October 7, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about who is to blame for Bryce Harper's Phillies being on the brink of elimination as they lose again to the Dodgers, if Dave Roberts and the Dodgers have solved their bullpen issues, who gets the blame for the Cubs loss to the Brewers, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball. It's our number one. Happy Tuesday to you. It
is the seventh day of October on this Tuesday, and
here we go play the blame game Major League Baseball
style on The Ben Maler Show, the Original Recipe podcast.
Who's to blame for Bryce Harper's Phillies being on the
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brink of elimination? We'll discuss that. Also, have the Dave
Roberts Dodgers actually solve their bullpen blues as they are
up two to zero against Philly? And in the other
series in the National League, who gets to eat the
blame cheese curds for the Chicago Cubs who had a
three to nothing lead against the Brew Crew and ended
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up losing seven to three.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
In that game. We'll talk about all that and more.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Settle in It's our number one. All dressed up, but
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Where did the offense go?
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buying should be. So had a Monday night game and
got a bunch of baseball games, a couple baseball games.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Made the editorial decision to start with baseball. What are
you doing that? Just relax?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Got a long road ahead, long winding road through the overnight,
so we have plenty of time and a blank canvas
to paint a word mosaic in the darkness here. But
we begin with the Baseball Playoffs Divisional Round Game number two,
Game number two in the National League. Now, I'm gonna
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start with the early game, because that was the better
game at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, the original capital
of the United States of America. Kyle Schwarber, the fighting fails,
looking to square things up against the Doyers and get
some good vibrations going against that shoey O Tani and
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the Dodgers, obviously a tony pitchting game went and pitch
that great in Game one. Didn't do much of anything
with the bat. But the Dodgers, with that massive dream
team lineup that didn't play like that. They were chronic
underachievers during the regular season, but they did win Game one.
Trying to go up to Oh, I don't know if
you were watching or not.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We watched so you would not have to because possibly
we get paid to watch. So that's what we watched.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
But we did watch.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And Blake Snell, Hey, that's my guy, you know it.
Me and Blake's and we go back many many years.
Blake Snell, I'm not playing us, I get mine, brow
that Blake.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Snell, I'm unless I get mine.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, Well, he struck out nine over six, shutout. Hey, listen,
the guy look good. What do you want to say?
How I think he's a douche? But he looked good.
And one hit ball for the Doyers and then the
bullpen barely barely held on by the skin on their
chinny chin chin the ninth inning rally a four to
nothing lead. They almost gaged it, but they did not,
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So La gets the win. The Dodgers the good guys,
four to three. They get to win over the Phillies.
In Game two of the National League Divisional Series, shoel
Tani did have a ribby single and that was his
first hit in the series. That part of that four
run seventh inning. Will Smith, the fresh Prince of bel Air,
got it done as well, two run single, and the
reigning World Series champion Dodgers have a two nothing lead.
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It is not a best of seven, it is a
best of five. They are two to zero in Pennsylvania.
The Phillies are in serious trouble at this particular point.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's only a best of five.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Dodgers can advance in their seventeenth National League Championship Series
with a Game three win back in Los Angeles on
Wednesday night in downtown LA and parking will cost you
eight hundred dollars. Good luck, all right, So let us
discuss the question better store in the losing locker room?
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So who is to blame? Who is to blame for
Bryce Harper's Phillies being on the brink of elimination. It
was not supposed to be like this for the fight
in phillis now my thoughts on this. I've got minecraft,
grand Canyon and Captain's chair, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
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some grilled chicken and rice, which I'm told is healthy,
and not that it's great.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I mean, you've got to have food fried, but I'm
told that's healthy.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Anyway, my first thought on this is what a humiliation
situation for the Philadelphia Phillies to be in this situation.
The Phillies, the self proclaimed team of destiny, that this
was the team that had been hanging around the last
couple of years, and they went for it. They went out,
they pumped up the tires on the bullpen, and they
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were ready, ready for the Dodgers, and this roster, all
those big bats, a powder keg of passion the phil
and we do like the way the Phillies play. They're
a fun team to watch. They've got an edge to
their game, and they like to claim their blue collar
heroes in South Philadelphia. Of course they're all tremendously overpaid,
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spoiled athletes, but they pretend they do cosplay like their
blue collar heroes. And they're circling the drain right now.
And the problem for the Phillies, I call it an
I ninety five problem for the Philadelphia Phillies. And now
what does that mean? The arrow is pointing towards the
headliners for the Philadelphia Phillies. It's like Minecraft dungeons, a
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starless night, or in this case, a couple of starless
nights for the Philadelphia Phillies. You do the cross check
la cross examination on the Phillies. You got Bryce Harper
over here, Trey Turner and Kyle Schwarber, the big three
right there, and they are hitting I ninety five. Actually
not E hitting I ninety five. They're hitting ninety five.
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They're in the first two games, they've had twenty one
at bats. They're two for twenty one. Now, I didn't
play professional baseball, but that sucks. Two for twenty one,
eleven strikeouts from those three the top bats in the
Phillies lineup eleven strikeouts and twenty one at bats one
run bat at in that Trey Turner, a former Dodger,
in the National League Divisional Series. So they were promoted.
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The billing was fire crackers. The Phillies bring the fire crackers,
and instead they're wet matches. That's what they brought. They've
brought wet matches here. And it's been the same movie
for the Phillies in this this run. They've had good
regular season teams and it's not over. We'll explain why.
It's clever. Yeah, but this is looking particularly good at
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this point, same cast, and it looks like we're heading
towards the same ending, barring a dramatic rewrite in the
writer's room. Here, the Phillies, who live on those good vibrations, right,
a very loud, high volume crank it to eleven. The
fans are insane. Citizens Bank Park.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I've been there.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It's a beautiful ballpark, great environment for baseball. The greatest
mascot in sport, the Philly fanatic running his fat ass
around there having fun. And that is supposed to be
Citizens Bank Park, a cathedral of intimidation, a house of
horrors for the opposing team to go into Philadelphia with
all the lunatic, trunk Neanderthal fans and that ballpark. And
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yet you stop and you look around. The Philadelphia Phillies
there have lost I believe the numbers five of their
last six postseason games at home at what happened to
Red October? Where did that go that? Where's that mystique
of the Philadelphia Phillies. Well, I guess the question is
does the idea of home field advantage mean something anymore?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now? In baseball?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
There's something there that you only get in football, where
you have a dramatic competitive advantage. You are if you're
the home team, you are able to close the game
out at home. You have the advantage because the road
team bats first, you bat second, and so there's a
little more of an advantage knowing what you need to
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do in the late innings. I would argue the road
team has more of an advantage early in the game.
And if you can score early and play with the lead,
you put the pressure the pendulum of pressure swings back
to the home team. But there's a legitimate advantage there.
The ballparks are a little different in baseball, not as
much as they used to be, but it's a little different.
The only other thing in football you have warm weather
dome team cold weather, But the NFL is trying to
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deball all the cold weather teams and eventually they'll only
be like a three cold weather outdoor stadium because Chicago's
going to get most likely eventually was talk they're going
to get a dome. I've seen different drawings of the
stadium they're going to build at the racetrack in suburban Chicago.
Cleveland wants a dome. You do have Buffalo, who's building
a new stadium will be outdoors in Green Bed.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
There'll be a few outdoor teams.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But for the most part, talking me domes or warm
weather teams, and so that was always an advantage.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But when you look at the just the we're not
back in my damn the old guy story.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So when I was a kid, but I've always heard
these stories about players being rattled.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Like in Philadelphia, you go there and you be rattled by.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
A bunch of old dudes wearing Randall Cunningham jerseys and
you know, chucking hot dogs on the field and all
that stuff. But like the whole Philly fan thing where
they will eat you alive, they will eat you alive
in Philadelphia, that's just a myth. It's just a myth,
and you can't weaponize it anymore. I remember when I
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was watching the great Dick Stockton on Sibis and Pat
O'Brien who worked here at Fox Sports Radio and the
Progressive at the half there at CBS above the Boston Garden,
and I remember watching this as a kid when the
Lakers and Celtics played, and I was young, and they
used to talk about all the wonderful things that Red Arbach,
this old executive of the Celtics, would do with the
old Boston Garden my home court advantage there, from shutting
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off the hot water to turning up the heat in
the summer and to make it colder in the winter,
getting brown sludge, that brown tapwater sludge in the showers,
like all that stuff just to kind of mess with
the other team, Right, and so that doesn't happen. You
don't do that anymore. Right, the visiting players show up,
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they get a police escort, to wherever they're playing, and yeah,
they play in front of forty thousand drunks if they're
playing a baseball game or whatever. But then they go
back to the Ritz Carlton, and they're never really worried
about anything. Right, they have all the creature comforts, that's
what they have.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Everything. It's not hostile, it's not. And so we're living
in this era where you've got.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The charted flights, the these major League baseball clubhouses, all right,
and this is one of things. When I started, they
still had crap house visiting clubhouses in baseball, Like they
were really crappy, every clubhouse in Major League Baseball because
the union, the players Union, just complained it's like walking
into the presidential suite. It's a penthouse. It's not a clubhouse.
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It's a penthouse, and everyone's pampered. You're really struggling on
the road when you're soaking in eucalyptus steam rooms, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's really difficult. It's so bad.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So again, and when your own stars stop producing, there's
really no external excuse. And these were at home games
usually not road games. Bryce Harper, you don't love the
body language, big body language guy from Bryce Harper, trade Turner,
how's he's seen ohas or something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And Kyle Swarber, it does appear he's trying to hit
a ten run home run every time.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
He comes up.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't think as possible. Boy, that would be cool
for the Phillies. If he hit a ten run home run,
that would be pretty pretty neat. But the team, it's
supposed to be a gritty team, the Phillies. You know,
they're all a bunch of multi millionaires, but they're a
gritty team, lunch pill outfit. And right now they are
the seat fillers at their own concert. There. They're they're
done with the regular season, the playoffs. Now, they didn't
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get to this point because they had the the buy
and all that. And they're dancing. You know, it's dancing
on my own crying alone. That's the vibe there. Now,
all that said, the Phillies are not dead.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
They are now. Listen.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I want the Dodgers, the one you know that some
of you think I don't, but I do. I'm not
a Dodger hate or anything like that. I'm just a
realist and you're all a bunch of fanboys. But here's
the point, the Phillies are not dead yet.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Teams, if you look at the numbers, teams that have
taken a two nothing lead in the best of five
postseason have won eighty of ninety times. That works out
to eighty eight point eight percent. Eighty eight point in
on your FM do sounds like a college radio station
and fifty four sweeps, So.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And if the Phillies can steal the game on Wednesday,
win that game, they flip the script. Now all of
a sudden, the pressure start shifting to the Dodgers not
to f this thing up and have to go back
to a Game five in Philadelphia, even though they won
two there, to have to win with that ragtag bullpen
to go back to the Delaware Valley.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So it's really just a one game thing.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The Phillies win, and then all of a sudden things
change around quite a bit, and it's like the Phillies
found their pulse, and you don't want them to find
their pulse because you know what that means there and
now it is a faint pulse. Even if they win,
it's a faint pulse. And all that stuff, But this
is all about execution. That's always about execution. And the
Stars haven't been better in the moment. And it's not
like Otani, he was not good in Game one on
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the mound or at the plate, and you know better
here although not great. And the Philly Stars, though, they're
the ones that have failed to shine the brightest now
turning the patriot. As far as the Dodgers are concerned,
the question here is, and I was getting peppered with.
I don't go on social media much, but people in
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my real world, you know, not the fake people in
social media, but the real people were.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Like, oh, you were wrong about the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
They're up for nothing. I was getting I looked at
my phone. I was like, oh boy, you're an idiot.
Suddenly those people stop sending me text messages. When the
Dodgers bullpen came in, there the parade of the losers,
the parade of terribles.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
There, but the Dodgers didn't win.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So have the Dave Roberts Dodgers now two and ohero
in the NLDS? Have they solved their bullpain blues at Schufvezravine.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So I am shaking my head.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
No, if you're watching on the YouTube feed there and
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Speaker 2 (15:59):
I'm going to that is.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What's called a WT situation. Wishful thinking is what that is.
The Dodgers are exactly who we thought they were. And
if you want to crown them, crown their ass right.
They've got a bunch of star power, but there's a
soft underbelly. They're Superman with kryptonite. We know what the
kryptonite is. You poke him in the.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Gut and it jiggles. Jack Jackal Jagal. That's a bullpin.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Dave Roberts and boy, you talk about Roberts came this
close to being kicked out of LA if they had
blown that gid. Dave Roberts got cute right now the
front office. These guys are the smartest people in the room,
playing with matches and gasoline. That's the Dodgers right there.
Roberts try to get cute. I'm gonna bring in Blake Trining,
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Blake Who's head.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Die die diarrhea? For how many months?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm gonna bring in Blake Trining like he's gonna be
my secret weapon. Like it's two years ago and I'm
only bring Blake Trining in there, and instead he was diffuse.
That sparked the Phillies comeback. And the only reason Roberts
isn't being tarred and feathered right now is because the
Dodgers held on and won and he gets a mulligan
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because that's how it works, and the box score says
at W and so the fact that it was systemic
incompetence by again, Roberts is just the middle manager. We
know he's not really doing anything that the front office
doesn't want. But deep down, the Dodger fan, the real
Dodger fan, they know the truth. Right that bullpen they
are the flying will lend us that's a data reference,
but go with it all right. Every night they are
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wobbling on a tight rope over the Grand Canyon, just waiting,
waiting to slip on that wire. And there's no net, right,
there's no net, And you can feel it coming right now. Listen,
there's a great shape against the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
For now.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You hear the music and you see the balancing pole
kind of shaking a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The ween gusts up there. Those middle relievers come in
the era explodes. So I don't think anything's been sold
because my position was the they're pitching starting pitchers in
the bullpen and they're avoiding the actual bullpen.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It's that bad.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
They actually agree with that. The Dodgers agree with me.
They say, you know what, Mallory, you're right. Our relievers blow.
It's the starters we got to bring in. And yet
even in this game they got cute. And so the
Dodger bullpen has an underlying condition, all right, they do.
It's a nightly death defying stunt. Hide the women, hide
the children. Dave Roberts is the guy who's he didn't
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have a safety net and the only safety news to
bringing these starters. And then even he didn't, he didn't
bring Sazaki in and he messed around with that. All right, now, quickly,
last thing, we go to Milwaukee, the other half of
the bracket in the National League, where if you turn
on the game very early, the Cubs had an early lead.
They're up three to nothing over the Brewers, and then
they had to play the rest of the game. Andrew
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Vaughan and Jackson Turio each shiit three run home runs,
and William Contreras also a solo shot. The Brewers not
known for their home run power, but they on this
day they did get it done.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
There.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
They come back down three to nothing, the brew Crew
get a seventy three win, and now they are one
win away.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
From a rematch.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
This was a rematch in the NLCS about seven eight
years ago, Dodgers and the Brewers, and the series now
shifting to Wrigley Field for Game number three. That'll be
on Wednesday as well. The better story in the loser's
locker room. So who gets to eat the blame cheese kurds?
Because you're in Wisconsin for the Cubs who lost to
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the Brewers. So this one's easy. It's Imanaga showed it
to him. Naga, the starting pitcher here for the Cubs,
the ace, who I believe watching this game and I
was slipping back and forth from the Monday night game
in this game, but watching him, he melted faster than
some fresh cheddar in an air fire on a hot pretzel.
Just melted, just absolutely melted. You jumped back to a
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three to nothing lead, and Suzuki hit a rocket early
on for the Cubs. You got, you know, feeling pretty
good right there. You're thinking, great, crowd's kind of buzzing
back home. There's a lot of cub fans in Milwaukee
because it's not that far away from Chicago. And everyone's excited.
I know our guy's tree, Eugene, you Foemi. They're all
fired up there and this you got your so called stopper.
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You got your number one picture on the mound there
and it was like a kid's birthday party pinata.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You get a hit, you get to hit.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Imanaga was in the captain's chair and he was writing
the Vomit Comet. He wrote the Vomit Comet and the
just completely helpless. The Brewers played Yatzi with Immenaga in
this game.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And so there you go. So here we are.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's October baseball. You need your ace, generally speaking, you
need your ace to go more than a couple of innings.
Eat some innings, be like Joey Chestnut and scarf down
all the hot dogs, the glizzy gobbler and no instead.
Imanaga was nibbling, he was sweating. He was pressing forty
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six pitches. You get a free nothing lead. Your ace
goes forty six pitches. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night,
and bye bye. See you later there. So another team
the Cubs says, somebody you said, hey, the Cubs are
just built different and all that. I don't see it.
That appears to be false advertising for the Cubs at
this point here. It does look more like they're built
for day games in May against the Pirates and not
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primetime in October. There and we'll talk more. I'm sure
if the Cubs do lose this on Wednesday about Craig Council,
and people will be celebrating the demise of Craig Council
as a Wisconsin guy. And he took the money and
went down to Chicago to coach the Cubs and his team.
The Cubs are getting pantsed right now by his old team.
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So the Brewers look very relaxed. Why wouldn't. You're up
to nothing in the series. The Cubs look a little constipated.
There's some pill you can take.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
There's a pill.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
There's also a drink that you can take to get
rid of that here. But Council he left for the money,
so it's not like if it is really worried he
was with State of Milwaukee. He left because he got
a bag from Chicago, became the highest paid management in baseball,
and that's the same thing you would have done. I
would have done, we all would have done. Not worried
about winning. He's in I can win in Chicago, he's
in the playoffs. He's like, yeah, find the Brewers can win.
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In Detroit, where would your money go back in your pocket?
If you gave me ten thousand dollars, I would immediately
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I would invest that money, maybe going to a nice
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The matchup tonight You've got Logan Gilbert and Jack Flaherty
actually do like the Mariners just in that just based
on that matchup, you like the marinor the Mariners are
favored in that game, and they are getting most of
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that's worth. And the public also in favor, although it's
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much more. The money's much bigger than the numbers we
have in favor of the Mariners in that game. That
is the early game, right, that's the early answer, four
o'clock eastern, one o'clock Pacific game. I believe that's accurate.
Logan Gilbert versus Jack Flaherty. And then you've got the
late game, which is at eight o'clock at Yankee Stadium,
and is this a funeral for the Yankees with Shane
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Bieber versus Carlos Rodon. The left handed Yankees are favorite
in that game, and they are getting most of the
the moulah in favor of them. Who else do we
Let's see page nin we'll skip over that. Let's see
here we've got mister Lucianos's nine point nine out of
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ten on the Mallard monologue.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He hate to admit it, but the Dodgers have a
great chance to win it all. Best of luck.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Mister Luciano, he says, fer dog says creepy love affair
with David Vesse aside the Blake Snell that Blake Stell
can sure pitch fun fact about Snell. He once said
he prefers grilled cheese sandwiches over tacos because they're not
as messy. Yeah, doesn't it look like Blake Snell hasn't
slept since like twenty fourteen or something, like he's got
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like large you know those things when you get the bubbles.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Of huge bags.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, yeah, Like I is that just.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Maybe that's just genetics that like everyone I don't know
his family tree, maybe everyone in his family's like that.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
They actually want to google this. I don't know what causes. Yeah,
I'm gonna look.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
At this because it's not very I mean, you know,
not that I'm checking out Blake Snell, but it's just
very it's hard not to notice, like he's got giant
bubbles and bags underneath his eyes.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
And once okay, so it says puffiness under the eyes
can be caused by factors like aging, obviously, eye infections,
thyroid disast you might have a thyro dress eyes strain,
and allergies. Oh, even hormonal changes.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Really, so maybe he's got a thyroid issue. You can
take some pills for that.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
And feel like me personally if that ever happened to me,
I would stick needles in the bags and pull out
all the.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Extra excess because that's where you live in Los Angeles.
So it's what people in LA do. They just yoke.
They just a little hole. Yes, exactly, that's an LA
do well.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
But I guess it's probably everywhere these days people are
doing that kind of stuff. King Roy writes in from Wisconsin,
says as a Brewers fan, it feels great beating up
the Cubs, but it will mean nothing if they don't
win the World Series. The obnoxious Cub fans, King Roy says,
we'll bring up twenty sixteen. If the Brewers fizzle out
in the playoffs in twenty twenty five, season will only
be remembered for free Burgers.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Freddie writes and says, as a Dodger fan, I will
admit that Bullpen does need a lot of work. I
was worry there in the final two innings, but was
a happy bro. I'm risking my life, had a great game.
Spocks weed on the Oregons trails very excited. He says, awesome,
the vomit comet has been observed over the friendly skies
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there of Milwaukee, along with the super moon. Now Derek,
the Bill's Monster, the Hacker in Buffalo writes, and he says, Hey, Mallard,
great monologue, Pure radio gold. There's always quick question though,
when's the NHL Preview Hour? And what days the Big
College basketball breakdown show? Got to plan my life accordingly? Yeah,
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or you just keep listening. In any moment we could
break out into hockey, and any moment, I don't want
to invade in my former colleague Eddie Garcia, who does
like seven hockey podcasts.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I mean, that's his domain. I don't want to interrupt
his domain. My lips on it. Yeah, so he's literally
he loves hockey so much.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Put my stick right in your mouth. You know, some
people use like a jolly Roger, or he use a
candy like a mint. He sucks on a hockey puck.
It's Eddie, and a lot of people don't know that
about Addie, but he he loves hockey so much. He
has a little hockey puck and that is his candy,
and he loves the taste of it.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I don't know. I don't know why college basketball. I
just checked my notes.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Derek the Bill's Monster, part of Bill's Mafia, So I
checked my notes, and college basketball season starts. Yes, Election
Sunday is in early March, so we got some time.
We got a little bit of time before college basketball. Yeah, super,
Marcus Steeve says, I haven't heard you apologize to Mookie
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Betcher Blake still.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And I'm proud of you for not at the moment
you were right.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I would argue that you're just as responsible for their
success as that second half in the second half of
the season as Vassa was for kissing their ass when
they suck. Well, you're right, there is no need to apologize.
And that lunatic bus driver Roberto.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
You apologize to Mookie? Yeah, what a dope? All right?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Come on, As I have pointed out, we have a
daily talk show to do. We have a talk show
every night. We have to do a talk show and
we give opinions in real time. And even if I
don't win the World Series, it does not change the
fact that I was right that Blake Snell. I mean,
it's embarrassing these they sell regular season season ticket packages,
and most of these guys, in terms of the starting pitching,
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they don't show up for three or four months during
the regular season. Mookie Betts was there and didn't show
up for three or four months of the regularzation. So
I have a daily touch show. I don't wait until
the end. So if I what am I supposed to
not comment on the malfeasons of the Dodgers during the
regular season, that they underachieved by twelve games from where
they were supposed to be the win projection in Vegas
to what they actually won during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Ben, Yeah, no, bad news, my fat ass.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Anyway, Eloy from Compton says, good call, Big Ben not
starting the show with some or starting the show rather
with some baseball talk. No one wants to hear about
my pathetic ass. Kansas the Chiefs crapping their pants. Well,
we'll get to that. That was outstanding and that's good,
good gift of what they did there. Yeah, that was
that was pretty solid there. Yeah, let's see what else
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do we have. Let's see page down. I can't read that.
Gil in San Diego says, I am so sick of Lebron.
Now we have to listen to his narcissistic second decision.
I can't wait for him to be gone. Kobe came
to the Lakers on Draft Night, played twenty seasons, gave
us five titles. He and Magic are the most beloved
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Lakers ever. Lebron isn't even close.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah not. Somebody's email me, You're gonna do a monologue
about Lebron's decision. No, I'm not. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
He'll he's gonna whether he announces he's retiring. I wouldn't
be shocked if Lebron's like, I'm endorsing some new product
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I wouldn't be shocked if that's it. Knowing Lebron like
there was some partnership with somebody.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Is gonna be some announcement coming down on Tuesday from Lebron,
and it'll likely happen while I'm sleeping. I'll wake up,
I'll react to it, and we'll go on with my life.
I'm not going to stop my life, and I don't
know anyone else is either. It'd be great if he
just retired, don't do a retirement toward just say you
know what. I went to training camp, and I just
the idea of playing with DeAndre Ayton. It makes me
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want to puke in my mouth and I don't.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Want to play.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I'm out, I'm done. I just want to pass the
baton to Luca and that's it. And Gil, you'd be
okay with that in San Diego. And so I all right,
it's go to the phones. A slo to the sports genius.
Who's in LA?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
What's up? Sports genius? Welcome?
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Well, well here we are again big bands. Like I
always say, fake ball is a matter of look mixed
with a little bit of skill, mix with a little
bit of mojo. And we don't know if Dave Roberts
has the mojo, but he's surrounded by a lot of
high end players with a high payroll. Bail them out
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all the time on that freaking dugout because our bullpen
is sketchy to say the least. But ken Dave Roberts
manage that sketchy bullpen. That's the question every Dodger fan
I know has. They're like, fourth genius, what do you think?
And I said, I think I need to call Bill
Mallard and.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Talk this over with him, because he knows more about baseball.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Than all of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
That's right, man, that's right exactly. Well, here's what the
Dodgers do. It's a great stretchy. If you have a
five run lead or four run lead, they're fine. If
it's a one run lead and they've got to go
through multiple relief pitchers, they're cooked.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I agree, that's the way I look at I don't
think there's any of us.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And I like the fact that the Dodgers are giving
me take validation by bringing in all these starting pitchers
and the relief pitchers are not using and they look
they use relief pitchers in this game. Well, Blake Trining
came in there and puked all over the mound. But
they brought in starting pitching and that's what. But that's
the way to go because those guys at least don't
have a track record of failure abject failures like the
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relief pitchers for the Dodge.
Speaker 9 (35:08):
Well, what do you think about Rokis Sasaki and Yamamoto?
Speaker 8 (35:12):
I mean those guys, I like both of them.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I also like Showhey, but I don't know if they're
gonna if they're gonna rotate him more on the mound
or they're gonna use his bat more than anything.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Well, listen, Yo Yamamoto's great. He's been wonderful. I don't
know what you want me to say. He's been great.
He should be wonderful on Wednesday. But the problem is,
you know, Aaron Nola's pitching for the Phillies. He's pretty good,
So it's gonna be you'd think, a close game and
then you're gonna get into the seventh eighth inning, you're
gonna have to go to your bullpen. So are you
gonna go to relief pitchers? You're gonna bring in starting pitching.
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I would bring in starting pitching. I would just run
through all my other leftover starting pitchers. I think that's
what they're playing anyway, that's what they're gonna do because
everyone knows the bullpen, the actual real relief pitchers are
incompetent and they can't get it done.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
So anyway, well, I said, it's so really good to
go to Philly and we have those cheese steaks down
their throats with those freaking weird old fans over there
and all their little fanatics or whatever they got, and
they think they're intimidating to the Dodgers. Are they had
other freaking minds? Have they seen our Dodgers. We got
Mookie Bets, we got Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
We've had I mean, so we got shoe Hail Tamie.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Are they another freaking Philadelphia cheese steak eating mines?
Speaker 8 (36:21):
We're not gonna intimidate the Blue Crew.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Well, they clearly did not. All right, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Thank you the sports genius there, quick call there from
these sports genius. It is the Ben Mallor Show, and
we'll have the play of the day that'll be coming
up here momentarily. Time now though, for the Whoemi game,
and despite being a nemesis of the show, Dodgers pitcher
Blake Snell now has four career postseason addings with at
least nine strikeouts and two or few hits aloud. Turns
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out that is the most by any pitcher in postseason history.
Who Blake Snell broke a tie with me?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Again?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Blake Snell now has four career postseason addings with at
least nine strikeouts and two or fewer hits allowed, the
most by any pitcher in post's history.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Snell breaking a tie with me? Who am I? That's
the question? The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do
it next.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
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the play of the day. Do we have the player
that they ready to go?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Do we have this all?
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Let's see what do you think the player is? All right?
Let's go Trevor Lawrence here. Let's set this up.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
So Kansas City leading late in the game, under two
minutes ago in Jacksonville. The Jags had the ball and
he needed a touchdown down by four points, needed a touchdown,
and Trevor Lawrence on his birthday, stepped up.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Would he score touchdown or would he not? Let's find out.
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More on the full moon, straight ahead. Time Now for
the who am I game? Dodger pitcher Blake Snell, I
am playing unless I get mine? Bro now has four
career postseason addings with at least nine strikeouts and two
or fewer hits allowed. That's the most by any picture
in postseason history. Snell broke a tie with me. Who
am I that is the question.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
What is the answer? Art the clown? Just by mister Luciano.
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
The sports genius from malor property. Oh look, you got
a photo of the sports genius right there.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
How'd you do that?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Ritman says, how about Hot Mariner talk Alfred Hitchcock from
Bobby in Florida?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Who knows we're all the good? Key lin Pie is
Scrooge is in the Younger demo.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
He's going with that old baseball player for the Pittsburgh
Pirates from the nineteen thirties named Johnny dick Shott. Who
else do we have, Mike Wit, give me a little
taste of that Miguel on fire? That's his answer, Mike Wit,
Who else do we have? Not gonna even say the
name for mister Niske, I don't know how to pronounce it.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Who else? Page down?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Mickey Lulwich from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Fam he's going
with Trevor Lawnce.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
What say you, young Frankenstein?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Young Frankenstein, Well this is old Frankenstein because he's got
two different colored eyeballs. How about Max Schurzer. Max Schurzer
was the answer, sureser. He choked with the Dodgers to
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Playball. It's our number one. Happy Tuesday to you. It
is the seventh day of October on this Tuesday, and
here we go play the blame game Major League Baseball
style on The Ben Maler Show, the Original Recipe podcast.
Who's to blame for Bryce Harper's Phillies being on the
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brink of elimination? We'll discuss that. Also, have the Dave
Roberts Dodgers actually solve their bullpen blues as they are
up two to zero against Philly? And in the other
series in the National League, who gets to eat the
blame cheese curds for the Chicago Cubs who had a
three to nothing lead against the Brew Crew and ended
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up losing seven to three.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
In that game. We'll talk about all that and more.
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buying should be. So had a Monday night game and
got a bunch of baseball games, a couple baseball games.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Made the editorial decision to start with baseball. What are
you doing that? Just relax?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Got a long road ahead, long winding road through the overnight,
so we have plenty of time and a blank canvas
to paint a word mosaic in the darkness here. But
we begin with the Baseball Playoffs Divisional Round Game number two,
Game number two in the National League. Now, I'm gonna
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start with the early game, because that was the better
game at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, the original capital
of the United States of America. Kyle Schwarber, the fighting fails,
looking to square things up against the Doyers and get
some good vibrations going against that shoey O Tani and
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the Dodgers, obviously a tony pitchting game went and pitch
that great in Game one. Didn't do much of anything
with the bat. But the Dodgers, with that massive dream
team lineup that didn't play like that. They were chronic
underachievers during the regular season, but they did win Game one.
Trying to go up to Oh, I don't know if
you were watching or not.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Maybe not.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We watched so you would not have to because possibly
we get paid to watch. So that's what we watched.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
But we did watch.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And Blake Snell, Hey, that's my guy, you know it.
Me and Blake's and we go back many many years.
Blake Snell, I'm not playing us, I get mine, brow
that Blake.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Snell, I'm unless I get mine.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, Well, he struck out nine over six, shutout. Hey, listen,
the guy look good. What do you want to say?
How I think he's a douche? But he looked good.
And one hit ball for the Doyers and then the
bullpen barely barely held on by the skin on their
chinny chin chin the ninth inning rally a four to
nothing lead. They almost gaged it, but they did not,
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So La gets the win. The Dodgers the good guys,
four to three. They get to win over the Phillies.
In Game two of the National League Divisional Series, shoel
Tani did have a ribby single and that was his
first hit in the series. That part of that four
run seventh inning. Will Smith, the fresh Prince of bel Air,
got it done as well, two run single, and the
reigning World Series champion Dodgers have a two nothing lead.
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It is not a best of seven, it is a
best of five. They are two to zero in Pennsylvania.
The Phillies are in serious trouble at this particular point.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
It's only a best of five.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Dodgers can advance in their seventeenth National League Championship Series
with a Game three win back in Los Angeles on
Wednesday night in downtown LA and parking will cost you
eight hundred dollars. Good luck, all right, So let us
discuss the question better store in the losing locker room?
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So who is to blame? Who is to blame for
Bryce Harper's Phillies being on the brink of elimination. It
was not supposed to be like this for the fight
in phillis now my thoughts on this. I've got minecraft,
grand Canyon and Captain's chair, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
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some grilled chicken and rice, which I'm told is healthy,
and not that it's great.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I mean, you've got to have food fried, but I'm
told that's healthy.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Anyway, my first thought on this is what a humiliation
situation for the Philadelphia Phillies to be in this situation.
The Phillies, the self proclaimed team of destiny, that this
was the team that had been hanging around the last
couple of years, and they went for it. They went out,
they pumped up the tires on the bullpen, and they
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were ready, ready for the Dodgers, and this roster, all
those big bats, a powder keg of passion the phil
and we do like the way the Phillies play. They're
a fun team to watch. They've got an edge to
their game, and they like to claim their blue collar
heroes in South Philadelphia. Of course they're all tremendously overpaid,
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spoiled athletes, but they pretend they do cosplay like their
blue collar heroes. And they're circling the drain right now.
And the problem for the Phillies, I call it an
I ninety five problem for the Philadelphia Phillies. And now
what does that mean? The arrow is pointing towards the
headliners for the Philadelphia Phillies. It's like Minecraft dungeons, a
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starless night, or in this case, a couple of starless
nights for the Philadelphia Phillies. You do the cross check
la cross examination on the Phillies. You got Bryce Harper
over here, Trey Turner and Kyle Schwarber, the big three
right there, and they are hitting I ninety five. Actually
not E hitting I ninety five. They're hitting ninety five.
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They're in the first two games, they've had twenty one
at bats. They're two for twenty one. Now, I didn't
play professional baseball, but that sucks. Two for twenty one,
eleven strikeouts from those three the top bats in the
Phillies lineup eleven strikeouts and twenty one at bats one
run bat at in that Trey Turner, a former Dodger,
in the National League Divisional Series. So they were promoted.
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The billing was fire crackers. The Phillies bring the fire crackers,
and instead they're wet matches. That's what they brought. They've
brought wet matches here. And it's been the same movie
for the Phillies in this this run. They've had good
regular season teams and it's not over. We'll explain why.
It's clever. Yeah, but this is looking particularly good at
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this point, same cast, and it looks like we're heading
towards the same ending, barring a dramatic rewrite in the
writer's room. Here, the Phillies, who live on those good vibrations, right,
a very loud, high volume crank it to eleven. The
fans are insane. Citizens Bank Park.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I've been there.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It's a beautiful ballpark, great environment for baseball. The greatest
mascot in sport, the Philly fanatic running his fat ass
around there having fun. And that is supposed to be
Citizens Bank Park, a cathedral of intimidation, a house of
horrors for the opposing team to go into Philadelphia with
all the lunatic, trunk Neanderthal fans and that ballpark. And
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yet you stop and you look around. The Philadelphia Phillies
there have lost I believe the numbers five of their
last six postseason games at home at what happened to
Red October? Where did that go that? Where's that mystique
of the Philadelphia Phillies. Well, I guess the question is
does the idea of home field advantage mean something anymore?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now? In baseball?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
There's something there that you only get in football, where
you have a dramatic competitive advantage. You are if you're
the home team, you are able to close the game
out at home. You have the advantage because the road
team bats first, you bat second, and so there's a
little more of an advantage knowing what you need to
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do in the late innings. I would argue the road
team has more of an advantage early in the game.
And if you can score early and play with the lead,
you put the pressure the pendulum of pressure swings back
to the home team. But there's a legitimate advantage there.
The ballparks are a little different in baseball, not as
much as they used to be, but it's a little different.
The only other thing in football you have warm weather
dome team cold weather, But the NFL is trying to
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deball all the cold weather teams and eventually they'll only
be like a three cold weather outdoor stadium because Chicago's
going to get most likely eventually was talk they're going
to get a dome. I've seen different drawings of the
stadium they're going to build at the racetrack in suburban Chicago.
Cleveland wants a dome. You do have Buffalo, who's building
a new stadium will be outdoors in Green Bed.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
There'll be a few outdoor teams.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
But for the most part, talking me domes or warm
weather teams, and so that was always an advantage.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But when you look at the just the we're not
back in my damn the old guy story.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
So when I was a kid, but I've always heard
these stories about players being rattled.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Like in Philadelphia, you go there and you be rattled by.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
A bunch of old dudes wearing Randall Cunningham jerseys and
you know, chucking hot dogs on the field and all
that stuff. But like the whole Philly fan thing where
they will eat you alive, they will eat you alive
in Philadelphia, that's just a myth. It's just a myth,
and you can't weaponize it anymore. I remember when I
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was watching the great Dick Stockton on Sibis and Pat
O'Brien who worked here at Fox Sports Radio and the
Progressive at the half there at CBS above the Boston Garden,
and I remember watching this as a kid when the
Lakers and Celtics played, and I was young, and they
used to talk about all the wonderful things that Red Arbach,
this old executive of the Celtics, would do with the
old Boston Garden my home court advantage there, from shutting
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off the hot water to turning up the heat in
the summer and to make it colder in the winter,
getting brown sludge, that brown tapwater sludge in the showers,
like all that stuff just to kind of mess with
the other team, Right, and so that doesn't happen. You
don't do that anymore. Right, the visiting players show up,
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they get a police escort, to wherever they're playing, and yeah,
they play in front of forty thousand drunks if they're
playing a baseball game or whatever. But then they go
back to the Ritz Carlton, and they're never really worried
about anything. Right, they have all the creature comforts, that's
what they have.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Everything. It's not hostile, it's not. And so we're living
in this era where you've got.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The charted flights, the these major League baseball clubhouses, all right,
and this is one of things. When I started, they
still had crap house visiting clubhouses in baseball, Like they
were really crappy, every clubhouse in Major League Baseball because
the union, the players Union, just complained it's like walking
into the presidential suite. It's a penthouse. It's not a clubhouse.
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It's a penthouse, and everyone's pampered. You're really struggling on
the road when you're soaking in eucalyptus steam rooms, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's really difficult. It's so bad.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So again, and when your own stars stop producing, there's
really no external excuse. And these were at home games
usually not road games. Bryce Harper, you don't love the
body language, big body language guy from Bryce Harper, trade Turner,
how's he's seen ohas or something like that.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And Kyle Swarber, it does appear he's trying to hit
a ten run home run every time.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
He comes up.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I don't think as possible. Boy, that would be cool
for the Phillies. If he hit a ten run home run,
that would be pretty pretty neat. But the team, it's
supposed to be a gritty team, the Phillies. You know,
they're all a bunch of multi millionaires, but they're a
gritty team, lunch pill outfit. And right now they are
the seat fillers at their own concert. There. They're they're
done with the regular season, the playoffs. Now, they didn't
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get to this point because they had the the buy
and all that. And they're dancing. You know, it's dancing
on my own crying alone. That's the vibe there. Now,
all that said, the Phillies are not dead.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
They are now. Listen.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I want the Dodgers, the one you know that some
of you think I don't, but I do. I'm not
a Dodger hate or anything like that. I'm just a
realist and you're all a bunch of fanboys. But here's
the point, the Phillies are not dead yet.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Teams, if you look at the numbers, teams that have
taken a two nothing lead in the best of five
postseason have won eighty of ninety times. That works out
to eighty eight point eight percent. Eighty eight point in
on your FM do sounds like a college radio station
and fifty four sweeps, So.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And if the Phillies can steal the game on Wednesday,
win that game, they flip the script. Now all of
a sudden, the pressure start shifting to the Dodgers not
to f this thing up and have to go back
to a Game five in Philadelphia, even though they won
two there, to have to win with that ragtag bullpen
to go back to the Delaware Valley.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So it's really just a one game thing.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
The Phillies win, and then all of a sudden things
change around quite a bit, and it's like the Phillies
found their pulse, and you don't want them to find
their pulse because you know what that means there and
now it is a faint pulse. Even if they win,
it's a faint pulse. And all that stuff, But this
is all about execution. That's always about execution. And the
Stars haven't been better in the moment. And it's not
like Otani, he was not good in Game one on
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the mound or at the plate, and you know better
here although not great. And the Philly Stars, though, they're
the ones that have failed to shine the brightest now
turning the patriot. As far as the Dodgers are concerned,
the question here is, and I was getting peppered with.
I don't go on social media much, but people in
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my real world, you know, not the fake people in
social media, but the real people were.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Like, oh, you were wrong about the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
They're up for nothing. I was getting I looked at
my phone. I was like, oh boy, you're an idiot.
Suddenly those people stop sending me text messages. When the
Dodgers bullpen came in, there the parade of the losers,
the parade of terribles.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
There, but the Dodgers didn't win.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So have the Dave Roberts Dodgers now two and ohero
in the NLDS? Have they solved their bullpain blues at Schufvezravine.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So I am shaking my head.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
No, if you're watching on the YouTube feed there and
if not, you can watch it later Ben Mahler Show
at Ben Maler Show on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I'm going to that is.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What's called a WT situation. Wishful thinking is what that is.
The Dodgers are exactly who we thought they were. And
if you want to crown them, crown their ass right.
They've got a bunch of star power, but there's a
soft underbelly. They're Superman with kryptonite. We know what the
kryptonite is. You poke him in the.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Gut and it jiggles. Jack Jackal Jagal. That's a bullpin.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Dave Roberts and boy, you talk about Roberts came this
close to being kicked out of LA if they had
blown that gid. Dave Roberts got cute right now the
front office. These guys are the smartest people in the room,
playing with matches and gasoline. That's the Dodgers right there.
Roberts try to get cute. I'm gonna bring in Blake Trining,
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Blake Who's head.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Die die diarrhea? For how many months?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I'm gonna bring in Blake Trining like he's gonna be
my secret weapon. Like it's two years ago and I'm
only bring Blake Trining in there, and instead he was diffuse.
That sparked the Phillies comeback. And the only reason Roberts
isn't being tarred and feathered right now is because the
Dodgers held on and won and he gets a mulligan
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because that's how it works, and the box score says
at W and so the fact that it was systemic
incompetence by again, Roberts is just the middle manager. We
know he's not really doing anything that the front office
doesn't want. But deep down, the Dodger fan, the real
Dodger fan, they know the truth. Right that bullpen they
are the flying will lend us that's a data reference,
but go with it all right. Every night they are
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wobbling on a tight rope over the Grand Canyon, just waiting,
waiting to slip on that wire. And there's no net, right,
there's no net, And you can feel it coming right now. Listen,
there's a great shape against the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
For now.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You hear the music and you see the balancing pole
kind of shaking a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
The ween gusts up there. Those middle relievers come in
the era explodes. So I don't think anything's been sold
because my position was the they're pitching starting pitchers in
the bullpen and they're avoiding the actual bullpen.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It's that bad.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
They actually agree with that. The Dodgers agree with me.
They say, you know what, Mallory, you're right. Our relievers blow.
It's the starters we got to bring in. And yet
even in this game they got cute. And so the
Dodger bullpen has an underlying condition, all right, they do.
It's a nightly death defying stunt. Hide the women, hide
the children. Dave Roberts is the guy who's he didn't
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have a safety net and the only safety news to
bringing these starters. And then even he didn't, he didn't
bring Sazaki in and he messed around with that. All right, now, quickly,
last thing, we go to Milwaukee, the other half of
the bracket in the National League, where if you turn
on the game very early, the Cubs had an early lead.
They're up three to nothing over the Brewers, and then
they had to play the rest of the game. Andrew
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Vaughan and Jackson Turio each shiit three run home runs,
and William Contreras also a solo shot. The Brewers not
known for their home run power, but they on this
day they did get it done.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
There.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
They come back down three to nothing, the brew Crew
get a seventy three win, and now they are one
win away.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
From a rematch.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
This was a rematch in the NLCS about seven eight
years ago, Dodgers and the Brewers, and the series now
shifting to Wrigley Field for Game number three. That'll be
on Wednesday as well. The better story in the loser's
locker room. So who gets to eat the blame cheese kurds?
Because you're in Wisconsin for the Cubs who lost to
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the Brewers. So this one's easy. It's Imanaga showed it
to him. Naga, the starting pitcher here for the Cubs,
the ace, who I believe watching this game and I
was slipping back and forth from the Monday night game
in this game, but watching him, he melted faster than
some fresh cheddar in an air fire on a hot pretzel.
Just melted, just absolutely melted. You jumped back to a
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three to nothing lead, and Suzuki hit a rocket early
on for the Cubs. You got, you know, feeling pretty
good right there. You're thinking, great, crowd's kind of buzzing
back home. There's a lot of cub fans in Milwaukee
because it's not that far away from Chicago. And everyone's excited.
I know our guy's tree, Eugene, you Foemi. They're all
fired up there and this you got your so called stopper.
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You got your number one picture on the mound there
and it was like a kid's birthday party pinata.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You get a hit, you get to hit.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Imanaga was in the captain's chair and he was writing
the Vomit Comet. He wrote the Vomit Comet and the
just completely helpless. The Brewers played Yatzi with Immenaga in
this game.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And so there you go. So here we are.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's October baseball. You need your ace, generally speaking, you
need your ace to go more than a couple of innings.
Eat some innings, be like Joey Chestnut and scarf down
all the hot dogs, the glizzy gobbler and no instead.
Imanaga was nibbling, he was sweating. He was pressing forty
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six pitches. You get a free nothing lead. Your ace
goes forty six pitches. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night,
and bye bye. See you later there. So another team
the Cubs says, somebody you said, hey, the Cubs are
just built different and all that. I don't see it.
That appears to be false advertising for the Cubs at
this point here. It does look more like they're built
for day games in May against the Pirates and not
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primetime in October. There and we'll talk more. I'm sure
if the Cubs do lose this on Wednesday about Craig Council,
and people will be celebrating the demise of Craig Council
as a Wisconsin guy. And he took the money and
went down to Chicago to coach the Cubs and his team.
The Cubs are getting pantsed right now by his old team.
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So the Brewers look very relaxed. Why wouldn't. You're up
to nothing in the series. The Cubs look a little constipated.
There's some pill you can take.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
There's a pill.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
There's also a drink that you can take to get
rid of that here. But Council he left for the money,
so it's not like if it is really worried he
was with State of Milwaukee. He left because he got
a bag from Chicago, became the highest paid management in baseball,
and that's the same thing you would have done. I
would have done, we all would have done. Not worried
about winning. He's in I can win in Chicago, he's
in the playoffs. He's like, yeah, find the Brewers can win.
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But I'm still getting paid and I can you get
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Speaker 1 (25:24):
Shane into Moin writs and says, if you had ten
thousand dollars of funny money to put on Seattle versus Detroit.
In Detroit, where would your money go back in your pocket?
If you gave me ten thousand dollars, I would immediately
invest that money and not I would not bet that money.
(25:47):
I would invest that money, maybe going to a nice
vacation or something like that.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The matchup tonight You've got Logan Gilbert and Jack Flaherty
actually do like the Mariners just in that just based
on that matchup, you like the marinor the Mariners are
favored in that game, and they are getting most of
the money. So the sharps are on the Mariners, whatever
that's worth. And the public also in favor, although it's
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much more. The money's much bigger than the numbers we
have in favor of the Mariners in that game. That
is the early game, right, that's the early answer, four
o'clock eastern, one o'clock Pacific game. I believe that's accurate.
Logan Gilbert versus Jack Flaherty. And then you've got the
late game, which is at eight o'clock at Yankee Stadium,
and is this a funeral for the Yankees with Shane
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Bieber versus Carlos Rodon. The left handed Yankees are favorite
in that game, and they are getting most of the
the moulah in favor of them. Who else do we
Let's see page nin we'll skip over that. Let's see
here we've got mister Lucianos's nine point nine out of
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ten on the Mallard monologue.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He hate to admit it, but the Dodgers have a
great chance to win it all. Best of luck.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Mister Luciano, he says, fer dog says creepy love affair
with David Vesse aside the Blake Snell that Blake Stell
can sure pitch fun fact about Snell. He once said
he prefers grilled cheese sandwiches over tacos because they're not
as messy. Yeah, doesn't it look like Blake Snell hasn't
slept since like twenty fourteen or something, like he's got
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like large you know those things when you get the bubbles.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Of huge bags.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, yeah, Like I is that just.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Maybe that's just genetics that like everyone I don't know
his family tree, maybe everyone in his family's like that.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
They actually want to google this. I don't know what causes. Yeah,
I'm gonna look.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
At this because it's not very I mean, you know,
not that I'm checking out Blake Snell, but it's just
very it's hard not to notice, like he's got giant
bubbles and bags underneath his eyes.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
And once okay, so it says puffiness under the eyes
can be caused by factors like aging, obviously, eye infections,
thyroid disast you might have a thyro dress eyes strain,
and allergies. Oh, even hormonal changes.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Really, so maybe he's got a thyroid issue. You can
take some pills for that.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
And feel like me personally if that ever happened to me,
I would stick needles in the bags and pull out
all the.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Extra excess because that's where you live in Los Angeles.
So it's what people in LA do. They just yoke.
They just a little hole. Yes, exactly, that's an LA
do well.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
But I guess it's probably everywhere these days people are
doing that kind of stuff. King Roy writes in from Wisconsin,
says as a Brewers fan, it feels great beating up
the Cubs, but it will mean nothing if they don't
win the World Series. The obnoxious Cub fans, King Roy says,
we'll bring up twenty sixteen. If the Brewers fizzle out
in the playoffs in twenty twenty five, season will only
be remembered for free Burgers.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Freddie writes and says, as a Dodger fan, I will
admit that Bullpen does need a lot of work. I
was worry there in the final two innings, but was
a happy bro. I'm risking my life, had a great game.
Spocks weed on the Oregons trails very excited. He says, awesome,
the vomit comet has been observed over the friendly skies
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there of Milwaukee, along with the super moon. Now Derek,
the Bill's Monster, the Hacker in Buffalo writes, and he says, Hey, Mallard,
great monologue, Pure radio gold. There's always quick question though,
when's the NHL Preview Hour? And what days the Big
College basketball breakdown show? Got to plan my life accordingly? Yeah,
(29:36):
or you just keep listening. In any moment we could
break out into hockey, and any moment, I don't want
to invade in my former colleague Eddie Garcia, who does
like seven hockey podcasts.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I mean, that's his domain. I don't want to interrupt
his domain. My lips on it. Yeah, so he's literally
he loves hockey so much.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Put my stick right in your mouth. You know, some
people use like a jolly Roger, or he use a
candy like a mint. He sucks on a hockey puck.
It's Eddie, and a lot of people don't know that
about Addie, but he he loves hockey so much. He
has a little hockey puck and that is his candy,
and he loves the taste of it.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I don't know. I don't know why college basketball. I
just checked my notes.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Derek the Bill's Monster, part of Bill's Mafia, So I
checked my notes, and college basketball season starts. Yes, Election
Sunday is in early March, so we got some time.
We got a little bit of time before college basketball. Yeah, super,
Marcus Steeve says, I haven't heard you apologize to Mookie
(30:37):
Betcher Blake still.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And I'm proud of you for not at the moment
you were right.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
I would argue that you're just as responsible for their
success as that second half in the second half of
the season as Vassa was for kissing their ass when
they suck. Well, you're right, there is no need to apologize.
And that lunatic bus driver Roberto.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
You apologize to Mookie? Yeah, what a dope? All right?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Come on, As I have pointed out, we have a
daily talk show to do. We have a talk show
every night. We have to do a talk show and
we give opinions in real time. And even if I
don't win the World Series, it does not change the
fact that I was right that Blake Snell. I mean,
it's embarrassing these they sell regular season season ticket packages,
and most of these guys, in terms of the starting pitching,
(31:25):
they don't show up for three or four months during
the regular season. Mookie Betts was there and didn't show
up for three or four months of the regularzation. So
I have a daily touch show. I don't wait until
the end. So if I what am I supposed to
not comment on the malfeasons of the Dodgers during the
regular season, that they underachieved by twelve games from where
they were supposed to be the win projection in Vegas
to what they actually won during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Ben, Yeah, no, bad news, my fat ass.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Anyway, Eloy from Compton says, good call, Big Ben not
starting the show with some or starting the show rather
with some baseball talk. No one wants to hear about
my pathetic ass. Kansas the Chiefs crapping their pants. Well,
we'll get to that. That was outstanding and that's good,
good gift of what they did there. Yeah, that was
that was pretty solid there. Yeah, let's see what else
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do we have. Let's see page down. I can't read that.
Gil in San Diego says, I am so sick of Lebron.
Now we have to listen to his narcissistic second decision.
I can't wait for him to be gone. Kobe came
to the Lakers on Draft Night, played twenty seasons, gave
us five titles. He and Magic are the most beloved
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Lakers ever. Lebron isn't even close.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah not. Somebody's email me, You're gonna do a monologue
about Lebron's decision. No, I'm not. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
He'll he's gonna whether he announces he's retiring. I wouldn't
be shocked if Lebron's like, I'm endorsing some new product
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I wouldn't be shocked if that's it. Knowing Lebron like
there was some partnership with somebody.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Is gonna be some announcement coming down on Tuesday from Lebron,
and it'll likely happen while I'm sleeping. I'll wake up,
I'll react to it, and we'll go on with my life.
I'm not going to stop my life, and I don't
know anyone else is either. It'd be great if he
just retired, don't do a retirement toward just say you
know what. I went to training camp, and I just
the idea of playing with DeAndre Ayton. It makes me
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want to puke in my mouth and I don't.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Want to play.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I'm out, I'm done. I just want to pass the
baton to Luca and that's it. And Gil, you'd be
okay with that in San Diego. And so I all right,
it's go to the phones. A slo to the sports genius.
Who's in LA?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
What's up? Sports genius? Welcome?
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Well, well here we are again big bands. Like I
always say, fake ball is a matter of look mixed
with a little bit of skill, mix with a little
bit of mojo. And we don't know if Dave Roberts
has the mojo, but he's surrounded by a lot of
high end players with a high payroll. Bail them out
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all the time on that freaking dugout because our bullpen
is sketchy to say the least. But ken Dave Roberts
manage that sketchy bullpen. That's the question every Dodger fan
I know has. They're like, fourth genius, what do you think?
And I said, I think I need to call Bill
Mallard and.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Talk this over with him, because he knows more about baseball.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Than all of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
That's right, man, that's right exactly. Well, here's what the
Dodgers do. It's a great stretchy. If you have a
five run lead or four run lead, they're fine. If
it's a one run lead and they've got to go
through multiple relief pitchers, they're cooked.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I agree, that's the way I look at I don't
think there's any of us.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And I like the fact that the Dodgers are giving
me take validation by bringing in all these starting pitchers
and the relief pitchers are not using and they look
they use relief pitchers in this game. Well, Blake Trining
came in there and puked all over the mound. But
they brought in starting pitching and that's what. But that's
the way to go because those guys at least don't
have a track record of failure abject failures like the
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relief pitchers for the Dodge.
Speaker 9 (35:08):
Well, what do you think about Rokis Sasaki and Yamamoto?
Speaker 8 (35:12):
I mean those guys, I like both of them.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I also like Showhey, but I don't know if they're
gonna if they're gonna rotate him more on the mound
or they're gonna use his bat more than anything.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Well, listen, Yo Yamamoto's great. He's been wonderful. I don't
know what you want me to say. He's been great.
He should be wonderful on Wednesday. But the problem is,
you know, Aaron Nola's pitching for the Phillies. He's pretty good,
So it's gonna be you'd think, a close game and
then you're gonna get into the seventh eighth inning, you're
gonna have to go to your bullpen. So are you
gonna go to relief pitchers? You're gonna bring in starting pitching.
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I would bring in starting pitching. I would just run
through all my other leftover starting pitchers. I think that's
what they're playing anyway, that's what they're gonna do because
everyone knows the bullpen, the actual real relief pitchers are
incompetent and they can't get it done.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
So anyway, well, I said, it's so really good to
go to Philly and we have those cheese steaks down
their throats with those freaking weird old fans over there
and all their little fanatics or whatever they got, and
they think they're intimidating to the Dodgers. Are they had
other freaking minds? Have they seen our Dodgers. We got
Mookie Bets, we got Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
We've had I mean, so we got shoe Hail Tamie.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Are they another freaking Philadelphia cheese steak eating mines?
Speaker 8 (36:21):
We're not gonna intimidate the Blue Crew.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Well, they clearly did not. All right, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Thank you the sports genius there, quick call there from
these sports genius. It is the Ben Mallor Show, and
we'll have the play of the day that'll be coming
up here momentarily. Time now though, for the Whoemi game,
and despite being a nemesis of the show, Dodgers pitcher
Blake Snell now has four career postseason addings with at
least nine strikeouts and two or few hits aloud. Turns
(36:48):
out that is the most by any pitcher in postseason history.
Who Blake Snell broke a tie with me?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Again?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Blake Snell now has four career postseason addings with at
least nine strikeouts and two or fewer hits allowed, the
most by any pitcher in post's history.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Snell breaking a tie with me? Who am I? That's
the question? The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do
it next.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
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Speaker 1 (37:17):
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We are glad you have chosen to hang out with
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Speaker 2 (37:44):
Everyone a little.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Nicer that the bots are a little nicer than on X.
You can see the behind the scenes chaos, hot takes,
and all kinds of other madness. Wait there support the circus.
The tent never closes ever. Sounds of hollering James, right,
there is the Ben Maler Show. Time now though, for
(38:08):
the play of the day. Do we have the player
that they ready to go?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Do we have this all?
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Let's see what do you think the player is? All right?
Let's go Trevor Lawrence here. Let's set this up.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
So Kansas City leading late in the game, under two
minutes ago in Jacksonville. The Jags had the ball and
he needed a touchdown down by four points, needed a touchdown,
and Trevor Lawrence on his birthday, stepped up.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Would he score touchdown or would he not? Let's find out.
Trevor under center, pay slip and he fell down. Trevor
fell down on the play up if I got kick on.
Speaker 9 (38:57):
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Speaker 2 (39:00):
Ahead, an orgasm on the air.
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(39:23):
More on the full moon, straight ahead. Time Now for
the who am I game? Dodger pitcher Blake Snell, I
am playing unless I get mine? Bro now has four
career postseason addings with at least nine strikeouts and two
or fewer hits allowed. That's the most by any picture
in postseason history. Snell broke a tie with me. Who
am I that is the question.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
What is the answer? Art the clown? Just by mister Luciano.
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (39:48):
The sports genius from malor property. Oh look, you got
a photo of the sports genius right there.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
How'd you do that?
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Ritman says, how about Hot Mariner talk Alfred Hitchcock from
Bobby in Florida?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Who knows we're all the good? Key lin Pie is
Scrooge is in the Younger demo.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
He's going with that old baseball player for the Pittsburgh
Pirates from the nineteen thirties named Johnny dick Shott. Who
else do we have, Mike Wit, give me a little
taste of that Miguel on fire? That's his answer, Mike Wit,
Who else do we have? Not gonna even say the
name for mister Niske, I don't know how to pronounce it.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Who else? Page down?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Mickey Lulwich from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Fam he's going
with Trevor Lawnce.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
What say you, young Frankenstein?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Young Frankenstein, Well this is old Frankenstein because he's got
two different colored eyeballs. How about Max Schurzer. Max Schurzer
was the answer, sureser. He choked with the Dodgers to
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