October 28, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about the Washington Commanders losing to the Chiefs on MNF, Freddie Freeman hitting a walk-off HR in the bottom of the 18th in Game 3 of the World Series, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Joaquin Phoenix Edition, and more!
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Well you remember when the Washington Commanders were in the
NFC Championship Game, Mother Bat, those are the Dan Snyder Commanders.
Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben
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a curveball, the play, the show was put to bed,
and we had the baby woke up. The baby was
put to bed, the baby woke up. So the Dodgers
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are still playing. We have live baseball, which is great
because all these people are bitching and complaining.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I don't understand these games are going so long. I
don't get my God shut up. Welcome to my world,
you losers, Welcome to my world. So the Dodgers and
Blue Jays are tied at five. They've gone Now that
I know is that cheating.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
They pulled out the the sliced watermelon and pineapple. It
looked like to me pineapple. They're the Dodgers eating snacks
in the dugout and they are now going to the
bottom of the sixteenth inning at Travesarino. I want this
game to end. Either in the bottom of the sixteenth
or the seventeenth, because I was at the game that
win eighteen innings, so I don't want to see this game,
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this World Series game, go more than eighteen because that
would then cheapen the game that I was at Red
Sox and Doyers in the World Series years ago, when
Max Muntsey hit the home run the game and ended
one in the morning, Right around one in the morning,
it was after midnight. I remember that it was after midnight.
So anyway, that is what's going on right now. So
we will we will watch that, but we will be
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talking about something other than that right now, because there
is more to discuss and more to break down, and
so our lead story this hour from Arrowhead Stadium in
Cannes City. It was KC and the Sunshine Band, and
that is the lead the stage for the final game
of Week number eight. Week number eight of the NFL
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eight one of the absolute worst. By the way, the
product could not have been less enjoyable if you want
competitive games. In fact, going back to nineteen seventy, this was,
if not the largest marching, it was in the top
two or three all time in the history of the NFL.
I know going into the Monday night game. It was
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in the discussion. It depends on how you spin the
stats how badness was. But a weekend of blowouts wrapped
up with backup quarterback as Marcus Mariota leading the hobbled
Commanders into Kansas City that played eight there with Patrick
Mahomes and the Chiefs. You had Joe Buck and Troy
Aikman on the call. There were you watching? Did you watch?
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Were you engaged in this? And you were not? Okay?
So Patrick Mahomes, by his standards, struggled early in the game.
The first half was a bit of a dud all
the way around, a lot of turnovers, a lot of
bad sloppy football. And then by the time the game ended,
Mahomes we love round numbers. He was one yard away
from a nice, sexy three hundred yards passing at two
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hundred and ninety nine yards, ended up with three touchdowns.
Kareem Hunt found Peydrt hit the end zone twice, and
the Chiefs defense in the second half it looked like
they wanted to get out of there. They being Washington
as Kansas City hog tied the Commanders in the final
thirty minutes of that football game. So Kansas City pulls
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away and they win by three touchdowns twenty eight to seven.
I am told that's good. I didn't play in the NFL,
but I'm told that's good on a nice cold October night,
just days away from Halloween. Now, the better story is
in the losing locker room. The better story is in
the losing locker room. And the Commander fans very upset,
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very upset with dan Quinn. A lot of range, a
lot of anger with the way the Commanders played in
the second half of that game. And a lot of
the conversation is not even so much about how bad
the Commanders looked in the second half. It's the apathetic
appearance of the players on the Washington football team, who
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were so happy after they got their face smashed in
by the Chiefs and people up in arms over that,
that they were smiling and having a grand old time
playing grab ass at the end of the game there
on the sidelines. The postgame handshake was like a college party.
My god, were they having a good time? People upset
with that, And so that's a good jumping off point.
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Let us discuss the question does dan Quinn deserve the
heat that he's getting in the cyber Warfare department for
the commander's performance. Does he deserve some heat for that?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
My observations on this, I've got Brad pitt Child's play
and Circus Circus, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to get an end
to Game three of the World Series. That's going to have.
We're gonna end Game three of the World Series. But
number one, to answer the question, does dan Quinn deserve
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the crap that he's getting. I'm nodding my head, yes,
I'm nodding my head yes on that. Now, dan Quinn's commanders,
I'm old enough to remember that they were in the
final four of the National Football League at the end
of last season, and here they are out there, smiling
like they were to charity golf outing somewhere in Maryland,
just having a grand old time. They were out playing
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golf with some politicians and just let me have some lemonade?
Is that spiked lemonade? They didn't act like they just
got pants in the second half by Kansas City, which
is what happened on National TV, by the way, in
an island game, although not a full island game because
I was flipping back and my right hand was getting
a workout. If I had only known the Dodgers and
Blue Jays would play all night, I wouldn't even bother
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to watch the first part of the game. I just
would have focused on the football game. But I was
going back and forth and all that. So the Commanders
end up on the wrong side. And then all the
shenanigans after the game there as Washington did catch lightning
in a bottle and I caught lightning in a bottle
last year. That was supposed to be the foundation. That's
what I was told. The smart people said, this is
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the foundation. This is it. The NFL's final four NFC
Championship game in Philadelphia, win away from getting the Super Bowl,
and right there one win. Now, let's do some inventory
on where the Commanders are. We're at a checkpoint week eight.
Now I realized they play seventeen games, so it's not
quite the halfway point, but nonetheless, for talk radio purposes,
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we will examine this as the middling point of the
NFL season. So where is Washington one year after they
were right on the cusp of the top of the NFL.
So they have been come tumbling down down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down down. That's where they are right now. And
so they have gone from punching above their weight, which
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is what they did last year. Now they have gone
down to the corner bakery and they've ordered a pie,
not an apple, not a pumpkin, not the banana cream pie.
They've gone to the corner bakery and the Commanders have
ordered a big humble pie. And they're cutting up the
humble pie right now. Although they don't seem to be
that worried based on their postgame celebration. You want to
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give at least the deception that you actually care. So Defensively,
the Commanders currently are ranked twenty seventh in the NFL.
I'm told that's not good. The offense. How about the offense?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The Commander's offense here? Okay, this group, I know Jadon
Daniels has been hurt. Middle of the pack. There's sixteenth
in the NFL. Now, I recall, and maybe I'm wrong
on this. You can touch up my work if you want.
Cliff Kingsbury was the second coming of the Messiah as
the offensive genius for the Washington Commanders. It is amazing.
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How'd that go?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Don't ask this year. Now, here's the thing about the
Commanders watching this team plan. I saw him in person
a few weeks back against the Chargers, and they actually
played well in that game. But the thing I look
at Washington is they're not bad enough the Commanders to
be a lovable train wreck. So they're not at that point,
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and they're not good enough to really matter. They're just
kind of stuck in the Bermuda triangle of the NFL.
They're stuck in football purgatory at this point. And as
far as the I guess we'll call it, what is
the heel? A monster in the room here? Postgame? It
was like a country club. But is it always like
I don't like understand the rage. It's always like that
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at NFL games. They love other NFL players and they
cannot wait to hug it out. It's warm and fuzzy
at the end of every NFL game, with few exceptions.
With few exceptions. Now there are exceptions, but you you'd
think that the Washington football team was hosting a nice
brunch with sliced meats and sliced cheeses and they hadn't
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just gotten their teeth kicked in in the second half
by the team from Kansas City. But if you're dan Quinn, okay,
if you're dan Quinn, to me, that's on you. He's
supposed to be a happy, go lucky coach and all that.
That's fine, but at least give the illusion that you
were slightly bobbed. And this is always the issue. Right
we who invest our time as fans, we get emotionally attached.
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The players don't get emotionally attached. It's their gig, it's
their job. They don't understand why you're so into it.
Just chill out, man, It's just a game. And so
we want to go on there and make out at
the fifty yard line after we just got are ass kicked.
We're going to do that. We are going to do
that is what we're going to do. Yes, So, how
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bad was it for the Washington Commanders? Was so bad
that dan Quinn should hire Brad Pitt. Bring Brad Pitty
And remember that famous scene from Moneyball where he was
portraying Billy Bean and they were in the locker room
and he said, hey, you think losing is fun? You
think losing is fun? And then the player on the
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Athletics said, well, no, okay, well, if the answers no,
it's not fun, then what the hell are you smiling for?
By the way, they played thirty minutes of football, they
were tied at halftime. The Washington football team, I believe
at that point they started warming up the diesel engines
on the buses and they wanted to make sure that
the water in the shower was warm as well. They
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had just sixty six yards of offense in the second half,
and if my math is correct, I jotted this chicken
scratch down four first downs in the second half, which
I'm told is not good. And they were big underdogs,
double digit dogs. They being Washington going into this game,
they were expected to lose, they were expected to be
blown out. They actually had the game in position at
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halftime to scratch and claw and make it a fourth
quarter game, to put the pressure on Kansas City. And
instead of doing that, well, they did the opposite. They
just got in the fetal position, started sucking their thumb
and that was it. Mahomes got going, the defense started
crushing people, and that was it. Game over. Absolute weak sauce,
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Absolute week sauce. Now on the other side, page two,
So we go now to the Kansas city side of things,
where things are buzzing. You can almost hear it. There's
a buzz in the air. It's almost everywhere. Yes, So question,
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are you gonna go thumbs up or are you gonna
go thumbs down? Thumbs upper, thumbs down on Andy Reid's
Chiefs being back in the catbird seat metaphorically in the AFC.
All right, that is the question. So thumb to the moon,
way up. I'm going to the moon. Thumb way up
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to the moon. Now, this game, you don't get any
style points. It was a blowout win. It was close
at halftime. This was what I would call a workman
like effort for the Kansas City Chiefs. Here punched the
clock the old I can't really say lunch pail because
all these guys are millionaires, but you get the point.
Back in the old days, we'd say lunch pail type game.
And all of a sudden, All of a sudden, Patrick
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Mahomes looks like the vintage Patrick Mahomes. Yet again he does.
He's got his toys back at wide receiver, He's got
his playmakers back. I know Keg drinking. Steve's excited about that.
And so Mahomes is cooking with a flamethrower at this point.
So it turns out the reports of Mahomes and the
Chiefs demise, well, they were cute while they lasted greatly exaggerated.
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Mahomes looked in the second half like he was taking
batting practice at five thirty and hitting those batting practice
fastballs out of the park. Washington had nothing in the
second half. Now, some of that was Mahomes. Some of
that was Mahomes and what he was doing with Kansas City.
They got off to the er and to two start. They
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are now five and one, and the one loss in
there was the play that they quit against Jacksonville. Remember
the defense quit. They were caught on camera lollygagging, allowing
Trevor Lawrence to fall down twice and get up and
score a touchdown. So that's on them. So you could
make the argument there's a dimension in the multiverse where
they are six and zero and they're lurking in the
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playoff picture like Michael Myers behind the curtain.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
There.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Now nobody think about this, Nobody in the AFC. Nobody
in the AFC. You can say, well Indianapolis a little bit,
but nobody in the AFC West has been able to
capitalize on that early faceplant. The Chargers won all these
divisional games earlier. Oh, right, there you go, this is
the Chargers year. Everything's great. They're set up. Boom boom boom.
Division win, division win, division win, They're ready to go.
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And now we look like we look at it right
now and yeah, faceplan. So the division led by the
Chargers early and they had a shot to bury Kansas City.
They didn't do it. We all know that nobody in
the AFC West took advantage of it. As we said,
so the division is still up for grabs at this
point and now Kansas City. As of right now, the
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Chiefs are back in the playoff picture. They are the
last team in the wild card around. They're the last
team in the playoffs at this point and still have
a shot to be the number one seed in the Also,
the schedule sets up nicely Kansas City. There is no momentum,
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so we know that. However, they are playing with some
confidence now they have up ahead. If you look, you've
got the Bills, Broncos and Colts upcoming. Is also buy
mixed in and so those are massive swing games both
in the division and then just the overall hierarchy in
the AFC down the line. So Kansas City, I'm trying
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to say, if you like horror movies, Kansas City this
season it's like that class Child's Play. Remember that movie.
It's old movie. Now all my references are old, I guess,
but Child's Play. And that was where Chucky was at
the beginning of the movie. There he was burned, shot
and dismembered, and somehow, because it's Hollywood, managed to come back.
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Why not Kansas City to begin the year was burn
shot and dismembered, and they have come back now and
they're right in the middle of it in the AFC
and Mahomes is breathing like a dragon with fire. Andy
Reids is suddenly smart again, and we're on our way.
Of course, the conspiracy theorist will so well yeah but yeah,
but yeah, but yeah about the NFL wants someone to win.
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Be goes with Taylor swip. Yeah but yeah but yeah
it yeah it yeah it yea it yeah it yea
it Rabbit They yab it rabbit all right. Now, final
point to Dallas, we go. Bad football makes for good
talk radio. We love talking about the bad. We love it,
we love it. We love it, We love it. So
humiliation situation in Dallas question coach Brian Schottenheimer, the sock
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pupp coach of Jerry Jones football team, is promising change, change,
change this after the Denver Broncos rubbed the Cowboys face
in their own poo poo in the game on Sunday,
dominating win. As Schottenheimer says there's going to be changed.
He also said it is not acceptable the way the
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Dallas football team played. So question what changes can Shotty?
What changes can Shoty make for the Cowboys? That is
the question. So Schottenheimer banging the podium right, this is
the classic. I'm going to bang the podium is what
I'm going to do, and say, changes coming, changes coming. Now.
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We've seen this movie before at Spider Light Spider Alert. Yes,
we know how it ends. We know it ends two
weeks from now or three weeks from now. But Cowboys
will give up a fifty point game to somebody. But change, change, change.
Do I have the change? But this is pure window dressing.
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It's pure window dressing. It's paint on a cracked foundation,
trying to sell the house before the person buying the
house realizes the foundation is cracked on the house. So
what's gonna change. You can't change the roster. I know
the trade deadline is coming up. You're not gonna trade
half the roster, which is seemingly what you're going to
have to do. Right, So the defense is wobbly. In Dallas,
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they're three four and one. They have a losing record.
Dak Prescott is putting up video game numbers where the
fantasy football players have their pants down. They're so excited
about that. And it doesn't mean a damn thing. It
does not mean a damn thing. It does not, And
so it's kind of like putting lipstick on a quarterback draw.
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And that's essentially what they're doing. This is the most fun,
most fun, fun bad NFL team. And now fun bad
is important to me. That's important. You just want to
be bad. You want to be fun bad. Fun bad's
a good kind of bad. You can't just be bad bad,
fun bad. That's the way to go. Dallas is like
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the Circus Circus Midway in Vegas. And when you go
to the Circus Circus Midway in Vegas, it's a much
different experience when you're nine years old as opposed to
when you're fifty years old. It's much different experience. Right,
you go to the Circus Circus Midway in Vegas. They've
got flashing lights, there's a lot of noise, there's a
lot of activity, there's carnival games, there's chaos. Everyone seems
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to be having a great time, but deep down in
your soul, you know it's kind of a dump. That's
the Dallas Cowboys, right. Everyone looks like they're having a
good time, they're having fun. There's a lot of flashing lights,
there's a lot of chaos and all that, but deep down,
you know, they blow. They absolutely blow. They score a
lot of points, they give up a lot of points,
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and there's always a lot of drama, which is good
if you're a fledgling overnight talk show host like yours.
Truly so, Jerry Jones is sitting somewhere eating a big
mac and he's watching and he's seeing all the fireworks
and he's like, all right, a loving it. I am
loving it.
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story from Chavez Ravine that the scene Downtown LA. Overlooking
Downtown La. That the stage for Game three of the
World Series. You had Vladimir Guerrero Junior Flatty leading the
Blue Jays as they flew into LA for a matchup
with sho Hey O'tani and the Dodgers. Not to start
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of the game seven some hours ago, you had Mac
Schurzer versus Tyler Glass. Now that was the matchup start.
Joe Davis and John Smoltz had the call, and the
game ended about ten minutes ago. We're doing this in
real time. The game ended in about ten minutes ago.
And why did it end ten minutes ago? Because Freddie
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Freeman to the moon. If you didn't see it, Freddie
Freeman hits a game ender, eighteen inning walk off home
run for Freddie Freeman as the Dodgers and Blue Jays
played free baseball, A solo home run by Freddie Freeman
the bottom of the eighteenth and the Blue Crew get
a six to five win in a game that took
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six hours and thirty nine minutes, six hours and thirty
nine minutes, a game that had several points where the
Blue Jays could have, should have and would have won,
but they did not win. So let us discuss that's
a good jumping off point. Freddie Freeman your October hero.
And so the question on this one, the question is
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what stands out What is your knee jerk reaction to
Game three of the World Series, which just ended a
couple of minutes ago. So I've got on this one.
I've got Kryptonite. We've also got Rancho koukamonga, and if
that was not enough, we will throw in for added effect,
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we will throw in the cry babies, and we'll mix
all of these things together, and we are going to
make the baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the Babaganoosh. So
the first thing that stands out is the amount of
baseball that was played. I mean, this is really is
eighteen innings of baseball between the Dodgers and Blue Jays.
And you look at similar numbers here, which are historic.
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The Dodgers, for example, left eighteen runners on base in
this game, eighteen runners on base. The Toronto Blue Jays
they ended up with nineteen runners left on base. The
Blue Jays were two of twelve in runners in scoring positions,
so they were not very good in that department. The Dodgers,
on the other side, and obviously not good either. They
were two for fourteen. It was the show, Oh hey
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Otani game. More on that in a minute. Otani, who
was absolutely cooking. He was four for four and then
the Blue Jays eventually decided, well, we're not going to
let him beat us, and so they started walking him.
He was walked five times, four of those intentional and
Otani tying a Major League Baseball record for most times
reaching base, as he ended up on base nine times
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in Game three of the World Series. So he's had
two massive playoff games, the one against the Brew crew
with all the home runs and the pitching, and now
this game where the Blue Jays just completely could not
get him out. They gave up. So it's that. And
then obviously Freddie Freeman, there'll be seventeen thousand promotions next year.
Freddie Freeman, bobblehead, Freddie Freeman, Replica Jersey, Freddie Freeman, this,
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Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
That.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
But the walk off home run right over the three
to ninety five signed in center field at Dodger Stadium,
and the Dodgers have won it. And Freddy that post
that he knew he was going to be in the
like the bobblehead next year, so he had the number
one finger in the air. He said, number one right there,
every everywhere. So the now here's a fun factoid. Are
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you ready for a fun factoid mixed in fun fact
All right, so we are told it is now official.
There have only been two eighteen inning games in world
serious history. And Brad Paisley sang the national anthem at
both of them. He was. He was there for Game
three in twenty eighteen, and now here in this game, uh,
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the game at Dodger Stadium. Here that went eighteen innings.
So it's his birthday. Yeah. The thing also that stands
out about this, though, is not all losses are the same, right.
I mean said, well, this hurts because it's an eighteen
inning loss for the Toronto Blue Jays. But I would argue,
and I don't think I'm wrong on this. You can
disagree if you want. This is worse than that because
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the spot of the Dodgers, every man, woman and child
knows is the bullpen. It is a parade of horribles,
the Dodger bullpen. And it wasn't pretty. There were a
lot of runners on base, there was a lot of traction.
But in the end, the Dodgers' bullpen was marvelous. It
was a chef's kiss. Will Klein, who normally you would
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say decline immediately a Dodger legend as the pitcher, the
nondescript pitcher coming out of the bullpen. There Will cleinb
and pitching a lot of goosegs, a lot of gooseggs
out of that Dodger bullpen four innings. He threw seventy
two pitches out of the bullpen and only allowed one hit.
He walked a couple of guys, but four innings of
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shutout relief when he was the last man standing for
the Dodgers. Now turning the page on that. As for
the approach, the approach of both teams, So the question
is is there a word? Is there a word?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Now?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
The Dodgers kryptonite is their bullpen. The Blue Jays blew it.
They didn't take advantage of that, but just in general,
both teams were rather flaccid as the game went on.
So what is the word watching the Blue Jays and
Dodgers flail away for what seemed like three hours like
the game the regular game for three hours. The extra
innings were like three hours, three hours plus. So what
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is the word for the Dodgers and Blue Jays offensive
approach for the majority of extra inning baseball there in
the World Series? So two words, not one word? Two
words hero ball, hero ball. Everyone in Dodger blue and
Toronto Blue Jay uniforms, everyone decided that they were going
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to go out there and they were going to be
the protagonist in the in the movie. They were making
a movie. In so many sports movies, and they wanted
to be the protagonist in this, and forget team baseball.
There wasn't very much of Once you got to extra innings,
you've got home run derby. Everyone's trying to hit home runs.
You get a home run, you get a home run.
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It was Halloween this week, and so it's Halloween home
run derby. Cosplay is what it was here for the
Dodgers in Blue Jayson, Game three of the World Series.
It was often reckless. It was often irresponsible baseball, that's
what it was, and almost no situational hitting when the
Dodgers did try it, and it backfired as they bunted
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the runner across the way and they just needed a
sack fly and then of course a pop up to
shortstop screwed that up. So there was almost no situational hitting.
And then when the Dodgers did try it, it backfired.
There it was mostly a conga line of guys trying
to hit the ball outside of the stadium over the pavilion.
A lot of uppercut swings there from players on both teams,
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and that is human nature, right, It's just like in
basketball certain guys want to take the shot at the
end of the game. Now there's other guys that turtle
up and don't want to take the shot. But in baseball,
very rarely do you find anyone that doesn't want to
be the hero and get the postgame interview, get the
gatorade bath, the whole thing. Hit the game winning home run,
and everyone wants to be on the poster. Everyone wants
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to be on the meme. Now, Freddie Freeman, back to
back years. Freddie Freeman is on that moment. And while
Tani hit a home run and was on base nine times,
Freeman's got to be the lead. Freddie Freeman's got to
be leading this game. And that iconic photo of him
with his finger raised up in the air, the one
finger as he was circling first base. But so you
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can be a bunch of as we said, Freddie Freeman
giveaways next year for the Dodgers. The problem is when
everyone's swinging like they're trying to hit the ball to
Rancho Kuckamonga, Okay, the offense looks like a bad Beer
League softball situation. It's not very very pretty. And so
Freddie Freeman did get it, as we said, he it's
the game winning home run. Dodgers went it six to
five in X ratings. That was nine innings times two
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in the World Series, and history says that the winner
of Game three has won seventy percent. I believe it's
seventy percent of the time. However, as the great Dick
Stockton inform me, that tells you what has happened, not
what's going to happen here. And so the final nine innings,
while John Smoltz and Joe Davis on the Fox broadcast
were waxing liquacious about how amazing it was and how
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magical it was and all that. They were going on
on and on and on, everyone trying to be the
Knight in Shining Armor, and occasionally, sometimes the Knight in
Shining Armor is just an idiot wrapped in tinfoil that
occasionally happens. That occasionally happens, And so there was there
was some of that. Now, the other thing I've learned
(32:39):
from years and years of doing talk radio is a
lot of that game was rather disgusting. It was puke
in your mouth bad baseball, fundamentally bad baseball. There were
pitchers on the Dodgers who fundamentally blow and the Blue
Jays turned them into rock stars because of bad at bats,
and they got themselves out a lot of the time.
I got themselves out a lot of the time. So
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you've got that. But the thing that I know, all
of this will be forgotten. It's like men in black
and they're gonna zap you. They're gonna zap you with
the neuralies or whatever it's called there. And the only
thing over time that we are going to remember is
going to be and this is across the board. When
you watch a big event like this in sports, you're
gonna remember two things. You're gonna remember the emotional peak
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and you're gonna remember the end of the game. Now,
in this case, it's they're both the same. The emotional
peak was the Freddie Freeman home run. Right now, maybe
you'll remember Otani got on base nine times. I was
at the Dodger Red Sox game when eighteen innings in
the twenty eighteen World Series, and I remember two things
about that game without looking. I remember the Max Munsey
home run, and I also remember for the Red Sox,
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Nathan Evaldi pitching ridiculous bullpen, came in, pitched a bunch
of innings. I forget how many, but he saved the
Red Sox pitching staff coming in and throwing a ton
of innings in that game. So those are the things
I remember, and I was at that in that World
Series back in the day. Now the last word here,
let's address what everyone will be yapping about outside the
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outcome of the game, and that would be the show. Hey,
Otani getting on base nine times? Game? How did you
get on base nine times? Well, a lot of that
was because of the generosity of the Toronto Blue Jays.
It was intentionally walked, not once, not twice, not three times,
but four times. So the question on this one, with
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the Blue Jay pitchers and the management deciding we're not
going to allow Otani to beat us, with Otani being
pitched around and walked, he's walked five times with four
intentional walks, does Major League Baseball need to revisit the
intentional walk rule. So a lot of chatter, a lot
(34:51):
of Internet chatter. People upset, many of them worked to
day shift, many of them are on the East Coast.
Many of them are belly aching and complaining there is
a right or cry babies right, So let's address the
cry babies in the room and we'll tackle the question
with Otani intentionally walked four times in this game? Does
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baseball need to revisit the intentional walk rule? So I
am shaking my head. No, all right, I'm shaking my head.
No on this. You cannot legislate out of respect. You
cannot do it. And if a guy is so terrifying,
so intimidating that a team in the World Series would
(35:38):
rather hand that player first base, just go down to first.
You've got us by the balls, that's not a problem.
That is a act of respect for Sho hail Tani,
that he's such a monster that Toronto is there a
bunch of cowards. They're afraid of Otani. They're like these
(35:58):
other guys. It's also a vote of no confidence for
the rest of the Dodger lineup. But I totally get it.
The Blue Jays didn't just pitch around him. They tapped
out in this game. They said no moss, they tossed
in the sponge, all of that. John Schneider, the Blue
Jays manager, essentially raised the white flag and said, please
(36:19):
don't hurt us, show hey, leave us alone. Four intentional
walks are your bloody kidding me? That is the baseball
version of pulling the fire alarm. Now, I'm not gonna
sit here and pretend like it's not great for the sport.
It's terrible for the sport. We get it. I understand.
I like baseball. I don't like everything about baseball. I
(36:41):
like to complain. I get paid to complain. So clearly,
it's not ideal, it's not. It's just isn't the sport
neutering its biggest stars, cutting the balls off its biggest
stars on the biggest stage around is not what you're
hoping for. It's not. It's just bad. Tell it's bad entertainment.
And so that is an issue that you have to
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factor in here. It would be like telling Patrick Mahomes, listen, dude,
you're so good. The defense has asked you to not
throw a pass in the Super Bowl, and so we're
not going to allow you to throw a pass in
the Super Bowl because you're so good. Or whoever your
favorite NBA player is right now. Back in the old days,
you'd say Lebron, but whoever it was, you don't let
(37:28):
them shoot the ball in Game seven of the NBA Finals,
all right now, the yabbit crowd yabit, Yeah, but yeah, yeah,
but yeah, but yabbit rabbit. The yabbit rabbit says, you know, listen,
change the rule. It's it's bad for the sport. You
got to advance the baseball has been around since the
eighteen eighties or whatever. You get to advance, advance the sport.
(37:51):
Of course, I'm on the counter of that. My argument
is you cannot change the rule every time somebody is
so good it's emasculating. In basketball, they got rid of
the slam dunk because well, guys, with certain guys, we're
too good. Will Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, players of that.
(38:12):
Kareem created the skyhook, which was unstoppable known as leu
ale cinder back in those days. But in the context
of baseball, it's part of the sport of baseball. You
earn that treatment. They're not walking nobody's four times intentionally,
so just to play devil's advocate here and again, my
position is firmly that baseball does not need to dramatically
(38:36):
change this rule, that this is more of an outlier situation.
Now that being said, I did activate the Malar think tank.
The Malar think tank has been activated here and the
idea we were tossing this around casually or in an
earlier hour of the show. It does make a lot
of sense that you increase the stakes for players that
(38:58):
are so good you're going to multi multiple times intentionally
walk a player. So I would be open to it.
I wouldn't love it, but I would be open to
the idea intentional walk. If you walk Otani the first time,
he gets first base. If you walk him later in
the game, he gets second base. If you walk him
a third time, he goes to third base. And if
you walk him a fourth time, he just gives give
(39:18):
him a run. If you're such a coward and your
pitching staff blows so much, I'd be open. It is gimmicky,
and I generally try to avoid that kind of stuff.
And here's the thing, though, if you think that would
be too radical, oh you're just being a shock chock mallard.
That's why you're on Overnight. They're never gonna consider that.
(39:39):
Oh really, oh really, In my lifetime, In my lifetime,
Major League Baseball, ghost Runners, spookkey, Rob Manford gave you
ghost runners. That's literal league, that's bare league, soup up
the ghost rutters. Rob Manford gave you ghost rutters. So
he said out race just to think. If you want
(39:59):
intentionally walk a guy four times, he'll just end the game.
That's it and give you a run pitch clock. That
was blasphemy back in the Baseball's got a pitchclock bigger
basis the size of pizza boxes? Who asked for that?
Baseball's got it? Banned the shift because the players can't adjust.
Baseball did it? So Rob Manford has already turned the
(40:24):
game into a bit of a funhouse. That bit of
a fun house here with everything here, all the gimmicks,
and you know, out of an effort to make the
game of baseball more entertaining. So either way, four intentional walks,
which is what O'tani got here the ultimate badge of
(40:45):
riespect for Oltani. That is it. Toronto did not pitch
to show hail Toni the meal ticket for the Dodgers
the entire second half. I guess there was one at
back there they had to as there was nobody on.
But other than that, for the majority of the World
Series game when we went to extra innings, because they
(41:06):
knew what Tani was going to torch him and so
you can wrap that in we want I'll put a
ball on it this way, major League Baseball. Just to
clarify my position, because I know you only listen to
half the things I say. If I'm lucky, major League
Baseball does not need a rule change. However, you want
to tinker a little bit, I'd be okay with it.
He would add a degree of difficulty, so I'd be
(41:28):
okay with that. I don't love it. That would be
a bit of a compromise. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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After Freddie Freeman ends the eighteen inning World Series thriller,
the Dodgers are two wins away from the World Series,
and if they win just the games at Dodgers Stadium,
they can wrap it up in a couple of games
(41:48):
here on Wednesday night. If they win the next two here,
the Dodgers have a tremendous pitching advantage, at least in
the game here on Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
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Speaker 1 (42:01):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. Have guys, he we goller, Here we go,
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
This is one big gets grill.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
During yesterday's show, you said Drake May was not yet
a legit MVP contender. Whoever, Colts quarterback Daniel Jones believes
that his running back Jonathan Taylor is ben What do
you think?
Speaker 1 (42:20):
No, you downgrade Taylor's been great. He's a running back
and by default, running backs don't win the MVP. Maholmes
is now your favorite to win the MVP. It's going
to be a quarterback. It's going to be a quarterback.
He'll get some token votes Jonathan Taylor, but not enough
to win next. MVP is an award that's getting a
lot of discussion. But who do you think the front runner?
(42:40):
The front runner is for Coach of the Year, Well,
you talked about the Colts KOOPLEPI. The formula is rather simple.
When you have a team that was supposed to be
mediocre or suck and they overachieved, Shane Steichen, the coach
of the Colts, has to be the favorite for Coach
of the Year honors at this point because Daniel Jones
I thought was going to be horrific. He's not. He's
(43:02):
a top ten quarterback. So Shane Styke is going to
get the credit.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Next, Kellen Moore decided to bench quarterback Spencer Ratler late
in the game on Sunday and go with rookie. I
don't even know how to pronounce his name. Tyler shu
shuck is pronounced. That's so weird. Check with the hopes
of Louisville. Yeah, the hopes of providing a spark.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
It didn't.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
But Ben, at this point, is there any reason to
go back to Ratler?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
So it's like deciding whether you want the firing squad
of the electric chair. Either way, the outcome is going
to be the same. There is no good choice here.
It doesn't matter. How did we do pass?
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Oh my god? PA.
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Speaker 1 (43:57):
Let's do it. Welcome to architssays we've got any meaning
mighty most. Sam is in Iowa. Hello Sam, Welcome than
Sam's full of energy, he's excited to be here, and
he's a man of many words. Welcome Sam, You're gonna
play the game? Who do you want to partner up
with Sam? Okay, he's gonna play with Ben Lorena.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
I'm shocked he didn't pick me up.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Okay, I can't believe that. Hold on a sex, Sam
and we have keg drinking Steve and ken'saw city. Hello
se Man, what.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
A record breaking night? Did you see?
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Mary? We don't have time steam geez.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
The other guy hung up? So you gotta play, you
gotta play. I'll play with Lorena man, Mary hart Is okay,
all right, you're an idiot? What he or what he is?
All right, let's play the game.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
You're not playing with Lorena, Steve, play the game?
Speaker 1 (44:50):
All right? All right? Stop?
Speaker 3 (44:51):
What is the is the was it the woking En
Phoenix edition? Yes, he's fifty one years old?
Speaker 1 (44:56):
To happy birth? Ah the joker? Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
The categories are eight millimeter, Gladiator, the Immigrant, and Napoleon?
Samwhich category would you like? Gladiator? Alright, Steve? How about you?
Speaker 5 (45:12):
The immigrant?
Speaker 3 (45:13):
The immigrant?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
All right? Right, very good? I love immigrants. Okay, thank you, congratulations.
All right, here we go. Let's play the game right now.
You picked Sam and Iowa a man of few words.
You picked Gladiator. These athletes were all part of notable fights.
Are you ready, Sam? Yeah, all right, we need the
first and last name and we're on our way. Go
(45:37):
Star defensive player for the Cleveland Browns right now, all right,
the worm for the Chicago Bulls in the nineteen eighties,
the picce. Yeah, all right, thank you. I'll take credit
for it. He changed his name. He played for the
Indiana Pacers. He started the malice at the Palace at
(45:57):
basketball play player. That is correct. Picture for the Red Sox,
not Kurt Schilling, but the number one picture for that
Red Sox team that won the World Series from the
Dominican Republic, that is correct. Got into a fight with Robbin,
got into a fight with Nolan Ryan, got a fight
with Nolan Ryan got his.
Speaker 5 (46:19):
You said the name that does not Yes? You did, Yes,
you said, Rob said Rob. I said that does not
count you that ninety I said Rob. All right, I
did say Ro. I said Rob Rob. We said we
are we have Rob Parker.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
The immigrant. These athletes were Rob Parker. These athletes were
all born in another country.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
You're getting all.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Right, Steve, forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
Japanese slugger for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Full name.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Joey o'danni.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
Yes, okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
This guy's the star player on the Lakers. He's from
like Slovenia. Uh, Luca, Yes, this guy was a Canadian
on the Philadelphia on the Phoenix Suns. He won like
a couple mvds.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Uh. Alright.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
This guy was a slugger from the Dominican Republic for
the Angels. People are considering him to be a manager.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Albert.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yes, this guy was nicknamed the Nigerian Nightmare. This guy
was a Polish kicker for the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Kicker. V.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
You went for the joke, so we have we have
seventy seventy al Right, Steve, we're back up. Do you
want eight millimeter or Napoleon?
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Napole?
Speaker 3 (47:47):
It's Steve, It's Steve.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
You're gonna gets all right?
Speaker 3 (47:53):
All right, Steve, we've got Napoleon. These athletes were all
considered short in their sport.
Speaker 5 (47:59):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Okay, all right, forty five seconds. Let's begin.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
He's the short quarterback for the Cardinals right now. Uh,
the guy that doesn't play video games?
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Kyler Murray.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Yes, yes, this guy was on the Seahawks and the Broncos.
Now he's a backup on the giants. Uh, well, man,
mister unlimited. Okay, uh, yes, this guy was a cheating astro.
He's like five to five. He's what a cheating astro?
He's like five to five?
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Uh yeah, I know, little guy.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Okay, how about this guy's got the same name as
the famous point guard from the Detroit Pistons. No, no,
but he's on there. Who's the shortest player of all time?
Speaker 1 (48:48):
You didn't get it?
Speaker 3 (48:49):
He said the name, he said the name.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
That a hundred. Let's go, let's go Steve here. But
all right, yeah, these these all War number eight, They
all War number eight. Are you ready saying? Yeah? All right? Uh,
Star of the Star of the nineteen seventies Pittsburgh Pirates.
We are family hit tail a record break African American
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guy hit tons of home runs for the Pirate. Yeah,
all right, there you go, shut up, not yours greatest
punter of all time for the Raiders. And he's not
a man, he's a rod. We win Jimmy's name. Let's
go long win Muggy Bus Muggsy, folks did not count.
Muggsy did not count.
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Well you remember when the Washington Commanders were in the
NFC Championship Game, Mother Bat, those are the Dan Snyder Commanders.
Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben
Mahler Show.
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As we cluster and hang out in the corner store.
We have more. We absolutely have more coast to coast,
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a curveball, the play, the show was put to bed,
and we had the baby woke up. The baby was
put to bed, the baby woke up. So the Dodgers
(02:07):
are still playing. We have live baseball, which is great
because all these people are bitching and complaining.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I don't understand these games are going so long. I
don't get my God shut up. Welcome to my world,
you losers, Welcome to my world. So the Dodgers and
Blue Jays are tied at five. They've gone Now that
I know is that cheating.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
They pulled out the the sliced watermelon and pineapple. It
looked like to me pineapple. They're the Dodgers eating snacks
in the dugout and they are now going to the
bottom of the sixteenth inning at Travesarino. I want this
game to end. Either in the bottom of the sixteenth
or the seventeenth, because I was at the game that
win eighteen innings, so I don't want to see this game,
(02:48):
this World Series game, go more than eighteen because that
would then cheapen the game that I was at Red
Sox and Doyers in the World Series years ago, when
Max Muntsey hit the home run the game and ended
one in the morning, Right around one in the morning,
it was after midnight. I remember that it was after midnight.
So anyway, that is what's going on right now. So
we will we will watch that, but we will be
(03:10):
talking about something other than that right now, because there
is more to discuss and more to break down, and
so our lead story this hour from Arrowhead Stadium in
Cannes City. It was KC and the Sunshine Band, and
that is the lead the stage for the final game
of Week number eight. Week number eight of the NFL
(03:33):
eight one of the absolute worst. By the way, the
product could not have been less enjoyable if you want
competitive games. In fact, going back to nineteen seventy, this was,
if not the largest marching, it was in the top
two or three all time in the history of the NFL.
I know going into the Monday night game. It was
(03:55):
in the discussion. It depends on how you spin the
stats how badness was. But a weekend of blowouts wrapped
up with backup quarterback as Marcus Mariota leading the hobbled
Commanders into Kansas City that played eight there with Patrick
Mahomes and the Chiefs. You had Joe Buck and Troy
Aikman on the call. There were you watching? Did you watch?
(04:18):
Were you engaged in this? And you were not? Okay?
So Patrick Mahomes, by his standards, struggled early in the game.
The first half was a bit of a dud all
the way around, a lot of turnovers, a lot of
bad sloppy football. And then by the time the game ended,
Mahomes we love round numbers. He was one yard away
from a nice, sexy three hundred yards passing at two
(04:40):
hundred and ninety nine yards, ended up with three touchdowns.
Kareem Hunt found Peydrt hit the end zone twice, and
the Chiefs defense in the second half it looked like
they wanted to get out of there. They being Washington
as Kansas City hog tied the Commanders in the final
thirty minutes of that football game. So Kansas City pulls
(05:01):
away and they win by three touchdowns twenty eight to seven.
I am told that's good. I didn't play in the NFL,
but I'm told that's good on a nice cold October night,
just days away from Halloween. Now, the better story is
in the losing locker room. The better story is in
the losing locker room. And the Commander fans very upset,
(05:26):
very upset with dan Quinn. A lot of range, a
lot of anger with the way the Commanders played in
the second half of that game. And a lot of
the conversation is not even so much about how bad
the Commanders looked in the second half. It's the apathetic
appearance of the players on the Washington football team, who
(05:48):
were so happy after they got their face smashed in
by the Chiefs and people up in arms over that,
that they were smiling and having a grand old time
playing grab ass at the end of the game there
on the sidelines. The postgame handshake was like a college party.
My god, were they having a good time? People upset
with that, And so that's a good jumping off point.
(06:10):
Let us discuss the question does dan Quinn deserve the
heat that he's getting in the cyber Warfare department for
the commander's performance. Does he deserve some heat for that?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
My observations on this, I've got Brad pitt Child's play
and Circus Circus, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to get an end
to Game three of the World Series. That's going to have.
We're gonna end Game three of the World Series. But
number one, to answer the question, does dan Quinn deserve
(06:52):
the crap that he's getting. I'm nodding my head, yes,
I'm nodding my head yes on that. Now, dan Quinn's commanders,
I'm old enough to remember that they were in the
final four of the National Football League at the end
of last season, and here they are out there, smiling
like they were to charity golf outing somewhere in Maryland,
just having a grand old time. They were out playing
(07:14):
golf with some politicians and just let me have some lemonade?
Is that spiked lemonade? They didn't act like they just
got pants in the second half by Kansas City, which
is what happened on National TV, by the way, in
an island game, although not a full island game because
I was flipping back and my right hand was getting
a workout. If I had only known the Dodgers and
Blue Jays would play all night, I wouldn't even bother
(07:37):
to watch the first part of the game. I just
would have focused on the football game. But I was
going back and forth and all that. So the Commanders
end up on the wrong side. And then all the
shenanigans after the game there as Washington did catch lightning
in a bottle and I caught lightning in a bottle
last year. That was supposed to be the foundation. That's
what I was told. The smart people said, this is
(07:59):
the foundation. This is it. The NFL's final four NFC
Championship game in Philadelphia, win away from getting the Super Bowl,
and right there one win. Now, let's do some inventory
on where the Commanders are. We're at a checkpoint week eight.
Now I realized they play seventeen games, so it's not
quite the halfway point, but nonetheless, for talk radio purposes,
(08:22):
we will examine this as the middling point of the
NFL season. So where is Washington one year after they
were right on the cusp of the top of the NFL.
So they have been come tumbling down down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down down. That's where they are right now. And
so they have gone from punching above their weight, which
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is what they did last year. Now they have gone
down to the corner bakery and they've ordered a pie,
not an apple, not a pumpkin, not the banana cream pie.
They've gone to the corner bakery and the Commanders have
ordered a big humble pie. And they're cutting up the
humble pie right now. Although they don't seem to be
that worried based on their postgame celebration. You want to
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give at least the deception that you actually care. So Defensively,
the Commanders currently are ranked twenty seventh in the NFL.
I'm told that's not good. The offense. How about the offense?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The Commander's offense here? Okay, this group, I know Jadon
Daniels has been hurt. Middle of the pack. There's sixteenth
in the NFL. Now, I recall, and maybe I'm wrong
on this. You can touch up my work if you want.
Cliff Kingsbury was the second coming of the Messiah as
the offensive genius for the Washington Commanders. It is amazing.
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How'd that go?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Don't ask this year. Now, here's the thing about the
Commanders watching this team plan. I saw him in person
a few weeks back against the Chargers, and they actually
played well in that game. But the thing I look
at Washington is they're not bad enough the Commanders to
be a lovable train wreck. So they're not at that point,
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and they're not good enough to really matter. They're just
kind of stuck in the Bermuda triangle of the NFL.
They're stuck in football purgatory at this point. And as
far as the I guess we'll call it, what is
the heel? A monster in the room here? Postgame? It
was like a country club. But is it always like
I don't like understand the rage. It's always like that
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at NFL games. They love other NFL players and they
cannot wait to hug it out. It's warm and fuzzy
at the end of every NFL game, with few exceptions.
With few exceptions. Now there are exceptions, but you you'd
think that the Washington football team was hosting a nice
brunch with sliced meats and sliced cheeses and they hadn't
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just gotten their teeth kicked in in the second half
by the team from Kansas City. But if you're dan Quinn, okay,
if you're dan Quinn, to me, that's on you. He's
supposed to be a happy, go lucky coach and all that.
That's fine, but at least give the illusion that you
were slightly bobbed. And this is always the issue. Right
we who invest our time as fans, we get emotionally attached.
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The players don't get emotionally attached. It's their gig, it's
their job. They don't understand why you're so into it.
Just chill out, man, It's just a game. And so
we want to go on there and make out at
the fifty yard line after we just got are ass kicked.
We're going to do that. We are going to do
that is what we're going to do. Yes, So, how
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bad was it for the Washington Commanders? Was so bad
that dan Quinn should hire Brad Pitt. Bring Brad Pitty
And remember that famous scene from Moneyball where he was
portraying Billy Bean and they were in the locker room
and he said, hey, you think losing is fun? You
think losing is fun? And then the player on the
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Athletics said, well, no, okay, well, if the answers no,
it's not fun, then what the hell are you smiling for?
By the way, they played thirty minutes of football, they
were tied at halftime. The Washington football team, I believe
at that point they started warming up the diesel engines
on the buses and they wanted to make sure that
the water in the shower was warm as well. They
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had just sixty six yards of offense in the second half,
and if my math is correct, I jotted this chicken
scratch down four first downs in the second half, which
I'm told is not good. And they were big underdogs,
double digit dogs. They being Washington going into this game,
they were expected to lose, they were expected to be
blown out. They actually had the game in position at
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halftime to scratch and claw and make it a fourth
quarter game, to put the pressure on Kansas City. And
instead of doing that, well, they did the opposite. They
just got in the fetal position, started sucking their thumb
and that was it. Mahomes got going, the defense started
crushing people, and that was it. Game over. Absolute weak sauce,
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Absolute week sauce. Now on the other side, page two,
So we go now to the Kansas city side of things,
where things are buzzing. You can almost hear it. There's
a buzz in the air. It's almost everywhere. Yes, So question,
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are you gonna go thumbs up or are you gonna
go thumbs down? Thumbs upper, thumbs down on Andy Reid's
Chiefs being back in the catbird seat metaphorically in the AFC.
All right, that is the question. So thumb to the moon,
way up. I'm going to the moon. Thumb way up
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to the moon. Now, this game, you don't get any
style points. It was a blowout win. It was close
at halftime. This was what I would call a workman
like effort for the Kansas City Chiefs. Here punched the
clock the old I can't really say lunch pail because
all these guys are millionaires, but you get the point.
Back in the old days, we'd say lunch pail type game.
And all of a sudden, All of a sudden, Patrick
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Mahomes looks like the vintage Patrick Mahomes. Yet again he does.
He's got his toys back at wide receiver, He's got
his playmakers back. I know Keg drinking. Steve's excited about that.
And so Mahomes is cooking with a flamethrower at this point.
So it turns out the reports of Mahomes and the
Chiefs demise, well, they were cute while they lasted greatly exaggerated.
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Mahomes looked in the second half like he was taking
batting practice at five thirty and hitting those batting practice
fastballs out of the park. Washington had nothing in the
second half. Now, some of that was Mahomes. Some of
that was Mahomes and what he was doing with Kansas City.
They got off to the er and to two start. They
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are now five and one, and the one loss in
there was the play that they quit against Jacksonville. Remember
the defense quit. They were caught on camera lollygagging, allowing
Trevor Lawrence to fall down twice and get up and
score a touchdown. So that's on them. So you could
make the argument there's a dimension in the multiverse where
they are six and zero and they're lurking in the
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playoff picture like Michael Myers behind the curtain.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
There.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Now nobody think about this, Nobody in the AFC. Nobody
in the AFC. You can say, well Indianapolis a little bit,
but nobody in the AFC West has been able to
capitalize on that early faceplant. The Chargers won all these
divisional games earlier. Oh, right, there you go, this is
the Chargers year. Everything's great. They're set up. Boom boom boom.
Division win, division win, division win, They're ready to go.
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And now we look like we look at it right
now and yeah, faceplan. So the division led by the
Chargers early and they had a shot to bury Kansas City.
They didn't do it. We all know that nobody in
the AFC West took advantage of it. As we said,
so the division is still up for grabs at this
point and now Kansas City. As of right now, the
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Chiefs are back in the playoff picture. They are the
last team in the wild card around. They're the last
team in the playoffs at this point and still have
a shot to be the number one seed in the Also,
the schedule sets up nicely Kansas City. There is no momentum,
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so we know that. However, they are playing with some
confidence now they have up ahead. If you look, you've
got the Bills, Broncos and Colts upcoming. Is also buy
mixed in and so those are massive swing games both
in the division and then just the overall hierarchy in
the AFC down the line. So Kansas City, I'm trying
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to say, if you like horror movies, Kansas City this
season it's like that class Child's Play. Remember that movie.
It's old movie. Now all my references are old, I guess,
but Child's Play. And that was where Chucky was at
the beginning of the movie. There he was burned, shot
and dismembered, and somehow, because it's Hollywood, managed to come back.
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Why not Kansas City to begin the year was burn
shot and dismembered, and they have come back now and
they're right in the middle of it in the AFC
and Mahomes is breathing like a dragon with fire. Andy
Reids is suddenly smart again, and we're on our way.
Of course, the conspiracy theorist will so well yeah but yeah,
but yeah, but yeah about the NFL wants someone to win.
(17:35):
Be goes with Taylor swip. Yeah but yeah but yeah
it yeah it yeah it yea it yeah it yea
it Rabbit They yab it rabbit all right. Now, final
point to Dallas, we go. Bad football makes for good
talk radio. We love talking about the bad. We love it,
we love it. We love it, We love it. So
humiliation situation in Dallas question coach Brian Schottenheimer, the sock
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pupp coach of Jerry Jones football team, is promising change, change,
change this after the Denver Broncos rubbed the Cowboys face
in their own poo poo in the game on Sunday,
dominating win. As Schottenheimer says there's going to be changed.
He also said it is not acceptable the way the
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Dallas football team played. So question what changes can Shotty?
What changes can Shoty make for the Cowboys? That is
the question. So Schottenheimer banging the podium right, this is
the classic. I'm going to bang the podium is what
I'm going to do, and say, changes coming, changes coming. Now.
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We've seen this movie before at Spider Light Spider Alert. Yes,
we know how it ends. We know it ends two
weeks from now or three weeks from now. But Cowboys
will give up a fifty point game to somebody. But change, change, change.
Do I have the change? But this is pure window dressing.
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It's pure window dressing. It's paint on a cracked foundation,
trying to sell the house before the person buying the
house realizes the foundation is cracked on the house. So
what's gonna change. You can't change the roster. I know
the trade deadline is coming up. You're not gonna trade
half the roster, which is seemingly what you're going to
have to do. Right, So the defense is wobbly. In Dallas,
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they're three four and one. They have a losing record.
Dak Prescott is putting up video game numbers where the
fantasy football players have their pants down. They're so excited
about that. And it doesn't mean a damn thing. It
does not mean a damn thing. It does not, And
so it's kind of like putting lipstick on a quarterback draw.
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And that's essentially what they're doing. This is the most fun,
most fun, fun bad NFL team. And now fun bad
is important to me. That's important. You just want to
be bad. You want to be fun bad. Fun bad's
a good kind of bad. You can't just be bad bad,
fun bad. That's the way to go. Dallas is like
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the Circus Circus Midway in Vegas. And when you go
to the Circus Circus Midway in Vegas, it's a much
different experience when you're nine years old as opposed to
when you're fifty years old. It's much different experience. Right,
you go to the Circus Circus Midway in Vegas. They've
got flashing lights, there's a lot of noise, there's a
lot of activity, there's carnival games, there's chaos. Everyone seems
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to be having a great time, but deep down in
your soul, you know it's kind of a dump. That's
the Dallas Cowboys, right. Everyone looks like they're having a
good time, they're having fun. There's a lot of flashing lights,
there's a lot of chaos and all that, but deep down,
you know, they blow. They absolutely blow. They score a
lot of points, they give up a lot of points,
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and there's always a lot of drama, which is good
if you're a fledgling overnight talk show host like yours.
Truly so, Jerry Jones is sitting somewhere eating a big
mac and he's watching and he's seeing all the fireworks
and he's like, all right, a loving it. I am
loving it.
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story from Chavez Ravine that the scene Downtown LA. Overlooking
Downtown La. That the stage for Game three of the
World Series. You had Vladimir Guerrero Junior Flatty leading the
Blue Jays as they flew into LA for a matchup
with sho Hey O'tani and the Dodgers. Not to start
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of the game seven some hours ago, you had Mac
Schurzer versus Tyler Glass. Now that was the matchup start.
Joe Davis and John Smoltz had the call, and the
game ended about ten minutes ago. We're doing this in
real time. The game ended in about ten minutes ago.
And why did it end ten minutes ago? Because Freddie
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Freeman to the moon. If you didn't see it, Freddie
Freeman hits a game ender, eighteen inning walk off home
run for Freddie Freeman as the Dodgers and Blue Jays
played free baseball, A solo home run by Freddie Freeman
the bottom of the eighteenth and the Blue Crew get
a six to five win in a game that took
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six hours and thirty nine minutes, six hours and thirty
nine minutes, a game that had several points where the
Blue Jays could have, should have and would have won,
but they did not win. So let us discuss that's
a good jumping off point. Freddie Freeman your October hero.
And so the question on this one, the question is
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what stands out What is your knee jerk reaction to
Game three of the World Series, which just ended a
couple of minutes ago. So I've got on this one.
I've got Kryptonite. We've also got Rancho koukamonga, and if
that was not enough, we will throw in for added effect,
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we will throw in the cry babies, and we'll mix
all of these things together, and we are going to
make the baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the Babaganoosh. So
the first thing that stands out is the amount of
baseball that was played. I mean, this is really is
eighteen innings of baseball between the Dodgers and Blue Jays.
And you look at similar numbers here, which are historic.
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The Dodgers, for example, left eighteen runners on base in
this game, eighteen runners on base. The Toronto Blue Jays
they ended up with nineteen runners left on base. The
Blue Jays were two of twelve in runners in scoring positions,
so they were not very good in that department. The Dodgers,
on the other side, and obviously not good either. They
were two for fourteen. It was the show, Oh hey
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Otani game. More on that in a minute. Otani, who
was absolutely cooking. He was four for four and then
the Blue Jays eventually decided, well, we're not going to
let him beat us, and so they started walking him.
He was walked five times, four of those intentional and
Otani tying a Major League Baseball record for most times
reaching base, as he ended up on base nine times
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in Game three of the World Series. So he's had
two massive playoff games, the one against the Brew crew
with all the home runs and the pitching, and now
this game where the Blue Jays just completely could not
get him out. They gave up. So it's that. And
then obviously Freddie Freeman, there'll be seventeen thousand promotions next year.
Freddie Freeman, bobblehead, Freddie Freeman, Replica Jersey, Freddie Freeman, this,
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Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
That.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
But the walk off home run right over the three
to ninety five signed in center field at Dodger Stadium,
and the Dodgers have won it. And Freddy that post
that he knew he was going to be in the
like the bobblehead next year, so he had the number
one finger in the air. He said, number one right there,
every everywhere. So the now here's a fun factoid. Are
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you ready for a fun factoid mixed in fun fact
All right, so we are told it is now official.
There have only been two eighteen inning games in world
serious history. And Brad Paisley sang the national anthem at
both of them. He was. He was there for Game
three in twenty eighteen, and now here in this game, uh,
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the game at Dodger Stadium. Here that went eighteen innings.
So it's his birthday. Yeah. The thing also that stands
out about this, though, is not all losses are the same, right.
I mean said, well, this hurts because it's an eighteen
inning loss for the Toronto Blue Jays. But I would argue,
and I don't think I'm wrong on this. You can
disagree if you want. This is worse than that because
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the spot of the Dodgers, every man, woman and child
knows is the bullpen. It is a parade of horribles,
the Dodger bullpen. And it wasn't pretty. There were a
lot of runners on base, there was a lot of traction.
But in the end, the Dodgers' bullpen was marvelous. It
was a chef's kiss. Will Klein, who normally you would
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say decline immediately a Dodger legend as the pitcher, the
nondescript pitcher coming out of the bullpen. There Will cleinb
and pitching a lot of goosegs, a lot of gooseggs
out of that Dodger bullpen four innings. He threw seventy
two pitches out of the bullpen and only allowed one hit.
He walked a couple of guys, but four innings of
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shutout relief when he was the last man standing for
the Dodgers. Now turning the page on that. As for
the approach, the approach of both teams, So the question
is is there a word? Is there a word?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Now?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
The Dodgers kryptonite is their bullpen. The Blue Jays blew it.
They didn't take advantage of that, but just in general,
both teams were rather flaccid as the game went on.
So what is the word watching the Blue Jays and
Dodgers flail away for what seemed like three hours like
the game the regular game for three hours. The extra
innings were like three hours, three hours plus. So what
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is the word for the Dodgers and Blue Jays offensive
approach for the majority of extra inning baseball there in
the World Series? So two words, not one word? Two
words hero ball, hero ball. Everyone in Dodger blue and
Toronto Blue Jay uniforms, everyone decided that they were going
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to go out there and they were going to be
the protagonist in the in the movie. They were making
a movie. In so many sports movies, and they wanted
to be the protagonist in this, and forget team baseball.
There wasn't very much of Once you got to extra innings,
you've got home run derby. Everyone's trying to hit home runs.
You get a home run, you get a home run.
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It was Halloween this week, and so it's Halloween home
run derby. Cosplay is what it was here for the
Dodgers in Blue Jayson, Game three of the World Series.
It was often reckless. It was often irresponsible baseball, that's
what it was, and almost no situational hitting when the
Dodgers did try it, and it backfired as they bunted
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the runner across the way and they just needed a
sack fly and then of course a pop up to
shortstop screwed that up. So there was almost no situational hitting.
And then when the Dodgers did try it, it backfired.
There it was mostly a conga line of guys trying
to hit the ball outside of the stadium over the pavilion.
A lot of uppercut swings there from players on both teams,
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and that is human nature, right, It's just like in
basketball certain guys want to take the shot at the
end of the game. Now there's other guys that turtle
up and don't want to take the shot. But in baseball,
very rarely do you find anyone that doesn't want to
be the hero and get the postgame interview, get the
gatorade bath, the whole thing. Hit the game winning home run,
and everyone wants to be on the poster. Everyone wants
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to be on the meme. Now, Freddie Freeman, back to
back years. Freddie Freeman is on that moment. And while
Tani hit a home run and was on base nine times,
Freeman's got to be the lead. Freddie Freeman's got to
be leading this game. And that iconic photo of him
with his finger raised up in the air, the one
finger as he was circling first base. But so you
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can be a bunch of as we said, Freddie Freeman
giveaways next year for the Dodgers. The problem is when
everyone's swinging like they're trying to hit the ball to
Rancho Kuckamonga, Okay, the offense looks like a bad Beer
League softball situation. It's not very very pretty. And so
Freddie Freeman did get it, as we said, he it's
the game winning home run. Dodgers went it six to
five in X ratings. That was nine innings times two
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in the World Series, and history says that the winner
of Game three has won seventy percent. I believe it's
seventy percent of the time. However, as the great Dick
Stockton inform me, that tells you what has happened, not
what's going to happen here. And so the final nine innings,
while John Smoltz and Joe Davis on the Fox broadcast
were waxing liquacious about how amazing it was and how
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magical it was and all that. They were going on
on and on and on, everyone trying to be the
Knight in Shining Armor, and occasionally, sometimes the Knight in
Shining Armor is just an idiot wrapped in tinfoil that
occasionally happens. That occasionally happens, And so there was there
was some of that. Now, the other thing I've learned
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from years and years of doing talk radio is a
lot of that game was rather disgusting. It was puke
in your mouth bad baseball, fundamentally bad baseball. There were
pitchers on the Dodgers who fundamentally blow and the Blue
Jays turned them into rock stars because of bad at bats,
and they got themselves out a lot of the time.
I got themselves out a lot of the time. So
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you've got that. But the thing that I know, all
of this will be forgotten. It's like men in black
and they're gonna zap you. They're gonna zap you with
the neuralies or whatever it's called there. And the only
thing over time that we are going to remember is
going to be and this is across the board. When
you watch a big event like this in sports, you're
gonna remember two things. You're gonna remember the emotional peak
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and you're gonna remember the end of the game. Now,
in this case, it's they're both the same. The emotional
peak was the Freddie Freeman home run. Right now, maybe
you'll remember Otani got on base nine times. I was
at the Dodger Red Sox game when eighteen innings in
the twenty eighteen World Series, and I remember two things
about that game without looking. I remember the Max Munsey
home run, and I also remember for the Red Sox,
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Nathan Evaldi pitching ridiculous bullpen, came in, pitched a bunch
of innings. I forget how many, but he saved the
Red Sox pitching staff coming in and throwing a ton
of innings in that game. So those are the things
I remember, and I was at that in that World
Series back in the day. Now the last word here,
let's address what everyone will be yapping about outside the
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outcome of the game, and that would be the show. Hey,
Otani getting on base nine times? Game? How did you
get on base nine times? Well, a lot of that
was because of the generosity of the Toronto Blue Jays.
It was intentionally walked, not once, not twice, not three times,
but four times. So the question on this one, with
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the Blue Jay pitchers and the management deciding we're not
going to allow Otani to beat us, with Otani being
pitched around and walked, he's walked five times with four
intentional walks, does Major League Baseball need to revisit the
intentional walk rule. So a lot of chatter, a lot
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of Internet chatter. People upset, many of them worked to
day shift, many of them are on the East Coast.
Many of them are belly aching and complaining there is
a right or cry babies right, So let's address the
cry babies in the room and we'll tackle the question
with Otani intentionally walked four times in this game? Does
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baseball need to revisit the intentional walk rule? So I
am shaking my head. No, all right, I'm shaking my head.
No on this. You cannot legislate out of respect. You
cannot do it. And if a guy is so terrifying,
so intimidating that a team in the World Series would
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rather hand that player first base, just go down to first.
You've got us by the balls, that's not a problem.
That is a act of respect for Sho hail Tani,
that he's such a monster that Toronto is there a
bunch of cowards. They're afraid of Otani. They're like these
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other guys. It's also a vote of no confidence for
the rest of the Dodger lineup. But I totally get it.
The Blue Jays didn't just pitch around him. They tapped
out in this game. They said no moss, they tossed
in the sponge, all of that. John Schneider, the Blue
Jays manager, essentially raised the white flag and said, please
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don't hurt us, show hey, leave us alone. Four intentional
walks are your bloody kidding me? That is the baseball
version of pulling the fire alarm. Now, I'm not gonna
sit here and pretend like it's not great for the sport.
It's terrible for the sport. We get it. I understand.
I like baseball. I don't like everything about baseball. I
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like to complain. I get paid to complain. So clearly,
it's not ideal, it's not. It's just isn't the sport
neutering its biggest stars, cutting the balls off its biggest
stars on the biggest stage around is not what you're
hoping for. It's not. It's just bad. Tell it's bad entertainment.
And so that is an issue that you have to
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factor in here. It would be like telling Patrick Mahomes, listen, dude,
you're so good. The defense has asked you to not
throw a pass in the Super Bowl, and so we're
not going to allow you to throw a pass in
the Super Bowl because you're so good. Or whoever your
favorite NBA player is right now. Back in the old days,
you'd say Lebron, but whoever it was, you don't let
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them shoot the ball in Game seven of the NBA Finals,
all right now, the yabbit crowd yabit, Yeah, but yeah, yeah,
but yeah, but yabbit rabbit. The yabbit rabbit says, you know, listen,
change the rule. It's it's bad for the sport. You
got to advance the baseball has been around since the
eighteen eighties or whatever. You get to advance, advance the sport.
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Of course, I'm on the counter of that. My argument
is you cannot change the rule every time somebody is
so good it's emasculating. In basketball, they got rid of
the slam dunk because well, guys, with certain guys, we're
too good. Will Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, players of that.
(38:12):
Kareem created the skyhook, which was unstoppable known as leu
ale cinder back in those days. But in the context
of baseball, it's part of the sport of baseball. You
earn that treatment. They're not walking nobody's four times intentionally,
so just to play devil's advocate here and again, my
position is firmly that baseball does not need to dramatically
(38:36):
change this rule, that this is more of an outlier situation.
Now that being said, I did activate the Malar think tank.
The Malar think tank has been activated here and the
idea we were tossing this around casually or in an
earlier hour of the show. It does make a lot
of sense that you increase the stakes for players that
(38:58):
are so good you're going to multi multiple times intentionally
walk a player. So I would be open to it.
I wouldn't love it, but I would be open to
the idea intentional walk. If you walk Otani the first time,
he gets first base. If you walk him later in
the game, he gets second base. If you walk him
a third time, he goes to third base. And if
you walk him a fourth time, he just gives give
(39:18):
him a run. If you're such a coward and your
pitching staff blows so much, I'd be open. It is gimmicky,
and I generally try to avoid that kind of stuff.
And here's the thing, though, if you think that would
be too radical, oh you're just being a shock chock mallard.
That's why you're on Overnight. They're never gonna consider that.
(39:39):
Oh really, oh really, In my lifetime, In my lifetime,
Major League Baseball, ghost Runners, spookkey, Rob Manford gave you
ghost runners. That's literal league, that's bare league, soup up
the ghost rutters. Rob Manford gave you ghost rutters. So
he said out race just to think. If you want
(39:59):
intentionally walk a guy four times, he'll just end the game.
That's it and give you a run pitch clock. That
was blasphemy back in the Baseball's got a pitchclock bigger
basis the size of pizza boxes? Who asked for that?
Baseball's got it? Banned the shift because the players can't adjust.
Baseball did it? So Rob Manford has already turned the
(40:24):
game into a bit of a funhouse. That bit of
a fun house here with everything here, all the gimmicks,
and you know, out of an effort to make the
game of baseball more entertaining. So either way, four intentional walks,
which is what O'tani got here the ultimate badge of
(40:45):
riespect for Oltani. That is it. Toronto did not pitch
to show hail Toni the meal ticket for the Dodgers
the entire second half. I guess there was one at
back there they had to as there was nobody on.
But other than that, for the majority of the World
Series game when we went to extra innings, because they
(41:06):
knew what Tani was going to torch him and so
you can wrap that in we want I'll put a
ball on it this way, major League Baseball. Just to
clarify my position, because I know you only listen to
half the things I say. If I'm lucky, major League
Baseball does not need a rule change. However, you want
to tinker a little bit, I'd be okay with it.
He would add a degree of difficulty, so I'd be
(41:28):
okay with that. I don't love it. That would be
a bit of a compromise. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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After Freddie Freeman ends the eighteen inning World Series thriller,
the Dodgers are two wins away from the World Series,
and if they win just the games at Dodgers Stadium,
they can wrap it up in a couple of games
(41:48):
here on Wednesday night. If they win the next two here,
the Dodgers have a tremendous pitching advantage, at least in
the game here on Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
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Speaker 1 (42:01):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. Have guys, he we goller, Here we go,
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
This is one big gets grill.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
During yesterday's show, you said Drake May was not yet
a legit MVP contender. Whoever, Colts quarterback Daniel Jones believes
that his running back Jonathan Taylor is ben What do
you think?
Speaker 1 (42:20):
No, you downgrade Taylor's been great. He's a running back
and by default, running backs don't win the MVP. Maholmes
is now your favorite to win the MVP. It's going
to be a quarterback. It's going to be a quarterback.
He'll get some token votes Jonathan Taylor, but not enough
to win next. MVP is an award that's getting a
lot of discussion. But who do you think the front runner?
(42:40):
The front runner is for Coach of the Year, Well,
you talked about the Colts KOOPLEPI. The formula is rather simple.
When you have a team that was supposed to be
mediocre or suck and they overachieved, Shane Steichen, the coach
of the Colts, has to be the favorite for Coach
of the Year honors at this point because Daniel Jones
I thought was going to be horrific. He's not. He's
(43:02):
a top ten quarterback. So Shane Styke is going to
get the credit.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Next, Kellen Moore decided to bench quarterback Spencer Ratler late
in the game on Sunday and go with rookie. I
don't even know how to pronounce his name. Tyler shu
shuck is pronounced. That's so weird. Check with the hopes
of Louisville. Yeah, the hopes of providing a spark.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
It didn't.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
But Ben, at this point, is there any reason to
go back to Ratler?
Speaker 1 (43:21):
So it's like deciding whether you want the firing squad
of the electric chair. Either way, the outcome is going
to be the same. There is no good choice here.
It doesn't matter. How did we do pass?
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Oh my god? PA.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
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Speaker 1 (43:57):
Let's do it. Welcome to architssays we've got any meaning
mighty most. Sam is in Iowa. Hello Sam, Welcome than
Sam's full of energy, he's excited to be here, and
he's a man of many words. Welcome Sam, You're gonna
play the game? Who do you want to partner up
with Sam? Okay, he's gonna play with Ben Lorena.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
I'm shocked he didn't pick me up.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Okay, I can't believe that. Hold on a sex, Sam
and we have keg drinking Steve and ken'saw city. Hello
se Man, what.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
A record breaking night? Did you see?
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Mary? We don't have time steam geez.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
The other guy hung up? So you gotta play, you
gotta play. I'll play with Lorena man, Mary hart Is okay,
all right, you're an idiot? What he or what he is?
All right, let's play the game.
Speaker 3 (44:46):
You're not playing with Lorena, Steve, play the game?
Speaker 1 (44:50):
All right? All right? Stop?
Speaker 3 (44:51):
What is the is the was it the woking En
Phoenix edition? Yes, he's fifty one years old?
Speaker 1 (44:56):
To happy birth? Ah the joker? Okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
The categories are eight millimeter, Gladiator, the Immigrant, and Napoleon?
Samwhich category would you like? Gladiator? Alright, Steve? How about you?
Speaker 5 (45:12):
The immigrant?
Speaker 3 (45:13):
The immigrant?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
All right? Right, very good? I love immigrants. Okay, thank you, congratulations.
All right, here we go. Let's play the game right now.
You picked Sam and Iowa a man of few words.
You picked Gladiator. These athletes were all part of notable fights.
Are you ready, Sam? Yeah, all right, we need the
first and last name and we're on our way. Go
(45:37):
Star defensive player for the Cleveland Browns right now, all right,
the worm for the Chicago Bulls in the nineteen eighties,
the picce. Yeah, all right, thank you. I'll take credit
for it. He changed his name. He played for the
Indiana Pacers. He started the malice at the Palace at
(45:57):
basketball play player. That is correct. Picture for the Red Sox,
not Kurt Schilling, but the number one picture for that
Red Sox team that won the World Series from the
Dominican Republic, that is correct. Got into a fight with Robbin,
got into a fight with Nolan Ryan, got a fight
with Nolan Ryan got his.
Speaker 5 (46:19):
You said the name that does not Yes? You did, Yes,
you said, Rob said Rob. I said that does not
count you that ninety I said Rob. All right, I
did say Ro. I said Rob Rob. We said we
are we have Rob Parker.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
The immigrant. These athletes were Rob Parker. These athletes were
all born in another country.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
You're getting all.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Right, Steve, forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
Japanese slugger for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Full name.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Joey o'danni.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
Yes, okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
This guy's the star player on the Lakers. He's from
like Slovenia. Uh, Luca, Yes, this guy was a Canadian
on the Philadelphia on the Phoenix Suns. He won like
a couple mvds.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Uh. Alright.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
This guy was a slugger from the Dominican Republic for
the Angels. People are considering him to be a manager.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
Albert.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yes, this guy was nicknamed the Nigerian Nightmare. This guy
was a Polish kicker for the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Kicker. V.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
You went for the joke, so we have we have
seventy seventy al Right, Steve, we're back up. Do you
want eight millimeter or Napoleon?
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Napole?
Speaker 3 (47:47):
It's Steve, It's Steve.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
You're gonna gets all right?
Speaker 3 (47:53):
All right, Steve, we've got Napoleon. These athletes were all
considered short in their sport.
Speaker 5 (47:59):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Okay, all right, forty five seconds. Let's begin.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
He's the short quarterback for the Cardinals right now. Uh,
the guy that doesn't play video games?
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Kyler Murray.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
Yes, yes, this guy was on the Seahawks and the Broncos.
Now he's a backup on the giants. Uh, well, man,
mister unlimited. Okay, uh, yes, this guy was a cheating astro.
He's like five to five. He's what a cheating astro?
He's like five to five?
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Uh yeah, I know, little guy.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Okay, how about this guy's got the same name as
the famous point guard from the Detroit Pistons. No, no,
but he's on there. Who's the shortest player of all time?
Speaker 1 (48:48):
You didn't get it?
Speaker 3 (48:49):
He said the name, he said the name.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
That a hundred. Let's go, let's go Steve here. But
all right, yeah, these these all War number eight, They
all War number eight. Are you ready saying? Yeah? All right? Uh,
Star of the Star of the nineteen seventies Pittsburgh Pirates.
We are family hit tail a record break African American
(49:14):
guy hit tons of home runs for the Pirate. Yeah,
all right, there you go, shut up, not yours greatest
punter of all time for the Raiders. And he's not
a man, he's a rod. We win Jimmy's name. Let's
go long win Muggy Bus Muggsy, folks did not count.
Muggsy did not count.
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