Hour 1 - A Blue Flu

Ben Maller talks about what has gone haywire for Dave Roberts' Big Blue Wrecking Crew's offense as the Dodgers lose Game 4 to the Blue Jays, the media cooking up alibis for Ohtani's clunker on the mound, how things are looking for the Blue Jays moving forward, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talking bass ball. Hey, it's our numb Burwan, our number
one of the Ben Maler Show. And we look back
at the latest World Series game and the Toronto Baseball
team getting it done, evening up the World Series at
two wins apiece? What has gone haywire for Dave Roberts

(00:22):
Big Blue Wrecking Crew offense? Also, where are you at
on the media, the baseball media cooking up every possible
alibi for Shoheo Tani's World Series clunker both on the
mound and at the play. He was tired, he was tired,
he was hot, Oh my god. Also, how are things
looking for Vladi Guerrero's Blue Jays in the World Series

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as the Beebes got it done on the mound? All
that and more here it is our number one, the
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another night of the world. So is do we have
live baseball action right now? No, we do not have
any live baseball action right now. But we start out
in Los Angeles or a top of mountain looking down

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on skid row the Dodgers and the Blue Jays back
at it. Less than twenty four hours after the eighteen
inning thriller in Chavez Ravine and Toronto was looking to
even the series up in Game number four. Right there,
big stage, man, it was a massive so important. We

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had live music for it la a huge pitching. If
you looked at the matchup, you said, Okay, that's a
win for the Dodgers. Chuck that up for a win.
You had Shane Bieber representing the Canadians and show Hail
Tani for the Doyers, the greatest player ever to play
the sport of baseball. You cannot lose. You cannot lose

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a game started by the greatest player ever, God's gift
to humanity. Show Hail today. You cannot lose. That's why
they play the games. So if you didn't see it,
I assume you know by now. We watched, so you
would not have to. It's our good mister of the day.
But Flattie is your daddy, and he walloped a two

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run homer off God's gift of baseball, Show Hail Tani
in the third inning there and Shane Bieber, of all people,
Shane Bieber, the Beebs went out there and pitched four
hit ball into the sixth inning, into the sixth inning,
Shane Bieber, who's got like a terminator arm. Unreal, unreal,

(04:07):
and Toronto gets back on track. They get a six
to two win over the Doyers. Addison Barger adding a
couple of hits and an RBI for the J's and
don't look now, but Toronto has reclaimed home field advantage,
and we are guaranteed that the World Series will end
on Canadian soil at the Rogers Center in downtown Toronto

(04:31):
right there, at some point this weekend, the World Series
will come to an end there in that fine city.
And that is a good jumping off point because Dave
Roberts better storing the losing locker room. And so Dave
Roberts addressing a very pathetic Dodger offense here, and the
question and Roberts insinuating that there's going to be some

(04:52):
changes to the Dodger lineup heading into the next game here,
game number five of the World Series. So the question
is what has gone haywire? What has gone haywire for
Dave Roberts and what was billed as the big Blue
wrecking crew at Dodger linup. So my thoughts on this,
I've got Ripley's believe it or not, Super Nintendo and

(05:14):
Checkered Flag, and we will combine all of these things together.
We're gonna put them in a food processor. We're gonna
pick out whatever comes out of that food processor, Man,
is it gonna be delicious? So A, the Dodger offense
has been offensive. Let's call it like it is here.
They got the names, they don't necessarily have the games
they don't. There's been far too many weak performances by

(05:37):
the Dodgers the entire postseason, which is shocking. It shows
you how great the Dodgers must be. Because they're in
the World Series two wins away and they haven't played
well on offense pretty much the entire postseason since the
wildcard round. They're well below they being the Dodgers, well
below their regular season domination, and even that was below

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what they were supposed to be. It is carried over
the Toronto Blue Jays doing what the Brewers could not do.
A contact heavy lineup of Blue Jay hitters here, opportunistic
bullpen exploiting the soft underbelly of the Los Angeles Dodgers
and something again Milwaukee was unable to do. And yet

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here we are and Toronto is doing it at this point.
Although they're not winning the series. The series is tied up,
is now a best of three, and Toronto has home
field advantage yet again. But LA has gone from the
Big Blue wrecking crew with all these amazing names, and
they still have the names, but now they're like a
wet noodle, like a pool noodle, a blue pool noodle

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is what they are right there. And so the offense,
which has been billed as a nuclear reactor, right now
it's a dead battery and they need some jumper cables
because it's not going well. And it's not just one guy.
It's not just one guy. This is as the line goes,
and all encompassing suck is what's going on right now
with the Dodgers. You got Pete Rose, the long Gone

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well not that long, you can die that long ago.
But Pete Rose was asked to describe his philosophy, the
all time hit King. I was asked to describe his
philosophy on hitting, and he said, I believe it was
six words. See the ball, hit the ball. Boom. That's it.
See the ball hit ball. So maybe the Dodgers need
to go to the eye doctor because they must not
be seeing the ball. They're not really hitting the ball

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at all. The boys in blue, the Dodgers here, they're
not stringing together hits. Everyone's treating it like batting practice,
trying to hit home runs. Here and they can't even
fake it at this particular point. The four to twenty
one ops for the Dodgers in the postseason. Now, I
didn't play in the major leagues. I just do an

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overnight talked to you. I don't think that's good. Oh,
you're being too critical. The boys are trying. Okay, great,
that's congratulations. If you want that kind of content. Sure
that guy David Vassa does the Dodger postgame will lick
the toes of all the players. He's spite massaging Mookie
Bets right now as we speak. But that is not
a slump, by the way. That is who you are
this postseason. That is who the Dodgers are this postseason.

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It's also a cry for some kind of intervention. They
might want to bring in some major league tactics and
put a shrine up in a locker and get a
little statue and burn some sage in the locker room
or something along those lines. So the Dodgers making some
washed up blue jay pitchers collectively look like the ninety

(08:30):
five Atlanta Braves with Glavin Maddox and Smoltz, Bang bang bang,
just like that. Now, Mookie Bets, I'm gonna start with
Mooki we talk about the Dodgers' offensive problem. I want
to start with Mooki Bets. And here's why, because everyone
tells me that the resume matters. Y'all tell me that.
So Mookie Bets is an MVP, he's an eight time
All Star, He's won a bunch of Silver Slugger Awards.

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I'm told that's a big deal. Right now, he is
like an old NFL kicker, mister automatica. In this case,
he's an automatic out. He's on Highway one fifty eight.
Mookie Bets is batting a buck fifty eight. He's an
automatic out. He needs a map, he needs a GPS

(09:12):
to find his way. My got Mookie Bets ball. You know,
at this point he belongs in a museum, not the
Hall of Fame, Mookie Bets. He belongs in the Ripley's
Believe it or not museum, the freak show department, right
next to Lobster Boy. You can have the human corkscrew.
I'm telling you, it's like a cork shrew. He might
be trying to kill some kind of bugs, maybe some

(09:33):
mosquitoes or something like that. That's why he's swinging the
way he is and just not trying to put the
ball in play. And it's like, well, I'm not hitting
home runs right now, and this is I was called
the bad guy. Let the record show. This is hot
take validation, hot take validation. I got killed. Two monologues
upset the Dodger fans more than anything this year. The
Clayton Kershaw one I'm still getting crap about at the

(09:55):
end of the year when they had the mock funeral
of Kershaw. They dug up the mount unbelievable. It was
like he was a dinosaur and they dug up the bones.
And then also the Mookie Bets sucks monologue, which was
completely accurate. One hundred games in terrible and all the fanboys,
the cheerleaders there, the Dodger marching and shower SOCAIUTI very upset.

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You shouldn't say that, Is it true? Yes, it's true,
but you shouldn't say that. But it's true. I know
it's you, but you shouldn't say that. Oh my god, sorry,
Mookie Bets sucks right now. Nineteen at bats, three hits,
zero extra base hits in the playoffs for rookie bats.
He's a punch and judy hitter at this point and
they're paying him like he's prime Tony Gwinn back in

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the day Barry Bonds Love child with Tony Win or
something like that. And then you've got the I would
say Comodo dragged him the room, but that's being too kind.
You've got the rat in the room, the big vermin
in the room. That would be Andy Paez of the Dodgers.
The Dodgers would actually be better off, and this is

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this is rather shocking with a Pez dispenser. If they
had a Pez dispenser at home plate, they would be
better off. At this point, Andy Pie is on Highway
sixty seven. He's hitting oh sixty seven in the World Series.
He's doing the full Michael Conforto cosplay. Now. Michael Conforto
is a guy that Dodgers added, was supposed to be
a big bat in the lineup and is so horrific

(11:23):
that he can't get near a batter's box in the
playoffs here because he's just talksing U and that is
Andy Pi's. He's been completely overmatched. He's he just lost late.
He needs to contact someone over at Baywatch because he's drowning.
At this particular point, it's bad, real bad, and they're

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leaving them out to dry. Dave Roberts is leaving them
out there. The guy's shown you he can't play. He's like, well,
we can't play. And Roberts keeps saying it's not rob
it's the nerds because they don't believe that there's a
thing called the slump. They don't think that every game's
individual and all that stuff and lack of confidence is

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not a thing. And so here's a guy drowning and
he's continued to be in there. Does sound like Roberts, finally,
after losing another game in the World Series, is like,
all right, well, the nerds have told me that I
can put somebody else in there, so we'll we'll do that,
and they Andy Poz can get a one way ticket
to can Kun or some other nice tropical location if

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you would like. And it's not just those guys you got.
Will Smith had the big home run in game two
in Toronto, hadn't done much other than that. Max Muncy,
what's going on? What's wrong with him? We not good either.
They're both kind of in the witness Protection program most
of these games in the World Series, so that's where
we are. And Roberts keeps running out the same lineup

(12:50):
because that's what the nerds tell him to do. And
you know, he's just the middle manager and that's what
he does, and he just sends them out there. And now,
as for the pitching, there's a lot of people I
could rip for the pitch, but I'd like to focus
in because I've limited time, as you know, because it's
a network radio show, So I would like to focus
on Blake Trining. Now, Blake Trining should be put on

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an exploratory rocket out to Mars, never to come back.
Holy crap. I'm convinced that the nerds and Dave Roberts
that Blake trinon has photos of them because he keeps
getting into these games. It's unreal. Another guy that has
shown you he's washed up, he can't play, and he
keeps getting in these World Series games. Has an eight

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thirty one earned run average as a reliever in the
postseason eight thirty one earned run average. Blake Trining, he's cooked,
he's burned. It's horrific. It's like knowing you're going to
pour gasoline on a tinderbox. Who would do that? Dave

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Roberts and the nerds, that's who does it. And so
it's like you watch a guy that keeps hitting the
self destruct button and makes things worse when he comes
in out of the bullpen, and like you keep saying, well,
this time he hits the button, it's gonna be confetti.
Well no, it's not confetti, shrapnel, But next time it's
gonna be confetti. Well again it's shrapnel, but no, next
next time. Enough enough and so, and then you add

(14:15):
that with the Dodger offense, who's it's supposed to be
a death star and it's a dollar general is what
they are now turning the page. So I would like
to adjust to me. And I realized this is my
pet peeve and no one else has this stick when
I'm about to complain about nobody else has, I'm the
only one that is gonna get on the bully pulpit
and complain about this. But it's my job to do

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it because I see bull crap and I just have
to yell. It's therapeutic. I just bear with me, just
just go with it. So the story after the Dodger
Blue Jay game, a game won by Toronto to even
up the world series, was not that Shohil Tony didn't
get it done. It's that it's not his fault. He

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didn't get it done. You feel me on that. So
Otani was zero for three at the plate with two strikeouts,
and he was also the losing pitcher. On the mound
he allowed you know, he was pitching okay, and then
he allowed the last inning and there's some runs that gave,
but he ended up giving up four runs. Otani in
six hits, and he was the losing pitcher. And ever

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since that World Series game ended, it's been a couple hours,
there has been NonStop media working overtime to cook in
the kitchen of excuses. So the question for these steam
panel the question is where are you at on the
media going into the kitchen and cooking up alibis for

(15:43):
sho hey Otani and his World Series clunker. So the media,
fanboys and girls, all right, here's some of the excuses.
I jotted down a few of them. The media has
told us that the reason Otani sucked in the World
Series because he was tired. They told us that he
didn't get enough sleep. I like that. Uh, it was

(16:06):
hot and the eighteen inning game went long, so he
was too tired. The level excuse, my friends here the
level of bull crap, Like, what the hell is wrong
with you people? Seriously, can you imagine I don't get
much sleep at all during the week doing the overnights.

(16:27):
I should go to my boss and say, listen, just
the reason the show's not good. It's I didn't get
enough sleep. Okay, that's good, that's perfect. But again the
problem with Otan. I'm not anti Otani. It's gonna sound
like I'm anti Otani. I'm gonna get email. You don't
like Otani, you don't like o No, I don't he

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I like he's been built into baseball's demigod show. Hey,
Atani is Baseball's demigod. He is. He's half man, half
mythical lumberjack. And the minute that Otani looks mortal like
he most certainly did in this World Series game, instead
of just calling it like it is, it's like, well,
let's check his sleep IQ score. How much how much

(17:13):
deep sleep did O'tani get? Oh my god. As for
the weather, it was a little warm. It was not
Phoenix Arizona warm. Okay, it was not Vegas warm. It
was not Death Valley warm. So what are we doing here? Okay, yeah,
it's la baseball in October. It's still hot in LA

(17:34):
in October. That's why people put up with the ridiculous
People's Republic of California taxation and all that crap because
of the weather. All right, And so you think Babe
Ruth maybe he did. I don't know. I was alive
with Babe Ruth. But you think Babe Ruth ever complained
because he didn't get enough sleep? Wasn't the legend of Baberuth.
There's this old guy named Bert Sugar died years ago.

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Boxing guy was a sports historian, and Bert used to
tell stories about Babe the woman I of Babe Ruth,
and the drinking of Babe Ruth and the just the
excess of the Bambino and they travel by train and
they'd be like, you know, random women chasing after Babe
half naked and stuff. Never got reworded. But anyway, so

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I don't think Babe Ruth complained about that. But see,
this is the problem, right, this is the problem. As
I get on the Bully pulp. But the media has
built Otani into a Super Nintendo cheat code, like just
a Super Nintendo cheat code come to life. It's like
if a video game avatar could come to life. Here
it is, and then he goes out there and again

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he looked very human in this particular game. And you
have to invent excuses out of thin air to keep
the dream alive. You got to keep the fantasy alive.
Otani is too big to fail, and there's a lot
of people invested in this. There's a lot of reporters
from Japan that have gotten on the company dime there
and they're free loading in America, covering the Dodgers on

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a daily basis. There's a lot of people that have
Otani into their products. Major League Baseball's heavily invested in
the myth of Otani. They need Otani. They cannot have
Otani fail here, and so he's not going to be
perfect in every game. But to me, that weakens the legend.
When you do crap like this, it weakens the legend,

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and that's not cool. You don't need a Greek chorus
of pr hacks coming in here and explaining, well, the
reason that Zeus misplaced his lightning bolt is you know X,
Y and Z. You just just say he's stunk, Mia Kopa,

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He'll be better next time, and that's it, right period,
hard Stop you don't need all this other stuff. And
it's like, are these real people? I'm not wired that way?
Maybe I should be. Everyone else seems to be making
a lot more money than me, and they're wired that way.
I guess I should just be a kiss ass like
everyone else in the media. Holy crap, I just admitted

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move on, and you don't need to say, well, it's
because you didn't get his twelve hours of sleep. You
imagine needing twelve hours of sleep to function? Holy canoli?
My god? All right, last thing, quick, right to the
Toronto side of things. So the Blue Jays get the
win in La They had to do that. They lost
home field in Toronto in Game two, so they had

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to win a game in Los Angeles and they did. So.
How are things looking for Vladi Guerrero's Blue Jays in
the World Series? So, as Larry David would say, pretty
deep print, deep pritt deep prit de good, not bad,
not bad. When you look at the tailor of the tape,
the Dodgers a big favorite, as Viva Los Vicky likes

(20:43):
to tell us, in the World Series, I had big
favorite and all that, but you look at it, and
if you look at the tailor, of the tape. The
Toronto Blue Jays are matching La punch for punch. Four
games in to the World Series. Everybody told us that
the Dodgers had all the momentum from Freddie Freeman's dramatic
eighteen inning home run, the eighteenth inning home run, the marathon.

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It ended like a half hour from now yesterday. So
my god. But Toronto again, they're right there, neck and neck.
They're getting it done. And they were supposed to be
emotionally fried because the Dodgers had all the momentum right
ready to pack up the maple syrup and go back
to Canada. Well what happened. The Jays dropped the haymaker

(21:31):
on the Dodgers. And the reason there is no such
thing as momentum. Oh he said it out loud. He
said it out loud. Yep. Sorry. Now the Jays are
guaranteed to have the World Series decided on their home field.
They'll enjoy Mama's home cooked poutine and they'll get these

(21:53):
skyline fireworks, the whole bit right there. It's gonna be great.
As far as the Dodgers, maybe they'll find their offense.
I think they left it somewhere between La and Toronto
so they can find it. It looks like they're stuck
in gridlock traffic at this point. Good luck. But it
is rather incredible that Shane Bieber and I'm not gonna

(22:16):
I've already gotten people. Well it's fixed, it's it's you know,
it's a scary, terry situation. That guy Porter. You know,
it's all rigged. I'm not going because if that's the kid,
why are we even doing this? Like if that's if
this is all like scripted professional wrestling, Like what are
we doing? I mean, I'm as well just do something else,
talk about some other crap on the radio. I need

(22:36):
to talk about sports if it's all rigged. But that said,
all right, that said bieber Fever, bieber Fever. In the
World Series. He was supposed to be weekend at Bernie's
and the ghost of Cy Young passed Shane Bieber and
he went five plus innings and one run ball. That

(22:59):
is an act of God, is what You've got to
be kidding me. The Dodgers got emasculated by the corpse
of Shane Bieber. That is what the billion dollar Boys
Club and all that four hits, It's rather unreal when
you think about it. That's why they play even mad Max.
Max Suursey should have gotten his ass kicked by the Dodgers,

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and he didn't get his ass kicked. So the Jays
they rolled out a couple of Beater cars and somehow
they have at this point taken the checkered flag as
they've matched the Dodgers blow for blow in the World
Series Grand Prix, so they're right there. Unfortunately, Toronto did

(23:43):
not get the text message. They must have been on
airplane mode. They did not get the text message that
they were supposed to roll over and play dead in
the World Series. So again we're tied up to two.
Home field goes back to North of the Border and
it's going to be decided either way on Canadians. So
I just haven't won a World Series at home since
I think the nineteen sixties, so they don't usually win

(24:06):
at home. They won't win at home this year. They
might not win at all, might not win. You know,
it's Mike's weasel word. But the way they're playing, the
bullpen returned to form. They suck and the offense sucks,
so what are you gonna How do you win with that?
How do you win with a bad offense at a
bad bullpen and they won a game they shouldn't have won.
So that's where we are. It's sticky situations like the

(24:29):
Dodgers are covered in syrup, Canadian syrup and right now
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so just deal with it, and if you have a
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But again on ex at Ben Matt, we get back
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Minnesota writes and he says another A plus Malard monologue. Men,
with me living in southern Canada and not having a

(27:22):
baseball team to root for, you can definitely feel that
syrups starting to warm up and starting to drip on
your Dodgers. You see feathers flying. You know it's over there,
you go. I love the show. It's a surping. Let's
get syrup on. It's hard to get the syrup off.
It's just it's really messy. It's the worst, right, it's heroin.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Is that what they use to make a feather stick
to you though.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well the terms a tardan feathers. That's an old who
knows that's an old term. Ferg Dog writes and says, well, Ben,
the bad news is the Dodgers lost, But the good
news is your show isn't being covered up the Dodger
blowhard David Vasse. Also, I'm struggling trying to beat Lemmings.

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I could use one of those Super Nintendo cheat codes,
says says Fergno, all right, uh, not a burner, right since,
says Ben, I have discovered if I eat the proper
meal and I'm sitting just right, I can emit a
sound similar to the Leprechaun's chicken. Interesting now, the Lepriqun, though,

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does have an actual rubber chicken, and he plays with
it way too much. If you ask me. He always
has the chicken with him and I have. I'm the
only one of the shows met the Leprechaun. Conveniently, the
other people that were on the show were not here
when the Leprechaun was here.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
I don't know unfortunate though how.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
That happened, but for some reason they were not there,
thank god. Yeah, So that was the day that the
leprecaun got us in trouble and and whatnot. So that
was it was a fun day. Uh uh, let's see,
mister guy says better better purse Lebron James or Key
k Hernandez. Well, Lebron is and I, with all all

(29:14):
due respect, t k Hernandez is a nobody. Lebron James
with the with the merse, that clip which has been
turned into a gift of Lebron showing up with the Well,
he was leaving the news conference against the Warriors when
he was playing for Cleveland, and he confidently he got
up and he grabbed his purse and then walked away.

(29:35):
It was so good, oh so great, Oh my god. Yes, uh.
Freddie writes in he says all the new words in
Japanese that he's learned there, and he says he learned
a new word in Japanese which means strikeout, sit down.

(29:56):
It is what I was telling the Dodgers, all that
money and the they can't hit a ball. King Rory
rites in a long suffering Brewers fan. He says, maybe
Dave Roberts should have benched O'tani once Game three went
into extra innings, because number one, it was past Otani's bedtime,

(30:19):
and Toronto walked him the rest of the game anyway.
Plus it's Otani's own fault for being tired. His home
run tied the game's King Rory. Yeah, that is next
level excuse making. Now. I've been to sportscaster Clown College
and they teach you about how to make excuses for
failed athletes. That is like an advanced course though you're

(30:41):
a Rhodes scholar. If you can say, well, because he
didn't get the ten to twelve hours of sleep, Oh
my god, the guy's got I got seven hundred million
dollar contract and we're giving him a mulligan because he
didn't get his twelve hours of.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
What you know, Ben, I actually imagined that they would
put him in like an incubator to make sure that
his body could heal in the time frame because it
was a late game. I would be tired too. No, No,
it's if you get paid that much, you better turn
it on. You get out there.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
It goes up to his mansion up there. He lives
in Adam Corolla's old House of old People. He bought it.
Corolla's old house just up the way from Dodger Stadium.
There off the two and so he's got his big
compound up there and then do his thing and whatnot,
and good for him, I got. I just I just

(31:35):
love the how unreliable. And I know this has been
this way for a long time. These guys are so
unrelatable to the common person, Like they're all these clubhouses
are like country clubs. These these baseball players have and
we're literally there must be so many dumb people that
the sports media can be like, well, he didn't get
his twelve hours of sleep, boll Tony, and that's why
he didn't play that. Well, I am the man a lot,

(31:58):
and it's it's hot. It was kind of it's hot.
I mean, the level of bull crap is just I mean,
it's just outrageous. And again I like the Dodgers. That's
just I just I'm fascinated by the industrial complex of

(32:19):
sports and where we are at this particular point. It
just blows me away. I'm like, and clearly I'm not
who this is for. I understand that I'm not the
person this is appealing to. I just I'm just fascinated
by all of this. Now. Dave Roberts after the game
said of the game four loss, he said, quote we
haven't found our rhythm? Was the quote, well how bad

(32:41):
is it for the Dodger offense? So the fun fact
of the hour, and we do love our fun facts.
Here the fun facts. Fun fact. Since sweeping the Cincinnati
Reds in the wild Caring round, much for the dismay
of just Josh and Justin in Cincinnati, the Dodgers have
scored just three point seven runs per game. That's it,

(33:04):
three point seventy five runs per game. Yet they still
have a run differential of plus two, and they've won
nine of those games. Dominant starting pitching Otani was not dominant.
Blake Snell in game one, Bro, I ain't playing unless
I get mine. Bro, he got paid. Bro, I'm risking

(33:25):
my live.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, I guess he risks his live in Canada, Honey, Bro,
I'm risking my life. He puked all over the mound
in game one, and we'll see way can you imagine
if it was both both games? Blake Snell starts on
the World Series. He schedule to start game five. My god,
that is so so bad. Who else do we have here?

(33:48):
Ryan writes in from San Diego. He says, great monologue,
I am giving you a ten plus. Thank you for
your Otani video game reference. I still think their manager
is high for pitching to Otani. He's playing with fire
and talking about Blue Jays manager John Snyder, and he's
going to get burned. Do you think Jimmy Key or
Dave Steve will pitch if this series goes forward here, Well,

(34:14):
that's a good question. The Blue Jay legends of years
gone by? Hmm, I think they're bullpken. You could use
Tom Henke. I don't know. If Tom Hanky is available,
then they can get him there. Yeah, Nature Boy says.
Vassay's prediction of the Dodgers in five is not looking
too good now. Yeah, well sorry, Yeah, it's like you

(34:36):
gotta when you're a houseman, you got to give those
kind of predictions. I don't blame if I was I
was in the tank, I would do the same thing.
Barbecueing len Wright Sin says after eighteen innings, Otani should
have slammed back some Bruskies till two passed out till
two pm, ish head to the ballpark and scarf down
a half a dozen hot dogs. Have another would have

(34:56):
been unhittable. A week from Minnesota says three things thing's
number one. The Doyers went up to the plate like
they thought it was Justin Bieber pitching the Now was
Bieber at the game? I know he was at the game?
He was? He wasn't he was at the other night?
Was he there last night too? I didn't know he was.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Today.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, he was at the eighteen inning game. But wouldn't
you rather if you're Bieber, wouldn't you rather see Bieber
and Bieber like a law firm, like a bad law firm,
Bieber and Bieber. I don't know that he was at
the game. I want to shirt this as that Okay?
The Doyers, according to this is a week, he says.
The Doyers are batting my weight and Toronto is hitting
your weight. That's a cheap shot. That is a cheap

(35:36):
shot a week. Every game is back back to back nights,
he says, with the start less than twenty four hours
after the previous game finished. Alex the Cenecal fan of
the cheating Astros says Major League Baseball is officially changed
the stat line and now Ippi or Ipei rather Ipei
has been credited with the lost Now he's the guy.

(35:56):
He's currently in prison. That was so Tany's right hand man.
He in prison in Pennsylvania. Otani is a glorified long reliever.
According to Alex the Cinecal, he's a midget three year
a pitcher at the best. He's better off investing in
real estate and crypto. There you go, it's from Alex

(36:17):
the Cinical. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we
press on through the overnight, here and we'll have the
who m I Gape? That's why I pretend to be
somebody else else. We call it the who M I Gape?

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Who?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
And here it is and you can answer this on
X at Ben Mahler. Toronto's Lewis Garland has appeared in
thirteen games now this postseason. Only Brandon Morrow in twenty
seventeen and me have appeared in more for a single postseason. Again,
Toronto Blue Jay's reliever Lewis Garland has appeared in thirteen

(36:50):
games of this postseason for the Jays. Only Brandon Morrow
in twenty seventeen and me have appeared in more for
a single MLB postseason. Who I? That is the question.
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
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(37:56):
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We'll get to the payoff on the who am I? Game?
But time now for the play of the day, and
you had a World Series game. Let's see here, I'm
gonna pick a play of the day, the tire Raq
play today. Let's see, is there a Vlattie in the house?

(38:42):
Two one Flatty hits it high left field. Hernandez back
put the track, looks up, it is gone. Pluck a top.
Vladimir Correro Junior puts them in the lead with a
two run shot two to one. Blue Jays hit the
top of the third was Ben Shulman, the Nepo baby.
He's the son of the Blue Jays. TV announcer Dan Shulman.

(39:06):
I wonder how he got the jump any so much nepotism,
Holy Dad, My dad was a Ham radio operator. Otherwise
I'd be doing morning drive somewhere anyway. That is the
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tire installation ti iraq dot com. The way tire bond
should be timed now to pay off the who am I?

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Game?

Speaker 1 (39:34):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else, as
we call it the who am I? Game? Toronto's Lewis
Garland has now appeared in thirteen games this postseason. Only
Brandon Morrow in twenty seventeen and me have appeared in
more in a single MLB postseason Who am I? That
is the question? What is the answer? Marlin's Man Guess
by Alex the cinecal not at the game, by the way,

(39:57):
Otto the auto Pilot from Alf the Alien Opiner, Doctor
Frankenferter from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Marv Alberto and the
Czar of the tellustrator from Andy and Lino Lakes. Iowa
Hawkeye legend Cal Eldred from Rob I'm actually wearing an
Iowa Hawkeye. Had a listener sent in you are wearing
that one? Yeah, a couple of years ago listeners sent

(40:18):
me in a nice Iowa hat, So I wear it.
It's in my rotation. Yeah, it's all part of the simulation.
Mike Piazza guests by Scrooge. He's in the younger demo
in Northern California. Mister a nice guy also in Northern California'
going with Travis Frieman, Tiger legend, Andy Dalton, who's thirty
eight today? From Late Night drug tester Joe Sambido from
Mister Irrigation, Lauriner, do you have an answer? Mickey Mantle? Oh, fine, answer,

(40:41):
but no. One of the great names in baseball, Paul
Austen Macher in ninety seven, Paul Austin Mocker. That's the
only reason I did the question. Paul Austin Macher. Never
heard of him.