October 16, 2025 • 48 mins
Big Ben talks about the Toronto Blue Jays destroying the Mariners in Game 3 of the ALCS, Caleb Williams saying that he "could care less" about comments made by Troy Aikman, Maller to the Third Degree, another edition of #AskBen, and more!
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Well if you had the American League Championship Series over
after the first two games. Apparently the Blue Jays did
not get the memo. They did not get the memo.
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from the Blue Jay locker room, not dead yet, not
dead yet, that is our lead. We go to Seattle,
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the beautiful Pacific Northwest, the eye of the baseball universe,
as the only team from the Cartel of Baseball that
had not made it, had not gotten to the World
Series two wins away, trying to trim that down a
little bit more. There was some buzz in the air.
One fired up there and how did that go? Mariners
hosting Toronto and Game three of the American League Championship
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Series in Island game it was hump day all that
and if you were not watching on Fox, maybe you
missed it. Vladdie no longer in a slump. Vladimir Guerrero
Junior with not one, not two, not three, but four hits,
including a home run. He scored three times. And the
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Blue Jays hit not one, not two, not three, not four,
but five ding dongs. That's a lot of ding dongs.
Hollering James with like that amount of ding dongs, pasting
the Mariners, absolutely pacing them thirteen to four the final
in Game three, and we had forever dirty, cheating Astro
alumni George Springer also had a dinger and three hits
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bang bang, whistle whistle. Springer and Guerrero each hit solo
shots as Toronto finished with. As we mentioned the five
five home runs in the way, Toronto I had eighteen
hits in this game, eighteen of them. I'm told that's good.
I'm told that's a lot. The better story, though, is
in the losing locker room, and so that is where
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we will begin as we discuss the question when a
team gets absolutely smoked like this, what an embarrassment? The
question is who gets the blame for cal Raley's Mariners
getting smashed like a bug by a windshield driving at
ninety miles an hour down the interstate. In this case,
Toronto was the one that was driving the car and
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the Mariners with the bug. So my thoughts on this,
I've got brown Derby, voodoo and overhead bin and we
will combine all of these things together and we're going
to put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're
going to do. So let's start with this and you
focus at the very middle of the diamond. Now, if
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you imagine in your head the baseball diamond, You've got
the backstop, the catcher. We're looking out towards the outfield.
You got the catcher. You go down to the right
hand side, you get the first basement, you got the
second basement, then the other side you got the shortstop
and the third basement. But in the middle of all that,
right the man in the middle, that would be the
man standing on the bump the bumpety bump and boydered
he go bumpety bump. That would be the starting pitcher. Now,
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the Mariners were set up early here as Jay rod
hit a two run homer in the bottom of the
fur Julio Rodriguez two run shots, So seat's up to nothing.
Feeling pretty good about themselves, similar to the vibe Milwaukee
had in Game two, and they got the early home
run over the Dodgers, and then George Kirby, it didn't
happen right away, but when it happened, he said, you
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know what I want to do. I want to honor
the big Dumper. I would like to honor the big Dumper.
And what better way to honor the big Dumper than
Kirby bringing back an old Hollywood restaurant from early Hollywood
called the Brown Derby and a big giant brown you
know what? All right? There served up not one, not two,
but three of the five home runs, and by the
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time the dust had settled, Kirby allowed eight earned runs.
God awful starting pitching right, utterly worthless. And while Kirby
was terrible, he was left in the game for an
extended dance remix. And so you point the finger at
the manager of the Seattle baseball team, or should I
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point the finger at the nerds. Either way, it's a
balancing act. You've got Dan Wilson, who's getting kind of old,
looks old Dan Wilson there in the dugout, who's juggling
machetes and butcher knives, and let's just say that he
forgot to catch a couple of the knives and one
of them, you know, he just was. It was ugly.
It was right to the forehead, right there, sliced white,
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wide open the forehead. And you gotta have a feel
for the game. Kirby suffered from die die diarrhea during
during that inning, and Wilson did not change the diaper.
He did not change the diaper. He said, you know what,
you get diarrhea. I want you to fill that diaper
all the way up. Okay, good, fill it Up'll fill
it up some more. It's not done. What a stinker.
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Now the mallord advice to the Seattle baseball team. I
learned this from an NFL quarterback years ago. When you
take a deuce, you don't sit there and look at it. No, no,
you flush it and you move on. So there you go.
The Mariners, who absolutely that was more of a diarrhea
situation than a deuce. But it was a the mess
there from the Seattle side of things, giving up eighteen hits,
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all those home runs your home ballpark. Everyone all fired up,
and we have road field advantage in baseball. It's something
that nobody wants to talk about and you're supposed to
talk about that. What's wrong with you? Because there's this
myth of home field advantage, like you're going into a
stadium and there's a moat around it and it's impossible
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to win in a certain stadium, which is just bull crap.
It's been that way for years since the players' union complained,
and they have all the creature comforts on the road
that they would have at home, and many of the
players like playing on the road more than at home.
They're away from their families. They like that. But you're
not supposed to talk about that either. Meanwhile, on the
winning side, on the winning side, the question what was
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different on this night than the previous nights for Toronto
star Vladimir Guerrero Junior and his big night. Now, we
had mentioned in a previous episode of the show in
his playoff career, Granted small sample size, but Vladimir Guerrero
Junior had been absolutely monster matching against the Yankees, against
everyone else. He was batting one hundred in his playoff career,
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like one o three in his playoff career. Well, that
number has changed a lot because one night, the guy's
a wet noodle and then he takes a quantum leap.
And now in this game, it was like vintage Joe
Carter reincarnated in a Blue Jay uniform there with extra
hot sauce. That was impressive there. And he was like
the bouncer at the door there, and he was telling
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the Mariners you're not on the list. Pal, I'm sorry,
get out of here, You're not invited. The vodoo bugaloo,
the mental voodoo boogoloo, the classic slumpbuster stuff. Mark Grace
approves that message. The stage fright had been there and
the mental undressing of the matches. They say, when you
got stage fright, you got to use those mental gymnastics
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and imagine that the people are are not the clothes.
He had been zero for seven, So instead of imagining
though the Mariners players and boxers and briefs, he used
the art of manifestation. He had the Mariners in his
head and I'm convinced Uncle Moe will agree with me
on this. He had them wearing pinstripes and suddenly Vladdie
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was licking his chops, frothing like a rabbit dog at
a raw stake and a successful playoff performance Now Toronto
clearly approached things much differently. The Blue Jays decided to
go with what we call the Caveman approach. Me c ball,
me hit ball, caveman approach. Right, all eighteen hits within
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three pitches. So tat tat, hit the ball. No chessboard,
No I'm gonna try to outsmart you, and no it
was a sledgehammer. Now it did help. It absolutely helped
that the Mariner pitchers, led by the aforementioned mister Kirby,
collectively pittled down their legs on the mound. And sometimes
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baseball is just that dumb, and you just that's the
way it is, and so you don't need the launch
angle thesis. I don't need to go into my whole
rant and rave about that. Sometimes the slump ends because
the other team decides to open up a nice Italian
bistro and serve oversized meatballs right there. Or another way
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to look at it, it's like a kid's birthday party
and they don't have any blindfolds. They have a giant
pinata filled with candy, and you get a bat and
no swing harts on. But you don't need to worry
about the blindfold. There's no need for the blindfold. All right, now,
last word, So I have an h I need discretch.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I granted this is something for me and you might
not care about That's fine. This is therapeutic. This is therapeutic.
And I'm sitting there watching this game and I heard
I jotted it down. I stopped counting at about seven.
I'm sure it was more than that. I'm sure it
was more than that. John Smoltz on the broadcast kept
saying momentum. Like every inning he said momentum, every single inning.
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There must have been a momentum button that they pressed.
Pressed the John say momentum. Okay, momentum. So the question is,
what do you think of Fox broadcaster John Smoltz and
his clear addiction to using the word momentum during these
playoff broadcasts. Well, it is the elephant in the room,
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the Komodo dragon in the room. John Smoltz is out there.
He's tossing around the word momentum like he's in the
French corner in New Orleans and he's tossing beads out
at Marti Gras just about every at bat. It seemed
I may or may not be embellishing every foul ball
every time a pigeon landed out on the warning track.
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Momentumness momentum that I swear if he could have trademarked momentum,
imagine how much money he would have made from revenue
from that, I mean the royalties. By the third inning,
he would have gone off to play golf somewhere. That's
what he would have done. It was like he was
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praying to the flying spaghetti Monster of baseball, because momentum
is as real in baseball as the flying spaghetti monster.
You all told me, you said, Oh my god, the
Mariners have all the momentum. How'd that work out for you? Good?
You use a lot of money. I hope you lost
a lot of money. A lot of money, all right,
So might as well just pray to the flying spaghetti monster.
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Oh great, newly won grant this team with the most
vibes more invisible energy. Because that's what momentum is. It's
not a real thing. You can't hold it, you can't
see it. It is just verbal filler. Let me repeat
that for those of you a little slow in the
back of the room. It is verbal filler. It is sportscasting,
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mashed potatoes, it's rice you know how sometimes you go
to a Mexican restaurant you order a like a beef burrito,
chicken breed or something like that, and they'll fill it
with mostly rice because rice is cheap. It fills it
up right, and you don't get the meat, you get
the cheap filler. Well that's the word momentum is cheap filler.
And these dingleberries act like it's some kind of mystical
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gas cloud floating from dugout to dugout. It's so stupid
it tries me nuts. Like the Mariners again, I'm just
repeating what you told me. You told me this. They
had all the momentum. They carried that fifteen inning win
over the Tigers, and they flew across North America to Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
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and they won both games. They were up to nothing
in the ALCS. They had all the momentum. Now, let
me ask you a question. Did they make the mistake?
And I think this might have happened, And I want
to be fair to you. I don't want to be
a complete douche. Is it possible that the Mariners traveling party,
the equipment manage the momentum bag in the carry on
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and that TSA said, excuse me, kind sir, I don't
think you can bring that much momentum on board. You've
got too much mo. It's over the limit. You're gonna
have to leave some of that momentum here in Toronto.
But we need the momentum, sir, No, no, no, you
can't take that momentum. The plane won't take off with
all that momentum. It's so stupid. Or maybe they got
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the momentum on the plane and then they were flying
over like Fargo, North Dakota, and somehow it slipped out.
There was some turbulence and the overhead bin opened up
and the momentum fell out and landed somewhere in North Dakota.
So if you're in Fargo, you might get a bag
filled with momentum. You might get that, all right, you
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might get that. And then what happened after that? You
think the Toronto Bluejay said, you know what, we want
some momentum, So why don't we trade some delicious and
we'll get it back. We'll make a deal with the
baseball guys. You gave the Mariners too much momentum. Give
us some momentum. Okay, we'll give you some momentum, give
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us some poutine. Okay, I'll take the poutine. There you go.
Even on the postgame show where they were all playing
grab ass, there you had Kevin Burkhart, who I don't
know does he do this all the time. I just
noticed it because it was on my mind. On the
postgame panel he was doing the highlights, and if you
saw the end of the game, the Mariners hit a
couple of garbage time dingers, and on the panel at
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the dais there Burkhart said Seattle might have gotten some
momentum with those late home runs going into Game four.
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. That is not momentum. That is
what's called. The clinical term is stat padding. Yes, stack padding.
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When your team is down by ten runs and you
hit a home run, that is stat padding, is what
it is. It's like saying the guy that got dumped
by the hot girl but buys new socks suddenly has
relationship momentum for his next relationship because he has new sucks.
It's lazy. Uh, it's broadcasting auto pilot. It's like sports
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talk show hosts that do one, you know, one topic
the entire show because they're lazy. It drives me nuts,
but went in doubt, right, went in dout. I could
absolutely do that job. And I'm not being bragged doocius here.
I know all of the cliches, I hate almost all
of them, but I could do the job. Anytime a
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team takes the lead, well, they've all the momentum right now, Nip,
they've gone a lot of momentum, NIP, a lot of momentum.
Oh my god, it's the um of the sports broadcasting world.
Instead of saying, say momentum when you have nothing to
say momentum, ban the word. Ban the word. Put it
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in the same pile as intangibles, which is another bull
crap word, a veteran presence, another nonsensical term in sports,
or just you listen, get down and say you know
what to the flying spaghetti monster. My god, all right,
now I feel better. See that was therapeutic. That was
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a therapeutic rant. And now I can go on with
my night and we can settle in here and I'm good,
You're good. And I guess you could say we have momentum.
We've got momentum. Yeah, okay.
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our lead this hour get away from the baseball. We'll
talk more about that if you want. Shockingly radio silence
from Seattle. We normally get a lot of calls from Seattle,
but I guess when the Mariners lose, they don't want
to call our lead. This hour, though, is from the
Windy City and the Chicago Bears, winners on Monday Night,
but apparently losers according to the broadcast. Fans outraged, how
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dare you not lick the toes of our quarterback? Very unhappy,
very unhappy with Troy Aikman and his performance on Monday
Night football. En If you didn't see the podcast or
hear the audio on this, maybe not Aikman. Let's just
say that he did not use kid gloves, He did
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not bite his tongue. He did not hold back in
his critique of the Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, calling
out several of his many mistakes with the Bears late throws.
He used the term luck to describe some of some
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of Caleb Williams and the Bears positive plays, including the
game breaking play that allowed the Bears to get back
into the game to catch and run by Swift that
said it was a lucky play. So he had that.
Then you had the Chicago coach Ben Johnson, who even
addressed the commentary in a couple of different parts of
his news conference. Of course, it's very awkward because these
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coaches are they don't watch the game, they're doing the game,
and they always like to say, like we don't pay
attention to the media and what the media says. But
he did a rest and then Caleb Williams also the
man who was lucky, the man who was late with throws.
Caleb Williams also jabbed at the Monday night football broadcast.
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Now he posted a photo carousel on Instagram Caleb Williams
with a caption that included Aikman's initials it was lucky,
and then it had the letters TA for Troy Aikman.
The caption read, in part, So Williams was asked about
that and this and all of this stuff, and here's
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what the Bears quarterback had to say. Take a listen,
let's go to the audio tape. Yeah, I could care less.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
That's kind of how I've I think I've said multiple
times over my time being here. Fair not life isn't fair.
People are gonna say what they have to say. We win,
we lose, People have stuff to say. It was lucky,
it was not lucky. People have stuff to say, you know,
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you know, have a bad game, have a good game.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
You know.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
People stuff to say. So it's it's it doesn't matter.
We're only worried about what's going on here within his
building and with these guys. So that's all all I
can say about that.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
All right, let us discuss the question do you believe
Bears quarterback Caleb Williams? Could I love he screwed this up?
Could care less about Troy Aikman's comments. I've got super villain,
pontoon boat, and plastic fork, and we will combine all
of these things together and We're going to make some delicious,
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delicious Chicago popcorn, which we were gifted, by the way,
our guy Tree very kind, the Chamber of Commerce for
Chicago gave us a little bit of Chicago popcorn, just
the delicious. So on Caleb Williams, Uh, he is it's
fair to say he's not well spoken? Is that accurate?
I believe that's accurate. He I'm giving this side out.
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He screwed this up on multiple levels. If you do
a word by word breakdown Mallard style, the word um
is a filler word. We talked last hour about John
Smoltz and the baseball broadcasting guys who say momentum when
they don't know what to say. Maybe they were golfing
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all day and not doing their homework. They just say
momentum in general conversation, the word um, and we all
say it. I say it. I'm not against saying it.
It's just something you don't want to say all the
time because it means you're not well spoken. And I
was told by a boss that you're in the spoken
word business, so you might want to avoid saying the
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word um more than a few times. Anyway, Caleb Williams
not only did he say um A bunch? He also
the phrase isn't and correct me if I'm wrong on this.
The phrase is couldn't care less? Not could care less? Right,
isn't the phrase couldn't care less? Am I wrong on that?
I don't think I'm wrong on that?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Am I?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
All right? Here's let's play that again. Can we play
the audio game? So listen with that? No, the phrase
you're supposed to say is I couldn't care less? And
how long is this soundby? I don't want to play
a game? He hadn't played this game in a while?
Do we know how long the SoundBite is? From Caleb
Williams of the Bears, the Chicago Bears quarterback.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Here, it's like thirty six seconds?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Thirty six seconds? How many times did Caleb Williams say
the word um? In thirty six seconds? I'm going, okay,
I'm gonna go well, you go cool because I'll go
last because I don't want to get boxed in. Go ahead, cool?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I see it.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Well, he kept repeating something else, so I wasn't even
paying attention to the ums, so he.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Slipped him in.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
You could say that, yes, that's what he kept repeating.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
But yeah, so I'm not even sure. I'll just throw
out six.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I'll go twelve and a half. Let's go to the
audio tape. Here's Caleb Williams Doys count the arms, Caleb
Williams Bears quarterback. Here we go.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Yeah, I could care less.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Uh, it's kind of hard.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I think I've said multiple times over my time being here.
Fair not life isn't fair. People are gonna say what
they have to say. We win, we lose. People have
stuff to say, it's lucky. It was not lucky. People
have stuff to say, Hey, you know, I have a
bad game.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Have a good game.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
People have stuff to say. So it's it's it doesn't matter.
We're only worried about what's going on here within.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
This building and with these guys.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
That's all I can say about that.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, Yeah, I got the I got the over, I
got the I wait, I win the Cha Williams game.
What do I win? Lraya, Do I win a golden ticket?
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Did I win a gold Take it? I want to go.
I want gold Okay, back to the point, So he's
not well spoken. Fine, neither was I. When I was
age age, However, I knew I couldn't versus could he
said I could care less. He meant to say, I couldn't.
Am I nitpicking? Yes, I'm a talk show host. That's
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what I do. Oh my goodness. So if Caleb Williams
didn't care about what Troy Aikman said, he would not
have fired up the Graham and typed it was lucky
ta for Troy Aikman with a little smirk emoji and
then hit the send button, the post button on that.
You don't post a shadow quote unless it stings a
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little bit. It just common sense. This is classic I'm
not mad, I'm laughing energy, except you are mad. You
are mad. That was a needle. You were poked with
a needle. Troy Aikman essentially called him not good lucky
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on national television, not poised, not clutch for the game
winning ve lucky with a capitol L for a guy
like Caleb. You talk about coddle, professional athlete who spent
his whole life back in his days in high school
and then going to Oklahoma and the University of Southern
California as the Golden Boy. That is a punch to
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the ego, not the gut the ego. Hall of Famer
Dallas Cowboy legend. Do you understand Kayla Williams entire life.
The Cowboys have sucked. They've been terrible. Caleb Williams entire life,
the Cowboys have med So Troy Aikman's like a ghost
from a previous life when you talk about him being
a great Dallas Cowboy quarterback. Nonetheless, here's a Hall of
Famer questioning the football IQ of the quarterback of the
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Chicago Bears for millions and millions of people. And Caleb
said he was just messing around. No, you weren't. If
you've got to explain the joke, the rule is you
weren't joke and that's it. And there is a little
bit of truth in every joke. If he really didn't care,
he would have just iced it out. That's what you do.
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You say nothing, you do nothing. You let the highlights
speak for yourself. You say, I didn't watch the broadcast.
I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't hear
any of that noise. I was playing in the game. Instead,
What did Caleb do? He screenshot it, he subtweeted, He
posted on Instagram like a high schooler after a breakup.
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We imagine it's more likely than not that Caleb Williams
claps back with a manicure, and then the cartoon bubble
in my head. I imagine he would respond like a
gen Z super villain. Not sending flowers, He's painting fingernails.
Don't be shocked if in the next Chicago Bears game
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he gets Troy Aikman's face painted on his cuticlesters his fingernails,
and he is a little circle and then an X
right across Akman's face. Now that would be super villain activity,
turning the face. Speaking of supervillain, we go to Cleveland,
where the Browns edge rusher Miles Garrett is publicly enemy
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number one and he has been under siege for attitude issues.
After the Browns had a no show an absenteeism performance
by Miles Garrett against the Pittsburgh football team, he was
asked if it's harder to keep playing with the Browns
as they are one in five on the season now,
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and Garrett gave a one word answer. Y Ea, h yeah,
was his response. Now, this comes after a game in
which the Steelers did whatever they wanted against Miles Garrett.
Garrett had as many sacks as you had. He had
as many quarterback hits as you and I had combined,
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and two tackles, no individual tackles, they were assist tackles.
He's been called out by members of the Cleveland Fourth
of for being a bad leader, among other things. Question,
does Miles Garrett deserve all the noise, all of the
noise being directed his way from the Cleveland media. So,
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Miles Garrett, based on the quotes that I've been reading
from postgame in Pittsburgh, sounded like a man floating on
a pontoon boat with a lawn chair and a mimosa
as the Cuyahoga River caught on fire and he wasn't
in any hurry to get off the Cuyahoga River. It
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was on fire, and he just put that lawn chair
down there and he just kind of enjoyed his drink,
and that was It sounded like that guy Rafael from
Orlando they called Last Hour. It's not some Shakespearean tragedy.
It's Cleveland. It's what they do. This is the Cleveland
Browns living up to the franchise charter. Miles Garrett physically
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is built like a Donnis. He's a cheat code. However,
it's not Captain America here. It's not, he's a football
mercenary two hundred and four million dollars miles. Garrett said,
I don't want to play in Cleveland. I don't want
to play here. We can't win here. The Brown said,
we want to keep you. Garrett said, I don't want
to play here. I want to go somewhere else. The
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Brown said, here's two hundred and four million miles. Garrett says,
I love Cleveland. In January love it got to no
trade claws Fort Knox a Fort Knox gold Bouyon type payout.
The Browns backed up all of the Brins trucks they
could get, and now they filled it instead of gold Bouyon,
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they filled it with brown colored monopoly money. I didn't
know they made that. And handed him the keys to
the vault and said here, knock yourself out. Okay, I'll
take that key to the vault, thank you very much.
And he said, yeah, sure, I'll stay inside the Factory
of Sadness. It's warm in here, and the Wi Fi
works pretty good. And that's it has that thousand yard stare,
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if you know what I mean, looking off into the
distance like I could have been there. I could have
been there, I could have been over there and again,
no sacks, no quarterback hit. It's a whole lot of
woe is Me postgame in the sound bites. And my
man signed the deal with full knowledge that the Browns
are essentially a Netflix reboot of their own misery every season,
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and so it's not unfair criticism. This is the rent
coming due. This is part of the deal when you
cash this time. He signed the deal, the biggest non
quarterback check in the history of that business. The town,
those that care about the football team in the town,
they're like, well, listen, this place eats quarterbacks. It's a
graveyard for quarterbacks. And you're supposed to get to quarterbacks
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on the other team like a great white shark in
a kiddie pool. You're not doing that. And you don't
get to cry about the current when you built your
house on the river. You don't get to do that.
Miles Garrett isn't being picked on. He's being paid on
a lot of money. And the Cleveland Marching and Shoudow
Society are watching their armored tank show all right, going
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to battle, and somehow that armored tank gets stuck in
a pothole the size of Lake Erie. That's not good,
and so Miles Garrett wanted the bag. He got the bag.
You got the bag. What's in the bag? Money? Money, money,
a lot of money. You got the bag. Congratulations, and
now you get the heat. He's got a no trade
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claus Is it outrageous? I'm thinking out loud here asked
a question. Is it outrageous to think the trade deadline's
clemming up in a couple of weeks. Here the Cleveland
Browns would go to Miles Garrett say it's not working out.
It's not you, it's us. You have the no trade.
Where would you like to go? Let's make a deal.
Let's get you out of here. You got your money.
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I know the salary caps are p but we can
finagle and cook the books because that's what we do,
and we'll find you a new team. Is there a
world where that happens? Would a team like the New
England Patriots or the La Rams trade a bunch of
draft picks to get Miles Garrett? And where would he
even want to go? If it's as toxic as it appears,
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it's not out of the realm of possibility. All right,
fun point to the World Wide Web, where former Eagles
center Jason Kelsey is fighting back against misinformation. Was he
a politician? Yeah, he's upset with social media. Now. Kelsey
went on the platform formerly known as Twitter, now known
as X to make a public decree and a plea
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to his followers, and he said, listen, do not believe
Listen to me. Do not believe anything attributed to Travis
Kelcey or Jason Kelcey or anyone named Kelsey unless it
from the direct platform. He said, we don't know, you know,
you don't know for sure what's going on and all
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that stuff. You got to go here, this is where
you need to be. Now. There were multiple posts that
made the rounds on social media that quoted Jason Kelsey
and gave let's just say, they gave an impression that
he was a douche. It was about Bad Bunny and
the Halftime Show. And Jason Kelsey pointed out that he
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said listen there, these are not my words. He didn't
say that directly. That's clearly what he was upset about.
So the question what is your viewpoint on Jason Kelsey
attempting to fight social media misinformation? So this is the
attempt is there? This is the attempt to go to
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the Sahara Desert and get all the gear you need
to survive the wretched conditions in the Sahara Desert, and
then saying I'm going to make this a great desert.
I'm going to plow the Sahara Desert and I'm going
to use a plastic four. It is a futile effort.
Jason Kelsey is entering the fund zone. He's playing whack
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a mole. He's playing whack a mole in an attempt
to whack down bogus stories about him faster on X.
Then the other ones pop up. Now you and I
both know this is what It is, an unwinnable game.
The house always wins, and Kelsey's crime here is not
moral outrage. That's not what this is about. It's believing
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that this digital funhouse can be reasoned with. That if
Jason Kelsey stands on a digital soapbox from the bully
pulpit and points out that's a bogus story, that's a
bogus story, and that's a bogus story and waves his
arms in the air everywhere, people will suddenly stop sharing
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those stories. That is not how the matrix works. It's
not the matrix doesn't work like that. This is the
platform where conspiracy meets clickbait. Bots marry bad actors, and
the bots and bad actors have babies. They give birth
to parody accounts with an extra underscore, masquerading as official sources.
You do not win here. The whole game is to survive,
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and if you cannot survive, you ignore. So it's either
survive or ignore, and therefore you do survive. But Jason
Kelsey is doing what you'd say, good people. They're trying
to keep his name clean, his good name unsullied. The
trouble is on social media. The lie. The lie is
already running the marathon and at the twenty mile mark,
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while the truth is still trying to tie at shoelaces.
It's just a mess. It's just a mess. And by
the time Kelsey hits send on his public play, the
false quote has been screenshoted, memified, reposted, and stripped of
any context and passed along by thousands of fake accounts
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with those little egg things and usernames like NFL fanboy
nine eight two seven two three. It is a noble effort,
but it is fighting a wildfire with a nerve super soaker.
The odds of success are not good. The digital wildfire
does not care about the truth, the facts and all
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that stuff. It's fed by rage. The rage clicks right.
We know human nature. People both love to complain about
negativity and are helpless to stop consuming it. It's the
people that do the news business learn this long ago
that if it bleeds, it leads. If it's negative, people
love it. And it's the fight or flight nature of
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the human condition that you need that information. And in
social media, if you're upset, you're engaged, and that gets
monetized by the algorithm, and you don't even blink when
you're you know, somebody's reputations on the line, you don't
worry about Jason Kelsey's again, he can't win this. If
there's any lesson here, it's not for him, it's for
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everyone else. To stop treating every single stupid post like
the holy scriptures that are out there. Stop rewarding the
dopes with engagement. And Jason Kelsey's swinging his mallet, remember
playing Whack a mole, And he's hitting that next mole
and the next, and the next, and the next, and
the net and we're just watching here, laughing and wasn't
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that funny. That's that's not gonna work. That's that's not
gonna work at all.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
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It's Mallar how about that? To the third degree? This
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Speaker 8 (39:56):
There are some analysts suggesting that Saints quarterback Spencer Rattler
has played well enough to deserve a look beyond twenty
twenty five. They point out that Rattler actually has similar,
if not better stats than Michael Pennocks Junior this season.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Ben, does Rattler deserve to be considered long term?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
No, because Michael Pennix Junior does not look like the
long term quarterback in Atlanta. So No, the Saints suck
and they're gonna get a top five pick in the draft,
and they're going to draft a quarterback who will also
likely suck. But No, I don't buy what they're selling there,
And a lot of those numbers are garbage time numbers.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
Next, Kyle Schwarber is coming off the best season of
his career, and the timing couldn't be better as he
heads into free agency. It's being reported that he'll be
seeking a five year deal worth an average of thirty
million per year. Ben, do you think the Phillies will
pony have to keep him?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah? I think he's perfect. You got the designated hitter
in that town. Schwarber's getting a little older, it becomes
a problem, but he can still hit home runs. He's
not gonna be able. He's never been a fast guy.
I think it'll work out for him in Philly.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
Next, member of the Celtics media. Members of the Celtics
media played a pickup game against members of the Celtics
coaching staff got blown out fifty seven to four. But
if you had to recruit members of the FSR staff
to play a game against Celtics coaches, who would you choose?
And you can't pick any former pro athletes?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Uh? Well, I mean my guy Rob Parker. We got
a lot of like knucklehead guy like, we got a
lot of like I don't.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
Know Patrick most times.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, not a lot of athletic people that work here.
That's the problem. No, Yeah, you ask the problem. All right,
here you go.
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It's now time for It's time for Harry Harry Horry
Waite Ask Ben. Twitter said, this is your questions on Twitter.
Now anyway we go with to ask Ben. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour. These are
actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. You can submit
questions via a hashtag Ask Ben. Hashtag ask Ben out
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of the Cooper Loop for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 8 (42:07):
All right, we're gonna start off with a question from
Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Him, Mike the Leprecaun.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
He wants to know, are you fans of avocado?
Speaker 2 (42:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:17):
I do not like things that are green other than money,
so not a fan of the avocado, although I have
my wife likes avocado. So I have had to take
the pit out of the avocado and like everyone else,
almost cut myself a million times. What about you, Lorraine?
Speaker 5 (42:34):
I love avocado. Put some salt on that thing that
can be a whole meal.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
Not for me.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
What about you, Coop love avocado?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
It's so okay. Well on the wrong set of history. Next,
all right, to ask Ben. Your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour. As we bumble along.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
Here's a question from Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
High Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
He wants to know how big is the TV you
use the most at home?
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Well, that's a sore subject because we didn't the wife
or went by TV and she didn't realize that the
way they measured TVs is diagonal. It's not across, and
so I think we just got like a like a
fifty five inches not. I mean, it's big, but it's
not like I've been to other people's houses. They have
those really big one hundred inch TVs are like three
(43:31):
thousand dollars. I don't have one of lows. It's like
a normal size. You know, it's a little I got
it like Costco years ago or best Buy someone like that.
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (43:40):
Was the question do I like watching TV?
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Or how big? It was like, I think it was
the side I understood that the guise of the TV.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
The TV that you used the most, How big is it?
It's like twenty two inches?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
What it's small?
Speaker 5 (43:52):
I have a small TV. Damn, Why does it need
to be big?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
I thought you'd want something bigger. What about you? Coop.
Speaker 8 (44:00):
You use it boys, it's a I believe it's sixty
five inches.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Oh that's what That's what she said. All right, now
what is next? Very uncomfortable, that will be imagine tried
to run with that, it would be very difficult. Yeah
all right, yeah the way, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
Maybe you guys know what this is?
Speaker 8 (44:23):
Bobby and Florida asked, Hi, Bobby, have you ever participated
in Mischief Night?
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Do you know where that is?
Speaker 4 (44:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (44:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Is that it's obviously something around Halloween. It's not not
Devil's Night, which they used to like burn everything up
the around Halloween, and I remember that was in Detroit.
I don't know what is? What is that? Loraina? Do
you know what that is?
Speaker 8 (44:42):
I think it's just where you go and cause havoc
throughout your neighborhood, you know, But no, I have not.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
If that's what you know? It had a formal name,
like when we were kids in high school. Yeah, we
destroyed pumpkins, toilet paper, people's houses, see that kind of stuff. Yeah,
I did that when I was a kid. Yeah, sure, next,
all right, Late night drug tester high drug tester.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
He says, tomorrow is National pasta Day. What is your
favorite pasta shape?
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Well, I ate. The problem is, I ate a lot
of spaghetti. When I was a kid, my mom was
a cheap meal We had a lot of spaghetti, and
there were three or four things that we ate all
the time. One of them was spaghetti. So now as
an adult, I don't eat spaghetti. I love fetichini, Alfredos
might go to. When I go to an Attian restaurant,
I go fettichini. I love fettichcini noodle, which is like
a fat or spaghetti. What about you, Lorraine? Also rabby
(45:33):
always good, but that's not really the same thing. Go ahead, Lorrain.
Speaker 8 (45:35):
Yeah, I'm a big fan of fettucini, and I like
the ones that are I think it's penny, the one
that has the hole through the center and you can
fill it with sauce.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
I don't think.
Speaker 8 (45:46):
Okay, all right, Cooph, Rigatoni is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Coop takes his pasta very seriously.
Speaker 5 (45:53):
Yes I do.
Speaker 8 (45:54):
I do. But Rigatoni it's got the it's got the
ridges so it can really soak up the sauce.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
That's it's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah, I've had it. I've had it in the past,
for sure. It's asked Ben. Your questions are answer is
hashtag ask Ben for the rest of the hour. These
are actual questions by actual listeners. And what's next?
Speaker 5 (46:13):
Fer Dog would like to know?
Speaker 8 (46:14):
Hi, Fergie, will you be giving out fun size or
full size candy bars this year?
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Yeah? So the candy thing is, I don't even know
if we're giving out candy this year. The reason why
is the last couple of years has been hardly any kids.
We buy this giant sized bag from Costco and I
end up eating getting I get it out, I know,
So what's the point now? I could buy a small
bag of candy. I think it's usually Halloween happens during
(46:40):
the weekend. I gotta work, It's on a night we
don't do the radio show. So I might actually go
to my niece and nephew's house and they'll go trick
or t I don't know. I've not decided, but most
likely we'll not be giving out anything this year. What
about you, Lorraina, I don't give out candy, I go
trick or treating. No, you don't, I do. Come on, Loraina,
you're a grown woman.
Speaker 5 (47:01):
I'll bring in the candy for you.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Okay, Well, that's fine. Go ahead, Coop.
Speaker 5 (47:07):
I will not be giving out candy this year. I
will be in Las.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Vegas, Lost Wages, Nevada. All right, what is next year?
It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers. We're doing the
extended dance remix of Ask Ben until you scream bloody
murder and then we'll stop.
Speaker 5 (47:25):
All right. This question is from Donkey Sausage.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Hi, Donkey.
Speaker 8 (47:29):
He wants to know what is your favorite unsolved mystery?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
So I've mentioned this on the show several times over
the years. It was a famous hijacking in the Pacific Northwest.
dB Cooper, I'd love to know it's not like the
great like Roswell's another wonderful one, which would likely trump
dB Cooper. I read so much about dB Cooper years ago.
(47:55):
I loved that story. The Roswell thing is great too, Like,
what was that? Really? What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 8 (48:03):
I'm gonna have to go with whether Walt Disney is
actually dead or frozen in a capsule.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Oh my god, that's okay, that's a good one. Okay,
all right, moving on.
Speaker 5 (48:17):
In the broadcast, the spoiler, I learned he's dead, and.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Even if he was alive, he'd still be dead. Yes,
go ahead.
Speaker 8 (48:24):
Uh, I think I gotta go with maybe the identity
of Jack the Ripper, right, they never figured that out.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Right, I don't know, I don't think. But what about
the cool roswelt goblins Aliens?
Speaker 5 (48:38):
I believe in aliens. I mean, I'm pretty sure that's I.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Know, But if they actually landed there? See, I think
the cell phone, the Internet, it's all alien technology. How
about that?
Speaker 5 (48:47):
Yeah, that's that surprised me.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Everything kind of took off after Roswell New Mexico. I'm
gonna go coast to coast move over, George Norri
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Well if you had the American League Championship Series over
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dead yet, that is our lead. We go to Seattle,
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the beautiful Pacific Northwest, the eye of the baseball universe,
as the only team from the Cartel of Baseball that
had not made it, had not gotten to the World
Series two wins away, trying to trim that down a
little bit more. There was some buzz in the air.
One fired up there and how did that go? Mariners
hosting Toronto and Game three of the American League Championship
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Series in Island game it was hump day all that
and if you were not watching on Fox, maybe you
missed it. Vladdie no longer in a slump. Vladimir Guerrero
Junior with not one, not two, not three, but four hits,
including a home run. He scored three times. And the
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Blue Jays hit not one, not two, not three, not four,
but five ding dongs. That's a lot of ding dongs.
Hollering James with like that amount of ding dongs, pasting
the Mariners, absolutely pacing them thirteen to four the final
in Game three, and we had forever dirty, cheating Astro
alumni George Springer also had a dinger and three hits
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bang bang, whistle whistle. Springer and Guerrero each hit solo
shots as Toronto finished with. As we mentioned the five
five home runs in the way, Toronto I had eighteen
hits in this game, eighteen of them. I'm told that's good.
I'm told that's a lot. The better story, though, is
in the losing locker room, and so that is where
(03:47):
we will begin as we discuss the question when a
team gets absolutely smoked like this, what an embarrassment? The
question is who gets the blame for cal Raley's Mariners
getting smashed like a bug by a windshield driving at
ninety miles an hour down the interstate. In this case,
Toronto was the one that was driving the car and
(04:11):
the Mariners with the bug. So my thoughts on this,
I've got brown Derby, voodoo and overhead bin and we
will combine all of these things together and we're going
to put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're
going to do. So let's start with this and you
focus at the very middle of the diamond. Now, if
(04:32):
you imagine in your head the baseball diamond, You've got
the backstop, the catcher. We're looking out towards the outfield.
You got the catcher. You go down to the right
hand side, you get the first basement, you got the
second basement, then the other side you got the shortstop
and the third basement. But in the middle of all that,
right the man in the middle, that would be the
man standing on the bump the bumpety bump and boydered
he go bumpety bump. That would be the starting pitcher. Now,
(04:55):
the Mariners were set up early here as Jay rod
hit a two run homer in the bottom of the
fur Julio Rodriguez two run shots, So seat's up to nothing.
Feeling pretty good about themselves, similar to the vibe Milwaukee
had in Game two, and they got the early home
run over the Dodgers, and then George Kirby, it didn't
happen right away, but when it happened, he said, you
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know what I want to do. I want to honor
the big Dumper. I would like to honor the big Dumper.
And what better way to honor the big Dumper than
Kirby bringing back an old Hollywood restaurant from early Hollywood
called the Brown Derby and a big giant brown you
know what? All right? There served up not one, not two,
but three of the five home runs, and by the
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time the dust had settled, Kirby allowed eight earned runs.
God awful starting pitching right, utterly worthless. And while Kirby
was terrible, he was left in the game for an
extended dance remix. And so you point the finger at
the manager of the Seattle baseball team, or should I
(05:58):
point the finger at the nerds. Either way, it's a
balancing act. You've got Dan Wilson, who's getting kind of old,
looks old Dan Wilson there in the dugout, who's juggling
machetes and butcher knives, and let's just say that he
forgot to catch a couple of the knives and one
of them, you know, he just was. It was ugly.
It was right to the forehead, right there, sliced white,
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wide open the forehead. And you gotta have a feel
for the game. Kirby suffered from die die diarrhea during
during that inning, and Wilson did not change the diaper.
He did not change the diaper. He said, you know what,
you get diarrhea. I want you to fill that diaper
all the way up. Okay, good, fill it Up'll fill
it up some more. It's not done. What a stinker.
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Now the mallord advice to the Seattle baseball team. I
learned this from an NFL quarterback years ago. When you
take a deuce, you don't sit there and look at it. No, no,
you flush it and you move on. So there you go.
The Mariners, who absolutely that was more of a diarrhea
situation than a deuce. But it was a the mess
there from the Seattle side of things, giving up eighteen hits,
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all those home runs your home ballpark. Everyone all fired up,
and we have road field advantage in baseball. It's something
that nobody wants to talk about and you're supposed to
talk about that. What's wrong with you? Because there's this
myth of home field advantage, like you're going into a
stadium and there's a moat around it and it's impossible
(07:25):
to win in a certain stadium, which is just bull crap.
It's been that way for years since the players' union complained,
and they have all the creature comforts on the road
that they would have at home, and many of the
players like playing on the road more than at home.
They're away from their families. They like that. But you're
not supposed to talk about that either. Meanwhile, on the
winning side, on the winning side, the question what was
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different on this night than the previous nights for Toronto
star Vladimir Guerrero Junior and his big night. Now, we
had mentioned in a previous episode of the show in
his playoff career, Granted small sample size, but Vladimir Guerrero
Junior had been absolutely monster matching against the Yankees, against
everyone else. He was batting one hundred in his playoff career,
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like one o three in his playoff career. Well, that
number has changed a lot because one night, the guy's
a wet noodle and then he takes a quantum leap.
And now in this game, it was like vintage Joe
Carter reincarnated in a Blue Jay uniform there with extra
hot sauce. That was impressive there. And he was like
the bouncer at the door there, and he was telling
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the Mariners you're not on the list. Pal, I'm sorry,
get out of here, You're not invited. The vodoo bugaloo,
the mental voodoo boogoloo, the classic slumpbuster stuff. Mark Grace
approves that message. The stage fright had been there and
the mental undressing of the matches. They say, when you
got stage fright, you got to use those mental gymnastics
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and imagine that the people are are not the clothes.
He had been zero for seven, So instead of imagining
though the Mariners players and boxers and briefs, he used
the art of manifestation. He had the Mariners in his
head and I'm convinced Uncle Moe will agree with me
on this. He had them wearing pinstripes and suddenly Vladdie
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was licking his chops, frothing like a rabbit dog at
a raw stake and a successful playoff performance Now Toronto
clearly approached things much differently. The Blue Jays decided to
go with what we call the Caveman approach. Me c ball,
me hit ball, caveman approach. Right, all eighteen hits within
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three pitches. So tat tat, hit the ball. No chessboard,
No I'm gonna try to outsmart you, and no it
was a sledgehammer. Now it did help. It absolutely helped
that the Mariner pitchers, led by the aforementioned mister Kirby,
collectively pittled down their legs on the mound. And sometimes
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baseball is just that dumb, and you just that's the
way it is, and so you don't need the launch
angle thesis. I don't need to go into my whole
rant and rave about that. Sometimes the slump ends because
the other team decides to open up a nice Italian
bistro and serve oversized meatballs right there. Or another way
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to look at it, it's like a kid's birthday party
and they don't have any blindfolds. They have a giant
pinata filled with candy, and you get a bat and
no swing harts on. But you don't need to worry
about the blindfold. There's no need for the blindfold. All right, now,
last word, So I have an h I need discretch.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I granted this is something for me and you might
not care about That's fine. This is therapeutic. This is therapeutic.
And I'm sitting there watching this game and I heard
I jotted it down. I stopped counting at about seven.
I'm sure it was more than that. I'm sure it
was more than that. John Smoltz on the broadcast kept
saying momentum. Like every inning he said momentum, every single inning.
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There must have been a momentum button that they pressed.
Pressed the John say momentum. Okay, momentum. So the question is,
what do you think of Fox broadcaster John Smoltz and
his clear addiction to using the word momentum during these
playoff broadcasts. Well, it is the elephant in the room,
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the Komodo dragon in the room. John Smoltz is out there.
He's tossing around the word momentum like he's in the
French corner in New Orleans and he's tossing beads out
at Marti Gras just about every at bat. It seemed
I may or may not be embellishing every foul ball
every time a pigeon landed out on the warning track.
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Momentumness momentum that I swear if he could have trademarked momentum,
imagine how much money he would have made from revenue
from that, I mean the royalties. By the third inning,
he would have gone off to play golf somewhere. That's
what he would have done. It was like he was
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praying to the flying spaghetti Monster of baseball, because momentum
is as real in baseball as the flying spaghetti monster.
You all told me, you said, Oh my god, the
Mariners have all the momentum. How'd that work out for you? Good?
You use a lot of money. I hope you lost
a lot of money. A lot of money, all right,
So might as well just pray to the flying spaghetti monster.
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Oh great, newly won grant this team with the most
vibes more invisible energy. Because that's what momentum is. It's
not a real thing. You can't hold it, you can't
see it. It is just verbal filler. Let me repeat
that for those of you a little slow in the
back of the room. It is verbal filler. It is sportscasting,
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mashed potatoes, it's rice you know how sometimes you go
to a Mexican restaurant you order a like a beef burrito,
chicken breed or something like that, and they'll fill it
with mostly rice because rice is cheap. It fills it
up right, and you don't get the meat, you get
the cheap filler. Well that's the word momentum is cheap filler.
And these dingleberries act like it's some kind of mystical
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gas cloud floating from dugout to dugout. It's so stupid
it tries me nuts. Like the Mariners again, I'm just
repeating what you told me. You told me this. They
had all the momentum. They carried that fifteen inning win
over the Tigers, and they flew across North America to Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
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and they won both games. They were up to nothing
in the ALCS. They had all the momentum. Now, let
me ask you a question. Did they make the mistake?
And I think this might have happened, And I want
to be fair to you. I don't want to be
a complete douche. Is it possible that the Mariners traveling party,
the equipment manage the momentum bag in the carry on
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and that TSA said, excuse me, kind sir, I don't
think you can bring that much momentum on board. You've
got too much mo. It's over the limit. You're gonna
have to leave some of that momentum here in Toronto.
But we need the momentum, sir, No, no, no, you
can't take that momentum. The plane won't take off with
all that momentum. It's so stupid. Or maybe they got
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the momentum on the plane and then they were flying
over like Fargo, North Dakota, and somehow it slipped out.
There was some turbulence and the overhead bin opened up
and the momentum fell out and landed somewhere in North Dakota.
So if you're in Fargo, you might get a bag
filled with momentum. You might get that, all right, you
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might get that. And then what happened after that? You
think the Toronto Bluejay said, you know what, we want
some momentum, So why don't we trade some delicious and
we'll get it back. We'll make a deal with the
baseball guys. You gave the Mariners too much momentum. Give
us some momentum. Okay, we'll give you some momentum, give
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us some poutine. Okay, I'll take the poutine. There you go.
Even on the postgame show where they were all playing
grab ass, there you had Kevin Burkhart, who I don't
know does he do this all the time. I just
noticed it because it was on my mind. On the
postgame panel he was doing the highlights, and if you
saw the end of the game, the Mariners hit a
couple of garbage time dingers, and on the panel at
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the dais there Burkhart said Seattle might have gotten some
momentum with those late home runs going into Game four.
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. That is not momentum. That is
what's called. The clinical term is stat padding. Yes, stack padding.
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When your team is down by ten runs and you
hit a home run, that is stat padding, is what
it is. It's like saying the guy that got dumped
by the hot girl but buys new socks suddenly has
relationship momentum for his next relationship because he has new sucks.
It's lazy. Uh, it's broadcasting auto pilot. It's like sports
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talk show hosts that do one, you know, one topic
the entire show because they're lazy. It drives me nuts,
but went in doubt, right, went in dout. I could
absolutely do that job. And I'm not being bragged doocius here.
I know all of the cliches, I hate almost all
of them, but I could do the job. Anytime a
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team takes the lead, well, they've all the momentum right now, Nip,
they've gone a lot of momentum, NIP, a lot of momentum.
Oh my god, it's the um of the sports broadcasting world.
Instead of saying, say momentum when you have nothing to
say momentum, ban the word. Ban the word. Put it
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in the same pile as intangibles, which is another bull
crap word, a veteran presence, another nonsensical term in sports,
or just you listen, get down and say you know
what to the flying spaghetti monster. My god, all right,
now I feel better. See that was therapeutic. That was
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a therapeutic rant. And now I can go on with
my night and we can settle in here and I'm good,
You're good. And I guess you could say we have momentum.
We've got momentum. Yeah, okay.
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our lead this hour get away from the baseball. We'll
talk more about that if you want. Shockingly radio silence
from Seattle. We normally get a lot of calls from Seattle,
but I guess when the Mariners lose, they don't want
to call our lead. This hour, though, is from the
Windy City and the Chicago Bears, winners on Monday Night,
but apparently losers according to the broadcast. Fans outraged, how
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dare you not lick the toes of our quarterback? Very unhappy,
very unhappy with Troy Aikman and his performance on Monday
Night football. En If you didn't see the podcast or
hear the audio on this, maybe not Aikman. Let's just
say that he did not use kid gloves, He did
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not bite his tongue. He did not hold back in
his critique of the Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, calling
out several of his many mistakes with the Bears late throws.
He used the term luck to describe some of some
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of Caleb Williams and the Bears positive plays, including the
game breaking play that allowed the Bears to get back
into the game to catch and run by Swift that
said it was a lucky play. So he had that.
Then you had the Chicago coach Ben Johnson, who even
addressed the commentary in a couple of different parts of
his news conference. Of course, it's very awkward because these
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coaches are they don't watch the game, they're doing the game,
and they always like to say, like we don't pay
attention to the media and what the media says. But
he did a rest and then Caleb Williams also the
man who was lucky, the man who was late with throws.
Caleb Williams also jabbed at the Monday night football broadcast.
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Now he posted a photo carousel on Instagram Caleb Williams
with a caption that included Aikman's initials it was lucky,
and then it had the letters TA for Troy Aikman.
The caption read, in part, So Williams was asked about
that and this and all of this stuff, and here's
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what the Bears quarterback had to say. Take a listen,
let's go to the audio tape. Yeah, I could care less.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
That's kind of how I've I think I've said multiple
times over my time being here. Fair not life isn't fair.
People are gonna say what they have to say. We win,
we lose, People have stuff to say. It was lucky,
it was not lucky. People have stuff to say, you know,
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you know, have a bad game, have a good game.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
You know.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
People stuff to say. So it's it's it doesn't matter.
We're only worried about what's going on here within his
building and with these guys. So that's all all I
can say about that.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
All right, let us discuss the question do you believe
Bears quarterback Caleb Williams? Could I love he screwed this up?
Could care less about Troy Aikman's comments. I've got super villain,
pontoon boat, and plastic fork, and we will combine all
of these things together and We're going to make some delicious,
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delicious Chicago popcorn, which we were gifted, by the way,
our guy Tree very kind, the Chamber of Commerce for
Chicago gave us a little bit of Chicago popcorn, just
the delicious. So on Caleb Williams, Uh, he is it's
fair to say he's not well spoken? Is that accurate?
I believe that's accurate. He I'm giving this side out.
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He screwed this up on multiple levels. If you do
a word by word breakdown Mallard style, the word um
is a filler word. We talked last hour about John
Smoltz and the baseball broadcasting guys who say momentum when
they don't know what to say. Maybe they were golfing
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all day and not doing their homework. They just say
momentum in general conversation, the word um, and we all
say it. I say it. I'm not against saying it.
It's just something you don't want to say all the
time because it means you're not well spoken. And I
was told by a boss that you're in the spoken
word business, so you might want to avoid saying the
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word um more than a few times. Anyway, Caleb Williams
not only did he say um A bunch? He also
the phrase isn't and correct me if I'm wrong on this.
The phrase is couldn't care less? Not could care less? Right,
isn't the phrase couldn't care less? Am I wrong on that?
I don't think I'm wrong on that?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Am I?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
All right? Here's let's play that again. Can we play
the audio game? So listen with that? No, the phrase
you're supposed to say is I couldn't care less? And
how long is this soundby? I don't want to play
a game? He hadn't played this game in a while?
Do we know how long the SoundBite is? From Caleb
Williams of the Bears, the Chicago Bears quarterback.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Here, it's like thirty six seconds?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Thirty six seconds? How many times did Caleb Williams say
the word um? In thirty six seconds? I'm going, okay,
I'm gonna go well, you go cool because I'll go
last because I don't want to get boxed in. Go ahead, cool?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I see it.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Well, he kept repeating something else, so I wasn't even
paying attention to the ums, so he.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Slipped him in.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
You could say that, yes, that's what he kept repeating.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
But yeah, so I'm not even sure. I'll just throw
out six.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I'll go twelve and a half. Let's go to the
audio tape. Here's Caleb Williams Doys count the arms, Caleb
Williams Bears quarterback. Here we go.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Yeah, I could care less.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Uh, it's kind of hard.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I think I've said multiple times over my time being here.
Fair not life isn't fair. People are gonna say what
they have to say. We win, we lose. People have
stuff to say, it's lucky. It was not lucky. People
have stuff to say, Hey, you know, I have a
bad game.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Have a good game.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
People have stuff to say. So it's it's it doesn't matter.
We're only worried about what's going on here within.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
This building and with these guys.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
That's all I can say about that.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, Yeah, I got the I got the over, I
got the I wait, I win the Cha Williams game.
What do I win? Lraya, Do I win a golden ticket?
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Did I win a gold Take it? I want to go.
I want gold Okay, back to the point, So he's
not well spoken. Fine, neither was I. When I was
age age, However, I knew I couldn't versus could he
said I could care less. He meant to say, I couldn't.
Am I nitpicking? Yes, I'm a talk show host. That's
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what I do. Oh my goodness. So if Caleb Williams
didn't care about what Troy Aikman said, he would not
have fired up the Graham and typed it was lucky
ta for Troy Aikman with a little smirk emoji and
then hit the send button, the post button on that.
You don't post a shadow quote unless it stings a
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little bit. It just common sense. This is classic I'm
not mad, I'm laughing energy, except you are mad. You
are mad. That was a needle. You were poked with
a needle. Troy Aikman essentially called him not good lucky
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on national television, not poised, not clutch for the game
winning ve lucky with a capitol L for a guy
like Caleb. You talk about coddle, professional athlete who spent
his whole life back in his days in high school
and then going to Oklahoma and the University of Southern
California as the Golden Boy. That is a punch to
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the ego, not the gut the ego. Hall of Famer
Dallas Cowboy legend. Do you understand Kayla Williams entire life.
The Cowboys have sucked. They've been terrible. Caleb Williams entire life,
the Cowboys have med So Troy Aikman's like a ghost
from a previous life when you talk about him being
a great Dallas Cowboy quarterback. Nonetheless, here's a Hall of
Famer questioning the football IQ of the quarterback of the
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Chicago Bears for millions and millions of people. And Caleb
said he was just messing around. No, you weren't. If
you've got to explain the joke, the rule is you
weren't joke and that's it. And there is a little
bit of truth in every joke. If he really didn't care,
he would have just iced it out. That's what you do.
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You say nothing, you do nothing. You let the highlights
speak for yourself. You say, I didn't watch the broadcast.
I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't hear
any of that noise. I was playing in the game. Instead,
What did Caleb do? He screenshot it, he subtweeted, He
posted on Instagram like a high schooler after a breakup.
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We imagine it's more likely than not that Caleb Williams
claps back with a manicure, and then the cartoon bubble
in my head. I imagine he would respond like a
gen Z super villain. Not sending flowers, He's painting fingernails.
Don't be shocked if in the next Chicago Bears game
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he gets Troy Aikman's face painted on his cuticlesters his fingernails,
and he is a little circle and then an X
right across Akman's face. Now that would be super villain activity,
turning the face. Speaking of supervillain, we go to Cleveland,
where the Browns edge rusher Miles Garrett is publicly enemy
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number one and he has been under siege for attitude issues.
After the Browns had a no show an absenteeism performance
by Miles Garrett against the Pittsburgh football team, he was
asked if it's harder to keep playing with the Browns
as they are one in five on the season now,
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and Garrett gave a one word answer. Y Ea, h yeah,
was his response. Now, this comes after a game in
which the Steelers did whatever they wanted against Miles Garrett.
Garrett had as many sacks as you had. He had
as many quarterback hits as you and I had combined,
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and two tackles, no individual tackles, they were assist tackles.
He's been called out by members of the Cleveland Fourth
of for being a bad leader, among other things. Question,
does Miles Garrett deserve all the noise, all of the
noise being directed his way from the Cleveland media. So,
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Miles Garrett, based on the quotes that I've been reading
from postgame in Pittsburgh, sounded like a man floating on
a pontoon boat with a lawn chair and a mimosa
as the Cuyahoga River caught on fire and he wasn't
in any hurry to get off the Cuyahoga River. It
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was on fire, and he just put that lawn chair
down there and he just kind of enjoyed his drink,
and that was It sounded like that guy Rafael from
Orlando they called Last Hour. It's not some Shakespearean tragedy.
It's Cleveland. It's what they do. This is the Cleveland
Browns living up to the franchise charter. Miles Garrett physically
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is built like a Donnis. He's a cheat code. However,
it's not Captain America here. It's not, he's a football
mercenary two hundred and four million dollars miles. Garrett said,
I don't want to play in Cleveland. I don't want
to play here. We can't win here. The Brown said,
we want to keep you. Garrett said, I don't want
to play here. I want to go somewhere else. The
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Brown said, here's two hundred and four million miles. Garrett says,
I love Cleveland. In January love it got to no
trade claws Fort Knox a Fort Knox gold Bouyon type payout.
The Browns backed up all of the Brins trucks they
could get, and now they filled it instead of gold Bouyon,
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they filled it with brown colored monopoly money. I didn't
know they made that. And handed him the keys to
the vault and said here, knock yourself out. Okay, I'll
take that key to the vault, thank you very much.
And he said, yeah, sure, I'll stay inside the Factory
of Sadness. It's warm in here, and the Wi Fi
works pretty good. And that's it has that thousand yard stare,
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if you know what I mean, looking off into the
distance like I could have been there. I could have
been there, I could have been over there and again,
no sacks, no quarterback hit. It's a whole lot of
woe is Me postgame in the sound bites. And my
man signed the deal with full knowledge that the Browns
are essentially a Netflix reboot of their own misery every season,
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and so it's not unfair criticism. This is the rent
coming due. This is part of the deal when you
cash this time. He signed the deal, the biggest non
quarterback check in the history of that business. The town,
those that care about the football team in the town,
they're like, well, listen, this place eats quarterbacks. It's a
graveyard for quarterbacks. And you're supposed to get to quarterbacks
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on the other team like a great white shark in
a kiddie pool. You're not doing that. And you don't
get to cry about the current when you built your
house on the river. You don't get to do that.
Miles Garrett isn't being picked on. He's being paid on
a lot of money. And the Cleveland Marching and Shoudow
Society are watching their armored tank show all right, going
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to battle, and somehow that armored tank gets stuck in
a pothole the size of Lake Erie. That's not good,
and so Miles Garrett wanted the bag. He got the bag.
You got the bag. What's in the bag? Money? Money, money,
a lot of money. You got the bag. Congratulations, and
now you get the heat. He's got a no trade
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claus Is it outrageous? I'm thinking out loud here asked
a question. Is it outrageous to think the trade deadline's
clemming up in a couple of weeks. Here the Cleveland
Browns would go to Miles Garrett say it's not working out.
It's not you, it's us. You have the no trade.
Where would you like to go? Let's make a deal.
Let's get you out of here. You got your money.
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I know the salary caps are p but we can
finagle and cook the books because that's what we do,
and we'll find you a new team. Is there a
world where that happens? Would a team like the New
England Patriots or the La Rams trade a bunch of
draft picks to get Miles Garrett? And where would he
even want to go? If it's as toxic as it appears,
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it's not out of the realm of possibility. All right,
fun point to the World Wide Web, where former Eagles
center Jason Kelsey is fighting back against misinformation. Was he
a politician? Yeah, he's upset with social media. Now. Kelsey
went on the platform formerly known as Twitter, now known
as X to make a public decree and a plea
(34:45):
to his followers, and he said, listen, do not believe
Listen to me. Do not believe anything attributed to Travis
Kelcey or Jason Kelcey or anyone named Kelsey unless it
from the direct platform. He said, we don't know, you know,
you don't know for sure what's going on and all
(35:06):
that stuff. You got to go here, this is where
you need to be. Now. There were multiple posts that
made the rounds on social media that quoted Jason Kelsey
and gave let's just say, they gave an impression that
he was a douche. It was about Bad Bunny and
the Halftime Show. And Jason Kelsey pointed out that he
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said listen there, these are not my words. He didn't
say that directly. That's clearly what he was upset about.
So the question what is your viewpoint on Jason Kelsey
attempting to fight social media misinformation? So this is the
attempt is there? This is the attempt to go to
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the Sahara Desert and get all the gear you need
to survive the wretched conditions in the Sahara Desert, and
then saying I'm going to make this a great desert.
I'm going to plow the Sahara Desert and I'm going
to use a plastic four. It is a futile effort.
Jason Kelsey is entering the fund zone. He's playing whack
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a mole. He's playing whack a mole in an attempt
to whack down bogus stories about him faster on X.
Then the other ones pop up. Now you and I
both know this is what It is, an unwinnable game.
The house always wins, and Kelsey's crime here is not
moral outrage. That's not what this is about. It's believing
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that this digital funhouse can be reasoned with. That if
Jason Kelsey stands on a digital soapbox from the bully
pulpit and points out that's a bogus story, that's a
bogus story, and that's a bogus story and waves his
arms in the air everywhere, people will suddenly stop sharing
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those stories. That is not how the matrix works. It's
not the matrix doesn't work like that. This is the
platform where conspiracy meets clickbait. Bots marry bad actors, and
the bots and bad actors have babies. They give birth
to parody accounts with an extra underscore, masquerading as official sources.
You do not win here. The whole game is to survive,
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and if you cannot survive, you ignore. So it's either
survive or ignore, and therefore you do survive. But Jason
Kelsey is doing what you'd say, good people. They're trying
to keep his name clean, his good name unsullied. The
trouble is on social media. The lie. The lie is
already running the marathon and at the twenty mile mark,
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while the truth is still trying to tie at shoelaces.
It's just a mess. It's just a mess. And by
the time Kelsey hits send on his public play, the
false quote has been screenshoted, memified, reposted, and stripped of
any context and passed along by thousands of fake accounts
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with those little egg things and usernames like NFL fanboy
nine eight two seven two three. It is a noble effort,
but it is fighting a wildfire with a nerve super soaker.
The odds of success are not good. The digital wildfire
does not care about the truth, the facts and all
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that stuff. It's fed by rage. The rage clicks right.
We know human nature. People both love to complain about
negativity and are helpless to stop consuming it. It's the
people that do the news business learn this long ago
that if it bleeds, it leads. If it's negative, people
love it. And it's the fight or flight nature of
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the human condition that you need that information. And in
social media, if you're upset, you're engaged, and that gets
monetized by the algorithm, and you don't even blink when
you're you know, somebody's reputations on the line, you don't
worry about Jason Kelsey's again, he can't win this. If
there's any lesson here, it's not for him, it's for
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everyone else. To stop treating every single stupid post like
the holy scriptures that are out there. Stop rewarding the
dopes with engagement. And Jason Kelsey's swinging his mallet, remember
playing Whack a mole, And he's hitting that next mole
and the next, and the next, and the next, and
the net and we're just watching here, laughing and wasn't
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that funny. That's that's not gonna work. That's that's not
gonna work at all.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
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Speaker 1 (39:46):
It's Mallar how about that? To the third degree? This
is one big vent gets grilled Coba Loo.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
There are some analysts suggesting that Saints quarterback Spencer Rattler
has played well enough to deserve a look beyond twenty
twenty five. They point out that Rattler actually has similar,
if not better stats than Michael Pennocks Junior this season.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
Ben, does Rattler deserve to be considered long term?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
No, because Michael Pennix Junior does not look like the
long term quarterback in Atlanta. So No, the Saints suck
and they're gonna get a top five pick in the draft,
and they're going to draft a quarterback who will also
likely suck. But No, I don't buy what they're selling there,
And a lot of those numbers are garbage time numbers.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
Next, Kyle Schwarber is coming off the best season of
his career, and the timing couldn't be better as he
heads into free agency. It's being reported that he'll be
seeking a five year deal worth an average of thirty
million per year. Ben, do you think the Phillies will
pony have to keep him?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah? I think he's perfect. You got the designated hitter
in that town. Schwarber's getting a little older, it becomes
a problem, but he can still hit home runs. He's
not gonna be able. He's never been a fast guy.
I think it'll work out for him in Philly.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
Next, member of the Celtics media. Members of the Celtics
media played a pickup game against members of the Celtics
coaching staff got blown out fifty seven to four. But
if you had to recruit members of the FSR staff
to play a game against Celtics coaches, who would you choose?
And you can't pick any former pro athletes?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Uh? Well, I mean my guy Rob Parker. We got
a lot of like knucklehead guy like, we got a
lot of like I don't.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
Know Patrick most times.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, not a lot of athletic people that work here.
That's the problem. No, Yeah, you ask the problem. All right,
here you go.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
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Speaker 1 (41:41):
It's now time for It's time for Harry Harry Horry
Waite Ask Ben. Twitter said, this is your questions on Twitter.
Now anyway we go with to ask Ben. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour. These are
actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. You can submit
questions via a hashtag Ask Ben. Hashtag ask Ben out
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of the Cooper Loop for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 8 (42:07):
All right, we're gonna start off with a question from
Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Him, Mike the Leprecaun.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
He wants to know, are you fans of avocado?
Speaker 2 (42:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (42:17):
I do not like things that are green other than money,
so not a fan of the avocado, although I have
my wife likes avocado. So I have had to take
the pit out of the avocado and like everyone else,
almost cut myself a million times. What about you, Lorraine?
Speaker 5 (42:34):
I love avocado. Put some salt on that thing that
can be a whole meal.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
Not for me.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
What about you, Coop love avocado?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
It's so okay. Well on the wrong set of history. Next,
all right, to ask Ben. Your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour. As we bumble along.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
Here's a question from Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
High Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
He wants to know how big is the TV you
use the most at home?
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Well, that's a sore subject because we didn't the wife
or went by TV and she didn't realize that the
way they measured TVs is diagonal. It's not across, and
so I think we just got like a like a
fifty five inches not. I mean, it's big, but it's
not like I've been to other people's houses. They have
those really big one hundred inch TVs are like three
(43:31):
thousand dollars. I don't have one of lows. It's like
a normal size. You know, it's a little I got
it like Costco years ago or best Buy someone like that.
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (43:40):
Was the question do I like watching TV?
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Or how big? It was like, I think it was
the side I understood that the guise of the TV.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
The TV that you used the most, How big is it?
It's like twenty two inches?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
What it's small?
Speaker 5 (43:52):
I have a small TV. Damn, Why does it need
to be big?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
I thought you'd want something bigger. What about you? Coop.
Speaker 8 (44:00):
You use it boys, it's a I believe it's sixty
five inches.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Oh that's what That's what she said. All right, now
what is next? Very uncomfortable, that will be imagine tried
to run with that, it would be very difficult. Yeah
all right, yeah the way, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
Maybe you guys know what this is?
Speaker 8 (44:23):
Bobby and Florida asked, Hi, Bobby, have you ever participated
in Mischief Night?
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Do you know where that is?
Speaker 4 (44:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (44:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Is that it's obviously something around Halloween. It's not not
Devil's Night, which they used to like burn everything up
the around Halloween, and I remember that was in Detroit.
I don't know what is? What is that? Loraina? Do
you know what that is?
Speaker 8 (44:42):
I think it's just where you go and cause havoc
throughout your neighborhood, you know, But no, I have not.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
If that's what you know? It had a formal name,
like when we were kids in high school. Yeah, we
destroyed pumpkins, toilet paper, people's houses, see that kind of stuff. Yeah,
I did that when I was a kid. Yeah, sure, next,
all right, Late night drug tester high drug tester.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
He says, tomorrow is National pasta Day. What is your
favorite pasta shape?
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Well, I ate. The problem is, I ate a lot
of spaghetti. When I was a kid, my mom was
a cheap meal We had a lot of spaghetti, and
there were three or four things that we ate all
the time. One of them was spaghetti. So now as
an adult, I don't eat spaghetti. I love fetichini, Alfredos
might go to. When I go to an Attian restaurant,
I go fettichini. I love fettichcini noodle, which is like
a fat or spaghetti. What about you, Lorraine? Also rabby
(45:33):
always good, but that's not really the same thing. Go ahead, Lorrain.
Speaker 8 (45:35):
Yeah, I'm a big fan of fettucini, and I like
the ones that are I think it's penny, the one
that has the hole through the center and you can
fill it with sauce.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
I don't think.
Speaker 8 (45:46):
Okay, all right, Cooph, Rigatoni is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Coop takes his pasta very seriously.
Speaker 5 (45:53):
Yes I do.
Speaker 8 (45:54):
I do. But Rigatoni it's got the it's got the
ridges so it can really soak up the sauce.
Speaker 5 (45:59):
That's it's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah, I've had it. I've had it in the past,
for sure. It's asked Ben. Your questions are answer is
hashtag ask Ben for the rest of the hour. These
are actual questions by actual listeners. And what's next?
Speaker 5 (46:13):
Fer Dog would like to know?
Speaker 8 (46:14):
Hi, Fergie, will you be giving out fun size or
full size candy bars this year?
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Yeah? So the candy thing is, I don't even know
if we're giving out candy this year. The reason why
is the last couple of years has been hardly any kids.
We buy this giant sized bag from Costco and I
end up eating getting I get it out, I know,
So what's the point now? I could buy a small
bag of candy. I think it's usually Halloween happens during
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the weekend. I gotta work, It's on a night we
don't do the radio show. So I might actually go
to my niece and nephew's house and they'll go trick
or t I don't know. I've not decided, but most
likely we'll not be giving out anything this year. What
about you, Lorraina, I don't give out candy, I go
trick or treating. No, you don't, I do. Come on, Loraina,
you're a grown woman.
Speaker 5 (47:01):
I'll bring in the candy for you.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Okay, Well, that's fine. Go ahead, Coop.
Speaker 5 (47:07):
I will not be giving out candy this year. I
will be in Las.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Vegas, Lost Wages, Nevada. All right, what is next year?
It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers. We're doing the
extended dance remix of Ask Ben until you scream bloody
murder and then we'll stop.
Speaker 5 (47:25):
All right. This question is from Donkey Sausage.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
Hi, Donkey.
Speaker 8 (47:29):
He wants to know what is your favorite unsolved mystery?
Speaker 1 (47:34):
So I've mentioned this on the show several times over
the years. It was a famous hijacking in the Pacific Northwest.
dB Cooper, I'd love to know it's not like the
great like Roswell's another wonderful one, which would likely trump
dB Cooper. I read so much about dB Cooper years ago.
(47:55):
I loved that story. The Roswell thing is great too, Like,
what was that? Really? What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 8 (48:03):
I'm gonna have to go with whether Walt Disney is
actually dead or frozen in a capsule.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Oh my god, that's okay, that's a good one. Okay,
all right, moving on.
Speaker 5 (48:17):
In the broadcast, the spoiler, I learned he's dead, and.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Even if he was alive, he'd still be dead. Yes,
go ahead.
Speaker 8 (48:24):
Uh, I think I gotta go with maybe the identity
of Jack the Ripper, right, they never figured that out.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Right, I don't know, I don't think. But what about
the cool roswelt goblins Aliens?
Speaker 5 (48:38):
I believe in aliens. I mean, I'm pretty sure that's I.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Know, But if they actually landed there? See, I think
the cell phone, the Internet, it's all alien technology. How
about that?
Speaker 5 (48:47):
Yeah, that's that surprised me.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Everything kind of took off after Roswell New Mexico. I'm
gonna go coast to coast move over, George Norri
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