October 30, 2025 • 47 mins
Big Ben talks about Blake Snell blowing Game 5 of the World Series and pitching the Dodgers into a 2-3 series hole, reports that Lamar Jackson tapped out of the Ravens game at the last minute, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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that was the playground for a game a season, not one,
not two, not three, not by this game number five.
Game five will be twenty five, twenty twenty five World Series.
And the really the pivotal game. I was every game's
pivotal But they said, well this tied to two.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
The winner of Game five goes on and wins the
World Series. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
So the Dodgers and Jays at Loggerheads on a warm
toasty day in LA and not sure if you're watching
or not. Ratings are down for the World Series because
the Yankees aren't in it. Uh and so maybe you
usked it. But tray you savage, he sat viage beast
as he said, a world sis record with twelve strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I think that's good.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And Toronto opens up Game five with back to back
dingers and they boat race the pathetic Los Angeles baseball team.
They got how many jumbo jets when they go on
the road, they stay at the penthouse when they travel
like rock stars, and they hit like a bunch of
you know watts. So Toronto now one game away from
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the first championship since Joe Carter back in the nineties.
Holy Canola nineteen ninety three. Davis Schneider, Davis Schneider, the
Rants mullinicks of this Blue Jay team and Vladimir Guerrero
Junior connecting on Blake's bro I'm riched in my life.
Bra Blake Snell there the first and third pitches. Boy,
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you hate to see Blake Snell have problems, don't you?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Just a shame life. It's just so so depressed. It's
so sad. Ah you lose it.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
First consecutive home runs to start a World Series game.
They've been playing the World Series a long time, and
nobody's a bigger suck bag than Blake Snell. Yes, Savage
shoved it down the Dodger's throats from there, and now
the better story is in the losing locker room. Everyone
knows the better stories in the losing locker room. So
that is where we will begin. And we were given
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the gift of a cringeworthy quote from the aforementioned Blake Snell,
who was not only a pitcher, he was terrible. And
there's no other way to say it. So Snell just horrible.
They should put him up on charges for him taking
that Dodger money the way he was pitching there and
lead off home.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Run and then another home run. Did you hear what
he had to say after the game? You did not?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
All?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Right? Fair enough? Blake Snell said, this is great.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
He thinks the reason he had his problems the World
Series game here was because of two words.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Bad luck. I what a loser.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Blake Snell says, luck plays in baseball. Two, he said,
pointing out that he was of course, not his fault.
He made great pitches and they just happened to hit
him to the moon. All right, So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question for
the esteem panel. Dodger pitcher Blake Snell didn't want to
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get the rona blaming bad luck for his garbage performance.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
That is blank again.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Dodger pitcher Blake Snell blaming bad luck for his Garbage
World Series performance.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That is blank. I saw I'll filming a blank in
a minute.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
My thoughts though, Before we film in the blank, I've
got breakfast Cereal, Kurt Vovaqua and post office and we
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
we just have a delicious Smorgesborg of goodness. Now, hey,
my word to fill in the blank, Dodger pitcher Blake
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Snell blaming bad luck for his garbage performance is blank.
My word is gobbled the gook. That is my word,
gobbled the gook, plain and simple. All right, that's it.
That's my word. As Jayscoop, I haven't heard from him,
and ah, I hope he's all right. But Jay Scoop
would say bullpucky is what he would say. He meaning,
Blake Snell, you've just lost. Imagine this like a Disney commercial.
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Blake Snell, you've just lost both starts in the twenty
twenty five World Series. What are you gonna do next?
And Snell says, I'm gonna blame Frank Sinatra is.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
What I'm gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What a dead musician? Yeah, remember that song, Luck Be
a Lady. Apparently Luck the lady was not there. Lady
was not there.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Really, Blake, that's your defense, that's your defense. You know
what this is?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
This is the breakfast serial defense from Blake Snell.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What do I mean by that?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Instead of eating his lucky charms? Clearly Blake Snell had
Captain Crunch because Toronto was crunching.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Everything he threw up there early in the game.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Now, bad luck is a longtime baseball term. The base
It's like saying the baseball gods were against me. And
when I hear that, I always say, talk to the hand.
Now you can talk to the right hand, you can
talk to the left hand. Blake Snell gave up in
eleven and two thirds innings, ten earned runs. Let me
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repeat that for those of you that are intoxicated. Those
even in the back of the room that need to
turn up your hearing aid. Blake Snell gave up ten
earned runs and eleven and two thirds innings of World
Series Baseball. Now where I come from, and maybe I'm
wrong on this, I don't know. I just do an
overnight talk shows. That's not bad luck, that's bad pitching. Oh,
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you're being such a shock chalk. That's what you hate
the Dodgers. You're doing overnights. Yeah, I know all that stuff,
all your defenses. Do you realize the domination for the
Toronto batters. The hitters were basically taking batting practice against
mister Cy Young. Mister Cy Young, in fact, I was
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actually worried. This is how pathetic Blake Snell is. I
was worried about these guys getting carpal tunnel from smashing
the pitches so often that he threw up there. They
needed ice, that they needed some kind of risk therapy afterwards.
This was not one bad outing, by the way, Patternicity.
My friend Snell was awful in his first World Series
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start this year, both times out, and you can't blame
that on the Voodoo Bugaloo or whatever or Lady Luck anything.
And to think the Dodger handed this stiff one hundred
and eighty two million dollars. They said, we need you
to be We need you to be our October goat,
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and Blake Snell said, yes, I want that. And instead
of being a goat, he's looking for a scape goat.
Is what he's looking for, Like a soft served cone
melting on the big stage. And it's crazy because he
pitched in lowly Tampa Bay and was good in the world.
Said you put on that Dodger uniform and all of
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a sudden, you're riding the vomit comet.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You're riding the vomit comet, is what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Here's a Blake Snell by the way, postgame, Blake Snell,
who for some reason thought he was at a dog park.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I mean, yeah, it's fruscterrating when you lose. We got
we got two games left and we can go back
to Toronto and you know, see what kind of team
we got. That's that's the most important thing. See see
what kind of dogs are in this club, and then
what we can do.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, I'll tell you what kind of dogs.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You have?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Dogs with fleas. You need a fleet back. These guys
need a fleetback.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Are.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
They're dogs with fleas. They are, they can hear them.
There's a Dodge that's a Dodger clubhouse. We got a
microphone in the Dodger clubhouse. There are a bunch of
dogs covered in fleas. So to me, the cherry on
top of all this, and I have long ranted howling
at the moon about the coddling of the professional athlete
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and the things that we used to do, or you
overcame adversity. There is no adversity. These guys, like I said,
the Dodgers travel like they're the royal family. They do
just just absolutely great. And they treated Blake Snell like
a toddler. They coddled Blake Snell like a newborn baby.
Actually not even a toddler. Oh, Blake Keith, you know
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he's very delicate. We're gonna manage his innings. Blake, you
want to take three months off?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You want to do that? You know we'll save your
arm because we just need you for the world too.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, I'll take three months off, Yes, pay me, I'll
take three months off. Sure, how's that ROI that return
on investment? Let's see here, Blake Snell World Series right,
he will not pitch again. Be shocked if he does
eight point zero four era. In the twenty twenty five
World Series, Dodgers lost both games. Toronto batted three to
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eleven against Blake Snell paid him one hundred and eighty
two million dollars to go out there and defecate on
the mound. Tremendous all right, Now, now we get to
everyone else's bashing the offense. I want to hey, listen,
that's low hanging for you know, we have a pass
with Blake Snell going back to the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
But I ain't playing this. I get mine.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Bro, Well, I guess you're not winning. Un list you
got yours, but you got yours and you're still not winning. Now,
as for the offense, we've been told that this roster
is filled with Hall of famers, that they are loaded
one of the greatest baseball teams ever assembled by man,
a collection of MVPs and All Stars and batting champions,
and we've witnessed them come apart at the seams. Now,
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the face of this baseball catastrophe, his Mookie Betts was
playing like Dookie if you know what I mean. Not good,
not good at all. The former most Valuable player is
batting a buck thirty. It's like having back when he
used to have pictures hit.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Other than Otani.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's like that having a pitcher in the lineup buck thirty.
In the World Series, he was demoted in the lineup.
He was dropped down on the lineups. Dave Roberts and
the nerds finally decided, you know, I think we should
maybe do something.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But the analytics said, don't do anything. Okay, we'll do something.
Oh well, but they said don't do anything. So the
nerds shook up the lineup.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
They benched Andy Pyez and Mookie Bets demoted down a
spot in the lineup, and he went.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Over for.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So it turns out Mookie sucks whether he's batting second
or third in the Doger lineup.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Do we have this Mookie post game? I don't know
if we do or not. We do, Okay, apparently we do,
all right, So here's Mookie Bets. This is the viral SoundBite. Postgame,
Mookie was asked about his new level of suckage in
the World Serious.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Heies what he had to say.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I don't want to speak on anybody else, but for
me personally, I've just been terrible.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You've been terrible, and there's no I wish it was
from lack of effort. I really do, but it's not.
So Yeah, I don't have any I.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Was cut off good editing, He said, I don't have
any answers?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Who edited that?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
By the way, I mean, just leave the word answers
in there. It's not that hard, all right. Question, What
is your opinion of Mookie Bets taking responsibility with his
I've just been terrible quote for his lousy play in
the twenty twenty five World Series for the Dodgers. So
my reaction is, thank you very much, Mookie. The sky
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is blue right to the U and I the sky
is no kidding, Mookie. I mean, we've got TVs, we've
got radios. We've been watching, we've been listening. You're batting
a buck thirty. You don't get credit for self awareness.
When the numbers are.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Tattooed on the jumbo tron.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
They're all up there, right they're batting it now, right now.
Mookie Bets looks like a guy walking into the deli
and he's ordering a sandwich. He says, I don't want
the Pastrami simms, how about a turkey? I don't need
a Turkey Simmis. Let me get that number seven. What's
the number seven. That's the panic sandwich. Mookie's eating a
panic sandwich. And you don't need any clutch hits. Hold
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the clutch hits on the panic sandwich. Can I get
some extra whiffs? Can I get some extra pop ups?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I need that? Yeah? Sure, why not? We'll give you
extra pop ups.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's the freaking World Series, pal, And you can't suck
like I mean, you're sucking at a time you cannot suck.
That's the definition of this. Now more evidence. As my professor,
the Great Dick Stockton taught me years ago, stat's tell
you what has happened, not what's going to happen. If
you just base this World Series on reputation and the
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numbers on the back of the baseball card, the Dodgers
would have already won the World Series. But unfortunately they
have to play the games. And right now, what has happened?
All those MVPs and so called stars. They're treated like
the royals when they travel, are playing like Little League
B team guys. If I owned the Dodgers, I would
make these stiffs fly to Toronto on Spirit Airlines. As punishment,
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I would make them fly Spirit Airlines. They'd have to
pay for their own luggage. That's what I would do now.
The late great Tommy Lasorda, may he rest in peace.
And I was lucky enough to know Tommy. But Tommy
would say the Dodgers right now have a lot of
Kurt Bovakua's.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
In their lineups. It's one of the all time great drops.
If you're too young to know it, it's on.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
The YouTube and it was one of the great rants
underrated rant by the Sorta and he would say, these
guys couldn't hit water.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
If they fell out a frick boat. The Dodgers are hitting.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Two hundred, two hundred in the World Series two hundred.
I didn't realize the Blue listen. I took the Blue
Jays lightly. They're pitching. I didn't know they were filled
with all these cy young winners. Max Munsey buck fifty,
Tommy Edmund, Tommy Tanks is tanking the world hit a
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buck forty three, and then the gold standard Mookie Bets
buck thirty, buck thirty. Holy crap on a cracker now,
Jeff Van Gundy, I know it's a basketball guy, but
Van Gundy's famously said it's a make or miss league. Well,
Baseball two, you're whiffing early, you're whiffing off and the
Blue Jays what they ought to do is send a
fleet of limos to the hotel there in Toronto. Make
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sure Munsey and Tommy Edmund and Will Smith and Mookie Bets,
all these guys get to the stadium in comfort. Because
right now, the Dodgers, if you look in that clubhouse,
it's an art exhibit. And what kind of art is it?
That would be the choke art exhibit? The choke artists
I got now, don't get me wrong, Okay, do knocket
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me wrong. I appreciate Mookie Bets owning it. I just
don't need a confession at this moment. The series isn't over.
I would like to get a couple of hits. I
would enjoy a couple of home runs. That would be
pretty nice, or at least a Ribby single. How about that.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It's the world series. This is not therapy. Okay, I'm
not that kind of fan.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I know there's a lot of fanboys out there and
told liquors that will love that and say, oh we
love you, MOOKI It's.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Okay, that's not me. That's not me.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oya.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Accountability is nice. I just happen to like production a
little bit better I do.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I do.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I like production, and you can apologize all you want.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Unfortunately, when you look at the box score, it does
not accept my bad bro, it does not accept that.
All right, last word to the Toronto side of things,
and what a performance was by trey Ya Savage of
the Blue Jays. The quote from the Blue Jays from
Vladimir Guerrero Junior, lad who got it done again. Here's
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the Toronto star, Vladimir Gerraire, who said, quote the job
is not done yet. Close quote said that through a translator.
All right, question, what is the vibe? What is the
vibe around the Blue Jays right now at this moment.
So the vibe is the schnazola. You can smell the
championship bubbly, you can smell it. The Dodgers are practically
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handing Toronto the World Series. They are the beneficiary of
the generosity, the act of charity of the Dodgers. They've
gift wrapped it. They've thrown on a bow which looks
pretty nice. It's a Dodger blue bow. And the J's
now they just got to make sure they don't fumble.
Don't fumble the gift, all right, don't fumble it, don't
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trip at the post office, don't break it, don't do that.
And the fact that the Dodgers have collectively gone in
the witness protection program, and this tray.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Is savage doing things.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
That the greatest of the greats have done in the
World Series, getting a lot of help from the anemic
Dodger hitters. There guy's been in Major League Baseball for
about five minutes and made the Big Bad Dodgers look
like a slow pitch Beer League softball team on the
weekends there and surgical slicing them up. No contest the
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last couple of games. So what does all this mean
for Toronto? It is yours to lose. The Dodgers were
the big bad bully. They're no longer the big bad bully.
Toronto's up three to two. Home cooked poutin ahead, home
cooked poutin ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
But remember.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Vladimir Guerrero showed up wearing a maple leafs jersey to
I think it was the first game in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Remember correctly, and that'll come back to haunt you if
you blow these last two games.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Like, you know, the maple leafs are in that town.
They're the definition of choke artists, and so just don't choke.
Got Vlattie saying job's not done good, it's not. And
it's been a long time since Joe Carter and then
you know, hit the Ball to the Moon and Mitch
Williams and all that ninety three. So you finish the
job now or you become another cautionary tale in Canadian
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sports misery.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And there's a long, long, big board of that. So
you can smell it, right, there's a champagne there. You
can smell the champagne.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's amazing, can smell It's not open. One more win
and Yama Moto on the mount. The problem with Yamamoto
pitch great game. The Dodgers, if they don't get their
head out of it, took us. They got this tight
Tukas syndrome. It doesn't matter. So Dodgers are like zombies.
But we've seen those zombie apocalypse movies and we know
how that can turn around and be a fairly bad thing.
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So the Dodgers are pretty much begging Toronto to end
the World Series in game six, and that's it. Just
I would advise you to not trip over the red
carpet on your way to the parade. And it's like
they say in politics, don't measure for the curtains. Yet
you haven't won the election, so just get to wait
for the election to end, the results to come in,
and then we'll see where you stand.
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Mind should be. We'll get back to the calls.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I don't think we took any last yar bad job
by us, So you guys on hold the you know,
blame the microwave. Clearly it's my fault. Sandwich is good
microwaves not so good. Sandwich good. So we did the
Baseball Hour last and I see some of you guys
who want to talk about the World Series.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I'm open to that.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm here all night. I got nothing else to do.
They're paying me to be here, so we'll talk about
the World Series. But our lead this hour is from Baltimore. Baltimore,
the home was Sports with Coleman. Now the Ravens are
set for the island life. Lamar Jackson, he's back, baby.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Allegedly, he leads the.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Ravens traveling circus into South Florida for a matchup with
Tua Tongue of I Loa and the Dolphins. Will Thursday
night action and no World Series game to distract you
from that, although it appears no one was distracted by
the World Series the other night when the Monday Night
Football played anyway. Lamar Jackson's injury reports status has been
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a hot topic of conversation here, and a lot of
NFL people with their stick up, their tuk us up
in arms here NFL scrutinizing the improprieties, if you will,
the way the Ravens handled the injury report. Jackson was
initially listed as a full participant in Ravens practice. He
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was then downgraded to limited and then ruled out of
the game against the Chicago Bears. The Ravens would win
that game. And of course the gambling part of it,
the gambling element is a big deal. People bet money
on these games, and they bet money based on information
the NFL gives out. If they give out shady information,
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it becomes a problem. Now it turns out, even if
you bet on the Ravens, you didn't think the Ravens
was gonna win because Lamar wasn't playing, you know the
outcome if you bet on the Ravens, they actually surprised
they won the game. But the Ravens clarify that Jackson
participated fully in the practice. They just said he did
not take starter reps. That was the spin coming out
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of Baltimore. Then that led to the change in the status.
Now the NFL is said to be investigating.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm sure that'll be great.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
They want to ensure compliance. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. But that's not the story.
The story here entering the chat now is Mike Preston.
Now you might not know who that is if you're
not from Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He's a long.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Time sports columnist in Baltimore. This guy has seen and
done a thing or two. He's been around the block.
He knows where all the bodies are buried in Baltimore sports.
So anyway, he popped up on the b More Sports
podcast with My Guy Sports with Coleman, And normally when
I get sent to stuff, I just ignore it, but
I thought this was really, really interesting.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And I wanted to kind of.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Bite into it because Mike Preston, who knows where all
the bodies are buried in Baltimore sports, he told My
Guy Sports with Coleman that Lamar Jackson essentially torpedoed John Harball.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
That's what he's hearing.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That the Ravens were actually right there, they covered for
Lamar Jackson, that it was a last second switch a
roue by Lamar, that he did not want to play,
That Lamar Jackson was supposed to play, he was cleared
to play, and he chose not to play at the
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last minute. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss. We're gonna base this monologue off this report.
So question, do you believe the chatter that Lamar Jackson,
multi time MVP, tapped out of the raven game against
the Chicago Bears at the last minute, and then the
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Ravens are covering for him by claiming it was a misunderstanding.
So my observation on this, I've got Uncle Drew.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Crystal mal and Tomahawk.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
And we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to clean up. There's a spill, supermarcut, Steve
tells me on Aisle seven. So we're gonna clean up
Aisle seven.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
So number.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I said, number wh okay on this one, do you
believe Lamar Jackson tapped out? I am drinking the kool
aid because the Ravens say what you want about him,
They're not gonna f it up that bad. Like, it
is completely logical that that is what happened, Lamar Jackson
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tapped out, not that John Harbaugh fed up that bad.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I think the much.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
More reasonable conclusion, if you look at this objectively, is
the Ravens are now covering for Lamar. They're gonna get ding.
Maybe they'll lose a sixth round draft pick or something
like that. There's a lot of meat on the bone
and this guy knows a lot. He said, Lamar was
cleared but didn't feel like playing. That to me, is
a smoking gun. Follow the bread crumbs, Follow the bread crumbs.
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The Ravens, if this is report, if this Wark's accurate,
the Ravens are, yeah. The doctors, the medical staff's like,
you're good to go, and Lamar's like, okay, I'll get
out there practice a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
And he's like, nah, I don't feel like it.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Play Thursday. Like, to me, that checks out Jackson. From
what we understand, he runs the show. He's the one
that wears the pants.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
There.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
The Ravens have supposedly changed everything to accommodate Lamar. He
doesn't like getting up early, so they practiced later in
the day.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Like everything they do is to accommodate Lamar, which is
what you do with a star player, right.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The Patriots not to the same degree, but they looked
out for Tom Brady, the team's Peyton Manning played for it,
looked out for him.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
That's that's how it works.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So John harbaughf this is correct. Lamar is not just
a quarterback. He's running the show over there. So John
Harbaugh is an underling. He's caught in a pickle jar
and we know nobody likes pickles other than Alf the
Alien punter, but it's Lamar's and everyone else is just
kind of rent in space, right, and it would be
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the ultimate power move that he knows. The Ravens can't
call him out publicly because he's the face of the franchise.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
They would get roasted.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
So instead the Ravens just have to eat it, and
they just have to take it. And so Lamar's got
the leverage, He's got all the awards, and he's you know,
he's the total late late hour, late night ego guy.
You know, last minute, eleventh hour load management decision, the
Uncle Drew of football or Kyrie Irving with shoulder pads
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all that, and so it makes sense he was it
was clear to play, and then he's like, wait a minute,
we got to play. I play on Sunday, and then
I gotta play five days late. I can play twice
in five days. I'm gonna make a business decision, and
I'm gonna miss the Bears game because that's just a
normal game on a Sunday afternoon. But I want to
play in that time time game, and I want to
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play in Miami because that's where all my friends are
because I'm from there, So I want to play in
South Florida.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Okay, done deal? Why not? Now?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
According to the Ravens, they're like, it was just a
it was some miscommunication.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
But wouldn't it be miscommunication? Riddle me this, Batman.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Wouldn't it be miscommunication if if the Ravens and Lamar
thought together he was going to play and then last
minute Lamar changed his mind. That's a miscommunication. So they're
not lying when they say miscommunication. They're covering for the player,
is what they're doing. And Lamar has been running this team.
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It's a one man act for Lamar for years.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Now. Speaking of that, the other part of.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
This, which is very, very juicy with Lamar Jackson, there's
now at least some smoke billowing up that Lamar Jackson's
days could be numbered in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oh my god, that's an outrageous thing to say. Uh,
just go with it.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
So again, I go back to the aforementioned this guy,
Mike Preston, who was on with My Guy Sports with
Coleman on his podcast, and Mike Preston's like, hey, listen,
he's all he just kind of floated this out casually,
you know, casually floated out that there's a shot this
is Lamar Jackson's final season with the Poets. This could
be it's I believe you're eight and that's that's all.
(31:26):
She wrote that he would enter the transfer portal and betrayed.
So the question sounds outrageous.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Right, Oh my god, what is wrong with you Overnight
Talk your hosts? Are you desperate for ratings? So what
are the odds question?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
What are the odds that the Ravens move on from
Lamar Jackson? So for this we have turned to the
Malor sports Book. Yeah, we've turned the Mallard Sports Book,
the Mallard Sports Book Gods, the unofficial odds direct from
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Speaker 1 (32:07):
So the Mallard Sportsbook Gods plus nine hundred plus nine
hundred right now, that implies about a ten percent chance
a one hundred hitter, which is almost where Mookie Bets
is in the world. Here's a little bit better than that.
So essentially you've got Mookie Bets up there needing a hit.
The chances of Mookie bets getting a hit are about
the same as the Ravens saying bye bye to Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
So it means it's not.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Likely, but it's possible. It's not fantasy land either, you
get the bat in the hands. Lamar's twenty eight. He's
got a fair amount of mileage now because he's taken
a lot of hits, played a good amount of football
over the years, and when he was playing earlier there
were a lot of mistakes. It was a stumblebump offense.
They ran hot and cold before the injury. He's been
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hurt for a while, been out for a month or so,
and you're obviously not trading him now. And no one's
saying the Ravens to trade Lamar Jackson mid season. But
in the offseason the Ravens don't make the playoffs, or
they make the playoffs and lose on the wild card weekend.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Then things get spicy.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Now, who would go big game hunting for Lamar Jackson?
And he said, well, everyone would want Lamar Jackson, And
I don't know about that. Looking into my crystal ball,
maryber Lamar was a free agent essentially, well not a
total freezing.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But he could have left the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Nobody wanted him, nobody made a runner him, which is
outrageous considering that he went back to the Ravens and
he put up amazing great regular season ballplayer. So looking
into my crystal ball, the obvious one is the team
the Ravens are playing tonight, the Miami Dolphins, hometown kid.
Dolphins have been pathetic since Dan Marino, who's old, So
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bring in Lamar Jackson. How about the Saints desperate for
a little bit of positivity and to buy you there,
maybe holding a top five pick.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I don't know how they.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Don't hold the top five pick. You'd think they'd have
to have a top five pick.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
The Jets also can already see Woody Johnson drooling the
tabloid fodder, actually positive tabloid headlines. Now, if the Ravens
were to trade Lamar, what would this be? This pin
would be, well, you know, listen, we hate to give
up a player like this, but you use the old
Bill Belichick line where Belichick saf you trade a guy
a year earlier than instead of a year late, and
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they'd have to throw some negative stories out in the
media of the Ravens to bury Lamar. When you trade
a popular player, you attack their character and a certain
percentage of fans will shift to your side. Is if
Lamar's act is legitimately wearing thin, if people internally in
the building are annoyed and like, he just screwed us
over here, he torpedoed us with his latest move. If
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the Ravens everyone's got their breaking point right, if this
becomes a tinder box.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And the problem is, obviously it would be a new
t on bomb.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
If you trade Lamar Jackson after the season, you'd blow
up a bunch of stuff. You'd reset the quarterback market
around the league and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
And it is unlikely, however, if your.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Baltimore and people start sending your text messages and all that.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, you look, you.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Know, you don't put your plane on airplane mode or
your phone on airplane mode. Because as great as Lamar
has been, and I never thought he would be this good,
I was skeptical of Lamar, and he's been a wonderful
player from September to December. There's hardly anyone you would
want a quarterback from September to December than Lamar Jackson.
The problem is in January. In January, he turns into
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a jack o' lantern and that's a problem. That's a problem.
The Ravens have squeezed the juice, a lot of juice
from the orange and now they've got to ask is
the pulp left worth the headache?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
That's up to them all, right, final point.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
We go now to Jersey, the swamp lands of New Jersey,
where one of the worst teams in ball has made
a rather bizarre move. The question where are you at
on the one in seven j Tes?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Suck?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Suck, suck, the one in seven Jets raising season ticket prices.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
For next year.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Let me repeat that for those of you a little
slow because you're working in a factory, or driving a truck,
or laying in a hospital bed wishing you could.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Get out of there.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
So the question where are you at the one in
seven Jets raising season ticket prices.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
For the upcoming year? No they didn't, Yes they did.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
This is a classic tone deaf ownership move. It's Johnson
and Johnson and dumb and dumber. How do you sell
a product that stinks and charge more for it when
every man, woman and child knows the product's a bad product. Seriously,
it's like selling a car. And then if you go
(36:59):
over fifty miles in the car, the car shuts off
and you can't drive it for a day.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Who would buy that car? No one would buy that car.
It's a good looking car, though, you'd want to buy
that No, it's not. It's not right.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
So you've got a franchise that's allergic to winning, and
their idea of fan appreciation is a extra surcharge unfailure.
It would be like going to a nice steakhouse and
tipping your waiter for forgetting to bring you your Tomahawks steak.
(37:32):
I'm gonna tip you anyway because you smiled at me,
but you didn't. You didn't get your Tomahawks steak. I know,
but you were nice to me and I didn't. I
wanted it, but you didn't give it to me. So
I'm gonna tip you anyway. What's the message the Jets
are essentially saying, and you can correct me if you
wanted this, But to me, the Jets are saying, yeah,
we're terrible, but you're still so dumb you're gonna show
(37:53):
up anyway.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It is a captive audience.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Jets fans are chumps from Fireman d On and you're
all a bunch of trumps. You got your little green
jerseys there, you got your face paint, and you're standing
in line, wrapped around the building, online, wrapped around the building,
right around the block there to get punched in the
face every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Now, some pr flak for the team actually.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Tried to spin it, saying that the affordable seats are
not increasing. Oh great, so the people sitting in the
stratosphere near the pearly gates get a mercy rule and
the excuse and this is great, My god, is this
a great excuse? The Jets pr flack said, well, because
(38:39):
we lost a game to London. We had to play
a game in London, so they have to punish the
fans in the Tri State area because they played a
game in London. That is not a reason to raise prices.
That is a reason to issue refunds. You're literally charging
your fans more for less. That is it's called duggery
(39:01):
one o one dress it up with body spray and
spin and hope that the suckers don't notice the shell game.
It's like the old Times Square before Disney bought it
all and cleaned it up. Man, that was there were
peep shows and three card Monty. You could buy any
kind of handbags you wanted. In Times Square, it was
a total sesspool. Now it's all different, But it's like that.
(39:23):
It's like the Jets are playing three card Monty here
and Jets fans they should get hazard pay, not invoices.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
They should get hazard pay. And the Jets. Most teams
try to sell hope, they hope we get better. The
Jets are selling a habit. It's like fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I was like, no, it's not good for you, but
it's you know you like it, but no, it's not good.
You shouldn't do that. Now they know their fans, we'll
keep paying and keep chanting say suck, suck, suck, and
they'll keep serving up the slop. As long as the
fans buy the slop. It's a sucker's paradise. The team stinks,
the ownership stinks, the players stink, the coaches blow.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
And the fans think, I guess that's that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
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Speaker 3 (40:47):
To the third degree.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
This is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Kooblop, a Cowboys insider, reported on Tuesday that the team
has quote not engaged in contract extension talks of wide
receiver George Pickens or his representatives.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
Now.
Speaker 8 (41:03):
Some believe this means the Cowboys could ultimately decide to
trade Pickens before the deadline.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
Could you see that happening?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
There is a better chance, Coup, that you sign a
contract on the practice squad with the Cowboys than George
Pickens is traded between now and the deadline.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Not gonna happen. Not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
You know, Jerry's futzing around with a bunch of stuff,
doesn't you know? Piggins not necessarily gonna stay there because
the problem is Pickens wants to be a number one receiver.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
He won't be a number one there because they already
have a number one receiver.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
They're paying a lot of money too, so they're not
gonna put him as the number one. But he will
not be traded because the Cowboys are like a faux contender.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
They're not a real contender. They're a full contender. Next.
Speaker 8 (41:42):
Davos Sweeney spoke with the media in the wake of
Brian Kelly's firing by LSU and said, quote, You've got
a lot of really good football coaches that have won
a lot of games, but they're getting fired because they
really haven't won championships. And you've got others that want
you fired even though you've won championships. I wonder who
he's talking about. Ben, Do you think Sweeney could be next?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yes, it's all First of all, just because you want
a championship or two doesn't mean you have lifetime employment. Secondly,
it's all about the daddy, the sugar daddy it Clemson's
got to find a guy to pay off Dabosweeney and
they'll fire him next.
Speaker 8 (42:12):
The Greek Freak was asked about a report that claimed
he had contemplated to trade and the Knicks were the
only team on his wish list. Giannis responded saying, I
don't remember that, and then change the subject. Then you
think Janics gets traded the season?
Speaker 1 (42:25):
I would say there's a forty five percent chance. It
depends how good the Bucks are when we get to
the trade deadline, which is in February. We got many
many games, many months to go before that. But if
they suck, yeah, how'd we doubt you passed this decision?
Speaker 3 (42:37):
That is a win. Put it on the ball, just
like the Green Goblin. I got the win.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
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Speaker 3 (42:56):
For time for Horry. Horry Honey said, this is your
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Your questions are answers. I see Alam delu listening ripping
blind Scott, go ahead, cool? What do we have? All right? Uh?
Speaker 6 (43:13):
Freddy on Twitter? Hi, Freddy says, speaking of death, how
would you like your burial? He says? Burial to be.
But I guess that's one of the choices. What would
you like to happen to you after.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Like a big funeral?
Speaker 6 (43:29):
I don't know, or like like cremation?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Berry, Do you.
Speaker 6 (43:34):
Want to be a tree?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
I want the maggots to eat me, so I'll go
in the ground. And I think there's good food.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
I think I fee generations with maggots, so I guess
I'll go in the ground.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Lorena.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
Yeah, I want to be made into one of those
tree pods.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
And I want to be made into a peach tree
so that I supply juicy peaches the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
Wonderful. That's a what kind of tree?
Speaker 6 (43:58):
Peach tree?
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Okay? Cool?
Speaker 6 (44:02):
I want to be frozen with Ted Williams.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Oh in Arizona?
Speaker 6 (44:08):
Is that where he is?
Speaker 3 (44:09):
That's who the rumor was he was in Arizona.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
Yeah, shows me.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Great when he comes back and plays for the Red Sox.
It's gonna be the biggest gap between right and Walt
Disney's gonna imagine if Walt Disney came back and said,
what have you done to Disney?
Speaker 3 (44:25):
He'd be so mad. You are douging people?
Speaker 5 (44:29):
All right?
Speaker 8 (44:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
What is what is next?
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (44:33):
Ferg Dog would like to know, Hi, Fergie, do you
like scary movies? Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 1 (44:39):
No? I never really got into scary movies. I tried
to because all the cool kids in school were into
scary movies, and.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
I just never That was never my thing. And I
saw them, and I mean when I was younger, I
was like Friday the thirteenth. I'm old, so that was
like real popular, but I never really was my thing.
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 6 (44:57):
The Ring and Insidious are probably my two favorites.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
All right, what about you, Cooper Loop, Silence of the
Lambs by far Well, that's the class.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
What's so scary about Silent Lambs?
Speaker 3 (45:10):
I'm moving on. We'll have Loraina give a tutorial on
how to use a microwave later.
Speaker 6 (45:14):
All right, Donkey sausage, Hi, Donkey. I would like to know.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
As a kid, did you ever trade out your Halloween
candy and what would you trade for? Oh?
Speaker 3 (45:25):
Yeah, I had two brothers.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
I was closer with my older brothers in age, so
we would go out and we did a lot of trades.
The move at the Mallard mansion was we'd pour all
the candy out. We had pillow cases, we had. That's
how holl we took pill Caise. We'd pour all the
candy out, and then there was the trading process, you know,
because my brother was kind of more into the gummy
(45:48):
candies and I'm more of a chocolate guy, and so
there'll be a lot of trading that would go on there,
and then we'd we'd both agree we didn't want the
apple stuff, you know, the neighbors that wanted.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
To give the kids healthy food, so we didn't want that.
What about you, Lorraina, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (46:01):
Yeah, I was a big Snickers fan, so I would
all want my brothers Snickers. I would trade my kit Cat. Yes,
I did the same thing, traded the kit Cats for
Snickers every time.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Well, I didn't mind trading. I felt like KitKat was perfect.
I was a big baby Ruth. Butterfinger guy, those were
my I love those. I felt like in combo they
kind of went together, and so I went with those.
But I would trade KitKat all I got in trouble.
One of the friends of my wife listens to the
show and he loves almond Joy, who was pointing out
that was always the least popular candy, and he apparently
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loves almon Joy, so.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
We kind of got upset sometimes. He was like, very
this is a delicate top coop. But anything you want
to add here?
Speaker 6 (46:40):
Uh yeah, no, I that's pretty much what Lorena said.
Speaker 8 (46:42):
I would trade my kit Cats for Snickers Baby Ruth
I loved, and same with butterfingers.
Speaker 6 (46:47):
Those are those are the top three.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
All right?
Speaker 2 (46:49):
What is next?
Speaker 3 (46:52):
Okay? Your questions are answers we've asked.
Speaker 8 (46:55):
We've been asked this before, but we have new listeners
all the time. Cowboy Killer would like to know have
any of you ever shot a gun?
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Uh? No, I've had many opportunities, as you know. My
my wife's a nine to one one operator.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
I've never never done it. I shouldn't do that at
some point? Why not people? Yeah, there we go, ask
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(03:54):
you hate to see Blake Snell have problems, don't you?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Just a shame life. It's just so so depressed. It's
so sad. Ah you lose it.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
First consecutive home runs to start a World Series game.
They've been playing the World Series a long time, and
nobody's a bigger suck bag than Blake Snell. Yes, Savage
shoved it down the Dodger's throats from there, and now
the better story is in the losing locker room. Everyone
knows the better stories in the losing locker room. So
that is where we will begin. And we were given
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the gift of a cringeworthy quote from the aforementioned Blake Snell,
who was not only a pitcher, he was terrible. And
there's no other way to say it. So Snell just horrible.
They should put him up on charges for him taking
that Dodger money the way he was pitching there and
lead off home.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Run and then another home run. Did you hear what
he had to say after the game? You did not?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
All?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Right? Fair enough? Blake Snell said, this is great.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
He thinks the reason he had his problems the World
Series game here was because of two words.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Bad luck. I what a loser.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Blake Snell says, luck plays in baseball. Two, he said,
pointing out that he was of course, not his fault.
He made great pitches and they just happened to hit
him to the moon. All right, So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question for
the esteem panel. Dodger pitcher Blake Snell didn't want to
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get the rona blaming bad luck for his garbage performance.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
That is blank again.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Dodger pitcher Blake Snell blaming bad luck for his Garbage
World Series performance.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That is blank. I saw I'll filming a blank in
a minute.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
My thoughts though, Before we film in the blank, I've
got breakfast Cereal, Kurt Vovaqua and post office and we
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
we just have a delicious Smorgesborg of goodness. Now, hey,
my word to fill in the blank, Dodger pitcher Blake
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Snell blaming bad luck for his garbage performance is blank.
My word is gobbled the gook. That is my word,
gobbled the gook, plain and simple. All right, that's it.
That's my word. As Jayscoop, I haven't heard from him,
and ah, I hope he's all right. But Jay Scoop
would say bullpucky is what he would say. He meaning,
Blake Snell, you've just lost. Imagine this like a Disney commercial.
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Blake Snell, you've just lost both starts in the twenty
twenty five World Series. What are you gonna do next?
And Snell says, I'm gonna blame Frank Sinatra is.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
What I'm gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What a dead musician? Yeah, remember that song, Luck Be
a Lady. Apparently Luck the lady was not there. Lady
was not there.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Really, Blake, that's your defense, that's your defense. You know
what this is?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
This is the breakfast serial defense from Blake Snell.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What do I mean by that?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Instead of eating his lucky charms? Clearly Blake Snell had
Captain Crunch because Toronto was crunching.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Everything he threw up there early in the game.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Now, bad luck is a longtime baseball term. The base
It's like saying the baseball gods were against me. And
when I hear that, I always say, talk to the hand.
Now you can talk to the right hand, you can
talk to the left hand. Blake Snell gave up in
eleven and two thirds innings, ten earned runs. Let me
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repeat that for those of you that are intoxicated. Those
even in the back of the room that need to
turn up your hearing aid. Blake Snell gave up ten
earned runs and eleven and two thirds innings of World
Series Baseball. Now where I come from, and maybe I'm
wrong on this, I don't know. I just do an
overnight talk shows. That's not bad luck, that's bad pitching. Oh,
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you're being such a shock chalk. That's what you hate
the Dodgers. You're doing overnights. Yeah, I know all that stuff,
all your defenses. Do you realize the domination for the
Toronto batters. The hitters were basically taking batting practice against
mister Cy Young. Mister Cy Young, in fact, I was
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actually worried. This is how pathetic Blake Snell is. I
was worried about these guys getting carpal tunnel from smashing
the pitches so often that he threw up there. They
needed ice, that they needed some kind of risk therapy afterwards.
This was not one bad outing, by the way, Patternicity.
My friend Snell was awful in his first World Series
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start this year, both times out, and you can't blame
that on the Voodoo Bugaloo or whatever or Lady Luck anything.
And to think the Dodger handed this stiff one hundred
and eighty two million dollars. They said, we need you
to be We need you to be our October goat,
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and Blake Snell said, yes, I want that. And instead
of being a goat, he's looking for a scape goat.
Is what he's looking for, Like a soft served cone
melting on the big stage. And it's crazy because he
pitched in lowly Tampa Bay and was good in the world.
Said you put on that Dodger uniform and all of
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a sudden, you're riding the vomit comet.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You're riding the vomit comet, is what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Here's a Blake Snell by the way, postgame, Blake Snell,
who for some reason thought he was at a dog park.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I mean, yeah, it's fruscterrating when you lose. We got
we got two games left and we can go back
to Toronto and you know, see what kind of team
we got. That's that's the most important thing. See see
what kind of dogs are in this club, and then
what we can do.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, I'll tell you what kind of dogs.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You have?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Dogs with fleas. You need a fleet back. These guys
need a fleetback.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Are.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
They're dogs with fleas. They are, they can hear them.
There's a Dodge that's a Dodger clubhouse. We got a
microphone in the Dodger clubhouse. There are a bunch of
dogs covered in fleas. So to me, the cherry on
top of all this, and I have long ranted howling
at the moon about the coddling of the professional athlete
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and the things that we used to do, or you
overcame adversity. There is no adversity. These guys, like I said,
the Dodgers travel like they're the royal family. They do
just just absolutely great. And they treated Blake Snell like
a toddler. They coddled Blake Snell like a newborn baby.
Actually not even a toddler. Oh, Blake Keith, you know
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he's very delicate. We're gonna manage his innings. Blake, you
want to take three months off?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
You want to do that? You know we'll save your
arm because we just need you for the world too.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, I'll take three months off, Yes, pay me, I'll
take three months off. Sure, how's that ROI that return
on investment? Let's see here, Blake Snell World Series right,
he will not pitch again. Be shocked if he does
eight point zero four era. In the twenty twenty five
World Series, Dodgers lost both games. Toronto batted three to
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eleven against Blake Snell paid him one hundred and eighty
two million dollars to go out there and defecate on
the mound. Tremendous all right, Now, now we get to
everyone else's bashing the offense. I want to hey, listen,
that's low hanging for you know, we have a pass
with Blake Snell going back to the pandemic.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
But I ain't playing this. I get mine.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Bro, Well, I guess you're not winning. Un list you
got yours, but you got yours and you're still not winning. Now,
as for the offense, we've been told that this roster
is filled with Hall of famers, that they are loaded
one of the greatest baseball teams ever assembled by man,
a collection of MVPs and All Stars and batting champions,
and we've witnessed them come apart at the seams. Now,
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the face of this baseball catastrophe, his Mookie Betts was
playing like Dookie if you know what I mean. Not good,
not good at all. The former most Valuable player is
batting a buck thirty. It's like having back when he
used to have pictures hit.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Other than Otani.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's like that having a pitcher in the lineup buck thirty.
In the World Series, he was demoted in the lineup.
He was dropped down on the lineups. Dave Roberts and
the nerds finally decided, you know, I think we should
maybe do something.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
But the analytics said, don't do anything. Okay, we'll do something.
Oh well, but they said don't do anything. So the
nerds shook up the lineup.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
They benched Andy Pyez and Mookie Bets demoted down a
spot in the lineup, and he went.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Over for.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So it turns out Mookie sucks whether he's batting second
or third in the Doger lineup.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Not good.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Do we have this Mookie post game? I don't know
if we do or not. We do, Okay, apparently we do,
all right, So here's Mookie Bets. This is the viral SoundBite. Postgame,
Mookie was asked about his new level of suckage in
the World Serious.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Heies what he had to say.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I don't want to speak on anybody else, but for
me personally, I've just been terrible.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You've been terrible, and there's no I wish it was
from lack of effort. I really do, but it's not.
So Yeah, I don't have any I.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Was cut off good editing, He said, I don't have
any answers?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Who edited that?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
By the way, I mean, just leave the word answers
in there. It's not that hard, all right. Question, What
is your opinion of Mookie Bets taking responsibility with his
I've just been terrible quote for his lousy play in
the twenty twenty five World Series for the Dodgers. So
my reaction is, thank you very much, Mookie. The sky
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is blue right to the U and I the sky
is no kidding, Mookie. I mean, we've got TVs, we've
got radios. We've been watching, we've been listening. You're batting
a buck thirty. You don't get credit for self awareness.
When the numbers are.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Tattooed on the jumbo tron.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
They're all up there, right they're batting it now, right now.
Mookie Bets looks like a guy walking into the deli
and he's ordering a sandwich. He says, I don't want
the Pastrami simms, how about a turkey? I don't need
a Turkey Simmis. Let me get that number seven. What's
the number seven. That's the panic sandwich. Mookie's eating a
panic sandwich. And you don't need any clutch hits. Hold
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the clutch hits on the panic sandwich. Can I get
some extra whiffs? Can I get some extra pop ups?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I need that? Yeah? Sure, why not? We'll give you
extra pop ups.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's the freaking World Series, pal, And you can't suck
like I mean, you're sucking at a time you cannot suck.
That's the definition of this. Now more evidence. As my professor,
the Great Dick Stockton taught me years ago, stat's tell
you what has happened, not what's going to happen. If
you just base this World Series on reputation and the
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numbers on the back of the baseball card, the Dodgers
would have already won the World Series. But unfortunately they
have to play the games. And right now, what has happened?
All those MVPs and so called stars. They're treated like
the royals when they travel, are playing like Little League
B team guys. If I owned the Dodgers, I would
make these stiffs fly to Toronto on Spirit Airlines. As punishment,
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I would make them fly Spirit Airlines. They'd have to
pay for their own luggage. That's what I would do now.
The late great Tommy Lasorda, may he rest in peace.
And I was lucky enough to know Tommy. But Tommy
would say the Dodgers right now have a lot of
Kurt Bovakua's.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
In their lineups. It's one of the all time great drops.
If you're too young to know it, it's on.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
The YouTube and it was one of the great rants
underrated rant by the Sorta and he would say, these
guys couldn't hit water.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
If they fell out a frick boat. The Dodgers are hitting.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Two hundred, two hundred in the World Series two hundred.
I didn't realize the Blue listen. I took the Blue
Jays lightly. They're pitching. I didn't know they were filled
with all these cy young winners. Max Munsey buck fifty,
Tommy Edmund, Tommy Tanks is tanking the world hit a
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buck forty three, and then the gold standard Mookie Bets
buck thirty, buck thirty. Holy crap on a cracker now,
Jeff Van Gundy, I know it's a basketball guy, but
Van Gundy's famously said it's a make or miss league. Well,
Baseball two, you're whiffing early, you're whiffing off and the
Blue Jays what they ought to do is send a
fleet of limos to the hotel there in Toronto. Make
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sure Munsey and Tommy Edmund and Will Smith and Mookie Bets,
all these guys get to the stadium in comfort. Because
right now, the Dodgers, if you look in that clubhouse,
it's an art exhibit. And what kind of art is it?
That would be the choke art exhibit? The choke artists
I got now, don't get me wrong, Okay, do knocket
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me wrong. I appreciate Mookie Bets owning it. I just
don't need a confession at this moment. The series isn't over.
I would like to get a couple of hits. I
would enjoy a couple of home runs. That would be
pretty nice, or at least a Ribby single. How about that.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It's the world series. This is not therapy. Okay, I'm
not that kind of fan.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I know there's a lot of fanboys out there and
told liquors that will love that and say, oh we
love you, MOOKI It's.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Okay, that's not me. That's not me.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oya.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Accountability is nice. I just happen to like production a
little bit better I do.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
I do.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I like production, and you can apologize all you want.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Unfortunately, when you look at the box score, it does
not accept my bad bro, it does not accept that.
All right, last word to the Toronto side of things,
and what a performance was by trey Ya Savage of
the Blue Jays. The quote from the Blue Jays from
Vladimir Guerrero Junior, lad who got it done again. Here's
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the Toronto star, Vladimir Gerraire, who said, quote the job
is not done yet. Close quote said that through a translator.
All right, question, what is the vibe? What is the
vibe around the Blue Jays right now at this moment.
So the vibe is the schnazola. You can smell the
championship bubbly, you can smell it. The Dodgers are practically
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handing Toronto the World Series. They are the beneficiary of
the generosity, the act of charity of the Dodgers. They've
gift wrapped it. They've thrown on a bow which looks
pretty nice. It's a Dodger blue bow. And the J's
now they just got to make sure they don't fumble.
Don't fumble the gift, all right, don't fumble it, don't
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trip at the post office, don't break it, don't do that.
And the fact that the Dodgers have collectively gone in
the witness protection program, and this tray.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Is savage doing things.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
That the greatest of the greats have done in the
World Series, getting a lot of help from the anemic
Dodger hitters. There guy's been in Major League Baseball for
about five minutes and made the Big Bad Dodgers look
like a slow pitch Beer League softball team on the
weekends there and surgical slicing them up. No contest the
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last couple of games. So what does all this mean
for Toronto? It is yours to lose. The Dodgers were
the big bad bully. They're no longer the big bad bully.
Toronto's up three to two. Home cooked poutin ahead, home
cooked poutin ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
But remember.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Vladimir Guerrero showed up wearing a maple leafs jersey to
I think it was the first game in the World Series.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Remember correctly, and that'll come back to haunt you if
you blow these last two games.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Like, you know, the maple leafs are in that town.
They're the definition of choke artists, and so just don't choke.
Got Vlattie saying job's not done good, it's not. And
it's been a long time since Joe Carter and then
you know, hit the Ball to the Moon and Mitch
Williams and all that ninety three. So you finish the
job now or you become another cautionary tale in Canadian
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sports misery.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And there's a long, long, big board of that. So
you can smell it, right, there's a champagne there. You
can smell the champagne.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's amazing, can smell It's not open. One more win
and Yama Moto on the mount. The problem with Yamamoto
pitch great game. The Dodgers, if they don't get their
head out of it, took us. They got this tight
Tukas syndrome. It doesn't matter. So Dodgers are like zombies.
But we've seen those zombie apocalypse movies and we know
how that can turn around and be a fairly bad thing.
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So the Dodgers are pretty much begging Toronto to end
the World Series in game six, and that's it. Just
I would advise you to not trip over the red
carpet on your way to the parade. And it's like
they say in politics, don't measure for the curtains. Yet
you haven't won the election, so just get to wait
for the election to end, the results to come in,
and then we'll see where you stand.
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Speaker 3 (23:06):
Mind should be. We'll get back to the calls.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I don't think we took any last yar bad job
by us, So you guys on hold the you know,
blame the microwave. Clearly it's my fault. Sandwich is good
microwaves not so good. Sandwich good. So we did the
Baseball Hour last and I see some of you guys
who want to talk about the World Series.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I'm open to that.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm here all night. I got nothing else to do.
They're paying me to be here, so we'll talk about
the World Series. But our lead this hour is from Baltimore. Baltimore,
the home was Sports with Coleman. Now the Ravens are
set for the island life. Lamar Jackson, he's back, baby.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Allegedly, he leads the.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Ravens traveling circus into South Florida for a matchup with
Tua Tongue of I Loa and the Dolphins. Will Thursday
night action and no World Series game to distract you
from that, although it appears no one was distracted by
the World Series the other night when the Monday Night
Football played anyway. Lamar Jackson's injury reports status has been
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a hot topic of conversation here, and a lot of
NFL people with their stick up, their tuk us up
in arms here NFL scrutinizing the improprieties, if you will,
the way the Ravens handled the injury report. Jackson was
initially listed as a full participant in Ravens practice. He
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was then downgraded to limited and then ruled out of
the game against the Chicago Bears. The Ravens would win
that game. And of course the gambling part of it,
the gambling element is a big deal. People bet money
on these games, and they bet money based on information
the NFL gives out. If they give out shady information,
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it becomes a problem. Now it turns out, even if
you bet on the Ravens, you didn't think the Ravens
was gonna win because Lamar wasn't playing, you know the
outcome if you bet on the Ravens, they actually surprised
they won the game. But the Ravens clarify that Jackson
participated fully in the practice. They just said he did
not take starter reps. That was the spin coming out
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of Baltimore. Then that led to the change in the status.
Now the NFL is said to be investigating.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'm sure that'll be great.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
They want to ensure compliance. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. But that's not the story.
The story here entering the chat now is Mike Preston.
Now you might not know who that is if you're
not from Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He's a long.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Time sports columnist in Baltimore. This guy has seen and
done a thing or two. He's been around the block.
He knows where all the bodies are buried in Baltimore sports.
So anyway, he popped up on the b More Sports
podcast with My Guy Sports with Coleman, And normally when
I get sent to stuff, I just ignore it, but
I thought this was really, really interesting.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And I wanted to kind of.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Bite into it because Mike Preston, who knows where all
the bodies are buried in Baltimore sports, he told My
Guy Sports with Coleman that Lamar Jackson essentially torpedoed John Harball.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
That's what he's hearing.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That the Ravens were actually right there, they covered for
Lamar Jackson, that it was a last second switch a
roue by Lamar, that he did not want to play,
That Lamar Jackson was supposed to play, he was cleared
to play, and he chose not to play at the
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last minute. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss. We're gonna base this monologue off this report.
So question, do you believe the chatter that Lamar Jackson,
multi time MVP, tapped out of the raven game against
the Chicago Bears at the last minute, and then the
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Ravens are covering for him by claiming it was a misunderstanding.
So my observation on this, I've got Uncle Drew.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Crystal mal and Tomahawk.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
And we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to clean up. There's a spill, supermarcut, Steve
tells me on Aisle seven. So we're gonna clean up
Aisle seven.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
So number.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I said, number wh okay on this one, do you
believe Lamar Jackson tapped out? I am drinking the kool
aid because the Ravens say what you want about him,
They're not gonna f it up that bad. Like, it
is completely logical that that is what happened, Lamar Jackson
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tapped out, not that John Harbaugh fed up that bad.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I think the much.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
More reasonable conclusion, if you look at this objectively, is
the Ravens are now covering for Lamar. They're gonna get ding.
Maybe they'll lose a sixth round draft pick or something
like that. There's a lot of meat on the bone
and this guy knows a lot. He said, Lamar was
cleared but didn't feel like playing. That to me, is
a smoking gun. Follow the bread crumbs, Follow the bread crumbs.
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The Ravens, if this is report, if this Wark's accurate,
the Ravens are, yeah. The doctors, the medical staff's like,
you're good to go, and Lamar's like, okay, I'll get
out there practice a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
And he's like, nah, I don't feel like it.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Play Thursday. Like, to me, that checks out Jackson. From
what we understand, he runs the show. He's the one
that wears the pants.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
There.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
The Ravens have supposedly changed everything to accommodate Lamar. He
doesn't like getting up early, so they practiced later in
the day.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Like everything they do is to accommodate Lamar, which is
what you do with a star player, right.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The Patriots not to the same degree, but they looked
out for Tom Brady, the team's Peyton Manning played for it,
looked out for him.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
That's that's how it works.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
So John harbaughf this is correct. Lamar is not just
a quarterback. He's running the show over there. So John
Harbaugh is an underling. He's caught in a pickle jar
and we know nobody likes pickles other than Alf the
Alien punter, but it's Lamar's and everyone else is just
kind of rent in space, right, and it would be
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the ultimate power move that he knows. The Ravens can't
call him out publicly because he's the face of the franchise.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
They would get roasted.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
So instead the Ravens just have to eat it, and
they just have to take it. And so Lamar's got
the leverage, He's got all the awards, and he's you know,
he's the total late late hour, late night ego guy.
You know, last minute, eleventh hour load management decision, the
Uncle Drew of football or Kyrie Irving with shoulder pads
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all that, and so it makes sense he was it
was clear to play, and then he's like, wait a minute,
we got to play. I play on Sunday, and then
I gotta play five days late. I can play twice
in five days. I'm gonna make a business decision, and
I'm gonna miss the Bears game because that's just a
normal game on a Sunday afternoon. But I want to
play in that time time game, and I want to
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play in Miami because that's where all my friends are
because I'm from there, So I want to play in
South Florida.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Okay, done deal? Why not? Now?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
According to the Ravens, they're like, it was just a
it was some miscommunication.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
But wouldn't it be miscommunication? Riddle me this, Batman.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Wouldn't it be miscommunication if if the Ravens and Lamar
thought together he was going to play and then last
minute Lamar changed his mind. That's a miscommunication. So they're
not lying when they say miscommunication. They're covering for the player,
is what they're doing. And Lamar has been running this team.
(30:38):
It's a one man act for Lamar for years.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Now. Speaking of that, the other part of.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
This, which is very, very juicy with Lamar Jackson, there's
now at least some smoke billowing up that Lamar Jackson's
days could be numbered in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oh my god, that's an outrageous thing to say. Uh,
just go with it.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
So again, I go back to the aforementioned this guy,
Mike Preston, who was on with My Guy Sports with
Coleman on his podcast, and Mike Preston's like, hey, listen,
he's all he just kind of floated this out casually,
you know, casually floated out that there's a shot this
is Lamar Jackson's final season with the Poets. This could
be it's I believe you're eight and that's that's all.
(31:26):
She wrote that he would enter the transfer portal and betrayed.
So the question sounds outrageous.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Right, Oh my god, what is wrong with you Overnight
Talk your hosts? Are you desperate for ratings? So what
are the odds question?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
What are the odds that the Ravens move on from
Lamar Jackson? So for this we have turned to the
Malor sports Book. Yeah, we've turned the Mallard Sports Book,
the Mallard Sports Book Gods, the unofficial odds direct from
Benny Versus the Penny, which available now on YouTube at
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Speaker 3 (32:05):
The channel, thank you, subscribe to it.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
So the Mallard Sportsbook Gods plus nine hundred plus nine
hundred right now, that implies about a ten percent chance
a one hundred hitter, which is almost where Mookie Bets
is in the world. Here's a little bit better than that.
So essentially you've got Mookie Bets up there needing a hit.
The chances of Mookie bets getting a hit are about
the same as the Ravens saying bye bye to Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
So it means it's not.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Likely, but it's possible. It's not fantasy land either, you
get the bat in the hands. Lamar's twenty eight. He's
got a fair amount of mileage now because he's taken
a lot of hits, played a good amount of football
over the years, and when he was playing earlier there
were a lot of mistakes. It was a stumblebump offense.
They ran hot and cold before the injury. He's been
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hurt for a while, been out for a month or so,
and you're obviously not trading him now. And no one's
saying the Ravens to trade Lamar Jackson mid season. But
in the offseason the Ravens don't make the playoffs, or
they make the playoffs and lose on the wild card weekend.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Then things get spicy.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Now, who would go big game hunting for Lamar Jackson?
And he said, well, everyone would want Lamar Jackson, And
I don't know about that. Looking into my crystal ball,
maryber Lamar was a free agent essentially, well not a
total freezing.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
But he could have left the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Nobody wanted him, nobody made a runner him, which is
outrageous considering that he went back to the Ravens and
he put up amazing great regular season ballplayer. So looking
into my crystal ball, the obvious one is the team
the Ravens are playing tonight, the Miami Dolphins, hometown kid.
Dolphins have been pathetic since Dan Marino, who's old, So
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bring in Lamar Jackson. How about the Saints desperate for
a little bit of positivity and to buy you there,
maybe holding a top five pick.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I don't know how they.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Don't hold the top five pick. You'd think they'd have
to have a top five pick.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
The Jets also can already see Woody Johnson drooling the
tabloid fodder, actually positive tabloid headlines. Now, if the Ravens
were to trade Lamar, what would this be? This pin
would be, well, you know, listen, we hate to give
up a player like this, but you use the old
Bill Belichick line where Belichick saf you trade a guy
a year earlier than instead of a year late, and
(34:31):
they'd have to throw some negative stories out in the
media of the Ravens to bury Lamar. When you trade
a popular player, you attack their character and a certain
percentage of fans will shift to your side. Is if
Lamar's act is legitimately wearing thin, if people internally in
the building are annoyed and like, he just screwed us
over here, he torpedoed us with his latest move. If
(34:53):
the Ravens everyone's got their breaking point right, if this
becomes a tinder box.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
And the problem is, obviously it would be a new
t on bomb.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
If you trade Lamar Jackson after the season, you'd blow
up a bunch of stuff. You'd reset the quarterback market
around the league and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
And it is unlikely, however, if your.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Baltimore and people start sending your text messages and all that.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, you look, you.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Know, you don't put your plane on airplane mode or
your phone on airplane mode. Because as great as Lamar
has been, and I never thought he would be this good,
I was skeptical of Lamar, and he's been a wonderful
player from September to December. There's hardly anyone you would
want a quarterback from September to December than Lamar Jackson.
The problem is in January. In January, he turns into
(35:38):
a jack o' lantern and that's a problem. That's a problem.
The Ravens have squeezed the juice, a lot of juice
from the orange and now they've got to ask is
the pulp left worth the headache?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
That's up to them all, right, final point.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
We go now to Jersey, the swamp lands of New Jersey,
where one of the worst teams in ball has made
a rather bizarre move. The question where are you at
on the one in seven j Tes?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Suck?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Suck, suck, the one in seven Jets raising season ticket prices.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
For next year.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Let me repeat that for those of you a little
slow because you're working in a factory, or driving a truck,
or laying in a hospital bed wishing you could.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Get out of there.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
So the question where are you at the one in
seven Jets raising season ticket prices.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
For the upcoming year? No they didn't, Yes they did.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
This is a classic tone deaf ownership move. It's Johnson
and Johnson and dumb and dumber. How do you sell
a product that stinks and charge more for it when
every man, woman and child knows the product's a bad product. Seriously,
it's like selling a car. And then if you go
(36:59):
over fifty miles in the car, the car shuts off
and you can't drive it for a day.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Who would buy that car? No one would buy that car.
It's a good looking car, though, you'd want to buy
that No, it's not. It's not right.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
So you've got a franchise that's allergic to winning, and
their idea of fan appreciation is a extra surcharge unfailure.
It would be like going to a nice steakhouse and
tipping your waiter for forgetting to bring you your Tomahawks steak.
(37:32):
I'm gonna tip you anyway because you smiled at me,
but you didn't. You didn't get your Tomahawks steak. I know,
but you were nice to me and I didn't. I
wanted it, but you didn't give it to me. So
I'm gonna tip you anyway. What's the message the Jets
are essentially saying, and you can correct me if you
wanted this, But to me, the Jets are saying, yeah,
we're terrible, but you're still so dumb you're gonna show
(37:53):
up anyway.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It is a captive audience.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Jets fans are chumps from Fireman d On and you're
all a bunch of trumps. You got your little green
jerseys there, you got your face paint, and you're standing
in line, wrapped around the building, online, wrapped around the building,
right around the block there to get punched in the
face every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Now, some pr flak for the team actually.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Tried to spin it, saying that the affordable seats are
not increasing. Oh great, so the people sitting in the
stratosphere near the pearly gates get a mercy rule and
the excuse and this is great, My god, is this
a great excuse? The Jets pr flack said, well, because
(38:39):
we lost a game to London. We had to play
a game in London, so they have to punish the
fans in the Tri State area because they played a
game in London. That is not a reason to raise prices.
That is a reason to issue refunds. You're literally charging
your fans more for less. That is it's called duggery
(39:01):
one o one dress it up with body spray and
spin and hope that the suckers don't notice the shell game.
It's like the old Times Square before Disney bought it
all and cleaned it up. Man, that was there were
peep shows and three card Monty. You could buy any
kind of handbags you wanted. In Times Square, it was
a total sesspool. Now it's all different, But it's like that.
(39:23):
It's like the Jets are playing three card Monty here
and Jets fans they should get hazard pay, not invoices.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
They should get hazard pay. And the Jets. Most teams
try to sell hope, they hope we get better. The
Jets are selling a habit. It's like fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I was like, no, it's not good for you, but
it's you know you like it, but no, it's not good.
You shouldn't do that. Now they know their fans, we'll
keep paying and keep chanting say suck, suck, suck, and
they'll keep serving up the slop. As long as the
fans buy the slop. It's a sucker's paradise. The team stinks,
the ownership stinks, the players stink, the coaches blow.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
And the fans think, I guess that's that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
And they just want to want to have the privilege
of buying tickets to watch the poop show. It is
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Speaker 2 (40:41):
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Speaker 3 (40:47):
To the third degree.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
This is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
Kooblop, a Cowboys insider, reported on Tuesday that the team
has quote not engaged in contract extension talks of wide
receiver George Pickens or his representatives.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
Now.
Speaker 8 (41:03):
Some believe this means the Cowboys could ultimately decide to
trade Pickens before the deadline.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
Could you see that happening?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
There is a better chance, Coup, that you sign a
contract on the practice squad with the Cowboys than George
Pickens is traded between now and the deadline.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Not gonna happen. Not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
You know, Jerry's futzing around with a bunch of stuff,
doesn't you know? Piggins not necessarily gonna stay there because
the problem is Pickens wants to be a number one receiver.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
He won't be a number one there because they already
have a number one receiver.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
They're paying a lot of money too, so they're not
gonna put him as the number one. But he will
not be traded because the Cowboys are like a faux contender.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
They're not a real contender. They're a full contender. Next.
Speaker 8 (41:42):
Davos Sweeney spoke with the media in the wake of
Brian Kelly's firing by LSU and said, quote, You've got
a lot of really good football coaches that have won
a lot of games, but they're getting fired because they
really haven't won championships. And you've got others that want
you fired even though you've won championships. I wonder who
he's talking about. Ben, Do you think Sweeney could be next?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yes, it's all First of all, just because you want
a championship or two doesn't mean you have lifetime employment. Secondly,
it's all about the daddy, the sugar daddy it Clemson's
got to find a guy to pay off Dabosweeney and
they'll fire him next.
Speaker 8 (42:12):
The Greek Freak was asked about a report that claimed
he had contemplated to trade and the Knicks were the
only team on his wish list. Giannis responded saying, I
don't remember that, and then change the subject. Then you
think Janics gets traded the season?
Speaker 1 (42:25):
I would say there's a forty five percent chance. It
depends how good the Bucks are when we get to
the trade deadline, which is in February. We got many
many games, many months to go before that. But if
they suck, yeah, how'd we doubt you passed this decision?
Speaker 3 (42:37):
That is a win. Put it on the ball, just
like the Green Goblin. I got the win.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
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Speaker 3 (42:56):
For time for Horry. Horry Honey said, this is your
questions on Twitter Now the way we go to ask men.
Your questions are answers. I see Alam delu listening ripping
blind Scott, go ahead, cool? What do we have? All right? Uh?
Speaker 6 (43:13):
Freddy on Twitter? Hi, Freddy says, speaking of death, how
would you like your burial? He says? Burial to be.
But I guess that's one of the choices. What would
you like to happen to you after.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Like a big funeral?
Speaker 6 (43:29):
I don't know, or like like cremation?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Berry, Do you.
Speaker 6 (43:34):
Want to be a tree?
Speaker 3 (43:36):
I want the maggots to eat me, so I'll go
in the ground. And I think there's good food.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
I think I fee generations with maggots, so I guess
I'll go in the ground.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Lorena.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
Yeah, I want to be made into one of those
tree pods.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
And I want to be made into a peach tree
so that I supply juicy peaches the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
Wonderful. That's a what kind of tree?
Speaker 6 (43:58):
Peach tree?
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Okay? Cool?
Speaker 6 (44:02):
I want to be frozen with Ted Williams.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Oh in Arizona?
Speaker 6 (44:08):
Is that where he is?
Speaker 3 (44:09):
That's who the rumor was he was in Arizona.
Speaker 6 (44:12):
Yeah, shows me.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Great when he comes back and plays for the Red Sox.
It's gonna be the biggest gap between right and Walt
Disney's gonna imagine if Walt Disney came back and said,
what have you done to Disney?
Speaker 3 (44:25):
He'd be so mad. You are douging people?
Speaker 5 (44:29):
All right?
Speaker 8 (44:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
What is what is next?
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (44:33):
Ferg Dog would like to know, Hi, Fergie, do you
like scary movies? Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 1 (44:39):
No? I never really got into scary movies. I tried
to because all the cool kids in school were into
scary movies, and.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
I just never That was never my thing. And I
saw them, and I mean when I was younger, I
was like Friday the thirteenth. I'm old, so that was
like real popular, but I never really was my thing.
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 6 (44:57):
The Ring and Insidious are probably my two favorites.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
All right, what about you, Cooper Loop, Silence of the
Lambs by far Well, that's the class.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
What's so scary about Silent Lambs?
Speaker 3 (45:10):
I'm moving on. We'll have Loraina give a tutorial on
how to use a microwave later.
Speaker 6 (45:14):
All right, Donkey sausage, Hi, Donkey. I would like to know.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
As a kid, did you ever trade out your Halloween
candy and what would you trade for? Oh?
Speaker 3 (45:25):
Yeah, I had two brothers.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
I was closer with my older brothers in age, so
we would go out and we did a lot of trades.
The move at the Mallard mansion was we'd pour all
the candy out. We had pillow cases, we had. That's
how holl we took pill Caise. We'd pour all the
candy out, and then there was the trading process, you know,
because my brother was kind of more into the gummy
(45:48):
candies and I'm more of a chocolate guy, and so
there'll be a lot of trading that would go on there,
and then we'd we'd both agree we didn't want the
apple stuff, you know, the neighbors that wanted.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
To give the kids healthy food, so we didn't want that.
What about you, Lorraina, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (46:01):
Yeah, I was a big Snickers fan, so I would
all want my brothers Snickers. I would trade my kit Cat. Yes,
I did the same thing, traded the kit Cats for
Snickers every time.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Well, I didn't mind trading. I felt like KitKat was perfect.
I was a big baby Ruth. Butterfinger guy, those were
my I love those. I felt like in combo they
kind of went together, and so I went with those.
But I would trade KitKat all I got in trouble.
One of the friends of my wife listens to the
show and he loves almond Joy, who was pointing out
that was always the least popular candy, and he apparently
(46:32):
loves almon Joy, so.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
We kind of got upset sometimes. He was like, very
this is a delicate top coop. But anything you want
to add here?
Speaker 6 (46:40):
Uh yeah, no, I that's pretty much what Lorena said.
Speaker 8 (46:42):
I would trade my kit Cats for Snickers Baby Ruth
I loved, and same with butterfingers.
Speaker 6 (46:47):
Those are those are the top three.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
All right?
Speaker 2 (46:49):
What is next?
Speaker 3 (46:52):
Okay? Your questions are answers we've asked.
Speaker 8 (46:55):
We've been asked this before, but we have new listeners
all the time. Cowboy Killer would like to know have
any of you ever shot a gun?
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Uh? No, I've had many opportunities, as you know. My
my wife's a nine to one one operator.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
I've never never done it. I shouldn't do that at
some point? Why not people? Yeah, there we go, ask
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