October 1, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about Game 1 of the Wild Card Round in the MLB Playoffs with the Dodgers blowing out the Reds and the Red Sox upsetting the Yankees, Tyreek Hill's agent giving a positive update for the WR after his knee surgery, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHears w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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baseball the playoffs or underway. The flag is up and
we're off to the races. We'll start out our in
depth team coverage, which is me and my many personalities,
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and we'll start out in Los Angeles. It was the
wild Card Round. It was an all day situation starting
at one o'clock eastern ten am on the West coast.
Baseball action all the way into the wee hours of
the night. Well actually we're on in the wee hours
of the night. But the Wildcard Round we had games
starting in Cleveland. There were four games, two in the
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American League, two in the National League. Baseball action underway,
and so we'll start with the last game. I don't
know if you saw it or not, it ended not
that long ago. Perhaps you were not watching if you
had something else going on. I don't know, but don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to. I wasted
an entire day of my life watching these wildcard games.
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So anyway, now, show hey Otani, show I'll you bet
on two home runs. Otani and Tao Hernandez each had
two home runs. And that schmuck Blake smell a Snell?
Who smells Blake Snell? Fits seven innings of quality ball.
The Dodgers mollywop the Reds now. The final score was
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ten to five the Dodgers was the perfect game for
the Dodgers because it was a ten to five game.
They were up, it was ten to two at one point,
and they allowed the Reds to get some runs. There
more on that in a second. But the wild card
game game one. It's best of three. Remember, so if
you win the first game, you only have to win
one of the next two and you have advanced into
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the divisional round of the playoffs. These Fugasey playoffs, they
added some extra teams years ago, and they continue to
do that. So let us discuss the question does this
domination count as a statement victory for the Dodgers. All right,
So on this one, I've got wind mills, dirty water,
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and ringworm, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some soggy ballpark nachos.
So I opened up my my inbox, which is a
you know, generally a mistake to open up the EMLFO.
I finally had to block someone who just was harassing
me via email. Just a loser. So I blocked that.
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Finally able to get through my email, which is good,
and I was getting the huh, you're gonna apologize, Ben,
You see you Dodgers a big deregive to apologize. Yeah,
a bunch of Andrews and baker Field in Bakersfield out
there doing this, not just so hey. To answer the
question does this count as a statement win? The Dodgers
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getting ten runs fifteen hits, never in any real danger
against the Cincinnati Reds in Game one of the Wild
Card Round, my answer is three words, no, no, and no.
That's my answer. All right, stop it just stop it?
Is it amateur hour? Is that what we're doing now?
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It's not a statement. That was a formality. That was
a formality when you're the heavyweight tramp bian of the world,
the rating World Series champion, and you're walking in and
here's the Dodge is walking in to the ring. And
the Reds in this matchup are glass Joe. That's who
the Cincinnati Reds are. They're glass Joe. They're playing with
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house money. The Reds are not even supposed to be here.
The only reason they got in is because the Mats
blow and lost their final game against the Marlins. So
you're supposed to land a bunch of haymakers, and the
Dodgers did. It's the equivalent of announcing to the world
I've won the Masters. Whoo, I won the Masters, all right,
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and then you look at the details, you're like, well,
you won the Masters, but it was at a pitch
and putt course and there were lots of windmills and
fake volcanoes. Whooped, damn do congratulating like the Dodgers are
the gambling favorites here. They have a roster that is
a Galactic Empire type roster when you look at the
payroll and who they've got. If anything, though, this was
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the perfect kind of a night if you're doing talk radio,
because the Dodgers won, I don't want the Dodgers to lose.
I like them to win. I don't think they have
any chance going forward with the way this team is
set up because they have a fatal flaw and they
don't avoid the fatal flaw. The underlying condition popped up
in this game that will could it pop up if
you didn't watch The game was ten to five Dodgers one.
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They were never really in any danger but that bullpen.
If they were a professional arrest of the bullpen, their
name would be el Stinko, the Dodger bullpen. They walked
in two runs. They have no balls. The Dodger bullpen
has no balls. They're afraid to throw strikes when they
have an eight run lead. What the f is wrong
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with those losers? You walked in two runs in the
eighth inning, two different relief pitchers. Game was already over
at that point, and the bullpen said, wait, don't forget
about us. Here we are. That is the soft underbelly.
That is the soft underbelly. That is the leaky false
of the Dodgers. That's dripping that your water bills so
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high because of that bullpen. That is the weak spot.
It is glaring. It is absolutely glaring, and so you
know what's coming up. The winner of this series is
gonna take on the Philadelphia Phillies. If you look at
your playoff bracket, yeah, there's actually a playoff bracket. The
winner will take on the Philadelphia Phillies in the next round.
And if you're the Phillies, all right, that's working. We'll
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find out whether or not this continues or not. We'll
find out whether or not these guys actually grow a
spine and grow some balls and get hair on their
chest and all that stuff in the next round. But
the Dodgers look like a really hollow team. Hollow bunny.
The Dodgers, right, shiny and pretty on the outside, looks
all good. You bite into it and you're like, oh man,
that sucks. Whereas I thought that was solid chocolate. You know,
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in the Phillies could luck on. You know, the Phillies
are legit that offense. But again, Cincinnati, it's like a scrimmage.
It's like a scrimmage. You play Cincinnati is batting practice.
The real test will be when you've got Bryce Harper
there and you've got Kyle Schwarber hitting bombs and all
that and doing his thing. That's the real test, and
we'll see if the Dodgers end up being again like
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the chocolate bunny that's hollow, or or if they're actually
a brick house, as the old song goes there. But
Game one of the Dodgers and Reds, it was I
call it a water works game. What does that mean?
It means the Dodgers' offense was the fire hose. So
that's the water on that side. But then the bullpen
was the drippy, leaky faucet, and so that's the other side,
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as we pointed out. And it's it's nothing more than that.
It's just, you know, they can still lose the next
two games. They shouldn't. They shouldn't lose one game to
the Reds, but you can't get a statement victory, like
I don't understand, Like the mindset you guys were such.
You were trying to troll me so hard. You know
who you are, who sent me the emails? You know
you are. You're trying to bust my balls that you
didn't even factor in the opponent. You played a bunch
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of little leaguers, the Cincinnati Reds here, and and you
came in there and your arsenate arsonist in the bullpen
came in there, a bunch of Cincinnati hitters, and we're
afraid to throw strikes right, And now you got later on,
assuming you don't screw this thing up, You've got the
Phillies and the lumber company from Philadelphia. Good luck in
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a bandbox of a ballpark, all right. Now, turning the page,
we had Yankees and Red Sox. Yankees and Red Sox.
Garrett Crochet getting her done there for the Red Sox.
He had seventeen consecutive batters retired. I didn't play professional baseball.
I'm told that's good. When you get seventeen consecutive batters out,
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I'm told that's good. And it was a sparkly performance
as he had a lot shine Garrett Crochet in that one.
And then it was a pinch hitter Masataka Yoshida who
lined a two run ribby single off the whoe begone
Yankee reliever Luke Weaver. Well, that guy sucks u and
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that was the big hit there. The Red Sox get
past the Yankee. He's three game three to one the finals,
so it's game one. All these games played at Yankee
Stadium there, and so we'll see how this goes here
but the the game had some dramatics there late as
the Red Sox led three to one, he saw it.
New York loaded the bases, single single single, had the
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bases loaded. Nobody out down two eraw this Chapman on
the mound, all star closer, former Yankee, longtime multi time Yankee,
Erald this Chapman, and he was able to get out
of the jam. Did not give up a run despite
single single single. The start things here. So Boston improves now,
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but another win against the Angle ten and four versus
the Yankees there and there need one more win, one
more win to advance. But the better story you know where,
That's right, The better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we are going to go
in the story everyone is talking about here the decision.
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Was it made by Aaron Boone? Was it made by Dorksville,
USA and the Bronx? Who knows? But while Game two
is later on on Wednesday night, we must go back
and focus on what happened as the Yankees and Red Sox.
The the better story in the losing locker room. So
the big moment was when Aaron Boone decided to pull
Max Freed, who was pitching a masterpiece. A masterpiece. Now again,
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this is something I know I'm gonna date myself with
my generation. But I grew up like this was playoff baseball,
great pitchers. This is why you have great starting pitching.
You let them go out there and just deal. And
it's a different style of play in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Now we're heading into October. This was the last day
of September on Tuesday. But my god, so stupid. So
Aaron Boone decides to pull Max Freed, who was pitching
a great game. He had I believe six and the
third shutout innings of baseball, and he had thrown one
hundred and two pitches. So I guess his arm was
going to be amputator. If he threw one hundred and
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three pitches, they were gonna have to, literally right on
the mount at Yankee Stadium from all the men, women
and children, cut his arm off. Just tragedy if he
had thrown one hundred and third pitch. So they took
him out, and here is Aaron boom You hear the
question and the answer here as he was asked about
the big decision that blew up in his face. Take
a Liss Aaron Maxfreed was dealing tonight.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
What was the thought process behind taking them out to
go to the end there with nobody on and one
out in the seventh.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
They pressured him pretty good in the fourth, fifth, sixth,
you know, had a couple of bits each inning, so
I felt like he kind of cruised through the first few,
and obviously he ends up pitching great, but I felt
like he had to work pretty hard, and I was
gonna have the six b at the end. But once
we got the double we finished with the double play,
I wanted to go out and get Duran and then
felt like we were lined up all right.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So there's a quote from mister Boone. Jeez, it's like
the Yankees are the East Coast Dodgers, and then the
Dodgers are the West Coast Yankees. It's the same bull crap.
It is the same prepackaged bull crap. It's listening to
Aaron Boone is like listening to Dave Roberts. It's fascinating.
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It's just wild, all right. So Max Freed was asked
about all this. Max Freed was asked if he had
more left to give on the mound after one hundred
and two pitches. He said. Well, here's what he said, Tiglas.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I mean, I definitely felt felt good at the end. Yeah,
you know, coming out, coming out feeling good.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Would you have liked to have stayed in longer?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I mean, I'm I'm gonna stand until I gets ball
taken from me. I'm you know, I want to pitch
as long as I possibly can, and uh, you know,
when when the ball gets sticking on my hands.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
This, Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Next, did you feel like you had more left?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, I mean I definitely felt I felt good. I
felt like, you know, whatever, whatever the team needed.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
All right. So that was Max Freed. I think I
was somebody was talking about here, But I think he
said at the end there, I had enough in the tank.
That was one of the quotes that I saw bouncing around.
I had enough in the tank, he said, I felt good.
We heard that in the sound bite. So question, thumbs
up or thumbs down? Thumbs up or thumbs down? Does
Aaron Boone deserve to be char broiled? Char broiled for
this loss? Taking Max Freed out against the Yankees. So
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I'm gonna go two thumbs way up, two thumbs way
up on this one. I'm going to it. Aaron Boone
should be cooked, not charboiled. I know that's too extreme,
that's too extreme. Aaron Boone should be cooked like a
dirty water dog. You know you're in New York, those
dirty water dogs in that disgusting water at the hot
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dog stands there. Yeah, that should be cooked like a
dirty water dog. Aaron Boone. Max Freed's out there like
Picasso on the mound, and you're like, ah, you know what,
we have this luxury brand. We've gone over to Madison Avenue.
We've got a two thousand dollars Gucci suit on Madison Avenue,
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and we don't need that suit anymore. We've worn that suit.
So why don't we go down to the discount been
at Walmart and we'll put Luke Weaver in a playoff
game playoffs. Yeah, that's your twenty twenty five Yankees in
a nutshell right there. They have become a parody of themselves,
much like the Dodgers. Right The Yankees, in their own way,
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have become a parody of themselves.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
There.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You don't manage a game anymore. It's been this way
for years. I still complain about it. You just follow
the prompts on your iPad. You just follow the prompts.
Green button pull Max f Rey done, a red button,
bring in Luke Weaver. Press that button. Boom, Luke Weaver
comes in and then the shocker, the Red Sox tee
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off on Luke Weaver. Who could have seen that coming.
Just another case, just another example of the revenge of
the nerds, the Ivy League dwebs who have taken over
this invasive species in baseball that have taken over who
were playing fantasy baseball just like they were back in
the in the Ivy League, crunching numbers and all that stuff.
And now they're calling the shots at a bunch of
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Major league teams. Just happens to be the Yankees there
in the Bronx, and they think that relief pitchers and
starting pitchers are just like you know what, they're like,
they're like apps. You just close the Max Freed app
and then you open the Luke Weaver app and it's
just a different app. That's all it is. It's like
some kind of Microsoft word thing they've got going on.
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And then but happens to be a wild Card playoff
game and it blows up in your face and it
just blows me away because they never factor in the
human element. They never facked in. Well, some guys are
better in the moment than others. Some guys tighten up,
get tight. Took a syndrome, as we like to call it.
There ride the vomit comet. And they don't ever factor
that in. They don't factor that in because there's no
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way to measure that stuff. That's that's a real manager
that has you know, has some hutzpah, that knows his players.
They don't fact they could. Dave Roberts doesn't do that
with the Dodgers. Neither does Aaron Boone.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
They don't do that. It's geeked them, geeked them, USA
is what it is. And Aaron Boone sitting there in
that dugout, smiling like a sock puppet, just smiling right there.
He is a sock puppet. The front office, what do
they do. They tug the strings and he's just you know,
he's like, he's like a bobblehead. He just shakes his head, Yes,
the Aaron Boone bobblehead in the dugout. And he's become
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like a tenured professor. Aaron Boone. He's either too dumb
or too soft, or a little bit of both to
ever push back on anything. And Max Freed is just
I'd rather have Max Fried at pitch one oh three.
He's better at pitch one o three than ninety ninety
five percent of the relief pitchers. But alas did not happen,
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the Nerds medal again, and the Yankees are on the
brink of elimination. The Red Sox need one more win.
Probably should win game two, though, because I don't even
know who's starting Game three for the for the Red Sox,
as somebody I've never heard of. So the Red Sox
halfway to advancing now quickly the last word here, the
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last word? So, what are some of the other takeaways?
There were two other games that were not featuring here.
What were some of the other takeaways from game number
one of the wild Card Round?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Here?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So Saya Suzuki a big time home run the Chicago
Cups get her done three to one over the Podreys
at Wrigley Field in game one of that particular series. There, Now,
I loved watching Fernando Tatisse go zero for four for
the Pod Squad. How great was that? You know what
he needs? He needs a special shipment of ringworm medication
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because he's really good. When he's got the ring worm medication,
he gets like fourteen year contracts. How about Mando, Yeah,
good old many playoff Manny Machado. Oh for three for
the Padres and that pop gun Podre offense. Now they
if you go back, they have now mustered one run
in their last thirty three postseason innings. I'm told that's
not good. I'm told that's not good. And what happened
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to the belly gazing Podres didn't play with that swagger,
did not have that swagger all right in Cleveland, another
dominating pitching performance Trek Scouoble tying the postseason record with
fourteen strikeouts. Fourteen strikeouts. The Tigers beat up the I
say beat up, they beat the Guardians stude one. Although
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watching the Guardians play offense, holy crap do they suck?
My god? How did they come back? The fact that
they were able to outplay the Tigers the last month
of the year and win the division's fascinating. This is
one of the worst offensive teams of all time to
make the postseason that, in my opinion, it's a fact
here and the I mean the Guardians, and they're not
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bad office, they're historically bad. In fact, in this game
they were been draggled. The Guardians got out of thirty
three plate appearances, four balls left the infield, four out
of thirty three, four out of thirty three. Hodgepodge of nothingness.
The Cleveland Guardians there, and you kind of expected it.
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That two twenty six batting average the worst all time,
the worst batting average of all time for a playoff team,
not counting the shortened pandemic season, and also the worst
on base percentage ever for a playoff team, the Cleveland Guardians,
and the lowest slugging percentage going all the way back
to nineteen eighty eight. So that's that's a long time.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What does all this mean? Game one winner, Game one winner,
small sample sized Game one winner, Wildcard Round. They have
advanced in all twelve all twelve of the Wildcard series,
ten of them have been sweeps. So based on that,
the Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, and Dodgers all right really
good shape.
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we moved to football and the story everyone is talking
about South Beach. Baby. We go to South Beach and
if you have working eyeballs, you saw the ghastly, ghastly
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injury to the cheetah if you don't have functioning eyeballs.
You heard about the horrific injury to the cheating. So
have you heard the latest on this? No very good.
So Dolphins wide receive we got you. We got you
on this one. So Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill, they say,
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he's not. I love this. He's not going to need
another surgery. He underwent a major operation hours after the
Dolphins Jets game to repair his dislocated left knee or
multiple ligaments, including his ACL. It was a case of snap,
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crackle and pop go the ligaments. Now, agent Drew Rosenhaus
he made some comments, but we have some audio. Here's
a Drew Rosenhouse commenting on Tyreek Hill. Let's go to
the audio tape. Take a listen. The surgery went well.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
All of the torn ligaments, the injuries went back in
a place naturally. There's no nerve damage, no blood flow issues,
no broken bones. The cartilage is fine. The goal is
for him to be ready to play next season. It's
only one surgical procedure. There was some concerned that it
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might be more than one surgery, but right now everything
round as.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Well as we could have hoped for.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
We'll pray for Tyreek to have a speedy recovery. We
know he'll do a great job with this rehab and
the goal is for him to be back in and
back to himself by the start of next season.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Okay, do we know what medical school Drew Rosenhaus went
to do? We know I don't often look that. I'll
just google that. I'll put it on the AI there.
So let us discuss the question. Are you buying what
you just here? That's Drew Rosenhaus. Are you buying what
Drew Rosenhaus said what he is selling regarding the positive
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outlook for Tyreek Hill, the Dolphins wide receiver. So I've
got Milton Bradley, Styrofoam, and Marty Grass and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make your Babushka's favorite cotton candy is what we're
going to make. So number one, number enough, all right,
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one more time number. So to sum off what you
just sh stirred from Drew Rosenhause, he got in front
of the media and he was literally waving pomp pomps.
He had his cheerleading outfit on. Everything is terrific, sunshine,
rainbows and lollipops. Just left out one eighty bitty tiny
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detail Drew Rosenhouse that the acl of Tyreek Hill was reconstructed.
He just kind of left it. I left that side
to put that over here, right, put that over here.
So also, Tyreek Hill is assuming he has a birthday.
We all have birthdays every year, unless we don't. He'll
be thirty two by next NFL season. So I don't think,
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and again maybe I'm wrong. I just do the overnight show.
I don't think this is a trip to the dentist
office to have a cavity fill. This is a career
altering medical procedure. And the obvious thing is like, what
is the agent Drew Rosenhouse supposed to say? What is
he supposed to say? Like, well, it looks bleak. There's
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a there's a priest and a rabbi coming in. They're
going to give last rites to Tyreek. I mean, come on,
he can't say he's cooked. You got to be positive there,
of course not. So this is what agents do. We
played the audio. Why didn't we play that? We had
the audio, That's why he played the audio. It's spin, spin, spin,
spin spin, Drew Rosenhouse serving up what I call Candyland
(27:37):
optimism with Milton Bradley sugarcoating on top of that Candyland
optimism here, and he does get a percentage of Tyreek
Kill's money, money, money, money. Yeah. So it's not giving
you a prognosis, Drew Rosenhaus. He's giving you more of
a sales pitch. That's what he's doing. He's an elevator pitch.
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Everything's great, Oh my god. Yeah, uh okay. So we
go back to what we said in a previous episode
of the show that Tyreek Hill is a speed racer,
blazing speed, tyreeg Kill right, blazing speed and all that stuff.
That is his superpower. That's it game breaking speed. So
you take that out of the equation and what do
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you got. You got just a five to ten wide
receiver with a lot of baggage, a whole lot of baggage.
And let's not forget all right, let's not forget here
that every surgeon says that the surgery went well. That
is a default answer if you've ever had a surgery,
if you've ever had a family member that's had a surgery,
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they always say, especially in sports, they always wow, it
went really well. The reason they say that is you
as you came out alive. There's a chance anytime you
have an operation, yet you're going to die on the
operating table, right. Unfortunately, that is the reality. And so
you came out alive. In every doctor for them, that's
a win. That is a win. You're not dead, You're alive.
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The operation was a success. The real success, as we
all know, will be if Tyreek Hill does return to form,
decent form and actually looks like the player that he
had been and not a washed up version, a cheap,
ripoff version of Tyreek Hill. So there you go to
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giant flashing weasel word if that is a big time
weasel word. Now pace two to Atlanta we go, and
let's circle back to the trade chatter. We are now
into October. We're not that far away from the NFL
trade deadline. Falcons backup quarterback. That's right, mister Cousins. Not
my cousin, not your cousin, everyone's cousin, Kirk Cousins, who
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was a starter with the Vikings and these trashing Atlanta
announce Kirk Cousins the backup to Michael Pennix Junior, who
snunck it up against Carolina and then bounced back at
a big game here last weekend. So Kirk Cousins was
asked how he's approaching the upcoming trade deadline. He said, quote,
right now, it's just about the role I'm in, Cousins said,
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and I'm focused in on helping us win football games.
I'm being ready for next the next challenges we face.
He said, I'll stay sharp and you never know what
the league will bring close quote all right, So question,
how did that statement? How did that statement from Kirk
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Cousins on the trade deadline sound to you? All right?
So it sounded to me the Cousins quote is the
equivalent of biting into a rice cake. Is there anything
more disgusting than a rice cake? Oh? Yeah, It's like
he might as well just bite into styrofoam. Just enjoy
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some styrofoam. Put some flavoring on that. No calories, no flavor,
no substance, no nothing. That was That was the quote
from Kirk Cousins. And I did the math on this.
Thirty nine words he said, thirty nine words. He somehow
in thirty nine words he said less than a politician
just before election day, which is fascinating. It's spam in
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the inbox is what it is. Delete delete, delete, delete, delete,
delete delete delete. The lead essentially told you, Kirk Cousins
essentially told you and me that, Hey, I'm in a
holding pattern at the Hartsfield Jackson Airport there waiting waiting
for air traffic control to clear the runway and tell
me where I need to go. That's it. It's a
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lot of nothing. It's a whole lot of other like
just cliches stacked on top of cliches and you just
throw it all in there and just see what you
got and a bunch of slop and we'll see how
that goes here. And that's essentially the script that you
recite as a professional athlete. You go to sportscliche dot
com and if you have no leverage, you just start
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saying that nonsense. And Cousins knows. At this point, the
Atlanta Falcons, they have their hand on the joystick and
they're the ones that are playing the video game and
they're deciding like do they really want to get rid
of Cousins? Do they completely trust Michael Pennix Junior? Are
they completely strapped in with what they've got? And Cousins,
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I know he's strapped in he's in coach. He's not
in first class right now. He's in coach and he's
got a middle seat and there's a fat guy on
each side of him. And that's where he's at now.
If the ravens Lamar Jackson looks like he's gonna be
out for for a little while, maybe longer than that,
who knows shut him down for the year? Who says no?
The Bengals who look like they've never played football with
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Jake Browning? Or I like mystery team? Oh do do
do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do do Mystery day? Yeah, who will
it be? Who will step up that you're doing to zoom?
Would want a quarterback developing hot dot dot dot. So
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you gonna take a shot on Cousins. You know he's
got a lot of miles, got a lot of money, money, money, money. Otherwise,
Cousins will just be chewing bubblegum in purgatory for the
rest of the year, and either the Falcons will flip
him for a bag of peanuts, but unsalted peanuts, or
keep collecting frequent flyer miles. And you're just a bus rider.
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You're in the back of the bus You're getting to
travel where the Falcons play games, but you're not actually playing.
There's no real destination there. That's it now, final point
to the courtroom by request a listener named Mike who
says he lives in the Greater Houston area and listens
to the show a couple of nights a week. He said,
why have you not mentioned this story?
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I said, okay, you want me to do a few
minutes on it, I'll do a few minutes. So what
is the story? A man who we talked about a
lot on this show over the last couple of years,
Tony buzz Be. The fact that I know who Tony
Buzby is is a testimonial to being a sleazy ambulance
chasing extraordinaire. And it's really impressive that. I mean, he's
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a billboard ambulance chasing lawyer in Houston and we know
who Tony Buzzby is. Like these guys, there's no I
don't we do the show from LA. There's no town
that has more ambulance chasing billboard lawyers than La. But
in Houston, Tony Busby is the go to guy. And
he's back in the spotlight again, back in the spotlight again.
So what is he doing. I'll give you the thumbnail
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version here, I'll give you the brief thumbnail notes. So
Busby is suing the NFL. Now is this some massage
gone back? No, now that was Deshaun Watson. This is
not Deshaun Watson. So he's suing the NFL. Get this.
This is great. He claims the league conspired with Cal
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McNair that's the owner of the Texans, to kick his brother,
someone named carry McNair out of the Texans ownership group.
Family drama, o rama. So let's discuss the question on
this one. What is Tony Busby looking to accomplish with
(35:23):
his latest lawsuit against the NFL. This regarding the ownership
of the Houston Texans. So this is straight out of
if you go back and you look this up on Wikipedia,
it's straight out of a bad soap opera. You've got
Dynasty meets Judge Judy to be played out in Lower
Manhattan Court and Busby he's not doing this. We know
(35:44):
Buzby's not doing this because he's pretending to do like
a mother Teresa like act. That's not what this is.
He's doing it, Why he's doing it? Tony Busby because
there is a giant pile of pesos right there on
the table, right, a lot of check a lot of
nice shekels right there, and he's seeking one hundred million
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bucks from the NFL, not twenty five thousand or fifte
hundred million dollars. That's not seeking justice, right, it's not
seeking justice. It's like walking into the NFL's ATM machine
with a ski mask on. Give me the money, money money.
So the NFL pays out hush money all the time.
(36:28):
The NFL is known for paying out hush money like
they give beads out at Marty Grass in New Orleans.
Right every time, every time there's a scandal, the default
position of the NFL is to drag it out, drag
it out, and then eventually, if it gets dragged long enough,
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you just get out the checkbook and you're on your way.
Whether it's the flate Gate, bounty gate, spygate, the gate
in your backyard, whatever gate, you name it, the league's
go to move is to throw a fat stack of
benjamins right there at the problem and just make it
go away. And Buzzby knows this. We all know. If
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I know this, I'm doing the Overnight Show. And if
I know this, do you think everyone knows that? Everyone
knows it. He's essentially standing outside Roger Goodell's Park Avenue
offices there in Manhattan with a tin cup and he's saying,
spare change for the silent McNair. We need some spare
change here. And it's not about whether you're right or wrong.
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It is not about that. It's about leverage. It's all
about the leverage. And this guy, Carrie McNair, I was
doing a little digging on him, doing some opposition research.
So he's the estranged brother who got escorted out of
the ownership group. He's the black sheep of the family here,
the ugly, redheaded stepchild of the family. And so raising
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his hand he got in trouble because he soos he
According to the lawyer, he raised his his hand. There
was a family like a board meeting and he essentially,
I'm paraphrasing this, but he said, guys, we shouldn't be
running the franchise like this. This is a joke. That's
not right. You people are losers and you need to
do better. And they said, okay, that's great advice. We
really appreciate that advice. You're no longer going to own
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part of the team. We're going to get rid of you.
You're done. That's it. And they booted him. Get your
ass out of here. And so the Busby account is
that this cost sixty million dollars in lost money. For
the kid that got kicked out says like, well, sixty million,
I need another forty million for damages I got to
(38:39):
pay Buzzby, so I need one hundred million dollars. And
so now it's timed for a lawsuit. So we're going
to do the lawsuit. And Buzzby knows, he knows the
NFL game. They certainly don't want the family feud to
play out in the media, and so they want nice,
tidy storylines. They want shiny new stadiums. They want European football.
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He wants you to talk about someone named bad Bunny,
that's what they want. A lot of international love, that's
what they want. Taylor Swift walking through a stadium to
go to a luxury box. Those are the stories they want.
They don't want Bob McNair's kids play Game of Thrones
in Houston. That's not what they're looking for. That's not
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what they're looking for.
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Here we Go, Here we Go.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Here we.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
Gets great?
Speaker 1 (39:40):
And I mean, do my Andrew impersonation Dodgers Dodgers DoD
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (39:45):
After the Jets lost to the Dolphins on Monday, Sauce
Gardner says that he believes the Jets aren't getting calls
that better teams get from the officials. Ben, do you
think officiating favors the better teams?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yes? You know what this is. You know what kind
of sauce? It says? Weak sauce coop. What do you do?
I'd be so embarrassed, Like, just tell me you're soft
without telling me yourself. Come on, Yes, the NFL does
favor the better teams. Okay, I agree with you on that,
but don't complain about it. Become a better team. It's embarrassing.
He should not be called Sauce. That's not his real name,
(40:17):
that's a nickname. He should call him something else.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Next, after the Raiders fell to one in three following
their loss to the Bears, Pete Carroll was asked if
he's considering starting Kenny Pickett over Gino Smith next week,
Carrol said, no, nope, we're not there, Ben, When will
they be there?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Well, Coop, if you want to know what job security is,
it's having Kenny Pickett as your backup Quarterick. That is job.
This guy they found somebody that blows more than Geno Smith.
There was a famous talk shot back in the nineties
who's still doing talk radio. He used to put the
worst possible people in his filling host because he didn't
want anyone good as a filling host because he was
he was worried they would take their job. Like, if
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you're Geno Smith, it's wonderful. Kenny Pickett can't play. The
guy sucks, So I mean, there's no reason a bench
Gino Smith next.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
Nick Yoki spoke with the media on Monday and declined
to say if he intends to sign an extension with
the Nuggets next offseason, but also said that his plan
is to quote be a Nugget forever. Yes, Ben, do
you think Jok will stay there in his whole career?
Speaker 9 (41:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Well, here's the way I see this, Like he seems
like one of those guys that will just retire early.
I don't think he really loves basketball. He just makes
a lot of money at it. He's passion is like
Polish horses. So yeah, I could see him retiring in
a couple of years. He's made enough money and that's it.
So uh yeah, I could see him only being a nugget,
but just because he's not gonna play till he's you know,
(41:32):
an old man. Right there, It is mallardly third deree.
How did we do you pass? They win? Sas cover,
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help you. Gear Rye, gear ride to n gear Ryn.
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Dear Rye.
Speaker 9 (42:08):
That's right, you heard the man. It is time for
love here on the Ben Mallor Show. You know, we
all love love, and I like to start out the
segment by giving a little piece of advice. And if
you are going to be cheating on your woman at
a festival, make sure you don't know other people there.
You could be recorded and that video could be sent
to your woman.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh so be careful. I feel like this is a
very specific Yes it happened.
Speaker 9 (42:32):
It happened around me and my group of friends this weekend.
So I just want to give everyone a warning. If
you're gonna do some scandalous things, make sure you are
in a private area.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Is there really a private area? We live in a
police thing. Yeah, there's a ewhere Super Eights. Okay, So well,
do's a hotel down the street here, the seven seven seven.
Speaker 9 (42:51):
They have a continental.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Brand name it. I was gonna rip it, but yeah,
all right, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (42:56):
Oh yeah, so that was my advice for the day.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Okay, so if you're planning on cheating, make sure that
there's no camera there are Is that a bad place?
I was gonna stay there. I think they charged by
the hour. Shane and Shane and the Moine rights and says, hey,
if your significant other uses social media, are you obligated
to follow their page or pages? It seems redundant to me.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
I mean yes and no. I think it's fun to follow,
but if you already live together, then yeah, it's not
really a necessity. Also, don't don't be one of those couples.
I guess the join pages that means you don't have
any trust. But also you could be seen as a
hater if you're not following yourself. Like when celebrities break up,
they unfollow each other on social media. So part of
following your lover on there is that you can support,
(43:43):
so you can still like their things, you can comment
and be like, oh my gosh, you're so beautiful today.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah. Oh, it's just stay off social media altogether, like
you've kind of forced the if you're on there, you
might as well. Yeah. JT. The Wingman writes in from Knoxville, Tennessee.
He says, Hey, since Halloween is coming up later this month,
what is the best Halloween costume for couples that enjoyed
the lifestyle? Oh? Yeah, I enjoy that lifestyle. Which lifestyle
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is he talking about? He's talking about having a swing
on one side and I don't know.
Speaker 9 (44:12):
Oh, well, you know, I think that'd be really fun.
I like those plug in couples ideas and if you
get well, if you get a multiple adapter, think about that. Like,
if you're into swingers, like swinging and get.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Multiple adapters Tekiva and line, you.
Speaker 9 (44:25):
Could dress as a pineapple and a juicer. Yep, there
you go, baby, let's go all right, Alameda Lou did
call in.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
We smoked out, Alameda, Lou, I love you still have
the same Kingfish there, Lou still here.
Speaker 10 (44:41):
So I think Lorena has a vibrant fan club on
this show. Dude to call in and kind of hit
on her. As a bartender at Kingfish, I've built up
my own fan club, And my question for Lorena is
is it wrong of me to not be interested in
these women but kind of yucking up tips while denying
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every date opportunity to ask on Well, no, I.
Speaker 9 (45:04):
Mean you need to be picky with who you actually
let access your circle. And if they want to tip
you more than they will, they also don't have to
tip you at all. They could just be like, I'm
gonna flirt with this guy and he'p he gives me
more alcohol.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Not one of these women you found attractive, Not one
of them.
Speaker 10 (45:19):
It has nothing to do with that.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
I just think.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
I think it would be weird meeting your person you
don't want to meet where you where you eat, or
you don't want to poop where you eat.
Speaker 10 (45:29):
I've dabbled in meeting a woman at the bar before,
and whatever happened, she ended up pregnant and thank god
it wasn't mine.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Oh my, that would be a mess.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
That is wildish.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Yeah yeah, just you know, work the man and still
milk it. You got to use the charm Lorena, right,
the charm men with what they really want to see.
There you go, Queen of Hearts.
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Is attention.
Speaker 8 (46:01):
Everyone is password, you idiot? Password the word Game of
the Stars. Here's Ben Meler. All right, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Here we go, password time. Let's welcome in our contestants
against my better judgment, we have hollering James. Hello, James.
Oh you're awake now you were on the air twice
already sleeping? Okay, James, welcome. Who do you want to
partner up with? James? Oh? Thank god? How lucky am
I am? I the luckiest man in the world. Holy crap,
(46:32):
My dreams are coming through. I know all right? It
was amazing, Yes, all right? And John is in Needles.
In Needles is a town in California named Needles. Hello John, Hello, man,
what's going on? John? Who do you want to partner
up with? We've got Lorena or Coop cool Lorena, you're
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out of the show. I hate when I don't get picked.
I know, well you hit all the mail though, you're right,
I'll take that instead. Oh what about me?
Speaker 2 (47:03):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (47:04):
What am I? Six? And shoes? I don't know. On radio,
I'm very cute in person, and on TV not so much. Anyway. Oh,
let's play the game. We have a list of words here,
and you have punched James and James pick a number
one to ten, hollering James, the legend in Minnesota, hollering James,
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number one, number one? Can you say that a little
more pizazz?
Speaker 9 (47:32):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (47:36):
All right? How about premature?
Speaker 6 (47:42):
Mature?
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Oh no, oh no, no, first number one. So you
think you by saying the word number one that the
clue would be oh my god. No, Go ahead there, Coop, John, John,
let's go with punctual early. Yeah, you got it on
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my clue. I guess, all right, John, picking number one
to two to ten, John, let's.
Speaker 6 (48:16):
Do it number ship, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Let's go with uh oh, come on, come on, let's
go with uh gag No, James, let's go James wise.
Crack that's one word. Why is crack? Wise? Crack. Pick
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a number, James, pick a number, picking James number three. Uh,
you know we're don't have time. We can't get it
in now. We ended up in a tip. Oh next week,
you guys want to call back, We'll do it. Next week.
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We're allowed to talk baseball. We are allowed to talk
baseball the playoffs or underway. The flag is up and
we're off to the races. We'll start out our in
depth team coverage, which is me and my many personalities,
(02:02):
and we'll start out in Los Angeles. It was the
wild Card Round. It was an all day situation starting
at one o'clock eastern ten am on the West coast.
Baseball action all the way into the wee hours of
the night. Well actually we're on in the wee hours
of the night. But the Wildcard Round we had games
starting in Cleveland. There were four games, two in the
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American League, two in the National League. Baseball action underway,
and so we'll start with the last game. I don't
know if you saw it or not, it ended not
that long ago. Perhaps you were not watching if you
had something else going on. I don't know, but don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to. I wasted
an entire day of my life watching these wildcard games.
(02:45):
So anyway, now, show hey Otani, show I'll you bet
on two home runs. Otani and Tao Hernandez each had
two home runs. And that schmuck Blake smell a Snell?
Who smells Blake Snell? Fits seven innings of quality ball.
The Dodgers mollywop the Reds now. The final score was
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ten to five the Dodgers was the perfect game for
the Dodgers because it was a ten to five game.
They were up, it was ten to two at one point,
and they allowed the Reds to get some runs. There
more on that in a second. But the wild card
game game one. It's best of three. Remember, so if
you win the first game, you only have to win
one of the next two and you have advanced into
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the divisional round of the playoffs. These Fugasey playoffs, they
added some extra teams years ago, and they continue to
do that. So let us discuss the question does this
domination count as a statement victory for the Dodgers. All right,
So on this one, I've got wind mills, dirty water,
(03:50):
and ringworm, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some soggy ballpark nachos.
So I opened up my my inbox, which is a
you know, generally a mistake to open up the EMLFO.
I finally had to block someone who just was harassing
me via email. Just a loser. So I blocked that.
(04:10):
Finally able to get through my email, which is good,
and I was getting the huh, you're gonna apologize, Ben,
You see you Dodgers a big deregive to apologize. Yeah,
a bunch of Andrews and baker Field in Bakersfield out
there doing this, not just so hey. To answer the
question does this count as a statement win? The Dodgers
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getting ten runs fifteen hits, never in any real danger
against the Cincinnati Reds in Game one of the Wild
Card Round, my answer is three words, no, no, and no.
That's my answer. All right, stop it just stop it?
Is it amateur hour? Is that what we're doing now?
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It's not a statement. That was a formality. That was
a formality when you're the heavyweight tramp bian of the world,
the rating World Series champion, and you're walking in and
here's the Dodge is walking in to the ring. And
the Reds in this matchup are glass Joe. That's who
the Cincinnati Reds are. They're glass Joe. They're playing with
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house money. The Reds are not even supposed to be here.
The only reason they got in is because the Mats
blow and lost their final game against the Marlins. So
you're supposed to land a bunch of haymakers, and the
Dodgers did. It's the equivalent of announcing to the world
I've won the Masters. Whoo, I won the Masters, all right,
(05:35):
and then you look at the details, you're like, well,
you won the Masters, but it was at a pitch
and putt course and there were lots of windmills and
fake volcanoes. Whooped, damn do congratulating like the Dodgers are
the gambling favorites here. They have a roster that is
a Galactic Empire type roster when you look at the
payroll and who they've got. If anything, though, this was
(05:59):
the perfect kind of a night if you're doing talk radio,
because the Dodgers won, I don't want the Dodgers to lose.
I like them to win. I don't think they have
any chance going forward with the way this team is
set up because they have a fatal flaw and they
don't avoid the fatal flaw. The underlying condition popped up
in this game that will could it pop up if
you didn't watch The game was ten to five Dodgers one.
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They were never really in any danger but that bullpen.
If they were a professional arrest of the bullpen, their
name would be el Stinko, the Dodger bullpen. They walked
in two runs. They have no balls. The Dodger bullpen
has no balls. They're afraid to throw strikes when they
have an eight run lead. What the f is wrong
(06:41):
with those losers? You walked in two runs in the
eighth inning, two different relief pitchers. Game was already over
at that point, and the bullpen said, wait, don't forget
about us. Here we are. That is the soft underbelly.
That is the soft underbelly. That is the leaky false
of the Dodgers. That's dripping that your water bills so
(07:03):
high because of that bullpen. That is the weak spot.
It is glaring. It is absolutely glaring, and so you
know what's coming up. The winner of this series is
gonna take on the Philadelphia Phillies. If you look at
your playoff bracket, yeah, there's actually a playoff bracket. The
winner will take on the Philadelphia Phillies in the next round.
And if you're the Phillies, all right, that's working. We'll
(07:26):
find out whether or not this continues or not. We'll
find out whether or not these guys actually grow a
spine and grow some balls and get hair on their
chest and all that stuff in the next round. But
the Dodgers look like a really hollow team. Hollow bunny.
The Dodgers, right, shiny and pretty on the outside, looks
all good. You bite into it and you're like, oh man,
that sucks. Whereas I thought that was solid chocolate. You know,
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in the Phillies could luck on. You know, the Phillies
are legit that offense. But again, Cincinnati, it's like a scrimmage.
It's like a scrimmage. You play Cincinnati is batting practice.
The real test will be when you've got Bryce Harper
there and you've got Kyle Schwarber hitting bombs and all
that and doing his thing. That's the real test, and
we'll see if the Dodgers end up being again like
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the chocolate bunny that's hollow, or or if they're actually
a brick house, as the old song goes there. But
Game one of the Dodgers and Reds, it was I
call it a water works game. What does that mean?
It means the Dodgers' offense was the fire hose. So
that's the water on that side. But then the bullpen
was the drippy, leaky faucet, and so that's the other side,
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as we pointed out. And it's it's nothing more than that.
It's just, you know, they can still lose the next
two games. They shouldn't. They shouldn't lose one game to
the Reds, but you can't get a statement victory, like
I don't understand, Like the mindset you guys were such.
You were trying to troll me so hard. You know
who you are, who sent me the emails? You know
you are. You're trying to bust my balls that you
didn't even factor in the opponent. You played a bunch
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of little leaguers, the Cincinnati Reds here, and and you
came in there and your arsenate arsonist in the bullpen
came in there, a bunch of Cincinnati hitters, and we're
afraid to throw strikes right, And now you got later on,
assuming you don't screw this thing up, You've got the
Phillies and the lumber company from Philadelphia. Good luck in
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a bandbox of a ballpark, all right. Now, turning the page,
we had Yankees and Red Sox. Yankees and Red Sox.
Garrett Crochet getting her done there for the Red Sox.
He had seventeen consecutive batters retired. I didn't play professional baseball.
I'm told that's good. When you get seventeen consecutive batters out,
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I'm told that's good. And it was a sparkly performance
as he had a lot shine Garrett Crochet in that one.
And then it was a pinch hitter Masataka Yoshida who
lined a two run ribby single off the whoe begone
Yankee reliever Luke Weaver. Well, that guy sucks u and
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that was the big hit there. The Red Sox get
past the Yankee. He's three game three to one the finals,
so it's game one. All these games played at Yankee
Stadium there, and so we'll see how this goes here
but the the game had some dramatics there late as
the Red Sox led three to one, he saw it.
New York loaded the bases, single single single, had the
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bases loaded. Nobody out down two eraw this Chapman on
the mound, all star closer, former Yankee, longtime multi time Yankee,
Erald this Chapman, and he was able to get out
of the jam. Did not give up a run despite
single single single. The start things here. So Boston improves now,
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but another win against the Angle ten and four versus
the Yankees there and there need one more win, one
more win to advance. But the better story you know where,
That's right, The better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we are going to go
in the story everyone is talking about here the decision.
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Was it made by Aaron Boone? Was it made by Dorksville,
USA and the Bronx? Who knows? But while Game two
is later on on Wednesday night, we must go back
and focus on what happened as the Yankees and Red Sox.
The the better story in the losing locker room. So
the big moment was when Aaron Boone decided to pull
Max Freed, who was pitching a masterpiece. A masterpiece. Now again,
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this is something I know I'm gonna date myself with
my generation. But I grew up like this was playoff baseball,
great pitchers. This is why you have great starting pitching.
You let them go out there and just deal. And
it's a different style of play in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I know.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Now we're heading into October. This was the last day
of September on Tuesday. But my god, so stupid. So
Aaron Boone decides to pull Max Freed, who was pitching
a great game. He had I believe six and the
third shutout innings of baseball, and he had thrown one
hundred and two pitches. So I guess his arm was
going to be amputator. If he threw one hundred and
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three pitches, they were gonna have to, literally right on
the mount at Yankee Stadium from all the men, women
and children, cut his arm off. Just tragedy if he
had thrown one hundred and third pitch. So they took
him out, and here is Aaron boom You hear the
question and the answer here as he was asked about
the big decision that blew up in his face. Take
a Liss Aaron Maxfreed was dealing tonight.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
What was the thought process behind taking them out to
go to the end there with nobody on and one
out in the seventh.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
They pressured him pretty good in the fourth, fifth, sixth,
you know, had a couple of bits each inning, so
I felt like he kind of cruised through the first few,
and obviously he ends up pitching great, but I felt
like he had to work pretty hard, and I was
gonna have the six b at the end. But once
we got the double we finished with the double play,
I wanted to go out and get Duran and then
felt like we were lined up all right.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So there's a quote from mister Boone. Jeez, it's like
the Yankees are the East Coast Dodgers, and then the
Dodgers are the West Coast Yankees. It's the same bull crap.
It is the same prepackaged bull crap. It's listening to
Aaron Boone is like listening to Dave Roberts. It's fascinating.
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It's just wild, all right. So Max Freed was asked
about all this. Max Freed was asked if he had
more left to give on the mound after one hundred
and two pitches. He said. Well, here's what he said, Tiglas.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I mean, I definitely felt felt good at the end. Yeah,
you know, coming out, coming out feeling good.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Would you have liked to have stayed in longer?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I mean, I'm I'm gonna stand until I gets ball
taken from me. I'm you know, I want to pitch
as long as I possibly can, and uh, you know,
when when the ball gets sticking on my hands.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
This, Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Next, did you feel like you had more left?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, I mean I definitely felt I felt good. I
felt like, you know, whatever, whatever the team needed.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
All right. So that was Max Freed. I think I
was somebody was talking about here, But I think he
said at the end there, I had enough in the tank.
That was one of the quotes that I saw bouncing around.
I had enough in the tank, he said, I felt good.
We heard that in the sound bite. So question, thumbs
up or thumbs down? Thumbs up or thumbs down? Does
Aaron Boone deserve to be char broiled? Char broiled for
this loss? Taking Max Freed out against the Yankees. So
(14:31):
I'm gonna go two thumbs way up, two thumbs way
up on this one. I'm going to it. Aaron Boone
should be cooked, not charboiled. I know that's too extreme,
that's too extreme. Aaron Boone should be cooked like a
dirty water dog. You know you're in New York, those
dirty water dogs in that disgusting water at the hot
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dog stands there. Yeah, that should be cooked like a
dirty water dog. Aaron Boone. Max Freed's out there like
Picasso on the mound, and you're like, ah, you know what,
we have this luxury brand. We've gone over to Madison Avenue.
We've got a two thousand dollars Gucci suit on Madison Avenue,
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and we don't need that suit anymore. We've worn that suit.
So why don't we go down to the discount been
at Walmart and we'll put Luke Weaver in a playoff
game playoffs. Yeah, that's your twenty twenty five Yankees in
a nutshell right there. They have become a parody of themselves,
much like the Dodgers. Right The Yankees, in their own way,
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have become a parody of themselves.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
There.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You don't manage a game anymore. It's been this way
for years. I still complain about it. You just follow
the prompts on your iPad. You just follow the prompts.
Green button pull Max f Rey done, a red button,
bring in Luke Weaver. Press that button. Boom, Luke Weaver
comes in and then the shocker, the Red Sox tee
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off on Luke Weaver. Who could have seen that coming.
Just another case, just another example of the revenge of
the nerds, the Ivy League dwebs who have taken over
this invasive species in baseball that have taken over who
were playing fantasy baseball just like they were back in
the in the Ivy League, crunching numbers and all that stuff.
And now they're calling the shots at a bunch of
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Major league teams. Just happens to be the Yankees there
in the Bronx, and they think that relief pitchers and
starting pitchers are just like you know what, they're like,
they're like apps. You just close the Max Freed app
and then you open the Luke Weaver app and it's
just a different app. That's all it is. It's like
some kind of Microsoft word thing they've got going on.
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And then but happens to be a wild Card playoff
game and it blows up in your face and it
just blows me away because they never factor in the
human element. They never facked in. Well, some guys are
better in the moment than others. Some guys tighten up,
get tight. Took a syndrome, as we like to call it.
There ride the vomit comet. And they don't ever factor
that in. They don't factor that in because there's no
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way to measure that stuff. That's that's a real manager
that has you know, has some hutzpah, that knows his players.
They don't fact they could. Dave Roberts doesn't do that
with the Dodgers. Neither does Aaron Boone.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
They don't do that. It's geeked them, geeked them, USA
is what it is. And Aaron Boone sitting there in
that dugout, smiling like a sock puppet, just smiling right there.
He is a sock puppet. The front office, what do
they do. They tug the strings and he's just you know,
he's like, he's like a bobblehead. He just shakes his head, Yes,
the Aaron Boone bobblehead in the dugout. And he's become
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like a tenured professor. Aaron Boone. He's either too dumb
or too soft, or a little bit of both to
ever push back on anything. And Max Freed is just
I'd rather have Max Fried at pitch one oh three.
He's better at pitch one o three than ninety ninety
five percent of the relief pitchers. But alas did not happen,
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the Nerds medal again, and the Yankees are on the
brink of elimination. The Red Sox need one more win.
Probably should win game two, though, because I don't even
know who's starting Game three for the for the Red Sox,
as somebody I've never heard of. So the Red Sox
halfway to advancing now quickly the last word here, the
(18:20):
last word? So, what are some of the other takeaways?
There were two other games that were not featuring here.
What were some of the other takeaways from game number
one of the wild Card Round?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Here?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So Saya Suzuki a big time home run the Chicago
Cups get her done three to one over the Podreys
at Wrigley Field in game one of that particular series. There, Now,
I loved watching Fernando Tatisse go zero for four for
the Pod Squad. How great was that? You know what
he needs? He needs a special shipment of ringworm medication
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because he's really good. When he's got the ring worm medication,
he gets like fourteen year contracts. How about Mando, Yeah,
good old many playoff Manny Machado. Oh for three for
the Padres and that pop gun Podre offense. Now they
if you go back, they have now mustered one run
in their last thirty three postseason innings. I'm told that's
not good. I'm told that's not good. And what happened
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to the belly gazing Podres didn't play with that swagger,
did not have that swagger all right in Cleveland, another
dominating pitching performance Trek Scouoble tying the postseason record with
fourteen strikeouts. Fourteen strikeouts. The Tigers beat up the I
say beat up, they beat the Guardians stude one. Although
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watching the Guardians play offense, holy crap do they suck?
My god? How did they come back? The fact that
they were able to outplay the Tigers the last month
of the year and win the division's fascinating. This is
one of the worst offensive teams of all time to
make the postseason that, in my opinion, it's a fact
here and the I mean the Guardians, and they're not
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bad office, they're historically bad. In fact, in this game
they were been draggled. The Guardians got out of thirty
three plate appearances, four balls left the infield, four out
of thirty three, four out of thirty three. Hodgepodge of nothingness.
The Cleveland Guardians there, and you kind of expected it.
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That two twenty six batting average the worst all time,
the worst batting average of all time for a playoff team,
not counting the shortened pandemic season, and also the worst
on base percentage ever for a playoff team, the Cleveland Guardians,
and the lowest slugging percentage going all the way back
to nineteen eighty eight. So that's that's a long time.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What does all this mean? Game one winner, Game one winner,
small sample sized Game one winner, Wildcard Round. They have
advanced in all twelve all twelve of the Wildcard series,
ten of them have been sweeps. So based on that,
the Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, and Dodgers all right really
good shape.
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hold for a while. We'll get to the calls in
a little bit, but we begin this hour back to
the meat and potatoes the show. We did some baseball
last hour, and we will get back to that, but
we moved to football and the story everyone is talking
about South Beach. Baby. We go to South Beach and
if you have working eyeballs, you saw the ghastly, ghastly
(23:44):
injury to the cheetah if you don't have functioning eyeballs.
You heard about the horrific injury to the cheating. So
have you heard the latest on this? No very good.
So Dolphins wide receive we got you. We got you
on this one. So Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill, they say,
(24:04):
he's not. I love this. He's not going to need
another surgery. He underwent a major operation hours after the
Dolphins Jets game to repair his dislocated left knee or
multiple ligaments, including his ACL. It was a case of snap,
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crackle and pop go the ligaments. Now, agent Drew Rosenhaus
he made some comments, but we have some audio. Here's
a Drew Rosenhouse commenting on Tyreek Hill. Let's go to
the audio tape. Take a listen. The surgery went well.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
All of the torn ligaments, the injuries went back in
a place naturally. There's no nerve damage, no blood flow issues,
no broken bones. The cartilage is fine. The goal is
for him to be ready to play next season. It's
only one surgical procedure. There was some concerned that it
(25:00):
might be more than one surgery, but right now everything
round as.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Well as we could have hoped for.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
We'll pray for Tyreek to have a speedy recovery. We
know he'll do a great job with this rehab and
the goal is for him to be back in and
back to himself by the start of next season.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Okay, do we know what medical school Drew Rosenhaus went
to do? We know I don't often look that. I'll
just google that. I'll put it on the AI there.
So let us discuss the question. Are you buying what
you just here? That's Drew Rosenhaus. Are you buying what
Drew Rosenhaus said what he is selling regarding the positive
(25:41):
outlook for Tyreek Hill, the Dolphins wide receiver. So I've
got Milton Bradley, Styrofoam, and Marty Grass and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make your Babushka's favorite cotton candy is what we're
going to make. So number one, number enough, all right,
(26:04):
one more time number. So to sum off what you
just sh stirred from Drew Rosenhause, he got in front
of the media and he was literally waving pomp pomps.
He had his cheerleading outfit on. Everything is terrific, sunshine,
rainbows and lollipops. Just left out one eighty bitty tiny
(26:30):
detail Drew Rosenhouse that the acl of Tyreek Hill was reconstructed.
He just kind of left it. I left that side
to put that over here, right, put that over here.
So also, Tyreek Hill is assuming he has a birthday.
We all have birthdays every year, unless we don't. He'll
be thirty two by next NFL season. So I don't think,
(26:54):
and again maybe I'm wrong. I just do the overnight show.
I don't think this is a trip to the dentist
office to have a cavity fill. This is a career
altering medical procedure. And the obvious thing is like, what
is the agent Drew Rosenhouse supposed to say? What is
he supposed to say? Like, well, it looks bleak. There's
(27:15):
a there's a priest and a rabbi coming in. They're
going to give last rites to Tyreek. I mean, come on,
he can't say he's cooked. You got to be positive there,
of course not. So this is what agents do. We
played the audio. Why didn't we play that? We had
the audio, That's why he played the audio. It's spin, spin, spin,
spin spin, Drew Rosenhouse serving up what I call Candyland
(27:37):
optimism with Milton Bradley sugarcoating on top of that Candyland
optimism here, and he does get a percentage of Tyreek
Kill's money, money, money, money. Yeah. So it's not giving
you a prognosis, Drew Rosenhaus. He's giving you more of
a sales pitch. That's what he's doing. He's an elevator pitch.
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Everything's great, Oh my god. Yeah, uh okay. So we
go back to what we said in a previous episode
of the show that Tyreek Hill is a speed racer,
blazing speed, tyreeg Kill right, blazing speed and all that stuff.
That is his superpower. That's it game breaking speed. So
you take that out of the equation and what do
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you got. You got just a five to ten wide
receiver with a lot of baggage, a whole lot of baggage.
And let's not forget all right, let's not forget here
that every surgeon says that the surgery went well. That
is a default answer if you've ever had a surgery,
if you've ever had a family member that's had a surgery,
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they always say, especially in sports, they always wow, it
went really well. The reason they say that is you
as you came out alive. There's a chance anytime you
have an operation, yet you're going to die on the
operating table, right. Unfortunately, that is the reality. And so
you came out alive. In every doctor for them, that's
a win. That is a win. You're not dead, You're alive.
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The operation was a success. The real success, as we
all know, will be if Tyreek Hill does return to form,
decent form and actually looks like the player that he
had been and not a washed up version, a cheap,
ripoff version of Tyreek Hill. So there you go to
(29:26):
giant flashing weasel word if that is a big time
weasel word. Now pace two to Atlanta we go, and
let's circle back to the trade chatter. We are now
into October. We're not that far away from the NFL
trade deadline. Falcons backup quarterback. That's right, mister Cousins. Not
my cousin, not your cousin, everyone's cousin, Kirk Cousins, who
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was a starter with the Vikings and these trashing Atlanta
announce Kirk Cousins the backup to Michael Pennix Junior, who
snunck it up against Carolina and then bounced back at
a big game here last weekend. So Kirk Cousins was
asked how he's approaching the upcoming trade deadline. He said, quote,
right now, it's just about the role I'm in, Cousins said,
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and I'm focused in on helping us win football games.
I'm being ready for next the next challenges we face.
He said, I'll stay sharp and you never know what
the league will bring close quote all right, So question,
how did that statement? How did that statement from Kirk
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Cousins on the trade deadline sound to you? All right?
So it sounded to me the Cousins quote is the
equivalent of biting into a rice cake. Is there anything
more disgusting than a rice cake? Oh? Yeah, It's like
he might as well just bite into styrofoam. Just enjoy
(30:53):
some styrofoam. Put some flavoring on that. No calories, no flavor,
no substance, no nothing. That was That was the quote
from Kirk Cousins. And I did the math on this.
Thirty nine words he said, thirty nine words. He somehow
in thirty nine words he said less than a politician
just before election day, which is fascinating. It's spam in
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the inbox is what it is. Delete delete, delete, delete, delete,
delete delete delete. The lead essentially told you, Kirk Cousins
essentially told you and me that, Hey, I'm in a
holding pattern at the Hartsfield Jackson Airport there waiting waiting
for air traffic control to clear the runway and tell
me where I need to go. That's it. It's a
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lot of nothing. It's a whole lot of other like
just cliches stacked on top of cliches and you just
throw it all in there and just see what you
got and a bunch of slop and we'll see how
that goes here. And that's essentially the script that you
recite as a professional athlete. You go to sportscliche dot
com and if you have no leverage, you just start
(32:01):
saying that nonsense. And Cousins knows. At this point, the
Atlanta Falcons, they have their hand on the joystick and
they're the ones that are playing the video game and
they're deciding like do they really want to get rid
of Cousins? Do they completely trust Michael Pennix Junior? Are
they completely strapped in with what they've got? And Cousins,
(32:22):
I know he's strapped in he's in coach. He's not
in first class right now. He's in coach and he's
got a middle seat and there's a fat guy on
each side of him. And that's where he's at now.
If the ravens Lamar Jackson looks like he's gonna be
out for for a little while, maybe longer than that,
who knows shut him down for the year? Who says no?
The Bengals who look like they've never played football with
(32:43):
Jake Browning? Or I like mystery team? Oh do do
do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do do Mystery day? Yeah, who will
it be? Who will step up that you're doing to zoom?
Would want a quarterback developing hot dot dot dot. So
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you gonna take a shot on Cousins. You know he's
got a lot of miles, got a lot of money, money, money, money. Otherwise,
Cousins will just be chewing bubblegum in purgatory for the
rest of the year, and either the Falcons will flip
him for a bag of peanuts, but unsalted peanuts, or
keep collecting frequent flyer miles. And you're just a bus rider.
(33:29):
You're in the back of the bus You're getting to
travel where the Falcons play games, but you're not actually playing.
There's no real destination there. That's it now, final point
to the courtroom by request a listener named Mike who
says he lives in the Greater Houston area and listens
to the show a couple of nights a week. He said,
why have you not mentioned this story?
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I said, okay, you want me to do a few
minutes on it, I'll do a few minutes. So what
is the story? A man who we talked about a
lot on this show over the last couple of years,
Tony buzz Be. The fact that I know who Tony
Buzby is is a testimonial to being a sleazy ambulance
chasing extraordinaire. And it's really impressive that. I mean, he's
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a billboard ambulance chasing lawyer in Houston and we know
who Tony Buzzby is. Like these guys, there's no I
don't we do the show from LA. There's no town
that has more ambulance chasing billboard lawyers than La. But
in Houston, Tony Busby is the go to guy. And
he's back in the spotlight again, back in the spotlight again.
So what is he doing. I'll give you the thumbnail
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version here, I'll give you the brief thumbnail notes. So
Busby is suing the NFL. Now is this some massage
gone back? No, now that was Deshaun Watson. This is
not Deshaun Watson. So he's suing the NFL. Get this.
This is great. He claims the league conspired with Cal
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McNair that's the owner of the Texans, to kick his brother,
someone named carry McNair out of the Texans ownership group.
Family drama, o rama. So let's discuss the question on
this one. What is Tony Busby looking to accomplish with
(35:23):
his latest lawsuit against the NFL. This regarding the ownership
of the Houston Texans. So this is straight out of
if you go back and you look this up on Wikipedia,
it's straight out of a bad soap opera. You've got
Dynasty meets Judge Judy to be played out in Lower
Manhattan Court and Busby he's not doing this. We know
(35:44):
Buzby's not doing this because he's pretending to do like
a mother Teresa like act. That's not what this is.
He's doing it, Why he's doing it? Tony Busby because
there is a giant pile of pesos right there on
the table, right, a lot of check a lot of
nice shekels right there, and he's seeking one hundred million
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bucks from the NFL, not twenty five thousand or fifte
hundred million dollars. That's not seeking justice, right, it's not
seeking justice. It's like walking into the NFL's ATM machine
with a ski mask on. Give me the money, money money.
So the NFL pays out hush money all the time.
(36:28):
The NFL is known for paying out hush money like
they give beads out at Marty Grass in New Orleans.
Right every time, every time there's a scandal, the default
position of the NFL is to drag it out, drag
it out, and then eventually, if it gets dragged long enough,
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you just get out the checkbook and you're on your way.
Whether it's the flate Gate, bounty gate, spygate, the gate
in your backyard, whatever gate, you name it, the league's
go to move is to throw a fat stack of
benjamins right there at the problem and just make it
go away. And Buzzby knows this. We all know. If
(37:10):
I know this, I'm doing the Overnight Show. And if
I know this, do you think everyone knows that? Everyone
knows it. He's essentially standing outside Roger Goodell's Park Avenue
offices there in Manhattan with a tin cup and he's saying,
spare change for the silent McNair. We need some spare
change here. And it's not about whether you're right or wrong.
(37:33):
It is not about that. It's about leverage. It's all
about the leverage. And this guy, Carrie McNair, I was
doing a little digging on him, doing some opposition research.
So he's the estranged brother who got escorted out of
the ownership group. He's the black sheep of the family here,
the ugly, redheaded stepchild of the family. And so raising
(37:56):
his hand he got in trouble because he soos he
According to the lawyer, he raised his his hand. There
was a family like a board meeting and he essentially,
I'm paraphrasing this, but he said, guys, we shouldn't be
running the franchise like this. This is a joke. That's
not right. You people are losers and you need to
do better. And they said, okay, that's great advice. We
really appreciate that advice. You're no longer going to own
(38:18):
part of the team. We're going to get rid of you.
You're done. That's it. And they booted him. Get your
ass out of here. And so the Busby account is
that this cost sixty million dollars in lost money. For
the kid that got kicked out says like, well, sixty million,
I need another forty million for damages I got to
(38:39):
pay Buzzby, so I need one hundred million dollars. And
so now it's timed for a lawsuit. So we're going
to do the lawsuit. And Buzzby knows, he knows the
NFL game. They certainly don't want the family feud to
play out in the media, and so they want nice,
tidy storylines. They want shiny new stadiums. They want European football.
(39:04):
He wants you to talk about someone named bad Bunny,
that's what they want. A lot of international love, that's
what they want. Taylor Swift walking through a stadium to
go to a luxury box. Those are the stories they want.
They don't want Bob McNair's kids play Game of Thrones
in Houston. That's not what they're looking for. That's not
(39:25):
what they're looking for.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
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Speaker 1 (39:32):
Here we Go, Here we Go.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
Here we.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
Gets great?
Speaker 1 (39:40):
And I mean, do my Andrew impersonation Dodgers Dodgers DoD
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (39:45):
After the Jets lost to the Dolphins on Monday, Sauce
Gardner says that he believes the Jets aren't getting calls
that better teams get from the officials. Ben, do you
think officiating favors the better teams?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yes? You know what this is. You know what kind
of sauce? It says? Weak sauce coop. What do you do?
I'd be so embarrassed, Like, just tell me you're soft
without telling me yourself. Come on, Yes, the NFL does
favor the better teams. Okay, I agree with you on that,
but don't complain about it. Become a better team. It's embarrassing.
He should not be called Sauce. That's not his real name,
(40:17):
that's a nickname. He should call him something else.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Next, after the Raiders fell to one in three following
their loss to the Bears, Pete Carroll was asked if
he's considering starting Kenny Pickett over Gino Smith next week,
Carrol said, no, nope, we're not there, Ben, When will
they be there?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Well, Coop, if you want to know what job security is,
it's having Kenny Pickett as your backup Quarterick. That is job.
This guy they found somebody that blows more than Geno Smith.
There was a famous talk shot back in the nineties
who's still doing talk radio. He used to put the
worst possible people in his filling host because he didn't
want anyone good as a filling host because he was
he was worried they would take their job. Like, if
(40:51):
you're Geno Smith, it's wonderful. Kenny Pickett can't play. The
guy sucks, So I mean, there's no reason a bench
Gino Smith next.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
Nick Yoki spoke with the media on Monday and declined
to say if he intends to sign an extension with
the Nuggets next offseason, but also said that his plan
is to quote be a Nugget forever. Yes, Ben, do
you think Jok will stay there in his whole career?
Speaker 9 (41:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Well, here's the way I see this, Like he seems
like one of those guys that will just retire early.
I don't think he really loves basketball. He just makes
a lot of money at it. He's passion is like
Polish horses. So yeah, I could see him retiring in
a couple of years. He's made enough money and that's it.
So uh yeah, I could see him only being a nugget,
but just because he's not gonna play till he's you know,
(41:32):
an old man. Right there, It is mallardly third deree.
How did we do you pass? They win? Sas cover,
I won, I'm a winner. I won the game.
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It's up, its little rain and enough hearts going to
help you. Gear Rye, gear ride to n gear Ryn.
Speaker 8 (42:06):
Dear Rye.
Speaker 9 (42:08):
That's right, you heard the man. It is time for
love here on the Ben Mallor Show. You know, we
all love love, and I like to start out the
segment by giving a little piece of advice. And if
you are going to be cheating on your woman at
a festival, make sure you don't know other people there.
You could be recorded and that video could be sent
to your woman.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh so be careful. I feel like this is a
very specific Yes it happened.
Speaker 9 (42:32):
It happened around me and my group of friends this weekend.
So I just want to give everyone a warning. If
you're gonna do some scandalous things, make sure you are
in a private area.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Is there really a private area? We live in a
police thing. Yeah, there's a ewhere Super Eights. Okay, So well,
do's a hotel down the street here, the seven seven seven.
Speaker 9 (42:51):
They have a continental.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Brand name it. I was gonna rip it, but yeah,
all right, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (42:56):
Oh yeah, so that was my advice for the day.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Okay, so if you're planning on cheating, make sure that
there's no camera there are Is that a bad place?
I was gonna stay there. I think they charged by
the hour. Shane and Shane and the Moine rights and says, hey,
if your significant other uses social media, are you obligated
to follow their page or pages? It seems redundant to me.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
I mean yes and no. I think it's fun to follow,
but if you already live together, then yeah, it's not
really a necessity. Also, don't don't be one of those couples.
I guess the join pages that means you don't have
any trust. But also you could be seen as a
hater if you're not following yourself. Like when celebrities break up,
they unfollow each other on social media. So part of
following your lover on there is that you can support,
(43:43):
so you can still like their things, you can comment
and be like, oh my gosh, you're so beautiful today.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Yeah. Oh, it's just stay off social media altogether, like
you've kind of forced the if you're on there, you
might as well. Yeah. JT. The Wingman writes in from Knoxville, Tennessee.
He says, Hey, since Halloween is coming up later this month,
what is the best Halloween costume for couples that enjoyed
the lifestyle? Oh? Yeah, I enjoy that lifestyle. Which lifestyle
(44:08):
is he talking about? He's talking about having a swing
on one side and I don't know.
Speaker 9 (44:12):
Oh, well, you know, I think that'd be really fun.
I like those plug in couples ideas and if you
get well, if you get a multiple adapter, think about that. Like,
if you're into swingers, like swinging and get.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Multiple adapters Tekiva and line, you.
Speaker 9 (44:25):
Could dress as a pineapple and a juicer. Yep, there
you go, baby, let's go all right, Alameda Lou did
call in.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
We smoked out, Alameda, Lou, I love you still have
the same Kingfish there, Lou still here.
Speaker 10 (44:41):
So I think Lorena has a vibrant fan club on
this show. Dude to call in and kind of hit
on her. As a bartender at Kingfish, I've built up
my own fan club, And my question for Lorena is
is it wrong of me to not be interested in
these women but kind of yucking up tips while denying
(45:02):
every date opportunity to ask on Well, no, I.
Speaker 9 (45:04):
Mean you need to be picky with who you actually
let access your circle. And if they want to tip
you more than they will, they also don't have to
tip you at all. They could just be like, I'm
gonna flirt with this guy and he'p he gives me
more alcohol.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Not one of these women you found attractive, Not one
of them.
Speaker 10 (45:19):
It has nothing to do with that.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
I just think.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
I think it would be weird meeting your person you
don't want to meet where you where you eat, or
you don't want to poop where you eat.
Speaker 10 (45:29):
I've dabbled in meeting a woman at the bar before,
and whatever happened, she ended up pregnant and thank god
it wasn't mine.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Oh my, that would be a mess.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
That is wildish.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Yeah yeah, just you know, work the man and still
milk it. You got to use the charm Lorena, right,
the charm men with what they really want to see.
There you go, Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Is attention.
Speaker 8 (46:01):
Everyone is password, you idiot? Password the word Game of
the Stars. Here's Ben Meler. All right, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Here we go, password time. Let's welcome in our contestants
against my better judgment, we have hollering James. Hello, James.
Oh you're awake now you were on the air twice
already sleeping? Okay, James, welcome. Who do you want to
partner up with? James? Oh? Thank god? How lucky am
I am? I the luckiest man in the world. Holy crap,
(46:32):
My dreams are coming through. I know all right? It
was amazing, Yes, all right? And John is in Needles.
In Needles is a town in California named Needles. Hello John, Hello, man,
what's going on? John? Who do you want to partner
up with? We've got Lorena or Coop cool Lorena, you're
(46:55):
out of the show. I hate when I don't get picked.
I know, well you hit all the mail though, you're right,
I'll take that instead. Oh what about me?
Speaker 2 (47:03):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (47:04):
What am I? Six? And shoes? I don't know. On radio,
I'm very cute in person, and on TV not so much. Anyway. Oh,
let's play the game. We have a list of words here,
and you have punched James and James pick a number
one to ten, hollering James, the legend in Minnesota, hollering James,
(47:26):
number one, number one? Can you say that a little
more pizazz?
Speaker 9 (47:32):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (47:36):
All right? How about premature?
Speaker 6 (47:42):
Mature?
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Oh no, oh no, no, first number one. So you
think you by saying the word number one that the
clue would be oh my god. No, Go ahead there, Coop, John, John,
let's go with punctual early. Yeah, you got it on
(48:10):
my clue. I guess, all right, John, picking number one
to two to ten, John, let's.
Speaker 6 (48:16):
Do it number ship, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Let's go with uh oh, come on, come on, let's
go with uh gag No, James, let's go James wise.
Crack that's one word. Why is crack? Wise? Crack. Pick
(48:47):
a number, James, pick a number, picking James number three. Uh,
you know we're don't have time. We can't get it
in now. We ended up in a tip. Oh next week,
you guys want to call back, We'll do it. Next week.
We'll tie hay ties. What is this the NFL
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