October 1, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Dodgers blowing out the Reds in Game 1 and if this counts as a statement victory, if Aaron Boone deserves to be charbroiled for the Yankees loss to the Red Sox, other takeaways from the Wild Card round, and more!
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Tucson Baseball. Does this win against Cincinnati last night count
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as a statement victory for the Dodgers? Also thumbs upper,
thumbs down? Does Aaron Boone deserve to be char broiled
for his decision to take Max Freed out of a
game the Yankees bullpen would go on to blow against
the Red Sox. And what are some of the other
takeaways from the game ones between the Cubs and the
Podres and the Cleveland team formerly known as the Indians
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as they took on the Detroit baseball team formerly known
as the Tigers. We'll talk about all of those storylines
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many personalities, and we'll start out in Los Angeles. It
was the wild Card Round. It was an all day situation,
starting at one o'clock eastern ten am on the West coast,
baseball action all the way into the wee hours of
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the night. Well actually we're on in the wee hours
of the night. But the Wildcard Round we had games
starting in Cleveland. There were four games, two in the
American League, two in the National League. Baseball action underway,
and so we'll start with the last game. I don't
know if you saw it or not. It ended not
that long ago. Perhaps you were not watching, if you
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had something else going on. I don't know, but don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to. I wasted
an entire day of my life watching these Wildcard games.
So anyway, now, show hey, Otani, show, I'll be bet
on two home runs. Otani and Tao Hernandez each had
two home runs. And that schmuck Blake smell a Snell
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who smells Blake Snell fits seven innings of quality ball.
The Dodgers molly wopped the reds Now. The final score
was ten to five. The Dodgers was the perfect game
for the Dodgers because it was a ten to five game.
They were up. It was ten to two at one point,
and they allowed the Reds to get some runs. There.
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More on that in a second. But the wildcard game
game one, it's best of three. Remember, so if you
win the first game, you only have to win one
of the next two and you have advanced into the
divisional round of the playoffs. These Fugasey playoffs, they added
some extra teams years ago, and they continued to do that.
So let us discuss question. Does this domination count as
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a statement victory for the Dodgers? All right, so on
this one, I've got windmills, dirty water, and ringworm, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some soggy ballpark nachos. So I
opened up my my inbox, which is a you know,
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generally a mistake to open up the EMFO. I finally
had to block someone who just was harassing me via email,
just a loser. So I blocked that. Finally able to
get through my email, which is good, and I was
getting the huh, you're gonna apologize, Ben? You see the
Dodgers a big deregive apologize. Yeah, A bunch of Andrews
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and baker Field in Bakersfield, out there doing this not
just so hey. To answer the question, does this count
as a statement win? The Dodgers getting ten runs, fifteen hits,
never in any real danger against the Cincinnati Reds in
Game one of the Wildcard Round, My answer is three words, no, no,
and no. That's my answer. All right, stop it just stop?
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Is it amateur hour? Is that what we're doing now?
It's not a statement that was a formality. That was
a formality. When you're the heavyweight champion of the World,
the raining World Series champion, and you're walking and here's
the Dodge is walking in to the ring, and the
Reds in this matchup are glass Joe. That's who the
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Cincinnati Reds are. They're glass Joe. They're playing with house money.
The Reds are not even supposed to be here. The
only reason that got in is because the Mets blow
and lost their final game against the Marlins. So you're
supposed to land a bunch of haymakers, and the Dodgers did.
It's the equivalent of announcing to the world I've won
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the Masters. WHOA I won the Masters? All right? And
then you look at the details you're like, well, you
won the Masters, but it was at a pitch and
putt course and there were lots of windmills and fake volcanoes.
Whoop de damn do congratulating like the Dodgers are the
gambling favorites here. They have a roster that is a
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galactic empire type roster when you look at the payroll
and who they've got. If anything, though, this was the
perfect kind of a night if you're doing talk radio.
Because the Dodgers won. I don't want the Dodgers to lose.
I like them to win. I don't think they have
any chance going forward with the way this team is
set up because they have a fatal flaw and they
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don't avoid the fatal flaw. The underlying condition popped up
in this game, so that will could it pop up
if you didn't watch The game was ten to five
Dodgers one. They were never really in any danger but
that bullpen. If they were a professional arrest of the bullpen,
their name would be el Stinko, the Dodger bullpen. They
walked in two runs. They have no balls. The Dodger
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bullpen has no ball. They're afraid to throw strikes when
they have an eight run lead. What the f is
wrong with those losers? You walked in two runs in
the eighth inning, two different relief pitchers. The game was
already over at that point, and the bullpen said, wait,
don't forget about us. Here we are. That is the
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soft underbelly. That is the soft underbelly. That is the
leaky faucet of the Dodgers. That's dripping that Your water
bill's so high because that bullpen that is the weak spot.
It is glaring. It is absolutely glaring. And so you
know what's coming up. The winner of this series is
gonna take on the Philadelphia Phillies. If you look at
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your playoff bracket, yeah, there's actually a playoff bracket. The
winner will take on the Philadelphia Phillies in the next round.
And if you're the Phillies, all right, that's working. We'll
find out whether or not this continues or not. We'll
find out whether or not these guys actually grow a
spine and grow some balls and get hair on their
chest and all that stuff in the next round. But
the Dodgers look like a really hollow team, a hollow bunny.
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The Dodgers, right, it is shiny and pretty on the
outside looks all good. You bite into it and you're like,
oh man, that sucks, Whereas I thought that was solid chocolate.
You know. In the Phillies, good luck on. You know,
the Phillies are legit that offense. But again, Cincinnati, it's
like a scrimmage. It's like a scrimmage. You play Cincinnati
batting practice. The real test will be when you've got
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Bryce Harper there and you've got Kyle Schwarber hitting bombs
and all that and doing his thing. That's the real test.
And we'll see if the Dodgers end up being again
like the chocolate bunny that's hollow, or or if they're
actually a brick house as the old song goes there.
But Game one of the Dodgers and Reds it I
call it a water works game. What does that mean?
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It means the Dodgers' offense was the fire hose, So
that's the water on that side. But then the bullpen
was the drippy, leaky faucet, and so that's the other side,
as we pointed out, And it's nothing more than that.
It's just you know, they can still lose the next
two games. That shouldn't They shouldn't lose one game to
the Reds, but you can't get a state in victory,
like I don't understand, like the mind sid you guys
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were such you were trying to troll me so hard.
You know who you are, who sent me the emails?
You know you are. You're trying to bust my balls
that you didn't even factory in the opponent. You played
a bunch of little leaguers, the Cincinnati Reds here, and
you came in there and your arsenate arsonist in the
bullpen came in there facing a bunch of Cincinnati hitters,
and we're afraid to throw strikes right, And now you
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got later on, assuming you don't screw this thing up,
You've got the Phillies and the lumber company from Philadelphia.
Good luck in a bandbox of a ballpark, all right. Now,
turning the page, we had Yankees and Red Sox. Yankees
and Red Sox. Garrett Crochet getting her done there for
the Red Sox. He had seventeen consecutive batters retired. I
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didn't play professional baseball. I'm told that's good. When you
get seventeen consecutive batters out, I'm told that's good. And
it was a s performance as he had last shine
here at Crochet in that one. And then it was
a pinch hitter Masataka Yoshida who lined a two run
ribby single off the woe begone Yankee reliever Luke Weaver. Well,
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that guy sucks u and that was the big hit there.
The Red Sox get past the Yankees three game, three
to one the finals. So it's game one. All these
games played at Yankee Stadium there and so we'll see
how this goes here. But the game had some dramatics
there late as the Red Sox led three to one,
he saw it. New York loaded the bases single single single,
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had the bases loaded, nobody out down two a raw.
This Chapman on the mound, all star closer, former Yankee,
longtime multi time Yankee, Raldis Chapman, and he was able
to get out of the jam, did not give up
a run despite single single single. The start things here.
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So Boston improves now. But another win against the Angle,
I think ten and four versus the Yankees there and
there need one more win, one more win to advance.
But the better story, you know where, that's right, The
better story is in the losing locker room, and so
that is where we are going to go in the story.
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Everyone is talking about here the decision. Was it made
by Aaron Boone? Was it made by Dorksville, USA and
the Bronx? Who knows? But well, Game two is later
on on Wednesday night. We must go back and focus
on what happened as the Yankees and Red Sox the
the better story in the losing locker room. So the
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big moment was when Aaron Boone decided to pull Max Freed,
who was pitching a masterpiece. Masterpiece. Now again, this is
something I know. I'm gonna date myself with my generation.
I grew up like this was playoff baseball, great pitchers.
This is why you have great starting pitching. You let
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them go out there and just deal. And it's a
different style of play in the playoffs. I don't know.
Now we're heading into October. This was the last day
of September on Tuesday. But my god, it's so stupid.
So Aaron Boone decides to pull Max Freed, who was
pitching a great game. He had pitched I believe, six
and a third shutout innings of baseball, and he had
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thrown one hundred and two pitches. So I guess his
arm was going to be amputator if he threw one
hundred and three pitches. They were going to have to,
literally right on the mount at Yankee Stadium, front of
all the men, women and children, cut his arm off.
Just tragedy if he had thrown one hundred and third pitch.
So they took him out. And here is Aaron Boom.
You hear the question and the answer here as he
was asked about the big decision that blew up in
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his face. Take a liss, Aaron. Maxfreed was dealing tonight.
What was the thought process behind taking them out to
go on the end? There? With nobody on and one
out in the seventh.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
They pressured him pretty good in the fourth, fifth, sixth.
You know, I had a couple of bits each inning,
so I felt like he kind of cruised through the
first few, and obviously he ends up pitching great, but
I felt like he had to work pretty hard, and
I was gonna have the six b at the end.
But once we got the double we finished with the
double play, I wanted to go out and get Duran
and then felt like we were lined up all right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So there's the quote from mister Boone. But jeez, it's
like the Yankees are the East Coast Dodgers and then
the Dodgers of the West Coast Yankees. It's the same
bull crap. It is the same prepackaged bull crap. It's
listening to Aaron Boone is like listening to Dave Roberts.
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It's fascinating. It's just wild, all right. So Max Freed
was asked about all this. Max Fried was asked if
he had more left to give on the mound after
one hundred and two pitches. He said, well, here's what
he said, Tiglas, Max, I definitely.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Felt felt good at the end. Yeah, you know, coming out,
coming out feeling.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Good, would you have liked to have stayed in longer?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I mean, I'm I'm gonna stand until I get the
ball taken from me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm you know, I want, I want to pitch.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
As long as I possibly can, and uh, you know,
when when the ball gets taken out of my hands.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is you know that's where it was? Next?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Did you feel like you had more left?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, I mean I definitely felt I felt good.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I felt like, I, you know, whatever, whatever the team needed.
All right. So that was Max Freed. I think I
was somebody was talking about here, but I think he
said at the end there I had enough in the
tank that that was one of the quotes that I
saw bouncing around. I had enough in the tank, he said.
I felt good. We heard that in the SoundBite. So question,
thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down?
Does Aaron Boone deserve to be char broiled? Char broiled
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for this lost taking Max Fred out against the Yankees.
So I'm gonna go two thumbs way up, two thumbs
way up on this one. Go to it. Aaron Boone
should be cooked, not charbrooth. I know that's too extreme.
That's too extreme. Aaron Boone should be cooked like a
dirty water dog. You know you're in New York, those
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dirty water dogs in that disgusting water at the hot
dog stands there. Yeah, that should be cooked like a
dirty water dog. Aaron Boone. Max freedz out there like
Picasso on the mound, and you're like, ah, you know what,
we have this luxury brand. We've gone over to Madison Avenue.
We've got a two thousand dollars Gucci suit on Madison Avenue,
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and we don't need that suit anymore. We've worn that suit.
So why don't we go down to the discount been
at Walmart and we'll put Luke Weaver in in a
playoff game. Playoffs. Yeah, that's your twenty twenty five Yankees
in a nutshell right there. They have become a parody
of themselves, much like the Dodgers. Right The Yankees, in
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their own way, have become a parody of themselves. There.
You don't manage a game anymore. It's been this way
for years. I still complain about it. You just follow
the prompts on your iPad. You just follow the prompts.
Green button pull, Max Freed done, a red button, Bring
in Luke Weaver. Press that button. Boom, Luke Weaver comes
in and then the shocker, the red Sox tee off
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on Luke Weaver. Who could have seen that coming. Just
another case, just another example of the revenge of the nerds,
the IVY League dwebs who have taken over this invasive
species in baseball that have taken over, who are playing
fantasy baseball just like they were back in the in
the Ivy League, crunching numbers and all that stuff, and
now they're calling the shots at a bunch of major
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league teams. This happens to be the Yankees there in
the Bronx, and they think that relief pitchers and starting
pitchers are just like you know what, they're like. They're
like apps. You just close the Max Freed app and
then you open the Luke Weaver app and it's just
a different app. That's all it is. It's like some
kind of Microsoft word thing they've got going on. And
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then but happens to be a wild card playoff game
and it blows up in your face and it just
blows me away because they never factor in the human element.
They never fact in well, some guys are better in
the moment than others. Some guys tighten up, get tight,
took a syndrome, as we like to call it. There
ride the vomit comet. And they don't ever factor that in.
They don't factor that in because there's no way to
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measure that stuff. That's that's a real manager that has
you know, has some houtzpah, that knows his players. They
don't fact they could. Dave Roberts doesn't do that with
the Dodgers, neither does Aaron Boone. They don't They don't
do that. It's geeked them. Geeked them, USA is what
it is. And Aaron Boone sitting there in that dugout
smiling like a sock puppet, just smiling right there. He
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is a sock puppet. The front office, what do they do?
They tug the strings and he's just you know, he's like,
he's like a bobblehead. He just shakes his head. Yes,
that's the Aaron Boone bobblehead in the dugout. And he's
become like a tenured professor, Aaron Bode. He's either too
dumb or too soft, or a little bit of both
to ever push back on anything. And Max Freed is
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just I'd rather have Max Freed at pitch one oh three.
He's better at pitch one o three than ninety ninety
five percent of the relief pitchers. But alas did not happen,
the Nerds medal again, and the Yankees are on the
brink of elimination. The Red Sox need one more win.
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Probably should win Game two though, because I don't even
know who's starting Game three for the for the Red Sox,
as somebody I've never heard of. So the Red Sox
halfway to advancing now quickly the last word here, the
last word. So, what are some of the other takeaways?
There were two other games that were not featuring here.
What were some of the other takeaways from game number
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one of the wild Card round here? So Saya Suzuki
a big time home run. This shit go Cups get
her done three to one over the Podreys at Wrigley
Field in game one of that particular series there. Now,
I loved watching Fernando Tatisse go zero for four for
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the pod squad. How great was that? You know what
he needs? He needs a special shipment of ringworm medication
because he's really good. When he's got the ring worm medication,
he gets like fourteen year contracts. How about Manny Machado, Yeah,
good old Manny playoff Manny Machado, Oh for three for
the Padres and that pop gun podre offense. Now they
if you go back, they've now mustered one run in
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their last thirty three postseason innings. I'm told that's not good.
I'm told that's not good. And what happened to the
the belly gazing Podrays didn't play with that swagger, did
not have that swagger all right me in Cleveland. Another
dominating pitching performance, Trek Scouogble tying the postseason record with
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fourteen strikeouts four strikeouts. The Tigers beat up the I
say beat up. They beat the Guardians, dude one. Although
watching the Guardians play offense, holly crap, do they suck?
My god? How did they come back? The fact that
they were able to outplay the Tigers the last month
of the year and win the division's fascinating. This is
one of the worst offensive teams of all time to
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make the plowseason. In my opinion, it's a fact here
and the I mean the Guardians, and they're not bad offense,
they're historically bad. In fact, in this game they were
been draggled. The Guardians got out of thirty three played appearances,
four balls left the infield, four out of thirty three,
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four out of thirty three. Hodgepodge of nothingness. The Cleveland
Guardians there and you kind of expected it. That to
twenty six batting average, the worst all time, the worst
batting average of all time for a playoff team, not
counting the shortened pandemic season, and also the worst on
base percentage ever for a playoff team. The Cleveland Guardians
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and the lowest slugging percentage going all the way back
to nineteen eighty eight. So that's that's a long time. Now,
what does all this mean? Game one winner, Game one winner,
small sample sized Game one winner, Wildcard Round. They have
advanced in all twelve all twelve of the Wildcard series,
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ten of them have been sweeps. So based on that,
the Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, and Dodgers are in really
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I'm in the doghouse art. We'll get to that, but
some playoff baseball right now, everyone's loving it. Roberto the
bus driver rights in. He used to work here, but
he left for the riches of bus driving. He is
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very confident the Dodgers are going to win twelve more
games now. Roberto upset. I was texting Roberto I don't
go on social media much anymore except for the show.
But I do text people. I know that, you know,
I'm old people I used to work here, which is
a lot of my friends used to work here. They
don't work here anymore. They've moved on to other things,
or people I worked with at other places. And Roberto,
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I was texting him. I was like, this dodge of
bullpen sucks. He's, oh, oh, they're going. But I think
Roberto was like like a case into Medello or something.
I don't know what he was doing, but he was.
He's so confident. I was like, dude, what is wrong
with you? He was annoying me. And and the thing
that really upset me about Roberto, and I know I
shouldn't gives up on this. He was with me. He
was he was my guy as my engineer when the
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whole Blake Snell thing happened, and during the pandemic, I
ain't playing unse I got mine, bra I'm risking my
live braw, you know, the whole thing like that, How
stupid he looked what a schmuck, what a schmucky was
and and you know all the drops that we played
for years, we don't really play them anymore. But Roberto
was like, he played those and now he's like, I
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love Blake Snell. What's wrong with you? Shame on you.
Spos Weed rides in. He's deep down the Oregon Trail
and he says, well, a class Joe takes me back.
The first opponent you have in Mike Tyson's punch out. Yeah,
that's why I brought him up, he says. Spos Weed says,
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I stuffed envelopes for that game as a temp after
getting fired from my first job post college at a
toy store. That's tough. You're not the only one that's
lost a gig at a toy store. You can remember
weed Man Hippie, the famous weed Man Hippie ended up
losing everything at a toy store. Barbecuing Lynn disagrees with
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the male monologue at the top of the hour. He says,
you are wrong about the Dodger's bullpen. He says, barbecuing
Lynn claims that they have a set of balls for
every batter, two sets, in fact, for every batter for four.
Take your base. That's not wrong. Nature boy rights, since
says the Reds backed into the wild card. The Dodgers
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should have had a bye with that lineup. What if
one of the stars gets injured and a meaningless game
in a meaningless thing, Well, you can play the what
if game if you want, Like nature Boy, what if
the Dodger bullpen actually pitches like they're supposed to pitch,
at least their baseball reference page says they're going to pitch,
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and they actually dom An eighteen. Do the what if game? Now? Jill,
long suffering Yankee fan, I say, long suffering. It's been
way back to nine. The last time the Yankees won
the World Series was nine. I was barely alive in
O nine. Oh my god, poor Jill. Uh and she's upset.
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Fat Daddy says, great baseball monologue to start the postseason.
You're right, big Ben, the Reds are pathetic. They don't
deserve to be in the wild Card. They haven't done nothing.
They're under man Yeah, David writes, And you're very optimistic,
big fan of the show. David says, So this guy
Mallard and his team are highly underrated. He said he's
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made a career out of the overnight shift. But he
says Fox used to have Greg Guttfeld in the late
shift on Red Eye. He moved in there, he's now
number one. There you go. So a great idea, David.
If somebody wants to pay me lots and lots of
money and overpay me, I'm right there. I'm sign me
up for that. Jill the Yankee fan says the current
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mood is I think she's going deaf con one. I
believe Jill's going deaf con one on the Yankees. The
nature one rights in again. He says, I would have
left Max freed in that game Ben until he reached
two hundred pitches, just like the old school Warriors back
in the day. And then he points out that in
a random July game in the nineteen sixties at Candlestick Park,
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a pitcher named Juan Marischal, a legend of that era,
pitched sixteen innings two hundred and twenty seven pitches. Warren
Spawn pitched two hundred and one pitches wow, in that game,
fifteen and a third innings of baseball there. And it
is interesting to know. I was having some conversations in
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the hallways here. We were talking about pitch counts, and
it's it's one of these things about round numbers, and
I don't want to give you a full rant because
ferg Doog will yell at man. I don't want ferk
dog to yell at me, because he's heard this a
lot now will be upset with me. I don't want alpha.
But I pointed out that this fascination we have with
round numbers, it's something that human beings have. We love
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round numbers. People really get excited about one hundred. They
don't get excited about ninety nine. You think you're getting
a better deal. It's like the price of gas, right,
they think you're getting a better deal because it's it's
ninety nine at the end there you think, well, this
is great, I'm getting a wonderful deal. It's just this
little mind hacked. We all have it. You know, we're
all built the same way, right in different backgrounds or whatever.
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The genetics are the same on that. And they decided,
and again this is the nerd stuff, like again, I
can just bash nerds. And they decided that one hundred
pitches that's it. And Max Freed had pitched one hundred
and two pitches, and again, if he'd gone to one
hundred and three, they would have had to take a
surgeon right on the mount of Yankee Stadium they would
have had meatball surgery and literally had to cut his
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arm off, ah Nut, and it would have been a
tracked experience for everyone at Yankee Stadium. They would have
had to go to commercial, could not have shown it
on TV because literally a hundred and three pitches they
would have to cut his arm off. I think that
turned on and scared me. The other issue is that
while we're all cut out of the same basic cloth,
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there are some that are able to give you a
little more. I give you more, and it fascinates me.
I've been ranting on the same mountain. I don't know
if you can see me up on the peak of
the mountain, but I'm standing on top of the mountain.
I'm screaming down to the village that every great pitching
accomplishment in the postseason would be impossible today. Like whatever.
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I don't know how old you are, and I don't
know what your memory of baseball is, and we're all
different in that regard, but I have very fond memories
of epic pitching performances in the playoffs that would not
be allowed today out of an abundance of caution. Could
not do it, cannot do it, and it drives me insane.
It drives me insane because they have all the players
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are coddled more than they've ever been before. Man is it?
It's they've got personal chefs and trainers up the up
the tuk us, and they are coddled so much that
the players of the old generation were actually tougher. That
these are wusses, the modern athletes or us in baseball.
It's fascinating to me. It's wild. What else do we
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have this page?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Then?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I can't read that on their supermarket? Steve writes in
from Sokal. He says, I cannot wait for the Dick
and Dayton phone call. He says, I bet, I bet you.
He says that the Reds and the Guardians need to
pitch better, hit better, and play better defense. Congratulations Dick. Yeah,
I don't know we have that drop, Lorna. I know
you're kind of new here, but we had Dick and
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Dayton drop about what I think it was out the
Indians what they need to do to win. And he
pretty much just said that just you know, hit better
and play better defense and pitch better and uh and
that was pretty good. Dick's Keys the Winning Baseball from
Supermarket Steve not A Berner writes in he says, Tyreek,
He's talking about Tyreek Hill here away from the baseball stuff.
(32:05):
Says Tyreek seems to be very happy. He was seriously
hurt so he could finally be freed without demanding a trade.
He collapsed and screams yes and gives gratitude to the
Lord above. Not the usual mannerisms from a disappointed player
who just got injured. We will talk about Tyreek Hill.
Some wild quotes about Tyreek Hill. Paul writes in from Minnesota,
he says, Hey, Benjamin, big ben Mouth. I love the show.
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I listened every night from Minnesota my little black sony
portable radio. I love it. Old school, old school. You're
not on some app. You're not on the iHeart app
or any of that. You're doing it old school. King
Rory writes, and he says, since sports are entertainment and
entertainment is scripted, I believe Major League Baseball has picked
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the Chicago Cubs to win it all, says King Roy.
With recent events and the loss of a mega fan,
major League Baseball believes that a Cubs World Series victory
will help you night the country. Hey, heartwarming India, Eh,
people said the same thing. I remember back years ago
there was this major terrorist event in New York and
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in Pennsylvania, in Washington, DC, and they said the Yankees
are gonna win the World Series. Twenty oh one. Yankees
are gonna win the World Series. And I believe I'm
not mistaken. The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in Game
seven as Luis Gonzalez screwed everything up there, and that
was that. Let's see here, Ferg Dog says Ben. I
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think we have to admit Blake Snell doesn't suck. He's
a good pitcher, but he's an idiot. I wanted to
be the first in line to bash him, but he
won me over. Well, you're easily won over for Dog.
It's a bad job by you. Now, someone that was
not won over would be the All Star who's ended
up in the doghouse. Did you see that? Jazz Chisholm,
(33:52):
Junior of the New York Yankees, not in the starting
lineup for Game number one? Was not in the starting lineup.
Jazz was asked about that. He was visibly frustrated. He
had his back turned to reporters post game, and he
gave a dismissive interview. So problems for jazz chism problems
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in the Bronx. And here's the rub on this. The
problem is jazz. They did it because of the splits
and how jazz Chishlm is versus left handers versus right
right handers and all that. But a healthy jazz chism
an all star was benched. And they're saying Aaron Boone
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did it, but we know that Aaron Boone didn't do it,
that it was a decision made by the spreadsheet that
they looked at the ven diagram and all that, and
they said, okay, so we have Garrett Crochet and we
don't want to go We do not want to go
with with Jazz because he doesn't have good splits, so
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we'll go with the other guy. And so they went
with the other guy. And I believe Jazz Chisholm is
a free agent at the end of the playoffs. And
it is interesting to know he did sign a one
year contract with the Yankees this year. See the Yankees
Dodgers in Red Sox. You always need them to bid
on you. So and that's the rubb. He might have
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one more year of arbitration. There might be one more
year of arbitration, but I think he's coming up on
free agency. Might be wrong on them, but I think
it's either next this offseason or the following offseason for
Jazz Chism. It is the Ben Malich. We'll keep an
eye on that story. And it's not the first time.
It's not the last time a star player has been
benched for a playoff game. I remember when I was
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covering baseball regularly back in the day, there was a
famous player who had played for the Montreal Expos, who
was on the Dodgers and got benched for a playoff game.
And my god, did he get upset very surly interviewing
him after that playoff game, actually before the playoff game.
All right, time now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And this is where I pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it who am I? Game? So Blake snelled
Bright play less, I get my I'm risking my live braw.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Well, clearly, bro, I'm risking life there.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It is right there. Well clearly if I say, gave
him a good breakfast, because Blake Snell went out there
had nine strikeouts. Who this guy that does a Dodger
Propagander Show. But Blake Snell nine strikeouts, the second most
in LA Dodger history for a player making his first
postseason start with the Dodgers. I am the only LA
pitcher who to have more strikeouts in their first postseason
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game with the Blue Crew. Who am I? That's the
question to answer. We'll get to it and we will
do it next.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific Bill.
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who MI game. This is where we pretend to be
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somebody else. Let's we call it the who am I?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
In a blatant attempt who to convince you to listen
a little bit longer. So Blake Snell nine strikeout, second
most in Los Angeles Dodgers history for a player making
his first postseason start. I am the only LA pitcher
to have more in his first postseason game with the
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Blue Crow. So who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? Does anyone know? We go to
the great Unwashed here to find out, and Alf the
Alien opine A going with the iconic Jose Lima Lima time,
says alf Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota going with Jimmy
Durante unless it's not Ferg Dog, says future Angels Hall
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of Famer Ron Washington. Yes. And former Angels manager mister
nice guy going with Todd zeal As his answer to
Keo Spikes from Scrooge. He's part of the younger demo
in Northern California. Who else do we have? Page down?
Mister Irrigation's going with one of Hollywood's all time greatest
kit Keller, not the chunky third baseman. Who else? Charlie
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Bucket from King Rory? That's his answer. Robert Griffin. The
third guest by Shane in des Moines, Pedro Ostasio from
Rob in Minnesota. Not a bad name. Claude Ostein from
JJ Tortilla Mantoni, the iconic Mariano Duncan, who I got
a hit off of in a Dodger media game. Mariano Duncan.
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That's uh, he did not sponsor Duncan Donuts.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Let's see Benito. Long suffering cowboy fans says, the answer
is my pastor, Charlie Sheen Todd Todd Van Poppeo from
James Sandy Kovex. Guest by Steve Rick Honeysuckle from Gus
It's honeycut Loredo. Do you have an answer? I'm gonna
go with pee wee Reese. All right, No, that is incorrect.
Here's another fun name though. In La Dodger history. The
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most strikeouts in the playoff debut held by Tim Belcher.
Tim Belcher in nineteen eighty eight against the New York
Mets in the National League Championship Series Game two at
Shay Stadium.
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Tucson Baseball. Does this win against Cincinnati last night count
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as a statement victory for the Dodgers? Also thumbs upper,
thumbs down? Does Aaron Boone deserve to be char broiled
for his decision to take Max Freed out of a
game the Yankees bullpen would go on to blow against
the Red Sox. And what are some of the other
takeaways from the game ones between the Cubs and the
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is cool. We're allowed to talk baseball. We are allowed
to talk baseball the playoffs or underway. The flag is
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up and we're off to the races. We'll start out
our in depth team coverage, which is me and my
many personalities, and we'll start out in Los Angeles. It
was the wild Card Round. It was an all day situation,
starting at one o'clock eastern ten am on the West coast,
baseball action all the way into the wee hours of
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the night. Well actually we're on in the wee hours
of the night. But the Wildcard Round we had games
starting in Cleveland. There were four games, two in the
American League, two in the National League. Baseball action underway,
and so we'll start with the last game. I don't
know if you saw it or not. It ended not
that long ago. Perhaps you were not watching, if you
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had something else going on. I don't know, but don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to. I wasted
an entire day of my life watching these Wildcard games.
So anyway, now, show hey, Otani, show, I'll be bet
on two home runs. Otani and Tao Hernandez each had
two home runs. And that schmuck Blake smell a Snell
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who smells Blake Snell fits seven innings of quality ball.
The Dodgers molly wopped the reds Now. The final score
was ten to five. The Dodgers was the perfect game
for the Dodgers because it was a ten to five game.
They were up. It was ten to two at one point,
and they allowed the Reds to get some runs. There.
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More on that in a second. But the wildcard game
game one, it's best of three. Remember, so if you
win the first game, you only have to win one
of the next two and you have advanced into the
divisional round of the playoffs. These Fugasey playoffs, they added
some extra teams years ago, and they continued to do that.
So let us discuss question. Does this domination count as
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a statement victory for the Dodgers? All right, so on
this one, I've got windmills, dirty water, and ringworm, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some soggy ballpark nachos. So I
opened up my my inbox, which is a you know,
(04:26):
generally a mistake to open up the EMFO. I finally
had to block someone who just was harassing me via email,
just a loser. So I blocked that. Finally able to
get through my email, which is good, and I was
getting the huh, you're gonna apologize, Ben? You see the
Dodgers a big deregive apologize. Yeah, A bunch of Andrews
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and baker Field in Bakersfield, out there doing this not
just so hey. To answer the question, does this count
as a statement win? The Dodgers getting ten runs, fifteen hits,
never in any real danger against the Cincinnati Reds in
Game one of the Wildcard Round, My answer is three words, no, no,
and no. That's my answer. All right, stop it just stop?
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Is it amateur hour? Is that what we're doing now?
It's not a statement that was a formality. That was
a formality. When you're the heavyweight champion of the World,
the raining World Series champion, and you're walking and here's
the Dodge is walking in to the ring, and the
Reds in this matchup are glass Joe. That's who the
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Cincinnati Reds are. They're glass Joe. They're playing with house money.
The Reds are not even supposed to be here. The
only reason that got in is because the Mets blow
and lost their final game against the Marlins. So you're
supposed to land a bunch of haymakers, and the Dodgers did.
It's the equivalent of announcing to the world I've won
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the Masters. WHOA I won the Masters? All right? And
then you look at the details you're like, well, you
won the Masters, but it was at a pitch and
putt course and there were lots of windmills and fake volcanoes.
Whoop de damn do congratulating like the Dodgers are the
gambling favorites here. They have a roster that is a
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galactic empire type roster when you look at the payroll
and who they've got. If anything, though, this was the
perfect kind of a night if you're doing talk radio.
Because the Dodgers won. I don't want the Dodgers to lose.
I like them to win. I don't think they have
any chance going forward with the way this team is
set up because they have a fatal flaw and they
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don't avoid the fatal flaw. The underlying condition popped up
in this game, so that will could it pop up
if you didn't watch The game was ten to five
Dodgers one. They were never really in any danger but
that bullpen. If they were a professional arrest of the bullpen,
their name would be el Stinko, the Dodger bullpen. They
walked in two runs. They have no balls. The Dodger
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bullpen has no ball. They're afraid to throw strikes when
they have an eight run lead. What the f is
wrong with those losers? You walked in two runs in
the eighth inning, two different relief pitchers. The game was
already over at that point, and the bullpen said, wait,
don't forget about us. Here we are. That is the
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soft underbelly. That is the soft underbelly. That is the
leaky faucet of the Dodgers. That's dripping that Your water
bill's so high because that bullpen that is the weak spot.
It is glaring. It is absolutely glaring. And so you
know what's coming up. The winner of this series is
gonna take on the Philadelphia Phillies. If you look at
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your playoff bracket, yeah, there's actually a playoff bracket. The
winner will take on the Philadelphia Phillies in the next round.
And if you're the Phillies, all right, that's working. We'll
find out whether or not this continues or not. We'll
find out whether or not these guys actually grow a
spine and grow some balls and get hair on their
chest and all that stuff in the next round. But
the Dodgers look like a really hollow team, a hollow bunny.
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The Dodgers, right, it is shiny and pretty on the
outside looks all good. You bite into it and you're like,
oh man, that sucks, Whereas I thought that was solid chocolate.
You know. In the Phillies, good luck on. You know,
the Phillies are legit that offense. But again, Cincinnati, it's
like a scrimmage. It's like a scrimmage. You play Cincinnati
batting practice. The real test will be when you've got
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Bryce Harper there and you've got Kyle Schwarber hitting bombs
and all that and doing his thing. That's the real test.
And we'll see if the Dodgers end up being again
like the chocolate bunny that's hollow, or or if they're
actually a brick house as the old song goes there.
But Game one of the Dodgers and Reds it I
call it a water works game. What does that mean?
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It means the Dodgers' offense was the fire hose, So
that's the water on that side. But then the bullpen
was the drippy, leaky faucet, and so that's the other side,
as we pointed out, And it's nothing more than that.
It's just you know, they can still lose the next
two games. That shouldn't They shouldn't lose one game to
the Reds, but you can't get a state in victory,
like I don't understand, like the mind sid you guys
(09:06):
were such you were trying to troll me so hard.
You know who you are, who sent me the emails?
You know you are. You're trying to bust my balls
that you didn't even factory in the opponent. You played
a bunch of little leaguers, the Cincinnati Reds here, and
you came in there and your arsenate arsonist in the
bullpen came in there facing a bunch of Cincinnati hitters,
and we're afraid to throw strikes right, And now you
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got later on, assuming you don't screw this thing up,
You've got the Phillies and the lumber company from Philadelphia.
Good luck in a bandbox of a ballpark, all right. Now,
turning the page, we had Yankees and Red Sox. Yankees
and Red Sox. Garrett Crochet getting her done there for
the Red Sox. He had seventeen consecutive batters retired. I
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didn't play professional baseball. I'm told that's good. When you
get seventeen consecutive batters out, I'm told that's good. And
it was a s performance as he had last shine
here at Crochet in that one. And then it was
a pinch hitter Masataka Yoshida who lined a two run
ribby single off the woe begone Yankee reliever Luke Weaver. Well,
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that guy sucks u and that was the big hit there.
The Red Sox get past the Yankees three game, three
to one the finals. So it's game one. All these
games played at Yankee Stadium there and so we'll see
how this goes here. But the game had some dramatics
there late as the Red Sox led three to one,
he saw it. New York loaded the bases single single single,
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had the bases loaded, nobody out down two a raw.
This Chapman on the mound, all star closer, former Yankee,
longtime multi time Yankee, Raldis Chapman, and he was able
to get out of the jam, did not give up
a run despite single single single. The start things here.
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So Boston improves now. But another win against the Angle,
I think ten and four versus the Yankees there and
there need one more win, one more win to advance.
But the better story, you know where, that's right, The
better story is in the losing locker room, and so
that is where we are going to go in the story.
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Everyone is talking about here the decision. Was it made
by Aaron Boone? Was it made by Dorksville, USA and
the Bronx? Who knows? But well, Game two is later
on on Wednesday night. We must go back and focus
on what happened as the Yankees and Red Sox the
the better story in the losing locker room. So the
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big moment was when Aaron Boone decided to pull Max Freed,
who was pitching a masterpiece. Masterpiece. Now again, this is
something I know. I'm gonna date myself with my generation.
I grew up like this was playoff baseball, great pitchers.
This is why you have great starting pitching. You let
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them go out there and just deal. And it's a
different style of play in the playoffs. I don't know.
Now we're heading into October. This was the last day
of September on Tuesday. But my god, it's so stupid.
So Aaron Boone decides to pull Max Freed, who was
pitching a great game. He had pitched I believe, six
and a third shutout innings of baseball, and he had
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thrown one hundred and two pitches. So I guess his
arm was going to be amputator if he threw one
hundred and three pitches. They were going to have to,
literally right on the mount at Yankee Stadium, front of
all the men, women and children, cut his arm off.
Just tragedy if he had thrown one hundred and third pitch.
So they took him out. And here is Aaron Boom.
You hear the question and the answer here as he
was asked about the big decision that blew up in
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his face. Take a liss, Aaron. Maxfreed was dealing tonight.
What was the thought process behind taking them out to
go on the end? There? With nobody on and one
out in the seventh.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
They pressured him pretty good in the fourth, fifth, sixth.
You know, I had a couple of bits each inning,
so I felt like he kind of cruised through the
first few, and obviously he ends up pitching great, but
I felt like he had to work pretty hard, and
I was gonna have the six b at the end.
But once we got the double we finished with the
double play, I wanted to go out and get Duran
and then felt like we were lined up all right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So there's the quote from mister Boone. But jeez, it's
like the Yankees are the East Coast Dodgers and then
the Dodgers of the West Coast Yankees. It's the same
bull crap. It is the same prepackaged bull crap. It's
listening to Aaron Boone is like listening to Dave Roberts.
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It's fascinating. It's just wild, all right. So Max Freed
was asked about all this. Max Fried was asked if
he had more left to give on the mound after
one hundred and two pitches. He said, well, here's what
he said, Tiglas, Max, I definitely.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Felt felt good at the end. Yeah, you know, coming out,
coming out feeling.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Good, would you have liked to have stayed in longer?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I mean, I'm I'm gonna stand until I get the
ball taken from me.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm you know, I want, I want to pitch.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
As long as I possibly can, and uh, you know,
when when the ball gets taken out of my hands.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is you know that's where it was? Next?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Did you feel like you had more left?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, I mean I definitely felt I felt good.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I felt like, I, you know, whatever, whatever the team needed.
All right. So that was Max Freed. I think I
was somebody was talking about here, but I think he
said at the end there I had enough in the
tank that that was one of the quotes that I
saw bouncing around. I had enough in the tank, he said.
I felt good. We heard that in the SoundBite. So question,
thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down?
Does Aaron Boone deserve to be char broiled? Char broiled
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for this lost taking Max Fred out against the Yankees.
So I'm gonna go two thumbs way up, two thumbs
way up on this one. Go to it. Aaron Boone
should be cooked, not charbrooth. I know that's too extreme.
That's too extreme. Aaron Boone should be cooked like a
dirty water dog. You know you're in New York, those
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dirty water dogs in that disgusting water at the hot
dog stands there. Yeah, that should be cooked like a
dirty water dog. Aaron Boone. Max freedz out there like
Picasso on the mound, and you're like, ah, you know what,
we have this luxury brand. We've gone over to Madison Avenue.
We've got a two thousand dollars Gucci suit on Madison Avenue,
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and we don't need that suit anymore. We've worn that suit.
So why don't we go down to the discount been
at Walmart and we'll put Luke Weaver in in a
playoff game. Playoffs. Yeah, that's your twenty twenty five Yankees
in a nutshell right there. They have become a parody
of themselves, much like the Dodgers. Right The Yankees, in
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their own way, have become a parody of themselves. There.
You don't manage a game anymore. It's been this way
for years. I still complain about it. You just follow
the prompts on your iPad. You just follow the prompts.
Green button pull, Max Freed done, a red button, Bring
in Luke Weaver. Press that button. Boom, Luke Weaver comes
in and then the shocker, the red Sox tee off
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on Luke Weaver. Who could have seen that coming. Just
another case, just another example of the revenge of the nerds,
the IVY League dwebs who have taken over this invasive
species in baseball that have taken over, who are playing
fantasy baseball just like they were back in the in
the Ivy League, crunching numbers and all that stuff, and
now they're calling the shots at a bunch of major
(16:43):
league teams. This happens to be the Yankees there in
the Bronx, and they think that relief pitchers and starting
pitchers are just like you know what, they're like. They're
like apps. You just close the Max Freed app and
then you open the Luke Weaver app and it's just
a different app. That's all it is. It's like some
kind of Microsoft word thing they've got going on. And
(17:06):
then but happens to be a wild card playoff game
and it blows up in your face and it just
blows me away because they never factor in the human element.
They never fact in well, some guys are better in
the moment than others. Some guys tighten up, get tight,
took a syndrome, as we like to call it. There
ride the vomit comet. And they don't ever factor that in.
They don't factor that in because there's no way to
(17:27):
measure that stuff. That's that's a real manager that has
you know, has some houtzpah, that knows his players. They
don't fact they could. Dave Roberts doesn't do that with
the Dodgers, neither does Aaron Boone. They don't They don't
do that. It's geeked them. Geeked them, USA is what
it is. And Aaron Boone sitting there in that dugout
smiling like a sock puppet, just smiling right there. He
(17:49):
is a sock puppet. The front office, what do they do?
They tug the strings and he's just you know, he's like,
he's like a bobblehead. He just shakes his head. Yes,
that's the Aaron Boone bobblehead in the dugout. And he's
become like a tenured professor, Aaron Bode. He's either too
dumb or too soft, or a little bit of both
to ever push back on anything. And Max Freed is
(18:10):
just I'd rather have Max Freed at pitch one oh three.
He's better at pitch one o three than ninety ninety
five percent of the relief pitchers. But alas did not happen,
the Nerds medal again, and the Yankees are on the
brink of elimination. The Red Sox need one more win.
(18:31):
Probably should win Game two though, because I don't even
know who's starting Game three for the for the Red Sox,
as somebody I've never heard of. So the Red Sox
halfway to advancing now quickly the last word here, the
last word. So, what are some of the other takeaways?
There were two other games that were not featuring here.
What were some of the other takeaways from game number
(18:52):
one of the wild Card round here? So Saya Suzuki
a big time home run. This shit go Cups get
her done three to one over the Podreys at Wrigley
Field in game one of that particular series there. Now,
I loved watching Fernando Tatisse go zero for four for
(19:13):
the pod squad. How great was that? You know what
he needs? He needs a special shipment of ringworm medication
because he's really good. When he's got the ring worm medication,
he gets like fourteen year contracts. How about Manny Machado, Yeah,
good old Manny playoff Manny Machado, Oh for three for
the Padres and that pop gun podre offense. Now they
if you go back, they've now mustered one run in
(19:35):
their last thirty three postseason innings. I'm told that's not good.
I'm told that's not good. And what happened to the
the belly gazing Podrays didn't play with that swagger, did
not have that swagger all right me in Cleveland. Another
dominating pitching performance, Trek Scouogble tying the postseason record with
(19:58):
fourteen strikeouts four strikeouts. The Tigers beat up the I
say beat up. They beat the Guardians, dude one. Although
watching the Guardians play offense, holly crap, do they suck?
My god? How did they come back? The fact that
they were able to outplay the Tigers the last month
of the year and win the division's fascinating. This is
one of the worst offensive teams of all time to
(20:19):
make the plowseason. In my opinion, it's a fact here
and the I mean the Guardians, and they're not bad offense,
they're historically bad. In fact, in this game they were
been draggled. The Guardians got out of thirty three played appearances,
four balls left the infield, four out of thirty three,
(20:39):
four out of thirty three. Hodgepodge of nothingness. The Cleveland
Guardians there and you kind of expected it. That to
twenty six batting average, the worst all time, the worst
batting average of all time for a playoff team, not
counting the shortened pandemic season, and also the worst on
base percentage ever for a playoff team. The Cleveland Guardians
(21:02):
and the lowest slugging percentage going all the way back
to nineteen eighty eight. So that's that's a long time. Now,
what does all this mean? Game one winner, Game one winner,
small sample sized Game one winner, Wildcard Round. They have
advanced in all twelve all twelve of the Wildcard series,
(21:24):
ten of them have been sweeps. So based on that,
the Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, and Dodgers are in really
good shape. We'll take your calls the great test. Do
you actually have a passion to talk playoff baseball? We
will find out. We'll open up the phone lines right now.
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to look forward to as we continue on here. It
is the Ben Males Show. I had an All Star
who went from Hey, I'm in the All Star Game too,
I'm in the doghouse art. We'll get to that, but
some playoff baseball right now, everyone's loving it. Roberto the
bus driver rights in. He used to work here, but
he left for the riches of bus driving. He is
(24:25):
very confident the Dodgers are going to win twelve more
games now. Roberto upset. I was texting Roberto I don't
go on social media much anymore except for the show.
But I do text people. I know that, you know,
I'm old people I used to work here, which is
a lot of my friends used to work here. They
don't work here anymore. They've moved on to other things,
or people I worked with at other places. And Roberto,
(24:45):
I was texting him. I was like, this dodge of
bullpen sucks. He's, oh, oh, they're going. But I think
Roberto was like like a case into Medello or something.
I don't know what he was doing, but he was.
He's so confident. I was like, dude, what is wrong
with you? He was annoying me. And and the thing
that really upset me about Roberto, and I know I
shouldn't gives up on this. He was with me. He
was he was my guy as my engineer when the
(25:07):
whole Blake Snell thing happened, and during the pandemic, I
ain't playing unse I got mine, bra I'm risking my
live braw, you know, the whole thing like that, How
stupid he looked what a schmuck, what a schmucky was
and and you know all the drops that we played
for years, we don't really play them anymore. But Roberto
was like, he played those and now he's like, I
(25:29):
love Blake Snell. What's wrong with you? Shame on you.
Spos Weed rides in. He's deep down the Oregon Trail
and he says, well, a class Joe takes me back.
The first opponent you have in Mike Tyson's punch out. Yeah,
that's why I brought him up, he says. Spos Weed says,
(25:50):
I stuffed envelopes for that game as a temp after
getting fired from my first job post college at a
toy store. That's tough. You're not the only one that's
lost a gig at a toy store. You can remember
weed Man Hippie, the famous weed Man Hippie ended up
losing everything at a toy store. Barbecuing Lynn disagrees with
(26:12):
the male monologue at the top of the hour. He says,
you are wrong about the Dodger's bullpen. He says, barbecuing
Lynn claims that they have a set of balls for
every batter, two sets, in fact, for every batter for four.
Take your base. That's not wrong. Nature boy rights, since
says the Reds backed into the wild card. The Dodgers
(26:35):
should have had a bye with that lineup. What if
one of the stars gets injured and a meaningless game
in a meaningless thing, Well, you can play the what
if game if you want, Like nature Boy, what if
the Dodger bullpen actually pitches like they're supposed to pitch,
at least their baseball reference page says they're going to pitch,
(26:58):
and they actually dom An eighteen. Do the what if game? Now? Jill,
long suffering Yankee fan, I say, long suffering. It's been
way back to nine. The last time the Yankees won
the World Series was nine. I was barely alive in
O nine. Oh my god, poor Jill. Uh and she's upset.
(27:18):
Fat Daddy says, great baseball monologue to start the postseason.
You're right, big Ben, the Reds are pathetic. They don't
deserve to be in the wild Card. They haven't done nothing.
They're under man Yeah, David writes, And you're very optimistic,
big fan of the show. David says, So this guy
Mallard and his team are highly underrated. He said he's
(27:39):
made a career out of the overnight shift. But he
says Fox used to have Greg Guttfeld in the late
shift on Red Eye. He moved in there, he's now
number one. There you go. So a great idea, David.
If somebody wants to pay me lots and lots of
money and overpay me, I'm right there. I'm sign me
up for that. Jill the Yankee fan says the current
(28:00):
mood is I think she's going deaf con one. I
believe Jill's going deaf con one on the Yankees. The
nature one rights in again. He says, I would have
left Max freed in that game Ben until he reached
two hundred pitches, just like the old school Warriors back
in the day. And then he points out that in
a random July game in the nineteen sixties at Candlestick Park,
(28:23):
a pitcher named Juan Marischal, a legend of that era,
pitched sixteen innings two hundred and twenty seven pitches. Warren
Spawn pitched two hundred and one pitches wow, in that game,
fifteen and a third innings of baseball there. And it
is interesting to know. I was having some conversations in
(28:45):
the hallways here. We were talking about pitch counts, and
it's it's one of these things about round numbers, and
I don't want to give you a full rant because
ferg Doog will yell at man. I don't want ferk
dog to yell at me, because he's heard this a
lot now will be upset with me. I don't want alpha.
But I pointed out that this fascination we have with
round numbers, it's something that human beings have. We love
(29:06):
round numbers. People really get excited about one hundred. They
don't get excited about ninety nine. You think you're getting
a better deal. It's like the price of gas, right,
they think you're getting a better deal because it's it's
ninety nine at the end there you think, well, this
is great, I'm getting a wonderful deal. It's just this
little mind hacked. We all have it. You know, we're
all built the same way, right in different backgrounds or whatever.
(29:29):
The genetics are the same on that. And they decided,
and again this is the nerd stuff, like again, I
can just bash nerds. And they decided that one hundred
pitches that's it. And Max Freed had pitched one hundred
and two pitches, and again, if he'd gone to one
hundred and three, they would have had to take a
surgeon right on the mount of Yankee Stadium they would
have had meatball surgery and literally had to cut his
(29:51):
arm off, ah Nut, and it would have been a
tracked experience for everyone at Yankee Stadium. They would have
had to go to commercial, could not have shown it
on TV because literally a hundred and three pitches they
would have to cut his arm off. I think that
turned on and scared me. The other issue is that
while we're all cut out of the same basic cloth,
(30:12):
there are some that are able to give you a
little more. I give you more, and it fascinates me.
I've been ranting on the same mountain. I don't know
if you can see me up on the peak of
the mountain, but I'm standing on top of the mountain.
I'm screaming down to the village that every great pitching
accomplishment in the postseason would be impossible today. Like whatever.
(30:36):
I don't know how old you are, and I don't
know what your memory of baseball is, and we're all
different in that regard, but I have very fond memories
of epic pitching performances in the playoffs that would not
be allowed today out of an abundance of caution. Could
not do it, cannot do it, and it drives me insane.
It drives me insane because they have all the players
(30:58):
are coddled more than they've ever been before. Man is it?
It's they've got personal chefs and trainers up the up
the tuk us, and they are coddled so much that
the players of the old generation were actually tougher. That
these are wusses, the modern athletes or us in baseball.
It's fascinating to me. It's wild. What else do we
(31:22):
have this page?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Then?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I can't read that on their supermarket? Steve writes in
from Sokal. He says, I cannot wait for the Dick
and Dayton phone call. He says, I bet, I bet you.
He says that the Reds and the Guardians need to
pitch better, hit better, and play better defense. Congratulations Dick. Yeah,
I don't know we have that drop, Lorna. I know
you're kind of new here, but we had Dick and
(31:44):
Dayton drop about what I think it was out the
Indians what they need to do to win. And he
pretty much just said that just you know, hit better
and play better defense and pitch better and uh and
that was pretty good. Dick's Keys the Winning Baseball from
Supermarket Steve not A Berner writes in he says, Tyreek,
He's talking about Tyreek Hill here away from the baseball stuff.
(32:05):
Says Tyreek seems to be very happy. He was seriously
hurt so he could finally be freed without demanding a trade.
He collapsed and screams yes and gives gratitude to the
Lord above. Not the usual mannerisms from a disappointed player
who just got injured. We will talk about Tyreek Hill.
Some wild quotes about Tyreek Hill. Paul writes in from Minnesota,
he says, Hey, Benjamin, big ben Mouth. I love the show.
(32:29):
I listened every night from Minnesota my little black sony
portable radio. I love it. Old school, old school. You're
not on some app. You're not on the iHeart app
or any of that. You're doing it old school. King
Rory writes, and he says, since sports are entertainment and
entertainment is scripted, I believe Major League Baseball has picked
(32:49):
the Chicago Cubs to win it all, says King Roy.
With recent events and the loss of a mega fan,
major League Baseball believes that a Cubs World Series victory
will help you night the country. Hey, heartwarming India, Eh,
people said the same thing. I remember back years ago
there was this major terrorist event in New York and
(33:10):
in Pennsylvania, in Washington, DC, and they said the Yankees
are gonna win the World Series. Twenty oh one. Yankees
are gonna win the World Series. And I believe I'm
not mistaken. The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in Game
seven as Luis Gonzalez screwed everything up there, and that
was that. Let's see here, Ferg Dog says Ben. I
(33:31):
think we have to admit Blake Snell doesn't suck. He's
a good pitcher, but he's an idiot. I wanted to
be the first in line to bash him, but he
won me over. Well, you're easily won over for Dog.
It's a bad job by you. Now, someone that was
not won over would be the All Star who's ended
up in the doghouse. Did you see that? Jazz Chisholm,
(33:52):
Junior of the New York Yankees, not in the starting
lineup for Game number one? Was not in the starting lineup.
Jazz was asked about that. He was visibly frustrated. He
had his back turned to reporters post game, and he
gave a dismissive interview. So problems for jazz chism problems
(34:19):
in the Bronx. And here's the rub on this. The
problem is jazz. They did it because of the splits
and how jazz Chishlm is versus left handers versus right
right handers and all that. But a healthy jazz chism
an all star was benched. And they're saying Aaron Boone
(34:40):
did it, but we know that Aaron Boone didn't do it,
that it was a decision made by the spreadsheet that
they looked at the ven diagram and all that, and
they said, okay, so we have Garrett Crochet and we
don't want to go We do not want to go
with with Jazz because he doesn't have good splits, so
(35:01):
we'll go with the other guy. And so they went
with the other guy. And I believe Jazz Chisholm is
a free agent at the end of the playoffs. And
it is interesting to know he did sign a one
year contract with the Yankees this year. See the Yankees
Dodgers in Red Sox. You always need them to bid
on you. So and that's the rubb. He might have
(35:26):
one more year of arbitration. There might be one more
year of arbitration, but I think he's coming up on
free agency. Might be wrong on them, but I think
it's either next this offseason or the following offseason for
Jazz Chism. It is the Ben Malich. We'll keep an
eye on that story. And it's not the first time.
It's not the last time a star player has been
benched for a playoff game. I remember when I was
(35:47):
covering baseball regularly back in the day, there was a
famous player who had played for the Montreal Expos, who
was on the Dodgers and got benched for a playoff game.
And my god, did he get upset very surly interviewing
him after that playoff game, actually before the playoff game.
All right, time now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And this is where I pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it who am I? Game? So Blake snelled
Bright play less, I get my I'm risking my live braw.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Well, clearly, bro, I'm risking life there.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
It is right there. Well clearly if I say, gave
him a good breakfast, because Blake Snell went out there
had nine strikeouts. Who this guy that does a Dodger
Propagander Show. But Blake Snell nine strikeouts, the second most
in LA Dodger history for a player making his first
postseason start with the Dodgers. I am the only LA
pitcher who to have more strikeouts in their first postseason
(36:40):
game with the Blue Crew. Who am I? That's the
question to answer. We'll get to it and we will
do it next.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific Bill.
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That's right, go to YouTube dot com slash at Benmahlor
Show and get all the radio show content for you. Also,
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(37:18):
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got to subscribe and support the show. Back to it all, right,
back to it we go, and we'll pay off the
who MI game. This is where we pretend to be
(37:39):
somebody else. Let's we call it the who am I?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
In a blatant attempt who to convince you to listen
a little bit longer. So Blake Snell nine strikeout, second
most in Los Angeles Dodgers history for a player making
his first postseason start. I am the only LA pitcher
to have more in his first postseason game with the
(38:02):
Blue Crow. So who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? Does anyone know? We go to
the great Unwashed here to find out, and Alf the
Alien opine A going with the iconic Jose Lima Lima time,
says alf Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota going with Jimmy
Durante unless it's not Ferg Dog, says future Angels Hall
(38:25):
of Famer Ron Washington. Yes. And former Angels manager mister
nice guy going with Todd zeal As his answer to
Keo Spikes from Scrooge. He's part of the younger demo
in Northern California. Who else do we have? Page down?
Mister Irrigation's going with one of Hollywood's all time greatest
kit Keller, not the chunky third baseman. Who else? Charlie
(38:48):
Bucket from King Rory? That's his answer. Robert Griffin. The
third guest by Shane in des Moines, Pedro Ostasio from
Rob in Minnesota. Not a bad name. Claude Ostein from
JJ Tortilla Mantoni, the iconic Mariano Duncan, who I got
a hit off of in a Dodger media game. Mariano Duncan.
(39:09):
That's uh, he did not sponsor Duncan Donuts.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Let's see Benito. Long suffering cowboy fans says, the answer
is my pastor, Charlie Sheen Todd Todd Van Poppeo from
James Sandy Kovex. Guest by Steve Rick Honeysuckle from Gus
It's honeycut Loredo. Do you have an answer? I'm gonna
go with pee wee Reese. All right, No, that is incorrect.
Here's another fun name though. In La Dodger history. The
(39:33):
most strikeouts in the playoff debut held by Tim Belcher.
Tim Belcher in nineteen eighty eight against the New York
Mets in the National League Championship Series Game two at
Shay Stadium.
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