October 3, 2025 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about the teams that are moving on in the MLB postseason including the Yankees, Cubs, and Tigers, the Rams coughing up the game against the 49ers on TNF, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
We'll call it the Bronx. Comeback. Welcome in the beginning
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the way tire buying shuld be. So I had an
editorial decision to make, and before we get into that,
I will point out that the normal social media rundown
of all the topics to come not up yet because
it's a one man band. Then I didn't have time
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to do it, so screw you. It'll be up later.
It'll be up later. For those loads of you that
have no life and need that information, you'll just have
to stand by. You'll just have to stand by. But
I did have an editorial decision to make. Did I
go with the football game a week five NFL regular
season game or a day that was tied for the
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greatest elimination day in baseball history? And I made that
editorial decision. Play the hit, small man, Play the hit.
So we'll start with baseball. We have plenty of time.
It's a black canvas of talk radio four hours to
paint in oil painting or in our case of finger painting,
but we will be here all night, so we have
plenty of time to get down to business on all
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the things that took place in the sporting world. But
our lead this hour is from the burrow of the Bronx,
and I mentioned it. Three elimination games all day would
have been four, but the red screwed that up and
they lost to the Dodgers in two. So we'll start
our in depth team coverage around the clock in the
Bronx mentioned game three Wildcard round, Red Sox and Yankees
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A couple of no name pitchers on the mound. And
I don't know if you were watching this or not.
It was going against the NFL game. Maybe you're not
a baseball person, but I checked it out. I was
flipping back and forth, my right hand was getting a workout,
and rookie right hander Cam Schlittler gotta say that slowly,
that's an FCC violation waiting to happen. Cam Schlittler, who
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grew up a Sox fan, he grew up a Red
Sox fan. But we didn't hear that story, did we
all know? They didn't. They didn't really promote that at all. No,
they wanted to keep that on the DL, keep that
on the down low. Well, Cam went out and struck
out not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
not six, not seven, not eight, not nine, not ten,
not eleven, how about twelve in eight dominating innings. And
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the Yankees, who looked like they were on the doorstep
of death early on in this series, they have come
all the way back here. The Bronx Bombers ended up
stomping the Red Sox for nothing in the deciding third
game of the wild Card round, So that means now
we can all sing no da da da la good bye,
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just like that. So that's it. If you had the
Red Sox going to the divisional series, you were a loser.
And so this taking place, you know, the pitching performance
of Kim Schlittler, putting him right in the middle of
that Yankee Red Sox lore, the rivalry twenty four years old,
overpowering the futile Boston Red Sox line up there and
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in his fifteenth major league start. Now, who's that guy
the mizz from the Brewers who made the All Star
team after like two starts or something like that. So
they don't even care anymore? Who cares? Just did I?
We just want you to be good, So we're gonna
we're gonna make you be good. And you're good. And
I bet it was a great night, fifteenth big league start.
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And I didn't think he would pitch like that. I don't.
You didn't either. Don't lie to me. You didn't think
like he was gonna do that. Come on, So New
York is on now to the best of five divisional
series against the American League Eastern champions and the team
of the Great North. Oh god, the Toronto Blue Jays
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that begins Saturday. Saturday. Saturday, we won't be watching that.
We'll be watching college football, but that'll start on Saturday.
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
That's right in the losing locker room, and so that
is where we will begin our in depth team coverage
here as it goes the way of the Yankees. So
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where did things go wrong for Alex Korra's Red Sox.
I've got Rodo Ruter, radiohead and water fowl, and we'll
put all these together and we're going to deep fry
some crunchy tacos. That's right. The proper way to eat
tacos is the gringo taco, which is a fried taco.
That's the proper way to eat. The taker, my buddy, Alex,
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may he rest in peace, who said they what are
you doing eating tacos like that? I said, they just
taste better. He said, you're crazy. I said, don't care.
They just taste better. And that's it. Before we get
into the meat of it, though, let's hear from Alex Cora,
the losing manager here, as he was commenting on the
performance of Cam Schlittler of the Yankees. Taylors.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We needed to be perfect tonight because he was perfect.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I mean, stuff is outstanding.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
He was under control.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That was electric. That was electric, Yes, electric. Of course
you helped him. Let's not pretend like that didn't happen there.
My advice to the Red Sox is to watch the
old tom Omanski VHS instructional videos to learn the fundamentals
of baseball, because that's a big part of this. They said, well,
Red Sox didn't score, and so you can't win if
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you don't score, and well, that certainly is true. Wowsers.
It's the little things here. Cody Bellinger, who was completely
washed up at the end of his time with the
Dodgers and bounced around. I have found a home there
with the Yankees. But Bellinger popped up to shallow center field.
It was a fourth inning Sedane Rafaela, Rome, Gonzalez and
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William Bray. You all converged, So you got three players
all converging on the on the play, and they all
watched as the ball dropped and it was a Belly double.
And later on there was a play tretore he dove.
He failed to get a Ahmed Rosario single, so all
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could have gotten that play. Anthony Volpi hit a little
bit of a dribbler there that eluded Romey Gonzalez for
a double, and so it kind of looked like a
Benny Hill sketch. There was some bumbling over there, There
was some fumbling over there, stumbling defense, all of that.
But wait, there's more. In what could have been a
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massive double playball, Austin Wells hit a ground ball that
bounced off the glove of Nathaniel Low. Doesn't Nathaniel Low
look like he should be working in a cubicle somewhere
and not playing professional baseball? This guy looks just it's
very odd. I know he's been decent and at a
decent CAREBA, he just looks weird in that Red Sox uniform.
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It looks like he should be working nine to five,
like a corporate job in an office somewhere and have
a cubicle and then go to the break room and
get stuff out of the vending machine, not playing in
the baseball playoffs. But anyway, so needless say, Austin Wells
hit a grounder bounced off the glove of Nathaniel Low
into right field, and that allowed another two runs to score.
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And so instead of it being just a reasonable margin.
It was for nothing game, set, and match. And now
Alice Cork should have also just contacted Rodo Ruter needed
a plumber. There, the leaky defense sparking the Yankees rally
in this one. And the Red Sox apologists will say, well,
they didn't have Roman Anthony. He was heard blah blah
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blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However,
even without that, they were still in position.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Here.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Self inflicted wounds, self inflicted wounds. Now, Jared Duran, who
he said himself, I'm not ripping him. He just said
I cost the Red Sox Game two with his poor
defensive play. He also ended up batting ninety one, which
I believe was an interstate in the series. And that
defensive blunderbacking Game two. Sedane Raffaelo, we talked about him.
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He had as many hits in the wild card round
as you and I had a zero zero, zero batting average,
and he brought a glove that was a could also
double as a frying pan in this particular game. So
you know, I didn't play professional baseball. I'm just just
observing here. Did not look did not look very good.
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Did not look very good? All right, now, turny the page.
We go to Chicago. We head to the Windy City,
the friendly Confines where our friend Yupimi, our buddy Eugene
in Chicago, tree in Chicago. All the boys very happy there,
the Chicago wing of the mal or Militia. Because the
Cubbies got it done. Pete crow Armstrong, who took the
second half of the baseball season off, hit a Ribby
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single off of you, Darby. I remember that, you, Darbish.
I remember that guy. That is the guy I watched
in twenty seventeen Game seven against the cheating a Holes.
I saw that, you, Darvish. I saw that guy. How
you like that, Sandy, I go, that's you, Darvish. Well
are they gonna say they was tipping his pictures. Every
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time a pitcher has a bad game, he was tipping
his pictures. No pitchers allowed to have a bad game.
It's always there tipping their pictures. Anyway, you Darvish. Shaky,
needless more than shaky. And the Cubs shut down the
Peacock Fernando Tatis Junior and the Podres. There was some
horrifically bad umpiring. I think the cub umpire his favorite
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the well the home played Umpire's favorite club, Harry Carey.
Not just all a bit outside. Oh no, no, oh
my god. What there was one call in the ninth
inn by the Padres have gotten some of those calls
against them. When you know, years ago they were in
the World Series against the Yankees, and there was a
guy named Mark Langston, you know who that is, but
he was on the mound and I think it was
Tino Martinez and there was a pitch like right down
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the middle and they called it a ball and then anyway,
uh so that was a terrible call. But nonetheless, the
Podres end up going down. The Cubs clinch it. They
win three to one in Game three. Next up for
Chicago the very short road trip up to their NL
Central rival, the Brew Crew in a rather compelling divisional
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series matchup. And that'll begin also on Saturday. We'll be
watching college football, but that'll be going on. You've got
Craig Counsel who left the Brew Crew, a native son
of Wisconsin, left Brew Crew. He got the cash, show
me the money they paid him. The money he took.
The cash goes to Chicago. But the better story is
on the loser side and the San Diego Padres. What
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an epic disaster. This is just so bad considering everything
that they did. I did everything right and they end
up getting bumped out of the playoffs in three games.
So now people pointing fingers at the front office in
San Diego. So we'll address that thumbs up or thumbs down,
thumbs up, thumbs down? Should should Padres gm aj Preller
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be fired for mortgaging the future of the Padres on
a world series or bus gamble which has now busted.
So I'm gonna go thumbs down on this. I'm gonna
go thumbs down to me, this is a bugs life.
Sometimes you're the windshields, sometimes you're the bug. And this
time Preler's Padres got crushed like a snink bump bug
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on a highway, right, just squashed And yeah, you can
cue the radiohead track let down, Right, it's a let down.
They went all in. They shoved every chip to the
middle of the table. The nerds who were having coronarias,
Oh my god, you traded all of our prospects, Oh
my god. And yes they busted. Nevertheless, I thought it
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was refreshing at the time. I'm not gonna alter my take.
I like, I'm not a Padre guy, right, you know
some of you know I started it by radio sojourn
in San Diego. I'm not a Padre guy, but I
thought it was refreshing in a sport where most of
the teams are run by IVY League. And let me
point out, Preller's an IVY League guy. He just doesn't
act like it a lot of the time. But these gms,
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most of them sit on their hands clutching their precious
future assets. We can't trade the future. We can't give
up the future because every young player is going to
be great, and the reality is most of them blow
and Preler said, screw it. He said, we want to win.
We want to win now. We've never want anything. So
let's fortify the roster. Let's take the real swing and
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go for it. And that's exactly what they did. They
built the super bulpen and prospects. I've said this for years,
they're a renewable energy. You draft every year, you restock
every year. The system replenishes itself. In baseball, and losing
a few high end teenagers in a ball for a
real shot to get that hunk of metal. I'll take
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that gamble ten out of ten times. The bigger problem
here the guys that were already in Podre uniforms sucked
at a time you cannot suck. The core of the
roster did not show up when it mattered. And I'm
talking about Fernando Tatist who batted eighty three many machato.
These guys love to talk and all that, and he
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batted one hundred and then the cherry on top. My guy,
you Darvish, who could not even survive more than one inning,
twenty one pitches, twenty one pitches in an elimination game
for you, Darbise, I'm told that is the shortest outing
of his entire career. The vaunted bullpen, they didn't get
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to sniff the lead because in this game they didn't
have the lead, and so Preler took the shot. He
did his job. Your job is to improve the roster,
to give them the top opportunity to win. He did that.
It's the stars who couldn't get it done right. They're
the ones that f this up. Now, last word, we
go to Cleveland. Why because there was another elimination game
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and someone named Dylan Dingler, but he got picked on
in school. Dylan Dingler, that's a catcher for Detroit from
Northeast Ohio. Another one of these stories, right, we mentioned
Kim Schlittler of the Yankees, got a lot of attention
from being a Boston guy or a Massachusetts guy, and
he shoved it down the throat of the Red Sox. Well,
Dylan Dingler theme of the day from Northeast Ohio. He
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grew up a fan of the Cleveland Indians, not the Guardians,
because they were the Indians when he's a little kid.
And he had a go ahead solo home run in
the sixth inning. The Tigers would go on to score
five runs and they ended up beating the Cleveland baseball
team six to three the final in the early game.
And so the Tigers now head to Seattle for a
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playdate with the Big Dumper and cal Raley, I know, crying.
Craig's excited about that. Robbie the Marina fan, JJ ANDRN
and those guys are all all fired up. No stradinas
for sure, and so that'll be that. But the better
store here is obviously on the other side. So the
question on this one quickly, the question is this sea
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isn't considered a success or a failure for Guardians manager
Stephen Voight, as they end up getting eliminated in the
wildcard round. So I'm gonna go success, So I'll nod
my head yes on success, which is very bizarre. You know,
even my cynical talk radio ass has to acknowledge the
Komodo dragon in the room here that these guys had
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no business being in the playoffs, right, total interlopers. The
Cleveland baseball team, the Little Engine that could, the waterfowl,
the ugly ducklings who were waddling into the playoff pond,
and the other geese were like, what are you doing here?
You don't belong here? And what are you doing, ugly ducklin?
Get out of here, ugly ducklin, you don't belong here.
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Where the geese? You're an ugly ducklin? And they stayed. Yeah,
but it's serious. I mean, they shouldn't have been here
at all, and it's it's a testimonial to how incompetent
the Tigers are that they got here. I mean, this
was not champagne and lobster roles. This was like wedding
crashers sneaking in trying to steal some dessert and hit
the mini bar, the open mini bar and go for that.
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But they finished. Cleveland finished with eighty eight wins. They
ranked twenty eight out of thirty teams in runs scored,
worst offensive team ever to make the playoffs. That's not
just below average, that is actively offensive, actively offensive to
your taste, buds. They had not one, but two pitchers
who are in the doghouse because of gambling accusations. They
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were throwing pitches for prop bets so their buddies could
make money allegedly. So these were not thoroughbreds. These were
rescued dogs. Hard four. There were fifteen and a half
games back in July. I believe they were still eleven
games back in September, and somehow Someway staged the largest
end season comeback in baseball history to steal the American
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League Central, only to exit stage left after three games.
But that's a pigeon showing up at the Kentucky Derby.
It was a September to remember, twenty and seven, twenty
and seven, seven forty one winning percentage, top record in baseball,
and it looked like they had found the magic carpet
and they were flying. However, as we know because we're
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smarter than the average bear. Momentum is bullshoy. It does
not exist. And so the playoffs started and poof, see
you later, Bye bye. The carpet yank the magic carpet
yanked away, and they did a face first plant right
in the mud, right in the mud. So but despite that, again,
I'll be Benny brightside, Cleveland did overachieve. They're not that
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good a team. They made it. Congratulations to Steven Voyd
got more out of that roster than anyone should have
gotten out of that roster. So there you go. Not
that that helps you feel any better because you've been eliminated.
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hear this. They did. I did a baseball rant last hour.
I don't care about the baseball.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Shut up? I'll give you to one. I'll dance, dance,
monkey dance, all right, I'm gonna dance. I'm gonna train seal,
I'm gonna put the damn ball on my nose, and
I'm gonna dance for you with the ball on my nose?
Are you happy? A train seal? So we head to
southern California in NFC West grudge match that was supposed
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to be a mismatch. Every key indicator pointing how battered
and broken the forty nine ers were heading into the
Hood and Inglewood and up to no good? Boy? Were
they up to no good? As they took on the
heavily favored La Rams. This line skyrocketed by five points. Now,
you're probably not a gambler. You might not even care
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about gambling. That is a big line movement. It went
from three to three and a half to up to
eight and a half points, and the game ended up
going to ohver time. If you didn't see it, maybe
you're blind or you weren't into it. Eddie Pinero remember him.
The old Bears kickers passed around, hit a forty one
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yard field goal in overtime that joinked off the cross
a crossbar there before. San Francisco was about to lose anyway,
and then they stuffed Kyron Williams on fourth down with
three thirty six to play on a fourth down play
and the short handed forty nine Ers celebrating, I get it.
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You beat the Rams you should celebrate. That's a much
better team than you. And the Niners celebrated. They hung on.
They win by a field goal over the pathetic Rams
on Thursday night. Now, the story here is Sean McVay postgame,
who was asked about his decision. He went for it
on fourth down, it didn't work. He's getting absolutely roasted
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Sean McVay for his decision. And here's McVeigh. He's like, hey,
you know, you can goof on me all you want.
Here Sean McVay pointing out that he's the one that
fed up take a list.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It's a bad call. It's a bad call by me.
Thought about maybe trying to draw him off sides. I
took one, they took the other, and it was a
poor decision by me right there. But you know, you
give the Niners credit. They made enough plays to be
able to win the football game. We had plenty of
chances throughout this game. You know, we stayed in it,
We fought, we battled. But I'm pretty sick right now.
I'm sick of the spot that I put our group.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
In to end the game.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
But hey, these are the tough beats that you got
to be able to learn from and move forward, and
that'shere're going to do.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
All right, So that was McVeigh there. He also went
on he did curse later on and that beginning. I
think that would be a good drop. We don't usually
do these anymore, but the very beginning. Let's play this,
McVeigh again, because I think that's a quick, hot drop
that we can use on the show, just the beginning
of that. McVeigh play that again. Let's see this. It's
a bad call. It's a bad call by me. Thout
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isn't that? Would that not be a great drop? I
know we don't do a lot of drops, but that
would be a That would be a great drop because
the reason I think that's a great job it's an
evergreen drop. Now what an evergreen drop is? We can
use it what I like to do. I used to
do this a lot with some of the old engineers.
We do out of context drops. For example, there was
a hockey coach who had one of the all time
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great postgame rants. We sucked at a time we couldn't suck,
you know, and all this stuff, and uh, we play
out of context audio. So I think that McVeigh thing
would be great, like for example, let's do a little
game here. Let's just do it again real quick on
the fly. So I'll be like, Hey, the Dodgers are
gonna lose game one of the Phillies and day Roberts
was gonna make a mistake with his bullpen. So we'll say,
here's Dave Roberts. Dave, can you explain what happened with
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your bullpen. It's a bad call. It's a bad call
by me thought about it. Oh it's so good God.
Is that a great drop? We need that? Can we
get that? Can you get can we get that?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Whatever you want?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I need that in my life. I need that drop
in my life. I need that. I need that drop.
All right, all right, here's now I like profanity. We're
overnight safe Harbor. I'm reminded every time I get paid
that I'm on overnights. So let's play Sean McVay, who
needs to have his mouth washed out with soap and
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water take a list.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
In hindsight, I wish I would have, but uh no,
we were. We came in here to try to win
the football game. It didn't go down Forest Gary. That
was that wasn't even a thought. But the play selection
was very poor. I'm sick right now because I put
our players in a spot and uh, I gotta live
with that.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
All right. Well that's the story. The better stories in
losing locker room. So what do you say? Let's rally
around the radio here, we'll huddle around and we'll discuss
the question. Was he's very hard on himself? But was
Rams coach Sean mvay gutsy or goofy going for it
on fourth down, down by a field goal in overtime.
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So my observations, I've got Farmers Market offer up and Jacuzzi,
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number one enough, all right. So the arrow on this
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one is I actually like what McVeigh did. I clearly
don't like the result, but I like that he went
for it. I like that he's gutsy and I know
what he's doing. He's protecting his team, right, He's like,
blame me. I'm the bad guy. You know, I'm the
one that left up bad call, bad call by me.
I know what he's doing all right, But this was
not Cowards tie, you know, tie ball special. McVeigh actually
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had intestinal fortitude. And they didn't show this on the
Amazon broadcast, and I wish Al Michaels had shown it.
He's probably back in bed there in Brentwood right now,
but if they had shown it, like went went for it, right,
he went down. McVeigh went down to the farmer's market
and it turns out that his balls are the size
of cantilopes, really candalopes, and he's I'm not living in
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a world where ties exist. I don't want ties, no ties.
I don't need a tie. We had the Cowboys and
the Packers tie. How much did that suck? Right? It
was embarrassing for the NFL for the product to embar.
Mcveigh's like, no, we're gonna win the game. We're gonna
win the better team. We're gonna win the game. I say, bravo.
Now that's it again. I cannot ignore the execution. It's
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like the old line from the Buccaneers coach back in
the Jay back in the day, John McKay said, what
do you think your team's execution? And he said, I
support it, I'm in support of it, but McVeigh, like,
I go through the psychology of this stuff, and am
I overthinking it? Probably? But I have a talk show
to do, so I'm probably overthinking it. But like McVeigh
put the ball in Kyron Williams's hands, the Golden domer,
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and he did it for reputation rehab. That's why he
did it. The same guy who had already gagged in regulation.
I coughed up the fur ball with a little over
a minute to go in regulation. It was like sending
the person who just dropped the wedding cake back into
the bakery to carry out the next wedding cake. Like,
that's ballsy, right, that's ballsy. I mentioned balls the size
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of candles. He wanted to give a confidence boost to
his running back. The problem the turd in the punch
bowl is the players shrank down. They had balls. The
size of chickapiece is what they had. So mcveigh's got cantalopes,
they got chickapiece. Williams now has stank all over. He
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fumbled at the goal line and then what happened over time?
You know what that is. That's the Chris collins Worth
double doink is what that is? Doink doink, except they
didn't go through the uprights. He lost the game twice.
Do you know how hard it is for one player,
when there's eleven players on the field on both sides
and special teams, for one guy to be such a
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stumble bumb He lost a game twice and he's not
a quarterback. You know how hard that is. You know
the math on that, the malor math, how difficult it is.
Kyro Williams, congratulations, you get to wear the Booby prize.
You did it now regardless, All right, mcveigh's you know,
I'm the bad guy and all that. He's taking the
bullet on that. But it's not about the decision. It's
about the result. McVeigh tried to give this kid his
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redemption tor and the kid pooped his pants. You know,
it's like the kid. You know, they go number number
one and then you say, okay, well you're not gonna
go number one again. No, I'm not Dad, I'm not
gonna go number one. Mom, I'm not gonna go number
one again. But then they want number two, and you said, well,
you didn't go number one, you're right, but you want
number two. You're not supposed to number two either. But
again McVeigh I like it. He had start, they went
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for it, and Williams it turns out has stonehands, So
it's unfortunate turn of events. Down page two, keeping the
theme of the hour, going the question here, what is
the most embarrassing part of the Rams? The biggest favorite
round biggest Favoriteously there's a one game where the line
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is bigger this weekend, but the Rams eight and that
point favorites losing outright at home to a beaten and
broken forty nine er team. So the answer, what's the
most embarrassing thing? This is easy, easy. They sashade their
way into Sofi Stadium, right, and they're like, oh, we
got no problem. Kyle Shanahan is putting backups of backups
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in there, right, guys who were plucked from the NFL's
reject bin. And those guys out hustled, outworked and shoved
it down your throat the forty nine ers. You know,
I'm not a forty nine fan or nest On, you
know those guys, big forty nine er guys on the show,
and they call the show and our friend from Berkeley
as well. But listen that that's criminal. It's one thing
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to lose but all you have to do is work
halfway decently. You win the game. You have a huge
talent advantage. Now how do you overcome a lack of talent?
You outwork the other team. That's what the forty nine
ers did, and Sean mcvay's team acted like all they
had to do was punch the time card, put their
feet up, have a cocktail and just wait for the
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time to run by and they can collect a w
and instead because of their own performance where they went
out there and they played like they were soft o
gouie football players. They had no edge, they had no passion,
they had no character, and they got an l LA
thought they were scoring freebius like they were going on
that offer up app and they're like free pick up
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curbside and they're like, okay, I'm gonna get that used
couch and so they showed up. They're like, okay, this
is good. I'm gonna get used couch off offer up.
So they went and they got it and it was nice.
It was like one or two in the morning. They
picked up the couch off off or up and it
looked kind of nice, and they put it in the
back of their truck. They got home, they took it out.
They put it up in their apartment and it turns
out it smells like cat urine. But it was free.
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It was free. Yeah. Yeah, the forty nine ers rolled out.
I looked at their depth. We handicapped the game with
the Thursday night games for Benny versus depending on YouTube,
and so I was handicapping in the game. I look
at everything. I was like, I hate betting favorites. I
cannot stand betting favorites. But I looked at it. It's like,
is there the only way? Well that there were two
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ways the forty nine Ers could have won this game.
One of them is if like Stafford had gotten hurt
or like a couple of key players got hurt from
the Rams, but that didn't happen. The other way would
have been if the Rams just go la la la
la la la la la la la la la la,
don't put any effort in, and that's what happened. I
did not. That is not a way that Sean Yvay's
teams have generally played. And the flotsam and jetsam of
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the forty nine Ers, they piled up twenty seven first downs.
I've been told I've been sold to Billy Goods about
how great the Rams defense is. Twenty seven first downs.
You gave the backups of the backups over four hundred
yards of offense. And here's the kicker, Mac Jones, Yes,
Mac Jones, the guy who has been terrible most of
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us Black and Blue all night, and he still outplayed you.
That's like losing a karaoke contest to William Hung. I
don't even know if people know who that is anymore,
but he look him up. But embarrassing, right, It doesn't
even begin to describe what happened there for the Rams.
And it's three strikes. You're out. Strike one, you're lazy, okay,
Strike two, you lack passion that strike two, here's the
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third pitch, Strike three, lack of character, boom done. That's it.
Strike one, strike two, strike three, that's it. And again,
if you're McVeigh, this is the stuff that happens to
other teams, this is not the stuff that happens to
MC face team. The Rams lose games. They normally lose
because they're not as good as the opponent in certain matchups.
To lose like this, they missed a field goal in
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this game. The special teams continue to be a problem
the forty nine ers in overtime, they got the ball
because of that fugasey kickoff rule. The idiot, I'd cut
the Ram kicker. I don't care I on his fold
those kicks up. I'd cut him anyway. He's not even
a real player, the kicker. But he didn't get the
kick in the kicking zone where it needed to go,
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And so the Niners took over deep in their own territory,
which made it a short situation to get into field
goal range. And so listen, they deserve to lose. The
Rams was really just gutless the way they played the
first half. They played better after that, but you got
to play a whole game, all right. Final point, Let's
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address what my friends who are forty nine er fans
are all horny for, and that is the play of
their quarterback. Did Mac Jones just earn a new lease
on life? Patriot trash, Jaguar trash? Did Mac Jones just
during a new lease on life on an Island game?
Or is this just a one week mirage for Mac Jones?
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So I'm certainly not going to overreact here and say
that this is a resurrection for Mac Jones. I'm not
going to be that guy. It was a one night pass. Congratulations, Vip.
You get behind the velvet ropes and you did that there,
and we'll see what happens going forward. Chances are he
goes back to bumming quarters like weed man hippie at
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the bus station. But mac Daddy, he was in the jacuzzie, right,
he was in the dakoozie. And he took the hot
tub time machine back to Tusca Losa, Alabama, playing shade
smooth operator on repeat. No stress, no mass, no stress,
no mass. He carved up the rams. I didn't think
that was possible. In the first half. Now he went
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as good as the second, But the first half it
was like he was at Alabama in twenty twenty playing
against Mississippi State or Auburn just killing him. He actual
he looked like he knew what he was doing at
the NFL level. He was a surgeon, is what he was.
Clean hands, sharp, a sharp, scalpel, scalpel. And he didn't
even sneeze. Know in the past he'd be sneezing on
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the patient while they were all cut open. Regardless of that, though,
all right, let's hold off on building a statue in
Santa Clara for Mac Jones. Here. What this does do, though,
and this is the part that I like as a
talk show host, is it creates a problem for Brock Party.
And I like that. I'm into that, right because I
was the guy barking from the top of the mountain,
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what are you doing? You shouldn't play Rock Party. He's
not that good a quarterback. Oh my god. So I
was that guy, right, And my point was, it's the system, stupid.
My point was, it's the Kyle Shanahan coaching these guys
up right, scheming these guys up at Brock Purty is
not very good. But he got schemed up by Shanahan.
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You got boxing and Midl Corny. You had to pay him.
So if my hypothesis is correct, and of course he
thinks they're wrong, So I think my hypothesis is correct.
You look at this and Mac Jones, he does have
a little bit of a new lease on life, but
not a full new lease on life just because you
threw a clean game in October. But this adds to
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the mythical powers of Kyle Shanahan being a QB whisper.
Also the worst big game coach in NFL history. But
every guy looks better in that system. And I know
John Lynch was very happy there after the game and
they were showing shots. It looked like Robert Sally I think,
had an orgasm with the thirty five yard line, the
defensive coordinator. These guys are all fired up. But the
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Niners gave one hundred and eighty one million dollars to
guaranteed to Brock Party, who suddenly doesn't look all that
special compared to a scrap heap guy who has now
outplayed him this season. Mac Jones, how does that taste that?
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That's a little bitter, right, that's sweet and sour. That's more.
It's like Brock Purdy got the Lamborghini contract. He can
buy a whole house of Lamborghini. And then you got
mac Jones out there driving a used Corolla with two
hundred thousand miles on it. He goes out and side
by side he beats the Lamborghini in the Indy five hundred.
Now that being said, he did not play as well
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Mac Jones in the second half. It was really really
good early couple touchdowns, very impressive. The first half. The
numbers did do the dipsy do in the second half
is the game we're on. But overall, a net positive
a net positive, and it doesn't mean that he's the
franchise savior. However, when Brock Purdy does get back on
the field, and inevitably Brock will go out there and
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he'll cough up a hairball, and then people say, people
call the forty nine Ers postgame show, and then local
sports radio in the Bay Area they'll be like, well,
what's going on? What about Mac Joke? Who you are?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Mac Joe?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Well you should play Mac Jones.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 1 (39:01):
Here we go, Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
This is one big bent gets grilled, We go cool.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Last week, you successfully predicted that Marvin Harrison Junior would
get a touchdown. Now, right after the game, he said
that it was quote good to see one go through
the hoop. Ben, Do you think last week's performance will
jump start a turnaround to his season?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
No, I don't. It's a one off because he played
terribly in the first half. He played well in the
second half, and that's the key thing to start him.
We've learned that from watching our sports, but just in
life in general, it's not about how much talent you have.
It's about dependability and consistency of performance. And he has
not shown dependability. He has not shown consistency. And it's
not even two games. Is not He's gonna have to
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do it every week. You gotta be consistent, and I
have not seen that from Marvin Harrison Junior yet. So
I'm not expecting that all of a sudden to turn
around for the Cardinals, especially with Alligator Arms Murray as
the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Next there are some speculating that the Dolphins could raise
the white flag on this season after Tyreek Hill in
Tyreek Hill's injury and could even shop around von A
chain Ben. Do you think Miami will go full fire sale, No, because.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
They don't do that other than the Browns. Like it's
not like, you know, nobody's untouchable. They'll make some trades,
things will be marked down there, but they're not gonna
have a bonfire out on the beach in Miami and say,
all right, this just burned the entire thing down. So
that's not gonna happen, and they should win. This weekend,
the Dolphins play Carolina. So there you go. They win
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that game, you're always kind of a fringe wild card
contender at that point.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Next, Puka Nakua has started the season off on a
historic pace and would shatter receiving records if he keeps
it up.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
He had at a decent game last night, had ten catches. Yeah,
then this pace will be hard to maintain.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
But do you think we can call Nakupa the best
wide receiver in the NFL?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Absolutely cool, because as you know, the term best means
as good as all the rest, so he is as
good as any other receiver in the NFL. More importantly,
he's the number one receiver on the La Ram. Pooka
Nicola I love the guy. I can't believe he was
draft from the fifth round and it proves nobody knows
anything in the NFL draft. And I don't know why
you will watch the draft. It's all bull craft. If
Pooka Nakula can be drafted in the fifth round or whatever,
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it's ridiculous. The guy's a total stud. Love the guy's
great player. Uh And I don't know how he ended
up with the Rams, but it's happy that he did.
But yeah, he's as good as anyone else in the NFL.
How do we do you pass this edition? I A
the week with a win, n won. I'm a.
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Let's do this. We welcome in the one and only
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You sound like you're in a good mood. Life's going
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Everything good with that?
Speaker 5 (42:16):
Jeff? Be good? Thank you?
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Okay, nice clear connection.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
It sounds good.
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I'm good. Nice to hear from you.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
Thank you, nice you.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Okay, here we go. Weed Man's our laugh track. Hollering.
James recently complained to complain to the waiter that his
state was practically uncooked. He asked, if they serve all
the steaks this way? You hear about that?
Speaker 5 (42:42):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Yeah the waiter. The waiter responded, no, hollering James, it's
extremely rare. That's long way to go. H Yeah, that's
don Why did Andre put ax Andre and the Commonwealth
put a rolex on Willis's caller?
Speaker 5 (43:04):
Wow?
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Why he wanted a watchdog? That's what he wants. That's
e in Roseville, Minnesota. That's the weird See right, there's
the weed man. Laugh. That's why people love weedmen. What
does Mike the leprechaun have in common with a rabbit's
foot and a magic spell? What? They're all lucky charms,
(43:26):
all of them lucky charms. That's George, a fine teacher
in Uvalde, Texas. What does Roberto the bus drivers say
every morning when he picks up Richard?
Speaker 5 (43:39):
What?
Speaker 1 (43:40):
What's similar? When I get a call from our guy
in Dayton, he says, good morning, Dick. That's lucky Tony.
They're great, Lucky Tony. Who has the hardest job in
the world. Anyone who has to deal with blind Scott.
That's Noah in Austin. I who sent that one in?
(44:01):
What do blind Scott and the Red Sox have in common.
What neither of them are worth a piece of schlittler.
That's Frank and Fargo had read that slowly. Why does
Jed who fled, hope the Yankees win the World Series?
Why he always cheers for the Pinstripes. He brings back memories.
(44:25):
That's Eric in Kansas. Well, some exciting news. We're very
happy for hollering James. He recently James was able to
burn twenty five hundred calories in twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yeah, yeah, apparently he forgot to take the brownies out
of the oven. So but it happens, Alex, Oh boy,
Coop any jokes? Coop anything?
Speaker 4 (44:58):
What do you get the girl that has everything? What penicillin?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
That's a good joke.
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I like that. What literary novel and Hollywood movie classic
best exemplify the true essence of weed man hippie? What
Lord of the Flies? That's that's Frank and Fargo. What
do you have when you have both hollering James and
(45:30):
we weed man Hippie on for lame jokes of the week?
What the combined IQ of ten and four? That's from
John and Youngstown Ohio. What should what should weed Man do?
If he starts to think that nobody cares that he's alive?
What just miss a couple of payments and people will
(45:51):
want you then that's all? I just miss a cop.
That's Noah in Austin. Why does weed Man? Why does
weed Man claim to wear religious underwear? Why he said
it's he said it's holy is what he said. That's
totally that's a surfer tip. By the way, big news
surfer Todd's moving to Vegas, so we got to get
him in studio before he moves to Vegas. Why was
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weed Man arrested for robbery in the nineties? Why because
he stole Lisa's heart. That's Eric in Kansas. A last one?
What what's weed Man's Halloween costume? What a job offer?
That's Eric in Kansas. Thank you weed Man'd be very,
(46:32):
very scary costume.
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Speaker 1 (46:39):
Let's get over to the Kooper Loop for the Coop
Scoop on Entertainment. Hooray for Holly What Ala Holly? What horever?
Speaker 4 (46:46):
Holly?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Thank you, Ben, Thank you yes, all.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Right, we're gonna start off in the theaters. There's a
couple movies worth mentioning this weekend.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
The first one is The Smashing Machine that stars the
Rock Johnson in his first ever, like super serious role.
It is the story of mixed martial artist and UFC
champion Mark.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Kerr Off the Sauce. I saw photos of him.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
He looks skinny, that's what I've heard.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
People people are saying that he's no longer using and
that's why he's that small. He's saying that he's doing
it for a role.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
I don't know. Oh, okay, Well he's definitely thinner. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
Another movie out in theaters this weekend. It is a
horror movie. I've already seen it. I saw a special
sneak preview. It's called good Boy, and it is a horror.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Movie that would be a horror movie, a good Boy horror.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
It was a it's a horror movie from the perspective
of a dog. So it's only it's only like an
hour and twelve minutes long, but.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
They charging discount price. That's not very long.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
No, it's not, but I mean there's only so much
you can get the dog to do. I watch it,
and I will say there was times where I was like, Okay,
this is a it's a little repetitive because you know,
there's only so many like looks that the dog can do.
But overall I was I was impressed with the dogs acting.
It's the dog's named is Indie, and.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Does the dog know it's acting?
Speaker 3 (48:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (48:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (48:26):
I read about this afterwards, and it's the director's dog,
and there's like, you know, there's shots where the dog
is sleeping and then gets woken up by you know,
like a sound in the house.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
And apparently they just.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
They've filmed on a close set and they waited around
for the dog to actually like fall asleep so that
they would get like natural.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
I know, I know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Imagine how imagine how much the people hated that who
were working on that.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
I'm sure, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
But that being said, there were a few good jump
scares and you know, a nice, nice little tie up
at the end, so I think it's worth checking out.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
But well, my dog Moxie cooop. The whole house could
burden down and Moxie wouldn't move, you know.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
Just yeah, for sure, for sure. So that is Good
Boy that is in theaters right now. And then moving
over to television, we have a couple of things. The
first one is a movie called The Lost Bus. This
is a limited release in theaters, but it is an
Apple TV Plus movie and so it is available streaming
on Apple tv Plus right now. It is based on
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a true story look at Northern California's deadly campfire back
in twenty eighteen. So the film follows a school bus
driver played by Matthew McConaughey, who teams up with a teacher,
America Ferrera, as they battle to save twenty two children
from the flames.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
As I saw this, this looks intense.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Yeah it does. It does look intense.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
So it's in some theaters, but you can stream it
if you have Apple TV Plus. It's got pretty good reviews.
And then, last, but not least, available on Netflix right
now is the latest installment of the Monster series that
you know.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
First they did what's his name? The Guy that Eats People?
Help me out here, Ben, Jeffrey dah Yes, thank you. Yes.
So first was the Jeffrey Dahmer one.
Speaker 4 (50:09):
Then they came out like a couple of years ago
with Monster the The Oh my God, why am.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
I blaking on the relative? I think Jeffy Dahmer's relatives
changed their last name.
Speaker 4 (50:18):
From I would imagine. So the second yes, then one
about the brothers. Thank you, brothers, thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
I'm just blaking.
Speaker 3 (50:27):
No, you're not get out.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
So this third installment, available right now Netflix, is Monster,
the ed Geenes Story.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
So I don't.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
This guy did not eat people, but he made like
furniture and like stuff in his house out of their
body parts and their skin. Yes, he was also a
clown like that was his profession. He did like children's
parties as a clown scary stuff. But that is available
on Netflix right now, and that is Coop Scoop Entertainment.
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the way tire buying shuld be. So I had an
editorial decision to make, and before we get into that,
I will point out that the normal social media rundown
of all the topics to come not up yet because
it's a one man band. Then I didn't have time
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to do it, so screw you. It'll be up later.
It'll be up later. For those loads of you that
have no life and need that information, you'll just have
to stand by. You'll just have to stand by. But
I did have an editorial decision to make. Did I
go with the football game a week five NFL regular
season game or a day that was tied for the
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greatest elimination day in baseball history? And I made that
editorial decision. Play the hit, small man, Play the hit.
So we'll start with baseball. We have plenty of time.
It's a black canvas of talk radio four hours to
paint in oil painting or in our case of finger painting,
but we will be here all night, so we have
plenty of time to get down to business on all
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the things that took place in the sporting world. But
our lead this hour is from the burrow of the Bronx,
and I mentioned it. Three elimination games all day would
have been four, but the red screwed that up and
they lost to the Dodgers in two. So we'll start
our in depth team coverage around the clock in the
Bronx mentioned game three Wildcard round, Red Sox and Yankees
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A couple of no name pitchers on the mound. And
I don't know if you were watching this or not.
It was going against the NFL game. Maybe you're not
a baseball person, but I checked it out. I was
flipping back and forth, my right hand was getting a workout,
and rookie right hander Cam Schlittler gotta say that slowly,
that's an FCC violation waiting to happen. Cam Schlittler, who
(02:58):
grew up a Sox fan, he grew up a Red
Sox fan. But we didn't hear that story, did we
all know? They didn't. They didn't really promote that at all. No,
they wanted to keep that on the DL, keep that
on the down low. Well, Cam went out and struck
out not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
not six, not seven, not eight, not nine, not ten,
not eleven, how about twelve in eight dominating innings. And
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the Yankees, who looked like they were on the doorstep
of death early on in this series, they have come
all the way back here. The Bronx Bombers ended up
stomping the Red Sox for nothing in the deciding third
game of the wild Card round, So that means now
we can all sing no da da da la good bye,
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just like that. So that's it. If you had the
Red Sox going to the divisional series, you were a loser.
And so this taking place, you know, the pitching performance
of Kim Schlittler, putting him right in the middle of
that Yankee Red Sox lore, the rivalry twenty four years old,
overpowering the futile Boston Red Sox line up there and
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in his fifteenth major league start. Now, who's that guy
the mizz from the Brewers who made the All Star
team after like two starts or something like that. So
they don't even care anymore? Who cares? Just did I?
We just want you to be good, So we're gonna
we're gonna make you be good. And you're good. And
I bet it was a great night, fifteenth big league start.
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And I didn't think he would pitch like that. I don't.
You didn't either. Don't lie to me. You didn't think
like he was gonna do that. Come on, So New
York is on now to the best of five divisional
series against the American League Eastern champions and the team
of the Great North. Oh god, the Toronto Blue Jays
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that begins Saturday. Saturday. Saturday, we won't be watching that.
We'll be watching college football, but that'll start on Saturday.
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
That's right in the losing locker room, and so that
is where we will begin our in depth team coverage
here as it goes the way of the Yankees. So
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where did things go wrong for Alex Korra's Red Sox.
I've got Rodo Ruter, radiohead and water fowl, and we'll
put all these together and we're going to deep fry
some crunchy tacos. That's right. The proper way to eat
tacos is the gringo taco, which is a fried taco.
That's the proper way to eat. The taker, my buddy, Alex,
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may he rest in peace, who said they what are
you doing eating tacos like that? I said, they just
taste better. He said, you're crazy. I said, don't care.
They just taste better. And that's it. Before we get
into the meat of it, though, let's hear from Alex Cora,
the losing manager here, as he was commenting on the
performance of Cam Schlittler of the Yankees. Taylors.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We needed to be perfect tonight because he was perfect.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I mean, stuff is outstanding.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
He was under control.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That was electric. That was electric, Yes, electric. Of course
you helped him. Let's not pretend like that didn't happen there.
My advice to the Red Sox is to watch the
old tom Omanski VHS instructional videos to learn the fundamentals
of baseball, because that's a big part of this. They said, well,
Red Sox didn't score, and so you can't win if
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you don't score, and well, that certainly is true. Wowsers.
It's the little things here. Cody Bellinger, who was completely
washed up at the end of his time with the
Dodgers and bounced around. I have found a home there
with the Yankees. But Bellinger popped up to shallow center field.
It was a fourth inning Sedane Rafaela, Rome, Gonzalez and
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William Bray. You all converged, So you got three players
all converging on the on the play, and they all
watched as the ball dropped and it was a Belly double.
And later on there was a play tretore he dove.
He failed to get a Ahmed Rosario single, so all
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could have gotten that play. Anthony Volpi hit a little
bit of a dribbler there that eluded Romey Gonzalez for
a double, and so it kind of looked like a
Benny Hill sketch. There was some bumbling over there, There
was some fumbling over there, stumbling defense, all of that.
But wait, there's more. In what could have been a
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massive double playball, Austin Wells hit a ground ball that
bounced off the glove of Nathaniel Low. Doesn't Nathaniel Low
look like he should be working in a cubicle somewhere
and not playing professional baseball? This guy looks just it's
very odd. I know he's been decent and at a
decent CAREBA, he just looks weird in that Red Sox uniform.
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It looks like he should be working nine to five,
like a corporate job in an office somewhere and have
a cubicle and then go to the break room and
get stuff out of the vending machine, not playing in
the baseball playoffs. But anyway, so needless say, Austin Wells
hit a grounder bounced off the glove of Nathaniel Low
into right field, and that allowed another two runs to score.
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And so instead of it being just a reasonable margin.
It was for nothing game, set, and match. And now
Alice Cork should have also just contacted Rodo Ruter needed
a plumber. There, the leaky defense sparking the Yankees rally
in this one. And the Red Sox apologists will say, well,
they didn't have Roman Anthony. He was heard blah blah
(08:31):
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However,
even without that, they were still in position.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Here.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Self inflicted wounds, self inflicted wounds. Now, Jared Duran, who
he said himself, I'm not ripping him. He just said
I cost the Red Sox Game two with his poor
defensive play. He also ended up batting ninety one, which
I believe was an interstate in the series. And that
defensive blunderbacking Game two. Sedane Raffaelo, we talked about him.
(08:59):
He had as many hits in the wild card round
as you and I had a zero zero, zero batting average,
and he brought a glove that was a could also
double as a frying pan in this particular game. So
you know, I didn't play professional baseball. I'm just just
observing here. Did not look did not look very good.
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Did not look very good? All right, now, turny the page.
We go to Chicago. We head to the Windy City,
the friendly Confines where our friend Yupimi, our buddy Eugene
in Chicago, tree in Chicago. All the boys very happy there,
the Chicago wing of the mal or Militia. Because the
Cubbies got it done. Pete crow Armstrong, who took the
second half of the baseball season off, hit a Ribby
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single off of you, Darby. I remember that, you, Darbish.
I remember that guy. That is the guy I watched
in twenty seventeen Game seven against the cheating a Holes.
I saw that, you, Darvish. I saw that guy. How
you like that, Sandy, I go, that's you, Darvish. Well
are they gonna say they was tipping his pictures. Every
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time a pitcher has a bad game, he was tipping
his pictures. No pitchers allowed to have a bad game.
It's always there tipping their pictures. Anyway, you Darvish. Shaky,
needless more than shaky. And the Cubs shut down the
Peacock Fernando Tatis Junior and the Podres. There was some
horrifically bad umpiring. I think the cub umpire his favorite
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the well the home played Umpire's favorite club, Harry Carey.
Not just all a bit outside. Oh no, no, oh
my god. What there was one call in the ninth
inn by the Padres have gotten some of those calls
against them. When you know, years ago they were in
the World Series against the Yankees, and there was a
guy named Mark Langston, you know who that is, but
he was on the mound and I think it was
Tino Martinez and there was a pitch like right down
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the middle and they called it a ball and then anyway,
uh so that was a terrible call. But nonetheless, the
Podres end up going down. The Cubs clinch it. They
win three to one in Game three. Next up for
Chicago the very short road trip up to their NL
Central rival, the Brew Crew in a rather compelling divisional
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series matchup. And that'll begin also on Saturday. We'll be
watching college football, but that'll be going on. You've got
Craig Counsel who left the Brew Crew, a native son
of Wisconsin, left Brew Crew. He got the cash, show
me the money they paid him. The money he took.
The cash goes to Chicago. But the better story is
on the loser side and the San Diego Padres. What
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an epic disaster. This is just so bad considering everything
that they did. I did everything right and they end
up getting bumped out of the playoffs in three games.
So now people pointing fingers at the front office in
San Diego. So we'll address that thumbs up or thumbs down,
thumbs up, thumbs down? Should should Padres gm aj Preller
(11:56):
be fired for mortgaging the future of the Padres on
a world series or bus gamble which has now busted.
So I'm gonna go thumbs down on this. I'm gonna
go thumbs down to me, this is a bugs life.
Sometimes you're the windshields, sometimes you're the bug. And this
time Preler's Padres got crushed like a snink bump bug
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on a highway, right, just squashed And yeah, you can
cue the radiohead track let down, Right, it's a let down.
They went all in. They shoved every chip to the
middle of the table. The nerds who were having coronarias,
Oh my god, you traded all of our prospects, Oh
my god. And yes they busted. Nevertheless, I thought it
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was refreshing at the time. I'm not gonna alter my take.
I like, I'm not a Padre guy, right, you know
some of you know I started it by radio sojourn
in San Diego. I'm not a Padre guy, but I
thought it was refreshing in a sport where most of
the teams are run by IVY League. And let me
point out, Preller's an IVY League guy. He just doesn't
act like it a lot of the time. But these gms,
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most of them sit on their hands clutching their precious
future assets. We can't trade the future. We can't give
up the future because every young player is going to
be great, and the reality is most of them blow
and Preler said, screw it. He said, we want to win.
We want to win now. We've never want anything. So
let's fortify the roster. Let's take the real swing and
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go for it. And that's exactly what they did. They
built the super bulpen and prospects. I've said this for years,
they're a renewable energy. You draft every year, you restock
every year. The system replenishes itself. In baseball, and losing
a few high end teenagers in a ball for a
real shot to get that hunk of metal. I'll take
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that gamble ten out of ten times. The bigger problem
here the guys that were already in Podre uniforms sucked
at a time you cannot suck. The core of the
roster did not show up when it mattered. And I'm
talking about Fernando Tatist who batted eighty three many machato.
These guys love to talk and all that, and he
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batted one hundred and then the cherry on top. My guy,
you Darvish, who could not even survive more than one inning,
twenty one pitches, twenty one pitches in an elimination game
for you, Darbise, I'm told that is the shortest outing
of his entire career. The vaunted bullpen, they didn't get
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to sniff the lead because in this game they didn't
have the lead, and so Preler took the shot. He
did his job. Your job is to improve the roster,
to give them the top opportunity to win. He did that.
It's the stars who couldn't get it done right. They're
the ones that f this up. Now, last word, we
go to Cleveland. Why because there was another elimination game
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and someone named Dylan Dingler, but he got picked on
in school. Dylan Dingler, that's a catcher for Detroit from
Northeast Ohio. Another one of these stories, right, we mentioned
Kim Schlittler of the Yankees, got a lot of attention
from being a Boston guy or a Massachusetts guy, and
he shoved it down the throat of the Red Sox. Well,
Dylan Dingler theme of the day from Northeast Ohio. He
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grew up a fan of the Cleveland Indians, not the Guardians,
because they were the Indians when he's a little kid.
And he had a go ahead solo home run in
the sixth inning. The Tigers would go on to score
five runs and they ended up beating the Cleveland baseball
team six to three the final in the early game.
And so the Tigers now head to Seattle for a
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playdate with the Big Dumper and cal Raley, I know, crying.
Craig's excited about that. Robbie the Marina fan, JJ ANDRN
and those guys are all all fired up. No stradinas
for sure, and so that'll be that. But the better
store here is obviously on the other side. So the
question on this one quickly, the question is this sea
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isn't considered a success or a failure for Guardians manager
Stephen Voight, as they end up getting eliminated in the
wildcard round. So I'm gonna go success, So I'll nod
my head yes on success, which is very bizarre. You know,
even my cynical talk radio ass has to acknowledge the
Komodo dragon in the room here that these guys had
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no business being in the playoffs, right, total interlopers. The
Cleveland baseball team, the Little Engine that could, the waterfowl,
the ugly ducklings who were waddling into the playoff pond,
and the other geese were like, what are you doing here?
You don't belong here? And what are you doing, ugly ducklin?
Get out of here, ugly ducklin, you don't belong here.
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Where the geese? You're an ugly ducklin? And they stayed. Yeah,
but it's serious. I mean, they shouldn't have been here
at all, and it's it's a testimonial to how incompetent
the Tigers are that they got here. I mean, this
was not champagne and lobster roles. This was like wedding
crashers sneaking in trying to steal some dessert and hit
the mini bar, the open mini bar and go for that.
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But they finished. Cleveland finished with eighty eight wins. They
ranked twenty eight out of thirty teams in runs scored,
worst offensive team ever to make the playoffs. That's not
just below average, that is actively offensive, actively offensive to
your taste, buds. They had not one, but two pitchers
who are in the doghouse because of gambling accusations. They
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were throwing pitches for prop bets so their buddies could
make money allegedly. So these were not thoroughbreds. These were
rescued dogs. Hard four. There were fifteen and a half
games back in July. I believe they were still eleven
games back in September, and somehow Someway staged the largest
end season comeback in baseball history to steal the American
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League Central, only to exit stage left after three games.
But that's a pigeon showing up at the Kentucky Derby.
It was a September to remember, twenty and seven, twenty
and seven, seven forty one winning percentage, top record in baseball,
and it looked like they had found the magic carpet
and they were flying. However, as we know because we're
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smarter than the average bear. Momentum is bullshoy. It does
not exist. And so the playoffs started and poof, see
you later, Bye bye. The carpet yank the magic carpet
yanked away, and they did a face first plant right
in the mud, right in the mud. So but despite that, again,
I'll be Benny brightside, Cleveland did overachieve. They're not that
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good a team. They made it. Congratulations to Steven Voyd
got more out of that roster than anyone should have
gotten out of that roster. So there you go. Not
that that helps you feel any better because you've been eliminated.
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hear this. They did. I did a baseball rant last hour.
I don't care about the baseball.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Shut up? I'll give you to one. I'll dance, dance,
monkey dance, all right, I'm gonna dance. I'm gonna train seal,
I'm gonna put the damn ball on my nose, and
I'm gonna dance for you with the ball on my nose?
Are you happy? A train seal? So we head to
southern California in NFC West grudge match that was supposed
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to be a mismatch. Every key indicator pointing how battered
and broken the forty nine ers were heading into the
Hood and Inglewood and up to no good? Boy? Were
they up to no good? As they took on the
heavily favored La Rams. This line skyrocketed by five points. Now,
you're probably not a gambler. You might not even care
(22:18):
about gambling. That is a big line movement. It went
from three to three and a half to up to
eight and a half points, and the game ended up
going to ohver time. If you didn't see it, maybe
you're blind or you weren't into it. Eddie Pinero remember him.
The old Bears kickers passed around, hit a forty one
(22:38):
yard field goal in overtime that joinked off the cross
a crossbar there before. San Francisco was about to lose anyway,
and then they stuffed Kyron Williams on fourth down with
three thirty six to play on a fourth down play
and the short handed forty nine Ers celebrating, I get it.
(23:01):
You beat the Rams you should celebrate. That's a much
better team than you. And the Niners celebrated. They hung on.
They win by a field goal over the pathetic Rams
on Thursday night. Now, the story here is Sean McVay postgame,
who was asked about his decision. He went for it
on fourth down, it didn't work. He's getting absolutely roasted
(23:22):
Sean McVay for his decision. And here's McVeigh. He's like, hey,
you know, you can goof on me all you want.
Here Sean McVay pointing out that he's the one that
fed up take a list.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
It's a bad call. It's a bad call by me.
Thought about maybe trying to draw him off sides. I
took one, they took the other, and it was a
poor decision by me right there. But you know, you
give the Niners credit. They made enough plays to be
able to win the football game. We had plenty of
chances throughout this game. You know, we stayed in it,
We fought, we battled. But I'm pretty sick right now.
I'm sick of the spot that I put our group.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
In to end the game.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
But hey, these are the tough beats that you got
to be able to learn from and move forward, and
that'shere're going to do.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
All right, So that was McVeigh there. He also went
on he did curse later on and that beginning. I
think that would be a good drop. We don't usually
do these anymore, but the very beginning. Let's play this,
McVeigh again, because I think that's a quick, hot drop
that we can use on the show, just the beginning
of that. McVeigh play that again. Let's see this. It's
a bad call. It's a bad call by me. Thout
(24:21):
isn't that? Would that not be a great drop? I
know we don't do a lot of drops, but that
would be a That would be a great drop because
the reason I think that's a great job it's an
evergreen drop. Now what an evergreen drop is? We can
use it what I like to do. I used to
do this a lot with some of the old engineers.
We do out of context drops. For example, there was
a hockey coach who had one of the all time
(24:43):
great postgame rants. We sucked at a time we couldn't suck,
you know, and all this stuff, and uh, we play
out of context audio. So I think that McVeigh thing
would be great, like for example, let's do a little
game here. Let's just do it again real quick on
the fly. So I'll be like, Hey, the Dodgers are
gonna lose game one of the Phillies and day Roberts
was gonna make a mistake with his bullpen. So we'll say,
here's Dave Roberts. Dave, can you explain what happened with
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your bullpen. It's a bad call. It's a bad call
by me thought about it. Oh it's so good God.
Is that a great drop? We need that? Can we
get that? Can you get can we get that?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Whatever you want?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I need that in my life. I need that drop
in my life. I need that. I need that drop.
All right, all right, here's now I like profanity. We're
overnight safe Harbor. I'm reminded every time I get paid
that I'm on overnights. So let's play Sean McVay, who
needs to have his mouth washed out with soap and
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water take a list.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
In hindsight, I wish I would have, but uh no,
we were. We came in here to try to win
the football game. It didn't go down Forest Gary. That
was that wasn't even a thought. But the play selection
was very poor. I'm sick right now because I put
our players in a spot and uh, I gotta live
with that.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
All right. Well that's the story. The better stories in
losing locker room. So what do you say? Let's rally
around the radio here, we'll huddle around and we'll discuss
the question. Was he's very hard on himself? But was
Rams coach Sean mvay gutsy or goofy going for it
on fourth down, down by a field goal in overtime.
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So my observations, I've got Farmers Market offer up and Jacuzzi,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make your Babushka's favorite gummy bears.
That's right, You're Babuska's favorite gummy bear. So number one,
number one enough, all right. So the arrow on this
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one is I actually like what McVeigh did. I clearly
don't like the result, but I like that he went
for it. I like that he's gutsy and I know
what he's doing. He's protecting his team, right, He's like,
blame me. I'm the bad guy. You know, I'm the
one that left up bad call, bad call by me.
I know what he's doing all right, But this was
not Cowards tie, you know, tie ball special. McVeigh actually
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had intestinal fortitude. And they didn't show this on the
Amazon broadcast, and I wish Al Michaels had shown it.
He's probably back in bed there in Brentwood right now,
but if they had shown it, like went went for it, right,
he went down. McVeigh went down to the farmer's market
and it turns out that his balls are the size
of cantilopes, really candalopes, and he's I'm not living in
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a world where ties exist. I don't want ties, no ties.
I don't need a tie. We had the Cowboys and
the Packers tie. How much did that suck? Right? It
was embarrassing for the NFL for the product to embar.
Mcveigh's like, no, we're gonna win the game. We're gonna
win the better team. We're gonna win the game. I say, bravo.
Now that's it again. I cannot ignore the execution. It's
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like the old line from the Buccaneers coach back in
the Jay back in the day, John McKay said, what
do you think your team's execution? And he said, I
support it, I'm in support of it, but McVeigh, like,
I go through the psychology of this stuff, and am
I overthinking it? Probably? But I have a talk show
to do, so I'm probably overthinking it. But like McVeigh
put the ball in Kyron Williams's hands, the Golden domer,
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and he did it for reputation rehab. That's why he
did it. The same guy who had already gagged in regulation.
I coughed up the fur ball with a little over
a minute to go in regulation. It was like sending
the person who just dropped the wedding cake back into
the bakery to carry out the next wedding cake. Like,
that's ballsy, right, that's ballsy. I mentioned balls the size
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of candles. He wanted to give a confidence boost to
his running back. The problem the turd in the punch
bowl is the players shrank down. They had balls. The
size of chickapiece is what they had. So mcveigh's got cantalopes,
they got chickapiece. Williams now has stank all over. He
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fumbled at the goal line and then what happened over time?
You know what that is. That's the Chris collins Worth
double doink is what that is? Doink doink, except they
didn't go through the uprights. He lost the game twice.
Do you know how hard it is for one player,
when there's eleven players on the field on both sides
and special teams, for one guy to be such a
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stumble bumb He lost a game twice and he's not
a quarterback. You know how hard that is. You know
the math on that, the malor math, how difficult it is.
Kyro Williams, congratulations, you get to wear the Booby prize.
You did it now regardless, All right, mcveigh's you know,
I'm the bad guy and all that. He's taking the
bullet on that. But it's not about the decision. It's
about the result. McVeigh tried to give this kid his
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redemption tor and the kid pooped his pants. You know,
it's like the kid. You know, they go number number
one and then you say, okay, well you're not gonna
go number one again. No, I'm not Dad, I'm not
gonna go number one. Mom, I'm not gonna go number
one again. But then they want number two, and you said, well,
you didn't go number one, you're right, but you want
number two. You're not supposed to number two either. But
again McVeigh I like it. He had start, they went
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for it, and Williams it turns out has stonehands, So
it's unfortunate turn of events. Down page two, keeping the
theme of the hour, going the question here, what is
the most embarrassing part of the Rams? The biggest favorite
round biggest Favoriteously there's a one game where the line
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is bigger this weekend, but the Rams eight and that
point favorites losing outright at home to a beaten and
broken forty nine er team. So the answer, what's the
most embarrassing thing? This is easy, easy. They sashade their
way into Sofi Stadium, right, and they're like, oh, we
got no problem. Kyle Shanahan is putting backups of backups
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in there, right, guys who were plucked from the NFL's
reject bin. And those guys out hustled, outworked and shoved
it down your throat the forty nine ers. You know,
I'm not a forty nine fan or nest On, you
know those guys, big forty nine er guys on the show,
and they call the show and our friend from Berkeley
as well. But listen that that's criminal. It's one thing
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to lose but all you have to do is work
halfway decently. You win the game. You have a huge
talent advantage. Now how do you overcome a lack of talent?
You outwork the other team. That's what the forty nine
ers did, and Sean mcvay's team acted like all they
had to do was punch the time card, put their
feet up, have a cocktail and just wait for the
(31:30):
time to run by and they can collect a w
and instead because of their own performance where they went
out there and they played like they were soft o
gouie football players. They had no edge, they had no passion,
they had no character, and they got an l LA
thought they were scoring freebius like they were going on
that offer up app and they're like free pick up
(31:51):
curbside and they're like, okay, I'm gonna get that used
couch and so they showed up. They're like, okay, this
is good. I'm gonna get used couch off offer up.
So they went and they got it and it was nice.
It was like one or two in the morning. They
picked up the couch off off or up and it
looked kind of nice, and they put it in the
back of their truck. They got home, they took it out.
They put it up in their apartment and it turns
out it smells like cat urine. But it was free.
(32:14):
It was free. Yeah. Yeah, the forty nine ers rolled out.
I looked at their depth. We handicapped the game with
the Thursday night games for Benny versus depending on YouTube,
and so I was handicapping in the game. I look
at everything. I was like, I hate betting favorites. I
cannot stand betting favorites. But I looked at it. It's like,
is there the only way? Well that there were two
(32:35):
ways the forty nine Ers could have won this game.
One of them is if like Stafford had gotten hurt
or like a couple of key players got hurt from
the Rams, but that didn't happen. The other way would
have been if the Rams just go la la la
la la la la la la la la la la,
don't put any effort in, and that's what happened. I
did not. That is not a way that Sean Yvay's
teams have generally played. And the flotsam and jetsam of
(32:59):
the forty nine Ers, they piled up twenty seven first downs.
I've been told I've been sold to Billy Goods about
how great the Rams defense is. Twenty seven first downs.
You gave the backups of the backups over four hundred
yards of offense. And here's the kicker, Mac Jones, Yes,
Mac Jones, the guy who has been terrible most of
(33:21):
us Black and Blue all night, and he still outplayed you.
That's like losing a karaoke contest to William Hung. I
don't even know if people know who that is anymore,
but he look him up. But embarrassing, right, It doesn't
even begin to describe what happened there for the Rams.
And it's three strikes. You're out. Strike one, you're lazy, okay,
Strike two, you lack passion that strike two, here's the
(33:43):
third pitch, Strike three, lack of character, boom done. That's it.
Strike one, strike two, strike three, that's it. And again,
if you're McVeigh, this is the stuff that happens to
other teams, this is not the stuff that happens to
MC face team. The Rams lose games. They normally lose
because they're not as good as the opponent in certain matchups.
To lose like this, they missed a field goal in
(34:04):
this game. The special teams continue to be a problem
the forty nine ers in overtime, they got the ball
because of that fugasey kickoff rule. The idiot, I'd cut
the Ram kicker. I don't care I on his fold
those kicks up. I'd cut him anyway. He's not even
a real player, the kicker. But he didn't get the
kick in the kicking zone where it needed to go,
(34:25):
And so the Niners took over deep in their own territory,
which made it a short situation to get into field
goal range. And so listen, they deserve to lose. The
Rams was really just gutless the way they played the
first half. They played better after that, but you got
to play a whole game, all right. Final point, Let's
(34:47):
address what my friends who are forty nine er fans
are all horny for, and that is the play of
their quarterback. Did Mac Jones just earn a new lease
on life? Patriot trash, Jaguar trash? Did Mac Jones just
during a new lease on life on an Island game?
Or is this just a one week mirage for Mac Jones?
(35:10):
So I'm certainly not going to overreact here and say
that this is a resurrection for Mac Jones. I'm not
going to be that guy. It was a one night pass. Congratulations, Vip.
You get behind the velvet ropes and you did that there,
and we'll see what happens going forward. Chances are he
goes back to bumming quarters like weed man hippie at
(35:30):
the bus station. But mac Daddy, he was in the jacuzzie, right,
he was in the dakoozie. And he took the hot
tub time machine back to Tusca Losa, Alabama, playing shade
smooth operator on repeat. No stress, no mass, no stress,
no mass. He carved up the rams. I didn't think
that was possible. In the first half. Now he went
(35:50):
as good as the second, But the first half it
was like he was at Alabama in twenty twenty playing
against Mississippi State or Auburn just killing him. He actual
he looked like he knew what he was doing at
the NFL level. He was a surgeon, is what he was.
Clean hands, sharp, a sharp, scalpel, scalpel. And he didn't
even sneeze. Know in the past he'd be sneezing on
(36:11):
the patient while they were all cut open. Regardless of that, though,
all right, let's hold off on building a statue in
Santa Clara for Mac Jones. Here. What this does do, though,
and this is the part that I like as a
talk show host, is it creates a problem for Brock Party.
And I like that. I'm into that, right because I
was the guy barking from the top of the mountain,
(36:33):
what are you doing? You shouldn't play Rock Party. He's
not that good a quarterback. Oh my god. So I
was that guy, right, And my point was, it's the system, stupid.
My point was, it's the Kyle Shanahan coaching these guys
up right, scheming these guys up at Brock Purty is
not very good. But he got schemed up by Shanahan.
(36:53):
You got boxing and Midl Corny. You had to pay him.
So if my hypothesis is correct, and of course he
thinks they're wrong, So I think my hypothesis is correct.
You look at this and Mac Jones, he does have
a little bit of a new lease on life, but
not a full new lease on life just because you
threw a clean game in October. But this adds to
(37:14):
the mythical powers of Kyle Shanahan being a QB whisper.
Also the worst big game coach in NFL history. But
every guy looks better in that system. And I know
John Lynch was very happy there after the game and
they were showing shots. It looked like Robert Sally I think,
had an orgasm with the thirty five yard line, the
defensive coordinator. These guys are all fired up. But the
(37:35):
Niners gave one hundred and eighty one million dollars to
guaranteed to Brock Party, who suddenly doesn't look all that
special compared to a scrap heap guy who has now
outplayed him this season. Mac Jones, how does that taste that?
(37:56):
That's a little bitter, right, that's sweet and sour. That's more.
It's like Brock Purdy got the Lamborghini contract. He can
buy a whole house of Lamborghini. And then you got
mac Jones out there driving a used Corolla with two
hundred thousand miles on it. He goes out and side
by side he beats the Lamborghini in the Indy five hundred.
Now that being said, he did not play as well
(38:19):
Mac Jones in the second half. It was really really
good early couple touchdowns, very impressive. The first half. The
numbers did do the dipsy do in the second half
is the game we're on. But overall, a net positive
a net positive, and it doesn't mean that he's the
franchise savior. However, when Brock Purdy does get back on
the field, and inevitably Brock will go out there and
(38:41):
he'll cough up a hairball, and then people say, people
call the forty nine Ers postgame show, and then local
sports radio in the Bay Area they'll be like, well,
what's going on? What about Mac Joke? Who you are?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Mac Joe?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Well you should play Mac Jones.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pmpis.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Here we go, Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
This is one big bent gets grilled, We go cool.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Last week, you successfully predicted that Marvin Harrison Junior would
get a touchdown. Now, right after the game, he said
that it was quote good to see one go through
the hoop. Ben, Do you think last week's performance will
jump start a turnaround to his season?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
No, I don't. It's a one off because he played
terribly in the first half. He played well in the
second half, and that's the key thing to start him.
We've learned that from watching our sports, but just in
life in general, it's not about how much talent you have.
It's about dependability and consistency of performance. And he has
not shown dependability. He has not shown consistency. And it's
not even two games. Is not He's gonna have to
(39:45):
do it every week. You gotta be consistent, and I
have not seen that from Marvin Harrison Junior yet. So
I'm not expecting that all of a sudden to turn
around for the Cardinals, especially with Alligator Arms Murray as
the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Next there are some speculating that the Dolphins could raise
the white flag on this season after Tyreek Hill in
Tyreek Hill's injury and could even shop around von A
chain Ben. Do you think Miami will go full fire sale, No, because.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
They don't do that other than the Browns. Like it's
not like, you know, nobody's untouchable. They'll make some trades,
things will be marked down there, but they're not gonna
have a bonfire out on the beach in Miami and say,
all right, this just burned the entire thing down. So
that's not gonna happen, and they should win. This weekend,
the Dolphins play Carolina. So there you go. They win
(40:30):
that game, you're always kind of a fringe wild card
contender at that point.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Next, Puka Nakua has started the season off on a
historic pace and would shatter receiving records if he keeps
it up.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
He had at a decent game last night, had ten catches. Yeah,
then this pace will be hard to maintain.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
But do you think we can call Nakupa the best
wide receiver in the NFL?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Absolutely cool, because as you know, the term best means
as good as all the rest, so he is as
good as any other receiver in the NFL. More importantly,
he's the number one receiver on the La Ram. Pooka
Nicola I love the guy. I can't believe he was
draft from the fifth round and it proves nobody knows
anything in the NFL draft. And I don't know why
you will watch the draft. It's all bull craft. If
Pooka Nakula can be drafted in the fifth round or whatever,
(41:12):
it's ridiculous. The guy's a total stud. Love the guy's
great player. Uh And I don't know how he ended
up with the Rams, but it's happy that he did.
But yeah, he's as good as anyone else in the NFL.
How do we do you pass this edition? I A
the week with a win, n won. I'm a.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
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Speaker 1 (41:42):
Blame week too, It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
Let's do this. We welcome in the one and only
Weed Main Hippie from Miami.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Big Bang, I love you, makee me ramp.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
You sound like you're in a good mood. Life's going
well for you, Weed Man. Everything's okay, rights good, now, Yeah,
you're in a good spot. Okay. You don't need me
to get your place to stay. You're in good shack. No,
I'm good, Okay, wonderful. How's your how's your Obama phone?
Everything good with that?
Speaker 5 (42:16):
Jeff? Be good? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Okay, nice clear connection.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
It sounds good.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I'm good. Nice to hear from you.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
Thank you, nice you.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Okay, here we go. Weed Man's our laugh track. Hollering.
James recently complained to complain to the waiter that his
state was practically uncooked. He asked, if they serve all
the steaks this way? You hear about that?
Speaker 5 (42:42):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Yeah the waiter. The waiter responded, no, hollering James, it's
extremely rare. That's long way to go. H Yeah, that's
don Why did Andre put ax Andre and the Commonwealth
put a rolex on Willis's caller?
Speaker 5 (43:04):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Why he wanted a watchdog? That's what he wants. That's
e in Roseville, Minnesota. That's the weird See right, there's
the weed man. Laugh. That's why people love weedmen. What
does Mike the leprechaun have in common with a rabbit's
foot and a magic spell? What? They're all lucky charms,
(43:26):
all of them lucky charms. That's George, a fine teacher
in Uvalde, Texas. What does Roberto the bus drivers say
every morning when he picks up Richard?
Speaker 5 (43:39):
What?
Speaker 1 (43:40):
What's similar? When I get a call from our guy
in Dayton, he says, good morning, Dick. That's lucky Tony.
They're great, Lucky Tony. Who has the hardest job in
the world. Anyone who has to deal with blind Scott.
That's Noah in Austin. I who sent that one in?
(44:01):
What do blind Scott and the Red Sox have in common.
What neither of them are worth a piece of schlittler.
That's Frank and Fargo had read that slowly. Why does
Jed who fled, hope the Yankees win the World Series?
Why he always cheers for the Pinstripes. He brings back memories.
(44:25):
That's Eric in Kansas. Well, some exciting news. We're very
happy for hollering James. He recently James was able to
burn twenty five hundred calories in twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (44:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yeah, yeah, apparently he forgot to take the brownies out
of the oven. So but it happens, Alex, Oh boy,
Coop any jokes? Coop anything?
Speaker 4 (44:58):
What do you get the girl that has everything? What penicillin?
Speaker 1 (45:05):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
That's a good joke.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
I like that. What literary novel and Hollywood movie classic
best exemplify the true essence of weed man hippie? What
Lord of the Flies? That's that's Frank and Fargo. What
do you have when you have both hollering James and
(45:30):
we weed man Hippie on for lame jokes of the week?
What the combined IQ of ten and four? That's from
John and Youngstown Ohio. What should what should weed Man do?
If he starts to think that nobody cares that he's alive?
What just miss a couple of payments and people will
(45:51):
want you then that's all? I just miss a cop.
That's Noah in Austin. Why does weed Man? Why does
weed Man claim to wear religious underwear? Why he said
it's he said it's holy is what he said. That's
totally that's a surfer tip. By the way, big news
surfer Todd's moving to Vegas, so we got to get
him in studio before he moves to Vegas. Why was
(46:12):
weed Man arrested for robbery in the nineties? Why because
he stole Lisa's heart. That's Eric in Kansas. A last one?
What what's weed Man's Halloween costume? What a job offer?
That's Eric in Kansas. Thank you weed Man'd be very,
(46:32):
very scary costume.
Speaker 5 (46:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Let's get over to the Kooper Loop for the Coop
Scoop on Entertainment. Hooray for Holly What Ala Holly? What horever?
Speaker 4 (46:46):
Holly?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Thank you, Ben, Thank you yes, all.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Right, we're gonna start off in the theaters. There's a
couple movies worth mentioning this weekend.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
The first one is The Smashing Machine that stars the
Rock Johnson in his first ever, like super serious role.
It is the story of mixed martial artist and UFC
champion Mark.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Kerr Off the Sauce. I saw photos of him.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
He looks skinny, that's what I've heard.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
People people are saying that he's no longer using and
that's why he's that small. He's saying that he's doing
it for a role.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
I don't know. Oh, okay, Well he's definitely thinner. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
Another movie out in theaters this weekend. It is a
horror movie. I've already seen it. I saw a special
sneak preview. It's called good Boy, and it is a horror.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Movie that would be a horror movie, a good Boy horror.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
It was a it's a horror movie from the perspective
of a dog. So it's only it's only like an
hour and twelve minutes long, but.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
They charging discount price. That's not very long.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
No, it's not, but I mean there's only so much
you can get the dog to do. I watch it,
and I will say there was times where I was like, Okay,
this is a it's a little repetitive because you know,
there's only so many like looks that the dog can do.
But overall I was I was impressed with the dogs acting.
It's the dog's named is Indie, and.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
Does the dog know it's acting?
Speaker 3 (48:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (48:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (48:26):
I read about this afterwards, and it's the director's dog,
and there's like, you know, there's shots where the dog
is sleeping and then gets woken up by you know,
like a sound in the house.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
And apparently they just.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
They've filmed on a close set and they waited around
for the dog to actually like fall asleep so that
they would get like natural.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
I know, I know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Imagine how imagine how much the people hated that who
were working on that.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
I'm sure, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
But that being said, there were a few good jump
scares and you know, a nice, nice little tie up
at the end, so I think it's worth checking out.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
But well, my dog Moxie cooop. The whole house could
burden down and Moxie wouldn't move, you know.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
Just yeah, for sure, for sure. So that is Good
Boy that is in theaters right now. And then moving
over to television, we have a couple of things. The
first one is a movie called The Lost Bus. This
is a limited release in theaters, but it is an
Apple TV Plus movie and so it is available streaming
on Apple tv Plus right now. It is based on
(49:26):
a true story look at Northern California's deadly campfire back
in twenty eighteen. So the film follows a school bus
driver played by Matthew McConaughey, who teams up with a teacher,
America Ferrera, as they battle to save twenty two children
from the flames.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
As I saw this, this looks intense.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Yeah it does. It does look intense.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
So it's in some theaters, but you can stream it
if you have Apple TV Plus. It's got pretty good reviews.
And then, last, but not least, available on Netflix right
now is the latest installment of the Monster series that
you know.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
First they did what's his name? The Guy that Eats People?
Help me out here, Ben, Jeffrey dah Yes, thank you. Yes.
So first was the Jeffrey Dahmer one.
Speaker 4 (50:09):
Then they came out like a couple of years ago
with Monster the The Oh my God, why am.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
I blaking on the relative? I think Jeffy Dahmer's relatives
changed their last name.
Speaker 4 (50:18):
From I would imagine. So the second yes, then one
about the brothers. Thank you, brothers, thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
I'm just blaking.
Speaker 3 (50:27):
No, you're not get out.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
So this third installment, available right now Netflix, is Monster,
the ed Geenes Story.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
So I don't.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
This guy did not eat people, but he made like
furniture and like stuff in his house out of their
body parts and their skin. Yes, he was also a
clown like that was his profession. He did like children's
parties as a clown scary stuff. But that is available
on Netflix right now, and that is Coop Scoop Entertainment.
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