October 10, 2025 • 53 mins
BIg Ben talks about the Dodgers advancing to the NLCS on an error by Phillies pitcher Orion Kerkering, the Eagles getting run over by the New York Giants and Jalen Hurts looking bad in the process, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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We're back at it. See nightly talk show every night
here win, loser, draw, good, bad or ugly. Things going on,
things not going on, and we sit in the big chair,
as our old morning guy Mark Patrick used to say
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back in the day, and yap away yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
I guess the headline, the headline and lead this hour
is oh Ryan, Oh no, oh Ryan, Oh no oh,
Ryan's belt. If you will, what a what a night?
If you saw the baseball or not, but a double
barreled action, one good game, one dog food game on
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the divisional round card on a pretty good sporting day.
Like if you're into this kind of crap, right, if
you're into it and I'm into it, and I assume
you are too, this is a good day. It's a
good day. So yeah, the Brewers and the Cubbies. Now
that was the nightcap. That was the dud Dud Dud
dud Dud. Then you had the Phillies earlier and the
Dodgers that was the undercard. And it's kind of like,
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you know boxing. I used to be a huge not
a huge boxing I used to go to boxing matches
in Vegas and everyone's while. You'd go to a boxing
match and the undercard would upstage the main event. You'd
be like, Wow, that's not supposed to happen. Well, this
was it I heard. The assumption was they moved the
Phillies Dodgers game up because the Eagles were playing in
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the NFL game. I guess they really wanted to make
sure the Philadelphia sports fans up both their teams suck. Anyway,
it turns out the game in LA did upstage the
matchup at the Friendly Confines there in Chicago. So that's
where we will begin again. If you saw any of
this stuff or not, maybe you were busy. I don't
know what you're doing. I'm not in your shoes, all right.
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So we had an instant classic at Chavez Ravine. One
of those moments where years from now you'll be like, hey,
you remember that JABEBROWNI that Schmendrick for the Phillies. What's
the guy's name that did the thing you can't do
at the time? Yeah? That guy? What's Yeah? So the
game was tied at one, it went to extra innings.
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The bases were lowered. There were two outs in the
eleventh inning, and the Phillies had a relief pitcher, O'riyan
Kirkering on the mound. Not a household name he is
now though, congratulations, you're now a household name. O'Ryan so
Oriyan Kirkering on the mound. And there was a little
tapper from Andy Piez back to the mound, and he
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fielded the ball, bobbled it and then threw it away
right past home plate. We could have thrown the first base,
but instead he threw it right there. Boom, a wild
throw passed home plate. And after screwing it up and
Andy Piez gets it done. They't comebacker like he was.
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He failed, but yet succeeded with two outs in the
eleventh inning, and thanks to the generosity of the Philadelphia Phillies,
very charitable in the city of brother in Law, the
Dodgers escape. They get a two to one win and
they have DECOMMISSI the fighting phills, not a nada, go bye,
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See you later, suckers. Where's your red October? Now? Now
the story here is I mean, we know, I mean
you know. Oftentimes we'll come in here if you listen
to the show on a regular basis, if you listen
to the Ben Mather Show, we often come in here
with a knife and we play the blame game. We
cut up the blame cheese steak, or we blame you
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know this, that and the other thing. There's no need
to play that game, like, we don't need to play
the game. We know where the blame is on this.
The blame is rather obvious. It's right between your eyes here.
So the pitcher O Ryan Kirkering on the mound, he
hung his head in shame. There he put his hands
down on his knees after his throat sailed away, sailing
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away right past J. T Va Muto the catcher there
as as the pinch runner came home to score the
comet across the plate there and he actually missed the
plate and then had to go back and touch the
plate that The Dodgers are onto the National League Championship Series.
They have to wait till this weekend because the Chicago
Cubs pummeled the Brewers and so the Cubbies are staying alive,
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and there will be a deciding Game five on Saturday.
So I don't know if youre gonna watch that or
just watch college football, but yeah, I'll check it out.
Game five. That's good. Somebody's gonna be somebody's gonna be
very upset at the end of that game. As I've
often said, the better story is in the losing locker room.
And one of the mantras is that and another mantras,
most games are lost, not one. This is a great example.
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This is a textbook example of the ethos of the
Ben Mathers Show. Most of the time a game is
lost because someone's a complete f up, like this game,
and what happened, as we discussed this game is immediately
instead of just accountability and you know, I know you
didn't try to suck O'Ryan Kirkering, but just sucked and
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that's it. No, everyone's got our circle the wagons. It's
not his fault. Oh no, no, it's such bulk. Let's
hear from Rob Thompson, the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies,
chiming in on all of this, you little taste of
what it was like. Take as rob obviously a heartbreaking
we to lose.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
To get a long conversation with Oryan coming off the field,
do you want to share a little what you told him?
Or just to keep his head up? And he just
got caught up in the moment a little bit coming
down the stretcher. He pitched so well for us, and
I feel I feel for him because he's he's putting
it all on his shoulders. But we went as a team,
and we lose as a team.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So all right, that quote right there is the money quote.
So let us discuss the question. Is it unfair to
put the Philadelphia Phillies loss on O'Ryan kirk ring? Is
it unfair? So my thoughts on this, I've got Jet Blue,
who Roberto and Butterball and we will throw all of
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these things together and we are gonna yack aty yack
under the darkness. So a my position, is it unfair
to put all of this on the Phillies picture? It
would be an injustice not to blame him, Like you
would live in a parallel universe, and life is not
always fair. We know that right, and you've got your problems.
I've got my problems. But O'Ryan Kirkering, the picture here
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melted down like a cheap soft pretzel left out in
the hot summer on Broad Street. You know, sometime late July,
early August. The moment was too big. He cracked, couldn't
handle it. He had tight took a syndrome. He choked.
Call like it is, don't lie, don't pretend, don't don't
do that crap. This was not some quirky bad hop.
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It was not. It was a routine play a big
league player makes one hundred percent of the time. It
wasn't the baseball gods playing some kind of evil trick
on this Philadelphia Phillies picture. No, no, no, no. He
flat out choked. He sucked at a time you cannot suck.
And and unfortunately for him, he decided he wanted to
go on vacation. Oryan Kirker. He went down to the airport.
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He got a one way ticket from Jet Blue and
the destination Panic City because he paniced. Baby, And you know, again,
don't give me the we win as a team, we
lose as a team. Crap. I don't hear that garbage, please,
You know who didn't lose the game. You can say, well,
Bryce Harper sucked in this series, that's true, but he
didn't throw the He didn't throw the ball away. H
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Kyle Schwarber hit some home runs the other day but
didn't do much else. Kyle Schwarber didn't throw the ball away.
You know who did throw the ball away. You want
to take a guess, ding ding ding ding ding ding. Yes, Oh,
Ryan Kirkering threw the ball away. That's on him. It's
not little league. He's a you know, a grown up
young man. It's on him, all right. This wasn't a
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bad inning. This is a career tattoo. Congratulations. You have
now been branded. No matter whether you stay in Philadelphia,
you go play for the Red Sox or the Diamondbacks,
or the Mariners, the the Marlins or the Twins or
the a Holes in Houston, it doesn't matter. You have
now gotten that tattoo right on your forehead, and for
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better or worse, that sticks with you forever. There's no
removing that tattoo.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's not now. It's not all bad news because from
an irishtandaman, this source is not close to the situation.
The Phillies are already planning a concession item to honor
a Ryan Kirkering for the twenty twenty sixth season. They're
gonna be serving up at the snack bar there art
Choke sandwiches, because that is the official vegetable of O'Ryan,
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the ARTI chuck. Wow. He becomes now the hunchback of
the Delaware Valley and Philadelphi's gonna eat him alife like
they do not hand out. Hey, you know you tried
a good job by you your ribbons. After that, you
know they chuck batteries at you, and all that mattered
was what happened in that moment, right didn't Matt? You said,
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well they were terrible of the Phillies offense. I agree
with you, they were bad. But the game was even up.
There were two outs. You get the hit her out,
Andy Piez. The game continues. You live to play another
day or in this case, another inning. And the game
was in his hands. He was on the mound, Ryan Kirkering,
and he rode the vomit comet. He did. It was
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early to ride the vomit come up. But he wrote
the vomit comment. He is going to wear that for
the rest of his big league career. He will become
again the answer to well who am I game? Who
was the numb nuts pitcher that threw the game away
for the Philadelphia Phillies. Now you think about the context
of this as well, how does this loss? Here's another question,
how does this loss change things going forward for the Phillies.
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So we have the multiverse in play, all right, there
was a dimension here where the Phillies go on and
come back and win Game five this weekend in Philly
and then go on to the NLCS and then the
World Series, and then they win the championship and everyone celebrates.
And however, that did not happen in this part of
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the multiverse. The shelf life has run out, the bread
has become moldy. This was the last best chance for
this core group to win a championship, and the ball
was in the hands of Oriyan Kirkering, and he chucked
it past the catcher. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
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Turn at the lads, the parties over see you later.
And the thing is and you know it, every man,
woman and child knows it. The Dodgers were vulnerable. They
were plumped for the taken You know it, and I
know it. Bryce Harper, he becomes a year older now,
he'll be thirty three next season, thirty four by next
October during the playoff run. He's no longer in his
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athletic prime. You've got big time free agents. Jt Ria Muto,
who was on the receiving end of the wild throw
that sailed past him. The catcher, the slugger, Kyle Schwarber,
he's selling some sharp bombs and then maybe the pentagonal
by him and then Ranger Suarez. They're all free agents.
That's an old core, oldest in baseball. What a mess now,
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I do like Dave Dombrowski the GM there and he's
gonna have to work like a ninja to keep this
group together. And you know it's a it's a good
town when the Phillies are winning. They packed the place
there at Citizens Bank Park. But man, what a debacle.
What a royal f up. And one guy, one guy
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f the whole thing go up. The whole thing goes
to flames. Now on the other side, turning the page here,
the question on this one is what is the vibe
around the Dave Roberts Dodgers, Like it's you can't really
feel that great ken ye. I mean you talk about
the definition of better to be lucky than good, and
that's exactly what that smelled like. You smell that, Yeah,
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my goodness. You could feel the universe trying to send
this thing to a game five. And the Dodgers were
like our guy that left to show Roberto. They were
driving the struggle bus, the much bally hooed Big Three
sho Hel Tani greatest player ever, rookie Bets. Do I
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have to apologize for rookie Betsy? Freddie Freeman, I believe
my math is right. I used some mallort math on this.
They batted a collective one fifty a womp. When you
talk about sucking a horrific one six eight for fifty
against the Philadelphia Affilies. That's the big Blue wrecking crew,
my fat ass, that's the big Blue wrecking crew. They
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were teetering on the brink. They were wobbling around like
a guy on a unicycle trying to drive through a hurricane.
And hey, again, they're lucky. The box score doesn't charge
rent for squatting. There were a lot of squatters in there,
a lot of floaters, and the Dodgers anemic offense scored
two runs in a closeout game, one on a basis
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loaded walk he paces load of walk to Mookie bats
and the other which ended it the throwing air by
o Ryan Kirkering on the Andy Piez forty foot bouncer.
That is not manufacturing runs. That is like walking around
the parking lot at Disneyland and finding a twenty dollars
bill is essentially what you did. That's a guardian angel
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in Dodger blue. That's lessorda looking down from Blue Heaven
doing CPR on your postseason run. Here, they were bailed out.
That is a government government like bail out here. Now,
I will say it's not all bad. On a positive note,
Roki Sazaki has become a glue guy. In the Dodger bullpen,
he was he was outstanding yet again the bullpen which
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has duct tape and it's got police tape around it
as well. Man, are they bad? Just a bad group.
But Suzaki came in there and all of a sudden,
and when he's on the mound, it's like, ah, everything's good,
everything's great. We got this. As long as the starters
can go seven innings, they'll be fine. But to Sazaki,
with ice water. That's what you want, right That's what
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the other guys had resumes where they had no pulse
on the mound. But Sazaki's living it right now. And
you know, if this series turns, he's the guy. He's
the reason it turned now. And really that's kind of
the thing that's the vibe the story of this Dodger team,
the greatest team ever assembled. But yet you look at
this team the way they played for Dave Roberts, despite
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the payroll and all the star power and all the sizzle,
they're never clean. It's never pretty. It's stumbling into the
bar at one point fifty nine in the morning, and
somehow walking out with a win is what it is.
And you just you can't rely on cosmic breaks forever.
You can't do it. It's working right now. It's just
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like a cosmic accident, all right. Quickly, last word, we
go down to Chicago the late game where Matthew Boyd,
Boyd was he good? Pitched a two hit you he
went into the fifth anything the whole game, but that's
modern baseball. Pitched a two hit ball into the fifth inning,
and the Chicago Cubbies they put the Milwaukee Brewers lineup
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into a chokehold sixth to nothing in a game that
didn't even seem that close on a chilly Thursday night
in Chicago. There they pushed the divisional series all the
way back up what ninety some on miles up I
ninety four to Milwaukee for a decisive Game five this
weekend is Ian Happ, Kyle Tucker, and Michael Bush, the
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ex Dodger all Homer for the Cubbies there and the
crowd there, they were having a rollicking good time at
Wrigley Field. They were dancing in the aisles there. It
was great. It was wonderful. You know why they were
dancing because Rigny Field is a playground for the blank blanks.
Eighty five percent of the world's working. The other fifteen
percent come out here. It's a blank blank that's the Cubs. Yeah,
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that's that is the Cubs. So the Cubs were on
the brink of elimination after they've lost those first two
games in the NLDS there in Milwaukee, and look like
they were not supposed to be on the same field,
but they held on the other night on Wednesday, and
so now here we are Boyd Good and the relievers
Good as well. And so next up the finale, best
of five, back in Milwaukee again Saturday night. Tickets are
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not available. I think Marlin's Man is gonna be there.
He was debating whether or not to go. But there's
no other game that day, so I'm assuming Marlin's man,
my buddy's gonna be there. He was in Chicago for
the game. He'll be in. I don't know if he's
gonna see He said he's thinking about going out to
Seattle for the game here on Friday night. But the
winner of that series between the Cubs and the Brewers
will take on the Doyers and that'll be in the NLCS.
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Coming up your better story again, losing a locker room.
So the questions rather obvious. Where have things gone haywire?
Where have things gone wrong for the Brewers? So watching
this game, this was from the Milwaukee side of things,
I call this a butterball game. It was an absolute turkey.
You win ninety seven games, you had the top record
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in the sport. And when you're out there and this
is a close out game, You've had two close out
games here. The lights are bright, the stage is all
yours right there. You want that national attention and your
little Milwaukee and you go out there and you're in
the witness protection program, lest your bats are three hits,
three hits all night. Three hits was Greg Maddox pitching
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for the Cubs, one for thirteen with runners in scoring
position over the two games at Wrigley. That's not playoff baseball.
That is a hostage situations what that is. And they
were literally drowning up there. It wasn't an offense. It
was a clogged toilet. They didn't have a plunger and
it could not hit water. As the line goes, they
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could hit water if they fell out of a boat
and into Lake Michigan, they wouldn't be able to hit
water there. So the brew crew who left more guys
stranded than Spirit airlines during a snowstorm. I was thirteen,
as we said, thirteen left on base in the two games.
That is malpractice. Played like a bunch of mamelukes. Now,
the good news is, despite what every ex jock and
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meat heead athlete likes to say, there is no such
thing as momentum. It doesn't matter. If there was momentum,
the Brewers would have eliminated the Cubs because they had
all the momentum. They had won the first two games
in Milwaukee, but there is no momentum. It was so
funny because I was watching some of the coverage of
the Phillies and the Dodgers and the lead in the
pregame stuff, and I'm just signing this. It's not very entertaining,
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but I was watching it, and they're like, Oh, the
Phillies have the momentum. Now, you know they won, they
dominated the Dodgers. You know they're scaringly Really, there is
no such thing. Why do people keep repeating something that's
not true. I don't understand. I don't get it. I
don't understand.
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So we discussed the wacky wacky world of Major League Baseball.
Last hour the Dodgers victorious and the Chicago Cubs victorious
as well, so they both have advanced well, the Dodgers advanced,
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the Cubs advanced to a game five on Saturday in baseball.
But while those things were going on, mostly the Cub
Brewer game, we had well, we had ash in the NFL,
a Thursday Night special. Al Michaels was there, Kirk Herb Street, Herbie.
They had to call in the Amazon as they were
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calling that game. And that is to lead this hour
from New Jersey, the reigning Super Bowl champion Eagles traveling party.
They went up I ninety five to take on the Giants.
I don't know if you were watching, maybe you were
watching the baseball or not. The theme of the night
with was youth be served as rookie Cam Scataboo running wild,
running and stumbling for not one, not two, but three
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three touchdowns and fellow rookie quarterback Jackson Dart had one
rushing score and another passing The New York Giants Wake
Up the Echoes. The Giants beat the Eagles thirty four
seventeen to the final in the Thursday night game. And
so with that, it was less than a week ago
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that the Eagles had not lost game in forever, and
now they've lost two games in just a few days.
The Broncos got them, and now the Giants knocked them down.
A couple more pegs here, the better story is in
that losing locker room. So let us discuss the question,
what is the temperature. Let's do a temperature check. What
is the temperature in the Eagles locker room around Jalen
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hurts at this point. So my observations on this. I've
got Smorgasborg, Smuckers and Tony Stark, and we will combine
all of these things together, all of them, and we're
gonna play doctor Jekyl mister Hyde, because Philadelphia in many
ways is a doctor Jekyl mister Hyde operation of the
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football team. And put all this together, and we're gonna
make your Babushka's favorite choked cheese steak. Now, the Phillies
ate the choke cheese steak in many ways. The Eagles
did as well. But Number I said number one, the
Eagles locker room temperature is a gauge. It's redlining right now.
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It's redlining. It's a tender box. It is what's in
the box. It's a tinder box. At this point, less
than a week ago, the Eagles were sitting pretty as, Oh,
we're not winning by a lot, but we're winning and
that's all that matters. And I did a monologue say
there's some some issues there in Philadelphia, and of course
immediately got the blowback.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You just do.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
That's why you're doing overnights, Fatty. I love that so much.
It's so good, and so I get that kind of feedback.
And here we are ten days later. The Eagles have
now lost twice, and so they were one of the
last unbeaten teams in the NFL. But now the trap
door has opened up and they've fallen into a Pitavanaconda's.
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At this point here, things are not going particularly well.
The Eagles scored as many points in the second half
as the Fox Sports radio football team. Yes, bupkiss, let's
hear from Jalen Hurts. It's the Eagles quarterback on what
exactly were you doing in the second half? Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
That's the third straight game you guys didn't score second
half point?
Speaker 7 (26:10):
What's going on? Half of the half?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I gotta be better, gotta be better.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I take on the ship for it, you know, a
lot of a lot of autonomy, a lot of opportunity
there with the ball in my hands and giving those situations,
I have to be a wiser and more detailed with it.
So I always looking in with first, you know, looking
in with on the things that I can control, and
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you know, I see a lot of opportunity in this.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Okay, Yes, you're at a fork in the road and
it's either you put the thing back on the tracks
here or that's it. Now. Shut out in the second
half by a Giants defense which came in ranked twenty
second in scoring defense twenty sixth in total defense, handed
a game away last week to the New Orleans Saints
on offense with turnovers, and yet they made Jalen Hurts
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look like he was trying to throw a medicine ball
in the second and a half. Now here's the part
that should make Eagle fans have heartburn, make them really,
really nervous. You know this, if you're a real Egle fan,
If I cut you open and cheese steak comes out,
I'm talking. I'm not talking cheese whiz. I'm talking the
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cheese steak with the pro boloan they just call the
steak samwich in Philadelia. That locker room has a smell.
You know that smell. You smell that that's the oh,
that's the oh smell. Yeah, you've got divas to the right,
divas to the left. In the wide receiver room. You've
got your quarterback with an underthrow to the right, an
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overthrow to the left, misreading the defense in the middle,
AJ Brown giving everything side eye. On the sidelines, you've
got Devontae Smith starting to stare off into the void.
And then they just heard from Jalen Hurts. You know,
mister Joe cool right now and all that. You know,
it just got to flushed it away. But he does
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play like a guy who's pressing. There was a lot
of behind the scenes drama in Philadelphia this week with
reports of a meeting between kind of a peace meeting
between the quarterback and the receivers, and they went at it.
And so this is not the same group that walked
into stadiums last year and was a juggernaut. Not right now,
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they're not. They look tight, they're detached. And it's not
always sunny in Philadelphia. That's false advertised always cloudy. It's
always cloudy there. And the Eagles have all the ingredients necessary,
all of them to cook up a Smorgsborg of disaster,
a total Smorgsborg of disaster. If you check the cabinets,
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they've got the ingredients, You've got diva wide receivers. You've
got the disease of me with with aj Brown and
Devonte Smith saying they're not getting the ball enough. Davonte
we mentioned Jalen Hurts with the wild throws. Sekwan Barkley.
He has been a cookie cutter running back. This year
he was a super nova. He's now a dime store
running back. The defense has regressed. It's the middle of
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the pack defense. It's all the ticking time bomb and
the cherry on top. You've got a head coach who's
not exactly a calming presence. Nick Sirianni, one of the
great front runners of our time. Does anyone disagree with
that when things are going well, he's pounding his chest
and running around, you know, chest bumping, hi naval gazing,
(29:35):
all that stuff. And when things aren't going well, uh,
not so good. Here's Nick Sirianni, the Eagles head coach,
commenting on the lack of offense. There was none in
the second half for his.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Team obviously, you know anytime, you know, I think there
were some some good moments in the run game today,
got ourselves behind the sticks a little bit in the
second half on some of some of the runs there.
So we'll look at everything right there. You know, we know,
we we know we have the guys up front to
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be able to do that. Obviously, we gotta we gotta
do a good job putting them in positions to succeed.
And then we got to go execute.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Okay, I guess we had to cut off the word execute,
but that was a breach of etiquette, a breach of
etiquette there, the way the Eagles were playing. And so
the second part is, let's go to the Giants. We'll
go back to the Eagles. Let's go to the Giants
right now. So the question on the Giants the winning
locker room, which is not as good as story. The
winning locker room is just not it's just not as
good a story as the losing locker room. But we'll
go there now. So the question is a lot of
(30:38):
lot of pump pumping the tires on the this the
young players for the Giants, A lot of pumping the
tires on this is so it is the hype warranted
for Jackson Dart and Cam Skataboo, the quarterback running back combination.
It is already over the top. So I thought they
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both looked good. I don't know how you couldn't make
that statement that they both look good. But I would
pump the brakes on having a parade down the canyon
of heroes for Jackson Dart and Camscataboo based on social
media only. These guys have now squared the circle. They
have absolutely squared the circle. I guess we'll forget about
(31:18):
the fact that they gave a game away to the
New Orleans Saints a few days ago, but we'll just
come on. So it's great. It's one night, one night only,
that's it. And yeah, on this night, we do this.
We do the talk show daily and so right now,
you know each night and they were Cam Scataboo and
Jackson Dart were smuckers, uncrustables, right, peanut butter and jelly,
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perfectly packaged, sweet in the middle, snack sized football heroes
they were. However, to say that this is now going
to be a thing is a classic overreaction. Right, you
sentence yourself to prison, You're now in the jail set,
prisoner of the moment, and Jackson Dart was out there
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looking like a shaw Day, a smooth operator, throwing the
ball around and fired up. And it's very weird to
see the Giants with someone playing quarterback that looks like
they know what they're doing. Haven't had that in a
long time. And then you've got Cam Skataboo, who we
saw in college, became a cold hero in his college
days briefly and wasn't drafted very high, and he ran
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through the Eagles defense like it was a kid running
through sprinklers out on a park somewhere on a hot
summer afternoon. And yeah, that was fun. I'm not a
Giants fan, but for those of you that do partake
in the Giants, it was loud, it was great, a
little razzle dazzle. When's the last time they had razzle dazzle?
And it was probably already I know, is the peak
(32:45):
the right word? I don't know if peaks the right word,
but this was like a revival tan.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
It was like a.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Religious experience for the Giant fans who've been in a
football coma, in a malaise for so many years here,
but I go back to the question is is this permanent? Well, no,
it's premature to say that. See the problem is I
actually kind of liked that these two guys. And what's
gonna happen is the New York overhype machine's gonna get
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it craked up, and I'm gonna start hate both of them.
I know this always happens. Right now, it's fun to
watch camp scatterboo, bump heads and run through people and
not care about his long term health. And Jackson Dart
looks really like an exciting young quarterback. And yet I
know I'm going to hate them because this is what
always happens with New York athletes. You just get it
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shoved down your throat and you begin to despise them.
At least I do. Maybe you don't, all right, final point,
So I'll go back to the Philadelphia side of things.
One of the storylines in this game, if you're watching
it in the second quarter, fans were spitting mad, spitting
mad neutral fans because the Philadelphia Eagles tush push took
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over the game. So during the second quarter, Philadelphia was
in the red zone and they needed a couple more
yards to reach the end zone. So not only did
they attempt the touch push, but they did it four
times in a row. Touch push, touch push, touch bush,
touch bush touchy touchy touch. Hey, that's what they did,
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and they did score. Jalen Hurts eventually scored. The reaction, though,
there was a visceral reaction to that second quarter stretch
where they ran the four touch pushes and the repetition
of it. People very upset, demanding it be outlawed, saying
that the replays yet again showed that there were Eagle
linemen who jumped off sides. It was not called. So
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the question is do you feel the agony of the
fan calling out the tousch push saying it must be banned.
It must be banned after the Eagles ran it four
times their rapid fire in the second quarter. As American
idol judge back in the day, Randy Jackson would say, Yeah,
(35:04):
that's gonna be a no for me. Dog, that's gonna
be an Now. The Eagles, I might be wrong with this.
I believe they lost the game, and I don't think
this is a crime against humanity that they continued to
run the touchbush right, that just calm down now. As
for the Pearl clutching, which is going on call the
(35:25):
fall start, call the penalty. Uh yeah, there were penalties,
they were not called.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
And and so you're you're saying letter of the law round.
I'm a spirit of the law guy, not letter of
the law guy. Every offensive lineman in the league twitches
a little bit before the snap, right. You only notice
it because you're like, well, it's the slow motion replay
on it. It's one of those things. You can call
a penalty on every play if you want, and all that.
(35:52):
And if I was Nick Sirianni and I had this play,
I would never stop bringing. I would run it twenty
times a game. I'm shocked they don't run it more.
If it's fourth and one, tush push, third and inches,
tush push. If it's you're at a wedding and you're
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walking someone down the aisle, tush push right down the aisle. Oh,
but it's ugly. It's not a football play. It's ugly. Okay,
football's not pretty anymore. See if Martha Stewart's still around,
I don't know, track her down. She'll make it look better.
But it's not the Eagles job to make the game
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pretty for you. It's not and the NFL could have
gotten rid of it, they didn't have enough votes, And
I'm okay with it. This is one of those things
that drives me nuts. I've gotten on my soapbox here
at the bully pulpit and I've I've said, listen, in baseball,
they shouldn't have gotten rid of the shift. There's an
easy way to solve the shift. Just bunt use, you know,
(36:57):
choke up on the bat, hit the ball the other
way and the sh shift will go with But baseball,
of course, god forbid you. I'll make the players self regulate.
So they got rid of it, although it's still kind
of there. They just there's this imaginary line near second
base and then this is the same situation, right, it works.
If you want it banned, it's because you're just admitting
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you're a loser and you can't beat It's just like,
stop whining. You don't even understand how bad it sounds.
You just sound weak. And you know the as far
as like the referees and all that, well, the NFL
referees have been incompetent my entire life. And the point
is either two things, stop the play or run the
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play yourself. Just if you can't stop it. Why would
anyone else be able to stop it? It's it's the
job to score touchdowns. It's not to say, oh, we
got to score it, but we got to do a
certain way. No. Now, the other question I had quickly,
the other question, what does the toush push mean to
Jalen Hurts? Right watching him play in the second half,
(38:02):
that the ugly truth, the naked truth. And every time
I watch Jalen Hurts more and more I think the
same thing, and I get very I get very angry
people sending me messages, well, you don't know what you're
talking about. I don't understand why you keep saying that
you really don't know ball. And maybe I'm the only
one I could be the When I watch Jalen Hurts
play quarterback, I think this guy is a jag A
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just a guy, not a Jacksonville jack just a guy,
right that if you take this play away and the
way things are going at some point here in the
next couple of years, the tush push will be be outlawed.
When I watch Jalen Hurts, though, it's like, if you
take that play away, it's the only thing that he
does at a super level. It would be like Tony
(38:47):
Stark having the Iron Man suit taken away from Without
the suit, He's just a rich guy with some nice
facial hair. That's it, right, without the tush push. Jalen
Hurts into what Kyler Murray without the video game addiction. Right,
Kyler Murray in a bad Thursday night game. He's not
(39:07):
flying around, He's grounded. It's it's Jalen Hurts is Kyler
Murray with better body language, without the toush push. Now
with it, you can win a super Bowl. They just did.
They're the reigning super Bowl champions. Congratulations. And in any
short yardage situation and it's it's amazing how many times
during the course of the game it ends up being
third down and one or fourth down and one. And
(39:29):
in those situations, it's an unstoppable super nova. Right, And
so if you take that away and you had to
do things the other way, how would that turn out?
Tumble down more times than that?
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Speaker 1 (39:49):
That was twelve that was clearly alive to the third.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, this is one big event gets grilled as.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Like an elementary school cope.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Ben.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
Leading up to the Broncos game against the Jets in London,
Bo Knicks kind of pushed back on the idea that
it's a trap game and said trap games don't really exist.
He said, I think in the league, quite honestly, it's
a little dispectful, disrespectful to consider anybody a trap team.
They're an NFL team, They're gonna have some really good players.
It's not a trap game, Ben, do you agree with him?
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Now?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Bo Knicks is a dope. I've been handicapping NFL games
and even before I started listening to people that are
older than me. This is a thing. It is absolutely
a thing. Historically, if you look at the gambling trends,
it happens. Teams underperform after a big win when they're
playing a suck bag team. It happens next.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
There are some of the NFL community that believe Panthers
coach Dave Canalis could bench Bryce Young for Andy Dalton
again sooner rather than later. Ben, do you think Young
gets bench the season?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Bryce Young? Two things are true. Bryce Young sucks and
he will not be benched because if he gets benched,
Dave Canals is out next.
Speaker 9 (40:54):
Steelers are linked to upgrades at wide receivers. Some of
the names are Jalen Waddle and Jacobe Myers. Do you
think they could make a move for one of these guys?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yes, yeah, Jacoby Myers, although I knowing the Steelers will
probably just like signed Odell Beckham because he's friends with
Aaron Rodgers. How did we do? I won hollering James.
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we always do, ben in the theaters. We have a
few movies that are worth mentioning that come out this weekend.
The first one that I want to bring up is
Tron Aries. Now, this is the latest installment of the
(48:37):
Tron franchise. You know the Tron franchise, right, Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
I was a kid. I just played that. I spent
a lot of time at the movie theater, the Edwards
movie Theater playing the Tron video game. Yes, yes, it
was a big part of my childhood. Yeah hell yeah.
Speaker 9 (48:52):
Well this one stars Jared Leto. Uh So, I'm a
I'm a fan of the Tron series. I'm not a
fan of Jared Leto, Uh, I know, I.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Don't what do you think he's a douche kinda?
Speaker 9 (49:07):
I just I don't know. It just bugs me for
some reason. But I do I do love Jeff Bridges,
and he is in this uh you know again, and
so I don't know my love. I do, I do,
And I have the Unlimited So maybe I'll check it out.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
But I'm gonna see if you have unlimited? What's the
reason not to see it?
Speaker 9 (49:24):
Well, because there's a couple other movies out this weekend
that I think sounds more.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
In to just spend all day at the movies.
Speaker 9 (49:29):
Oh, you're right. My buddy saw it already. He said
it was very entertaining, it's got it's The critics don't
like it, but the audience does, according to early reviews.
Also out this weekend is a movie called roof Man
and this looks. This looks good to me. So it's
based on an unbelievable true story follows the guy played
(49:50):
by Channing Tatum, a former Army ranger, a struggling father
who turns to robbing McDonald's restaurants by cutting holes in
their Roofs seems like a good place, earning him the
nickname Roofman.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Is he stealing chicken nuggets? What is he? Still?
Speaker 9 (50:04):
I don't know? It says after escaping prison he secretly
lives inside a Toys r Us for six months. It
seems reasonable, and then he falls for a divorce mom
and double life.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Wasn't there a story a couple of months ago about
somebody living in like a walmart, like literally living in
a Walmart, Like they just they were homeless and they
were living in the walmart. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (50:23):
Yeah, they do this all the time. Like I saw
where somebody was living like in the giant like sign
the letters of the like because because it had he
had like electricity up there, and then he just like
he had like a compewter setup. Anyway, Uh, This movie
stars Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, isn't it as well as
Peter Dinklage, Juno Temple, and Uzo Aduba. So it's the
(50:45):
star studyed cast. I'm gonna check that out. The early
reviews are great. And then, last but not least, I
wanted to bring up another movie that's out this weekend.
It's called a House of Dynamite and this one stars
Idris Elba. It is by director Catherine Bigelow. She was
director of The hurt Locker and Zero Dark thirty. And
this is basically it's about a single unattributed missile has
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launched at the United States and a race begins to
determine who is responsible and how to respond. Yes, now
to television, Yes, moving over, I'd like.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
To learn all the affiliates TV.
Speaker 9 (51:23):
First couple of things that I want to bring up
are both documentaries all good. Yes, I'm listening. The first
one is on HBO. It's called The Alabama Solution. It's
on HBO at eight pm tonight, or you can stream
it already on HBO Max. About No, This one's getting
rave reviews from critics. It is about incarcerated men who
(51:46):
defy the odds to expose a cover up in one
of America's deadliest prison systems. Yes, Yes, and then also
available today, This one is available on Prime Video. It
is a documentary called John Candy I Like Me.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
It is I was a big Johnny Candy guy, big
sports fan John Candy.
Speaker 9 (52:06):
Yes. This documentary is directed by Colin Hanks, son of
Tom Hanks, and it is a profile of the beloved
Canadian comedian.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
When I first started, he was always at the Kings games.
And then he died, so he was no longer at
the games, but the other Kings he used to be
out there all the time.
Speaker 9 (52:20):
Yeah, dying.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
Well, you know, I think he owned. He was buddies
with Bruce McNall, who was this guy. Yeah, in a
lot of trouble, but it was a jail. But I
think they were like he owned, like was very small percent.
It was a long time ago, so I might be
wrong anyway.
Speaker 9 (52:35):
All Right, I'm gonna skip ahead real quick because we're
running a long time here.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
We're moving ahead in the broadcast now, we're now moving
ahead in the broadcast.
Speaker 9 (52:42):
This Sunday on HBO at ten pm or available on
HBO Max is a new series called The Chair Company,
and it is a comedy series that is getting good reviews.
It is from snlve Tim Robinson, and basically it's a
man who investigates what he at least be a far
reaching conspiracy after suffering a humiliating incident at work and
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comedy ensues. And so that is on HBO ten PM
or HBO Max.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
And that is you seeing that office rip off on
NBC's The.
Speaker 9 (53:16):
Paper or Yeah, I haven't checked it out yet, but
I hear I have heard good things.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
We've seen it. Send me a message, let me know
if I need to waste my time while.
Speaker 9 (53:24):
It's supposed to be like after rite a continuation right, yes,
because it does have Oscar from Yeah, he's pretty much
the boss now.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
So they got one random guy and they made that
guess like it's like back in the eighties they had
Cheers and then they had Kelsey Grammer did Frasier. Yes,
that actually became up. That became a popular Yeah.
Speaker 9 (53:42):
I was gonna say that one probably had more success
than this one.
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Ryan's belt. If you will, what a what a night?
If you saw the baseball or not, but a double
barreled action, one good game, one dog food game on
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the divisional round card on a pretty good sporting day.
Like if you're into this kind of crap, right, if
you're into it and I'm into it, and I assume
you are too, this is a good day. It's a
good day. So yeah, the Brewers and the Cubbies. Now
that was the nightcap. That was the dud Dud Dud
dud Dud. Then you had the Phillies earlier and the
Dodgers that was the undercard. And it's kind of like,
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you know boxing. I used to be a huge not
a huge boxing I used to go to boxing matches
in Vegas and everyone's while. You'd go to a boxing
match and the undercard would upstage the main event. You'd
be like, Wow, that's not supposed to happen. Well, this
was it I heard. The assumption was they moved the
Phillies Dodgers game up because the Eagles were playing in
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the NFL game. I guess they really wanted to make
sure the Philadelphia sports fans up both their teams suck. Anyway,
it turns out the game in LA did upstage the
matchup at the Friendly Confines there in Chicago. So that's
where we will begin again. If you saw any of
this stuff or not, maybe you were busy. I don't
know what you're doing. I'm not in your shoes, all right.
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So we had an instant classic at Chavez Ravine. One
of those moments where years from now you'll be like, hey,
you remember that JABEBROWNI that Schmendrick for the Phillies. What's
the guy's name that did the thing you can't do
at the time? Yeah? That guy? What's Yeah? So the
game was tied at one, it went to extra innings.
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The bases were lowered. There were two outs in the
eleventh inning, and the Phillies had a relief pitcher, O'riyan
Kirkering on the mound. Not a household name he is
now though, congratulations, you're now a household name. O'Ryan so
Oriyan Kirkering on the mound. And there was a little
tapper from Andy Piez back to the mound, and he
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fielded the ball, bobbled it and then threw it away
right past home plate. We could have thrown the first base,
but instead he threw it right there. Boom, a wild
throw passed home plate. And after screwing it up and
Andy Piez gets it done. They't comebacker like he was.
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He failed, but yet succeeded with two outs in the
eleventh inning, and thanks to the generosity of the Philadelphia Phillies,
very charitable in the city of brother in Law, the
Dodgers escape. They get a two to one win and
they have DECOMMISSI the fighting phills, not a nada, go bye,
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See you later, suckers. Where's your red October? Now? Now
the story here is I mean, we know, I mean
you know. Oftentimes we'll come in here if you listen
to the show on a regular basis, if you listen
to the Ben Mather Show, we often come in here
with a knife and we play the blame game. We
cut up the blame cheese steak, or we blame you
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know this, that and the other thing. There's no need
to play that game, like, we don't need to play
the game. We know where the blame is on this.
The blame is rather obvious. It's right between your eyes here.
So the pitcher O Ryan Kirkering on the mound, he
hung his head in shame. There he put his hands
down on his knees after his throat sailed away, sailing
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away right past J. T Va Muto the catcher there
as as the pinch runner came home to score the
comet across the plate there and he actually missed the
plate and then had to go back and touch the
plate that The Dodgers are onto the National League Championship Series.
They have to wait till this weekend because the Chicago
Cubs pummeled the Brewers and so the Cubbies are staying alive,
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and there will be a deciding Game five on Saturday.
So I don't know if youre gonna watch that or
just watch college football, but yeah, I'll check it out.
Game five. That's good. Somebody's gonna be somebody's gonna be
very upset at the end of that game. As I've
often said, the better story is in the losing locker room.
And one of the mantras is that and another mantras,
most games are lost, not one. This is a great example.
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This is a textbook example of the ethos of the
Ben Mathers Show. Most of the time a game is
lost because someone's a complete f up, like this game,
and what happened, as we discussed this game is immediately
instead of just accountability and you know, I know you
didn't try to suck O'Ryan Kirkering, but just sucked and
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that's it. No, everyone's got our circle the wagons. It's
not his fault. Oh no, no, it's such bulk. Let's
hear from Rob Thompson, the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies,
chiming in on all of this, you little taste of
what it was like. Take as rob obviously a heartbreaking
we to lose.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
To get a long conversation with Oryan coming off the field,
do you want to share a little what you told him?
Or just to keep his head up? And he just
got caught up in the moment a little bit coming
down the stretcher. He pitched so well for us, and
I feel I feel for him because he's he's putting
it all on his shoulders. But we went as a team,
and we lose as a team.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So all right, that quote right there is the money quote.
So let us discuss the question. Is it unfair to
put the Philadelphia Phillies loss on O'Ryan kirk ring? Is
it unfair? So my thoughts on this, I've got Jet Blue,
who Roberto and Butterball and we will throw all of
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these things together and we are gonna yack aty yack
under the darkness. So a my position, is it unfair
to put all of this on the Phillies picture? It
would be an injustice not to blame him, Like you
would live in a parallel universe, and life is not
always fair. We know that right, and you've got your problems.
I've got my problems. But O'Ryan Kirkering, the picture here
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melted down like a cheap soft pretzel left out in
the hot summer on Broad Street. You know, sometime late July,
early August. The moment was too big. He cracked, couldn't
handle it. He had tight took a syndrome. He choked.
Call like it is, don't lie, don't pretend, don't don't
do that crap. This was not some quirky bad hop.
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It was not. It was a routine play a big
league player makes one hundred percent of the time. It
wasn't the baseball gods playing some kind of evil trick
on this Philadelphia Phillies picture. No, no, no, no. He
flat out choked. He sucked at a time you cannot suck.
And and unfortunately for him, he decided he wanted to
go on vacation. Oryan Kirker. He went down to the airport.
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He got a one way ticket from Jet Blue and
the destination Panic City because he paniced. Baby, And you know, again,
don't give me the we win as a team, we
lose as a team. Crap. I don't hear that garbage, please,
You know who didn't lose the game. You can say, well,
Bryce Harper sucked in this series, that's true, but he
didn't throw the He didn't throw the ball away. H
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Kyle Schwarber hit some home runs the other day but
didn't do much else. Kyle Schwarber didn't throw the ball away.
You know who did throw the ball away. You want
to take a guess, ding ding ding ding ding ding. Yes, Oh,
Ryan Kirkering threw the ball away. That's on him. It's
not little league. He's a you know, a grown up
young man. It's on him, all right. This wasn't a
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bad inning. This is a career tattoo. Congratulations. You have
now been branded. No matter whether you stay in Philadelphia,
you go play for the Red Sox or the Diamondbacks,
or the Mariners, the the Marlins or the Twins or
the a Holes in Houston, it doesn't matter. You have
now gotten that tattoo right on your forehead, and for
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better or worse, that sticks with you forever. There's no
removing that tattoo.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's not now. It's not all bad news because from
an irishtandaman, this source is not close to the situation.
The Phillies are already planning a concession item to honor
a Ryan Kirkering for the twenty twenty sixth season. They're
gonna be serving up at the snack bar there art
Choke sandwiches, because that is the official vegetable of O'Ryan,
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the ARTI chuck. Wow. He becomes now the hunchback of
the Delaware Valley and Philadelphi's gonna eat him alife like
they do not hand out. Hey, you know you tried
a good job by you your ribbons. After that, you
know they chuck batteries at you, and all that mattered
was what happened in that moment, right didn't Matt? You said,
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well they were terrible of the Phillies offense. I agree
with you, they were bad. But the game was even up.
There were two outs. You get the hit her out,
Andy Piez. The game continues. You live to play another
day or in this case, another inning. And the game
was in his hands. He was on the mound, Ryan Kirkering,
and he rode the vomit comet. He did. It was
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early to ride the vomit come up. But he wrote
the vomit comment. He is going to wear that for
the rest of his big league career. He will become
again the answer to well who am I game? Who
was the numb nuts pitcher that threw the game away
for the Philadelphia Phillies. Now you think about the context
of this as well, how does this loss? Here's another question,
how does this loss change things going forward for the Phillies.
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So we have the multiverse in play, all right, there
was a dimension here where the Phillies go on and
come back and win Game five this weekend in Philly
and then go on to the NLCS and then the
World Series, and then they win the championship and everyone celebrates.
And however, that did not happen in this part of
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the multiverse. The shelf life has run out, the bread
has become moldy. This was the last best chance for
this core group to win a championship, and the ball
was in the hands of Oriyan Kirkering, and he chucked
it past the catcher. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
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Turn at the lads, the parties over see you later.
And the thing is and you know it, every man,
woman and child knows it. The Dodgers were vulnerable. They
were plumped for the taken You know it, and I
know it. Bryce Harper, he becomes a year older now,
he'll be thirty three next season, thirty four by next
October during the playoff run. He's no longer in his
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athletic prime. You've got big time free agents. Jt Ria Muto,
who was on the receiving end of the wild throw
that sailed past him. The catcher, the slugger, Kyle Schwarber,
he's selling some sharp bombs and then maybe the pentagonal
by him and then Ranger Suarez. They're all free agents.
That's an old core, oldest in baseball. What a mess now,
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I do like Dave Dombrowski the GM there and he's
gonna have to work like a ninja to keep this
group together. And you know it's a it's a good
town when the Phillies are winning. They packed the place
there at Citizens Bank Park. But man, what a debacle.
What a royal f up. And one guy, one guy
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f the whole thing go up. The whole thing goes
to flames. Now on the other side, turning the page here,
the question on this one is what is the vibe
around the Dave Roberts Dodgers, Like it's you can't really
feel that great ken ye. I mean you talk about
the definition of better to be lucky than good, and
that's exactly what that smelled like. You smell that, Yeah,
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my goodness. You could feel the universe trying to send
this thing to a game five. And the Dodgers were
like our guy that left to show Roberto. They were
driving the struggle bus, the much bally hooed Big Three
sho Hel Tani greatest player ever, rookie Bets. Do I
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have to apologize for rookie Betsy? Freddie Freeman, I believe
my math is right. I used some mallort math on this.
They batted a collective one fifty a womp. When you
talk about sucking a horrific one six eight for fifty
against the Philadelphia Affilies. That's the big Blue wrecking crew,
my fat ass, that's the big Blue wrecking crew. They
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were teetering on the brink. They were wobbling around like
a guy on a unicycle trying to drive through a hurricane.
And hey, again, they're lucky. The box score doesn't charge
rent for squatting. There were a lot of squatters in there,
a lot of floaters, and the Dodgers anemic offense scored
two runs in a closeout game, one on a basis
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loaded walk he paces load of walk to Mookie bats
and the other which ended it the throwing air by
o Ryan Kirkering on the Andy Piez forty foot bouncer.
That is not manufacturing runs. That is like walking around
the parking lot at Disneyland and finding a twenty dollars
bill is essentially what you did. That's a guardian angel
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in Dodger blue. That's lessorda looking down from Blue Heaven
doing CPR on your postseason run. Here, they were bailed out.
That is a government government like bail out here. Now,
I will say it's not all bad. On a positive note,
Roki Sazaki has become a glue guy. In the Dodger bullpen,
he was he was outstanding yet again the bullpen which
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has duct tape and it's got police tape around it
as well. Man, are they bad? Just a bad group.
But Suzaki came in there and all of a sudden,
and when he's on the mound, it's like, ah, everything's good,
everything's great. We got this. As long as the starters
can go seven innings, they'll be fine. But to Sazaki,
with ice water. That's what you want, right That's what
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the other guys had resumes where they had no pulse
on the mound. But Sazaki's living it right now. And
you know, if this series turns, he's the guy. He's
the reason it turned now. And really that's kind of
the thing that's the vibe the story of this Dodger team,
the greatest team ever assembled. But yet you look at
this team the way they played for Dave Roberts, despite
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the payroll and all the star power and all the sizzle,
they're never clean. It's never pretty. It's stumbling into the
bar at one point fifty nine in the morning, and
somehow walking out with a win is what it is.
And you just you can't rely on cosmic breaks forever.
You can't do it. It's working right now. It's just
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like a cosmic accident, all right. Quickly, last word, we
go down to Chicago the late game where Matthew Boyd,
Boyd was he good? Pitched a two hit you he
went into the fifth anything the whole game, but that's
modern baseball. Pitched a two hit ball into the fifth inning,
and the Chicago Cubbies they put the Milwaukee Brewers lineup
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into a chokehold sixth to nothing in a game that
didn't even seem that close on a chilly Thursday night
in Chicago. There they pushed the divisional series all the
way back up what ninety some on miles up I
ninety four to Milwaukee for a decisive Game five this
weekend is Ian Happ, Kyle Tucker, and Michael Bush, the
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ex Dodger all Homer for the Cubbies there and the
crowd there, they were having a rollicking good time at
Wrigley Field. They were dancing in the aisles there. It
was great. It was wonderful. You know why they were
dancing because Rigny Field is a playground for the blank blanks.
Eighty five percent of the world's working. The other fifteen
percent come out here. It's a blank blank that's the Cubs. Yeah,
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that's that is the Cubs. So the Cubs were on
the brink of elimination after they've lost those first two
games in the NLDS there in Milwaukee, and look like
they were not supposed to be on the same field,
but they held on the other night on Wednesday, and
so now here we are Boyd Good and the relievers
Good as well. And so next up the finale, best
of five, back in Milwaukee again Saturday night. Tickets are
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not available. I think Marlin's Man is gonna be there.
He was debating whether or not to go. But there's
no other game that day, so I'm assuming Marlin's man,
my buddy's gonna be there. He was in Chicago for
the game. He'll be in. I don't know if he's
gonna see He said he's thinking about going out to
Seattle for the game here on Friday night. But the
winner of that series between the Cubs and the Brewers
will take on the Doyers and that'll be in the NLCS.
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Coming up your better story again, losing a locker room.
So the questions rather obvious. Where have things gone haywire?
Where have things gone wrong for the Brewers? So watching
this game, this was from the Milwaukee side of things,
I call this a butterball game. It was an absolute turkey.
You win ninety seven games, you had the top record
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in the sport. And when you're out there and this
is a close out game, You've had two close out
games here. The lights are bright, the stage is all
yours right there. You want that national attention and your
little Milwaukee and you go out there and you're in
the witness protection program, lest your bats are three hits,
three hits all night. Three hits was Greg Maddox pitching
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for the Cubs, one for thirteen with runners in scoring
position over the two games at Wrigley. That's not playoff baseball.
That is a hostage situations what that is. And they
were literally drowning up there. It wasn't an offense. It
was a clogged toilet. They didn't have a plunger and
it could not hit water. As the line goes, they
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could hit water if they fell out of a boat
and into Lake Michigan, they wouldn't be able to hit
water there. So the brew crew who left more guys
stranded than Spirit airlines during a snowstorm. I was thirteen,
as we said, thirteen left on base in the two games.
That is malpractice. Played like a bunch of mamelukes. Now,
the good news is, despite what every ex jock and
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meat heead athlete likes to say, there is no such
thing as momentum. It doesn't matter. If there was momentum,
the Brewers would have eliminated the Cubs because they had
all the momentum. They had won the first two games
in Milwaukee, but there is no momentum. It was so
funny because I was watching some of the coverage of
the Phillies and the Dodgers and the lead in the
pregame stuff, and I'm just signing this. It's not very entertaining,
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but I was watching it, and they're like, Oh, the
Phillies have the momentum. Now, you know they won, they
dominated the Dodgers. You know they're scaringly Really, there is
no such thing. Why do people keep repeating something that's
not true. I don't understand. I don't get it. I
don't understand.
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So we discussed the wacky wacky world of Major League Baseball.
Last hour the Dodgers victorious and the Chicago Cubs victorious
as well, so they both have advanced well, the Dodgers advanced,
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the Cubs advanced to a game five on Saturday in baseball.
But while those things were going on, mostly the Cub
Brewer game, we had well, we had ash in the NFL,
a Thursday Night special. Al Michaels was there, Kirk Herb Street, Herbie.
They had to call in the Amazon as they were
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calling that game. And that is to lead this hour
from New Jersey, the reigning Super Bowl champion Eagles traveling party.
They went up I ninety five to take on the Giants.
I don't know if you were watching, maybe you were
watching the baseball or not. The theme of the night
with was youth be served as rookie Cam Scataboo running wild,
running and stumbling for not one, not two, but three
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three touchdowns and fellow rookie quarterback Jackson Dart had one
rushing score and another passing The New York Giants Wake
Up the Echoes. The Giants beat the Eagles thirty four
seventeen to the final in the Thursday night game. And
so with that, it was less than a week ago
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that the Eagles had not lost game in forever, and
now they've lost two games in just a few days.
The Broncos got them, and now the Giants knocked them down.
A couple more pegs here, the better story is in
that losing locker room. So let us discuss the question,
what is the temperature. Let's do a temperature check. What
is the temperature in the Eagles locker room around Jalen
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hurts at this point. So my observations on this. I've
got Smorgasborg, Smuckers and Tony Stark, and we will combine
all of these things together, all of them, and we're
gonna play doctor Jekyl mister Hyde, because Philadelphia in many
ways is a doctor Jekyl mister Hyde operation of the
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football team. And put all this together, and we're gonna
make your Babushka's favorite choked cheese steak. Now, the Phillies
ate the choke cheese steak in many ways. The Eagles
did as well. But Number I said number one, the
Eagles locker room temperature is a gauge. It's redlining right now.
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It's redlining. It's a tender box. It is what's in
the box. It's a tinder box. At this point, less
than a week ago, the Eagles were sitting pretty as, Oh,
we're not winning by a lot, but we're winning and
that's all that matters. And I did a monologue say
there's some some issues there in Philadelphia, and of course
immediately got the blowback.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You just do.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
That's why you're doing overnights, Fatty. I love that so much.
It's so good, and so I get that kind of feedback.
And here we are ten days later. The Eagles have
now lost twice, and so they were one of the
last unbeaten teams in the NFL. But now the trap
door has opened up and they've fallen into a Pitavanaconda's.
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At this point here, things are not going particularly well.
The Eagles scored as many points in the second half
as the Fox Sports radio football team. Yes, bupkiss, let's
hear from Jalen Hurts. It's the Eagles quarterback on what
exactly were you doing in the second half? Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
That's the third straight game you guys didn't score second
half point?
Speaker 7 (26:10):
What's going on? Half of the half?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I gotta be better, gotta be better.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I take on the ship for it, you know, a
lot of a lot of autonomy, a lot of opportunity
there with the ball in my hands and giving those situations,
I have to be a wiser and more detailed with it.
So I always looking in with first, you know, looking
in with on the things that I can control, and
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you know, I see a lot of opportunity in this.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Okay, Yes, you're at a fork in the road and
it's either you put the thing back on the tracks
here or that's it. Now. Shut out in the second
half by a Giants defense which came in ranked twenty
second in scoring defense twenty sixth in total defense, handed
a game away last week to the New Orleans Saints
on offense with turnovers, and yet they made Jalen Hurts
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look like he was trying to throw a medicine ball
in the second and a half. Now here's the part
that should make Eagle fans have heartburn, make them really,
really nervous. You know this, if you're a real Egle fan,
If I cut you open and cheese steak comes out,
I'm talking. I'm not talking cheese whiz. I'm talking the
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cheese steak with the pro boloan they just call the
steak samwich in Philadelia. That locker room has a smell.
You know that smell. You smell that that's the oh,
that's the oh smell. Yeah, you've got divas to the right,
divas to the left. In the wide receiver room. You've
got your quarterback with an underthrow to the right, an
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overthrow to the left, misreading the defense in the middle,
AJ Brown giving everything side eye. On the sidelines, you've
got Devontae Smith starting to stare off into the void.
And then they just heard from Jalen Hurts. You know,
mister Joe cool right now and all that. You know,
it just got to flushed it away. But he does
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play like a guy who's pressing. There was a lot
of behind the scenes drama in Philadelphia this week with
reports of a meeting between kind of a peace meeting
between the quarterback and the receivers, and they went at it.
And so this is not the same group that walked
into stadiums last year and was a juggernaut. Not right now,
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they're not. They look tight, they're detached. And it's not
always sunny in Philadelphia. That's false advertised always cloudy. It's
always cloudy there. And the Eagles have all the ingredients necessary,
all of them to cook up a Smorgsborg of disaster,
a total Smorgsborg of disaster. If you check the cabinets,
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they've got the ingredients, You've got diva wide receivers. You've
got the disease of me with with aj Brown and
Devonte Smith saying they're not getting the ball enough. Davonte
we mentioned Jalen Hurts with the wild throws. Sekwan Barkley.
He has been a cookie cutter running back. This year
he was a super nova. He's now a dime store
running back. The defense has regressed. It's the middle of
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the pack defense. It's all the ticking time bomb and
the cherry on top. You've got a head coach who's
not exactly a calming presence. Nick Sirianni, one of the
great front runners of our time. Does anyone disagree with
that when things are going well, he's pounding his chest
and running around, you know, chest bumping, hi naval gazing,
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all that stuff. And when things aren't going well, uh,
not so good. Here's Nick Sirianni, the Eagles head coach,
commenting on the lack of offense. There was none in
the second half for his.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Team obviously, you know anytime, you know, I think there
were some some good moments in the run game today,
got ourselves behind the sticks a little bit in the
second half on some of some of the runs there.
So we'll look at everything right there. You know, we know,
we we know we have the guys up front to
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be able to do that. Obviously, we gotta we gotta
do a good job putting them in positions to succeed.
And then we got to go execute.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Okay, I guess we had to cut off the word execute,
but that was a breach of etiquette, a breach of
etiquette there, the way the Eagles were playing. And so
the second part is, let's go to the Giants. We'll
go back to the Eagles. Let's go to the Giants
right now. So the question on the Giants the winning
locker room, which is not as good as story. The
winning locker room is just not it's just not as
good a story as the losing locker room. But we'll
go there now. So the question is a lot of
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lot of pump pumping the tires on the this the
young players for the Giants, A lot of pumping the
tires on this is so it is the hype warranted
for Jackson Dart and Cam Skataboo, the quarterback running back combination.
It is already over the top. So I thought they
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both looked good. I don't know how you couldn't make
that statement that they both look good. But I would
pump the brakes on having a parade down the canyon
of heroes for Jackson Dart and Camscataboo based on social
media only. These guys have now squared the circle. They
have absolutely squared the circle. I guess we'll forget about
(31:18):
the fact that they gave a game away to the
New Orleans Saints a few days ago, but we'll just
come on. So it's great. It's one night, one night only,
that's it. And yeah, on this night, we do this.
We do the talk show daily and so right now,
you know each night and they were Cam Scataboo and
Jackson Dart were smuckers, uncrustables, right, peanut butter and jelly,
(31:41):
perfectly packaged, sweet in the middle, snack sized football heroes
they were. However, to say that this is now going
to be a thing is a classic overreaction. Right, you
sentence yourself to prison, You're now in the jail set,
prisoner of the moment, and Jackson Dart was out there
(32:03):
looking like a shaw Day, a smooth operator, throwing the
ball around and fired up. And it's very weird to
see the Giants with someone playing quarterback that looks like
they know what they're doing. Haven't had that in a
long time. And then you've got Cam Skataboo, who we
saw in college, became a cold hero in his college
days briefly and wasn't drafted very high, and he ran
(32:25):
through the Eagles defense like it was a kid running
through sprinklers out on a park somewhere on a hot
summer afternoon. And yeah, that was fun. I'm not a
Giants fan, but for those of you that do partake
in the Giants, it was loud, it was great, a
little razzle dazzle. When's the last time they had razzle dazzle?
And it was probably already I know, is the peak
(32:45):
the right word? I don't know if peaks the right word,
but this was like a revival tan.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
It was like a.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Religious experience for the Giant fans who've been in a
football coma, in a malaise for so many years here,
but I go back to the question is is this permanent? Well, no,
it's premature to say that. See the problem is I
actually kind of liked that these two guys. And what's
gonna happen is the New York overhype machine's gonna get
(33:15):
it craked up, and I'm gonna start hate both of them.
I know this always happens. Right now, it's fun to
watch camp scatterboo, bump heads and run through people and
not care about his long term health. And Jackson Dart
looks really like an exciting young quarterback. And yet I
know I'm going to hate them because this is what
always happens with New York athletes. You just get it
(33:38):
shoved down your throat and you begin to despise them.
At least I do. Maybe you don't, all right, final point,
So I'll go back to the Philadelphia side of things.
One of the storylines in this game, if you're watching
it in the second quarter, fans were spitting mad, spitting
mad neutral fans because the Philadelphia Eagles tush push took
(34:00):
over the game. So during the second quarter, Philadelphia was
in the red zone and they needed a couple more
yards to reach the end zone. So not only did
they attempt the touch push, but they did it four
times in a row. Touch push, touch push, touch bush,
touch bush touchy touchy touch. Hey, that's what they did,
(34:20):
and they did score. Jalen Hurts eventually scored. The reaction, though,
there was a visceral reaction to that second quarter stretch
where they ran the four touch pushes and the repetition
of it. People very upset, demanding it be outlawed, saying
that the replays yet again showed that there were Eagle
linemen who jumped off sides. It was not called. So
(34:42):
the question is do you feel the agony of the
fan calling out the tousch push saying it must be banned.
It must be banned after the Eagles ran it four
times their rapid fire in the second quarter. As American
idol judge back in the day, Randy Jackson would say, Yeah,
(35:04):
that's gonna be a no for me. Dog, that's gonna
be an Now. The Eagles, I might be wrong with this.
I believe they lost the game, and I don't think
this is a crime against humanity that they continued to
run the touchbush right, that just calm down now. As
for the Pearl clutching, which is going on call the
(35:25):
fall start, call the penalty. Uh yeah, there were penalties,
they were not called.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
And and so you're you're saying letter of the law round.
I'm a spirit of the law guy, not letter of
the law guy. Every offensive lineman in the league twitches
a little bit before the snap, right. You only notice
it because you're like, well, it's the slow motion replay
on it. It's one of those things. You can call
a penalty on every play if you want, and all that.
(35:52):
And if I was Nick Sirianni and I had this play,
I would never stop bringing. I would run it twenty
times a game. I'm shocked they don't run it more.
If it's fourth and one, tush push, third and inches,
tush push. If it's you're at a wedding and you're
(36:13):
walking someone down the aisle, tush push right down the aisle. Oh,
but it's ugly. It's not a football play. It's ugly. Okay,
football's not pretty anymore. See if Martha Stewart's still around,
I don't know, track her down. She'll make it look better.
But it's not the Eagles job to make the game
(36:35):
pretty for you. It's not and the NFL could have
gotten rid of it, they didn't have enough votes, And
I'm okay with it. This is one of those things
that drives me nuts. I've gotten on my soapbox here
at the bully pulpit and I've I've said, listen, in baseball,
they shouldn't have gotten rid of the shift. There's an
easy way to solve the shift. Just bunt use, you know,
(36:57):
choke up on the bat, hit the ball the other
way and the sh shift will go with But baseball,
of course, god forbid you. I'll make the players self regulate.
So they got rid of it, although it's still kind
of there. They just there's this imaginary line near second
base and then this is the same situation, right, it works.
If you want it banned, it's because you're just admitting
(37:20):
you're a loser and you can't beat It's just like,
stop whining. You don't even understand how bad it sounds.
You just sound weak. And you know the as far
as like the referees and all that, well, the NFL
referees have been incompetent my entire life. And the point
is either two things, stop the play or run the
(37:40):
play yourself. Just if you can't stop it. Why would
anyone else be able to stop it? It's it's the
job to score touchdowns. It's not to say, oh, we
got to score it, but we got to do a
certain way. No. Now, the other question I had quickly,
the other question, what does the toush push mean to
Jalen Hurts? Right watching him play in the second half,
(38:02):
that the ugly truth, the naked truth. And every time
I watch Jalen Hurts more and more I think the
same thing, and I get very I get very angry
people sending me messages, well, you don't know what you're
talking about. I don't understand why you keep saying that
you really don't know ball. And maybe I'm the only
one I could be the When I watch Jalen Hurts
play quarterback, I think this guy is a jag A
(38:26):
just a guy, not a Jacksonville jack just a guy,
right that if you take this play away and the
way things are going at some point here in the
next couple of years, the tush push will be be outlawed.
When I watch Jalen Hurts, though, it's like, if you
take that play away, it's the only thing that he
does at a super level. It would be like Tony
(38:47):
Stark having the Iron Man suit taken away from Without
the suit, He's just a rich guy with some nice
facial hair. That's it, right, without the tush push. Jalen
Hurts into what Kyler Murray without the video game addiction. Right,
Kyler Murray in a bad Thursday night game. He's not
(39:07):
flying around, He's grounded. It's it's Jalen Hurts is Kyler
Murray with better body language, without the toush push. Now
with it, you can win a super Bowl. They just did.
They're the reigning super Bowl champions. Congratulations. And in any
short yardage situation and it's it's amazing how many times
during the course of the game it ends up being
third down and one or fourth down and one. And
(39:29):
in those situations, it's an unstoppable super nova. Right, And
so if you take that away and you had to
do things the other way, how would that turn out?
Tumble down more times than that?
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That was twelve that was clearly alive to the third.
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Yeah, this is one big event gets grilled as.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Like an elementary school cope.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Ben.
Speaker 9 (40:00):
Leading up to the Broncos game against the Jets in London,
Bo Knicks kind of pushed back on the idea that
it's a trap game and said trap games don't really exist.
He said, I think in the league, quite honestly, it's
a little dispectful, disrespectful to consider anybody a trap team.
They're an NFL team, They're gonna have some really good players.
It's not a trap game, Ben, do you agree with him?
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Now?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Bo Knicks is a dope. I've been handicapping NFL games
and even before I started listening to people that are
older than me. This is a thing. It is absolutely
a thing. Historically, if you look at the gambling trends,
it happens. Teams underperform after a big win when they're
playing a suck bag team. It happens next.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
There are some of the NFL community that believe Panthers
coach Dave Canalis could bench Bryce Young for Andy Dalton
again sooner rather than later. Ben, do you think Young
gets bench the season?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Bryce Young? Two things are true. Bryce Young sucks and
he will not be benched because if he gets benched,
Dave Canals is out next.
Speaker 9 (40:54):
Steelers are linked to upgrades at wide receivers. Some of
the names are Jalen Waddle and Jacobe Myers. Do you
think they could make a move for one of these guys?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Yes, yeah, Jacoby Myers, although I knowing the Steelers will
probably just like signed Odell Beckham because he's friends with
Aaron Rodgers. How did we do? I won hollering James.
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we always do, ben in the theaters. We have a
few movies that are worth mentioning that come out this weekend.
The first one that I want to bring up is
Tron Aries. Now, this is the latest installment of the
(48:37):
Tron franchise. You know the Tron franchise, right, Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
I was a kid. I just played that. I spent
a lot of time at the movie theater, the Edwards
movie Theater playing the Tron video game. Yes, yes, it
was a big part of my childhood. Yeah hell yeah.
Speaker 9 (48:52):
Well this one stars Jared Leto. Uh So, I'm a
I'm a fan of the Tron series. I'm not a
fan of Jared Leto, Uh, I know, I.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Don't what do you think he's a douche kinda?
Speaker 9 (49:07):
I just I don't know. It just bugs me for
some reason. But I do I do love Jeff Bridges,
and he is in this uh you know again, and
so I don't know my love. I do, I do,
And I have the Unlimited So maybe I'll check it out.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
But I'm gonna see if you have unlimited? What's the
reason not to see it?
Speaker 9 (49:24):
Well, because there's a couple other movies out this weekend
that I think sounds more.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
In to just spend all day at the movies.
Speaker 9 (49:29):
Oh, you're right. My buddy saw it already. He said
it was very entertaining, it's got it's The critics don't
like it, but the audience does, according to early reviews.
Also out this weekend is a movie called roof Man
and this looks. This looks good to me. So it's
based on an unbelievable true story follows the guy played
(49:50):
by Channing Tatum, a former Army ranger, a struggling father
who turns to robbing McDonald's restaurants by cutting holes in
their Roofs seems like a good place, earning him the
nickname Roofman.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Is he stealing chicken nuggets? What is he? Still?
Speaker 9 (50:04):
I don't know? It says after escaping prison he secretly
lives inside a Toys r Us for six months. It
seems reasonable, and then he falls for a divorce mom
and double life.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Wasn't there a story a couple of months ago about
somebody living in like a walmart, like literally living in
a Walmart, Like they just they were homeless and they
were living in the walmart. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (50:23):
Yeah, they do this all the time. Like I saw
where somebody was living like in the giant like sign
the letters of the like because because it had he
had like electricity up there, and then he just like
he had like a compewter setup. Anyway, Uh, This movie
stars Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, isn't it as well as
Peter Dinklage, Juno Temple, and Uzo Aduba. So it's the
(50:45):
star studyed cast. I'm gonna check that out. The early
reviews are great. And then, last but not least, I
wanted to bring up another movie that's out this weekend.
It's called a House of Dynamite and this one stars
Idris Elba. It is by director Catherine Bigelow. She was
director of The hurt Locker and Zero Dark thirty. And
this is basically it's about a single unattributed missile has
(51:08):
launched at the United States and a race begins to
determine who is responsible and how to respond. Yes, now
to television, Yes, moving over, I'd like.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
To learn all the affiliates TV.
Speaker 9 (51:23):
First couple of things that I want to bring up
are both documentaries all good. Yes, I'm listening. The first
one is on HBO. It's called The Alabama Solution. It's
on HBO at eight pm tonight, or you can stream
it already on HBO Max. About No, This one's getting
rave reviews from critics. It is about incarcerated men who
(51:46):
defy the odds to expose a cover up in one
of America's deadliest prison systems. Yes, Yes, and then also
available today, This one is available on Prime Video. It
is a documentary called John Candy I Like Me.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
It is I was a big Johnny Candy guy, big
sports fan John Candy.
Speaker 9 (52:06):
Yes. This documentary is directed by Colin Hanks, son of
Tom Hanks, and it is a profile of the beloved
Canadian comedian.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
When I first started, he was always at the Kings games.
And then he died, so he was no longer at
the games, but the other Kings he used to be
out there all the time.
Speaker 9 (52:20):
Yeah, dying.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
Well, you know, I think he owned. He was buddies
with Bruce McNall, who was this guy. Yeah, in a
lot of trouble, but it was a jail. But I
think they were like he owned, like was very small percent.
It was a long time ago, so I might be
wrong anyway.
Speaker 9 (52:35):
All Right, I'm gonna skip ahead real quick because we're
running a long time here.
Speaker 1 (52:39):
We're moving ahead in the broadcast now, we're now moving
ahead in the broadcast.
Speaker 9 (52:42):
This Sunday on HBO at ten pm or available on
HBO Max is a new series called The Chair Company,
and it is a comedy series that is getting good reviews.
It is from snlve Tim Robinson, and basically it's a
man who investigates what he at least be a far
reaching conspiracy after suffering a humiliating incident at work and
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comedy ensues. And so that is on HBO ten PM
or HBO Max.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
And that is you seeing that office rip off on
NBC's The.
Speaker 9 (53:16):
Paper or Yeah, I haven't checked it out yet, but
I hear I have heard good things.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
We've seen it. Send me a message, let me know
if I need to waste my time while.
Speaker 9 (53:24):
It's supposed to be like after rite a continuation right, yes,
because it does have Oscar from Yeah, he's pretty much
the boss now.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
So they got one random guy and they made that
guess like it's like back in the eighties they had
Cheers and then they had Kelsey Grammer did Frasier. Yes,
that actually became up. That became a popular Yeah.
Speaker 9 (53:42):
I was gonna say that one probably had more success
than this one.
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