that? But they had Fat Joe out there,
who now looks like ose empic Joe. He's lost the
fair amount of wait. Good for him, but baseball. It
shows you that not every idea needs to be following
through on. Because baseball was all excited, they got some

(12:26):
great pr people were praising them. Ice Cube absolutely nailed
it when he was walking through the and the outfield
down to home play at Dodger Stadium. I mean he
absolutely nailed it right. I mean everyone with the place
was buzzing. People were praising major League Baseball. Oh my god,
this guy was great. What a great day. And then
you had Fat Joe, who they're trying to piggyback Fat

(12:46):
Joe on ice Cube and he went out there after
this critically acclaimed performance and he was on the launching
pad Fat Joe, and it's tough, Max, because I love
fat guys. And he's fat. Although he's lost a lot
of weight, he's always known as fat, and so Fat
Joe's on the launching pad ready to take off, and
it was a dud failure to launch for Fat Joe.

(13:07):
It turns out the sequel is not the equal and underperformance,
much like the Yankees. That was an omen of things
to come there as hey, he looks good. He's a
tiny Joe, not fat Joe. He's tiny Joe. He lost weight.
Whatever he's doing there looks marvelous, much better than his performance.

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And that set the stage for the Yankees to go
out there and Clark Schmidt gets stomped on by the
Dodgers and that Yankee pitching. He told me, the Yankee
said better pitching. That's why they play the games. And
that's a reminder that the stats tell you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. It was very erratic, the

(13:49):
Yankee starting pitching, very erratic. The bullpen has been patchy,
and as a result, the Dodgers, the good guys, are
up three games to none in the World's be.

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Speaker 1 (14:09):
Just waiting for the meltdown. Well, come in the beginning
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from Alleghany County in Pennsylvania, the City of Bridges the
backdrop to the final game of Week eight of the

(15:18):
NFL Card It came to an end while we were
all watching the World Seriesly for some reason had a
primetime NFL game on that I flipped over to. You
had Daniel Jones and the Dog and Pony Show. That
are the New York Giants. I'm old enough to remember
the Giants occasionally had good teams. It's been so long,
It's been so long, So the Giants, Dog and Pony
Show visited a real dog. Russell Wilson and the Steelers

(15:41):
in the made for TV Monday night football matchup. While
the Dodgers were pummeling the pathetic Yankees, this game was
being played, and I don't know if you were watching
this or not, maybe maybe watched the baseball game instead,
But I was flipping back and forth someone named Calvin
Austin who to look up his Pro Football reference page.

(16:02):
Calvin Austin had a seventy three yard punt return for
a touchdown. He also had a twenty nine yard over
the shoulder catch. As these Steelers got by a one
score game, they did cover the spread, but they beat
the Giants twenty six to eighteen. On Monday Night, Pittsburgh

(16:22):
improoves to six and two, and they have now won
twenty two consecutive home games under the Monday night football lights,
twenty two consecutive. The better story, though, is in the
losing locker room, and so that is where we begin.
Let us discuss the question. The Giants were in this

(16:43):
game for the balance of the game. So what happened
to Daniel Jones and the Giants. I've got the jitterbug,
mcgiver and access code and we will combine allll of
these things together and we'll give you a headache. You

(17:03):
give us ten minutes, we'll give you a headache. So
nub Yeah. This game is a reminder that despite occasional
flashes of success, Daniel Jones is and will remain until
further notice, a stumble bum. That is what Dhaniel Jones is,

(17:28):
and that's what he was here. He's nothing more than
a tease, That's all he is.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
There.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Jones has all the tools. All the football people tell
us he's got all the ability you can make, all
the throws physically gifting, blah blah blah blah blah. Unfortunately,
all those tools and he's a toolbag. That's what he
is right when it matters most case in point, the
Steelers team was plumb for the taken, right. They were

(17:56):
ready for the taken in this game. That was a
game that if they played a halfway decent opponent, Pittsburgh
would have lost that game at home. I was not
impressed with the Steelers at all in this game. And
yet it didn't matter in the end because you just
sit around and wait and the Giants in position, and
then it's like, all right, let's do the dance move,

(18:19):
and Daniel Jones is okay, I'm gonna do the jitterbug
where I'd take one step forward and two steps back,
and he does it all the time. What is my evidence?
So Russell Wilson tried to hand the game to Pittsburgh
opponent to the Giants, to hand the game of Giants.
He fumbled late in the game. He set the Giants

(18:39):
up great position. Moments later the Giants who thought, well,
go down and score a touchdown here and it's gonna
be a brand new ballgame. And moments after Russell Wilson
tried to hand the ball to the Giants, TJ. Watt
then said, oh, I take the ball back, and he did.
He strips sacked Daniel Joneses, the Giants quarterback there with

(19:01):
less than three minutes ago. That ended the New York
Drive deep in Pittsburgh territory. And then somehow this amazes me,
they got another opportunity, the Giants to play hero. And
did Daniel Jones take advantage? Well, you know he didn't
take advantage. They lost the game, but Daniel Jones instead
made a hero out of a defensive back name Beanie Bishop.

(19:25):
I have no idea who that is, but he picked
off Daniel Jones with forty two seconds left. Good afternoon,
good evening, and good night. So the Giants have been
running a replayed the same movie for five years now, Rinse,
wash and repeat. It's a horror show and it's the

(19:47):
same film every single year. That's what the Giants do. Now,
Page two. Here, how is Mike Tomlin feeling right about?

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Now?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
The Steelers? They won the game. They're off to their
best star in years at six and two. So how
is Tomlin feeling right about this moment? So, if you're Tomlin,
you've got to love it, because coaches love when you win.
But you don't look that good because you can then
read your team the riot act, and that is a
blemish performance by Pittsburgh. It is absolutely a blemish performance

(20:19):
by Pittsburgh. There is work to be done here. Now
they have the sweet smell of victory, which masks a
lot of the foul odor, that skunk smell around the Steelers.
But Tomlin, my advice is to use mcguiver like tactics
at this point. Get out your Swiss army knife and
some duct tape and save Pittsburgh. R whittle down around

(20:40):
the rough edges. Now what are those rough edges? What
are they? The Steelers had not one, not two, not three,
four trips to the red zone and did not score
a touchdown on those four trips of the red zone.
They were over four. Now, I didn't play in the NFL.
I just do an overnight tue. I don't think that's good.
It might being Oh, you're being too hard, you're being
too critical. Yeah, they had four trips and they didn't

(21:01):
score a touchdown on those four trips to the red zone.
They also allowed someone who I'd never heard of. I
guess this guy's out of Purdue, Tyrone Tracy running back
for the Giants, who looked like Tiki Barber running around
out there one hundred and forty five yards in a
touchdown before he got dinged up and knocked out of
the game. And then the Steelers needed to be bailed out,

(21:25):
not by the federal government but instead by somebody named
who is this guy? I'd never even heard of him,
who had the punt return for the touchdown and all that,
and then the twenty nine yard a touchdown reception. The
guy's like five to nine and I got one hundred
and thirty pounds. It looks like he's a little little fella.

(21:45):
A little fella out there, and he made two of
the biggest plays of the game. There for the Pittsburgh
Steelers as they get to win. Calvin Austen, of all
people five nights listed at one hundred and sixty, he
didn't look one hundred and sixty. And that is wacky
wacky wagon. That's not the kind of performance that will
be good enough to win a playoff game. That's not

(22:07):
the kind of performance that'll be good enough to win
a big regular season game against a good opponent. But
as long as you play teams like the Giants with
inferior suck bag quarterbacks like Daniel Jones. You'll be okay,
so you'll win a bunch of games and then but
you can't play like that in the playoffs. Now, final point,
we move away from the Monday night game and we
head now to Jersey. And the reason we head to

(22:29):
Jersey that is where the Giants and the Jets reside.
And in this case it's about the Giants the Jets,
the Giants rivals there in the New York area. Hassan Reddick.
Now remember this guy, defensive player pass rusher had held out,
finally agreed to terms with the Jets, ended his stalemate
and Reddick not a fan of Bill Belichick. Now how

(22:52):
do we know that. We know that because Hassan Reddick
responded to something Bill Belichick said after the Jets lost
to the Patriots. Belichick, who has eighteen media jobs, was
with his YouTube friend Pat McAfee and took shots at
the Jets. He says, just a lot of mistakes by

(23:13):
the Jets in that game. Talking about the game against
the Patriots, Hassan Reddick came in the game and just
ran by the quarterback multiple times, said Belichick. All right,
so somebody sent that to Hassan Reddick either that or
he's a fanboy of YouTuber Pat McAfee. Either way, he

(23:33):
saw it, and that prompted Reddick to respond on social media.
What did he say? He said, Hey, somebody called Bill Belichick,
he said, and give him a job. He wrote, seems
like he's home board and can't keep me out of
his mouth. Reddick opined, come up for air, why don't you?

(23:58):
Then he tossed in a no Diddy joke. I tossed
that in anyway. So where are you at on Hassan
Reddick responding to commentary by Bill Belichick, the criticism by
Bill Belichick? Where you're at on this? The jets of
Son Reddick? So I will go first and then you
can chime in on this if you want. I thought

(24:18):
the whole thing was hilarious. Right, you have given Bill
Belichick the access code. And by the way, that is
what Bill Belichick was doing. He was doing his job.
His job is as a pundit. That is his job.
He gets paid a lot of money to give opinions
about NFL teams and NFL players. So you've empowered the

(24:44):
commentary of Bill Belichick. Congratulations, right? And what happened to
the days with the players. I don't listen to the media.
I don't pay attention to what the media says. Yes,
we know that's not true. We know all these guys
listen to everything. And I know for a fact from
things I've said in the middle of the night when
everyone's sleeping, and yet gets reaction out of certain people

(25:07):
who are involved in these stories. They're always listening, right.
They all have rabbit ears. They hear everything, and Hassan
Reddick's a perfect example. He's listening to what Bill Belichick
has to say and all that. And we'd also like
to point out for those of you in the back
of the room, Hassan Reddick has more sacks on social

(25:28):
media this season than he does on the field, which
a slight problem. That's a slight problem. And if I
read the numbers right, I think he played about twenty
five or twenty six snaps defensively out of sixty seven
plays for the Jets, So even though he missed all
of the season, he was able to play only less

(25:49):
than half of the snaps for the Jets, which doesn't
seem that good. He had no tackles, so as many
tackles as I had, and just two quarterback pressures for
Hassan Reddick. At least, at least Bill Belichick has been
out there working, unlike Reddick, who has not been even
doing that.

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Speaker 4 (26:18):
This is one gets cool right Over the weekend, Vikings
wide receiver Jordan Addison shared a photo of himself on
Instagram with the caption three three earlier today or yesterday?
I guess he said people were just making a big
deal out of it. Yeah, Ben, do you think the
Vikings fans should be worried about turmoil behind the scenes?

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Absolutely, because this is how it always starts. It always
starts a subtle, passive, aggressive shot. Well what about me?
What about you? What about three three? You know I
wear number three? What about me? And you try to
downplay it, and eventually you get to a point where
you're like, you want to be the man, but you
can't be the man because you're not the man. You're

(27:00):
the number two man, You're not the number one man.
So this is an underlying condition to keep an eye on.
If you're in Minnesota, that's right if you're a Minnesota
Biking fan.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Next, the Falcons have won four of the last five
games and are now alone at the top of the
NFC South.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Do you think they will run away with the division? Well,
here's the way I talked about this on the TV
show last week, and I pointed out, thanks for watching, Coop,
that it's not because the Falcons are good, it's because
everyone else in the division sucks. New Orleans doesn't have
a quarterback, they have no defense, Tampa Bay lost their
top two receivers Danjery, Carolina is a powder puff football team.
By the process of elimination, the Atlanta Falcons are guaranteed

(27:41):
a playoff spot and a home playoff game. They're gonna
win the division. Next.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Shador Sanders has long been considered the top quarterback prospect
for the twenty twenty five draft class, but now some
are suggesting that Miami's Cam Ward could overtake him.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Do you think that'll happen? Well, only in the eyes
of guys who have to sell and get engagement on
social media. No, Sadar Sandals will be the top quarterback.
But that's not gonna stop mel Kiper and these other
guys from moving up and moving down the draft board
so they get people to click on their stories. How
did we do?

Speaker 4 (28:12):
That?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Is a win?

Speaker 5 (28:16):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Thank you? Any hy w.

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Speaker 1 (28:32):
Let's welcome in our contestants for the game, and let's
see who do we have. We have Dave in Boston's
gonna play. Hello, Dave, Welcome in, Dave. What are you
up to? You driving around? Where are you headed to? Dave?
Don't to work? What kind of work do you do? Dave?
Heavy construction? Heavy is not just regular construction. This is

(28:52):
manly construction, right, this is hair on your chest construction.
Right early, Yes, sir, damn right. We gotta get there early, right,
you get the you gonna get done. And yeah, all right,
you're gonna play the game. Hold on a second, who
do you want to partner up with? You got me, Ben,
Eddie or Coop? I got you this? Yeah? Thank god, Dave,
Thank god? All right, hold on, you're gonna play. Yeah.

(29:14):
You remember last week that I don't want to say
I was gonna rip the guy, but he said he
had a medical condition. Mike in Minneapolis. Hello, Mike, Hey,
good morning, Good morning to you. Mike. You're driving to
Are you going to work? Or are you at work?

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I am driving to the airport.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Oh you're driving there? Are you leaving town? Are you
picking somebody up?

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Unneapolis?

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Detroit?

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay? For work or for pleasure?

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Who do work?

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah? I know who goes to Detroit for pleasure? I know,
I know, I know, I know. I hear you. All right,
Uh well, very good, Mike. Before you get to the airport,
who do you want to partner up with? You got
Eddie or coop?

Speaker 5 (29:54):
Eddie?

Speaker 1 (29:55):
You want to lose? All right? Uh?

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Coop.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
On to the categories quickly.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Please, all right, gentlemen, this is Do's Mountain of Money,
the Joaquin Phoenix edition.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
He turned fifty years old on Monday. Oh, happy birthday.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
The categories are Return to Paradise, Gladiator, Walk the Line,
and Joker Dave.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
You were on first? Which category would you like?

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Gladiator?

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Gladiator? All right? And then Mike, how about.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
You walk the line?

Speaker 1 (30:20):
All right?

Speaker 5 (30:20):
Mine?

Speaker 1 (30:21):
All right? Everyone? Hold on, don't hang up, guys, and
you're driving, but hang on and we will have Malar's
Mountain of Money in its entirety. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
who Malor's Mountain of Money?

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Do you have what it takes to get to the top? Probably? Not?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
All right, let's do it right now. We welcome back
Dave in Boston. He's going to his very difficult construction job,
and he's teamed up with me. And we have Mike
in Minneapolis who's on his way to the airport to
head over to Detroit, but he's not going there for vacation,
because no one goes to Detroit for vacation.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
And he's teamed up with Eddie and Coop. Let's get
started here, all right. So Dave is up first, right, Yes,
Dave's up? All right, Dave, we have Gladiator. These late
round picks had to fight their way to the top.
We need the first and last name of the athlete.

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Forty five seconds begin.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
All right, Multiple MVP awards for the Denver Nuggets, nicknamed
the Joker, all right, yes, center for the Philadelphia Eagles.
He's now on ESPN. His brother is the tight end
of the Chiefs, yes wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He spoke for Donald Trump at the MAGA Rally. Played

(31:48):
for the Steelers. African American guy a little on the spectrum.
No star for the Spurs from Argentina in the glory
days when they kept winning champampionships. Guard for the Spurs.
Six man. How about this the Cobra MVP Baseball.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
I think that was a great job, Ben, Thank you.
You got thirty points there, so solid thirty.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
You did not know Antonio Brown, Manu Ginobili or the Cobra,
Dave Parker, all right.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
You probably shouldn't have even got the ten points for
Nikolay Jokis said it. He said it with he said
the Joker, which is kind of cheating, But that's.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Not his name. I'm okay with.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
Yeah, that's that's his name. We're gonna go overs to
the Joker. It's going over to Mike and Eddie. You
picked walk the line. These athletes were all born in
Arkansas forty Did.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
You do this for numb nuts there in Arkansas? Sore scratch?

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Oh no, it's because walk the line about Johnny Cash
and Johnny cash Is born in Arkansas.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Uh forty five seconds on the clock. Mike, are you ready?
I'm ready? All right?

Speaker 5 (33:00):
Begin Current owner and GM of the Dallas Cowboys, Michael
Jordan's right hand man with the Chicago Bulls. Hall of
Fame third baseman for the Orioles, one of the greatest
defensive third basemen ever. Mike, different first name. You got

(33:22):
the last name right, it's a different first name. I'm okay.
Former NFL running back, one of the greatest players out
of the University of Memphis. He was with the Panthers
and the Steelers. On Eddie, He's a bad cruise outfielder

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for the Twins and the Angels.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Multiple glove I mean, how many Daddy get? You guys
tied at thirty points? Alright? Alright, well here Brooks Robinson?
You ever heard of Brooks Robinson?

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Yem bro travertson and D'Angelo Williams is the running back
that you missed there, Fory, you should.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Have gone with Toy Yeah, at the rookie mistake. It's true.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
All right, So Dave and Ben, you guys are up again.
Return to paradise or jokerdise all right, these athletes all
return to their original team. Forty five seconds on the
clock begin all.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Right, star for the Miami Heat. He just had a
statue unveil that looked nothing like him. Yes, guard for
the Brooklyn Nets. He played for the Dallas Mavericks in
the nineties in the two thousands. He's actually a coach
in the NBA right now, or he was has been
a coach with the Dallas Mavericks. No, the kid for

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the Mariners in the nineties. The center fielder, his dad
was all right, you got that one, all of you know.
Hall of Fame pitcher for the Dodgers. He won three
hundred games. Played for the Angels. The Brewers had a
kind of like a weird haircut in the eighties seventies.
In the eighties, now center for the Cowboys, and then

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in the nineties the center. By the way, how is
the Cowboys center from the nineties? In the board Coup,
you had to ask one hundred point question. Yes, nobody knows,
nobody knows, nobody knows who the Cowboys center in the
nineties was. Even if nobody knows, that's a terrible board.
It's a it's a freaking terrible board. Point it's supposed
to be hard. Not that hard. It's an overnight talk

(35:25):
radio show. Mike, you have joker. These athletes have.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
All killed someone far behind earthly you are forty points behind,
all right, thank you. Allegedly allegedly killed somebody forty Some
of them did kill people.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
Yeah, look, some of them began convicted first on New England,
tight End Ben just said his name.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Oh my god, he doesn't know who it is, tight End,
you killed a couple of people. What he what? But
he doesn't know who it is. He does not know.
He need to say it. He didn't say it. Did
not say it. It's a t said saying games over

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going on, keeping shining the game. This is why this game.
Hall of thaks the bad ones out again.

Speaker 5 (36:11):
Shut up, Hall of I'm talking trophy winner out of
the USC killed his wife and a friend.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Hall of Fame running back bills. That's a bad that's
a terrible clue by you. Nobody knows the answer. That
a terrible It's over. But his hardest losing. He still
bet you because he did not say sucking. You're a loser,
guard tonk g Ass loser