September 27, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about where the loss to the Cowboys leaves Daniel Jones and the Giants, if this win gets the Cowboys back on track, the Cowboys playing their first short week road game in franchise history, and more!
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big fan of the number ten thousand. So our lead
this hour is from the National Football League and we'll
start out in Jersey, and that's where Week four began
in the NFL. You might have seen it. An NFC
East slobber knocker well kind of Cowboys and Giants, something
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that we know the outcome of just about every time
these teams get together, we know is gonna win. But
they were wrangling on Amazon with al Michaels and Herbie.
They were there, so I assume you watched it, but
maybe not, Maybe you heard about it. Dak Prescott throwing
one of his two touchdown fastest that see d Lamb
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and the Cowboys, who essentially toyed with the Giants. They
never had a giant lead in this game. The game
was within the margins, as we like to say, but
they end up winning it twenty to fifteen could have
covered the spread at the end, they missed a field
goal in the final final minute. There, so seven straight
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wins now for Dallas over the New York Football Giants
and fourteen of fifteen. There's a domination situation. But the
better story is in the losing locker room, and so
that is where we will go. We'll start with that.
And the question for the esteem panel, where does this lost,
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this latest loss by the Giants leave Daniel Jones and company?
All Right, So I've got Porterhouse steak, wrapping paper, and
butterball turkey, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're gonna put the biscuit in the basket,
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is what we're gonna do. So a not much is different, right,
There's no such thing as a moral victory. So the
Giants they covered the spread, which I was happy about
for wagering purposes because they missed. The Cowboys missed a
field goal in the final minute. But the Giants continue
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to tread water in the kittie pool. With Daniel Jones,
it's the same old, same old. Now for the low
information fan, they'll look at the overall numbers and say,
well it was pretty good. Stat sheet looks good. This
is about as well as Daniel Jones can play. He's
not the problem. That will be the popular opinion by
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popular people. Now we disagree with that, because if you
think that Daniel Jones is good enough, you are very
low standards, very low standards. Giants said the ball nine times,
nine times, nine possessions and they had his many touches
downs as you and I had none. Bupkis zero no touchdowns.
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So think of this like you're you're cooking a Porterhouse steak.
You want that piece of meat to sizzle, right, sizzle
Dale Jones when he's the state, it's nothing but fizzle.
But let's hear from the man himself. Here's Daniel Jones
asked about the lack of Peter. The lack of touchdowns
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very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We're expect to score touchdowns and put points on the board.
And a game that I felt like we were able
to do a lot and move the ball, well.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Move the ball, but not into the end zone. Zero
for two in the red zone for the Giants against
a cowboy defense that had been absolutely bludgeoned by the
Saints and the Ravens. The last couple of weeks. Now
most of that on the ground, and the Giants had
less than thirty yards rushing in this game, which is
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an abomination and the bottom wrong cowboy defense. You had
not one, but two chances. Here's the other problem. So
no touchdowns. But at the end of the game, the
Giants got the ball down by a score. Touchdown would
have given them the lead, possibly won the game for them.
They had two chances needing a touchdown in the final
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minutes of the game. What did Vanilla vic do well?
The first possession turned the ball over on downs and
the second possession through an interception was hail Mary type interceptions.
Now on the other side, does this win for Dallas?
Does it get Jerry Jones back on track, his team
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back on track, his Cowboys back on track. So I'm
shaking my head no on this, and I'll tell you why.
It's kind of like those people that take credit and
do a victory lap after they shower and they brush
their teeth. You don't get extra credit for that. You're
supposed to have good high right, You're supposed to do that.
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Those are things that are required in polite society. And
it's become a birthright in the last ten years or so.
Where when the Giants and Cowboys get together. When Daniel
Jones is playing, we know who wins. The Giants are
the JV And in no way was this a dominating
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performance by the Cowboys offense. They were out gained in
yardage by the g Men and they only scored six
points in the second half. Dallas, they have wins now
over the dregs, over the NFL, the Giants, and the
Cleveland Rounds. But Mike McCarthy, Mike McCarthy, the ro Ton coach,
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he's singing a happy song. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Winning's always a great thing, especially on the road. ROA
wins are the best division games. You can add another
layer to it. So, yeah, we feel great about what
we accomplished night. But I think is, you know, for
the fourth week in row, we realize that we have
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The Cowboy product. Just what I've seen here, it sounds
to me like they've changed the wrapping paper a little bit,
but the same garbage is in the box.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Last word here, So interesting factoid about this game. You
might have heard about it, maybe not fun fact if
you will. The Cowboys were traveling on a short week
for the first time ever. That seems impossible, but apparently
it's true. The Nerves have told us that every other team,
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every single team in the National Football League, has done
it at least six times, but the Cowboys have done
it none until this week when they've played seventeen Thursday
night football games and this is the first one before
November twenty nine. So how how did the Cowboys pull
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this off where they just played their first short week
road game in franchise history. So my answer is the
butterball turkey. The Cowboys were grandfathered in, right, Jerry Jones
is the godfather of the NFL. He's also the grandfather
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and it's not personal, it's strictly business. Since Dallas plays
host to Thanksgiving every year, right their grandfathered in. They
have been spared the indignity the shame of early season
Thursday Night NFL going on the Dusty Winnamooka road to
play a game. However, keep in mind the Lions have
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not been spared Dallas. Apparently traveling by stage coach, they
played a sloppy game on Thursday. The eleven penalties, some
of those were actually penalties that the other team committee.
I mean the referees were brutal, but yeah, two star
players hurt Michael Parson since Travon Diggs at least two
on defense, and some other players leaving into the injury ten.
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So not an ideal, not an ideal situation. But the
Cowboys are two and two and the Giants are on
the death spiral or Kamakazi mission as they will soon
be out of playoff contention yet again. It will be
out of reach there one and three.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The Giants off to that riveting start, and the same old,
same old for them, the same old, same old for
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Speaker 1 (12:13):
Apologists are making defense of the performance of Daniel Jones.
He completed over seventy percent of his passes at two
hundred eighty one yards passing and said he was good enough,
he was not the reason the Giants loss. Well, the
problem is he wasn't the reason the Giants won. And
that's always been the issue with Daniel Jones, and it's
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a hot mess, a cowboy Drew, he writes, and he
says Daniel Jones is a backup quarterback at best. He's
trash tiger Man in Utah, says ben On behalf of
milite neighbors. I'm filling a filing, rather filing a restraining
order against Daniel Jones. Yeah, that's man. Ended up with
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a passer rating of eighty one. He was average. That
was an average performance, but well, considering he didn't get
in the end zone, below average. And then you had
Devin Singletary in the backfield and he's not a headliner.
He's just a guy, just a jag. And so Devin Singletary,
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who for some reason has started now and gotten a
lot of playing time for the Bills, the Texans and
the Giants, and he's never been all that good as
I remember. But in this game against a puke in
your mouth Dallas defense, of fourteen rushing attempts, twenty four yards,
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that's one point seven yards per carry, one point seven
yards per carry. Wow, Right, random Ryan in Carolina, right sin,
He says, the hurricane is being felt up here in
eastern North Carolina a little bit already. We'd like to
say hello to all of the fine listeners who were
(14:07):
cuddled up with the radio here hurricane coverage, A lot
of hurricane parties, people bunkering down, enjoying the little radio
in the middle of the night. We're here all night long,
all night long. But Ryan says, in eastern North Carolina
a little already. Also, the Braves doubleheader on Monday a
result in Atlanta. I hope that they lose both. As
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a dwindling original Marlins fan. While I was there, I
was a witness to the first great moment in then
Florida Marlin's history. I was in Miami for Game seven
of the World Series against the team that no longer exists,
the Cleveland Indians. They are now named after a bridge.
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But I was there in Game seven and is standing
outside the Cleveland Indians locker room, and we were waiting
for them to run off the field celebrate the championship.
They had the lead, they had a relief pitcher named
Jose Mesa that urinated all over the mound, blew the lead,
and then they end up losing in extra innings. But
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they were prepared. They had the tarp up, they had
the plastic up in the Cleveland Indians locker room to
celebrate the championship, and they had to tear all that
stuff down and then run over to the Florida Marlin
side when they won. But fun, that was a long
time ago, but fun memories of that. Your feedback first
writes in he says, Ben is a Cowboy Lion game,
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the only game we'll ever see or never see on Thanksgiving.
How about a Thanksgiving home and home for the Lions
and the Cowboys. Well, as I understand it, they have
a deal that they forever and ever, as far as
we know, get the host Thanksgiving. I remember years ago
there was a campaign, a grassroots movement to take the
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the Lions off of Thanksgiving. They were so bad and
they were like punishing the American people. But now they're good,
so nobody cares about that. And they added a third game.
They're like, I will throw an extra game on there,
and we'll see how that goes and why not. And
so there's at least three, sometimes there's four games on Thanksgiving.
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It's an all day affair. It is an all day
affair for sure. Now the flag is up, And that
would be a comment made by Al Michaels. Good old
Al Michaels. He during the Amazon broadcast, he was flustered,
bewildered by the continuation of the flag. Yeah, he said,
(16:50):
it looks like it's June fourteenth here, otherwise known as
Flag Day. He said, as you know, Al Michaels furious
at the officiating. Now, at one point it was so embarrassing.
How embarrassing, wasn't so? At one point the referees threw
a flag. They called a face max penalty on the Giants.
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On the tight end for the Giants, guy named Daniel Bellinger.
I have no idea who that is, but they called
the penalty on him, said face mask. All right, fine,
So they showed the replay on the Amazon. They showed
the replay there, and if you're watching the game, you
know what I'm about to tell you. It turned out
there was a face mask, but it was called on
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the wrong player and the wrong team, which I think
is almost mathematically impossible, like maybe the wrong player, but
the wrong team altogether. And then the other thing about
it, it didn't appear that anyone in the Giants raised a
hull of baloo. Like nobody on the Giants like really
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made a big, a big deal about it. What are
you doing. I don't understand. I don't get it, but
they that's that's the deal. Let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Enie Meanie mightey Moe. Let's
say hello to Alex, who is in Arlington and not
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cowboy Dan. Maybe he's not around anymore. I don't know,
but we do have Alex. How about him? Cowboys Alex?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
You know that's why I'm calling, you know, time listening
the first calling.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh my god, welcome, Welcome, Alex, welcome. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Well, I couldn't take I'm a cowboy with him, and
I couldn't take all these other cowboy friends so happy
about this win. I mean, we beat a subpar Giants
team and we barely beat him. I don't understand why
everybody's feeling so happy. Other one. If you can explain
that to.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Me, well, because it's the thrill of vic. Yeah, well,
we should know. How old are you, Alex?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Hey, I'm a thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You should know by now you're almost forty years old.
You should know. I know every time they every time dispointment. Well,
I know, but every other Cowboy fan when they win,
it's like all right, here we go.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
We're on our way right, especially where we're from. But
that's what it was, just irritating. You know, the Giants
winter converted almost all those field goals that they had
into some sort of other point. I mean, it would
be a completely.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
The other way.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, but everybody, I'm happy that. I'm happy that the
Cowboys missed the field goal. I had the Giants and
the points there, so I won. I should have lost.
I should have lost, right because Aubrey Aubrey's automatic, but
he wasn't. He wasn't automatic at the end there. He
missed that last field goal, so I was I was
happy about that. There you go, all right, thank you,
(19:40):
Alex are there there?
Speaker 7 (19:42):
There?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yours the great Alex Well. Speaking of the Cowboys, I
saw Rex Ryan, Yeah, good old Rex Sexy Rexy calling
out the cheapness of the Dallas cow Did you see this? No,
all right, I'll fill you in. So Rex Ryan was
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in line to be the Cowboy defensive coordinator. You might
remember we talked about that on this show in the
off season, and he was ready to go. And he
then went into Jerry Jones office or sent him a
text or whatever. I don't think Jerry does text messaging.
He's too old for that. But he asked for a
large amount of money to leave his terrible job on
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television and to go work for the Cowboys. And Jerry
Jones looked at the amount of money he wanted, and
he paused. He contemplated the amount of money that Rex
Ryan wanted, and then well he said no. Well here's
Rex by the way, ranting. Listen to rerection Ryan here
ranting about ripping the cheapness of the Cowboy.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Could you fix the Cowboys defense right now or is
it unfixable?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
I would have fixed it in a New York minute,
but they couldn't pony up the money.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That was why I stayed.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
You know, here, our producer is a huge Cowboys fan.
The fact that he says, you say, they couldn't pull
me up the money, He's going to go put his
head in the toilet at the next commercial bickup.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
No, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And he brought in a guy that was like twenty
ninth in the league his last two years at Minnesota,
and the enthusiasm he brings you saw when he left
he blamed the players.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And I'm not going to talk to him. You know,
that's the guy that's going to.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Inspire you, like, I don't know, this could go really
bad for Dallas. Now, look, their schedule sets up pretty
well for him, but this could go really bad for him.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That was Rex Ryan on his television job on the
entertainment and Sports network Fledgling Channel out of Bristol, Connecticut.
So let's look at the tail of the tape here.
Rex Ryan is the last two years in the NFL,
last two years in the NFL, actually last three years
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now as a head coach. He was with the Jets
and they had the twenty fourth ranked defense in the
NFL points all with Buffalo, he was head coach a
couple of years, they were fifteenth and sixteen. Yeah, the
last time Rex Ryan produced a top ten defense in
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terms of points allowed, the most important stat points allowed,
was almost fifteen years ago. Twenty ten was the last time.
But I get it Rex on television. He's got the
bully pulpit, and so he's taking advantage of the bully pulpit.
A Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame endorsement for a
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starting quarterback who you probably don't think is all that
good in the NFL, and the curmudgeon of sport, the
curmudgeon of sport. Like if Eddie Garcia was an athlete,
this is what he would sound like as an athlete.
But right now, let's get the cut up on all
the games of note, and we say hello to the
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aforementioned merman, Eddie Garcia curmudgeon. Meah, yeah, a little bit,
a little bit, how tiny bit? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
In what way?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, we'll get to it later.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Do I tell you would a curmudgeon take a picture
with a steamboat? Willie Stuffy?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I don't think so. I think so.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I don't think so. I think you're crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 5 (23:26):
Time to play are you? It's usually a fun game.
Did the White Sox lose? But because of the Angels ineptitude,
it's not fun anymore. Because the White Sox won seven nothing.
They swept the Angels their second sweep, second sweep of
the season for the White Sox, The last time was
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in April against Tampa Bay. They end of the year,
the White Sox are still at one hundred and twenty losses,
still one away from breaking the modern ayrack of for
loss in the season. Now they do have a series
of close out against the Higers, and as I mentioned,
Detroit has reason to play at least for one more
game to get a win and they'll wrap up a
playoff spot. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But well, congratulations, congratulate you bury the lead at of course, yes, yes,
I can't wait. Yeah. Well, fun fact, fun fact, fun fact,
that fun fact. With that loss, the Angels have put
on the field the worst team in franchise history, the
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most losses of any Angel baseball team in franchise history.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Congratulations, it's all fall to that guy, Ferg Dog or
whatever his name is.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
You should blame him completely.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You blame him. Yeah, so congratulations. They've had some bad
teams in Anaheim. I covered many of them back in
the day, but never this bad. And the Angels, I
don't think that the most they can lose, I believe
is how many ninety six losses? Now I'm right? Am
I reading that right? Yes? Six? So there's only three
games left, so they can only lose ninety nine. They
can't get to one hundred.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
But that's crazy. They've never lost one hundred games in
a season.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
No, No, they've They've been bad a lot, but They've
never been that bad, and even this year, like as
bad as they are, it's not like they're gonna get
the number one overall pick, and plus baseball has I
mean they could. I guess there's a there's a draft lottery,
and as of right now, the Angels have if you
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go by winning percentage, the Chicago White Sox are far
and away. But I believe the White Sox are not
eligible to pick in the top ten this year. How
great is that the Athletics and the White Sox are
not eligible to pick in the top ten of the
baseball draft. They have some fugazi rule in terms of
market size and revenue sharing and huh, yeah they had,
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so they're ineligible to pick better than tenth. Even though
the White Sox have lost one hundred and twenty games,
they cannot end up with the number one picks. So
the Angels actually have the third based on the odds
of winning the lottery. They have the third worst record
in baseball in terms of those eligible in the lottery.
It's very odd. That is odd. I didn't know that. Yeah,
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they they put a rule in there. Uh, And the
White Sox are the second hottest team in baseball. The
Tigers are the only team that's won more games in
a row. The Royals are won three, the Braves have
won three, and the White Sox have won three in
a row. But the Tigers have won five in a row.
So congratulations to the Halos. This is the second time
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in somewhat recently. It's been a while the Tigers. When
Alan Trammel was managing the team, they in a very
similar situation. They were looking at the worst record all time.
And then they played I believe it was the Minnesota
Twins the final series of the year, and they won
(26:59):
either all of them as I remember, it's been a while,
but either when three or four, they swept them with
Ron Garden higher in Minnesota, and they avoided Yeah, they
avoided the worst record of all time. Aye, doesn't that
make it even better than the White Sox One hundred
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and twenty losses and they can't even get the number
one pick in the baseball draft? Oh my god? That
is that is a ten out of ten is what
it is. Let's go to Tony in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony,
my guy, Tony, Hello Tony, take me out to the
ball game, out.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
With the crowd.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Buy me some peanuts and cracker Jacks. I don't care
if I ever get back, because it's root for the A.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
If they don't win, it.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
For the shame because it's one two dreamer out at
the old game. Hey John Fisher off, all.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Right, well you knew that was coming, right? You knew?
Did I know that?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Well?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
You should have.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That's Tony in the bay, that's his m Yeah. Well
you'll have to download the podcast and then you'll be
able to hear everything that was not on. How much
of that made the air? I don't know, partner, was
I supposed to dump that? No, I just leave that
on the air. I don't I don't care.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I no, No, I leave that on the air. Well,
what could possibly go wrong with that?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
But if you're an A's fan, you want to listen
to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, it was a solid, solid tribute. Reminder, we're on
all night. This is just our number one. You'll probably
be sleeping by the time we get done here, but hey,
listen shortly after the show ends, in a few hours,
our podcast will be going up.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
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literally in the air everywhere. So Eddie is a big curmudgeon.
(29:25):
We all know that, right, We love Eddie, but teaser curmudgeon.
And yeah, will you give a definition of a cudgeon?
Ben grumpy gruff harsh.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
All grumpy shirt the other day and I did think
of you Eddie, see that? Yeah it was the goat
tea shirtiest of all time.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Person would not hold that stuffy and take a picture
with him, would not.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I'm editing it right now.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
All right, Well you have an edit. You're going to
put the filter on the Instagram filter to make look better?
Is that what you Yeah?
Speaker 8 (30:01):
The mouse has so many imperfections, mister Willie.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
All right, Yeah, So listen, Eddie. You might not admit it,
but we all think you're a little grumpy, which is fine.
So I bring this up. Did you see what Nikola
Jokic said as the.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
End every word that he says, of course I saw it.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah. Yeah, that's an example of you being a chromogious chasm.
That's you being belligerent. So the the MVP multiple times,
nicolea jokish of your Denver Nuggets NBA Media Day. He
gets up at the at the podium like he does
every year, and he says, I don't know why we're
(30:44):
doing it. He said of media day every year is
the same thing. He says, BA humbug, BA humbug. And
that is proved that you don't have to like your
job to be good at your job. Nicoleokus truly does
(31:09):
not seem to enjoy playing in the NBA. He's annoyed
by all of the bull crap that goes with being
an NBA player. That is his tenth media day and
he's like, I don't know why we're here every year.
It's the same thing. I don't know why we're doing
it every year. Everything's the same, It's completely the same.
(31:30):
Get out it's so good. Oh it's it is just wonderful.
And by the way, I used to go to media
day every year. I probably went to twenty NBA media
days in my younger days. And I would agree it
is the same thing. They have everything. It's like car wash.
They have stations, you know, go through the car wash
(31:52):
of professional car wash, and they have the bubble bath,
they have the water spray, they have the drying. It's
the same thing with media. You have a bunch of photos,
you have to do goofy videos for the scoreboard where
you answer the questions like pop culture questions like is
(32:12):
a hot dog a sandwich or not? You know that
kind of thing, and you do that and then you
talk to the reporters, do that for a little bit,
and there's like a couple of other things you have
to do for charity and sign autographs and that's it.
But it's pretty much the same, pretty much the same
every year. He's not He's not wrong in that analysis.
(32:36):
That's that's the way the way it is and the
way it's always been. And yeah, hey, by the way,
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(32:58):
by Lorena. What what filter did you lose to? What
do you use there to make Eddie look like he
was happy?
Speaker 8 (33:05):
Oh my gosh, it's the craziest filter.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It's part of the Smile app.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
You know the movie coming out.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I used that filter one great turn a frown upside down? Yeah,
there he is all happy. Steamboat Willy is It's like
your mini me there, Eddie. You in Steamboat Willy.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Aren't they just so cute together?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I heard a rumor that Eddie's got a burner account
now account pretending to be Eddie is that.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I didn't have that much extra time on his hands.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I guess, yeah, well, well Brian Finley does it, so
why not Eddie burn Yeah, there's three Steamboat Willies in
that one photo. There's the shirt, there's the person wearing
the shirt, and then there's the actual Steamboat Willie. Boy,
you really did touch up Steamboat Willie. That's a man.
That's quite the photo. The Yaddie. I think you have
a future as an Instagram influencer. Wow, yeah, I don't
(33:59):
know where though. I don't use the the filters. I mean,
I'm ugly. I don't need to put filters on anything.
I just own nasal is the way I like it
all right, time out for the who Am I Game?
That's where we pretend to be somebody else, as we
call it the who am I Game? We'll get to
that also later on, at some point, a quarterback that
you probably don't think is all that good getting a
(34:20):
Hall of Fame Players endorsement. We'll go there. But now
to the who Am I Game? We'll go to baseball,
and we'll talk more next hour about the the mass
funeral they had in Oakland, the final game ever for
the Athletics as the Oakland Athletics. And so now that
the A's are leaving town, saying bye bye to the
(34:43):
East Bay, but not by bye in Northern California. That'll
be soon enough. But now that the A's of leaving town,
I will forever be the pitcher that had the most
career wins in the history of the Oakland Coliseum. It
will never beat professional baseball there again. I now, now
(35:04):
the A's are done in the East Bay, I will
forever be the pitcher that had the most career victories
in the history of the Oakland Coliseum. Who Am I
the answer? We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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We'll pay off the who am I? Game in a minute?
Who crying? Craig rights, and he says the Seattle Mariners
are still the only active MLB team never to play
in the World Series. They were eliminated from postseason competition
making the postseason and Craig is crying right now very much.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Oh no, we suck again.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, but remember was it last year the GM of
the Mariners, Robbie the Mariner fan can back me up
on this, But didn't the GM of the Mariners come
out and say, well, we just want to be competitive
every year and all that. As long as we have
a chance to make the playoffs. The dumb people buy
tickets and that's all we care about. Okay, Tom from
Fullerton and so Cal rights and he says, what's worse
(36:46):
being the worst team in baseball or getting swept by
the worst team in baseball? It's a great point. Yeah,
that's fascinating all right. Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Now that the Athletics are leaving town for more money,
I will forever be the pitcher that had the most
career wins in the history of the Oakland Coliseum. Who
am I? That's see? Does anyone know the answer? We
go to the ned Flanders guests by Slim Tim Biglow
(37:20):
says it's Ben Mallard, Doppelginger Tony Boselli, I thought it
was I thought it was John Lackey. Now I'm Tony Boselli.
Had no idea. All those big white guys look the same.
Who else do we have?
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I Love you.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Thank you weed Man. That's our three masshole Mickey says,
Mike Tyson is the answer, John Rocker from Mickey in
State forty eight? Who else? Page down? Tom from Fullerton.
The aforementioned Tom says the frequently rupturing sewer line under
the Oakland Coliseum is the answer. Vita Blue just by
(37:58):
Mark from Queens. The King of Queens. Cortes Kennedy tossed
out by Shane in KC says the answer is the
infamous Eddie Garcia. Are you infamous? Eddie? I didn't realize
you were infamous.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Who else? Dave Stewart, That's a good guest by Wally
in Florida. Dizzy Dean from Robert. Who else do we have?
Page down? Rafael Bentoncourt from Rob in Minnesota. Benny the
Frugal from Terry in England, The long suffering forty nine
er fan, Barry Zito guess by Robbie the Mariner fan.
(38:39):
Who else do we have? Cry Baby Angel Reese from
a certain caller from Miami. Danny from Miami, the Muting,
the Muting Curmudgeon. That's Eddie Yes by Alf the Finer Eddie.
What's the answer, Eddie. Most wins all time at the
Oakland Coliseum.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
To Finance already has the most strikeouts all time in
that ballpark, but the most wins Jim Catfish clutch it
the wich eighty eighty of third wins. He's all time
winning game in that ballpark. Catfish
Here we go. Welcome. It's our number one of the
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big fan of the number ten thousand. So our lead
this hour is from the National Football League and we'll
start out in Jersey, and that's where Week four began
in the NFL. You might have seen it. An NFC
East slobber knocker well kind of Cowboys and Giants, something
(02:29):
that we know the outcome of just about every time
these teams get together, we know is gonna win. But
they were wrangling on Amazon with al Michaels and Herbie.
They were there, so I assume you watched it, but
maybe not, Maybe you heard about it. Dak Prescott throwing
one of his two touchdown fastest that see d Lamb
(02:51):
and the Cowboys, who essentially toyed with the Giants. They
never had a giant lead in this game. The game
was within the margins, as we like to say, but
they end up winning it twenty to fifteen could have
covered the spread at the end, they missed a field
goal in the final final minute. There, so seven straight
(03:12):
wins now for Dallas over the New York Football Giants
and fourteen of fifteen. There's a domination situation. But the
better story is in the losing locker room, and so
that is where we will go. We'll start with that.
And the question for the esteem panel, where does this lost,
(03:36):
this latest loss by the Giants leave Daniel Jones and company?
All Right, So I've got Porterhouse steak, wrapping paper, and
butterball turkey, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're gonna put the biscuit in the basket,
(03:56):
is what we're gonna do. So a not much is different, right,
There's no such thing as a moral victory. So the
Giants they covered the spread, which I was happy about
for wagering purposes because they missed. The Cowboys missed a
field goal in the final minute. But the Giants continue
(04:18):
to tread water in the kittie pool. With Daniel Jones,
it's the same old, same old. Now for the low
information fan, they'll look at the overall numbers and say,
well it was pretty good. Stat sheet looks good. This
is about as well as Daniel Jones can play. He's
not the problem. That will be the popular opinion by
(04:41):
popular people. Now we disagree with that, because if you
think that Daniel Jones is good enough, you are very
low standards, very low standards. Giants said the ball nine times,
nine times, nine possessions and they had his many touches
downs as you and I had none. Bupkis zero no touchdowns.
(05:05):
So think of this like you're you're cooking a Porterhouse steak.
You want that piece of meat to sizzle, right, sizzle
Dale Jones when he's the state, it's nothing but fizzle.
But let's hear from the man himself. Here's Daniel Jones
asked about the lack of Peter. The lack of touchdowns
(05:27):
very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We're expect to score touchdowns and put points on the board.
And a game that I felt like we were able
to do a lot and move the ball, well.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Move the ball, but not into the end zone. Zero
for two in the red zone for the Giants against
a cowboy defense that had been absolutely bludgeoned by the
Saints and the Ravens. The last couple of weeks. Now
most of that on the ground, and the Giants had
less than thirty yards rushing in this game, which is
(05:59):
an abomination and the bottom wrong cowboy defense. You had
not one, but two chances. Here's the other problem. So
no touchdowns. But at the end of the game, the
Giants got the ball down by a score. Touchdown would
have given them the lead, possibly won the game for them.
They had two chances needing a touchdown in the final
(06:20):
minutes of the game. What did Vanilla vic do well?
The first possession turned the ball over on downs and
the second possession through an interception was hail Mary type interceptions.
Now on the other side, does this win for Dallas?
Does it get Jerry Jones back on track, his team
(06:40):
back on track, his Cowboys back on track. So I'm
shaking my head no on this, and I'll tell you why.
It's kind of like those people that take credit and
do a victory lap after they shower and they brush
their teeth. You don't get extra credit for that. You're
supposed to have good high right, You're supposed to do that.
(07:02):
Those are things that are required in polite society. And
it's become a birthright in the last ten years or so.
Where when the Giants and Cowboys get together. When Daniel
Jones is playing, we know who wins. The Giants are
the JV And in no way was this a dominating
(07:23):
performance by the Cowboys offense. They were out gained in
yardage by the g Men and they only scored six
points in the second half. Dallas, they have wins now
over the dregs, over the NFL, the Giants, and the
Cleveland Rounds. But Mike McCarthy, Mike McCarthy, the ro Ton coach,
(07:44):
he's singing a happy song. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Winning's always a great thing, especially on the road. ROA
wins are the best division games. You can add another
layer to it. So, yeah, we feel great about what
we accomplished night. But I think is, you know, for
the fourth week in row, we realize that we have
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The Cowboy product. Just what I've seen here, it sounds
to me like they've changed the wrapping paper a little bit,
but the same garbage is in the box.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Last word here, So interesting factoid about this game. You
might have heard about it, maybe not fun fact if
you will. The Cowboys were traveling on a short week
for the first time ever. That seems impossible, but apparently
it's true. The Nerves have told us that every other team,
(08:37):
every single team in the National Football League, has done
it at least six times, but the Cowboys have done
it none until this week when they've played seventeen Thursday
night football games and this is the first one before
November twenty nine. So how how did the Cowboys pull
(08:59):
this off where they just played their first short week
road game in franchise history. So my answer is the
butterball turkey. The Cowboys were grandfathered in, right, Jerry Jones
is the godfather of the NFL. He's also the grandfather
(09:20):
and it's not personal, it's strictly business. Since Dallas plays
host to Thanksgiving every year, right their grandfathered in. They
have been spared the indignity the shame of early season
Thursday Night NFL going on the Dusty Winnamooka road to
play a game. However, keep in mind the Lions have
(09:42):
not been spared Dallas. Apparently traveling by stage coach, they
played a sloppy game on Thursday. The eleven penalties, some
of those were actually penalties that the other team committee.
I mean the referees were brutal, but yeah, two star
players hurt Michael Parson since Travon Diggs at least two
on defense, and some other players leaving into the injury ten.
(10:06):
So not an ideal, not an ideal situation. But the
Cowboys are two and two and the Giants are on
the death spiral or Kamakazi mission as they will soon
be out of playoff contention yet again. It will be
out of reach there one and three.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The Giants off to that riveting start, and the same old,
same old for them, the same old, same old for
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Speaker 1 (12:13):
Apologists are making defense of the performance of Daniel Jones.
He completed over seventy percent of his passes at two
hundred eighty one yards passing and said he was good enough,
he was not the reason the Giants loss. Well, the
problem is he wasn't the reason the Giants won. And
that's always been the issue with Daniel Jones, and it's
(12:37):
a hot mess, a cowboy Drew, he writes, and he
says Daniel Jones is a backup quarterback at best. He's
trash tiger Man in Utah, says ben On behalf of
milite neighbors. I'm filling a filing, rather filing a restraining
order against Daniel Jones. Yeah, that's man. Ended up with
(13:03):
a passer rating of eighty one. He was average. That
was an average performance, but well, considering he didn't get
in the end zone, below average. And then you had
Devin Singletary in the backfield and he's not a headliner.
He's just a guy, just a jag. And so Devin Singletary,
(13:24):
who for some reason has started now and gotten a
lot of playing time for the Bills, the Texans and
the Giants, and he's never been all that good as
I remember. But in this game against a puke in
your mouth Dallas defense, of fourteen rushing attempts, twenty four yards,
(13:45):
that's one point seven yards per carry, one point seven
yards per carry. Wow, Right, random Ryan in Carolina, right sin,
He says, the hurricane is being felt up here in
eastern North Carolina a little bit already. We'd like to
say hello to all of the fine listeners who were
(14:07):
cuddled up with the radio here hurricane coverage, A lot
of hurricane parties, people bunkering down, enjoying the little radio
in the middle of the night. We're here all night long,
all night long. But Ryan says, in eastern North Carolina
a little already. Also, the Braves doubleheader on Monday a
result in Atlanta. I hope that they lose both. As
(14:29):
a dwindling original Marlins fan. While I was there, I
was a witness to the first great moment in then
Florida Marlin's history. I was in Miami for Game seven
of the World Series against the team that no longer exists,
the Cleveland Indians. They are now named after a bridge.
(14:49):
But I was there in Game seven and is standing
outside the Cleveland Indians locker room, and we were waiting
for them to run off the field celebrate the championship.
They had the lead, they had a relief pitcher named
Jose Mesa that urinated all over the mound, blew the lead,
and then they end up losing in extra innings. But
(15:12):
they were prepared. They had the tarp up, they had
the plastic up in the Cleveland Indians locker room to
celebrate the championship, and they had to tear all that
stuff down and then run over to the Florida Marlin
side when they won. But fun, that was a long
time ago, but fun memories of that. Your feedback first
writes in he says, Ben is a Cowboy Lion game,
(15:36):
the only game we'll ever see or never see on Thanksgiving.
How about a Thanksgiving home and home for the Lions
and the Cowboys. Well, as I understand it, they have
a deal that they forever and ever, as far as
we know, get the host Thanksgiving. I remember years ago
there was a campaign, a grassroots movement to take the
(16:00):
the Lions off of Thanksgiving. They were so bad and
they were like punishing the American people. But now they're good,
so nobody cares about that. And they added a third game.
They're like, I will throw an extra game on there,
and we'll see how that goes and why not. And
so there's at least three, sometimes there's four games on Thanksgiving.
(16:24):
It's an all day affair. It is an all day
affair for sure. Now the flag is up, And that
would be a comment made by Al Michaels. Good old
Al Michaels. He during the Amazon broadcast, he was flustered,
bewildered by the continuation of the flag. Yeah, he said,
(16:50):
it looks like it's June fourteenth here, otherwise known as
Flag Day. He said, as you know, Al Michaels furious
at the officiating. Now, at one point it was so embarrassing.
How embarrassing, wasn't so? At one point the referees threw
a flag. They called a face max penalty on the Giants.
(17:13):
On the tight end for the Giants, guy named Daniel Bellinger.
I have no idea who that is, but they called
the penalty on him, said face mask. All right, fine,
So they showed the replay on the Amazon. They showed
the replay there, and if you're watching the game, you
know what I'm about to tell you. It turned out
there was a face mask, but it was called on
(17:36):
the wrong player and the wrong team, which I think
is almost mathematically impossible, like maybe the wrong player, but
the wrong team altogether. And then the other thing about
it, it didn't appear that anyone in the Giants raised a
hull of baloo. Like nobody on the Giants like really
(17:57):
made a big, a big deal about it. What are
you doing. I don't understand. I don't get it, but
they that's that's the deal. Let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Enie Meanie mightey Moe. Let's
say hello to Alex, who is in Arlington and not
(18:18):
cowboy Dan. Maybe he's not around anymore. I don't know,
but we do have Alex. How about him? Cowboys Alex?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
You know that's why I'm calling, you know, time listening
the first calling.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh my god, welcome, Welcome, Alex, welcome. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Well, I couldn't take I'm a cowboy with him, and
I couldn't take all these other cowboy friends so happy
about this win. I mean, we beat a subpar Giants
team and we barely beat him. I don't understand why
everybody's feeling so happy. Other one. If you can explain
that to.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Me, well, because it's the thrill of vic. Yeah, well,
we should know. How old are you, Alex?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Hey, I'm a thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You should know by now you're almost forty years old.
You should know. I know every time they every time dispointment. Well,
I know, but every other Cowboy fan when they win,
it's like all right, here we go.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
We're on our way right, especially where we're from. But
that's what it was, just irritating. You know, the Giants
winter converted almost all those field goals that they had
into some sort of other point. I mean, it would
be a completely.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
The other way.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, but everybody, I'm happy that. I'm happy that the
Cowboys missed the field goal. I had the Giants and
the points there, so I won. I should have lost.
I should have lost, right because Aubrey Aubrey's automatic, but
he wasn't. He wasn't automatic at the end there. He
missed that last field goal, so I was I was
happy about that. There you go, all right, thank you,
(19:40):
Alex are there there?
Speaker 7 (19:42):
There?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yours the great Alex Well. Speaking of the Cowboys, I
saw Rex Ryan, Yeah, good old Rex Sexy Rexy calling
out the cheapness of the Dallas cow Did you see this? No,
all right, I'll fill you in. So Rex Ryan was
(20:03):
in line to be the Cowboy defensive coordinator. You might
remember we talked about that on this show in the
off season, and he was ready to go. And he
then went into Jerry Jones office or sent him a
text or whatever. I don't think Jerry does text messaging.
He's too old for that. But he asked for a
large amount of money to leave his terrible job on
(20:25):
television and to go work for the Cowboys. And Jerry
Jones looked at the amount of money he wanted, and
he paused. He contemplated the amount of money that Rex
Ryan wanted, and then well he said no. Well here's
Rex by the way, ranting. Listen to rerection Ryan here
ranting about ripping the cheapness of the Cowboy.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Could you fix the Cowboys defense right now or is
it unfixable?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
I would have fixed it in a New York minute,
but they couldn't pony up the money.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That was why I stayed.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
You know, here, our producer is a huge Cowboys fan.
The fact that he says, you say, they couldn't pull
me up the money, He's going to go put his
head in the toilet at the next commercial bickup.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
No, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And he brought in a guy that was like twenty
ninth in the league his last two years at Minnesota,
and the enthusiasm he brings you saw when he left
he blamed the players.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And I'm not going to talk to him. You know,
that's the guy that's going to.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Inspire you, like, I don't know, this could go really
bad for Dallas. Now, look, their schedule sets up pretty
well for him, but this could go really bad for him.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That was Rex Ryan on his television job on the
entertainment and Sports network Fledgling Channel out of Bristol, Connecticut.
So let's look at the tail of the tape here.
Rex Ryan is the last two years in the NFL,
last two years in the NFL, actually last three years
(21:53):
now as a head coach. He was with the Jets
and they had the twenty fourth ranked defense in the
NFL points all with Buffalo, he was head coach a
couple of years, they were fifteenth and sixteen. Yeah, the
last time Rex Ryan produced a top ten defense in
(22:13):
terms of points allowed, the most important stat points allowed,
was almost fifteen years ago. Twenty ten was the last time.
But I get it Rex on television. He's got the
bully pulpit, and so he's taking advantage of the bully pulpit.
A Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame endorsement for a
(22:36):
starting quarterback who you probably don't think is all that
good in the NFL, and the curmudgeon of sport, the
curmudgeon of sport. Like if Eddie Garcia was an athlete,
this is what he would sound like as an athlete.
But right now, let's get the cut up on all
the games of note, and we say hello to the
(22:57):
aforementioned merman, Eddie Garcia curmudgeon. Meah, yeah, a little bit,
a little bit, how tiny bit? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:07):
In what way?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, we'll get to it later.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Do I tell you would a curmudgeon take a picture
with a steamboat? Willie Stuffy?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I don't think so. I think so.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
I don't think so. I think you're crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
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Speaker 5 (23:26):
Time to play are you? It's usually a fun game.
Did the White Sox lose? But because of the Angels ineptitude,
it's not fun anymore. Because the White Sox won seven nothing.
They swept the Angels their second sweep, second sweep of
the season for the White Sox, The last time was
(23:46):
in April against Tampa Bay. They end of the year,
the White Sox are still at one hundred and twenty losses,
still one away from breaking the modern ayrack of for
loss in the season. Now they do have a series
of close out against the Higers, and as I mentioned,
Detroit has reason to play at least for one more
game to get a win and they'll wrap up a
playoff spot. So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
But well, congratulations, congratulate you bury the lead at of course, yes, yes,
I can't wait. Yeah. Well, fun fact, fun fact, fun fact,
that fun fact. With that loss, the Angels have put
on the field the worst team in franchise history, the
(24:28):
most losses of any Angel baseball team in franchise history.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Congratulations, it's all fall to that guy, Ferg Dog or
whatever his name is.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
You should blame him completely.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You blame him. Yeah, so congratulations. They've had some bad
teams in Anaheim. I covered many of them back in
the day, but never this bad. And the Angels, I
don't think that the most they can lose, I believe
is how many ninety six losses? Now I'm right? Am
I reading that right? Yes? Six? So there's only three
games left, so they can only lose ninety nine. They
can't get to one hundred.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
But that's crazy. They've never lost one hundred games in
a season.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
No, No, they've They've been bad a lot, but They've
never been that bad, and even this year, like as
bad as they are, it's not like they're gonna get
the number one overall pick, and plus baseball has I
mean they could. I guess there's a there's a draft lottery,
and as of right now, the Angels have if you
(25:29):
go by winning percentage, the Chicago White Sox are far
and away. But I believe the White Sox are not
eligible to pick in the top ten this year. How
great is that the Athletics and the White Sox are
not eligible to pick in the top ten of the
baseball draft. They have some fugazi rule in terms of
market size and revenue sharing and huh, yeah they had,
(25:53):
so they're ineligible to pick better than tenth. Even though
the White Sox have lost one hundred and twenty games,
they cannot end up with the number one picks. So
the Angels actually have the third based on the odds
of winning the lottery. They have the third worst record
in baseball in terms of those eligible in the lottery.
It's very odd. That is odd. I didn't know that. Yeah,
(26:15):
they they put a rule in there. Uh, And the
White Sox are the second hottest team in baseball. The
Tigers are the only team that's won more games in
a row. The Royals are won three, the Braves have
won three, and the White Sox have won three in
a row. But the Tigers have won five in a row.
So congratulations to the Halos. This is the second time
(26:37):
in somewhat recently. It's been a while the Tigers. When
Alan Trammel was managing the team, they in a very
similar situation. They were looking at the worst record all time.
And then they played I believe it was the Minnesota
Twins the final series of the year, and they won
(26:59):
either all of them as I remember, it's been a while,
but either when three or four, they swept them with
Ron Garden higher in Minnesota, and they avoided Yeah, they
avoided the worst record of all time. Aye, doesn't that
make it even better than the White Sox One hundred
(27:20):
and twenty losses and they can't even get the number
one pick in the baseball draft? Oh my god? That
is that is a ten out of ten is what
it is. Let's go to Tony in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony,
my guy, Tony, Hello Tony, take me out to the
ball game, out.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
With the crowd.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Buy me some peanuts and cracker Jacks. I don't care
if I ever get back, because it's root for the A.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
If they don't win, it.
Speaker 7 (27:54):
For the shame because it's one two dreamer out at
the old game. Hey John Fisher off, all.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Right, well you knew that was coming, right? You knew?
Did I know that?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Well?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
You should have.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That's Tony in the bay, that's his m Yeah. Well
you'll have to download the podcast and then you'll be
able to hear everything that was not on. How much
of that made the air? I don't know, partner, was
I supposed to dump that? No, I just leave that
on the air. I don't I don't care.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I no, No, I leave that on the air. Well,
what could possibly go wrong with that?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
But if you're an A's fan, you want to listen
to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, it was a solid, solid tribute. Reminder, we're on
all night. This is just our number one. You'll probably
be sleeping by the time we get done here, but hey,
listen shortly after the show ends, in a few hours,
our podcast will be going up.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Go here.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Great moments like toning the bas saying the F word
and if you missed any of today's show, which is
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Just search Malor wherever you get your podcasts, and be
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Speaker 7 (29:00):
The pod than for the internet.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, the management really gets annoyed when we beat some
of those daytime shows and downloads, which happens all the time,
So please keep that up. Just search Malor wherever you
get your podcasts, and you'll see today's show posted right
after we get off the radio. Off the air, we're
literally in the air everywhere. So Eddie is a big curmudgeon.
(29:25):
We all know that, right, We love Eddie, but teaser curmudgeon.
And yeah, will you give a definition of a cudgeon?
Ben grumpy gruff harsh.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
All grumpy shirt the other day and I did think
of you Eddie, see that? Yeah it was the goat
tea shirtiest of all time.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Person would not hold that stuffy and take a picture
with him, would not.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I'm editing it right now.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
All right, Well you have an edit. You're going to
put the filter on the Instagram filter to make look better?
Is that what you Yeah?
Speaker 8 (30:01):
The mouse has so many imperfections, mister Willie.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
All right, Yeah, So listen, Eddie. You might not admit it,
but we all think you're a little grumpy, which is fine.
So I bring this up. Did you see what Nikola
Jokic said as the.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
End every word that he says, of course I saw it.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah. Yeah, that's an example of you being a chromogious chasm.
That's you being belligerent. So the the MVP multiple times,
nicolea jokish of your Denver Nuggets NBA Media Day. He
gets up at the at the podium like he does
every year, and he says, I don't know why we're
(30:44):
doing it. He said of media day every year is
the same thing. He says, BA humbug, BA humbug. And
that is proved that you don't have to like your
job to be good at your job. Nicoleokus truly does
(31:09):
not seem to enjoy playing in the NBA. He's annoyed
by all of the bull crap that goes with being
an NBA player. That is his tenth media day and
he's like, I don't know why we're here every year.
It's the same thing. I don't know why we're doing
it every year. Everything's the same, It's completely the same.
(31:30):
Get out it's so good. Oh it's it is just wonderful.
And by the way, I used to go to media
day every year. I probably went to twenty NBA media
days in my younger days. And I would agree it
is the same thing. They have everything. It's like car wash.
They have stations, you know, go through the car wash
(31:52):
of professional car wash, and they have the bubble bath,
they have the water spray, they have the drying. It's
the same thing with media. You have a bunch of photos,
you have to do goofy videos for the scoreboard where
you answer the questions like pop culture questions like is
(32:12):
a hot dog a sandwich or not? You know that
kind of thing, and you do that and then you
talk to the reporters, do that for a little bit,
and there's like a couple of other things you have
to do for charity and sign autographs and that's it.
But it's pretty much the same, pretty much the same
every year. He's not He's not wrong in that analysis.
(32:36):
That's that's the way the way it is and the
way it's always been. And yeah, hey, by the way,
the show is sponsored by DraftKings. Believe it or not,
Stay tuned because you're about to hear more about DraftKings
and all that has to offer, all of it. Throughout
the show DraftKings, The Crown is yours? Well. Good photoshopping
(32:58):
by Lorena. What what filter did you lose to? What
do you use there to make Eddie look like he
was happy?
Speaker 8 (33:05):
Oh my gosh, it's the craziest filter.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It's part of the Smile app.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
You know the movie coming out.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I used that filter one great turn a frown upside down? Yeah,
there he is all happy. Steamboat Willy is It's like
your mini me there, Eddie. You in Steamboat Willy.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Aren't they just so cute together?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I heard a rumor that Eddie's got a burner account
now account pretending to be Eddie is that.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I didn't have that much extra time on his hands.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I guess, yeah, well, well Brian Finley does it, so
why not Eddie burn Yeah, there's three Steamboat Willies in
that one photo. There's the shirt, there's the person wearing
the shirt, and then there's the actual Steamboat Willie. Boy,
you really did touch up Steamboat Willie. That's a man.
That's quite the photo. The Yaddie. I think you have
a future as an Instagram influencer. Wow, yeah, I don't
(33:59):
know where though. I don't use the the filters. I mean,
I'm ugly. I don't need to put filters on anything.
I just own nasal is the way I like it
all right, time out for the who Am I Game?
That's where we pretend to be somebody else, as we
call it the who am I Game? We'll get to
that also later on, at some point, a quarterback that
you probably don't think is all that good getting a
(34:20):
Hall of Fame Players endorsement. We'll go there. But now
to the who Am I Game? We'll go to baseball,
and we'll talk more next hour about the the mass
funeral they had in Oakland, the final game ever for
the Athletics as the Oakland Athletics. And so now that
the A's are leaving town, saying bye bye to the
(34:43):
East Bay, but not by bye in Northern California. That'll
be soon enough. But now that the A's of leaving town,
I will forever be the pitcher that had the most
career wins in the history of the Oakland Coliseum. It
will never beat professional baseball there again. I now, now
(35:04):
the A's are done in the East Bay, I will
forever be the pitcher that had the most career victories
in the history of the Oakland Coliseum. Who Am I
the answer? We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
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Speaker 1 (36:00):
We'll pay off the who am I? Game in a minute?
Who crying? Craig rights, and he says the Seattle Mariners
are still the only active MLB team never to play
in the World Series. They were eliminated from postseason competition
making the postseason and Craig is crying right now very much.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Oh no, we suck again.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, but remember was it last year the GM of
the Mariners, Robbie the Mariner fan can back me up
on this, But didn't the GM of the Mariners come
out and say, well, we just want to be competitive
every year and all that. As long as we have
a chance to make the playoffs. The dumb people buy
tickets and that's all we care about. Okay, Tom from
Fullerton and so Cal rights and he says, what's worse
(36:46):
being the worst team in baseball or getting swept by
the worst team in baseball? It's a great point. Yeah,
that's fascinating all right. Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Now that the Athletics are leaving town for more money,
I will forever be the pitcher that had the most
career wins in the history of the Oakland Coliseum. Who
am I? That's see? Does anyone know the answer? We
go to the ned Flanders guests by Slim Tim Biglow
(37:20):
says it's Ben Mallard, Doppelginger Tony Boselli, I thought it
was I thought it was John Lackey. Now I'm Tony Boselli.
Had no idea. All those big white guys look the same.
Who else do we have?
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I Love you.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Thank you weed Man. That's our three masshole Mickey says,
Mike Tyson is the answer, John Rocker from Mickey in
State forty eight? Who else? Page down? Tom from Fullerton.
The aforementioned Tom says the frequently rupturing sewer line under
the Oakland Coliseum is the answer. Vita Blue just by
(37:58):
Mark from Queens. The King of Queens. Cortes Kennedy tossed
out by Shane in KC says the answer is the
infamous Eddie Garcia. Are you infamous? Eddie? I didn't realize
you were infamous.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Who else? Dave Stewart, That's a good guest by Wally
in Florida. Dizzy Dean from Robert. Who else do we have?
Page down? Rafael Bentoncourt from Rob in Minnesota. Benny the
Frugal from Terry in England, The long suffering forty nine
er fan, Barry Zito guess by Robbie the Mariner fan.
(38:39):
Who else do we have? Cry Baby Angel Reese from
a certain caller from Miami. Danny from Miami, the Muting,
the Muting Curmudgeon. That's Eddie Yes by Alf the Finer Eddie.
What's the answer, Eddie. Most wins all time at the
Oakland Coliseum.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
To Finance already has the most strikeouts all time in
that ballpark, but the most wins Jim Catfish clutch it
the wich eighty eighty of third wins. He's all time
winning game in that ballpark. Catfish
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