October 16, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Blue Jays winning Game 3 of the ALCS by routing the Mariners 13-4 and who is to blame for the Seattle's loss, what was different for Toronto star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on his big night, John Smoltz being addicted to the word momentum, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball.
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It's our number one, our number one, and you are
in for some fun as we jockey into position here
as the magic audio box was open all night to
provide you with this fresh podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We start out talking bays Ball, the.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
American League Championship Series, game number three, Game number three
of the Alcs, and who's to blame for cal Raley's
Mariners getting Shalac Clobbard blown to bits, smashed like a
bug on a windshield by Toronto.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We'll take a look at that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Also, what was the difference for Blue Jay star Vladimir
Guerrero Junior who had been zero for seven the games
in Canada and went four for four for the Toronto
baseball team in the game played last night in the
Great Pacific Northwest. Also, what do you think of Fox's
broadcaster John Smoltz and what appears to be an addiction.
We like John, but he's got an addiction to using
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the word momentum during these games. It was a pet
peeve of mind. So I will use the bully pulpit
to vent and you'll hear that right now here. It
is as we knock it out of the park. It's
our number one.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, if you had the American League Championship Series over
after the first two games. Apparently the Blue Jays did
not get the memo. They did not get the memo.
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We go to Seattle, the beautiful Pacific Northwest, the eye
of the baseball universe, as the only team from the
Cartel of Baseball that had not made it, had not
gotten to the World Series two wins away, trying to
trim that down a little bit more. There was some
buzz in the airone fired up there and how did
that go? Mariners hosting Toronto and Game three of the
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American League Championship Series in Island.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Game it was hump.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Day all that, and if you were not watching on Fox,
maybe you missed it. Vladdie no longer in a slump,
Vladimir Guerrero Junior with not one, not two, not three,
but four hits, including a home run. He scored three times.
And the Blue Jays hit not one, not two, not three,
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not four, but five ding dongs. That's a lot of
ding dongs, hollering James would like that amount of ding
dongs pasting the Mariners, absolutely pacing them thirteen to four
the final in Game three, and we had forever Dirty
Cheating Astro alumni George Springer also had a dinger and
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three hits.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Bang Bang, Whistle Whistle.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Springer and Guerrero each hit solo shots as Toronto finished with.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
As we mentioned the five five home runs in the way, Toronto.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I had eighteen hits in this game, eighteen of them.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I'm told that's good. I'm told that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will begin as we
discuss the question when a team gets absolutely smoked like this,
what an embarrassment? The question is who gets the blame
for cal Raley's Mariners getting smashed like a bug by
a windshield driving at ninety miles an hour down the interstate.
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In this case, Toronto was the one that was driving
the car and the Mariners with the bug. So my
thoughts on this, I've got brown Derby, voodoo, and overhead
bin and we will combine all of these things together
and we're gonna put the biscuit in the basket, is
what we're going to do. So let's start with this,
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and you focus at the very middle of the diamond. Now,
if you imagine in your head the baseball diamond. You've
got the backstop, the catcher. We're looking out towards the outfield.
You got the catcher. You go down to the right
hand side, you get the first baseman, you got the
second basement, then the other side, you got the short
stop and the third basement. But in the middle of
all that, right the man in the middle, that would
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be the man standing on the bump, the bumpety bump,
and boyder he go bumpety bump.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That would be the starting pitcher.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now, the Mariners were set up early here as j
rod hit a two run homer in the bottom of
the first. Julio Rodriguez two run shots, So see's up
to nothing, feeling pretty good about themselves, similar to the
vibe Milwaukee had in Game two. And they got the
early home run over the Dodgers. And then George Kirby
it didn't happen right away, but when it happened, he said,
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you know what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I want to honor the big Dumper. I would like
to honor the big dumper.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And what better way to honor the big dumper than
Kirby bringing back an old Hollywood restaurant from early Hollywood
called the Brown Derby and a big giant brown you
know what.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
All right, there.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Served up not one, not two, but three of the
five home runs, and by the time the dust had settled,
Kirby allowed eight earned runs. God awful starting pitching, right,
utterly worthless. And while Kirby was terrible, he was left
in the game for an extended dance remix. And so
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you point the finger at the manager of the Seattle
baseball team, or should I point the finger at the nerds.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Either way, it's a balancing act.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You've got Dan Wilson, who is getting kind of old,
looks old Dan Wilson there in the dugout, who's juggling
machetes and butcher knives. And let's just say that he
forgot to catch a couple of the knives in one
of the you know, it just was.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It was ugly.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It was right to the forehead right there, sliced wide
open the forehead.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And you gotta have a feel for the game.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Kirby suffered from die die diarrhea during that inning, and
Wilson did not change the diaper. He did not change
the diaper. He said, you know what, you get diarrhea?
I want you to fill that diaper all the way up. Okay, good,
fill it up, fill it up some more. It's not done.
What a stinker. Now the malord advice to the Seattle
baseball team. I learned this from an NFL quarterback years ago.
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When you take a deuce, you don't sit there and
look at it. No, no, you flush it and you
move on. So there you go the Mariners, who absolutely
that was more of a diarrhea situation than a deuce.
But it was quite the mess there from the Seattle
side of things, giving up eighteen hits, all those home
runs your home ballpark. Everyone all fired up, and we
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have road field advantage in baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's something that nobody wants to talk about, and you know,
I'm supposed to talk about what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Because there's this myth of home field advantage, like you're
going into a stadium and there's a moat around it
and it's impossible to win in a certain stadium, which
is just bull crap. It's been that way for years
since the players union complained, and they have all the
creature comforts on the road that they would have at home,
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and many of the players like playing on the road.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
More than home.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
They're away from their families. They like that, but you're
not supposed to talk about that either. Meanwhile, on the
winning side, on the winning side, the question what was
different on this night than the previous nights for Toronto
Star of Vladimir Guerrero Junior and his big night. Now,
we had mentioned in a previous episode of the show
that in his playoff career, granted small sample size, but
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Vladimir Guerrero Junior had been absolutely monster matching against the Yankees,
against everyone else. He was batting one hundred in his
playoff career, like one oh three in his playoff career. Well,
that number has changed a lot because one night the
guy's a wet noodle and then he takes a quantum leap.
And now in this game, it was like vintage Joe
Carter reincarnated in a Blue Jay uniform there with extra
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hot sauce. That was impressive there, and he was like
the bouncer at the door there and he was telling
the Mariners you're not on the list.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Pal, I'm sorry, get out of here. You're not invited.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The Voodoo bugoloo, the mental voodoo boogoloo, the classic slumpbuster stuff.
Mark Grace approves that message. The stage fright had been
there and the mental undressing of the matches. They say,
when you got stage fright, you got to use those
mental gymnastics and imagine that the people are are not
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wearing their clothes. He had been zero for seven, so
instead of imagining though the Mariners players and boxers and briefs,
he used the art of manifestation. He had the Mariners
in his head and I'm convinced Uncle Moe will agree
with me on this. He had them wearing pinstripes, and
suddenly Vladdie was licking his chops, frothing like a rabbit
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dog at a raw steak and a successful playoff performance.
Now Toronto clearly approach things much differently. The Blue Jays
decided to go with what we call the Caveman approach.
Me ce ball, me hit ball, Caveman approach. Right, all
eighteen hits within three pitches. So tat tat, hit the ball.
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No chessboard, No I'm gonna try to outsmart you, and
no it was a sledgehammer.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Now it did help.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It absolutely helped that the Mariner pitchers, led by the
aforementioned mister Kirby collectively pittled down their legs on the mound.
And sometimes baseball is just that dumb, and you just
that's the way it is, and so you don't need
the launch angle thesis. I don't need to go into
my whole rant and rave about that. Sometimes the slump
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ends because the other team to open up a nice
Italian bistro and serve oversized meatballs right there, or another
way to look at it, it's like a kid's birthday
party and they don't have any blindfolds. They have a
giant pinata filled with candy, and you get a bat
and no swing hards on. But you don't need to
worry about the blindfold. There's no need for the blindfold,
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all right now, last word, so I have an h
I need discretion now. I granted this is something for
me and you might not care about That's fine. This
is this is therapeutic. This is therapeutic. And I'm sitting
there watching this game and I heard I jotted it down.
I stopped counting at about seven. I'm sure it was
more than that. I'm sure it was more than that.
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John Smoltz on the broadcast kept saying momentum like every
inning he said moment every single inning, there must have
been a momentum button that they pressed, pressed the John
say momentum, Okay, moment So the question is, what do
you think of Fox broadcast John Smoltz and his clear
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addiction to using the word momentum during these playoff broadcasts. Well,
it is the elephant in the room, the Komodo dragon
in the room.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
John Smoltz is out there.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
He's tossing around the word momentum like he's in the
French corner in New Orleans and he's tossing beads out
at Marti Gras just about every at bat. It seemed
I may or may not be embellishing every foul ball
every time a pigeon landed out on the warning track.
Momentumness momentum that I swear if he could have trademarked momentum,
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you imagine how much money he would have made from
revenue from that, I mean the royalties. By the third inning,
he would have gone off to play golf somewhere.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's what he would have done.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It was like he was praying to the flying spaghetti
Monster of baseball, because momentum is as real in baseball
as the flying spaghetti Monster. You all told me, you said,
Oh my god, the Mariners have all the momentum.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
How'd that work out for you? Good?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Use a lot of money. I hope you lost a
lot of money. A lot of money, all right, So
might as well just pray to the flying spaghetti monster.
Oh great, newly one, grant this team with the most
vibes more invisible energy, because that's.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What momentum is.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It's not a real thing. You can't hold it, you
can't see it. It is just verbal filler. Let me
repeat that for those of you a little slow in
the back of the room. It is verbal filler. It
is sportscasting, mashed potatoes. It's rice. You know how Sometimes
you go to a like a Mexican restaurant, you order
a like a beef burrito, chicken breed or something like that,
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and they'll fill it with mostly rice because rice is cheap.
It fills it up right, and you don't get the meat,
you get the cheap filler.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, that's the word. Momentum is cheap filler. And dingle berries.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Act like it's some kind of mystical gas cloud floating
from dugout to dugout, it's so stupid. Tries me nuts
like the Mariners. Again, I'm just repeating what you told me.
You told me this. They had all the momentum. They
carried that fifteen inning win over the Tigers, and they
flew across North America to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and they
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won both games. They were up to nothing in the ALCS.
They had all the momentum. Now, let me ask you
a question. Did they make the mistake? And I think
this might have happened. I know, I want to be
fair to you. I don't want to be a complete douche.
Is it possible that the Mariners traveling party, the equipment
manager packed the momentum bag in the carry on and
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that TSA said, excuse me, kind sir, I don't think
you can bring that much momentum on board. You've got
too much mo it's over the limit. You're gonna have
to leave some of that moment them here in Toronto.
But we need the momentum, sir, No, no, no, you
can't take that momentum. The plane won't take off with
all that momentum.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
It's so stupid.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Or maybe they got the momentum on the plane and
then they were flying over like Fargo, North Dakota, and
somehow it slipped out. There was some turbulence and the
overhead beIN opened up and the momentum fell out and
then landed somewhere in North Dakota. So if you're in Fargo,
you might get a bag filled with momentum. You might
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get that, all right, you might get that. And then
what happened after that? You think the Toronto Bluejay said,
you know what, we want some momentum, So why don't
we trade some delicious poutine and we'll get it back.
We'll make a deal with the baseball guys. You gave
the Mariners too much momentum. Give us some momentum. Okay,
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we'll give you some momentum. Give us some poutine. Okay,
I'll take the poutine. There you go. Even on the
postgame show where they were all playing grab ass, there
you had Kevin Burkhart, who I don't know, does he
do this all the time. I just noticed it because
it was on my mind. On the postgame panel he
was doing the highlights. And if you saw the end
of the game, the Mariners hit a couple of garbage
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time dingers and on the panel at the dais there.
Burkhart said Seattle might have gotten some momentum with those
late home runs going into game.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
For spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That is not momentum. That is what's called. The clinical
term is stat padding. Yes, stat padding. When your team
is down by ten runs and you hit a home run,
that is stat padding, is what it is. It's like
saying the guy that got dumped by the hot girl
but buys new socks suddenly has relationship momentum for his
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next relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Because he has new sucks. It's lazy.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's broadcasting auto pilot. It's like sports talk show hosts
that do one, you know, one topic the entire show
because they're lazy. It drives me nuts. But went in
doubt right, went in out. I could absolutely do that job.
And I'm not being bragged doocious here. I know all
of the cliches, I hate almost all of them, but
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I could do the job. Anytime a team takes the lead, well,
they've all the momentum right now, Nip, they've gone a
lot of momentum, NIP.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
A lot of momentum.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh my god, it's the um of the sports broadcasting world.
Instead of saying say momentum. You have nothing to say momentum.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Ban the word. Ban the word.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Put it in the same pile as intangibles, which is
another bull crap word, a veteran presence, another nonsensical term
in sports, or just here, listen, get down and say
you know what to the flying spaghetti monster. My god,
all right now I feel better. See that was therapeutic.
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That was a therapeutic rant. And now I can go
on with my night and we can settle in here
and I'm good, You're good, And I guess you could
say we have momentum.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
We've got momentum. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
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And he left the mound. You could when he walked
into the dugout actually took him out. After the eight runs.
You could see the skid marks on the.
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Back of his home uniform there. What a horrific Oh
my god, I mean, we all have bad days. Man ugly, ugly.
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All right, Bobby and Florida says, hey, Ben, I guess
love isn't real. You can't see it or hold it. Well,
if it's done right, you can definitely feel it. What
else do we have?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I'll be here on my ferg dog rights and says
Seattle may still be up two games to one, but
if you look at the runs scored in the series,
they are now tied seventeen seventeen. So I'd be pretty
nervous right now if I were Robbie. And no Stredinas
although I think he misspelled no Stredenus. J dot In
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Utah rites in and he says, hey Ben, please Ben.
He says, please be easy on John Smoltz. He's just
doing his job on an essay about momentum. There's nothing
wrong with giving momentum and manny and a petty and
a bubble bath. It just drives me insane, drives me insane.
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But you know, I just kept I had my bad
I had the audio up. I know I should have
put the mute button on. I had the audio up.
I usually put the mute button on. It's a bad
job by me. I screwed up.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I know. That's user error.
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User A malaprop guy writes and says, I wonder if
the Spaghetti Monster is a fan of Marcel's.
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Oodles of noodles.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Uh yeah, I'll have to check if what Marcell calls
in tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So not not right now?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Let's see not a burner rights in says your nemesis
David Vassay is dressing up as a vampire this Halloween.
He is a little a little unclear about what part
of the body to enact is feasting on. He said, there, yes, interesting,
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I think you shouldress up as like a pool boy.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I think that would be good, or a caddy or
cool pool boy with one of those like the thongs,
you know, the really tight ones. Yeah yeah, yeah, something
like that. Yeah yeah yeah yeah sure, why not?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
ELOI from Compton, the clinical terms banana hammock. I think
it's the clinical term from Compton writes in says, Ben,
are you related to no stradinas? Because I remember you
mentioning Russ to the Sacramento Kings last night and it happened. Yes,
I put that voodoo bugaloo on.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Russell Westbrook to play.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
There's a running bit we have when we were driving
around and you know a band has officially jumped the
shark when you see them on billboards. I don't know
if this happens everywhere else, but I know here in LA,
driving around, you'll see on billboards like so and so's
appearing at one of the Indian casinos, and you know,
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on the outskirts of LA. And that's usually a dead
giveaway that things are not going well for the band. Uh.
And in basketball, when you sign with the Sacramento Kings,
that's also a dig giveaway things are not going well.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Things have not gone well for you. Not a burner, right?
Since has Ben?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The Blue Jays were given the Tom Emansky instructional video
endorsed by Fred McGriff and that is the reason for
the turnaround. There you go, Fred says Ben, can you
please tell us how you really feel? About momentum. Yes,
late and I think I just did late night drug test.
This is maybe the word momentum was throwing around so
much because it was available in bulk at Costco in
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nearby Kirkland, Washington.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well that's a great point, let's say, a fine, fine point.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Robbie, the Mariner fan, says, you might be right after
all about moment I'm not being a thing.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
What the f was that by my Mariners?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Robbie says, depressed definitely did not seize the moment. Yes,
there was no no seizing of anything going on. There
was a whole lot. I'm just happy you didn't go
to the game, Robbi. Imagine, imagine if that you spent
a lot of money on. Those tickets were not cheap, right,
those those tickets were expensive. You go out there and
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you show up and games games over by the fifth inning.
It's like, wow, that's a lot of that's a lot
of dough to throw around, and then my god.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mahlor Show.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
As we are chopping away here at the overnight coming
up in a couple of minutes, we will get to
the looking for an Excuse.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
An age, Old Age old story in the Sporting World.
We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Let's go to the phones though, right now, and we'll
start out in Orlando and we say hello to Rafael,
who's next up and first off in the lead up
chair on the show.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Him.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
I disagree. I think the Mariners still have all the momentum.
They lost one game, went home, they got two away,
and they're all over it. They're going to crush the
Blue Jays and they're going to kill the Dodger. You
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are a West coast elitis.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Rafael, if I was at West coast alitis, wouldn't I
say that the Mariners are going to win, because wouldn't
that be West coast bias if that was the.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Case, Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
You're a Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, that doesn't count, So Pary, I didn't know this.
I'm looking at a map here, so apparently Seattle's not
on the west coast?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Got it? Okay? Good? Yeah? What are we? What are
we drinking tonight?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Jim Bean?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Jim Bean? Yeah? All right?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And uh, you know what, I'm gonna push back on
my monologue, Raphael, I would like to say right now,
and I want to learn all the affilies downline my
man Rafael in the Orlando area has all though momentum
when it comes to the alcohol.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You've got a lot of momentum going with it. How
long you've been drinking?
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Been drinking for seven hours, baby.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Seven hours?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And what better way to celebrate seven This man literally
could die of alcohol poisoning, and instead of calling the authorities,
he's calling our show unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Mike, maybe take a nap? How about that? Okay, all right?
Thank you? Uh was like, I don't know, He's like,
I got it thought. I'm like, wow, I'm shocked.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
You have one.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
The thing that's most amazing about that is he was
able to call into the show.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yeah, the dexterity is still.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, I say, the number kind of fast. You know,
drinking is a lot.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
That's a lot of I mean some of these apps though,
they just they can just click a button and it'll
call Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Is that is that on the iHeart app? I think,
I think, so.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Okay, all right, but you still have to be able
to futz around with your phone and get on there.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I'm on it that Raphael. I guess he's not that
drunk if he could, you know, call in and is
is that they say Disney is the happiest place on
earth disney Land. I guess Disney World will be the
same thing. And I think Raphael's his apartment is right there.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Man. That's how many bottles do you think he's gone?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Now?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
How many bottles you think he's drinking? Seven hours? That's
a lot. I mean that's what do you think? Three
bottles more than that? If not more? Yah, gotta be more?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Right? Probably when he sounds like more you know right
away too, you know, I mean right the first word
he said, I said, this.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Is a drunk.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
This guy is completely hammered, right, this is this is
somebody that's been drinking for a while.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
It's almost Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Good for him?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Uh yeah, well you think, I mean, this is your
your idea.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Almost you think everything was almost Friday, the right, right? Yeah,
Tuesday was almost Friday too.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, almost every day you're trying to get to Friday,
because Friday is a magical day.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And because when you travel the world, you know, and
you go all over.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
The place and you know, still, no, you don't now
what kind of drunk do you think he was? He's
I don't know what he's like normally that guy that
called in Raphael a nice drunk.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
See you think it's like a Mary Poppin's drunk.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
He gets sweeter and happier because you're all upset with me,
he said. I you know, West Coast biased, but the
Mariners are not on the West Coast. I think he
might be a nutty professor mixed with the Mary Poppins.
The nutty professor becomes more social, So it could be
he's a little bit of a you know, Mary Poppins
and the nutty professor, so a little bit of those two.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
This like, there's four types of drunks. I learned this.
I didn't know this when I was growing up. My
parents didn't teach me this. My mom did not. My
dad didn't teach me this, nor did school. School did
not teach me. That's correct.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I learned this doing overnight sports talk radio. I learned
that there are four types of drunks. That there's the
Hemingway drunk. Then that's the person that doesn't change at
all when they get completely sauced.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Right. They love those people. You can't tell if they're
drunk or not. Yeah, I mean they're completely corkscrewed. But
you don't know because.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
They're don't They don't change, you know, they're schnockered and
just well oiled and it doesn't matter. So that's the hemingway.
The Mary Poppins, they're the ones we mentioned. They get
a little sweeter, a little nicer, you know, it's just
feeling good, all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Little liquid courage to go be social.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And that's also the nutty professor, which is more more social. Now.
The one you want to avoid, and this is the
one that ends.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Up in a lot of nine to one one calls
and domestic disputes is the mister high drunk. Because they're
the ones that get the beer muscles. They're the ones
that get the liquid courage and want to them get.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Into dust ups, right. They they're like, all right, it's
like Ron Burgundy from Anchorman.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I love Scotch, Scotchy scott Scotch, and I'm gonna go
and you know, throw a haymaker at someone. So as
far as I don't think they've changed, that that was
years ago. I learned that, and I believe that's still
the same. I believe that's still as well. Yes, Okay,
let's go to Hugh on the five who's got some
momentum driving down the five.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Hello, Hello, Hugh, welcome.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
I'm the shere Era Hemingway. Just so you know that's me.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, I don't have to worry you don't.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
You don't have to worry about me, Hemingway. I'm five yet.
I'm driving back up to La but I'm still in
Baja and I haven't.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
Hit the border yet.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
The readon that, Aha, Cadifornia. How the roads in Baja californiayet.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
If you're on the quota road, which means the one
that you paid for to go down the you know,
the scenic route?
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Gotcha? Gotcha? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (33:19):
Good question. So John Smoltz, I haven't you know. I
just got in the car. I heard John Smoltz and
that's why I called. Because I don't understand why a
person cannot form a sentence is allowed to call as
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a commentator the World Series the Playoffs.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Well I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I don't have anything against John Smoltz. It just annoyed me.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
It just because he kept saying it, and every time
he said it is said that I became angrier and
I was just like, it's just there's is my issue,
but it bothered me, and so that's why.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
I have I have the same issue, but it wasn't
just about one thing. I have an issue with the
fact that the guy could not know how to form
an English sentence when he speaks.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Well, I don't know who's who's uh, like everyone that
does the base. I remember Tim McCarver, who's been gone
for years, but he did that for a long time.
People should rip him because he would he would talk
the entire time.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Macarver just wouldn't shut up. People ripped him that.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
I mean no, no, John Folks just stumbled all over himself.
I don't think I think Tim McCarver did that.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I mean Tim, you'd ask him one question and he
would talk for three innings. And that was back when
he talked about forty five minutes at.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Least against form an English sentence. I guess that's my point.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I got you. All right, we'll stay away from the
freeder allies, all right, and be careful. All right, you guys,
you on the five.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Cruising for a bruising all right, straight ahead, we'll get
to that. Looking for an excuse story, And here's the
who am I game and we'll go to the American
League Championship Series. Now, George Kirby of the Mariners became
the first American League pitcher since.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Me to allow eight or more runs? Who in the
league Championship series? Now, this is just the American League.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
So George Kirby the first American League pitcher since me
to allow eight or more runs in a league championship
series game.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Who am I? That is the question of the answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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Speaker 2 (35:39):
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Speaker 1 (36:21):
Back to it, all right, back to it. We'll pay
off the who am I? Game in a minute.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
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Speaker 8 (36:44):
Flatty hits it high in deep center field. Moving back,
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Speaker 1 (36:49):
At the fence. Did he get it? He did not?
Speaker 8 (36:52):
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though for the who am I game? And here it
is George Kirby who gave a big, big meat ball
there in the game for Seattle. The Mariners pitcher George
Kirby became the first American League the first American league
pitcher since me to allow eight or more runs in
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a league championship series start. It does not happen very often,
that is the question.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Let's go to the great unwashed, the Hoy POLOI and
see who knows easy in the three zero five, says Hacksaw.
Jim Duggett. Is he answer Captain Chaos from I forty
Ian just Josh going with Madison Bumgardner as his answer.
Fireman ed from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Andy in lion
(38:12):
O Lakes, Minnesota, says Former Twins pitcher Johann Santana is
the answer. Alf the Alien Ol Piner says his friend Rainman.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Definitely Rainman. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Eloy from Compton says Twins legend Homer Bailey is the answer.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Who else? A goat man going with one of the.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Great characters in baseball history, the mad Hungarian Al Horboski.
You realize goatman if you had a guy like that
today that the people would know. Maybe not now, but
a few years ago they would have canceled. You can't
call him the mad Hungarian, but.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Eileen in San Francisco says, Lucy that evil woman or
girl from the Peanuts?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Mike Ivy from mister nice Guy? Bryce Harper, who's thirty
three today? Late Night Truck? Sister's answer? And Happy birthday, Bryce,
You're now pastor athletic prime. Congratulations, Spocks Weed going with
Andre the Giant?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Hugh on the five driving on the expensive road in
Baja California. So he can drive on a nice road,
he says. Tim McCarver, Mighty Mouse, Damon Stodammeier from Big
Lou He's on number two in the LBC Supermarcus Steve says,
John Lackey is the answer. Terry in England going with
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Robbie the Mariner fans diet.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
That's that's not right? How dare you?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Tony's En Dajas who is closing up show? Is that?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Matt Jack?
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Oh, I give me the the You gotta send me
a message, Matt? Does that mean we're not doing the
mall of meet and greet there, Matt Jack. They're going,
oh my god, I didn't know that. Send me a message.
All right, do you have an answer, Arena.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I'm going with the Locknest monster. Ben, all right, is
it the locke Ness Monster? Is no?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
The correct answer from the Royals of twenty fifteen. A
decade ago, it was Johnny Quato Johnny Wato.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
In the twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
American League Championship Series for can as a city.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
It actually happened last year in the National League.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
The great Jack Flaherty with the Dodgers rode the vomit
comet in the League Championship Series.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Had a terrible start there.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
But before that, for the last couple era, you had
Josh Beckett who did it for the Red Sox. Beckett
had a terrible outing, the great Chad Billingsley.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I think I was at that game.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Holy crap for the Doyers in eight another fat guy
CC Sabathia Maddox.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Greg Maddox did it.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
With the Cubs and the Atlanta Braves did it twice,
So very impressive for Greg Maddox and go to you
know some of the others there, Phil Nicro and I'm
not gonna make the joke, but it's a knuckleball pitcher
Phil n I E k r O.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
It's a he is a brother named Jim.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
That's a fun last name.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
It's a great name.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
And I just don't say it too fast because people
don't listen close to the rain, and sometimes people hear
that name they think something else.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
But it's not what you think. It's not that I
don't know what you're talking about.
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number one, our number one, and you are
in for some fun as we jockey into position here
as the magic audio box was open all night to
provide you with this fresh podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We start out talking bays Ball, the.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
American League Championship Series, game number three, Game number three
of the Alcs, and who's to blame for cal Raley's
Mariners getting Shalac Clobbard blown to bits, smashed like a
bug on a windshield by Toronto.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We'll take a look at that.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Also, what was the difference for Blue Jay star Vladimir
Guerrero Junior who had been zero for seven the games
in Canada and went four for four for the Toronto
baseball team in the game played last night in the
Great Pacific Northwest. Also, what do you think of Fox's
broadcaster John Smoltz and what appears to be an addiction.
We like John, but he's got an addiction to using
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the word momentum during these games. It was a pet
peeve of mind. So I will use the bully pulpit
to vent and you'll hear that right now here. It
is as we knock it out of the park. It's
our number one.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well, if you had the American League Championship Series over
after the first two games. Apparently the Blue Jays did
not get the memo. They did not get the memo.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben
Malor Show. We are in the air everywhere cohorts as
we shoehorn in the fun coast, the coast, border to
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the mic on your ear drums like Vladie Guerrero drops
dingers in the world famous Fox Sports Radio studios, much
to the dismay of Robbie the Mariner fan JJ in
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That is our lead.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We go to Seattle, the beautiful Pacific Northwest, the eye
of the baseball universe, as the only team from the
Cartel of Baseball that had not made it, had not
gotten to the World Series two wins away, trying to
trim that down a little bit more. There was some
buzz in the airone fired up there and how did
that go? Mariners hosting Toronto and Game three of the
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American League Championship Series in Island.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Game it was hump.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Day all that, and if you were not watching on Fox,
maybe you missed it. Vladdie no longer in a slump,
Vladimir Guerrero Junior with not one, not two, not three,
but four hits, including a home run. He scored three times.
And the Blue Jays hit not one, not two, not three,
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not four, but five ding dongs. That's a lot of
ding dongs, hollering James would like that amount of ding
dongs pasting the Mariners, absolutely pacing them thirteen to four
the final in Game three, and we had forever Dirty
Cheating Astro alumni George Springer also had a dinger and
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three hits.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Bang Bang, Whistle Whistle.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Springer and Guerrero each hit solo shots as Toronto finished with.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
As we mentioned the five five home runs in the way, Toronto.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I had eighteen hits in this game, eighteen of them.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I'm told that's good. I'm told that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will begin as we
discuss the question when a team gets absolutely smoked like this,
what an embarrassment? The question is who gets the blame
for cal Raley's Mariners getting smashed like a bug by
a windshield driving at ninety miles an hour down the interstate.
(04:51):
In this case, Toronto was the one that was driving
the car and the Mariners with the bug. So my
thoughts on this, I've got brown Derby, voodoo, and overhead
bin and we will combine all of these things together
and we're gonna put the biscuit in the basket, is
what we're going to do. So let's start with this,
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and you focus at the very middle of the diamond. Now,
if you imagine in your head the baseball diamond. You've
got the backstop, the catcher. We're looking out towards the outfield.
You got the catcher. You go down to the right
hand side, you get the first baseman, you got the
second basement, then the other side, you got the short
stop and the third basement. But in the middle of
all that, right the man in the middle, that would
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be the man standing on the bump, the bumpety bump,
and boyder he go bumpety bump.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That would be the starting pitcher.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now, the Mariners were set up early here as j
rod hit a two run homer in the bottom of
the first. Julio Rodriguez two run shots, So see's up
to nothing, feeling pretty good about themselves, similar to the
vibe Milwaukee had in Game two. And they got the
early home run over the Dodgers. And then George Kirby
it didn't happen right away, but when it happened, he said,
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you know what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I want to honor the big Dumper. I would like
to honor the big dumper.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And what better way to honor the big dumper than
Kirby bringing back an old Hollywood restaurant from early Hollywood
called the Brown Derby and a big giant brown you
know what.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
All right, there.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Served up not one, not two, but three of the
five home runs, and by the time the dust had settled,
Kirby allowed eight earned runs. God awful starting pitching, right,
utterly worthless. And while Kirby was terrible, he was left
in the game for an extended dance remix. And so
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you point the finger at the manager of the Seattle
baseball team, or should I point the finger at the nerds.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Either way, it's a balancing act.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You've got Dan Wilson, who is getting kind of old,
looks old Dan Wilson there in the dugout, who's juggling
machetes and butcher knives. And let's just say that he
forgot to catch a couple of the knives in one
of the you know, it just was.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
It was ugly.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It was right to the forehead right there, sliced wide
open the forehead.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And you gotta have a feel for the game.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Kirby suffered from die die diarrhea during that inning, and
Wilson did not change the diaper. He did not change
the diaper. He said, you know what, you get diarrhea?
I want you to fill that diaper all the way up. Okay, good,
fill it up, fill it up some more. It's not done.
What a stinker. Now the malord advice to the Seattle
baseball team. I learned this from an NFL quarterback years ago.
(07:31):
When you take a deuce, you don't sit there and
look at it. No, no, you flush it and you
move on. So there you go the Mariners, who absolutely
that was more of a diarrhea situation than a deuce.
But it was quite the mess there from the Seattle
side of things, giving up eighteen hits, all those home
runs your home ballpark. Everyone all fired up, and we
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have road field advantage in baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's something that nobody wants to talk about, and you know,
I'm supposed to talk about what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Because there's this myth of home field advantage, like you're
going into a stadium and there's a moat around it
and it's impossible to win in a certain stadium, which
is just bull crap. It's been that way for years
since the players union complained, and they have all the
creature comforts on the road that they would have at home,
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and many of the players like playing on the road.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
More than home.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
They're away from their families. They like that, but you're
not supposed to talk about that either. Meanwhile, on the
winning side, on the winning side, the question what was
different on this night than the previous nights for Toronto
Star of Vladimir Guerrero Junior and his big night. Now,
we had mentioned in a previous episode of the show
that in his playoff career, granted small sample size, but
(08:47):
Vladimir Guerrero Junior had been absolutely monster matching against the Yankees,
against everyone else. He was batting one hundred in his
playoff career, like one oh three in his playoff career. Well,
that number has changed a lot because one night the
guy's a wet noodle and then he takes a quantum leap.
And now in this game, it was like vintage Joe
Carter reincarnated in a Blue Jay uniform there with extra
(09:11):
hot sauce. That was impressive there, and he was like
the bouncer at the door there and he was telling
the Mariners you're not on the list.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Pal, I'm sorry, get out of here. You're not invited.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The Voodoo bugoloo, the mental voodoo boogoloo, the classic slumpbuster stuff.
Mark Grace approves that message. The stage fright had been
there and the mental undressing of the matches. They say,
when you got stage fright, you got to use those
mental gymnastics and imagine that the people are are not
(09:43):
wearing their clothes. He had been zero for seven, so
instead of imagining though the Mariners players and boxers and briefs,
he used the art of manifestation. He had the Mariners
in his head and I'm convinced Uncle Moe will agree
with me on this. He had them wearing pinstripes, and
suddenly Vladdie was licking his chops, frothing like a rabbit
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dog at a raw steak and a successful playoff performance.
Now Toronto clearly approach things much differently. The Blue Jays
decided to go with what we call the Caveman approach.
Me ce ball, me hit ball, Caveman approach. Right, all
eighteen hits within three pitches. So tat tat, hit the ball.
(10:29):
No chessboard, No I'm gonna try to outsmart you, and
no it was a sledgehammer.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Now it did help.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It absolutely helped that the Mariner pitchers, led by the
aforementioned mister Kirby collectively pittled down their legs on the mound.
And sometimes baseball is just that dumb, and you just
that's the way it is, and so you don't need
the launch angle thesis. I don't need to go into
my whole rant and rave about that. Sometimes the slump
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ends because the other team to open up a nice
Italian bistro and serve oversized meatballs right there, or another
way to look at it, it's like a kid's birthday
party and they don't have any blindfolds. They have a
giant pinata filled with candy, and you get a bat
and no swing hards on. But you don't need to
worry about the blindfold. There's no need for the blindfold,
(11:20):
all right now, last word, so I have an h
I need discretion now. I granted this is something for
me and you might not care about That's fine. This
is this is therapeutic. This is therapeutic. And I'm sitting
there watching this game and I heard I jotted it down.
I stopped counting at about seven. I'm sure it was
more than that. I'm sure it was more than that.
(11:41):
John Smoltz on the broadcast kept saying momentum like every
inning he said moment every single inning, there must have
been a momentum button that they pressed, pressed the John
say momentum, Okay, moment So the question is, what do
you think of Fox broadcast John Smoltz and his clear
(12:02):
addiction to using the word momentum during these playoff broadcasts. Well,
it is the elephant in the room, the Komodo dragon
in the room.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
John Smoltz is out there.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
He's tossing around the word momentum like he's in the
French corner in New Orleans and he's tossing beads out
at Marti Gras just about every at bat. It seemed
I may or may not be embellishing every foul ball
every time a pigeon landed out on the warning track.
Momentumness momentum that I swear if he could have trademarked momentum,
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you imagine how much money he would have made from
revenue from that, I mean the royalties. By the third inning,
he would have gone off to play golf somewhere.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's what he would have done.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It was like he was praying to the flying spaghetti
Monster of baseball, because momentum is as real in baseball
as the flying spaghetti Monster. You all told me, you said,
Oh my god, the Mariners have all the momentum.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
How'd that work out for you? Good?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Use a lot of money. I hope you lost a
lot of money. A lot of money, all right, So
might as well just pray to the flying spaghetti monster.
Oh great, newly one, grant this team with the most
vibes more invisible energy, because that's.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What momentum is.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It's not a real thing. You can't hold it, you
can't see it. It is just verbal filler. Let me
repeat that for those of you a little slow in
the back of the room. It is verbal filler. It
is sportscasting, mashed potatoes. It's rice. You know how Sometimes
you go to a like a Mexican restaurant, you order
a like a beef burrito, chicken breed or something like that,
(13:48):
and they'll fill it with mostly rice because rice is cheap.
It fills it up right, and you don't get the meat,
you get the cheap filler.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well, that's the word. Momentum is cheap filler. And dingle berries.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Act like it's some kind of mystical gas cloud floating
from dugout to dugout, it's so stupid. Tries me nuts
like the Mariners. Again, I'm just repeating what you told me.
You told me this. They had all the momentum. They
carried that fifteen inning win over the Tigers, and they
flew across North America to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and they
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won both games. They were up to nothing in the ALCS.
They had all the momentum. Now, let me ask you
a question. Did they make the mistake? And I think
this might have happened. I know, I want to be
fair to you. I don't want to be a complete douche.
Is it possible that the Mariners traveling party, the equipment
manager packed the momentum bag in the carry on and
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that TSA said, excuse me, kind sir, I don't think
you can bring that much momentum on board. You've got
too much mo it's over the limit. You're gonna have
to leave some of that moment them here in Toronto.
But we need the momentum, sir, No, no, no, you
can't take that momentum. The plane won't take off with
all that momentum.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
It's so stupid.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Or maybe they got the momentum on the plane and
then they were flying over like Fargo, North Dakota, and
somehow it slipped out. There was some turbulence and the
overhead beIN opened up and the momentum fell out and
then landed somewhere in North Dakota. So if you're in Fargo,
you might get a bag filled with momentum. You might
(15:32):
get that, all right, you might get that. And then
what happened after that? You think the Toronto Bluejay said,
you know what, we want some momentum, So why don't
we trade some delicious poutine and we'll get it back.
We'll make a deal with the baseball guys. You gave
the Mariners too much momentum. Give us some momentum. Okay,
(15:52):
we'll give you some momentum. Give us some poutine. Okay,
I'll take the poutine. There you go. Even on the
postgame show where they were all playing grab ass, there
you had Kevin Burkhart, who I don't know, does he
do this all the time. I just noticed it because
it was on my mind. On the postgame panel he
was doing the highlights. And if you saw the end
of the game, the Mariners hit a couple of garbage
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time dingers and on the panel at the dais there.
Burkhart said Seattle might have gotten some momentum with those
late home runs going into game.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
For spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That is not momentum. That is what's called. The clinical
term is stat padding. Yes, stat padding. When your team
is down by ten runs and you hit a home run,
that is stat padding, is what it is. It's like
saying the guy that got dumped by the hot girl
but buys new socks suddenly has relationship momentum for his
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next relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Because he has new sucks. It's lazy.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's broadcasting auto pilot. It's like sports talk show hosts
that do one, you know, one topic the entire show
because they're lazy. It drives me nuts. But went in
doubt right, went in out. I could absolutely do that job.
And I'm not being bragged doocious here. I know all
of the cliches, I hate almost all of them, but
(17:16):
I could do the job. Anytime a team takes the lead, well,
they've all the momentum right now, Nip, they've gone a
lot of momentum, NIP.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
A lot of momentum.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh my god, it's the um of the sports broadcasting world.
Instead of saying say momentum. You have nothing to say momentum.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Ban the word. Ban the word.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Put it in the same pile as intangibles, which is
another bull crap word, a veteran presence, another nonsensical term
in sports, or just here, listen, get down and say
you know what to the flying spaghetti monster. My god,
all right now I feel better. See that was therapeutic.
(18:01):
That was a therapeutic rant. And now I can go
on with my night and we can settle in here
and I'm good, You're good, And I guess you could
say we have momentum.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
We've got momentum. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
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Speaker 1 (19:17):
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Speaker 1 (21:13):
And he left the mound. You could when he walked
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You could see the skid marks on the.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Back of his home uniform there. What a horrific Oh
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All right, Bobby and Florida says, hey, Ben, I guess
love isn't real. You can't see it or hold it. Well,
if it's done right, you can definitely feel it. What
else do we have?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I'll be here on my ferg dog rights and says
Seattle may still be up two games to one, but
if you look at the runs scored in the series,
they are now tied seventeen seventeen. So I'd be pretty
nervous right now if I were Robbie. And no Stredinas
although I think he misspelled no Stredenus. J dot In
(23:22):
Utah rites in and he says, hey Ben, please Ben.
He says, please be easy on John Smoltz. He's just
doing his job on an essay about momentum. There's nothing
wrong with giving momentum and manny and a petty and
a bubble bath. It just drives me insane, drives me insane.
(23:44):
But you know, I just kept I had my bad
I had the audio up. I know I should have
put the mute button on. I had the audio up.
I usually put the mute button on. It's a bad
job by me. I screwed up.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I know. That's user error.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
User A malaprop guy writes and says, I wonder if
the Spaghetti Monster is a fan of Marcel's.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oodles of noodles.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Uh yeah, I'll have to check if what Marcell calls
in tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So not not right now?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Let's see not a burner rights in says your nemesis
David Vassay is dressing up as a vampire this Halloween.
He is a little a little unclear about what part
of the body to enact is feasting on. He said, there, yes, interesting,
(24:32):
I think you shouldress up as like a pool boy.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I think that would be good, or a caddy or
cool pool boy with one of those like the thongs,
you know, the really tight ones. Yeah yeah, yeah, something
like that. Yeah yeah yeah yeah sure, why not?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
ELOI from Compton, the clinical terms banana hammock. I think
it's the clinical term from Compton writes in says, Ben,
are you related to no stradinas? Because I remember you
mentioning Russ to the Sacramento Kings last night and it happened. Yes,
I put that voodoo bugaloo on.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Russell Westbrook to play.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
There's a running bit we have when we were driving
around and you know a band has officially jumped the
shark when you see them on billboards. I don't know
if this happens everywhere else, but I know here in LA,
driving around, you'll see on billboards like so and so's
appearing at one of the Indian casinos, and you know,
(25:24):
on the outskirts of LA. And that's usually a dead
giveaway that things are not going well for the band. Uh.
And in basketball, when you sign with the Sacramento Kings,
that's also a dig giveaway things are not going well.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Things have not gone well for you. Not a burner, right?
Since has Ben?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The Blue Jays were given the Tom Emansky instructional video
endorsed by Fred McGriff and that is the reason for
the turnaround. There you go, Fred says Ben, can you
please tell us how you really feel? About momentum. Yes,
late and I think I just did late night drug test.
This is maybe the word momentum was throwing around so
much because it was available in bulk at Costco in
(26:04):
nearby Kirkland, Washington.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well that's a great point, let's say, a fine, fine point.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Robbie, the Mariner fan, says, you might be right after
all about moment I'm not being a thing.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
What the f was that by my Mariners?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Robbie says, depressed definitely did not seize the moment. Yes,
there was no no seizing of anything going on. There
was a whole lot. I'm just happy you didn't go
to the game, Robbi. Imagine, imagine if that you spent
a lot of money on. Those tickets were not cheap, right,
those those tickets were expensive. You go out there and
(26:38):
you show up and games games over by the fifth inning.
It's like, wow, that's a lot of that's a lot
of dough to throw around, and then my god.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mahlor Show.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
As we are chopping away here at the overnight coming
up in a couple of minutes, we will get to
the looking for an Excuse.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
An age, Old Age old story in the Sporting World.
We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Let's go to the phones though, right now, and we'll
start out in Orlando and we say hello to Rafael,
who's next up and first off in the lead up
chair on the show.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Him.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
I disagree. I think the Mariners still have all the momentum.
They lost one game, went home, they got two away,
and they're all over it. They're going to crush the
Blue Jays and they're going to kill the Dodger. You
(27:36):
are a West coast elitis.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Rafael, if I was at West coast alitis, wouldn't I
say that the Mariners are going to win, because wouldn't
that be West coast bias if that was the.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Case, Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
You're a Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Okay, that doesn't count, So Pary, I didn't know this.
I'm looking at a map here, so apparently Seattle's not
on the west coast?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Got it? Okay? Good? Yeah? What are we? What are
we drinking tonight?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Jim Bean?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Jim Bean? Yeah? All right?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
And uh, you know what, I'm gonna push back on
my monologue, Raphael, I would like to say right now,
and I want to learn all the affilies downline my
man Rafael in the Orlando area has all though momentum
when it comes to the alcohol.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You've got a lot of momentum going with it. How
long you've been drinking?
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Been drinking for seven hours, baby.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Seven hours?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And what better way to celebrate seven This man literally
could die of alcohol poisoning, and instead of calling the authorities,
he's calling our show unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Mike, maybe take a nap? How about that? Okay, all right?
Thank you? Uh was like, I don't know, He's like,
I got it thought. I'm like, wow, I'm shocked.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
You have one.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
The thing that's most amazing about that is he was
able to call into the show.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yeah, the dexterity is still.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, I say, the number kind of fast. You know,
drinking is a lot.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
That's a lot of I mean some of these apps though,
they just they can just click a button and it'll
call Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Is that is that on the iHeart app? I think,
I think, so.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Okay, all right, but you still have to be able
to futz around with your phone and get on there.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I'm on it that Raphael. I guess he's not that
drunk if he could, you know, call in and is
is that they say Disney is the happiest place on
earth disney Land. I guess Disney World will be the
same thing. And I think Raphael's his apartment is right there.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Man. That's how many bottles do you think he's gone?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Now?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
How many bottles you think he's drinking? Seven hours? That's
a lot. I mean that's what do you think? Three
bottles more than that? If not more? Yah, gotta be more?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Right? Probably when he sounds like more you know right
away too, you know, I mean right the first word
he said, I said, this.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Is a drunk.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
This guy is completely hammered, right, this is this is
somebody that's been drinking for a while.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
It's almost Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Good for him?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Uh yeah, well you think, I mean, this is your
your idea.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Almost you think everything was almost Friday, the right, right? Yeah,
Tuesday was almost Friday too.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, almost every day you're trying to get to Friday,
because Friday is a magical day.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And because when you travel the world, you know, and
you go all over.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
The place and you know, still, no, you don't now
what kind of drunk do you think he was? He's
I don't know what he's like normally that guy that
called in Raphael a nice drunk.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
See you think it's like a Mary Poppin's drunk.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
He gets sweeter and happier because you're all upset with me,
he said. I you know, West Coast biased, but the
Mariners are not on the West Coast. I think he
might be a nutty professor mixed with the Mary Poppins.
The nutty professor becomes more social, So it could be
he's a little bit of a you know, Mary Poppins
and the nutty professor, so a little bit of those two.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
This like, there's four types of drunks. I learned this.
I didn't know this when I was growing up. My
parents didn't teach me this. My mom did not. My
dad didn't teach me this, nor did school. School did
not teach me. That's correct.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I learned this doing overnight sports talk radio. I learned
that there are four types of drunks. That there's the
Hemingway drunk. Then that's the person that doesn't change at
all when they get completely sauced.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Right. They love those people. You can't tell if they're
drunk or not. Yeah, I mean they're completely corkscrewed. But
you don't know because.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
They're don't They don't change, you know, they're schnockered and
just well oiled and it doesn't matter. So that's the hemingway.
The Mary Poppins, they're the ones we mentioned. They get
a little sweeter, a little nicer, you know, it's just
feeling good, all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Little liquid courage to go be social.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
And that's also the nutty professor, which is more more social. Now.
The one you want to avoid, and this is the
one that ends.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Up in a lot of nine to one one calls
and domestic disputes is the mister high drunk. Because they're
the ones that get the beer muscles. They're the ones
that get the liquid courage and want to them get.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Into dust ups, right. They they're like, all right, it's
like Ron Burgundy from Anchorman.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I love Scotch, Scotchy scott Scotch, and I'm gonna go
and you know, throw a haymaker at someone. So as
far as I don't think they've changed, that that was
years ago. I learned that, and I believe that's still
the same. I believe that's still as well. Yes, Okay,
let's go to Hugh on the five who's got some
momentum driving down the five.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Hello, Hello, Hugh, welcome.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
I'm the shere Era Hemingway. Just so you know that's me.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Okay, I don't have to worry you don't.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
You don't have to worry about me, Hemingway. I'm five yet.
I'm driving back up to La but I'm still in
Baja and I haven't.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
Hit the border yet.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
The readon that, Aha, Cadifornia. How the roads in Baja californiayet.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
If you're on the quota road, which means the one
that you paid for to go down the you know,
the scenic route?
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (33:16):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Gotcha? Gotcha? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (33:19):
Good question. So John Smoltz, I haven't you know. I
just got in the car. I heard John Smoltz and
that's why I called. Because I don't understand why a
person cannot form a sentence is allowed to call as
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a commentator the World Series the Playoffs.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Well I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I don't have anything against John Smoltz. It just annoyed me.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
It just because he kept saying it, and every time
he said it is said that I became angrier and
I was just like, it's just there's is my issue,
but it bothered me, and so that's why.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
I have I have the same issue, but it wasn't
just about one thing. I have an issue with the
fact that the guy could not know how to form
an English sentence when he speaks.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Well, I don't know who's who's uh, like everyone that
does the base. I remember Tim McCarver, who's been gone
for years, but he did that for a long time.
People should rip him because he would he would talk
the entire time.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Macarver just wouldn't shut up. People ripped him that.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
I mean no, no, John Folks just stumbled all over himself.
I don't think I think Tim McCarver did that.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I mean Tim, you'd ask him one question and he
would talk for three innings. And that was back when
he talked about forty five minutes at.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
Least against form an English sentence. I guess that's my point.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I got you. All right, we'll stay away from the
freeder allies, all right, and be careful. All right, you guys,
you on the five.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Cruising for a bruising all right, straight ahead, we'll get
to that. Looking for an excuse story, And here's the
who am I game and we'll go to the American
League Championship Series. Now, George Kirby of the Mariners became
the first American League pitcher since.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Me to allow eight or more runs? Who in the
league Championship series? Now, this is just the American League.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
So George Kirby the first American League pitcher since me
to allow eight or more runs in a league championship
series game.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Who am I? That is the question of the answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
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Speaker 2 (35:39):
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Speaker 1 (36:21):
Back to it, all right, back to it. We'll pay
off the who am I? Game in a minute.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
But first time now for the play of the night,
and oh what a play of the night it is
as we entertain the American League Championship Series the tire
Iraq Play of the night.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
And Vlattie, who's your daddy? Let's find out his pitch?
Speaker 8 (36:44):
Flatty hits it high in deep center field. Moving back,
Rodriguez at the warning track leaps.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
At the fence. Did he get it? He did not?
Speaker 8 (36:52):
It's cone home run. Vladimir Carrero Junior head. It's seven
to Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
In the fifth turn out, the last the parties over
and that is the tire rack play of the night.
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dot Com the way tire buying should be. Thanks to
the Blue Jays radio broadcast for that call time now
though for the who am I game? And here it
is George Kirby who gave a big, big meat ball
there in the game for Seattle. The Mariners pitcher George
Kirby became the first American League the first American league
pitcher since me to allow eight or more runs in
(37:43):
a league championship series start. It does not happen very often,
that is the question.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Let's go to the great unwashed, the Hoy POLOI and
see who knows easy in the three zero five, says Hacksaw.
Jim Duggett. Is he answer Captain Chaos from I forty
Ian just Josh going with Madison Bumgardner as his answer.
Fireman ed from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Andy in lion
(38:12):
O Lakes, Minnesota, says Former Twins pitcher Johann Santana is
the answer. Alf the Alien Ol Piner says his friend Rainman.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Definitely Rainman. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Eloy from Compton says Twins legend Homer Bailey is the answer.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Who else? A goat man going with one of the.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Great characters in baseball history, the mad Hungarian Al Horboski.
You realize goatman if you had a guy like that
today that the people would know. Maybe not now, but
a few years ago they would have canceled. You can't
call him the mad Hungarian, but.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Eileen in San Francisco says, Lucy that evil woman or
girl from the Peanuts?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Mike Ivy from mister nice Guy? Bryce Harper, who's thirty
three today? Late Night Truck? Sister's answer? And Happy birthday, Bryce,
You're now pastor athletic prime. Congratulations, Spocks Weed going with
Andre the Giant?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Hugh on the five driving on the expensive road in
Baja California. So he can drive on a nice road,
he says. Tim McCarver, Mighty Mouse, Damon Stodammeier from Big
Lou He's on number two in the LBC Supermarcus Steve says,
John Lackey is the answer. Terry in England going with
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Robbie the Mariner fans diet.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
That's that's not right? How dare you?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Tony's En Dajas who is closing up show? Is that?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Matt Jack?
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Oh, I give me the the You gotta send me
a message, Matt? Does that mean we're not doing the
mall of meet and greet there, Matt Jack. They're going,
oh my god, I didn't know that. Send me a message.
All right, do you have an answer, Arena.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I'm going with the Locknest monster. Ben, all right, is
it the locke Ness Monster? Is no?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
The correct answer from the Royals of twenty fifteen. A
decade ago, it was Johnny Quato Johnny Wato.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
In the twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
American League Championship Series for can as a city.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
It actually happened last year in the National League.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
The great Jack Flaherty with the Dodgers rode the vomit
comet in the League Championship Series.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Had a terrible start there.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
But before that, for the last couple era, you had
Josh Beckett who did it for the Red Sox. Beckett
had a terrible outing, the great Chad Billingsley.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I think I was at that game.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Holy crap for the Doyers in eight another fat guy
CC Sabathia Maddox.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Greg Maddox did it.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
With the Cubs and the Atlanta Braves did it twice,
So very impressive for Greg Maddox and go to you
know some of the others there, Phil Nicro and I'm
not gonna make the joke, but it's a knuckleball pitcher
Phil n I E k r O.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
It's a he is a brother named Jim.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
That's a fun last name.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
It's a great name.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
And I just don't say it too fast because people
don't listen close to the rain, and sometimes people hear
that name they think something else.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
But it's not what you think. It's not that I
don't know what you're talking about.
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