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October 6, 2025 • 45 mins

Big Ben talks about Josh Allen and the Bills suffering their first loss of the season against the Patriots, Aaron Judge and the Yankees falling 0-2 to the Blue Jays in the ALDS, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!

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day and it's still another game on Monday, but we'll
lead off in Western New York where the last game
was played here and a patriotic performance at AFC East.
Slobber Knocker was the set up there. And if you
had the Buffalo Bills going seventeen and oher, you are

(02:33):
a loser. You're a loser. Drake may get being credited
with leading the Patriots. He did not have a touchdown pass,
but he did matriculate the ball down the field a
couple of times there. Patriots get it done a thirty
seven yard drive late, setting up a rookie kicker from Miami.
I'm sure that'll go well when the weather gets bad

(02:55):
in the Northeast, Andy bore gallis a fifty two yard
field goal within fifteen seconds left, and it was turned
out the last the Barties over on the undefeated season
for the Buffalo Bills as they lose twenty three to
twenty on a Sunday night. And so now the NFL.
I don't how many guys are left from the seventy

(03:16):
seventy two Dolphins that went undefeated, but if there's any
of them still living, they seem like they A lot
of them have died in recent years. But any of
them still left can crack the champagne there as there
will not be an undefeated team in the NFL five
weeks into the season and they're all gone, all gone,
all the unbeaten teams. To Fawn Diggs ten catches for

(03:37):
one hundred and forty six yards of the Patriots off
to the three and two start on the season. That
is a winning record. My computer, like Brank, tells me
after five games and they win there the game there
in Buffalo at diggs first game back there since he
was excommunicated from the Bills sent packing to Houston. Despite

(03:59):
we said, this guy with the show named Andy, the
comic book guy who was part of Bill's mafia, and
Andy was, oh, no, Sefon Diggs. No, he's a model citizen,
model teammate. Of course, we all knew that was bull
crap and it's proven correct as time has gone on
here when you talk about what happened. But for the Patriots,
Diggs had a big day. Remandre Stevenson did not have

(04:20):
a backbreaking fumble in this game. He had a couple
of touchdowns on the ground and also the second one
set up by Stefan Digs who had a thirty two
yard catch and run, and the Patriots win. Drake May
twittered seventy three yards passing for the game, but no touchdown.
Throws but no interceptions, so you know, turn the ball

(04:40):
over and the defense made some plays. The Buffalo Bill's
very generous in this game. But the better story is
in the losing locker room and Josh Allen not holding back,
not biting his tongue. Here Josh Allen about the Buffalo
Bills and the offense, the performance of the Buffalo Bills.
I think we have that audio. Let's go to the audio.
Here's Josh Allen commenting on the performance of the Buffalo

(05:04):
Bills offense take a.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Listen, we just played sloppy. It's not gonna win a
football game. Turning the ball over three times in our
red zone, gave them one in their red zone. That's
just bad, bad football. And we just did not play
good tonight. But again, we shouldn't have shouldn't have even
been in it with three turnovers. So that's a Again,
that's just that's just piss poor offense.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
There you go see piss poor offense for the Buffalo Bills.
Josh Allen. That's a quote, Josh Allen, piss poor offense
by the Buffalo Bill. All Right, so let us discuss
the question. How do you read the Josh Allen sound?
But you just heard it there, his take on the
Bills losing here at home to the Patriots. So I've

(05:46):
got Purple Hayes, Jim bro and Sinkle, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're
going to do. But the bi get in the basket.
So a this was a Smelling Salts special, a smelling

(06:08):
Salt special for the team from Buffalo. They needed a
wake up call. Now, normally you don't need a wake
up call. My experience, when you play an Island game
at night, you genuinely do not need a wake up call.
This is not a morning game. This was not a
team traveling from a different time zone to have to
play a game and an odd out or no. This

(06:30):
was a standard East Coast night game between two teams
that are in the Eastern time zone. And yet the
Buffalo Bills were like sleepwalking at the beginning of this game.
And I guess they thought Patriots are so bad they
don't have to play a full gusto here. They can
sleepwalk divisional home game against the Patriots and all that stuff.

(06:52):
And the Bills got what they deserved. They just got
what they deserve. I mean, we saw the game, if
you heard about it, and we saw it appen listening
to on the radio. Whatever, they got a big fat
capital L loss, primetime loss, that's what they deserved. The
way they played in this game. That was a supermarket
Steve special is what that was. Meaning, there's a spill

(07:15):
on Aisle seventeen, and we need a mop and a
bucket because the Buffalo Bills made a mess of themselves.
They defecated all over Asle seventeen. It's a bad job
by them. Eleven accepted penalties eleven against the Buffalo Bills.
But wait, there's more Buffalo. What they did here was

(07:37):
another caller, this guy Hayes, Purple Hayes, we call him
from Minnesota, who calls the show every four or five months,
and he works at a mortuary in Minnesota and he
picks up bodies and takes care of them and all
that stuff when they meet their demise. And so for him,
it's like the Buffalo Bills. They needed that because they
needed a grave digger. They'd already done the grave. The

(08:00):
problem was not the grave. They dug their own grave. Here.
They dug the hole. They jumped in. They wanted to
get out, but they left their shovel up top, and
they didn't have a ladder to get out of the grave.
They dug themselves. And so that was it. Josh Allen
headlining the episode of Disaster Piece Theater in this game
for how long do we hear that the Bills had
that long stretch? They said, an NFL record for most

(08:23):
games without turning the ball over, making mistakes and all
that stuff. So you figure it's gonna even out right
all things even out over a period of time, and
so they even out here in the first half. You
had my math is right, I wrote, I jotted down.
I don't know what that is. I jotted down fumble,
jotted down punt, fumble, field goal punt. That's your game

(08:45):
script for the Buffalo Bills. So again that's fumble, punt, fumble,
field goal punt. That's it. And you play with the
live hand grenades, and they were certainly playing with live
hand grenades there. You play with those and then eventually
come boom, get some shrapnel. That's what happens there. We're
not surprising enough. If you watch Benny versus De Penny.

(09:05):
We had another, to quote Josh Allen, piss poor weekend
on the NFL. But that's one of the things we
did get right was the Patriots plus the points against
the Buffalo Bills there. So we were not shocked by
this perform and still to see the Bills turn the
ball over that much, that was surprising. He said, Oh,
they lose the game, but they wouldn't do it because
the turnovers. But they did, and the Bills, if you

(09:27):
look at their record, Bill's Mafia is not gonna like me. Oh,
I can't believe there's such a hater because anything that's reality,
anything reality base people get all upset about. But the
Buffalo Bills have been skating on thin ice for a
while here. Remember that opening game, the Ravens had it
in control and then Derrick Henry gave it away. I said,

(09:47):
I want to win. We're gonna give the win to you,
and he fumbled. Fumbleup set the Bills up for the
crazy comeback late in the game the Dolphins right there
on the fourth court. That lowly mind Miami Dolphins went
into Orchard Part, New York and had a shot that
the New Orleans Saints. The Bills could not cover the

(10:08):
points spread against US Saints. That's an embarrassment. So you
were you were playing with some issues here and you
finally got burned with it and eventually the luck runs
out or whatever if you believe in that kind of things.
But this was the universal signed from above from the heavens,
right that the universe giving them the knock them down

(10:31):
a couple of pegs situation here for the Buffalo Bills.
And can't keep showing up half asleep, generally speaking, half
asleep and expect the football gods to keep bailing you out.
And by any way you slice it, any way that
you slice it. Here just a flat game, and it's

(10:51):
an island game. And I don't know, I don't think
it's like you have seventeen You supposedly hear how hard
these people work, and they spend all year working on
but yet they still some teams, you know, a couple
times a year you just have a clunker. The Bills
have had several clunkers. They won most of them, but
it finally came back to bite them. And so it's
a ce la Vis situation for the Buffalo Bills at

(11:12):
this point, such as life in Buffalo. Now. The good
news is you look at that division, it's like, well,
the Patriots are the only chance, the only threat lurking
in that division is the Patriots. Like the Patriots are
just mediocre, then the Bills have nothing to worry about.
If the Patriots are better than that, then there's something there.
There's absolutely something all right now turning the Patriot. So

(11:33):
we'll stay with this game. There's some drama o rama
going on between Stefan Diggs, who had a breakout game,
was targeted twelve times Digs the former Bill who's now
toiling in New England, that he enjoys the pink drank
or the pink goo or whatever that stuff was that
they had on the boat there with Cardi b and

(11:53):
having a grand old time there at the Eye. But
Sefon Diggs twelve targets, ten catches for a hundred and
forty six yards. I'm told that is good against his
old friends, the Bills. I didn't play in the NFL,
but I don't want to offend Ryan Clark. But I'm
told that's good. I'm told that's good. Then Diggs gave
us the money quote after the game. Stefan Diggs, when

(12:15):
asked about his old stomping grounds there in Western New York,
Stefan Diggs on the Patriot Bills game, said that it
was quote one hundred percent personal, one hundred percent personal.
Close quote from Stefan Diggs on the matchup against his
former team, the Bills. So can you decode that particular

(12:37):
quote from Stefan Diggs. Of course we can. We have
the ultimate mather of Rosetta Stone. We can decode all
of this stuff. So that response it's one hundred percent personal,
is on brand. It's obviously on brand here. Classic narcissism
by Stefan Diggs. And that's what it's all about, right,
just obviously it was all about it. It's never enough

(12:58):
just to play well. And it's not just digs. It's like,
you just can't go out and play well. To play well,
you have to have motivation, right, You've got to sprinkle
in some drama, little flakes of drama. You just sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle,
sprink You sprinkle those in just like that. It's personal.
And the thing is great about this is there are

(13:20):
a lot of dumb fans that think, well, yeah, he's right,
it was personal. The bills did him dirty? No, no,
they did not. That that would be incorrect. Here. You
were the problem, Stefawon Diggs in Buffalo. We had said it.
Everyone knew it, who paid attention to it. You were
the issue there, not the bills. You were the problem there,
and you look at it and you powdered your way

(13:43):
out of Buffalo. You powdered your way out of the bills.
You don't want to be there, And it was the classic.
Now he's acting like it's the breakup, you know, the
cliche of the boyfriend girlfriend breaks up. The girl dumps
the boy, and the guy's like, all right, I'm a
gym bro man. I'm gonna post a bunch of photos
from the gym, right Jim Selfie's captioned living my best
life like crap like that. That's essentially what Stefan Diggs

(14:06):
is doing here right now, pretending he's over it. But
he's not over it. He's obviously not over it. And
that's the big You understand how much the Bills had
enough of Stefan Diggs. They kept around two years longer
than they should have. But Stefan Diggs, if you look
at it, when he was there at the very end
in Buffalo, and the Bills publicly leaked a lot of

(14:28):
stories to make it seem like there was no issue,
but there were so many clues along the way there
were problems there. And you look at it and it's
like the Buffalo Bills and I went back and I
checked my notes because I was pretty confident I was right,
and I believe I am correct here. In order to
get rid of Stefan Digs at the end of his
time with the Bills, the Buffalo franchise ate the biggest

(14:50):
non quarterback salary cap hit in the history of the NFL.
Now I am a salary cap truther, but that's still
a ton of money that the Buffalo Bills ate. The
bills ate it. They did not have barbecue sauce, they
did not have honey mustard. They just they just ate it.
They decided they would rather eat the money mana money,

(15:11):
eat that money, then deal with the sideline hissy fits
from mister Diggs there and the bad body language, the sulking,
the whole routine right, the whole routine there, and at
the end Diggs acted when he was with the Bills
like he was a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay. The way
the way he was acting there with Josh Allen, you know,

(15:33):
every time Alan wouldn't throw them the ball, it was
like a personal assault against the von Diggs and all
that stuff. So I do enjoy the revisionist history, like
there's something else that was going on. There's nothing else
going on. It's it's unbelievable. Sevon Diggs was pouting poudy, poudy,
poudy with Josh Allen at Loggerheads. I ain't playing nice now,
they're not working together. They're former work friends, and you

(15:55):
can play nice and all that stuff. But it wasn't
just Josh Allen. There were issues with the coaching staff
have There were the cryptic text tweets back then, and
I'm all for that. I don't have a problem with that.
Good for talk radio when you send cryptic messages out.
But Buffalo did not do Stefan Diggs dirty. They did not,
and finally called his bluff. They got rid of him.

(16:17):
And and so this is like Stefan Diggs doing some therapy.
So I'll sit in the chair and I'll do a
little therapy here. And you know, he needed this game.
He convinced himself clearly had big stat line. Good for
him that he's still the guy coming off the operation
when he was in the with Houston, he hurt himself,
had had the surgery of the ACL But deep down, right,

(16:38):
you look around and Stefon Diggs, he knows the Bills
don't miss him, and that's gotta bother. Right, Bill's had
a good year essentially the same team they were with him.
They're not a legit championship team in Buffalo in that regard,
they're a fraud, but they're a solid second line contender,

(16:58):
right the Bills. They will get you into the playoffs.
They'll get you win a couple of games in the
play but ultimately they'll f up, they'll screw something up,
and they'll lose. That's what the Bills do. And so
Stefan Diggs got his revenge. Congratulations, he got a little
bit of closure. But they play these teams play each
other twice a year, so there'll be another match up here.
The problem though, Diggs has is still trying to convince

(17:21):
everyone and even himself that he was the victim, like
because everyone loves victimhood and all that stuff, and the
Bills somehow did him wrong. And of course I looked
at the evidence and they rescued themselves from Stefan Diggs.
All right, now, last thing and the last word here,

(17:41):
Does this count? This Patriots win on Sunday Night and
even game over the Buffalo Bills with a late field
goal under twenty seconds to go. The Patriots get that
late field goal. Does this count as a signature win
for Drake May's Patriots? So I will be Benny Bright's
side to a point, and I will nod my head, yes,

(18:02):
I'm nodding my head, yes, that this does count as
a signature win. Here's why Drake May had no signituit.
So anything literally anything against the halfway decent team would
have been a signatuoit. So what I'm trying to say
here is if you look at it, the bar has
been replaced by a sinkhole. For the Patriots, there's no

(18:23):
bar to clear. You're just trying to jump over a sinkhole,
is what you know. That counts as a signature win
in this modern era of the Patriots, not for the
Belichick Brady days, not in that era. Those guys are
long gone. Bill Belichick getting his face smashed in in
college football and Tom Brady, by the way, is there

(18:44):
a worse general manager than Tom Brady? What he put
together with the Raiders? Holy crap. But you can't rip
Brady because he's football Royalty. What a terrible job tom
Brady did, Pete Carroll and Gino Smith more on that later,
Holy crap, that's Tom Brady. He handpicked the coach, he
hint picked the quarterback and they blow anyway. So those

(19:04):
guys are gone. But like a house by the side
of the road. But you look at the team the
pageot and this does again the bar is low. It's
a sinkhole. So let's not go nuts. I'm not gonna
overreact to this. The Bills were sloppy. That was a
large part of the game. But a lot of these
games are decided because most games are lost, not one,

(19:25):
so that is a factor in this. Eleven penalties we
mentioned that early eleven penalties, a couple of turnovers as well.
For the Buffalo Bills in this game and the pictures,
it didn't exactly wow you. It's not like you we WHOA,
this is like, oh, this is a team that's gonna
really contend in the AFC and all that stuff. No
touchdown passes for Drake may in this game. However, he

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did average nine yards per pass attempt. There were a
couple of big plays mixed in there, so didn't turn
the ball over and possession of the ball is nine
tenths of victory, so that was a big thing and
you didn't have to watch the usual slop the Patriots
have had there. It's in the last couple of years,
the Patriot quarterback situation. It's a Rubik's cube, but you're

(20:09):
trying to solve it while you're blindfolded, all right, So
this does count as happy beat days. Are here again.
Happy days are here again. No more Cam Newton from
a couple of years back throwing medicine balls. You don't
have to pretend like you're interested in dog food Mac Jones.
That's what he was with the Patriots. He was dog

(20:29):
food and Bailey Zappy cosplay, Zappi mania. You don't have
to worry about that either. All that off the table
right there, See you later. So that's where we are.
And the Patriots are a winning team. And you know
some of the records, it's how bad they've been. This
is uncharted territory since twenty nineteen. It's how pathetic the

(20:51):
Patriots have been. Here that back to back wins for
the first time since twenty twenty two. That looked like
a Mike Vrabel like what he did in tennesse See,
that type of perform RAN's heavy, underdog on the road,
grinded out type of game. And that's what the Titans
did back before things got really nasty there in Tennessee
at the end. But you tighten up the AFC East

(21:12):
race and really again it's a two team race. The
Jets have already been eliminated, the Dolphins have already been eliminated,
and it's really just the Patriots or the only hope
to unseat the Buffalo Bills in that division and the
rebooted Patriots. Is it something? Is it going to continue? Well,
well we'll see here. But the post dynasty, the post

(21:35):
dynasty wasteland, all right, they were competent. It's just being
a little bit better than average is where you get
a little giddy.

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And so we are back at it again, and our
lead this hour from baseball. We're gonna talk some baseball
here and oh what a scene it was, Oh what
a see. I don't know if you're watching any of this.
I know we had we had action. We had much
action going on in the NFL throughout the day. But
we also had an interesting the scene in torun the

(24:00):
Blue Jays and the Yankees. They were locking horns here
in a matchup that was going on. Well, NFL football
was going on. I was flipping back. We actually we
had a bunch of games going on in football and baseball,
twell two in baseball, the American League side of the bracket.
But I bring this up. We start out in Toronto

(24:22):
where the Blue Jays and the Yankees were going at it.
And this game was no contest out of you were
watching or not, but it was absolutely no contest, a
domination situation for the team from Canada.

Speaker 9 (24:38):
All god.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
And someone we had never heard of stepped up on
the mound and shoved it down. The New York Yankees
throats A rookie Trey Yes Savage set a Blue Jay
postseason record by striking out eleven in five and a
third no hit innings in Vladimir Guerrero Junior hit his

(25:04):
first postseason Grand Salam and the first one in team history. There,
Toronto beat the Yankees thirteen to seven, a game that
was not that close the Yankees with some stat stuffing
at the end there, and so a two nothing lead
for the team from Canada. The Yankees marry, it's not

(25:24):
a best of seven, it's a best of five. Someone
named Dalton varshow also had a couple of home runs
there and four extra base hits, as the Blue Jays
did it from all sides there. He even had that
cheating astro forever, a cheating astro, George Springer, who hit
a home run there as well. And so the Blue

(25:44):
Jays yet again a dominating performance against the New York Yankees,
and they are on the brink of advancing. They won
the game on Saturday ten to one, so if you
do the math, that's twenty three to eight advantage in
favor of the team from Canada, which leads us into
the postgame commentary of who else but Aaron Judge. As

(26:08):
Aaron Judge, you said, and I want to chime in
on this, and I got some things to say, and
he did, and well, but we actually have the audio.
Believe we have the audio this, yes, all right, let's
go to the audio. Tip. Here's Aaron Judge some of
his postgame comments as the New York Yankees end up
getting their face smashed in by the Toronto Blue Jays Tago. Listen.

Speaker 10 (26:28):
Well, you know it's supposed to see anything's going to happen.
You know, you never know that it's going to be
a pitcher's duel till the end, or you know, offenses
are going to explode early on. So they've been able
to do that both games and kind of put us
at bay earlier when they were ever put up. You know,
six seven, eight runs, you know, first couple of innings
makes it tough to kind of climb back as an offense,
but it doesn't phaze us offensive. You know, he still

(26:49):
climbed back to tonight a little bit. But you know,
we got to kind of take it to them, you
know when we get back to New York, you know,
we got to be the one to score first and
kind of put the pressure on them and kind of
flip the script.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
All right, So that's the commentary from Aaron Judges. The
Yankees end up on the wrong side of things. So
let us discuss the question on this one. Is the
Yankees captain Aaron Judge right when he said his comment
the money quote that's been going around, it's nothing new
for us or is this just postseason denial? All right,

(27:21):
that is the question. So let's tackle it this way,
all right, Aaron Judge, you have to be measured when
you're the captain of the Yankees, right the Yankees is
the New York Yankees, all this bull crap. And also
the Yankees are cooked, okay, Like there are some teams
that have fight that you know are going to come
back and you know are going to not roll over

(27:42):
and play dead. The problem is the Yankees. I don't
think they have it in him to play three consecutive
perfect playoff games, which is what they're going to have
to do. Even if they're at home, it doesn't matter.
You've got issues in the bullpen with Weaver. This was
a massive, a massive feet for the Yankees when you
think about the fact that you had Max Freed on

(28:06):
the mound, who supposedly is a big time player, a
big start member with the Atlanta Braves against the cheating
Astros back in the day, and it got completely char
broiled here. So on the Malord scale of concern for
the New York Yankees, one to ten, with ten being
planning your Bahamas vacation, I'm at a nine point oh

(28:30):
for the New York Yankees, A nine point zero for
the Yankees. And I don't care what Aaron Judge says,
you know, and all that stuff, and it's listen, the
Yankees are absolutely cooked here. And the fact that they
had nothing against this Trey Y Savage of the Toronto

(28:50):
Blue Jays is an absolute stunner. You thought, well, they're
not gonna they're not gonna fall by twelve nothing or
whatever it was. I mean, my god, pathetic. And I
don't care what Aaron Boone saying that, it doesn't matter.
Nothing's gonna change with the Yankees. Aaron Boone will still
be there. Aaron Judge, of course, will be there. They're
not gonna get rid of anybody. The Yankees could have

(29:11):
done this three or four years ago. They're gonna lose
this series. Toronto's gonna get to the American League Championship Series.
But nothing's gonna change. Aaron Boone will still be there.
They'll just say, well, we just the pitching fell apart
we had and we didn't have Garrett Cole all year.
They'll make a whole list of excuses, right, They'll do
all of that, and in the end, nothing will change.

(29:31):
The Yankees will be back and we'll have the same
core of the team will be back and they'll be like, well,
we lost one Soto, we still made the playoffs, so
it's all good there. Meanwhile, how about the situation in
Seattle as the Detroit Tigers looking to take a two
to zero series lead over the Seattle Mariners after winning
their game on Saturday, And how did this game turn out? Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.

(29:58):
The Mariners had a two lead against the ace of
the Detroit Tigers and then blew it and the Yeah,
the Tigers came back. The game was tied to two
and j Rod Julio Rodriguez with a tie breaking ribby
double for the Seattle Mirrors in the eighth inning. The

(30:18):
crowd goes wild the Mariners, who that run the runner
ahead of Rodriguez. The big Dumper got on base there
and the Tigers go down and the Mariners went three
to two the finals, So that means the series is
tied up at one to one. As the Mariners offense
coming to life, cal Raley is he gonna win the
American League VP? Probably not because of the New York bias,

(30:39):
although he should. Cal Raley with the double and we
won out. And then shortly after that Julio Rodriguez doubling
home Raleigh and the Mariners go up and they win
the game. And so now that series is tied up
at one to one. The better story, though, is in
the losing locker room. So let us discuss the question

(31:00):
on this one. The Tigers starting pitcher this game was
their the reigning Cy Young winner and the greatest pitcher
the Tigers have had since what Verlander or Jack Morris,
Ben's how far back you want to go? But the
Tigers lose this game, even though by all accounts their

(31:21):
ace pitched pretty well. So how big a blow? A
body blow? Body blow? Body blow? Is this for the
Tigers to lose with Trek Scoobel on the mound in
game number two of the Alds. So on this one,
it is massive, right, This is the size of the
mighty Pacific Ocean. Is what it is here? You just

(31:43):
expect it's you know what this is. It is a
rotisserie cooker on a late night infomercial. When you start,
if you're the Tigers, you send Terrek Scoubel to the mound.
It is a set it and forget it situation, the
late great Ron Pope, the king of the infomercial back
in the day. But it is a set it and

(32:03):
forget it situation. You just assume you're going to win
the game because this guy is one of the top
three or four pitchers in baseball, if not just top
two in all of Major League Baseball. And obviously they
were in position the marriage to win the game to
nothing as Hori Polanko hit a couple of home runs
off of Terrek Scuoble. Play the lottery if you're the

(32:24):
Seattle Mariners. But the fact that the Mariners came back
and I technically Schooble didn't lose the game, finning in
the bullpen lost the game. So you say, well, technically
the Tigers did not lose with Trek Scuball on the mound. However,
this was his day. It's supposed to be guaranteed win day. Again,
set it and forget it, the Rotisseriy thing, and that
did not happen for the Detroit Tigers. And so this

(32:47):
series is a total toss up. And you certainly like
the Mariners in Game three, mainly because it's a bet
against Flaherty, who's going to pitch that game and has
been not the most con assistant starter for the Detroit
You talk about hot and col he's like a yo yo,
he's up and down Jack Flaherty, but he'll he'll be
on the mound there in that game coming up here

(33:10):
on I think that's on Tuesday, travel Day on Monday,
so we'll play on Tuesday. And I did see that
Horey Polanco the fourth Mariner player with multi home well
multi homerun game in the postseason. The only other ones
to do it Ken Grivy Junior, Edgar Martinez, and Jay Buhner.
They all did it way back in nineteen ninety five,
so it's been thirty years since the last time that happened. Now. Meanwhile,

(33:36):
moving on from that interesting story in the NFL, I
want to go back to the NFL for a second.
Miami Dolphins, a bad team taking on a worst team,
at least in theory a worst team, the Carolina Panthers.
So I don't know if you were watching this game,
probably not. It was regional covers. You had to be
flipping over to the game to watch it. You had
to go out of your way to watch it. So

(33:58):
I bring this up because in the particular game, the
Miami Dolphins jumped out to a seventeen to nothing lead,
a seventeen to nothing lead over the team from Carolina,
who has had all kinds of issues they can't get
out of their own way. And what happens the rest
of the game, Well, I'll tell you what happened. The

(34:19):
team from Carolina from Charlotte scored twenty seven points the
rest of the game. The Dolphins only got one touchdown,
and so Carolina gets their second win of the year,
and the Dolphins dropped a one in four. They bought
a seventeen to nothing lead against one of the worst
teams in the NFL, the Carolina Panthers. Because the Dolphins

(34:42):
also one of the worst teams. Let's hear from the
head coach of the team from Miami. Miami, Miami, you
know we love the goof on Sean McDermott or not
Sean McDermott. Mike McDaniel, got my coaches like the goof
on mixed up. But here's the Dolphins head coach commenting
postgame after Miami loses yet again, and it sounds like

(35:02):
he's fit to be tied. Here's the Dolphins head coach
Mike McDaniel takes.

Speaker 11 (35:06):
There's no if ans or butts about it. You don't
give up that many line of scrimmage yards without or
unless you're uncoordinated in certain ways. It just it can't
continue to go on like this, and it's already gone
on too long.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, the Dolphins had the worst run defense in the NFL.
We handicapped this game on benny versus the penny. Did
not see a way that Carolina could take advantage of that.
I had no idea that Rico Dowdell would play like
he's back in college. Holy the Carolina running back had
two hundred and six yards, averaged nine yards per carry,

(35:45):
nine yards. They had more yards on the ground than
they did passing the ball as the quarterback continues to
suck in Carolina. But it doesn't matter. So the Panthers
are two and three on the year that Dolphins dropped
to one and four, and to a tongue of Bylawa,
you look at the.

Speaker 12 (36:00):
Stat lines, Well, you had a good game. I don't
know what you're talking about. He played well, he played great,
you know, Okay, well not well enough. The Dolphins needed more.
You cannot seventeen point lead against one of the worst
teams in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
That is an embarrassment, in absolute embarrassment for the Dolphins
to lose that game, and they're gonna blow that whole
thing up at the end of the year. Tyreek Hill,
he'll be gone. He's not gonna come back and play
it again. For the Dolphins and Tua. Are they gonna
be able to get out of that contract. The language
on that not particularly great. But they'll have a new
coaching staff there. They'll have a new head coach, we'll

(36:37):
have a new GM. It's all going to go away.
All of it's going They're gonna have new people there
and everyone will be woozy in Miami. And of course
they'll still stink, but they'll have at least a different
kind of stank in Miami because someone else will be
running the show there. But what a what a horrific
day that one. I mean, man, they were the slight favorite,

(36:58):
but to give up twenty seven points and now wasn't
all unanswered because the Dolphins did score late, but it
was twenty unanswered points. And then the Dolphins got a
touchdown pass from Tua, and then the Carolina came back
and they got a late touchdown that was the difference
in the game. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox

(37:21):
if you'd like to be part eight seven seven nine
nine six six three six y nine. Also on X
at Ben Mallerd. By the way, congratulations the fun fact
of the Hour courtesy of the New York Yankees. And
if you look at the highest postseason earn run average
minimum seventy five innings pitched all time, highest postseason earn

(37:45):
run average now Clayton Kershaw's at four point four to nine.
That is fourth worst all time. He's not playing in
the playoffs because he sucks and the Dodgers don't want
him on the roster. So Kershaw's number four David Price
and his dog Astro at number three. Number two is
al lighter now David Price at four point sixty two,

(38:07):
Al Lighter at four point sixty three and now the
highest postseason era minimum seventy five innings pitched in the
history of baseball. Congratulations to Max Freed of the New
York Yankees, as you now have the worst urn run
average five point three to one in your postseason career.

(38:27):
Of the sixty two pitchers all time with at least
seventy five innings pitch in the postseason. That is the worst.
And it's not even close year, It's not even close.
Like you are at the very very top of the
bad list. Congratulations.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Here we go, there we got light.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
To the third degree.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Ben.

Speaker 9 (39:00):
The Indianapolis Cult are now four and one on the season,
and they actually have the best point differential in all
of the NFL at plus seventy four. Do you think
it's the time we start taking them seriously?

Speaker 1 (39:08):
No?

Speaker 8 (39:09):
They the Raiders gave him like twenty four points. Just
handed a gino Smith here score hole o leole, No listen,
it's a nice story. Daniel Jones doesn't suck out loud
like he did with the Giants.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
I don't buy it. I saw him in person. I
wasn't overly impressed with the Colts against the Rams. They
blew a lead late next Ben, the Penn State Nittany Lions.
Oh my god, is LaVar okay? Have we done well
with Errington?

Speaker 9 (39:37):
I don't know, but They were favored by a twenty
four points over previously winless in le Bruins, and they lost.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
No, I didn't just lose Ben James.

Speaker 9 (39:49):
Franklin is signed through the twenty thirty one season, but
do you think his job is in peril?

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Well, he's got a giant buyout. That's the problem. I
don't know the boosters. I guess got a lot of money,
but other people they need somebody with a big, big
check to cut it. If they can find the right booster,
he's out. I mean there, I guarantee there's phone calls
going around. We got to get rid of this guy now.
Whether they can find the money, that's the bomb. Next.

Speaker 9 (40:14):
Earlier in the weekend, it was reported that the Eagles
have absolutely no plans on trading AJ Brown After their
loss against the Broncos.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
He kind of.

Speaker 9 (40:22):
Threw Jalen Hurd side of the bus. You think that's
still the case, No trading AJ Brown? You know, let's
see where they are at the time of the trade deadlight.
It's all on the table. It's not off the table yet.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
How do we know? I mean, yes, I.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
James, I want to Fox Sports Radio has the best
sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our
shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio
app search FSR to listen live. Hey you sports figure,
guy or girl?

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Who here was you talking to? So here some interesting advice?
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds. And if you don't like it, you
and way we go.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
It's the in advice line unscreened radio.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
The safety night is off. Who needs our advice? Who
needs our wisdom? Well, there are no more teams that
are unbeaten in the NFL. There are none. The last
of the unbeatens ended up in the lost column on Sunday.
The Buffalo Bill's the last one standing, but they lost
the Sunday night game with the Patriots, and so that
leads us into the losers. There's only one team.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Left that hasn't won a game yet, and that would
be the Jets.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Suck Suck, Suck. As the Jets or the lone team
with out a win zero to five, they would have
the number one pick in the twenty twenty six NFL draft.
So any advice to Aaron Glenn and the Jets. You're
live on the air. When you hear my voice We'll
start out with you at eight seven seven.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Ninety nine on the Fox Hello line number one, Hello line,
all right, there you go, he.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Said, I like losers. What lawyers? Has he had a
lawyer yet? Has he hired a lawyer yet? That guy's
gonna make a lot of money that lawyer. Hello line
line too, you're on the air, Hello line too, New Jersey. Okay,
wonderful advice. Yes, they were already, they were at home.
Mike the leprecha On advice to the Jets. Mike the
leprechaunrank more get it? Okay, thank you for that. I

(42:29):
don't know why I said your name. I guess you
were on the board. Line three, you're on.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
There eight seven seven ninety nine Fox. We're giving advice
to the Jets, the lone winless team in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
At zero to five? Can you stream it? What is it?
Line mix? The stream? Fix the stream? All right, I
don't know, I don't know what I mean. That must
be a local affiliate problem. Line four, you're on the
air line for Hello.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Springer is on the Jays that we checked any of
them for the buzzer or the trash cans in the.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
In the darkness a fair point got two. Cheating a
holes left the Tigers manager and the Blue Jays outfielder.
They could meet in the American League Championship Series. We're
guaranteed that if that happens at cheating a Hole in
the World Series. Line five, you're on the air Line five.
Hello in morning time?

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Maybe jet pat JETPW.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
That's a good idea. Yeah, the Jets, Rick and Maryland
always with good answers there, the jet's not really taking off.
Line six, you're on the air. Hello, Line six, liberty
or get me dead? Sounds like that, yeah, although every
week sounds like that. Still hasn't died, so yeah, extended
stay on the deathbed.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Line number one, Hello, Line one.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
All right, I don't know either a. Line two, you're
on the air line too, Hello.

Speaker 7 (43:45):
Bring the charges lady on the radio?

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Which which one? There's so many charger leads. I don't
know which one? Which one do you want? Line three? Hello?
Line yeah, Line three, you're on the air. Hello, Line three.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
You play to win the game.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
You play to win game. But Jets are zero and five.
They're the lone winless team in the NFL. The five
we still a game to go. Hello, you're on the
airline number four. Hello line four, David say the accountable
and eaton did okay? I thank you for that that
you knew I should have turned his mic off. That
didn't make the air Hello line number five. That was

(44:21):
lucky Tony checking in line five. You're on the airline five.
Line five is not there. We'll go to line six.
What if that Robert kraftguy are called? Hello line six,
You're on the airline six.

Speaker 9 (44:31):
Yeah, you got to get a place to that good
key line pie and get you in the winning mood.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Oh yeah, that's the key the key line pie, not
that ripoff key line. Not the coconut. No, the real
key lime pie or the strawberry is not bad either. Hello,
line one, you're on the airline one.

Speaker 7 (44:47):
Maybe Aaron Glenningon watched Steve car Steve, Steve Sarkesian and.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
James Franklin Tree fall a parachute.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
I never seebody so far, that is pretty bad. Penn
State unranked and Texas unranked after the preseason all the hype,
Hello line number two, you're on the airline two. Well,
Lorena used to be a dancer and she's got warts
on her feet. Yeah, no, no, no, your friends were dancers.
You should get your ears checked. Wow, Loraina spicy, fiery.

(45:21):
That's travel, air, that's travel. Lorraina traveled the nicest feet
I've ever seen. Really well, you don't look at other
feet though. Line three, you're on the airline three. Hello,
my girlfriend is hot. Okay, congratulations. We'll do one more,
Only one more. If it's good, I'll take credit. If not,
I'll blame the Cooper loop will pick the final call
on the incident. Vice line for the New York Jets
are the only winless team in the NFL. Line one,

(45:44):
Line number one, you're on the airline one. Go but
he said, eat bacon. I like bacon. Well, give a shot,
I guess.
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