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Big Ben talks about the Brewers putting up little fight against the Dodgers to fall 0-2 in the NLCS, chatter of a grand conspiracy by the NFL to help Travis Kelce and the Chiefs, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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Well, you thought the National League Championship Series would be competitive.
You're losing that wager right about now. You're not looking
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headline Boo the Brew, Boo the Brew the headline on
this It was game number two in the National League
Championship Series. The Land of Darry and the Pesky brew Crew.

(02:35):
That's how they were built on the Marque. If you
look at the Marquis, the Brewers build is that pesky
team looking to square things up against the big Blue
wrecking crew, the Boys in Blue. Now, I don't know
if you watch this game or not. It was on Turner.
I watched so you would not have to and you
didn't miss all that much. You did not miss all
that much. Now, the story of the game was something

(02:59):
that barely happens in modern baseball, something that has not
happened very much of the last decade in the sport
of baseball. What is that dominate starting pitching yet again,
Yoshinomu Yamamoto a three hitter for the first postseason complete
game in let me check my notes here, eight years.

(03:24):
It had been eight I barely remember, barely remember the
last time this happened. So that's been a while. The
Dodgers beat the pulp out of the once proud Brewers
five to one. They extend their lead in the NLCS.
It's a best of seven, not a best of five.

(03:44):
It was the best of five. It would be much worse.
It's not much better at best of seven. But Yamamoto
with the gem the domination situation at a time you
need to dominate. He dominated in Game two. And that
comes one night after bro I'm risking my life, bra Yeah,

(04:05):
Blake Snell, I ain't playing unless I get mine. Went
out there and allowed one hit over eight shutout innings
in the game one two to one. Win.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
I'm playing unless I get well.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
He got his and he's playing, and on this night, yeah,
I'm a moto. If you saw the game, you know
the Brewers, the crowd going wild there. Everyone had their
brew Crew gear on. They were fired up, they had
a lot of merch and I had won nothing. Lead
Jackson Turio the home run of the first pitch of
the game the Brewers saw, and it was all downhill
from there. The Dodgers get some long ball support. Tailor

(04:39):
Hernandez hit a home run. Max Munsey also had a
ding dong, and you don't think of Max Munsey as
one of the great postseason players in Dodger history, yet
he now has the record for most career postseason home
runs for the LA Dodgers fourteen. The real drama, though,

(05:00):
was that there was no trauma. There was like no
one month game one. We had that moment right ninth
inning the Brewers were coming back and they did the
thing you can't do at the time, you can't do it.
That was some drama. That's good talk radio. On this night,
there was not that moment. There was not that moment
in this game. They mentioned the Dodgers fell behind early

(05:22):
and once they got the lead, that was it. They
did not give up the lead. So the better story, though,
is in the losing locker room, a gloomy Milwaukee Brewers
locker room. Despite the top record in the National League,
one of the great seasons in regular season history, Milwaukee
at home the strange brew they are now zero for

(05:45):
two in this series. Now, Pat Murphy after the game,
he was trying to put on a happy face there.
He said, you guys might have counted us out, he said,
He said, but I understanding, He said, ninety percent of
the times that are in this situation have not won.
But but Pat Murphy said, this team has been counted

(06:08):
out a lot this year, and I think there's some
fight left in them. Close quote. All right, So let
us discuss the question what the hell is wrong? What
is wrong with Pat Murphy's Milwaukee Brewers. This is very
Unbrewer like what we've seen from this team the first
couple of games. So my thoughts on this. I've got

(06:29):
missus Robinson, Apple Watch, and Rattlesnake, and we will combine
these three random things together and we are going to
make some delicious cheese curds, is what we're going to make.
So a, it's like a magic show. It is like
I want to see a magic show. It's like before
you're Houdini. Not from Wisconsin, but there's a Harry Houdini

(06:52):
museum up in Appleton, and I have been there. My
brother lives there. It was his birthday, so I called him.
We're talking about great things about Appleton, Wisconson, and he says,
my brother does not have the sports gene. He's lacking
the sports dean, and so he's but he tries to
engage me with sports conversations. So he's like, oh, my Brewers,
you know. It's like, yeah, I don't think he watched
the game, but anyway, it's like a magic strake before

(07:14):
our eyes, before our eyes. There the Brewers look like
absolute feeble pushovers. It's the junior varsity versus the varsity.
From what we've seen here, especially on offense, my god,
it's more like a late night infomercial how not to
hit a baseball the Milwaukee brewerway. My man handled by

(07:37):
Blake Snelling game one and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and game number two,
the Milwaukee hitters appear to be completely shell shocked, rattled overmashed.
I don't know what other words you want me to use.
It's not good. It's almost like somebody played a prank
on them. And the equipment manager said, we don't need
the Louisville Sluggers anymore. Let's get rid of the Louisville sluggers.

(08:00):
Let's use those nerf bats. We'll use to see if
we can hit with those nerf bats. It's not going
well and they're not playing their game. We were talking
about the Cubs and the Brewers, and the Cub fans
are loving us. By the way, based on the feedback
I'm getting, there is no better joy than shot in
freude and the Chicago cub marching in Shata society. And

(08:21):
I'm not checked in with senior members like Tree or
your Femi, but some of the people that do listen
in the Illinois and in the Chicago land area, who
are people send me emails on a random basis if said, well,
this is what the Brewers deserve. They put up that
l flag, they mocked the Cubs. They've cursed themselves, they've
jinked themselves, the Milwaukee Brewers because when they took the
photo after they beat the Cubs, apparently they had to

(08:43):
I didn't see this the day it happened, but apparently
they held up a white flag with the blue l
the sibil the signal loss and for the Cubs, so
their cub fans are very excited about this. But back
to the case at hand. So the Brewer is not
playing their game, undisciplined at the plate, swinging, chasing pitches, swinging,

(09:04):
trying to hit home runs. If you're going to try
to out Homer the Dodgers that now, I didn't play
major League baseball, I just do an overnight talk sho.
I don't think that's a good strategy, but what do
I know, Maybe that'll work out for you. Not really
working the counts. The whole thing about the Brewers was
small ball, that they've got patience and all of that
is just rubbish, absolute rubbish at this particular point, it's

(09:27):
insomnia inducing it. I like the Dodgers. I'm not complaining
about it. I didn't expect the series to start out
the way it is started. But it's like these guys.
For the Brewers, they saw a ghosts or something like that.
And the ghost name I actually know the name is
not Casper, it's not the stave puff marshmallow Man. The
ghost is named high spin Rate. Very scary, that ghost

(09:49):
high spin rate. They don't like it. The Brewers hitters.
I did the math on this. Now it's malor math,
which may or may not be correct, but the malor
math on this. The Brewers Hitters, through two games in
the National League Championship Series are batting eighty six, which
I believe is a highway in the Midwest eighty six.
The offense has gone from feisty to absolutely feeble in

(10:14):
these first two games, and so we need to rewrite.
We need Paul Simon to rewrite Missus Robinson and that
classic song where have you Gone? Robin Yaut and Paul
molletor Brewer's Nation turns its lonely eyes to you because
the guy's currently playing. It's like a pirate term there
she blues, my god, Christian Yelich, William Contreras, two guys

(10:36):
in the middle of the Brewers lineup both oh for
seven combined. That's oh for fourteen. Now that the game
changing moment. And this kind of reminds me there was
a World Series in the mid nineties and we're doing
some talk shows after random that just popped in my
head when I was watching Game two and thinking about,
what's the moment here if this thing continues the way
it's going, And the Podres played the Yankees, and it

(10:58):
was at Yankee Stadium. This is during the Joe Tory
years when the Yankees were winning World Series regularly and
all that, and the Padres were like his upstart Nation
League team. I think it was the first inning. Mark
Langston was on the mound. He was a pitcher for
the Padres, and he threw a pitch that was clearly
a strike that was not called to strike. And then
and I'm doing this off my memory, I believe Tino

(11:19):
Martinez then hit like a Grand Slam later in the
bat or whatever, later in the inning, and that was
like the end of that World Series. And it happened
very early in the World Series. Now this is obviously
not the World Series, but the National League Championship Series.
The game changing moment bottom of the ninth I go
back to Game one, Bryce Terrang failed to do the
thing you were supposed to do at the time you

(11:39):
were supposed to do it. As I go back to that,
he pogo sticked out of the way, bases were loaded,
Brewers down by a run. The Dodger bullpen was on
the ropes. They were on the ropes, and you tie
the game. Even if you don't win the game in
the bottom of the ninth, you're going the rest of
the way against the suck bag Dodger bullpen. And the

(12:01):
next pitch Bryce terrang after he dodged the hit hit
by pitch that would have scored the tying run. He
then swung at a pitch that even Victor Wembanyama of
the San Antonio Spurs is about ten feet tall, would
not have swung at. And there you go. So that
was the Brewers moment until proven otherwise. There she goes

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now on another page of this breakdown thorough in depth
team coverage, which is just me and my many personalities
breaking down the nationally Championship series. So is Yoshinobu Yamamoto's
performance a feel good story for the Dodgers. The way
it was being described on the TV broadcast, the Turner

(12:42):
broadcast made it seem like this is some kind of
amazing accomplishment that needs to be celebrated and everyone needs
to just get up and toast Yoshinobu Yavamoto. So he
was both wonderful. And my answer is no, this is
not some kind of feel good performance for or Yamamoto.
You don't get a pat on the back. This is

(13:04):
my general rule of thumb, and you're free to disagree.
You don't get a pat on the back for doing
the job description that you signed up for. The only
thing that I take away from that performance is ROI
return on investment. That's it. The Dodgers got return on investment.
They didn't just waste their time flying to Japan to

(13:25):
watch the cherry blossoms, right, They went there to sign
this guy. They gave him twelve years and a hunt
and three hundred and twenty five million. That's a whole
lot of cherry blossoms. And they handed him the keys
to Javez Ravine twelve year contract for a pitcher. And
so they didn't give him that money so they could say, well, gee, thanks,

(13:45):
thanks for the effort. We're god you tried, We're glad
you tried. No one, No, that's not it. They bought
a symphony conductor. They needed a conductor of the symphony,
and Yamamoto provided that he was Beethoven's fifth in that
game on the Mound at Cornucopia, of goodness and for once,

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and let's make sure we don't save the tape on this.
I can't believe I'm about to say this, but the
nerds got it right in this game. They got it right.
Dave Roberts, who makes no real decisions, but the nerds
instructed Dave Roberts not to do the thing he would
normally do. And if it was the regular season and
Yamamoto was pitching like this, Dave Roberts would have yanked
him out after five and the third innings out of

(14:27):
an abundance of caution because his Apple watch, his Apple
Watch would have said pitcher fatigue, Pitcher fatigue. Woo would
have lit up just like that oOoOO, pitcher fiftigue. But no,
they let him pitch. Oh my god, one hundred and
eleven pitches. Should we call in the Red Cross right now?
One hundred and eleven pitches? O MG? Imagine that the

(14:52):
first postseason complete game since cheating a one one thousand
and two one thousand hole Justin Verlander in twenty seventeen.
So will Yamamoto now need terminator like surgeries? He You're
gonna have to have a metal part put into his
body to replace part of his arm. Now because he
pitched one hundred eleven pitches. Inquiring minds would like to

(15:13):
know developing hot dot dot dot now in a positive note,
because I am Betty Brightside and I did not expect
this performance from the Dodgers. The bullpen in Game two flawless.
It is amazing how good the bullpen is when they're
sitting there getting hemorrhoids watching the game. Holy cramp. Are
they good? They are really good. The key to the

(15:36):
Dodger bullpen is to not pitch the Dodger bullpen. They're amazing,
all right, last word, quick ley, all right, So how
do you explain the Dodgers winning these games when they
are getting little to nothing from the big boppers? The
big boppers are not really boppin' in the Dodger lineup,

(15:59):
So do the math on this. Now. We mentioned the
Brewers having their problems, which are I mean, that's legendarily bad.
But there the Dodgers Shoel Tani, Freddie Freeman, and Mookie
Bets in the first two games of the National League
Championship Series on the road are batting one twenty five
against Milwaukee pitching. I know, Freddie Freeman at a home
runner Tony did have an RBI riby hit here in

(16:22):
Game two, but that is whack a doodle, is what
that is. That's the nature of it. As John Sterling
would say, that's baseball, Susan. The Dodgers top hitters not
hitting there, and the Dodgers this is the issue though totally.
I totally understand why people are upseting. I mean, I'm
not upset, obviously, I like the Dodgers and all that stuff.

(16:42):
But the Dodgers will, like the United States Navy, by land,
by sea, by air, whatever it takes, right, whatever it takes.
And this is why there's so much animosity. And this
thing's gonna get really ug that this continues for the
playoffs and the Dodgers win two more games and then
beat Seattle in the World Series. It is I'm ely
gonna blow the top off. It's a tinderbox right now. Oh,

(17:03):
it's up so tired. They're running baseball. My god. Polite
society does not appreciate the monster mashing on the mound
that's going on for the Dodgers. And they do come
in convoys like so the top guys aren't hitting the tail.
Hernandez gets some big hits and keyk Hernandez and this
guy and that guy and all that stuff. I'm telling you,
if this continues, major League Baseball is heading towards a

(17:26):
point of demarcation here where the halves versus the have
notes and they are going to make it like Nascar.
They're gonna put restrictor plates on what you can spend
and how you can spend it, and they are going
to de ball the Dodgers. So my advice to my
fellow Dodger Officionatos is enjoy this because in a couple
of years there's gonna be a work stoppage and they're

(17:48):
gonna cut your balls off and you're gonna have to
trade some of these guys. I'm telling you it's gonna
be ugly because the Dodgers are too good and people
are annoyed by it. It's also annoying that they don't
give a rats ass about the regular season. It's disgusting.
Makes me want to puke in my mouth that these
guys lolligag during the regular season and then just show
up in October and now here we go. All right, now,

(18:11):
is the NLCS over right? Is it over? Let's take
the temperature in the room, but the temperature in the
room is obviously luke warm. Is the champagne on ice
for the Dodgers, Well, not quite yet. And see the
thing about this, and well, it certainly favors the Dodgers done.
It has happened in the past. There have been teams,
granted not many, that have come back in this situation.

(18:34):
Until you get that final out of the closeout game.
There is more work to be done obviously here and
it's not over. There's a very fat woman somewhere who's
warming up her vocal cords getting ready to sing here.
And the Dodgers they got Glass now coming in Game three,
and he's got major choke itis. And you know, they,
from what I've been told by people out there, they're
afraid to pitch him on the road because he's not

(18:56):
that tough a guys, kind of a softy. So they're
going to pitch him at home. Hope then he'll be
okay there. So we'll see how that goes down. And
if they don't win Game three and then Altani doesn't
go more than six innings or something like that, they
got to go to the bullpen. Then the bullpen blows
up all of a sudden it's tied up. But the
history says, well, it's not done done, but it's kind
of done at this point. And if you look at it,

(19:18):
since there is no such thing as momentum in baseball,
it's an eighty eight percent chance that tells you what
has happened, not what's going to happen. But the Brewers
have a golden opportunity. So if I was on the
Brewers side, the golden opportunities rather obvious. Here, you become
an all time icon if you can be on the
team that comes back. There have been three teams in

(19:40):
the current format, the two three to two format, that
have been able to come back, and they're all iconic
baseball teams, depending how old you are. The nineteen eighty
five Kansas City Royal Steve Bye by Balboni, and you
think of George Brett, some of the legends, Mookie Wilson,
not Mooki Wilson. That was Willie Wilson on that eighty

(20:00):
eighty five Royals team. In the eighty six Mets had
Mookie Wilson, they had Lenny Nails Dykstra and legends like
Darryl Strawberry, and they of course came back with the
Red Sox. And you look at the the Jim Laretz
nineteen ninety six Yankees against the Atlanta Braves, Labrett hit
this massive home run. I think it was off Mark
Wohlders if I remember in the nineteen ninety six World

(20:21):
Series in Atlanta, and that's an all time moment for
that era of Yankee baseball. And so you back a rattlesteam.
I heard this somewhere along the way. You back a
rattlesnake into a corner and it strikes. Yeah, Now what
happens if you back a cornered brewer into a corner?

(20:41):
You know what happens. No, you ever heard of beer muscles? No,
you never heard of beer muscles. Beer muscles are a thing.
Might shotgun a couple PBRs and start throwing haymakers. Watch
out all right again? Just all takes one bad adding
from Glassnow, brewers win that game. Tony goes five innings.
You got to the bullpend, Suzaki blows it, and all

(21:03):
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The Chiefs are back, baby, The Chiefs are back after
that win on Monday night against the Lions. However, that
is not the story from that game that people are
yapping about. It's still got legs. A couple days later

(23:20):
here after the Chiefs played a perfect game. Let me
repeat that for those of you a little slow in
the back of the room. The Chiefs played a perfect game,
zero penalties against the Detroit football team coach Andy Reid
was asked about his opinion on the referees performance that
do you think that Andy Reid a ripped the referees,

(23:42):
said they should have called seventeen penalties against us, be
said the referees did a great job. Or see had
no comment. What do you think he said? Did you
see what he said? Did you see his response? You
did not see his response? No, you did not, Okay,
perhaps you perhaps you missed it. So Andy Reid gave
a measured response. Is the way I will describe it here.

(24:03):
He said, quote, I thought the officials let the guys play.
I'm not saying I agreed with everything that went on.
Reid said, but you know what that means. But I
thought they were very fair on how they did it. Okay,
So that's the point they're made by Ady Reed. Andy
Reid said that it was quote good for the fans. Now,

(24:27):
based on listener feedback that I've gotten from the State
of Michigan, they did not agree that it was good
for the fans. They did not agree with that, and
every penalty that went against the Lions impacted Kansas City's
offense and hurt the Lions offense or vice versa. So

(24:47):
Reid's whole point to sum it up in four words,
they let it play out, which I guess is five
because I had to they in there, but let it
play out worthy four words, so a level headed response,
by which, of course, triggered the tinfoil hot crowd convinced

(25:08):
convinced that the NFL is rigging games for Patrick Mahomes
and the Chiefs. This is a story that pops up
just about every year on the calendar, same time about
every year. And here we are, so these fine individuals,

(25:28):
salt of the earth, and some of you guys have
reached out to me who are in this cult, and
you have said to me, hey, listen, the refs are
in the tank with the NFL, obviously paid by the NFL,
and they're out to get anybody playing Kansas City. They
believe that the referees are apparently on speed dial with

(25:49):
Travis Kelcey, and they text Taylor Swift between plays. It's like, hey, Taylor,
should we call holding on the other team? No pass interference? Okay,
we'll call passing firs? Why not holding? Well, we don't
want holding, we want passing first. Okay, we'll give you
pass in inference. Fine, there you go. Now some of
you have pointed out a study done. I love that
universities are doing studies on NFL teams and officials, the

(26:10):
University of Texas l Passo. Hello to my homeboys working
in the factory there in El Paso. You know who
you are. So anyway, UTEP did a study which the
findings this went from. This ended not last season, the
year before, but in the study done by UTEP, the

(26:32):
findings indicate, this is great that postseason officiating trends have
disproportionately benefited the Patrick Mahomes chiefs. In fact, a professor,
doctor Spencer Barnes. Never heard of him. Not my doctor.
He's not your doctor, doctor Barnes. So doctor Barnes said. Quote.

(26:54):
The fact that postseason penalties consistently favored one frameise meaning
Kansas City, while similar dynasties showed no such pattern points
to the powerful role of financial incentives, financial incentives and
shaping supposedly neutral decisions. Close quote all right, So let

(27:18):
us discuss the question for the Esteem panel which you
are part of. Do you believe do you believe that
there is an NFL grand conspiracy to help Travis Kelcey
and the Chiefs. So on this one, I've got Buffalo
Wild Wings, the Hair Club for Men, and Pillow, and

(27:44):
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the greatest donut of them all,
the Apple Fritter donut, the greatest donut of them all. Now,
first of all, to answer the question I wish I
believe because it would be better as a talk show host,
I don't. I am not a believer. I'm agnostic on

(28:05):
this one. And here's why my problem and I can't
get past this. I've done too much sports talk radio.
I have done this job for many, many years. I've
been through a number of dynasties in sports and yapped
about them on the radio. And the one common denominator
through this entire journey in sportscasting has been team wins.

(28:28):
A lot fans complain teams getting benefit of the officials
calling in their direction. So every dynasty gets painted by
people as being run by the Illuminadi. In this case
it's the NFL. But same thing happens in basketball. We
don't really get dynasties anymore in baseball. But when the
Yankees were winning and there was the belief that the

(28:50):
Yankees got every call. I was told by somebody that
played for the Yankees that they believe the guys on
the Yankees believe at the old Yankee Stadium when George Steinbrenner,
the old owner known as the Boss, when he was
in charge there, that they truly believed umpires were afraid
of calling pitches on the border against the Yankees because
George Steinbrenner would raise Holy hell. But again that's perception

(29:14):
much like this we're talking about Kansas City here. It
happened also with the Patriots, and my brothers and sisters
who are Patriots fans know when they were winning, it
was like, oh, the NFL wants Tom Brady to win,
they want Bill Belichick to win, and all that stuff.
And I go back so far the Dallas Cowboys. I
remember when the Cowboys used to win and they were like, oh,
the NFL officials are in the tank for the Cowboys

(29:37):
because they got the big stars in that era. Yeah,
and that was before social media was even a thing.
That was just when we had sports talk radio and
fax machines and people were pumping up the tires on
the Dallas Cowboys back in the nineties, So it's not
some secret zebra cabal that gets together. Like the theory is,
these guys all get together, they go to Buffalo Wild Wings,

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and then Andy Reid is given a button and it's
a direct line to the league officiating headquarters. So when
he's on his headset and he's covering his mouth because
he's got his play sheet, he's actually talking to the
league office. Can we get a defensive holding on Team X?
Can we do?

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Now?

Speaker 1 (30:18):
We can't? Can you give me? How about I want
an offensive holding? This team's driving against my defense. Can
I get an offensive holding? We need that? Yes, sure,
no problem, Andy, whatever you need. The reality is rather
simple and it doesn't make for great talk radio. But
since twenty eighteen, which is the meat and potatoes of

(30:40):
this particular era and really just the entire run with
Mahomes taking over, since twenty eighteen, Cansa City is ranked
in the top ten in the top ten of accepted penalties,
not the bottom, the top top ten. Now what does
that mean. That means if this is a rigged delio,

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if the NFL's rigging these games for Kansas City, the
referees are doing a god awful job they're doing a
terrible job of covering their tracks, right, the terrible job.
And Kansas City last I checked, and I've been there,
and I have friends in Kansas City. I love visiting.
It's I've had a lot of fun when I've gone
there a few times over the years. But when you
go to Kansas City, right, it's not Manhattan. Now, if

(31:25):
you want Manhattan, there's a Manhattan Kansas which is you know,
good drive away. It's not the big Apple Manhattan. And
I'm pretty sure it's not Los Angeles. It's not like
a top market. It's TV market number thirty one, TV
market number three. It you don't build a villain empire
in the shadow of Wichita. You don't do it. No

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one would do it. And as for the UTEP study,
And I used to love studies. I used to talk
about a lot on my podcasts they do on the weekends,
the Fifth Hour podcast. And I learned over the years
at some point I had an epiphany, and I realized
that you have to look at who pays for the study.
You have to look at who's doing the study, because
it's often it's not on the up and up. I

(32:09):
used to think those things were all on the up
and up everything was kosher. It's not so. But anyway,
this one, the UTEP study, I dug into it a
little bit, leaned into it. And the postseason flags they
said lean heavily towards Kansas City during the Mahomes era.
And they connect the dots and it's like there's a
conspiracy and it's like they've got their their corkboard up

(32:31):
and they're connecting yarn to different things and they're like, well,
there you go. They get their flash light and they
don't even have a flashlight. They have the light on
their head. You know those lights you put on your
head when you're looking at crawling on your body, trying
to crawl through the underside of your house or something
like that at two in the morning. But this is
the same tired VHS tape that they dusted off when

(32:52):
Michael Jordan was getting whistles, And I buy that more
than this. Like the NBA Hey and with David Stern,
that was his playbook. We got stars. We want the
stars to get calls. And a foul against Michael Jordan
is not the same call against Joe Blow on the bench.
It's just not Uh, there were hockey people. When I

(33:15):
saw Wayne Gretzky play and people said, wow, Wayne Gretzky.
You know, when Wayne was breathing near the blue line,
there was an official there skating around with a with
a whistle. It's not collusion, right, It's not collusion. It's
success envy. That's what I call I call it success envy.
And you know what they say, you know say there.

(33:38):
The saying is that when you reach the very top
of the mountain, you've worked your entire life in sports
and you get to the very top of the mountain,
many people assume that you got there on a ski lift.
You didn't climb the mountain. You just took the You
took the easy way to the top of the Right now, secondly,

(33:58):
I am contractually obligated by the powers of the Beat
to mention the Dallas Cowboys every so often. So we'll
do that right now. To Dallas we go, where despite
the horrific defense, the struggles of the Cowboys defense, they
blow this season. Jerry Jones remaining very confident in his
embattled defensive coordinator Matt eberflus Now during his weekly radio show,

(34:22):
which the editing department here Fox Sports Radio deemed not
worthy of recording on During that Jerry Jones said, Matt
Eberflus is someone quote I want in the fox hole
with me. That's a quote. Jerry also explained that he jumped,
jumped at the up. You think Jerry's ever jumped at
anything maybe like a hot blonde in like nineteen ninety,

(34:44):
but not recently anyway. So during his weekly radio show,
Jones said that you know he wants you know, he's
a foxhole guy. That was his line, and he said
he jumped jumped a higher Matt Eberflus and said he
you know, this is the guy that I wanted this
offseason to to run the defense and have not changed
my position after six games. And he was pumping the

(35:05):
tires about all the adversity that Matt Iberflus has been
through and all that bull crap. All right, question how
much stalk? How much stalk do you put in Jerry
Jones giving a vote of confidence, the dreaded vote of
confidence the Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus. So normally, and

(35:26):
you know what I'm about to saying, like normally, this
is the kiss of death. You are cooked. It is
dun skis right. That's the kid kiss of death, like
the he's our guy speech. We've all heard it. It
happens right before a piano drops on top of your
head from the third floor cob boom, see you later.

(35:51):
Now in Dallas, though it's different, My read on the
room in Dallas is a little different because Jerry's doing
what Jerry always does. He's making this about him. I
do a YouTube show called Benny Versus the Penny with
a guy who also makes it all about him, so
I know the all about him person. I know the

(36:11):
all about the person. I do that show with a
little less financially well off than Jerry Jones, but nonetheless
all right. So if Jerry says I am going to
give the excommunication message to Matt everfuls, I'm gonna kick
him out of the Dallas Cowboys, right, get rid of him, Well,
he's not just admitting Jerry Jones at that point. He's

(36:34):
not admitting that the defense stinks. It's more than that,
he's admitting I screwed up. I'm a bad GM, I
hired the wrong guy. That's on me and what I
know about Jerry Jones. This is a hair club for
men's situation, the great line from Walt Frasier, no play

(36:56):
for mister Gray. Jerry's not going to allow that to right.
He's I'll hold on to a mistake. He's gonna hold
onto this mistake longer than a bad real estate investment,
just so he does not have to do the walk
of shame and admit now that job by me. If
up and the numbers don't lie, they don't. The Cowboys

(37:17):
are dead last, at the very bottom the sewer in
total defense. They're dead last against the past twenty eighth
against the run. They've given up thirty point seven points
per game, thirty point seven points per game. They tackle.
I'm telling you, watch all these Cowboy games. It looks
like they tackle like they're wearing those inflatable sumo suits.

(37:40):
It's very hard to move around a lot of plotting.
It's embarrassing. And I'm not a Cowboy fan. In fact,
I enjoy this because it's good for what I do.
I enjoy with you. The Cowboys defense, even with the
Micah Parsons trade, right, well, there's enough there, there'll be
somewhat competitive and all that. So, and Jerry, he really

(38:00):
wants to show the world. Yeah, when that guy dan
Quinn who's now coaching in Washington, and they've had some success.
They didn't play well this week the Commanders, but they've
had some success. And what is I'm fine, I don't
need dan Quinn to be my defensive courtera. So he
got the guy and so there you go, Matt Ibraflus
And so the Cowboys build is America's team. The Dallas

(38:23):
Cowboys America's team, and right now they're America's turnstile is
what they are. Yeah, he was running right by. If
you're a wide receiver, there's no resistance. If you're a
running back, congratulations, you're gonna get four yards downfield before
there's any kind of contact. And Ibraflu's presiding over a
defense in Dallas that is they're getting cooked like they're

(38:46):
chicken at Applebe's. It's bad. And it's not just the numbers.
The eye test not good either. There's no bull rush.
There's a lot of bull crap from Jerry Jones, but
there's no bull rush. And the unit has about as
much toughness as a pillow fight at summer camp. Right,
and some teams worry about the red zone. They're like,

(39:06):
oh man, the red zone Dallas. It's got a hole
in the ozone the ozone layer there for the Cowboys.
It's not good. So Jerry giving a vote of conference.
Normally we say, well that's it, that's ebra Flus is done.
But again that this is not about the football, even
though the Cowboys defense sucks, it's about saving face for
Jerry Jones, and that's why the Cowboys are. That's where

(39:29):
they are, all right, final thought, to Boston, we go
to Boston, we go and forever cheating Astro and Red
Sox third baseman Alex Bregman a notorious scoundrel in baseball history.
So Alex Bregman pulled the ripcord and is going to

(39:51):
test free agency for the second consecutive year. The news
came out prior to the NLCS game Dodgers and Brewers.
Bregman is exercising the op doubt. He's entering into the
transfer portal. He opts out of what's left of a
three year, one hundred and twenty million dollar contract. He'll
go to market try to get more money. The deal
included an opt out this year. There's also a player

(40:11):
option in twenty twenty seven. So quickly, what is your
reaction to Alex Bregman forever a cheating astro hitting the
eject button on the Red Sox contract after one season.
So this was baked in to the contract. It was

(40:32):
baked into the contract. And stop me if you've heard
this one before. I'm pretty sure you've heard this one before.
But Scott Morris and I'm gona use this term because
I use it the other day, but it applies here.
It's a my Pillow special. We said it when the
contract was announced for Alex Bregman with the Red Sox.
Will say it again here that this contract was what's

(40:52):
known in the industry as a pillow deal. That Bregman
sucked at a time he cannot suck. He was not
that good at the end with the cheating aim holes,
and so he didn't get the offer he wanted for
that and some other reasons. And so the pillow deal
was a soft landing, big money, total control by the player.
It's a Scott Bora special. So Boris gave Bregman that

(41:14):
one year window to go to Boston, polish the apple,
if you will flip it for another massive contract, go
back to the market and see what you can get.
And he wasn't in Boston, the plant roots. Now there's
a chance he goes back if the Red Sox meet
his asking price, but he doesn't care. He'll go anywhere.
He's got no moral compass, He'll go anywhere. And so

(41:37):
he was there kind of renting. You know. It's the
kind of place where you rent and you leave the
dishes in the sink and you just go somewhere else here.
I'm done with this place. I'm out of here. And
Bregman did not exactly like the world on fire. The
first half. He was okay, it was actually pretty good.
The first half of the baseball season, made the All
Star Team. The second half. Cover your eyes, hover your

(42:00):
eyes bat a swan dive, swan dive for Alex Bregman.
After the All Star Game, his power numbers went down
thirty six percent. He was a two point fifty hitter,
and you're gonna pay that guy thirty five forty million
dollars a year and he couldn't even hit it Finway.
One of the reasons Bregman went to Boston was because
everyone hits at Finway Park, right everyone feast. It's a bandbox.

(42:23):
And Bregman batted two forty six at Finway and hit
six home runs all year? What happened to the launching pad?
It wasn't a launching pad when he was up there,
and so you know he's stunking a time. He can't
snak and then so if you can't thrive there are
you're gonna thrive anywhere? Does he need trash cans? Does
he need a buzzard? Does he have to go back

(42:44):
to his happy place in Houston? And you mix in
that's the other thing, like we know cheating as Sjo
Carlos Carea was traded back to Houston, Like that's really
the only spot. I guess that in the Blue Jays.
Toronto doesn't care. They got that cheater springer and their outfield,
but Houston. Back to Houston for Bregman, who says, now

(43:07):
there's a cloud. There is a cloud following him around,
a black cloud. The cheating thing does not go away.
And you know that's true. You know that's true. Right,
tattooed with baseball cooties. He's got the cooties, yep, got
them yep. And you can hear the boos still every
ballpark you go to other than Houston, right, you get

(43:29):
the booze and all that stuff, and so the villain
act it doesn't age well. And that's the other problem.
Bregman's not a pitcher, he's a position player, and he's
going to be at the very end of his athletic prime.
He turns thirty two next season. Good luck. So you're
gonna pay somebody for what they have done, not what
they're going to do, and you're gonna hand that guy

(43:51):
a long term contract. And he's one of the more
hateable people in the sport of baseball. So good luck, buyer, bewareing.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
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Speaker 1 (44:04):
Don't get smaller? How about that? To the third degree?
This is one big Ben gets grill and coo dal Lou.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
Bill Belichick opened his media session on Monday by saying
that reports of him negotiating a buy out with North
Carolina are quote categorically false.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Ben.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Do you believe him?

Speaker 1 (44:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Of course not no, No.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
They just haven't worked out the details on that. It's
it's an absolute mess. And Belichick doesn't have anything else
lined up. Of course, you don't believe Bill Belichick, And
you know it's not correct until it's correct, and then
all of a sudden, Belichick vanishes and doesn't talk about it.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
Next, the Philadelphia Phillies have decided not to make manager
Rob Thompson, the escapegoat for their defeat in the NLD
SA ays he will be returning to Philly in twenty
twenty six.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Do you think keeping Thompson was the right move?

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yes, because he's not doing anything like all these other managers.
So it's like the Yankees, the Dodgers. They keep all
these guys around because they're just kind of figure ahead guys.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Next, Russell Westbrook has yet to find a new NBA team.

Speaker 5 (45:05):
When he was asked recently about the possibility of playing overseas,
he said, there has been zero discussion about that. But
do you think Westbrook will eventually end up playing in
China or something?

Speaker 1 (45:13):
No worse, he'll play for the Sacramento Kings.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
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Dear ry you heard the man.

Speaker 6 (45:50):
It's time for love here on the Ben Mallers Show.
And you know, sometimes we like to start with a
little snippet of love knowledge around here.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Yeah, do you have something? Yes, you do have something.
Rain has something here.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
Do not fall in love with figments of your imagination. Okay,
the person on TV, the woman on the radio, she
is not your soulmate. She's probably you probably wouldn't even
get along on a regular basis.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
And you know what the line though, it's the magic
of radio TV.

Speaker 6 (46:24):
But also when actually building a relationship with someone that
you want to be with, you have to take time
to get to know them, right. Well, no, some guys don't,
you know, and then they end up divorced and unhappy
and with a child and you know, broken home.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
So don't do that.

Speaker 6 (46:40):
Take time to get to know your person in person.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
That's what I want to say.

Speaker 6 (46:44):
Yeah, unless you live a million miles away, and that's.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
What you like. Okay, qualifier on it. I got you.
These are actual questions by actual listeners. Fir Dog writes
in says, do women like it when men order for
them at a restaurant. I always do. I saw a
question there from I hate ordering food, by the way.

(47:10):
I I'd rather just cook it home and not have
to order.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (47:13):
Well, I mean, if you know exactly what your woman
likes to eat and she doesn't like to speak, that's
one thing. But just it almost sounds controlling to me personally.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Oh, look at you.

Speaker 6 (47:22):
She's gonna have the salad. No, she doesn't want a vodkatonic.
She'll take a wine, white wine. The red's gonna die
your lips, honey. No, we'll take the white wine for her.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Is that right? Yeah, that's what it seems like to me. Okay,
could be thoughtful. Can you've been in that situation before?
I feel like there's a little personal reference there. No, no, no,
But this is just an idea, Just an idea. I
one of your favorite callers here, Mike the Leprechaun, writes,
and he says, would you frown upon a partner who
can't do any handyman work around the house, the air conditioning,

(47:56):
clogged toilets, et cetera, or even the bedrooms?

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (48:00):
Actually I do frown upon those things. I love it
when a man can like fix things. It's so awesome.
I used to have a huge crush on my manager
at Red Robin because he would fix everything.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
And I'm like, that is so attractive. Was he good
looking or no? No, not at all. Okay, all right,
see there you go. If you're ugly, just be good
at fiction.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
You can be good at other things. There's other things
that you can find attractive about a person.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
It's all right, very nice. Let's take a call. And
who else but Lucky Tony has called up from What's up?
He's always getting Lucky help.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
Some lucky pigeons. When I was in the Bay Area,
I was eating chowder on a deck and there was
two pigeons getting it on right on the edge.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Wow, what about the kids? What about the children?

Speaker 7 (48:45):
I got?

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Don't look, hello, Lucky Tony.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Hillary Clinton, if you want to seem bear, I have
a Toman jersey.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
That was okay, right, I don't know first time he's
dropped Hillary Clinton's name here.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
A right, I did not have relations with that woman
that was his mistress.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
A listener who was asked to have his name react redacted.
I guess we'll call him John Doe says that he
is a starter to date a woman he likes a lot,
but she's still texting her ex and he's a little
concerned by that. Lorena, do you have any advice to
the call him John Doe here, he's a little annoyed

(49:31):
by that. Say proceed with caution, buyer beware.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah you are.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
You are allowed to have relationships with your exes, but
you need to know what level of playing field there on.
Sometimes they were friends before they dated, so you can't
take that away. Other times that friend still has some
intentions and your girl could still have something.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
Well, you might be the term is is it? The rebound?

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Is that? Yeah, you don't want to be the rebound?

Speaker 1 (50:01):
Well, sometimes you do want to be the rebound, but
not if you're like into the person. You don't want
to read the rebound because then you're that's not a
good thing. Heart well hurt, That's that's not good at all.
Late night drug tester says, is it bad taste to
have a pool during the wedding reception or when the
couple has their first kid, or when they will get divorced?
You like an office pool? Like? Yeah, like the bet

(50:24):
like when they will end up. Yeah, that's actually pretty funny.

Speaker 6 (50:30):
I think it's funny, and especially if it's like a
toxic relationship and you know that they fight a lot,
Like I would totally do that on certain people that
I know.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Yeah, you know I used to do. That's a great
bit I did that, like on the radio show we
did We did that bit. The Magic Johnson had this
late night TV talk show when I was doing the
Beneddave Show, and I correct, I won the pool. We
had a pool which day will the show be canceled
with a terrible show? And actually I won. I nailed
it and I and I never got paid my bounty's

(51:00):
I'm still upset by that. Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota writes,
sinceys Lorrain and my girlfriend has multiple personality disorder, which
one do you like the best? Guess? In one in
the bedroom things got a little heated the other night
in the bedroom she got mad at me again. She's
hollering my name. Well, I'm just terrible at names. Should
I get her name tags?

Speaker 6 (51:20):
Oh uh no, you know what, Just tattoo her name somewhere.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
That's a yeah, the name thing. I think, as you said,
didn't say Lorena the pet names of the way to go.
So you don't mess the name up. Baby.

Speaker 6 (51:33):
You don't got to worry about nothing, honeybear.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
You sweet sounds like sounds like you've been down that road, honeymoon.

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Speaker 1 (52:00):
Time, and let's welcome in our contestants. Here we have
here see Enie, Meani, Miney Moe. Let's say hello to
Mike in New Hampshire, who was just talked about. Hello Mike, welcome,
good morning man.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
What a poor opression of me by Virgina I mean Scott.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Yes, Mike, who would you like to partner up with? Mike? Wow,
we're gonna win this, so let's play with you, all right.
We're in it to win it. Very nice. Hold on
sec Mike in New Hampshire. And let's see here. Let's
go with Eenie, Meenie, Miney Mo. Edward is in San Antonio.
Hello Edward, welcome all ride. I'm glad I got in.

(52:44):
You got in, Edward. You're lucky day you want to
play with Lorena or Cooper Loop as your partner on password.
All right, you're out of the show, Loraina, very nice.
Sever Now I don't understand why I can't make it.
I can't figure it out. All right, good We have
a list of words here. No cheating, No cheating, I'll

(53:04):
lock you in and unlock Mike and New Hampshire in.
All right, good luck to you both. My guy's gonna win.
Mike in New Hampshire. We have a listen to words
one to ten. Mike, you w on the air first.
Please pick a word, sir, let's do number sticks number six.
All right, let's go with let's see here. I want

(53:27):
to go with here. Hm. I think that the word
I want to use I think is two words. So
let me see if I get to do something else here. Uh,
let's go with h. I think I can. How about
uh oatmeal?

Speaker 7 (53:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (53:55):
I got nothing on that one.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Okay, all right? Uh Edward, wow, Uh, I'm the clue.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
I'm going to give you snickerdoodle grit what you've never had?

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Snickerdoodle grits? What's wrong with you? Coop? What are you wrong?

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Let me listen to best terrible clue to high clue.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Now, I think we've got it here. Let's go with
snicker doodle grits. Yes, they're very popular in South Carolina.
There's a lot of them.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
I think I got it.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Uh uh, how about a short bread? No, come on,
you're mocking you're mocking me, dude, you're mocking me. What
I said short storage?

Speaker 3 (54:50):
He said no, he said porridge.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Porridge. Even worse, you screwed everything up with your first clue.
I did not go ahead?

Speaker 7 (54:59):
Coop Uh, Edward, let's go uh with Yeah, okay, baking,
the baking.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Yeah, we're all. It's all for the clues for the
same word, all tied together.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Oh my god, what do you say? What she? Gee?
Do you guys suck?

Speaker 3 (55:29):
It's it's it's cookie.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
The cookie schnegger doodle cookie, you know, short bread? Oh
my god? All right? Edward picking picking number one to ten,
but not six, my god, number one, number one?

Speaker 3 (55:48):
Al right, all right, now we got this. Come on, Edward, chauffeur, chauffeur.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
How about how about it? Motorists motorist Mike, Yeah, yes,
all right, pick another number of pick another number, Mike,
hurry up, hurry up? Four uh number four? All right,
let's go with. Let me see here. Boy, uh, I'm

(56:28):
gonna get to it. Really, how about residue clicker? No,
oh my god, we're out of time. It was what
we were looking for was dust. We win. You lost school,
you and your stick, your noodle grits,