October 17, 2025 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about the Dodgers taking a commanding lead in the NLCS with another victory over the Brewers, Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers coming up short against Joe Flacco and the Bengals, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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And so I was at the intersection. I could have
made a right turn, I could have made a left turn.
I decided to go right down the middle and not
make any turn. So I made that editorial decision based
on the feedback that I have gotten. We had a
football game that was supposed to suck that didn't suck,
that was actually a decent game, and so we'll get
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to that at some point throughout the night. Obviously the
American League, which wasn't much of a game. So we're
gonna start in the National League, which also wasn't much
of a game. But we got to start somewhere, and
we have a blank audio canvas, four hours of talk
radio to take us through the.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Overnight hours here.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So our lead is in La a sun soaked There's
nothing like getting people into Dodgers Stadium in the middle
of downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Hit rush hour.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Great scheduling, great scheduling, they do it for television. So
sun soaked late afternoon there in the middle of rush
hour traffic. The Miz Now he didn't start because the
Brewers are idiots, but they he was the guy leading
the Brewers traveling circus in due Chavez Ravine in a
gotta have it And this really was a gotta have
it game for the Brewers, a matchup with the Dodgers.
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Game three. You blew the first two games at home,
you gotta win. Milwaukee looking to dig out of a hole.
How did that go?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, if you watched it, you know what happened. But
maybe you were busy doing something. I don't know what
you're up to. Tommy Tanks delivered Tommy Edmund, the hero
from last year's playoffs in the NLCS. Tom Tommy Edmund
here the tie breaking single off the rookie flamethrower Jacob Mazeroski,
the mizz in their two run, two run.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Sixth inning, and the Dodgers able to out maneuver the
brew crew three to one.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And so there's a very fat woman who's warming up
her vocal cords right now as the Doyers have a
three games to none lead in the best of seven
National League Championship Series. That tells me that the Dodgers
need to win one more game if my malor math
is correct. And so the Dodgers, who underachieved during the
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regular season, used load management, left starting pitchers out months
at a time, was a rag tag lineup much of
the regular season. They needed so much to win a
wild card series against the lowly Cincinnati Reds to start
out the postseason marathon. And here we are, the Dodgers
have played nine playoff games. And all those really sexy
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stories that were written before the baseball season about how
great the Dodgers were, well they're looking like it now.
They didn't look like it in the regular season for
much of it. With the Dodgers are now in position.
They're in the pole position to become the first defending
champion to reach the World Series in sixteen years. I
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was barely alive the last time this happened. No defending
champion has gotten back to the Fall Classic since the
Ryan Howard Jimmy Rollins Philadelphia Phillies back in nine and
no team's won consecutive You get all the way back
to the nineties, Holy crap on a cracker, Batman. You
got to go back to the nineties, the Tory Jeter
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Bernie Williams Yankees. From ninety eight to two thousand, the
Yankees took three championships in a row. Now, the better story, though,
is in the losing locker room, although barely the better
story at this point, barely the better story. So Brewers
manager Pat Murphy, who I kind of like this guy, right,
it seems like my kind of guy. He seems like
the kind of guy you want to hang out with.
Seems like it seems like a good dude. He's saying
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a lot of crap, a lot of backlash. If you
saw the game, you know what I'm talking about. He
made the decision, and I'm sure this wasn't his decision.
It was somebody ahead of him. But they made the
decision collectively to start Aaron Ashby as the opener. And
that's pretty good jumping off points. I think we'll start
with that, so let us discuss the question. Was the oapener,
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if you will, a tactical error by Pat Murphy and
the brew crew in game number three of the NLCS.
So my thoughts it was like about that's right, I've
got I've got Warner Brothers, Doogie Houser MD and refurbished iPhone,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make fireballs, because it's going to
take fireballs for the brew crew to come back to
answer the question. Was this strategy of going with the
oapener meaning Aaron Ashby a tactical error. Now you could
say this is after the fact, but I'm nodding my head. Yes,
I have long died on the mountain of despising these openers.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Well, you're such a boomer. Well I'm not a boomer.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
However, back in my day we call this a spring
training game. Now they came up with a term for us.
Well it's an opener. Yeah, because we're smarter than everyone.
We're the smartest people in the room. Okay, So Pat
Murphy and the Brewers Nerds got cute. They started as
cat Aaron Ashby as the opener, and it went exactly
how you would expect things to go when you let
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the analytical department cosplay and do the strategy. Here, he
got how many outs? One out, one out, one more
out than you got one more out than.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I got one out?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Before all of a sudden, Pat Murphy's oh you know what,
I gotta I gotta get this guy out of the game.
Uh yeah, one out, and then they brought the miz
in Jacob Mazaraski, who was thrown.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Really pretty much into a blender. U. Here you go.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The whole point of the opener is like, Okay, we're
gonna get you in. There be a soft landing.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Now, the Brewers are averaging if my math is correct,
one run of game in the league Championship series. They
were one of the top offensive teams in baseball this year.
And starting Aaron Ashby not the greatest solution, not the
way to solve the Rubik's QB here for the Brewers.
The again, the point is, you start the opener, you
give the the bulk guy, because why not a soft
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spot to come in. But instead, as we said Pat Murphy,
the Brewers lit the match and they dropped it on
the bullpen there and the dirty little secret when you
run the openers out, it is unbecoming in the postseason.
It's just embarrassing, right, And there's not like Dodgers have
done it, the Yankees have done it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It's just embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's usually because you have a roster that is devoid
of elite talent. Right, you don't have the horses. You
just don't have the horsepower. And the Brewers don't. They
don't lost Brandon Woodrif to injury, and so that's fine.
But the Openers, I don't like them anything outside of
the Cactus League, of the grape Fruit League.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
If you want to make an argument. They work in
April and May.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, not in the National League Championship Series, not against
a real lineup. And the I don't think the Dodgers
did anything special. People are like, oh, I told you, mahlord,
the Dodgers are gonna gonna.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Flip the switch. And they flipped the switcher.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, I don't think the offense is all that good. Actually,
through sixteen pitches. Sixteen pitches, what a bleeping joke. Got
one out, as we said. And the Milwaukee plan, well,
that was in the toilet, that was in the crapper
before most of the people had gotten through the traffic
into the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And it's the classic move.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm smarter than you, and I'm smarter than everyone else
who's in this little room we're in, and all I
now even more embarrassing, though, the brew crew had the
dream set up, so he said, well, it didn't work
out with Ashby, and the miz came in and he
actually did a pretty good job for a while. The
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thing that blows you away about this, though, is you
figure the Brewers offense hadn't been very good, and here's
an opportunity because Glass now did not make it deep,
deep into the game, and so you were given a
lot of time against the Dodger's bullpen, and the brew
crew had an atomic elbow dropped on them by the
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Dodger bullpen. Who saw that coming. You wouldn't trust those
guys to guard a hot dog stand. And they went
out there and did fine. They twisted the Brewers lineup
into pretzels, and so three games into the National League
Championship Series and everything the Brewers had been pesky, determined, annoying,
all that good stuff, now it's like a Warner Brothers cartoon,
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Pepe the pew pu what stinks Milwaukee? Three runs, nine hits,
twenty seven innings of baseball. William Contreras hitless in Game
three for Milwaukee, part of a two for thirty three
combined performance for the likes of Christian Yelich and Bryce Terrang,
who's still pogo sticking out of the way of a
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pitch in Game one that would have tied the game
and would have allowed the Brewers to go win the
game in xt ra innings, but alas he decided not
to get hit by the pitch and so just two
for thirty three a couple of singles.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Andrew Vaughn went zero.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
For four with the strikeout and left some runners in
scoring position there. So I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
he does not have a hit in the NLCS. So
the Brewers right now are drowning. They're not drowning in
the Pacific Ocean. They're drowning in flop sweat. The lack
of discipline at the plate and the fact that they've
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got guys chasing pitches out of the zone outside the
strike zone a stark contrast when you juxtapose what they
had been in the regular season with plate discipline, and
again the word is unbecoming now turning the page on that.
From the LA side of things, the question is there
anything anything at all? The Dodgers are eight and one
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in the playoffs, They're three to zero in the NLCS
is anything we can nitpick about the Dodgers' performance. So
after a thorough deliberation, I have made the editorial decision
that there is there's one thing that is not right
about the Dodgers, and here it is. You know what
I'm about to say.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No, you don't, Okay, the Dodgers are playing such dominant
baseball right now.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It's bad television. It's just bad TV. It just is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You've got Blake Snell, bro I'm risking my live braw
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Tyler Glasner, who wasn't as good as
those guys, but collectively they have gone doogie howser MD
and they have put the people watching the NLCS into
a medically induced coma. Watching the Milwaukee Brewers attempt to
hitting Dodgers' er now from starters is under two.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
It's barely a run and a half.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
It has been a master class, an absolute master class
on starting pitching, the Dodgers' rotation, and the bullpen. In
the bullpen, I can't believe I'm saying that the bullpen
if it lights out. The Brewers collectively have a one
forty three batting average I didn't play Major League baseball.
I don't think that's good. I don't think that's good.
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Their op on base plus slugging is two to three,
which I also think is not good. The slugging percentage
alone is at a buck ninety, at a buck ninety
and the three runs, So the Dodgers are hitting on
all cylinders. And it's not a great product to watch
right now. And it's just a matter of when. It's
not a matter of if they get back to the
World Series. And while Toronto and Seattle appear to be
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in a catfight, the Dodgers can soon sneak in a
nice vacation, go to Hawaii if they want, for a
couple of days before the Fall Classic. Now, teams take
a three to nothing lead in any best of seven
postseason series have gone on to win forty out of
forty one times. That is a ninety seven point six
percent success rate. Thirty one sweeps out of the forty one.
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Now the one time that didn't happen. If you're old
enough to have remembered way back, I can't believe it's
been twenty one years.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Holy crap.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But the four American League Championship Series there was this
team called the Boston Red Sox, and they had this
thing called the Curse of the Bambino, and they did
the thing they weren't supposed to do at the time,
they weren't supposed to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
They came all the way back and they got it done.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Red Sox against the Yankees that year, there was this
little pesky guy the Red Sox picked up in a
cash deal from the Dodgers who was a pinch runner
named Dave Roberts, who sparked the Red Sox comeback with
a steal off Mariano Rivera. I don't know what happened
to Dave Roberts. I don't know what he's doing now.
I think he turned into a sock puppet. All right,
last word, So we're gonna move away from the NLCS
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because there's not much more to dissect. Interesting story out
at Detroit where the Tigers have been excommunicated from the playoffs.
They lost to Seattle, and now there's some chatter that
the Tigers are in financial peril as they have to
close the gap, and oh what a gap. It is
the largest gap in negotiation history. That is, if they
(14:46):
plan on retaining long term, long term these services of dominating,
dominating starting pitcher Terrek School. So I saw this, I
thought this is interesting. Now, the story bouncing around the
pinball machine is that Detroit offered Schooble less than the
one hundred and seventy million that the Red Sox signed
(15:07):
Garrett Crochet two. So they wanted to pay him less
than one hundred and seventy which seems like a lot
of money to me. I don't know, I know. And
the Schooble now, the starting point for Schooble is four
hundred million dollars. Now that means, if you do the calculation,
the Tigers and the player are two hundred million dollars
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off in the negotiation. So the question you make the call,
if you were the Tigers, would you pay one starting pitcher,
in this case Derek Scougle four hundred million dollars plus.
Now we always preface these things by saying that it's
not my money. It's not And you can crunch the
(15:51):
numbers and figure out how many how many advertising dollars
do you have to make from TV?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
How much money do you have to make from radio?
How much money do you have to make selling hot
thaltus to make it work.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I look at it and my eyes get really large
and I just say, well, that's a boondoggle, is what
that is.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
That's just a financial boondoggle. And I wouldn't do it.
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Schoogle to me has a pre existing condition and the
fact that he's got he's got already had elbow issues
and arm issues. He's fun to watch, he's great to watch.
He's got the gas and the breaking pitches and all that.
Has got nasty stuff, as the kids say. But he
will turn twenty nine next month, which is not old
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in the real world, but in sports it's kind of
middle aged. He's already had the TJ, the Tommy John
surgery and been through the operating room. So that's not
just a blank piece of paper situation. This is a
refurbished iPhone. It's like, oh right, he had the Tommy
John schooble. He's pitching very well. So think about like
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a refurbished iPhone. You wouldn't pay full price for a
herbris iPhone. The iPhone has a crack screen, and that
does say certified pre owned. It says that now the
Komodo Dragon in the room, the Komodo Dragon room.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Scooble is not a whatever it takes warhorse.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And there's nothing nobody liked that in baseball. But like,
if I could justify it, here's how I would justify it. So, Okay,
I'm gonna pay this guy four hundred million because I
know if I need him to go one hundred and
twenty one hundred and thirty hundred and forty pitches, he
will do that. And he'll throw one hundred and thirty
pitches into that cold Michigan night sky like a modern
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day Jack Morris going out there, big balls and all that,
but no Tigers. In the American League Divisional round. He
started two games and the Tigers lost both. They lost
both in large part because he was a ninety nine
one hundred pitch guy and ninety nine hundred and one
pitches that's it and has to come out of the game.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He's very delicate, And.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
For four hundred million dollars, you better give me Shakespeare
on the mound and go above and beyond, go the
extra mile and the monster contract. I know the monster
contracts are always lost leaders. You're not gonna make money
on it, you know, just not. You're not paying for
the whole ride. You're paying for the front seat at
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the amusement park, and you're hoping the thing doesn't break
down halfway through the loop de Loob on the roller coaster. Somebody,
we know, somebody's gonna do it. As I sit here
and say, oh, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Not gonna pay him. Yeah, it's not my money. I
wouldn't pay him, And.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'm skeptical whether the Tigers are gonna pay him, which
means if they're not gonna pay him, then all of
a sudden, the trade thing becomes a possibility. You never
get fair return on investment with those kind of things,
so that's a problem. But there's some owner who's going
to light that match and toss it on the pile
of money and make sure gasoline is all over it
and hope the baseball gods don't turn the schooble elbow
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into or agami by year four of the contract.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
So again, we love the player, it's not my deal.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I just think any starting pitchure the way baseball's played today,
where the value is placed on the bullpen, I just I.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Wouldn't do it. What about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay, the Dodgers have had a good run here in
the NLCS, and it's a little different for them because
they've got money to burn because of how they gouge
their fans with tickets and all that and parking at
Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
But it's a little different situation.
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We started with baseball last Star. We'll get back to
baseball later, but we move over to the Queen City
in Island, Game in Island game, and that is the
NFL Card. Week seven Underway kicked off on Thursday night
as Al Michaels and Kirk Kirk Street had the call,
(21:46):
did you watch this? Were you engaged in a matchup
that did not have a lot of it factor leading
into it? They're not a lot of excitement for it.
The Steelers' sizeable favorite, sizeable favorite in the road and
Rogers leading the party bus into Cincinnati against Joe Flacco
and the Bengals, a game so exciting that it was
(22:08):
dubbed the Icy Hot Bowl leading into it an AFC
North slopper knocker, which was an eye opener. So if
you did not watch the game, maybe you're watching the
baseball game and you missed this, you might have missed it.
Joe Flacco, Yes, I know. Joe Flacco had three hundred
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and forty two yards passing not one, not two, but
three touchdowns and matriculated the ball down the field, setting
up Evan McPherson for a thirty six yard field goal
with seven seconds left as the beat e.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And g ay Ls.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Bengals snapped a four game losing streak. They win thirty
three thirty one on the last second field goal to
win over the Steelers on Thursday night. The forty year
old Joe Flacco out deal duel forty one year old
Aaron Rodgers as they went back and forth. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room, there's a lot of angst,
(23:10):
a lot of angst on the Steelers defense and the
fact that a couple of guys just had ridiculous performances. Now,
we mentioned Joe Flacco and what he was able to
do as he was slinging the ball all over the place,
and another Cincinnati player, Jamar Chase, was wh open.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He was w open.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
It's like being out over the Pacific and you just
throw something out of a plane.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's gonna hit water. It's gonna hit water at some
point there.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And it was like, are the Steelers even trying defensively?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Like what are they doing? It makes no sense. Here's
Mike Tomlin, the.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Longtime Steeler coach, discussing how Jamar Chase absolutely embarrassed his defense.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Take a list.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
You know, we played these guys a bunch. We double
teamed them some, we double teamed five some. It's a
mix of mixes required. They got depth and talent. Just
like the one play eighty made down the middle. We
were doubling them both and they were one on one
in that circumstance, And so you know, as many way
as you can analyze it. But the bottom line is
they made more plays than we did.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Okay, So that's the default answer, and it's a good
jumping off point. So let us discuss who gets to
wear the Dunce cap for Mike Tomblins, Petsberg.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Steelers, they Insers.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So on this, I've got rebranding, Ben Stiller and glazed Donut,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will spill.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
The tea all over the radio, all over the radio.
So all right, I know, So first of all, let's
start with TJ. Watt. All right, let's start with TJ. Watt.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He is the brand ambassador of that Steeler defense and
they gave him the one hundred and twenty three million
dollar deal. They pay him plausibly to make game changing plays,
to make impact plays for the Steelers defense.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
How did that go?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well, he was putting around out there, and if you
want to know how he did, don't ask what had
as many tackles as many tackles as you had.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
That's it. He had half a sack.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
There was like one half of a tackle, like a
half combined thing, but no individual tackles and half.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
A sack, which was really like a charity thing. Yikes.
It's not all bad. Though. It's not all bad for TJ.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Watt because I'll be betting bright side Wat had he
had no numbers of any of note. However, he got
a good cardio game in, he had work out, good workout.
In fact, I saw more plays being made by Steely mcbeam,
the mascot than from what the Bengals offense, led by
Joe Flacco had four hundred and seventy yards of offense,
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four hundred and seventy yards of offense, three hundred and
forty two passing yards, one hundred and forty two rushing yards.
This is not twenty twelve, all right, This is not
the twenty twelve. Now, they didn't lose a few yards
on sacks. That's why the numbers don't completely add up.
But insane, This is Joe pretty much off the couch, Flacco,
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who was benched, demoted by the Factory of Sadness, carving up,
absolutely carving up the once proud Pittsburgh defense like they
were a Halloween pumpkin.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You talk about a.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Rebrand this is a time for a rebranding in Pittsburgh.
What an embarrassment. The Steel Curtain, my fat ass, the
steel curtain that's rebranded to the steel turnstile. And my god,
that is a cultural loss, is what that is? The
old Steelers defense. If you add those old Steeler defensive
teams matched up against forty year old Joe Flacco, all right,
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the fossilized body of Joe Flacco, they would.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Have dragged that through the mud, all right through the mud.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
This group handed him Joe Flacco, a mint julip and
a lawn chair.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Holy Canoley, how bad was it? It was so bad?
Mike Tomlin, now he was diplomatic. We played the little
sound by from Tom.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Mike Tomlin is gonna have that secondary, including the likes
of Jalen Ramsey, Darius Slay, Joey Porter Jr. They're all
gonna have to give him ten burpies, run at least
twenty hill sprints and several laps around the outfield because
and also some updowns, do some updowns as punishment.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
And then we had Joey Porter Jr.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
The defensive back of the Steelers, who had the hutzba
to deflect some of the blame for the absolute gutless performance.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
By the defense. You know who he blamed? What did
he blame?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
The schedule because it was on Thursday night? Who did
he But you think he blamed to travel because you
know it's so.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Far from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. My god, No, he blamed
the officials.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
He blamed the Zebras porter In third, that Pittsburgh's defense
absolutely could have held the Bengals offense with Joe Flacco
in check, but bd it was the officials. They were
too stingy. They would not let them play. And that
is a special kind of wacker doodle. That is a
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special kind of wackerdoodle.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Now, secondly to the winning side, which is not as
good as side all right, to the winning side. So
the question here is there a movie? Let's play the
movie game. Is there a movie to describe the Joe
Flacco Bengals offensive performance, the unexpected performance?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You make the call? What movie is it? All right?
So I'm gonna go first.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Now the movie I'm picking to describe Joe Flacco's performance
for the Cincinnati football team.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Here's what I have.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I wrote down on my scorecard, A Ben Stiller classic
Night at the Museum, who says no, come on? Right?
Is that not the perfect movie to describe Joe Flacco.
The security guard discovers that the museum exhibits come to
life after Sunset jump Ball.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Joe Flacco an artifact in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And yet that museum piece, Joe Flacco painted a masterpiece
for the Cincinnati offense man. And he did it like
if I was the offensive coordinator, assume you as well,
you would do the same thing. So we were advising
the quarterback of the Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Bengals, right, and you just to go over. You say, Okay,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
How about I would say, use the kiss method, right,
keep it simple, stupid, And that's what Flaco did. He
had tunnel vision. He targeted Jamar Chase twenty three times.
Twenty three times, essentially a third of the offensive plays.
I don't have the numbers in front of it, about
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a third of the offensive plays the Bengals ran. He
threw the ball to Jamar Chase. Jamar Chase rewarded him
with a game for the ages, sixteen catches, one hundred
and sixty one yards, and a touchdown. And Flaco also
got help from Chase Brown, the nonexistent Cincinnati running game.
He had one hundred and eight yards. The huge issue
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for Flaco for years has been the hiccup. He's had
a lot of hiccups, a lot of hiccups, turned the
ball over quite a bit in recent years. Flacco in
this game was mister clean. No picks, no fumbles, no
obvious mistakes. Cincinnati was fifty percent on third down. It
could have been worse for Pittsburgh's defense. They only converted
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the Bengals forty percent in the red zone in this game.
This performance was just what the doctor ordered. And now
the Bengals, I believe they have the Jets upcoming, which
is like a bye week. The Jets are on a
real NFL team, and so you can add another.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Win and all of a sudden, all of us boomerang up.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
And now after a four game losing streak, you've now
won those early wins.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
You're three and four.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And all you have to be is around five hundred,
and you're a playoff contender in the American Football Conference. Now,
final fun, let's go back, we'll hit and we'll jump
and jump.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Over the other side. Let's go to the Steelers side
of things. So mister Rogers' neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
A close game Pittsburgh did take the lead late, the
Bengals got the ball and ran the clock essentially out
for the game winning field goal. Here's Aaron Rodgers on
the nail biting loss. How upset is Aaron Rodgers, Let's
find out.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
I think you got to realize. Listen, we want to
win every game. There needs to be an expectation of winning.
But this is a short week division opponent. Anything can happen. Obviously,
Joe played really well for them, and Chase and t
you got going for him. So this is the NFL.
You know, we had a chance to really open up
some space, but we're four and two, still first in
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the division. Got a couple you know, home games coming
up back to back, another Sunday night opportunity against my
former team. So I'm not going to ride the roller coaster,
and I know Mike isn't and hopefully you guys follow suit.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
All right, So that was very robotic, That was very
level headed. That was right off sportscliche dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Okay, so the question as we go into mister Rogers neighborhood,
what grade? What grade did you give Rogers in the
Icy Hot Bowl for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
So if you didn't see the game.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Rogers finished with two hundred and forty three yards passing
and four touchdowns. Sounds pretty good, right, sounds sexy. Four touchdowns,
that's a lot. When you peel back the ayahuasca infused
onion on the Malor report card. Now this is a
pass failed grade. This is not ABC one two three.
This is a past fail grade. And unfortunately Rogers gets
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what not a passing grade, as League Corso would say,
not so fast, my friends. If you think it's a
passing grade, this was like a glazed donut. It looked good,
kind of smelled good, but you bite into it and boom, it's.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Kind of a hollow, the middle parts hollowing. You're like,
I want the full.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Rogers had the numbers. There wasn't enough substance here. And
you do the side by side comparison. Joe Flacco outplayed
Aaron Rodgers, so Aaron gets a failing grade. Cincinnati. You
gotta understand how bad the Bengals are. I don't think
we can put into words how much they blow or
how much they had been terrible. It's hard to believe
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they could be this bad with all the blood, sweat
and tears they put into these NFL practices are so
we're told. And the Bengals had the NFL's thirty first
ranked defense. They played without Trey Hendrickson, their top defensive player,
their star Hendrickson, and Rogers, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
He almost almost pulled.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
A rabbit out of his hat anyway, and so it's
no hard feelings. The good thing is Rogers can now
go home to his fake wife and she can cuddle
him and they'll be good together, and they can he
can talk to his imaginary wife and they'll have a
good times.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
But most games are lost, not one.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And that's the bugaboo on why we give Rogers a
failing grade. Not only did he fail in terms of
the yardage and the offensive power of the Bengals compared
to Pittsburgh, but it's the little thing stupid, or in
this case, a couple of big things.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Rogers tossed a pair of interceptions. Well they weren't all
he's full, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Well, let's do some mal of maths. So Cincinnati on
those two possessions. On those two possessions, the Bengals scored
ten points off those turnovers, ten points off Rogers interceptions.
Pittsburgh lost by two points. You can do the math,
whether it's Malard math or whatever. You can't unring the
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bell on those interceptions. You cannot unring the be well
on those intercepts.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
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Speaker 3 (35:12):
He gets grilled Coop oh Loop.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Daniel Jones was asked on Wednesday what it means to
him that people are talking about him as a potential MVP,
and Jones said, not much after six weeks. Ben, do
you think he'll still be talked about as an MVB
candidate at the end of the season.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
No, the Colts will come back down to earth, and
no one's the MVP right now. The names that are
being tossed out are Drake may Maholmes is being mentioned.
The Chiefs don't have a great record, Baker Mayfield by
default is the favorite. And it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I mean, it's nice to.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Talk about for a segment on a radio show, it
doesn't matter. I don't believe Daniel Jones will keep this
up next.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
An anonymous Eagles player told an NFL and insider that
this season is starting to feel like the twenty twenty
three meltdown all over again.
Speaker 9 (35:59):
Ben, Do you think things will go that badly for Philly?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Well, this is a pivot point this weekend. If they
beat the Vikings, they're fine. If not, panic at the
disco next.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Matt Rule is the clear favorite to become the next
head coach of Penn States. Some analysts think this would
be a mistake, as he would be a lateral move.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Do you agree, Yeah, you know, it doesn't excite the
fan base. If he wins, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
But he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
You don't win the news conference with Matt Rule. He's
just kind of a blog.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
How do we do? How do we do it? Come on?
I passed with an A, not a c an A.
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Such a big star. He's got two segments a week.
We had Ask a weed Man, which I thought was
going to be a disaster.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
People loved it. And then now he's such a big star.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
We had to call him to wake him up, to
call in Hello, weed Man, are you there?
Speaker 6 (37:22):
No, that's.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Me Early, I'm downed man at it. People loved it,
Weed Man. They can't wait till next week's episode Ask
a weed Man. We'll see if it continues. But you
did very well.
Speaker 9 (37:37):
We have advertisers asking about it already.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Calm down, all right, all right, come on, that's the
first lamb joke. Okay, no, that's not we've been please
come on.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You've had a great life. You ran a toy store
in Manhattan. How many people have done that?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Not many?
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Of course, you ran it. You ran it so well
it went out of business. But that's fine. All right, Uh,
let's do it.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Here we go. Big Ben's Lamb.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Jokes of the Week actual jokes by Actually, what does
weed Man and a fresh Thanksgiving turkey have in common.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
What they both have cavities with no teeth.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
All right, that's uh Andy, Andy sent that one in.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Why doesn't weed Man have any teeth? Why his dentist
is named doctor Pepper?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
That's the pen. That's Eeke in Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
What's the difference between James Franklin, the former Penn State coach,
and weed Man.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
What's the difference?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Well, James Franklin gets paid millions of dollars for doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
That's the difference. We had some intercer chances. Drew in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Trew in Minnesota rights and says, what was the best
and worst seller at weed Man's toy.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Store in New York?
Speaker 8 (38:56):
What does it tell me?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
It was a spin off toy. It was called mister Pothead.
It was.
Speaker 9 (39:05):
You can Leaves?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
What does what does Lisa hide around the house for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Of course Lisa weed Man's famous lady friend there. She
lives in New York. He's in Miami. What does Lisa
hide around the house for Christmas? What tell me? Dope
on a couch is what it's a spin off of?
All right?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
What did weed Man say when his multi functioning printer,
stop working?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
What I give no facts? Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Noah in Austin sent that one in what should be
the name of weed Man Hippie's news segment? If it's
on Wednesdays? What over the hemp with weed Man Hippie?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Yeah, there you go. It's George.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Now, George is a longtime listener to Fox Sports rad
He's a great teacher, weed Man and you've all the
Texas George, So he's a listener and he loves loves
the show. All right, George and Rochester. We go from
that George to a different George. George and Rochester, Minnesota
says an eighty year old grandmother is now the oldest
to complete the iron Man triath triathlon.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
You're about that wee Man?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Wow? No, yes, weed Man Hippie is also a triathlete
begging for cash, crypto or credit.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
That's from George.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
How How will.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Weed Man son scare weed Man on Halloween?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
How how will he do it? He will dress up
as Mary Povich and tell weed Man you are not
my father?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Oh my, that's not right.
Speaker 8 (40:42):
That's Eric.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
How's your kid doing, weed Man? Your kid doing? All right?
Last we heard he was it like Georgetown or something
like that, right, big school. Yeah, no, he graduated from Harvard.
Oh my god, we graduated from Harvard. Holy crap.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
I guess the apple.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Does fall far from the tree. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Did you hear that hollering James went to Vegas at
a seventeen thousand dollars Honda and he left Vegas in
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars vehicle.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Wow? You kidding? Yeah? It was a Greyhound, that was
what it was. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Why is Andrea in Berkeley such a proficient witch?
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Andrea in Berkeley? She's a hex burt is what she is?
Speaker 5 (41:26):
There?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I was from Steve who sent that one in?
Speaker 1 (41:31):
What do Andrew and Bakersfield and referees have in common?
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Tell me what? People hate their calls? People hate their calls?
Scan stand him?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
What does hollering James use more than his Obama phone?
Speaker 3 (41:48):
What his right hand is? What he uses?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
That's Noah in Austin fagaweed man. There he is, weed man.
Ask a weed man next week?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Why direct from.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
The outside of the glass or inside? That is your
coop scoop On Entertainment Fox Sports Radios Friday segment tradition
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Speaker 3 (42:10):
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Speaker 8 (42:19):
Thank you, Marcel, great toss. As always, all right, we
are going to start in the theaters, as we always
do here on Coopscoop on Entertainment. And there's a couple
of movies that I want to point out that come
out this weekend that I'm interested in. And they're both
horror movies, which makes sense for October. The first one
is a sequel Black Phone two. Yes, the movie from
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four years ago. If you well spoiler alert, it's a
four year old movie. He kills his abductor in the
first movie, and now he is back from the grave
to get his revenge.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
That's cool. How do you come back from the grave.
I'd like to do that some day.
Speaker 8 (42:55):
Oh, you know horror movies they do that. Okay, But yes,
Ethan Hawk reap prizes his role as the grabber.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Ooh, the Gray.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
Watched out for him on the stairs. Okay, also out
in theaters. I moved him into his cage. I think
I almost made him die, kept him in the coffee cup.
Too long, all right.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
Also this weekend is Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yes, this special.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I was that a blue Frankenstein or like red Frankenstein
or a gold Frankenstein.
Speaker 9 (43:33):
I don't think there's anything weird about it.
Speaker 8 (43:37):
Yeah, but this adaptation stars Oscar Isaac as Doctor Frankenstein
and Mia Goth, the scream Queen, is in this movie,
as well as Christoph Waltz.
Speaker 9 (43:50):
So for them, Yeah, check that one out.
Speaker 8 (43:53):
This one's getting rave reviews in theaters and moving over
to television. You know how in TV when this one
production company does something and then you just you tend
to see like all the other production companies coming out
with their version of the same thing.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, Topcat.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Yeah, it's like you go to you go to everyone's
got like chicken, like chicken sandwiches at all the fast
food restaurants.
Speaker 9 (44:15):
Because that's yes, yes, exactly exactly what we.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Talked about it last week in my podcast. Did you
know that what's that chicken place? The fast food place?
Speaker 9 (44:24):
You know what I'm talking about, Popeye, Zaxby's.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
It's it's it's a fish place.
Speaker 9 (44:29):
Oh long, John Silvers, how they rebranded the Chicken.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Yes, their logo to a chicken.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
I know, so good.
Speaker 9 (44:38):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (44:39):
Well, so the the hot thing right now in TV
is serial Killer John Wyn Gaizy.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Oh big, people love this guy. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (44:48):
So I talked about how the The Monsters series on
Netflix that debuted last week got terrible reviews. I've heard
it's like comically bad, like one of those so bad
it's like you actually want to watch it because it's ridiculous.
Speaker 9 (45:00):
But this what.
Speaker 8 (45:02):
Premiered today on Peacock is Devil in Disguise John Wayne Gacy,
and so this one's actually getting good reviews. So if
you want, I guess an actually good adaptation of the
clown serial Killer, check that out on Peacock right now.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Don't go to the basement, whatever you do.
Speaker 9 (45:20):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
Also available right now is the third season of the
Emmy nominated show The Diplomat on Netflix, starring Kerrie Russell.
It's a great show. I've watched the first two seasons.
I am excited about that. If you like spy political dramas, that's,
you know, right right up your alley.
Speaker 9 (45:40):
And then moving on, I'm gonna skip ahead to this
last thing here.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
We have a documentary series. Okay, good, where we got
That is available right now on Apple TV Plus. And
I don't know if you would like this, Ben, because
it's you hate the hero worship stuff.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
I do not like hero worship. I don't do that.
Speaker 8 (45:59):
But this is a limited documentary series called Mister Scorsese,
and of course it is.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
Uh so it's toes.
Speaker 8 (46:08):
It is a five part look at one of the
planet's most famous directors, Martin Scorsese, and uh it has
interviews with him as well as his collaborators and colleagues,
including Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Spielberg, Daniel Dave Lewis,
Kate Blanchette, et cetera, et cetera. And it's got pretty
good reviews. So that is available right now on Apple TV.
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But oh, actually.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
They are there. There's more.
Speaker 8 (46:34):
It's not another thing. But I was about to say
it's available right now on Apple TV Plus. Apparently they
are rebranding. They're getting rid of the Plus. It's just
going to be Apple TV now.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Oh well, yeah, because it's remember when HBO started their
other thing, but then they went back to the HBO
because it was so stupid.
Speaker 9 (46:48):
Yeah, everybody's simplifying.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Now you got to be keep it stupid man. People don't. Yeah,
I'm not going to sit there and worry about your
stupid channel.
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And so I was at the intersection. I could have
made a right turn, I could have made a left turn.
I decided to go right down the middle and not
make any turn. So I made that editorial decision based
on the feedback that I have gotten. We had a
football game that was supposed to suck that didn't suck,
that was actually a decent game, and so we'll get
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to that at some point throughout the night. Obviously the
American League, which wasn't much of a game. So we're
gonna start in the National League, which also wasn't much
of a game. But we got to start somewhere, and
we have a blank audio canvas, four hours of talk
radio to take us through the.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Overnight hours here.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So our lead is in La a sun soaked There's
nothing like getting people into Dodgers Stadium in the middle
of downtown Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Hit rush hour.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Great scheduling, great scheduling, they do it for television. So
sun soaked late afternoon there in the middle of rush
hour traffic. The Miz Now he didn't start because the
Brewers are idiots, but they he was the guy leading
the Brewers traveling circus in due Chavez Ravine in a
gotta have it And this really was a gotta have
it game for the Brewers, a matchup with the Dodgers.
(03:00):
Game three. You blew the first two games at home,
you gotta win. Milwaukee looking to dig out of a hole.
How did that go?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, if you watched it, you know what happened. But
maybe you were busy doing something. I don't know what
you're up to. Tommy Tanks delivered Tommy Edmund, the hero
from last year's playoffs in the NLCS. Tom Tommy Edmund
here the tie breaking single off the rookie flamethrower Jacob Mazeroski,
the mizz in their two run, two run.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Sixth inning, and the Dodgers able to out maneuver the
brew crew three to one.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And so there's a very fat woman who's warming up
her vocal cords right now as the Doyers have a
three games to none lead in the best of seven
National League Championship Series. That tells me that the Dodgers
need to win one more game if my malor math
is correct. And so the Dodgers, who underachieved during the
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regular season, used load management, left starting pitchers out months
at a time, was a rag tag lineup much of
the regular season. They needed so much to win a
wild card series against the lowly Cincinnati Reds to start
out the postseason marathon. And here we are, the Dodgers
have played nine playoff games. And all those really sexy
(04:19):
stories that were written before the baseball season about how
great the Dodgers were, well they're looking like it now.
They didn't look like it in the regular season for
much of it. With the Dodgers are now in position.
They're in the pole position to become the first defending
champion to reach the World Series in sixteen years. I
(04:41):
was barely alive the last time this happened. No defending
champion has gotten back to the Fall Classic since the
Ryan Howard Jimmy Rollins Philadelphia Phillies back in nine and
no team's won consecutive You get all the way back
to the nineties, Holy crap on a cracker, Batman. You
got to go back to the nineties, the Tory Jeter
(05:04):
Bernie Williams Yankees. From ninety eight to two thousand, the
Yankees took three championships in a row. Now, the better story, though,
is in the losing locker room, although barely the better
story at this point, barely the better story. So Brewers
manager Pat Murphy, who I kind of like this guy, right,
it seems like my kind of guy. He seems like
the kind of guy you want to hang out with.
Seems like it seems like a good dude. He's saying
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a lot of crap, a lot of backlash. If you
saw the game, you know what I'm talking about. He
made the decision, and I'm sure this wasn't his decision.
It was somebody ahead of him. But they made the
decision collectively to start Aaron Ashby as the opener. And
that's pretty good jumping off points. I think we'll start
with that, so let us discuss the question. Was the oapener,
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if you will, a tactical error by Pat Murphy and
the brew crew in game number three of the NLCS.
So my thoughts it was like about that's right, I've
got I've got Warner Brothers, Doogie Houser MD and refurbished iPhone,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make fireballs, because it's going to
take fireballs for the brew crew to come back to
answer the question. Was this strategy of going with the
oapener meaning Aaron Ashby a tactical error. Now you could
say this is after the fact, but I'm nodding my head. Yes,
I have long died on the mountain of despising these openers.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Well, you're such a boomer. Well I'm not a boomer.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
However, back in my day we call this a spring
training game. Now they came up with a term for us.
Well it's an opener. Yeah, because we're smarter than everyone.
We're the smartest people in the room. Okay, So Pat
Murphy and the Brewers Nerds got cute. They started as
cat Aaron Ashby as the opener, and it went exactly
how you would expect things to go when you let
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the analytical department cosplay and do the strategy. Here, he
got how many outs? One out, one out, one more
out than you got one more out than.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I got one out?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Before all of a sudden, Pat Murphy's oh you know what,
I gotta I gotta get this guy out of the game.
Uh yeah, one out, and then they brought the miz
in Jacob Mazaraski, who was thrown.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Really pretty much into a blender. U. Here you go.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The whole point of the opener is like, Okay, we're
gonna get you in. There be a soft landing.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Now, the Brewers are averaging if my math is correct,
one run of game in the league Championship series. They
were one of the top offensive teams in baseball this year.
And starting Aaron Ashby not the greatest solution, not the
way to solve the Rubik's QB here for the Brewers.
The again, the point is, you start the opener, you
give the the bulk guy, because why not a soft
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spot to come in. But instead, as we said Pat Murphy,
the Brewers lit the match and they dropped it on
the bullpen there and the dirty little secret when you
run the openers out, it is unbecoming in the postseason.
It's just embarrassing, right, And there's not like Dodgers have
done it, the Yankees have done it.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
It's just embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's usually because you have a roster that is devoid
of elite talent. Right, you don't have the horses. You
just don't have the horsepower. And the Brewers don't. They
don't lost Brandon Woodrif to injury, and so that's fine.
But the Openers, I don't like them anything outside of
the Cactus League, of the grape Fruit League.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
If you want to make an argument. They work in
April and May.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, not in the National League Championship Series, not against
a real lineup. And the I don't think the Dodgers
did anything special. People are like, oh, I told you, mahlord,
the Dodgers are gonna gonna.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Flip the switch. And they flipped the switcher.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, I don't think the offense is all that good. Actually,
through sixteen pitches. Sixteen pitches, what a bleeping joke. Got
one out, as we said. And the Milwaukee plan, well,
that was in the toilet, that was in the crapper
before most of the people had gotten through the traffic
into the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And it's the classic move.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm smarter than you, and I'm smarter than everyone else
who's in this little room we're in, and all I
now even more embarrassing, though, the brew crew had the
dream set up, so he said, well, it didn't work
out with Ashby, and the miz came in and he
actually did a pretty good job for a while. The
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thing that blows you away about this, though, is you
figure the Brewers offense hadn't been very good, and here's
an opportunity because Glass now did not make it deep,
deep into the game, and so you were given a
lot of time against the Dodger's bullpen, and the brew
crew had an atomic elbow dropped on them by the
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Dodger bullpen. Who saw that coming. You wouldn't trust those
guys to guard a hot dog stand. And they went
out there and did fine. They twisted the Brewers lineup
into pretzels, and so three games into the National League
Championship Series and everything the Brewers had been pesky, determined, annoying,
all that good stuff, now it's like a Warner Brothers cartoon,
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Pepe the pew pu what stinks Milwaukee? Three runs, nine hits,
twenty seven innings of baseball. William Contreras hitless in Game
three for Milwaukee, part of a two for thirty three
combined performance for the likes of Christian Yelich and Bryce Terrang,
who's still pogo sticking out of the way of a
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pitch in Game one that would have tied the game
and would have allowed the Brewers to go win the
game in xt ra innings, but alas he decided not
to get hit by the pitch and so just two
for thirty three a couple of singles.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Andrew Vaughn went zero.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
For four with the strikeout and left some runners in
scoring position there. So I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
he does not have a hit in the NLCS. So
the Brewers right now are drowning. They're not drowning in
the Pacific Ocean. They're drowning in flop sweat. The lack
of discipline at the plate and the fact that they've
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got guys chasing pitches out of the zone outside the
strike zone a stark contrast when you juxtapose what they
had been in the regular season with plate discipline, and
again the word is unbecoming now turning the page on that.
From the LA side of things, the question is there
anything anything at all? The Dodgers are eight and one
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in the playoffs, They're three to zero in the NLCS
is anything we can nitpick about the Dodgers' performance. So
after a thorough deliberation, I have made the editorial decision
that there is there's one thing that is not right
about the Dodgers, and here it is. You know what
I'm about to say.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No, you don't, Okay, the Dodgers are playing such dominant
baseball right now.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It's bad television. It's just bad TV. It just is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You've got Blake Snell, bro I'm risking my live braw
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Tyler Glasner, who wasn't as good as
those guys, but collectively they have gone doogie howser MD
and they have put the people watching the NLCS into
a medically induced coma. Watching the Milwaukee Brewers attempt to
hitting Dodgers' er now from starters is under two.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
It's barely a run and a half.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
It has been a master class, an absolute master class
on starting pitching, the Dodgers' rotation, and the bullpen. In
the bullpen, I can't believe I'm saying that the bullpen
if it lights out. The Brewers collectively have a one
forty three batting average I didn't play Major League baseball.
I don't think that's good. I don't think that's good.
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Their op on base plus slugging is two to three,
which I also think is not good. The slugging percentage
alone is at a buck ninety, at a buck ninety
and the three runs, So the Dodgers are hitting on
all cylinders. And it's not a great product to watch
right now. And it's just a matter of when. It's
not a matter of if they get back to the
World Series. And while Toronto and Seattle appear to be
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in a catfight, the Dodgers can soon sneak in a
nice vacation, go to Hawaii if they want, for a
couple of days before the Fall Classic. Now, teams take
a three to nothing lead in any best of seven
postseason series have gone on to win forty out of
forty one times. That is a ninety seven point six
percent success rate. Thirty one sweeps out of the forty one.
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Now the one time that didn't happen. If you're old
enough to have remembered way back, I can't believe it's
been twenty one years.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Holy crap.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But the four American League Championship Series there was this
team called the Boston Red Sox, and they had this
thing called the Curse of the Bambino, and they did
the thing they weren't supposed to do at the time,
they weren't supposed to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
They came all the way back and they got it done.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Red Sox against the Yankees that year, there was this
little pesky guy the Red Sox picked up in a
cash deal from the Dodgers who was a pinch runner
named Dave Roberts, who sparked the Red Sox comeback with
a steal off Mariano Rivera. I don't know what happened
to Dave Roberts. I don't know what he's doing now.
I think he turned into a sock puppet. All right,
last word, So we're gonna move away from the NLCS
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because there's not much more to dissect. Interesting story out
at Detroit where the Tigers have been excommunicated from the playoffs.
They lost to Seattle, and now there's some chatter that
the Tigers are in financial peril as they have to
close the gap, and oh what a gap. It is
the largest gap in negotiation history. That is, if they
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plan on retaining long term, long term these services of dominating,
dominating starting pitcher Terrek School. So I saw this, I
thought this is interesting. Now, the story bouncing around the
pinball machine is that Detroit offered Schooble less than the
one hundred and seventy million that the Red Sox signed
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Garrett Crochet two. So they wanted to pay him less
than one hundred and seventy which seems like a lot
of money to me. I don't know, I know. And
the Schooble now, the starting point for Schooble is four
hundred million dollars. Now that means, if you do the calculation,
the Tigers and the player are two hundred million dollars
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off in the negotiation. So the question you make the call,
if you were the Tigers, would you pay one starting pitcher,
in this case Derek Scougle four hundred million dollars plus.
Now we always preface these things by saying that it's
not my money. It's not And you can crunch the
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numbers and figure out how many how many advertising dollars
do you have to make from TV?
Speaker 3 (15:56):
How much money do you have to make from radio?
How much money do you have to make selling hot
thaltus to make it work.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
I look at it and my eyes get really large
and I just say, well, that's a boondoggle, is what
that is.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
That's just a financial boondoggle. And I wouldn't do it.
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Schoogle to me has a pre existing condition and the
fact that he's got he's got already had elbow issues
and arm issues. He's fun to watch, he's great to watch.
He's got the gas and the breaking pitches and all that.
Has got nasty stuff, as the kids say. But he
will turn twenty nine next month, which is not old
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in the real world, but in sports it's kind of
middle aged. He's already had the TJ, the Tommy John
surgery and been through the operating room. So that's not
just a blank piece of paper situation. This is a
refurbished iPhone. It's like, oh right, he had the Tommy
John schooble. He's pitching very well. So think about like
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a refurbished iPhone. You wouldn't pay full price for a
herbris iPhone. The iPhone has a crack screen, and that
does say certified pre owned. It says that now the
Komodo Dragon in the room, the Komodo Dragon room.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Scooble is not a whatever it takes warhorse.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And there's nothing nobody liked that in baseball. But like,
if I could justify it, here's how I would justify it. So, Okay,
I'm gonna pay this guy four hundred million because I
know if I need him to go one hundred and
twenty one hundred and thirty hundred and forty pitches, he
will do that. And he'll throw one hundred and thirty
pitches into that cold Michigan night sky like a modern
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day Jack Morris going out there, big balls and all that,
but no Tigers. In the American League Divisional round. He
started two games and the Tigers lost both. They lost
both in large part because he was a ninety nine
one hundred pitch guy and ninety nine hundred and one
pitches that's it and has to come out of the game.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He's very delicate, And.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
For four hundred million dollars, you better give me Shakespeare
on the mound and go above and beyond, go the
extra mile and the monster contract. I know the monster
contracts are always lost leaders. You're not gonna make money
on it, you know, just not. You're not paying for
the whole ride. You're paying for the front seat at
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the amusement park, and you're hoping the thing doesn't break
down halfway through the loop de Loob on the roller coaster. Somebody,
we know, somebody's gonna do it. As I sit here
and say, oh, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Not gonna pay him. Yeah, it's not my money. I
wouldn't pay him, And.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I'm skeptical whether the Tigers are gonna pay him, which
means if they're not gonna pay him, then all of
a sudden, the trade thing becomes a possibility. You never
get fair return on investment with those kind of things,
so that's a problem. But there's some owner who's going
to light that match and toss it on the pile
of money and make sure gasoline is all over it
and hope the baseball gods don't turn the schooble elbow
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into or agami by year four of the contract.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
So again, we love the player, it's not my deal.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I just think any starting pitchure the way baseball's played today,
where the value is placed on the bullpen, I just I.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Wouldn't do it. What about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay, the Dodgers have had a good run here in
the NLCS, and it's a little different for them because
they've got money to burn because of how they gouge
their fans with tickets and all that and parking at
Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
But it's a little different situation.
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The way tire buying should be. So a busy sporting net.
We started with baseball last Star. We'll get back to
baseball later, but we move over to the Queen City
in Island, Game in Island game, and that is the
NFL Card. Week seven Underway kicked off on Thursday night
as Al Michaels and Kirk Kirk Street had the call,
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did you watch this? Were you engaged in a matchup
that did not have a lot of it factor leading
into it? They're not a lot of excitement for it.
The Steelers' sizeable favorite, sizeable favorite in the road and
Rogers leading the party bus into Cincinnati against Joe Flacco
and the Bengals, a game so exciting that it was
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dubbed the Icy Hot Bowl leading into it an AFC
North slopper knocker, which was an eye opener. So if
you did not watch the game, maybe you're watching the
baseball game and you missed this, you might have missed it.
Joe Flacco, Yes, I know. Joe Flacco had three hundred
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and forty two yards passing not one, not two, but
three touchdowns and matriculated the ball down the field, setting
up Evan McPherson for a thirty six yard field goal
with seven seconds left as the beat e.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And g ay Ls.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Bengals snapped a four game losing streak. They win thirty
three thirty one on the last second field goal to
win over the Steelers on Thursday night. The forty year
old Joe Flacco out deal duel forty one year old
Aaron Rodgers as they went back and forth. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room, there's a lot of angst,
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a lot of angst on the Steelers defense and the
fact that a couple of guys just had ridiculous performances. Now,
we mentioned Joe Flacco and what he was able to
do as he was slinging the ball all over the place,
and another Cincinnati player, Jamar Chase, was wh open.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He was w open.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
It's like being out over the Pacific and you just
throw something out of a plane.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's gonna hit water. It's gonna hit water at some
point there.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And it was like, are the Steelers even trying defensively?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Like what are they doing? It makes no sense. Here's
Mike Tomlin, the.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Longtime Steeler coach, discussing how Jamar Chase absolutely embarrassed his defense.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Take a list.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
You know, we played these guys a bunch. We double
teamed them some, we double teamed five some. It's a
mix of mixes required. They got depth and talent. Just
like the one play eighty made down the middle. We
were doubling them both and they were one on one
in that circumstance, And so you know, as many way
as you can analyze it. But the bottom line is
they made more plays than we did.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Okay, So that's the default answer, and it's a good
jumping off point. So let us discuss who gets to
wear the Dunce cap for Mike Tomblins, Petsberg.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Steelers, they Insers.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
So on this, I've got rebranding, Ben Stiller and glazed Donut,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will spill.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
The tea all over the radio, all over the radio.
So all right, I know, So first of all, let's
start with TJ. Watt. All right, let's start with TJ. Watt.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He is the brand ambassador of that Steeler defense and
they gave him the one hundred and twenty three million
dollar deal. They pay him plausibly to make game changing plays,
to make impact plays for the Steelers defense.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
How did that go?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well, he was putting around out there, and if you
want to know how he did, don't ask what had
as many tackles as many tackles as you had.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
That's it. He had half a sack.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
There was like one half of a tackle, like a
half combined thing, but no individual tackles and half.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
A sack, which was really like a charity thing. Yikes.
It's not all bad. Though. It's not all bad for TJ.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Watt because I'll be betting bright side Wat had he
had no numbers of any of note. However, he got
a good cardio game in, he had work out, good workout.
In fact, I saw more plays being made by Steely mcbeam,
the mascot than from what the Bengals offense, led by
Joe Flacco had four hundred and seventy yards of offense,
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four hundred and seventy yards of offense, three hundred and
forty two passing yards, one hundred and forty two rushing yards.
This is not twenty twelve, all right, This is not
the twenty twelve. Now, they didn't lose a few yards
on sacks. That's why the numbers don't completely add up.
But insane, This is Joe pretty much off the couch, Flacco,
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who was benched, demoted by the Factory of Sadness, carving up,
absolutely carving up the once proud Pittsburgh defense like they
were a Halloween pumpkin.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You talk about a.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Rebrand this is a time for a rebranding in Pittsburgh.
What an embarrassment. The Steel Curtain, my fat ass, the
steel curtain that's rebranded to the steel turnstile. And my god,
that is a cultural loss, is what that is? The
old Steelers defense. If you add those old Steeler defensive
teams matched up against forty year old Joe Flacco, all right,
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the fossilized body of Joe Flacco, they would.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Have dragged that through the mud, all right through the mud.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
This group handed him Joe Flacco, a mint julip and
a lawn chair.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Holy Canoley, how bad was it? It was so bad?
Mike Tomlin, now he was diplomatic. We played the little
sound by from Tom.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Mike Tomlin is gonna have that secondary, including the likes
of Jalen Ramsey, Darius Slay, Joey Porter Jr. They're all
gonna have to give him ten burpies, run at least
twenty hill sprints and several laps around the outfield because
and also some updowns, do some updowns as punishment.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
And then we had Joey Porter Jr.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
The defensive back of the Steelers, who had the hutzba
to deflect some of the blame for the absolute gutless performance.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
By the defense. You know who he blamed? What did
he blame?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
The schedule because it was on Thursday night? Who did
he But you think he blamed to travel because you
know it's so.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Far from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. My god, No, he blamed
the officials.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
He blamed the Zebras porter In third, that Pittsburgh's defense
absolutely could have held the Bengals offense with Joe Flacco
in check, but bd it was the officials. They were
too stingy. They would not let them play. And that
is a special kind of wacker doodle. That is a
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special kind of wackerdoodle.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
All right.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Now, secondly to the winning side, which is not as
good as side all right, to the winning side. So
the question here is there a movie? Let's play the
movie game. Is there a movie to describe the Joe
Flacco Bengals offensive performance, the unexpected performance?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
You make the call? What movie is it? All right?
So I'm gonna go first.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Now the movie I'm picking to describe Joe Flacco's performance
for the Cincinnati football team.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Here's what I have.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I wrote down on my scorecard, A Ben Stiller classic
Night at the Museum, who says no, come on? Right?
Is that not the perfect movie to describe Joe Flacco.
The security guard discovers that the museum exhibits come to
life after Sunset jump Ball.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Joe Flacco an artifact in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And yet that museum piece, Joe Flacco painted a masterpiece
for the Cincinnati offense man. And he did it like
if I was the offensive coordinator, assume you as well,
you would do the same thing. So we were advising
the quarterback of the Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Bengals, right, and you just to go over. You say, Okay,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
How about I would say, use the kiss method, right,
keep it simple, stupid, And that's what Flaco did. He
had tunnel vision. He targeted Jamar Chase twenty three times.
Twenty three times, essentially a third of the offensive plays.
I don't have the numbers in front of it, about
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a third of the offensive plays the Bengals ran. He
threw the ball to Jamar Chase. Jamar Chase rewarded him
with a game for the ages, sixteen catches, one hundred
and sixty one yards, and a touchdown. And Flaco also
got help from Chase Brown, the nonexistent Cincinnati running game.
He had one hundred and eight yards. The huge issue
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for Flaco for years has been the hiccup. He's had
a lot of hiccups, a lot of hiccups, turned the
ball over quite a bit in recent years. Flacco in
this game was mister clean. No picks, no fumbles, no
obvious mistakes. Cincinnati was fifty percent on third down. It
could have been worse for Pittsburgh's defense. They only converted
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the Bengals forty percent in the red zone in this game.
This performance was just what the doctor ordered. And now
the Bengals, I believe they have the Jets upcoming, which
is like a bye week. The Jets are on a
real NFL team, and so you can add another.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Win and all of a sudden, all of us boomerang up.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
And now after a four game losing streak, you've now
won those early wins.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
You're three and four.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And all you have to be is around five hundred,
and you're a playoff contender in the American Football Conference. Now,
final fun, let's go back, we'll hit and we'll jump
and jump.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Over the other side. Let's go to the Steelers side
of things. So mister Rogers' neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
A close game Pittsburgh did take the lead late, the
Bengals got the ball and ran the clock essentially out
for the game winning field goal. Here's Aaron Rodgers on
the nail biting loss. How upset is Aaron Rodgers, Let's
find out.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
I think you got to realize. Listen, we want to
win every game. There needs to be an expectation of winning.
But this is a short week division opponent. Anything can happen. Obviously,
Joe played really well for them, and Chase and t
you got going for him. So this is the NFL.
You know, we had a chance to really open up
some space, but we're four and two, still first in
(32:02):
the division. Got a couple you know, home games coming
up back to back, another Sunday night opportunity against my
former team. So I'm not going to ride the roller coaster,
and I know Mike isn't and hopefully you guys follow suit.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
All right, So that was very robotic, That was very
level headed. That was right off sportscliche dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Okay, so the question as we go into mister Rogers neighborhood,
what grade? What grade did you give Rogers in the
Icy Hot Bowl for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
So if you didn't see the game.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Rogers finished with two hundred and forty three yards passing
and four touchdowns. Sounds pretty good, right, sounds sexy. Four touchdowns,
that's a lot. When you peel back the ayahuasca infused
onion on the Malor report card. Now this is a
pass failed grade. This is not ABC one two three.
This is a past fail grade. And unfortunately Rogers gets
(32:56):
what not a passing grade, as League Corso would say,
not so fast, my friends. If you think it's a
passing grade, this was like a glazed donut. It looked good,
kind of smelled good, but you bite into it and boom, it's.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Kind of a hollow, the middle parts hollowing. You're like,
I want the full.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Rogers had the numbers. There wasn't enough substance here. And
you do the side by side comparison. Joe Flacco outplayed
Aaron Rodgers, so Aaron gets a failing grade. Cincinnati. You
gotta understand how bad the Bengals are. I don't think
we can put into words how much they blow or
how much they had been terrible. It's hard to believe
(33:34):
they could be this bad with all the blood, sweat
and tears they put into these NFL practices are so
we're told. And the Bengals had the NFL's thirty first
ranked defense. They played without Trey Hendrickson, their top defensive player,
their star Hendrickson, and Rogers, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
He almost almost pulled.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
A rabbit out of his hat anyway, and so it's
no hard feelings. The good thing is Rogers can now
go home to his fake wife and she can cuddle
him and they'll be good together, and they can he
can talk to his imaginary wife and they'll have a
good times.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
But most games are lost, not one.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And that's the bugaboo on why we give Rogers a
failing grade. Not only did he fail in terms of
the yardage and the offensive power of the Bengals compared
to Pittsburgh, but it's the little thing stupid, or in
this case, a couple of big things.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Rogers tossed a pair of interceptions. Well they weren't all
he's full, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Well, let's do some mal of maths. So Cincinnati on
those two possessions. On those two possessions, the Bengals scored
ten points off those turnovers, ten points off Rogers interceptions.
Pittsburgh lost by two points. You can do the math,
whether it's Malard math or whatever. You can't unring the
(34:57):
bell on those interceptions. You cannot unring the be well
on those intercepts.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
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Speaker 3 (35:12):
He gets grilled Coop oh Loop.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Daniel Jones was asked on Wednesday what it means to
him that people are talking about him as a potential MVP,
and Jones said, not much after six weeks. Ben, do
you think he'll still be talked about as an MVB
candidate at the end of the season.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
No, the Colts will come back down to earth, and
no one's the MVP right now. The names that are
being tossed out are Drake may Maholmes is being mentioned.
The Chiefs don't have a great record, Baker Mayfield by
default is the favorite. And it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I mean, it's nice to.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Talk about for a segment on a radio show, it
doesn't matter. I don't believe Daniel Jones will keep this
up next.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
An anonymous Eagles player told an NFL and insider that
this season is starting to feel like the twenty twenty
three meltdown all over again.
Speaker 9 (35:59):
Ben, Do you think things will go that badly for Philly?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Well, this is a pivot point this weekend. If they
beat the Vikings, they're fine. If not, panic at the
disco next.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Matt Rule is the clear favorite to become the next
head coach of Penn States. Some analysts think this would
be a mistake, as he would be a lateral move.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Do you agree, Yeah, you know, it doesn't excite the
fan base. If he wins, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
But he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
You don't win the news conference with Matt Rule. He's
just kind of a blog.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
How do we do? How do we do it? Come on?
I passed with an A, not a c an A.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
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That's Ben Malors Show at gmail dot com. Now weed
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Such a big star. He's got two segments a week.
We had Ask a weed Man, which I thought was
going to be a disaster.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
People loved it. And then now he's such a big star.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
We had to call him to wake him up, to
call in Hello, weed Man, are you there?
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No, that's.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Me Early, I'm downed man at it. People loved it,
Weed Man. They can't wait till next week's episode Ask
a weed Man. We'll see if it continues. But you
did very well.
Speaker 9 (37:37):
We have advertisers asking about it already.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Calm down, all right, all right, come on, that's the
first lamb joke. Okay, no, that's not we've been please
come on.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You've had a great life. You ran a toy store
in Manhattan. How many people have done that?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Not many?
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Of course, you ran it. You ran it so well
it went out of business. But that's fine. All right, Uh,
let's do it.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Here we go. Big Ben's Lamb.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Jokes of the Week actual jokes by Actually, what does
weed Man and a fresh Thanksgiving turkey have in common.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
What they both have cavities with no teeth.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
All right, that's uh Andy, Andy sent that one in.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Why doesn't weed Man have any teeth? Why his dentist
is named doctor Pepper?
Speaker 3 (38:23):
That's the pen. That's Eeke in Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
What's the difference between James Franklin, the former Penn State coach,
and weed Man.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
What's the difference?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Well, James Franklin gets paid millions of dollars for doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
That's the difference. We had some intercer chances. Drew in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Trew in Minnesota rights and says, what was the best
and worst seller at weed Man's toy.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Store in New York?
Speaker 8 (38:56):
What does it tell me?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
It was a spin off toy. It was called mister Pothead.
It was.
Speaker 9 (39:05):
You can Leaves?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
What does what does Lisa hide around the house for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Of course Lisa weed Man's famous lady friend there. She
lives in New York. He's in Miami. What does Lisa
hide around the house for Christmas? What tell me? Dope
on a couch is what it's a spin off of?
All right?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
What did weed Man say when his multi functioning printer,
stop working?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
What I give no facts? Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Noah in Austin sent that one in what should be
the name of weed Man Hippie's news segment? If it's
on Wednesdays? What over the hemp with weed Man Hippie?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Yeah, there you go. It's George.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Now, George is a longtime listener to Fox Sports rad
He's a great teacher, weed Man and you've all the
Texas George, So he's a listener and he loves loves
the show. All right, George and Rochester. We go from
that George to a different George. George and Rochester, Minnesota
says an eighty year old grandmother is now the oldest
to complete the iron Man triath triathlon.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
You're about that wee Man?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Wow? No, yes, weed Man Hippie is also a triathlete
begging for cash, crypto or credit.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
That's from George.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
How How will.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Weed Man son scare weed Man on Halloween?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
How how will he do it? He will dress up
as Mary Povich and tell weed Man you are not
my father?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Oh my, that's not right.
Speaker 8 (40:42):
That's Eric.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
How's your kid doing, weed Man? Your kid doing? All right?
Last we heard he was it like Georgetown or something
like that, right, big school. Yeah, no, he graduated from Harvard.
Oh my god, we graduated from Harvard. Holy crap.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
I guess the apple.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Does fall far from the tree. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Did you hear that hollering James went to Vegas at
a seventeen thousand dollars Honda and he left Vegas in
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars vehicle.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Wow? You kidding? Yeah? It was a Greyhound, that was
what it was. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Why is Andrea in Berkeley such a proficient witch?
Speaker 3 (41:21):
Andrea in Berkeley? She's a hex burt is what she is?
Speaker 5 (41:26):
There?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I was from Steve who sent that one in?
Speaker 1 (41:31):
What do Andrew and Bakersfield and referees have in common?
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Tell me what? People hate their calls? People hate their calls?
Scan stand him?
Speaker 1 (41:42):
What does hollering James use more than his Obama phone?
Speaker 3 (41:48):
What his right hand is? What he uses?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
That's Noah in Austin fagaweed man. There he is, weed man.
Ask a weed man next week?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
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Speaker 1 (42:00):
The outside of the glass or inside? That is your
coop scoop On Entertainment Fox Sports Radios Friday segment tradition
starts right now.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
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fan on X Fix.
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Speaker 9 (42:18):
Bring it away.
Speaker 8 (42:19):
Thank you, Marcel, great toss. As always, all right, we
are going to start in the theaters, as we always
do here on Coopscoop on Entertainment. And there's a couple
of movies that I want to point out that come
out this weekend that I'm interested in. And they're both
horror movies, which makes sense for October. The first one
is a sequel Black Phone two. Yes, the movie from
(42:40):
four years ago. If you well spoiler alert, it's a
four year old movie. He kills his abductor in the
first movie, and now he is back from the grave
to get his revenge.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
That's cool. How do you come back from the grave.
I'd like to do that some day.
Speaker 8 (42:55):
Oh, you know horror movies they do that. Okay, But yes,
Ethan Hawk reap prizes his role as the grabber.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Ooh, the Gray.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
Watched out for him on the stairs. Okay, also out
in theaters. I moved him into his cage. I think
I almost made him die, kept him in the coffee cup.
Too long, all right.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
Also this weekend is Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yes, this special.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I was that a blue Frankenstein or like red Frankenstein
or a gold Frankenstein.
Speaker 9 (43:33):
I don't think there's anything weird about it.
Speaker 8 (43:37):
Yeah, but this adaptation stars Oscar Isaac as Doctor Frankenstein
and Mia Goth, the scream Queen, is in this movie,
as well as Christoph Waltz.
Speaker 9 (43:50):
So for them, Yeah, check that one out.
Speaker 8 (43:53):
This one's getting rave reviews in theaters and moving over
to television. You know how in TV when this one
production company does something and then you just you tend
to see like all the other production companies coming out
with their version of the same thing.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, Topcat.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Yeah, it's like you go to you go to everyone's
got like chicken, like chicken sandwiches at all the fast
food restaurants.
Speaker 9 (44:15):
Because that's yes, yes, exactly exactly what we.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Talked about it last week in my podcast. Did you
know that what's that chicken place? The fast food place?
Speaker 9 (44:24):
You know what I'm talking about, Popeye, Zaxby's.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
It's it's it's a fish place.
Speaker 9 (44:29):
Oh long, John Silvers, how they rebranded the Chicken.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Yes, their logo to a chicken.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
I know, so good.
Speaker 9 (44:38):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (44:39):
Well, so the the hot thing right now in TV
is serial Killer John Wyn Gaizy.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Oh big, people love this guy. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (44:48):
So I talked about how the The Monsters series on
Netflix that debuted last week got terrible reviews. I've heard
it's like comically bad, like one of those so bad
it's like you actually want to watch it because it's ridiculous.
Speaker 9 (45:00):
But this what.
Speaker 8 (45:02):
Premiered today on Peacock is Devil in Disguise John Wayne Gacy,
and so this one's actually getting good reviews. So if
you want, I guess an actually good adaptation of the
clown serial Killer, check that out on Peacock right now.
Speaker 3 (45:19):
Don't go to the basement, whatever you do.
Speaker 9 (45:20):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
Also available right now is the third season of the
Emmy nominated show The Diplomat on Netflix, starring Kerrie Russell.
It's a great show. I've watched the first two seasons.
I am excited about that. If you like spy political dramas, that's,
you know, right right up your alley.
Speaker 9 (45:40):
And then moving on, I'm gonna skip ahead to this
last thing here.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
We have a documentary series. Okay, good, where we got
That is available right now on Apple TV Plus. And
I don't know if you would like this, Ben, because
it's you hate the hero worship stuff.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
I do not like hero worship. I don't do that.
Speaker 8 (45:59):
But this is a limited documentary series called Mister Scorsese,
and of course it is.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
Uh so it's toes.
Speaker 8 (46:08):
It is a five part look at one of the
planet's most famous directors, Martin Scorsese, and uh it has
interviews with him as well as his collaborators and colleagues,
including Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Spielberg, Daniel Dave Lewis,
Kate Blanchette, et cetera, et cetera. And it's got pretty
good reviews. So that is available right now on Apple TV.
(46:31):
But oh, actually.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
They are there. There's more.
Speaker 8 (46:34):
It's not another thing. But I was about to say
it's available right now on Apple TV Plus. Apparently they
are rebranding. They're getting rid of the Plus. It's just
going to be Apple TV now.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Oh well, yeah, because it's remember when HBO started their
other thing, but then they went back to the HBO
because it was so stupid.
Speaker 9 (46:48):
Yeah, everybody's simplifying.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
Now you got to be keep it stupid man. People don't. Yeah,
I'm not going to sit there and worry about your
stupid channel.
Speaker 9 (46:55):
You know, Sick Stop, not a Scoops Go entertainment
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