October 8, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Toronto Blue Jays blowing a lead against Aaron Judge and the Yankees and allowing them to force a Game 4, if this qualifies as Aaron Judge's moment in the playoffs, the Seattle Mariners on the brink of advancing, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one, our number one,
ready to go, and we talk about the baseball playoffs
American League side of the Bracketback on Tuesday night, we
stayed up all night to give you this fresh pod
on this eighth day of October. So here in our
number one. Who gets the dish of blame poutine for
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Vladimir Guerrero's Toronto Blue Jays had a five run lead
in the third inning and blew the game. Very rarely
does a team blow that big a lead in the postseason. Also,
does this qualify as Aaron Judges moments in the playoffs?
Joe Davis was really really fired up, I mean a
little over the top for my taste. And on the
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other side of the American League bracket, the Seattle Mariners
are on the brink of advancing as they beat the Tigers.
What's wrong with the Motor City kiddies offense? What offense?
Their offense is offensive? We'll talk about that and more
right now set up in it's our number one. Well,
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if you had the New York Yankees being eliminated a
sweep in the playoffs, you are a loser. Welcome in
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Speaker 2 (03:10):
I lead.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
This hour is from the American League playoffs. There were
no nationally playoff games. We talked about that, but there
were none on Tuesday, as the Partey got started. We'll
begin in the Bronx the late game. Although these games,
because of the weather delay in Detroit, were simultaneous most
of them. The game in Detroit between the Mariners and
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the Tigers started about an hour before the game at
Yankee statey. It was supposed to be much earlier, but
three hours almost three hours of rain delay. But American
League Divisional Series Game number three and the Aaron Judge
hyperbole is through the roof on this. Aaron Judge hit
a tying home run, a game tying home run off
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the foul poll at Yankee Stadium. There as the Yankees
get four batted in by Aaron Judge and stave off elimination.
The only time we use the word stave is in
sports to talk about somebody not being eliminate. They staved
off elimination. Yankees rallied from five runs down. That doesn't
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happen very often. Although sportscasters always pretend like it happens
all the time, it does not. Very rarely does that happen.
And they did hear, and so the Yankees end up
defeating the Blue Jays nine to six. Is your final.
And it was actually Jazz Chisholm, who's not getting his
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massage and his bubble bath from the medium, who hit
the go ahead home run here. He hit the go
ahead home run in the fifth inning. But it's all
about Aaron Judge toelicking by the National Baseball Medium. They
love them some, Aaron Judge. But it was chising We
with the go ahead home run there in the fifth dings.
So the Yankees taking advantage of some shoddy play by
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the Blue Jays. They must have had a good time.
Maybe the story the other d was Vladimir Guerrero was
very braggettocious about how, oh, the Blue Jays had an
optional workout at Yankee Stadium. The entire team showed up.
That's team unity. Did the entire team go up bar
hopping after the workout? My god, mischees, errors, terrifically terrible pitching,
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the whole thing. The better story is in that losing
locker room, all god. So that is where we will begin.
As we discussed the question, who gets the dish of
blame poutine for Vladi Guerrero Junior's Toronto squad as they
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get squished by the Yankees in this game. So I've
got the boat show, the Bronx diner, and pool noodles,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make amazing chicken tendies, is what
we're going to do. So, hey, the first rule of
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sports talk radio is to not over complicate things, right,
So we're not gonna overcome Kate. The situation. Toronto had
a six to one lead and a five run lead
in an elimination game, and they win the game. They're
onto the American League Championship Series, and somehow despite a
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five run lead. The big advantage you have on the
road is to play with the lead, and you have
the other team, the home team with tight took his syndrome.
Tight took his syndrome. And the Blue Jays could not
even take advantage of that because they did jump out
to the five run lead. Laddie did his joh Vladimir
Gerrol Junior, the two run homer early on. He did
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his little macho man chest pounding thing when he's run
around the base. Look at me, look at me, Look
at how great I am. LA's Vladimir Guerrero. Crowd was
buzzing there, it was. It was interesting. You know, Yankee
fans out here we go. It's a starting act like
Mets fans here we go there. But anyway, that should
have been an early body blow that put Toronto in
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position to win. He did put him in a position
to win. They didn't win it. Obviously, the Jays scored
enough the office. You score six runs, that is a
big enough lead to win the game. And does anyone
disagree with that? No one disagrees. Nobody disagrees. And then
the pitching staff collectively grabbed the keys somehow to the
team bus. They peeled out of the Yankee Stadium parking lot.
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There they went on the causeway and they drove straight
into a ditch, which is hard to find in the Bronx,
but they found a ditch and they just drove right there.
There's sound of it. And so the starter was somebody
that Toronto picked up at the trade deadline, Shane Bieber,
the Beabs. So you're given a five run lead, you're
giving the baseball in the bottom of the third inning,
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and what did Beabs do? He said, you know what,
I'm the Duke of puke and I'm gonna ride the
vomit and there he vomited all over the mound. It
ends up going just fifty four pitches. Now I realize
he's had injuries. And they talked about that in the
Fox broadcast and all they but fifty four pitches and
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then they had to wave him out of the game.
Get your fat ass out of the game. Get out
of here. Now. That is not pitching. Okay, that is
not pitching. That is the Gong Show is what that
was for the Toronto Blue Jays would have been better off.
The Blue Jays would have been better off had they
gotten Justin Bieber on the mound, who does not have
an athletic bone in his body, but they put him
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on the mound and he can start crooning on the mount.
He could serenade sarenade the hitters there with baby baby,
you know, and just do that over and over again.
And the Yankee hitters would have been so annoyed by
that baby baby baby know that they would have struggled
to hit the ball. So they went to the bullpen.
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And how did that go that? Well, that was a
trip the Blue Jay bullpen. They went down to the
boat show. They went down to the boat show, and
all the relievers they grabbed their life jackets from the
Blue j bullpen. In fact, it's very odd when you
go out of the bullpen and you go onto the field,
they give you a life jacket. So they all had
their life jackets. And there they were motoring towards Misery
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Island and they took the ferry. Now not the Staten
Island ferry. They took the Suck Ferry, which is that's
a different ferry, but it goes over to Jersey Suck Ferry.
That's what they took right there. Very impressive eight unanswered
runs given off by the Toronto pitching staff as they
kicked the ball around. It was like they were auditioning
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for Toronto FC, the MLS squad there. Why not everyone
outside of Vladimir Guerrero Junior gets a spoonful of shame,
A spoonful of shame. Now, John Schneider is the manager
of the Toronto Blue Jays, and here he is talking
about the fact that to pair, you just have to
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flush this down the toilet. We'll hear the question and
the answer to to list.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
John, you've talked a lot about this season about your
team's ability to turn the page. Can describe a little
bit resetting after this one, given that you had a
spot in the alcs in your hands and now there's
a game four.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah, I mean, we had a spot in the alcs
in our hands when the series started, you know what
I mean. I know it's six to one in the
third inning, but we still have a spot like that tomorrow,
you know what I mean. So these guys will be
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It's it's it's really comforting for me to see them
do that all year. I know, they're going to do
it again tomorrow, and you have to kind of take
out the outside noise that comes to playing here and
all that kind of stuff. So I got all the
confidence in the world, and these guys showing up tomorrow
ready to go and just doing their normal day and
competing their asses off.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So why were they not ready for this game again?
No accountability? Why not just go we sucked. Why can't
you say, hey, I'm the major that Toronto blue Jays
and we blew in that game? Why casey it? Oh no,
you okay? I hate this. This is the part of
this crab. I hate. It's like every night, I can it.
Very rarely do you get somebody he's like, yeah, we sucked.
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Like everyone say you sucked, you sucked. Just say it.
I sucked, Say it.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I sucked.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm the Blue Jay. They were terrible. You had a
five run lead, you blew it and you throw that
crap out. That's modern leadership, that's modern coaching. It's a
bad call. It's a bad call by me exactly. All right. Meanwhile,
another thing that annoyed me. I'm just gonna say it's
my therapy. I don't I don't even care if you listen.
I'm just gonna complain about stuff that bothers me. So
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I'm watching the game and Joe Davis, thank god, he's
not doing the Dodger games right now. He's not a
big fan, so Joe Davis. He actually said on Fox
Joe Davis. He claimed very dramatically that Aaron Judge's playoff
moment opened when he hit a three run tying home
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run for the Yankees. He said it on the broadcast,
and it was like this great poetic call by the
announcer there that Aaron Judge hurt his moment. There's his moment. Yeah,
let's play. Here's we have the audio. I think this
is the audio, so let's go to it. This is
the thing that triggered me. I actually moved around a
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little bit on my sofa. Well, listen to strike Hitch.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
It's a drive downe if experiences moment.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay, I actually puked in my mouth when I heard that.
I literally puked in my mouth. My god. All right,
I'll ask the question, does this qualify as Aaron Judge
the captain of the Yankees moment in the playoffs? All right,
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So for those of you who relate to the party welcome.
So this is a three run home run in the
fourth inning of the Divisional Series Game three? Is the
bar that low now for the New York Yankees? Is
that where we have reached? This is a new low
for the New York Yankees. That Babe Ruth is rolling
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over in his grave, and lou Garrick he's shaking his
head deep in the ground somewhere, and Jolten Joe Dimagio
cannot believe that this is the Yankees, this is the
modern Yankees. That Aaron Judge had his moment in the
Divisional Round Game three tying home run. So I guess
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we're grading on a curve now. Is that what we're
doing now with the Yankees? Is that how we're doing it?
If you're wearing pinstripes, you get graded on a curve.
That's good, that's solid. It's like these guys are acting
like he had a walk off home run in Game
seven of the World Series. I was like, calm down,
just calm down a little bit. Don't force it. You
do not need to force it. There's a very good
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chance the Yankee still lose this series. So what do
you say? Then? Let me just forget about it. Aaron
Judge has been awesome in the regular season, not always
so good in the postseason. Right, the dude's been more
instead of Aaron Judge, he's been Aaron jury duty in
the playoffs and often watching Aaron Judge in the playoffs
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compared to the regular season, it is often a long,
boring experience and you just can't seem to get out
of it. He can't get out of it either. And
see again, this is the kind of stuff that drives
me bonkers. I'm probably the only one I admit it.
Other people don't seem to care because this has been
going on for years, but for me, it bothers me.
You don't need to romanticize everything. Not everything is a
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romantic Hallmark movie. You don't need to do it. Okay,
it's okay. It's like going down to the Bronx Diner
watching the coverage of Aaron Judge. You go down to
the Bronx Diner and the menu had a main course
of hyperbole and the side dish was exaggeration. That was
the Aaron Judge meal. There the broadcasters who fall in
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love with the story, it's all about the story. Before
the story has been written, they've already put the story
out there like that. That's the they want that. Back
in the day. It's called the Reggie Malmont where you know,
I've been waiting, waiting for years to crown Aaron Judge
and the big mammoth home run Judge. It's okay, there
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you go. It's like, it's not some kind of cinematic
breakthrough for Aaron Judge. It's not.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Unfortunately, Aaron Judge's moment and this is the reality. I'll
be the grown up in the room here. So Aaron
Judge's moment in playoff baseball. His moment happened in the
twenty twenty four World Series when the announcer said, oh
my god, Aaron Judge muffed it. He muffed the fly
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ball in center field during Game five. My favorite inning
in Yankee baseball history, by the way, Game five, the
fifth inning of Game five of the twenty twenty four
World Series, when he literally dropped the ball. Not my opinion,
he literally dropped the ball. He dropped it. The Yankees
low way five run lead to the Dodgers, and that
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is the clip that is going to live forever. Not
a home run in Yankee Stadium in Game three of
the divisional round of the playoffs against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Judge also batted too twenty two in the World Series
last year. That's not very helpful to the Aaron Judge
marching in chouter of society. Not exactly the stuff of legends.
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So you want a malmont right, You're all about the
malment right there. You know, Reggie Jackson had three dingers
in one night against the Dodgers, and that was the
Reggie malmon Right. People talk about that because missed October
because of that night. And until Aaron Judge, and this
is gonna be a bold take. Nobody else has this
take until Aaron Judge gets it done. I gotta get
her done in the World Series. And then at the
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end of the World Series and the last team standing
is the New York Yankees. Until that happens, then the moment,
no matter how many times Joe Davis says, that's the moment,
it doesn't know. And Joe can stop sending the heart
emojis about Aaron Judges just stuff. We'll let you know
when Aaron Judge is the last man standing and is
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the reason the super nova the Yankees win in October. Now,
I assume you play with the Yankees long enough, you're
going to win. YEA, how hard it is to play
with the Yankees for ten years and not win a
World Series. Mathematically, it's very rarely happened in the history
of the Yankees. So at some point they're going to win.
Not this year they're gonna win, but at some point
they're going to win. Right now now, last word, we
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go to Motown and a game that was supposed to
be an Island game but turned out to be just
another random game that few people watched. It was on
FS two Fox Sports two. FS one had the well
the first hour of the Mariner Tiger game was on
the regular FS one channel, and then they bumped it.
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Because the Yankees have more fans than the Mariners and
the Tigers. We'll go to Motown where the Mariners are
on the brink. They're on the Robbie the Mariner fan,
cannot sleep, he's up all night crying. Craig JJ and Renton.
They're all excited, right, they can't believe it. Even Nostradinas,
his cynical ass, is excited about this. So the Mariners
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could get back to the America League Championship Series. They're
this close. Cal Rally, the Big Dumper hit a home
run there, two run shot, and Eugenio Suarez hit a
home run, picked him up at the trade deadline from
the d Backs, and JP Crawford sent one into the
bleachers as well. There sold those shots for those guys.
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As Seattle doubled up the Tigers in the game. The
final scorer was eight to four. It was not that close,
and so Seattle now two to one best of five lead.
There one went away from advancing. Game was delayed almost
three hours because God was crying for some reason. I
don't know why. The Mariners are within a win of
their first ALCS since twenty oh one. I was a
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child in twenty oh one. My God barely alive, and
here we are, all right. So the first chance will
come later on in afternoon game here on Wednesday at
Coomerica Park. If they screw that one up, they'll go
back Friday to Seattle with another opportunity. But the better
story is on the loser's side, so quickly. What is
wrong with the Motors City Kitties. I thought they'd fix
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their problems that beat the Cleveland Guardians in the wild
card rounds, So they'd fix things. Fix it. Well, the
first thing is rather obvious watching the Tigers. It's like
every other suck bag team, and the Tigers weren't like
this for the first couple of months of the baseball season,
but they clearly have defective bats. It looked like they
were swinging pull noodles out there, like you know, in
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the summertime in the pool, you got those little thin
pool noodles and all that, and the Tiger lineup yet again,
that check engine light popping up for the Tigers line
up there flashing pretty much every get bad when you
do the math on this. Now, the big thumpers, if
you want to call that, Riley Green and Spencer Torklsen.
What a great name, Spencer Torkolsen, My god. Anyway, those
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two guys are supposed to be the big cats, the
big kitty cats for the Detroit Tigers, and kind of
house kittens, you know, look house kittens at this point,
hello kitty Yeah yeah, yeah. Between them, they have hit
the ball about as hard as a really good soft
serve machine, that delicious soft serve ice cream. Yeah, like
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that kind of classic Detroit misery. We can go through
the whole thing here, you know the scene, right, Grace
skies over Detroit. You know, rusted out factories, sad parade
down Woodward Avenue, and that's Detroit sports, right. The Tigers,
the Comerica part. Now, this is the home game for them.
They won a game in Seattle, so he's a home game,
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and of course it turns into a haunted house yet again.
Sixty eight strikeouts in six playoff games for the Detroit Tigers.
Sixty eight strikeouts in six playoff game. That's not baseball.
That is a job fair for with machines. Is when
you get a whiff, you get a with The Mariners
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are not exactly the one Mariners or the twenty seven Yankees.
They're not this guy Logan Gilbert, who's a good pitcher,
a good pitcher, however, Detroit made him look like Pedro
Martinez for stretches in his prime. There they've scored six
runs in sixty twenty eighty six runs in twenty eight innings.
So now they did score some garbage time runs. They
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were down seven runs and then not an offense. That's
more of an Amber alert for the Detroit Tigers here,
and they appear to be allergic to getting big hits
to drive in runs, and they just kind of break
out in hives. It's it's a problem. You might want
to go to a doctor. There's some cream you can get.
You can rub all over yourself there, good luck. Maybe
they should use those whiffle bats from Little Caesars used
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to give away whiffle bats. They can use those because
the bats they're using right now are not exactly working.
And now the Tigers their season on the line. They
turned to Casey Mice, who Casey Mice because of you know,
can't go above and beyond the call of duty. Right
back in the old days, you say, all right, this
is an elimination game. Trek Schooble is going to be
on the mound, but joh no, you can't pitch him
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on short rest. They will literally have to amputate his arms.
So instead is a good chance that the next time
we see schoob Ble pitch will be in the Grapefruit
League next year. As if the Tigers do not win
this game, it's really like it kind of is must win,
right for the Mariors, you gotta win this game because
he got Schooble in Game five, And for the Tigers,
it's like well that they win. It's must win because
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they got otherwise they're done, so it's really a must
win today. But the Tiger's not going to go with
school unless a last minute change happens. It is the
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Judge got some unexpected help, some unexpected help hitting that
home run. We'll talk about that and we will get
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If it was the year two thousand and two.
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Right, you missed the big bulky computers that were like
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Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh.
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Yeah, we have really good computers here. Like if you
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it would be the same state of the art. Yeah,
I mean'd be like this is great. I mean, this
is amazing. But yeah, exactly. Supermarket Steve writes in he
says he's in so Cow says, you know my allegiance. Man,
he's a Yankee fanboy, he is supermarket. Steve was Yankee.
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He was a Yankee onesie when he goes to bed.
It's pretty wild anyways, says, Yeah, you know my allegiance, Ben,
I wear that Aaron Judge jersey everywhere, and I know
that Aaron Judge playoff moment happened last year in the
World Series when he dropped that fly ball. Not according
to the broadcast, No, no, no, that was the moment.
Spock's Weed writes in from the Oregon Trail, he says,
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the Vomit Comet and the Duke of Puke on the
same night. I cannot resist. Damn it feels good for
the to be in the vomit comet joy is viewed
over the skies of New York City. Yeah, like that
is that the Bats sign? No, no, no, that's not
the Bat sign. That's the vomit comet. That's it right there, Yeah,
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there it is. Big Rick Rob writes His says, I
will not ever doubt Ben Maller that he and I
would think of the same lame Aaron Judge momot. Great
minds think alike. He also says, Ben, what a stellar
out of the world, practically epic Mallard monologue. A plus
outstanding job by you. Yet again personally, he says, I
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believe that Aaron Judges playoff moment was what referenced. I
guess he said that after we'd agreed on that the
the great moment there in Game five of the twenty
twenty four worldchais Nature boy says I thought Reggie Jackson's
moment was against the Angels. Well, it is a great
moment in The Naked Gun, one of the great movies
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ever produced by OJ Simpson, just absolutely outstanding. Then, yes,
Lorena would like to chump. Yes, Larina, I did not
realize how tall Aaron Judges really, Yes, first time watching baseball,
maybe the Yankees specifically, but just walking through the dunk,
I was like, wow, he's really tall compared to everyone else.
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And then at the end with the interview, Well, the
problem there is Ken Rosenthal is fun sized. Ken is
how come all these baseball people are so short all
up there? All you know, it's like all the well
you don't know is but the baseball riders are all
like that. They could be in snow white, if you know, right,
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the horses they could be jockeys, right, oh, yeah, they'd
be jockeys. Yeah, there you go. And Rosenthal I mean,
maybe he shoved that camera guy in Milwaukee. He's a
bit of a surly schmuck. Rosenthal. I don't know it's going.
I don't know what his problem is. But yeah, he
needed a stool because he's so short and Aaron Judge
is so tall. The microphone wasn't even in the camera shot.
Oh yeah, it was real. It was like it was
(29:15):
like Aaron Judges child was in, Hey Dad, do you
I gotta ask you about the home run yet? And
you put me on your shoulders. I'm down here on
the floor. Al yeah, all right, screwgewrights and says watch
out for those Aaron Judge jocksniffers been they'll kiss his
ass even if he gets walked and say it was
(29:37):
a legendary moment. Yeah, no, I'm getting some of that.
I see some of these a holes, some of these
losers who are the Aaron Judge fanboys. They they don't
like it. They do not like the truth. They can't
handle the truth, cannot do it, cannot do it at all.
Adrian says, I get it. Give you an f You
(29:59):
should have had the starter be the Joe Flacocher. Yes,
a Bengal brown trade that is the lead off of
the show. Yes, suck, the hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I wish you could just shut You're.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Trying to get me fired and listen, Adrian're trying to
get me fired. Bad job by you, and I will
send out this stupid rundown for the show. I've been
a little busy here. It's a one man band. I'd
put everything together, so no time to do that. Uh
you know then you know these other people have interns
to do that crap. We we don't have that, so
I would love It'll be nice, be nice to get
(30:33):
some help. Let's go to Van the one Legged Bama
Man who's in the lead off chair. Hello, Van, one
Legged Bama Man, your name did come up on the podcast,
The Weekend Fifth Hour Podcast as you continue to be
a man of mystery to the mald Militia.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Okay, man, I got three questions for you. First one,
why don't alligators eight clowns?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Why don't all this just like I feel like this
is a classic dad joke, So why why don't alligators
eat closs?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Because they take's funny? All right? Second quests and Anny
the Penny should know this one. What is the number
one highest percentage winning bet on an NFL game, a
single game with the spread.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Are you talking about the the advantage you would have? Well,
usually it's three and a half. Is the sweet spot?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
If you get three and a half, really good line, No,
knock the line. The situation, it doesn't come up every Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
What is that? I don't even know what you mean
by that. Explain the situation it comes.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It comes up this son.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Are you talking about three road games in a row
or are you telling there's a different There's a million
different angles to that.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well, I'm I'm going to you the loser of Monday
Night football on the road the next week that against them,
which is the Rams.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
But well, no, it's not the Ram. The Rams played
on Thursday. The Rams played last Thursday, the Monday Night game.
Was you're talking about the forty nine? You would you
then Monday Monday?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, that's all right, I'm I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Okay, so two weeks ago, So then this week, this
past week, well, Monday Night the Chiefs lost, and then
you would bet against the Chiefs are on the road
and I think they go home, right, I think they're
at home. Yeah, they played they played the Lion, they
played the Lions on Sunday nights, so that doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, right, But anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Now, but three three and a half. As far as
just the points spread its concerns, the three and a
half point line has been really good. It's very difficult
for some reason for teams to cover three and a
half that that is better off taking. Taking that extra
half point makes all the difference in the world.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, last question.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Last que we'd like to learn all the affiliates down
the line. The last question, the last one here. It is.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Where is the outrage for the nickname game cock? Oh?
The definition of a game?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Would you like to get them canceled? You want to
get them canceled?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Bread? No, I don't really care. But you know where's Peter?
You know there's a bird?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Well do they use a live cock at the games?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
They do? They use a jactual state which is right
down the road from where I live. On the game cops,
South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, yeah, well South Carolina's the most famous game cock
and they, of course they sell the hats. Let's say,
go cocks, you know, and at a listener send me
one a while back, and it's a treasured I'm not
a South Carolina fan. But my niece lives in South Carolina,
so I wear that to honor my knees. But I
got it way before she lived there.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
So I had a teacher in high school the gut
on a road drip that said super cop and then
they had to South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Well, yeah, it's a great it's a great mask. I
missed so many headlines too. Imagine if a New York
team was called the game Cocks, what the New York
Post would do. They would have well, no, it's not
a good newspaper time, But the New York Post, like
the tabloids, they would have a few, an absolutely field
day with that A how are you doing Van? Everything
(34:33):
hanging in there?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I'm hanging in everybody like a hair in a business
as good luck the great Van.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
The one legged Bama Man. Nature Boy writes and says,
you said fun size. I thought that might have come
out for Kyler Murray. But that was a that was
a good one. There you go, a lot of these
things I'm not able to read unfortunately on the radio.
It's just it's a shame, but very funny. Some of
(35:05):
the rules were not allowed even in the safe Harbor.
Not allowed to do it. So Aaron Judge hits a
home run off the foul pole, and did he get
some help? Did he have a guardian angel? Did he
have help? Aaron Judge post game in the now famous
interview with the little fella Ken Rosenthal, he said, quote,
(35:26):
I never had one like that. Right at the foul pole,
he said, thankfully, Judge, the ghost kind of took that
one over and kept it fair. So which ghost is there?
Do we know the name of the ghost? How come
only good athletes are ghosts? They say that, go there,
the Bambino and DiMaggio and Lou Garrett. How come like
(35:47):
Luis Pologna is not a ghost at Yankee Stadium, Mel
Hall or some of those old the old school Yankee guys. Well,
I don't understand, Yes, Lareen, do you think he could
be like an angel in the outfield type mentality? Well,
be a Yankee in the outfield, right, So yeah, the
Yankees in the outfield. So my question is why didn't
the ghost help Aaron Judge in Game five of the World.
(36:09):
So it's how come the ghost? Maybe the ghost was big,
Maybe the ghost was watching a movie. Maybe they were
all having popcorn, they had a party, the ghost you know,
on the cross the Pearly Gates. They were trying to
have a good time there. They couldn't be distracted by
the damn Yankee game. So it'll be another Yankee game
next year. Who cares anyway? It is the Ben Mahler
Show as we press on time now for the who
Am I? Game and the aforementioned Aaron Judge. Now, there's
(36:33):
a thing called cannibalizing stats. And our old friend Eddie,
he used to do this for a living, and he
explained what they do is they they'll say, I need
a historical stat on Aaron Judge, so I want you
to keep adding as many variables to the stat till
we get the stat we want. It's called stat manipulation.
(36:53):
And here's an example of that. But I'm gonna use
it because why not? Because I have it, So I'm
going to use it. So Aaron Judge is the first
Yankees player since me who to have at least a
five hundred batting average, a five to seventy five on
base percentage, a seven to twenty five slugging percentage in
any six game span in the postseason. Who am I?
(37:16):
That's the question. The answer We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
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Speaker 1 (37:25):
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the Bronx Yankee Stadium and the Yankees on life support,
down by five runs. They got a little closer, and
then Aaron Judge stepped to the plate. Here's the pits.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Hot flight ball deip left field. Tell them the left
field line. It is off the fair pole. Hey up, hey, now, Jutt,
this game is tied. It's six sex.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
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base percentage of seven to twenty five slugging percentage in
any six games span in the postseason. Who am I?
(39:37):
That is the question? What is the answer, Let's see,
does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Random?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Ryan and Carolina's going with the iconic Dick Trickle Bobby
and Florida, says Bob Coosey. The COO's still alive. He's old,
but he's alive. Bob Bucky Jacobson from William that's his answer.
Iohuasca dealer of Aaron Rodgers from Just Josh, My favorite Yankee,
Andy and Linol Lakes, Minnesota, says Dave win Field, mister
may who else do you have? Page down? Miles Morales
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guests by Scrooge in the Younger Demo, Bob Shirley in
the Older Demo from Mister Nice Guy. That's his answer.
The Immidget Eddie Goodell from Rob the Goatman. Marcus Colston
guessed by she Who in des Moines Goldy from Alf
the erin Partner, What say you of Loraine Up, I'm
gonna go with Freddy krueger Ben. That's an iconic his
(40:27):
historical horror figure. No, the correct answer is Paul O'Neill
in two thousand. Paul O'Neil, the last Yankee to do
what Judge did over the Six Games. Here Paul O'Neill
Paul O'Neill,
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one, our number one,
ready to go, and we talk about the baseball playoffs
American League side of the Bracketback on Tuesday night, we
stayed up all night to give you this fresh pod
on this eighth day of October. So here in our
number one. Who gets the dish of blame poutine for
(00:24):
Vladimir Guerrero's Toronto Blue Jays had a five run lead
in the third inning and blew the game. Very rarely
does a team blow that big a lead in the postseason. Also,
does this qualify as Aaron Judges moments in the playoffs?
Joe Davis was really really fired up, I mean a
little over the top for my taste. And on the
(00:46):
other side of the American League bracket, the Seattle Mariners
are on the brink of advancing as they beat the Tigers.
What's wrong with the Motor City kiddies offense? What offense?
Their offense is offensive? We'll talk about that and more
right now set up in it's our number one. Well,
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chair right now. Let me see. Because I come in
here and there's other people in the studio. I'm gonna
hold on a second. Let me see if I can adjust
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I don't like that low chair. I mean, it was
too low, and you gotta have it just right. You
have to assign the chair properly. And the chair was
not assigned probably anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I lead.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
This hour is from the American League playoffs. There were
no nationally playoff games. We talked about that, but there
were none on Tuesday, as the Partey got started. We'll
begin in the Bronx the late game. Although these games,
because of the weather delay in Detroit, were simultaneous most
of them. The game in Detroit between the Mariners and
(03:33):
the Tigers started about an hour before the game at
Yankee statey. It was supposed to be much earlier, but
three hours almost three hours of rain delay. But American
League Divisional Series Game number three and the Aaron Judge
hyperbole is through the roof on this. Aaron Judge hit
a tying home run, a game tying home run off
(03:53):
the foul poll at Yankee Stadium. There as the Yankees
get four batted in by Aaron Judge and stave off elimination.
The only time we use the word stave is in
sports to talk about somebody not being eliminate. They staved
off elimination. Yankees rallied from five runs down. That doesn't
(04:16):
happen very often. Although sportscasters always pretend like it happens
all the time, it does not. Very rarely does that happen.
And they did hear, and so the Yankees end up
defeating the Blue Jays nine to six. Is your final.
And it was actually Jazz Chisholm, who's not getting his
(04:36):
massage and his bubble bath from the medium, who hit
the go ahead home run here. He hit the go
ahead home run in the fifth inning. But it's all
about Aaron Judge toelicking by the National Baseball Medium. They
love them some, Aaron Judge. But it was chising We
with the go ahead home run there in the fifth dings.
So the Yankees taking advantage of some shoddy play by
(04:57):
the Blue Jays. They must have had a good time.
Maybe the story the other d was Vladimir Guerrero was
very braggettocious about how, oh, the Blue Jays had an
optional workout at Yankee Stadium. The entire team showed up.
That's team unity. Did the entire team go up bar
hopping after the workout? My god, mischees, errors, terrifically terrible pitching,
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the whole thing. The better story is in that losing
locker room, all god. So that is where we will begin.
As we discussed the question, who gets the dish of
blame poutine for Vladi Guerrero Junior's Toronto squad as they
(05:40):
get squished by the Yankees in this game. So I've
got the boat show, the Bronx diner, and pool noodles,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make amazing chicken tendies, is what
we're going to do. So, hey, the first rule of
(06:03):
sports talk radio is to not over complicate things, right,
So we're not gonna overcome Kate. The situation. Toronto had
a six to one lead and a five run lead
in an elimination game, and they win the game. They're
onto the American League Championship Series, and somehow despite a
(06:24):
five run lead. The big advantage you have on the
road is to play with the lead, and you have
the other team, the home team with tight took his syndrome.
Tight took his syndrome. And the Blue Jays could not
even take advantage of that because they did jump out
to the five run lead. Laddie did his joh Vladimir
Gerrol Junior, the two run homer early on. He did
(06:44):
his little macho man chest pounding thing when he's run
around the base. Look at me, look at me, Look
at how great I am. LA's Vladimir Guerrero. Crowd was
buzzing there, it was. It was interesting. You know, Yankee
fans out here we go. It's a starting act like
Mets fans here we go there. But anyway, that should
have been an early body blow that put Toronto in
(07:07):
position to win. He did put him in a position
to win. They didn't win it. Obviously, the Jays scored
enough the office. You score six runs, that is a
big enough lead to win the game. And does anyone
disagree with that? No one disagrees. Nobody disagrees. And then
the pitching staff collectively grabbed the keys somehow to the
team bus. They peeled out of the Yankee Stadium parking lot.
(07:30):
There they went on the causeway and they drove straight
into a ditch, which is hard to find in the Bronx,
but they found a ditch and they just drove right there.
There's sound of it. And so the starter was somebody
that Toronto picked up at the trade deadline, Shane Bieber,
the Beabs. So you're given a five run lead, you're
giving the baseball in the bottom of the third inning,
(07:53):
and what did Beabs do? He said, you know what,
I'm the Duke of puke and I'm gonna ride the
vomit and there he vomited all over the mound. It
ends up going just fifty four pitches. Now I realize
he's had injuries. And they talked about that in the
Fox broadcast and all they but fifty four pitches and
(08:14):
then they had to wave him out of the game.
Get your fat ass out of the game. Get out
of here. Now. That is not pitching. Okay, that is
not pitching. That is the Gong Show is what that
was for the Toronto Blue Jays would have been better off.
The Blue Jays would have been better off had they
gotten Justin Bieber on the mound, who does not have
an athletic bone in his body, but they put him
(08:36):
on the mound and he can start crooning on the mount.
He could serenade sarenade the hitters there with baby baby,
you know, and just do that over and over again.
And the Yankee hitters would have been so annoyed by
that baby baby baby know that they would have struggled
to hit the ball. So they went to the bullpen.
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And how did that go that? Well, that was a
trip the Blue Jay bullpen. They went down to the
boat show. They went down to the boat show, and
all the relievers they grabbed their life jackets from the
Blue j bullpen. In fact, it's very odd when you
go out of the bullpen and you go onto the field,
they give you a life jacket. So they all had
their life jackets. And there they were motoring towards Misery
(09:18):
Island and they took the ferry. Now not the Staten
Island ferry. They took the Suck Ferry, which is that's
a different ferry, but it goes over to Jersey Suck Ferry.
That's what they took right there. Very impressive eight unanswered
runs given off by the Toronto pitching staff as they
kicked the ball around. It was like they were auditioning
(09:39):
for Toronto FC, the MLS squad there. Why not everyone
outside of Vladimir Guerrero Junior gets a spoonful of shame,
A spoonful of shame. Now, John Schneider is the manager
of the Toronto Blue Jays, and here he is talking
about the fact that to pair, you just have to
(10:00):
flush this down the toilet. We'll hear the question and
the answer to to list.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
John, you've talked a lot about this season about your
team's ability to turn the page. Can describe a little
bit resetting after this one, given that you had a
spot in the alcs in your hands and now there's
a game four.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah, I mean, we had a spot in the alcs
in our hands when the series started, you know what
I mean. I know it's six to one in the
third inning, but we still have a spot like that tomorrow,
you know what I mean. So these guys will be
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It's it's it's really comforting for me to see them
do that all year. I know, they're going to do
it again tomorrow, and you have to kind of take
out the outside noise that comes to playing here and
all that kind of stuff. So I got all the
confidence in the world, and these guys showing up tomorrow
ready to go and just doing their normal day and
competing their asses off.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So why were they not ready for this game again?
No accountability? Why not just go we sucked. Why can't
you say, hey, I'm the major that Toronto blue Jays
and we blew in that game? Why casey it? Oh no,
you okay? I hate this. This is the part of
this crab. I hate. It's like every night, I can it.
Very rarely do you get somebody he's like, yeah, we sucked.
(11:12):
Like everyone say you sucked, you sucked. Just say it.
I sucked, Say it.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I sucked.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I'm the Blue Jay. They were terrible. You had a
five run lead, you blew it and you throw that
crap out. That's modern leadership, that's modern coaching. It's a
bad call. It's a bad call by me exactly. All right. Meanwhile,
another thing that annoyed me. I'm just gonna say it's
my therapy. I don't I don't even care if you listen.
I'm just gonna complain about stuff that bothers me. So
(11:40):
I'm watching the game and Joe Davis, thank god, he's
not doing the Dodger games right now. He's not a
big fan, so Joe Davis. He actually said on Fox
Joe Davis. He claimed very dramatically that Aaron Judge's playoff
moment opened when he hit a three run tying home
(12:03):
run for the Yankees. He said it on the broadcast,
and it was like this great poetic call by the
announcer there that Aaron Judge hurt his moment. There's his moment. Yeah,
let's play. Here's we have the audio. I think this
is the audio, so let's go to it. This is
the thing that triggered me. I actually moved around a
(12:27):
little bit on my sofa. Well, listen to strike Hitch.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
It's a drive downe if experiences moment.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay, I actually puked in my mouth when I heard that.
I literally puked in my mouth. My god. All right,
I'll ask the question, does this qualify as Aaron Judge
the captain of the Yankees moment in the playoffs? All right,
(13:04):
So for those of you who relate to the party welcome.
So this is a three run home run in the
fourth inning of the Divisional Series Game three? Is the
bar that low now for the New York Yankees? Is
that where we have reached? This is a new low
for the New York Yankees. That Babe Ruth is rolling
(13:26):
over in his grave, and lou Garrick he's shaking his
head deep in the ground somewhere, and Jolten Joe Dimagio
cannot believe that this is the Yankees, this is the
modern Yankees. That Aaron Judge had his moment in the
Divisional Round Game three tying home run. So I guess
(13:50):
we're grading on a curve now. Is that what we're
doing now with the Yankees? Is that how we're doing it?
If you're wearing pinstripes, you get graded on a curve.
That's good, that's solid. It's like these guys are acting
like he had a walk off home run in Game
seven of the World Series. I was like, calm down,
just calm down a little bit. Don't force it. You
do not need to force it. There's a very good
(14:13):
chance the Yankee still lose this series. So what do
you say? Then? Let me just forget about it. Aaron
Judge has been awesome in the regular season, not always
so good in the postseason. Right, the dude's been more
instead of Aaron Judge, he's been Aaron jury duty in
the playoffs and often watching Aaron Judge in the playoffs
(14:37):
compared to the regular season, it is often a long,
boring experience and you just can't seem to get out
of it. He can't get out of it either. And
see again, this is the kind of stuff that drives
me bonkers. I'm probably the only one I admit it.
Other people don't seem to care because this has been
going on for years, but for me, it bothers me.
You don't need to romanticize everything. Not everything is a
(14:58):
romantic Hallmark movie. You don't need to do it. Okay,
it's okay. It's like going down to the Bronx Diner
watching the coverage of Aaron Judge. You go down to
the Bronx Diner and the menu had a main course
of hyperbole and the side dish was exaggeration. That was
the Aaron Judge meal. There the broadcasters who fall in
(15:19):
love with the story, it's all about the story. Before
the story has been written, they've already put the story
out there like that. That's the they want that. Back
in the day. It's called the Reggie Malmont where you know,
I've been waiting, waiting for years to crown Aaron Judge
and the big mammoth home run Judge. It's okay, there
(15:41):
you go. It's like, it's not some kind of cinematic
breakthrough for Aaron Judge. It's not.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Unfortunately, Aaron Judge's moment and this is the reality. I'll
be the grown up in the room here. So Aaron
Judge's moment in playoff baseball. His moment happened in the
twenty twenty four World Series when the announcer said, oh
my god, Aaron Judge muffed it. He muffed the fly
(16:09):
ball in center field during Game five. My favorite inning
in Yankee baseball history, by the way, Game five, the
fifth inning of Game five of the twenty twenty four
World Series, when he literally dropped the ball. Not my opinion,
he literally dropped the ball. He dropped it. The Yankees
low way five run lead to the Dodgers, and that
(16:29):
is the clip that is going to live forever. Not
a home run in Yankee Stadium in Game three of
the divisional round of the playoffs against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Judge also batted too twenty two in the World Series
last year. That's not very helpful to the Aaron Judge
marching in chouter of society. Not exactly the stuff of legends.
(16:51):
So you want a malmont right, You're all about the
malment right there. You know, Reggie Jackson had three dingers
in one night against the Dodgers, and that was the
Reggie malmon Right. People talk about that because missed October
because of that night. And until Aaron Judge, and this
is gonna be a bold take. Nobody else has this
take until Aaron Judge gets it done. I gotta get
her done in the World Series. And then at the
(17:13):
end of the World Series and the last team standing
is the New York Yankees. Until that happens, then the moment,
no matter how many times Joe Davis says, that's the moment,
it doesn't know. And Joe can stop sending the heart
emojis about Aaron Judges just stuff. We'll let you know
when Aaron Judge is the last man standing and is
(17:35):
the reason the super nova the Yankees win in October. Now,
I assume you play with the Yankees long enough, you're
going to win. YEA, how hard it is to play
with the Yankees for ten years and not win a
World Series. Mathematically, it's very rarely happened in the history
of the Yankees. So at some point they're going to win.
Not this year they're gonna win, but at some point
they're going to win. Right now now, last word, we
(17:56):
go to Motown and a game that was supposed to
be an Island game but turned out to be just
another random game that few people watched. It was on
FS two Fox Sports two. FS one had the well
the first hour of the Mariner Tiger game was on
the regular FS one channel, and then they bumped it.
(18:17):
Because the Yankees have more fans than the Mariners and
the Tigers. We'll go to Motown where the Mariners are
on the brink. They're on the Robbie the Mariner fan,
cannot sleep, he's up all night crying. Craig JJ and Renton.
They're all excited, right, they can't believe it. Even Nostradinas,
his cynical ass, is excited about this. So the Mariners
(18:40):
could get back to the America League Championship Series. They're
this close. Cal Rally, the Big Dumper hit a home
run there, two run shot, and Eugenio Suarez hit a
home run, picked him up at the trade deadline from
the d Backs, and JP Crawford sent one into the
bleachers as well. There sold those shots for those guys.
(19:00):
As Seattle doubled up the Tigers in the game. The
final scorer was eight to four. It was not that close,
and so Seattle now two to one best of five lead.
There one went away from advancing. Game was delayed almost
three hours because God was crying for some reason. I
don't know why. The Mariners are within a win of
their first ALCS since twenty oh one. I was a
(19:25):
child in twenty oh one. My God barely alive, and
here we are, all right. So the first chance will
come later on in afternoon game here on Wednesday at
Coomerica Park. If they screw that one up, they'll go
back Friday to Seattle with another opportunity. But the better
story is on the loser's side, so quickly. What is
wrong with the Motors City Kitties. I thought they'd fix
(19:49):
their problems that beat the Cleveland Guardians in the wild
card rounds, So they'd fix things. Fix it. Well, the
first thing is rather obvious watching the Tigers. It's like
every other suck bag team, and the Tigers weren't like
this for the first couple of months of the baseball season,
but they clearly have defective bats. It looked like they
were swinging pull noodles out there, like you know, in
(20:10):
the summertime in the pool, you got those little thin
pool noodles and all that, and the Tiger lineup yet again,
that check engine light popping up for the Tigers line
up there flashing pretty much every get bad when you
do the math on this. Now, the big thumpers, if
you want to call that, Riley Green and Spencer Torklsen.
What a great name, Spencer Torkolsen, My god. Anyway, those
(20:33):
two guys are supposed to be the big cats, the
big kitty cats for the Detroit Tigers, and kind of
house kittens, you know, look house kittens at this point,
hello kitty Yeah yeah, yeah. Between them, they have hit
the ball about as hard as a really good soft
serve machine, that delicious soft serve ice cream. Yeah, like
(20:56):
that kind of classic Detroit misery. We can go through
the whole thing here, you know the scene, right, Grace
skies over Detroit. You know, rusted out factories, sad parade
down Woodward Avenue, and that's Detroit sports, right. The Tigers,
the Comerica part. Now, this is the home game for them.
They won a game in Seattle, so he's a home game,
(21:19):
and of course it turns into a haunted house yet again.
Sixty eight strikeouts in six playoff games for the Detroit Tigers.
Sixty eight strikeouts in six playoff game. That's not baseball.
That is a job fair for with machines. Is when
you get a whiff, you get a with The Mariners
(21:39):
are not exactly the one Mariners or the twenty seven Yankees.
They're not this guy Logan Gilbert, who's a good pitcher,
a good pitcher, however, Detroit made him look like Pedro
Martinez for stretches in his prime. There they've scored six
runs in sixty twenty eighty six runs in twenty eight innings.
So now they did score some garbage time runs. They
(22:01):
were down seven runs and then not an offense. That's
more of an Amber alert for the Detroit Tigers here,
and they appear to be allergic to getting big hits
to drive in runs, and they just kind of break
out in hives. It's it's a problem. You might want
to go to a doctor. There's some cream you can get.
You can rub all over yourself there, good luck. Maybe
they should use those whiffle bats from Little Caesars used
(22:22):
to give away whiffle bats. They can use those because
the bats they're using right now are not exactly working.
And now the Tigers their season on the line. They
turned to Casey Mice, who Casey Mice because of you know,
can't go above and beyond the call of duty. Right
back in the old days, you say, all right, this
is an elimination game. Trek Schooble is going to be
on the mound, but joh no, you can't pitch him
(22:43):
on short rest. They will literally have to amputate his arms.
So instead is a good chance that the next time
we see schoob Ble pitch will be in the Grapefruit
League next year. As if the Tigers do not win
this game, it's really like it kind of is must win,
right for the Mariors, you gotta win this game because
he got Schooble in Game five, And for the Tigers,
it's like well that they win. It's must win because
(23:04):
they got otherwise they're done, so it's really a must
win today. But the Tiger's not going to go with
school unless a last minute change happens. It is the
Ben Mahler Show. We'll take your calls, every line wide
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If it was the year two thousand and two.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Right, you missed the big bulky computers that were like
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Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, we have really good computers here. Like if you
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he's a Yankee fanboy, he is supermarket. Steve was Yankee.
(26:44):
He was a Yankee onesie when he goes to bed.
It's pretty wild anyways, says, Yeah, you know my allegiance, Ben,
I wear that Aaron Judge jersey everywhere, and I know
that Aaron Judge playoff moment happened last year in the
World Series when he dropped that fly ball. Not according
to the broadcast, No, no, no, that was the moment.
Spock's Weed writes in from the Oregon Trail, he says,
(27:05):
the Vomit Comet and the Duke of Puke on the
same night. I cannot resist. Damn it feels good for
the to be in the vomit comet joy is viewed
over the skies of New York City. Yeah, like that
is that the Bats sign? No, no, no, that's not
the Bat sign. That's the vomit comet. That's it right there, Yeah,
(27:27):
there it is. Big Rick Rob writes His says, I
will not ever doubt Ben Maller that he and I
would think of the same lame Aaron Judge momot. Great
minds think alike. He also says, Ben, what a stellar
out of the world, practically epic Mallard monologue. A plus
outstanding job by you. Yet again personally, he says, I
(27:49):
believe that Aaron Judges playoff moment was what referenced. I
guess he said that after we'd agreed on that the
the great moment there in Game five of the twenty
twenty four worldchais Nature boy says I thought Reggie Jackson's
moment was against the Angels. Well, it is a great
moment in The Naked Gun, one of the great movies
(28:13):
ever produced by OJ Simpson, just absolutely outstanding. Then, yes,
Lorena would like to chump. Yes, Larina, I did not
realize how tall Aaron Judges really, Yes, first time watching baseball,
maybe the Yankees specifically, but just walking through the dunk,
I was like, wow, he's really tall compared to everyone else.
(28:34):
And then at the end with the interview, Well, the
problem there is Ken Rosenthal is fun sized. Ken is
how come all these baseball people are so short all
up there? All you know, it's like all the well
you don't know is but the baseball riders are all
like that. They could be in snow white, if you know, right,
(28:54):
the horses they could be jockeys, right, oh, yeah, they'd
be jockeys. Yeah, there you go. And Rosenthal I mean,
maybe he shoved that camera guy in Milwaukee. He's a
bit of a surly schmuck. Rosenthal. I don't know it's going.
I don't know what his problem is. But yeah, he
needed a stool because he's so short and Aaron Judge
is so tall. The microphone wasn't even in the camera shot.
Oh yeah, it was real. It was like it was
(29:15):
like Aaron Judges child was in, Hey Dad, do you
I gotta ask you about the home run yet? And
you put me on your shoulders. I'm down here on
the floor. Al yeah, all right, screwgewrights and says watch
out for those Aaron Judge jocksniffers been they'll kiss his
ass even if he gets walked and say it was
(29:37):
a legendary moment. Yeah, no, I'm getting some of that.
I see some of these a holes, some of these
losers who are the Aaron Judge fanboys. They they don't
like it. They do not like the truth. They can't
handle the truth, cannot do it, cannot do it at all.
Adrian says, I get it. Give you an f You
(29:59):
should have had the starter be the Joe Flacocher. Yes,
a Bengal brown trade that is the lead off of
the show. Yes, suck, the hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I wish you could just shut You're.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Trying to get me fired and listen, Adrian're trying to
get me fired. Bad job by you, and I will
send out this stupid rundown for the show. I've been
a little busy here. It's a one man band. I'd
put everything together, so no time to do that. Uh
you know then you know these other people have interns
to do that crap. We we don't have that, so
I would love It'll be nice, be nice to get
(30:33):
some help. Let's go to Van the one Legged Bama
Man who's in the lead off chair. Hello, Van, one
Legged Bama Man, your name did come up on the podcast,
The Weekend Fifth Hour Podcast as you continue to be
a man of mystery to the mald Militia.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Okay, man, I got three questions for you. First one,
why don't alligators eight clowns?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Why don't all this just like I feel like this
is a classic dad joke, So why why don't alligators
eat closs?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Because they take's funny? All right? Second quests and Anny
the Penny should know this one. What is the number
one highest percentage winning bet on an NFL game, a
single game with the spread.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Are you talking about the the advantage you would have? Well,
usually it's three and a half. Is the sweet spot?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
If you get three and a half, really good line, No,
knock the line. The situation, it doesn't come up every Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
What is that? I don't even know what you mean
by that. Explain the situation it comes.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It comes up this son.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Are you talking about three road games in a row
or are you telling there's a different There's a million
different angles to that.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well, I'm I'm going to you the loser of Monday
Night football on the road the next week that against them,
which is the Rams.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
But well, no, it's not the Ram. The Rams played
on Thursday. The Rams played last Thursday, the Monday Night game.
Was you're talking about the forty nine? You would you
then Monday Monday?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, that's all right, I'm I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Okay, so two weeks ago, So then this week, this
past week, well, Monday Night the Chiefs lost, and then
you would bet against the Chiefs are on the road
and I think they go home, right, I think they're
at home. Yeah, they played they played the Lion, they
played the Lions on Sunday nights, so that doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah, right, But anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Now, but three three and a half. As far as
just the points spread its concerns, the three and a
half point line has been really good. It's very difficult
for some reason for teams to cover three and a
half that that is better off taking. Taking that extra
half point makes all the difference in the world.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, last question.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Last que we'd like to learn all the affiliates down
the line. The last question, the last one here. It is.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Where is the outrage for the nickname game cock? Oh?
The definition of a game?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Would you like to get them canceled? You want to
get them canceled?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Bread? No, I don't really care. But you know where's Peter?
You know there's a bird?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Well do they use a live cock at the games?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
They do? They use a jactual state which is right
down the road from where I live. On the game cops,
South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, yeah, well South Carolina's the most famous game cock
and they, of course they sell the hats. Let's say,
go cocks, you know, and at a listener send me
one a while back, and it's a treasured I'm not
a South Carolina fan. But my niece lives in South Carolina,
so I wear that to honor my knees. But I
got it way before she lived there.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
So I had a teacher in high school the gut
on a road drip that said super cop and then
they had to South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Well, yeah, it's a great it's a great mask. I
missed so many headlines too. Imagine if a New York
team was called the game Cocks, what the New York
Post would do. They would have well, no, it's not
a good newspaper time, But the New York Post, like
the tabloids, they would have a few, an absolutely field
day with that A how are you doing Van? Everything
(34:33):
hanging in there?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I'm hanging in everybody like a hair in a business
as good luck the great Van.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
The one legged Bama Man. Nature Boy writes and says,
you said fun size. I thought that might have come
out for Kyler Murray. But that was a that was
a good one. There you go, a lot of these
things I'm not able to read unfortunately on the radio.
It's just it's a shame, but very funny. Some of
(35:05):
the rules were not allowed even in the safe Harbor.
Not allowed to do it. So Aaron Judge hits a
home run off the foul pole, and did he get
some help? Did he have a guardian angel? Did he
have help? Aaron Judge post game in the now famous
interview with the little fella Ken Rosenthal, he said, quote,
(35:26):
I never had one like that. Right at the foul pole,
he said, thankfully, Judge, the ghost kind of took that
one over and kept it fair. So which ghost is there?
Do we know the name of the ghost? How come
only good athletes are ghosts? They say that, go there,
the Bambino and DiMaggio and Lou Garrett. How come like
(35:47):
Luis Pologna is not a ghost at Yankee Stadium, Mel
Hall or some of those old the old school Yankee guys. Well,
I don't understand, Yes, Lareen, do you think he could
be like an angel in the outfield type mentality? Well,
be a Yankee in the outfield, right, So yeah, the
Yankees in the outfield. So my question is why didn't
the ghost help Aaron Judge in Game five of the World.
(36:09):
So it's how come the ghost? Maybe the ghost was big,
Maybe the ghost was watching a movie. Maybe they were
all having popcorn, they had a party, the ghost you know,
on the cross the Pearly Gates. They were trying to
have a good time there. They couldn't be distracted by
the damn Yankee game. So it'll be another Yankee game
next year. Who cares anyway? It is the Ben Mahler
Show as we press on time now for the who
Am I? Game and the aforementioned Aaron Judge. Now, there's
(36:33):
a thing called cannibalizing stats. And our old friend Eddie,
he used to do this for a living, and he
explained what they do is they they'll say, I need
a historical stat on Aaron Judge, so I want you
to keep adding as many variables to the stat till
we get the stat we want. It's called stat manipulation.
(36:53):
And here's an example of that. But I'm gonna use
it because why not? Because I have it, So I'm
going to use it. So Aaron Judge is the first
Yankees player since me who to have at least a
five hundred batting average, a five to seventy five on
base percentage, a seven to twenty five slugging percentage in
any six game span in the postseason. Who am I?
(37:16):
That's the question. The answer We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
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Speaker 1 (37:25):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Maler Show.
Up all night. Watch out for those ghosts. They only
help the Yankees when they win. When they lose, the
ghosts they don't help. I don't know why. It makes
no sense. Well, you're in insomniac. If you're listening live,
you're a night owl. You're part of the Mallard militia.
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for the play of the day. We go back to
(38:27):
the Bronx Yankee Stadium and the Yankees on life support,
down by five runs. They got a little closer, and
then Aaron Judge stepped to the plate. Here's the pits.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Hot flight ball deip left field. Tell them the left
field line. It is off the fair pole. Hey up, hey, now, Jutt,
this game is tied. It's six sex.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
You watched HBO back in the day. You know what
that is? A hey now eight reference to But Dave
Simms the call Yankees Radio on WFAA in New York
as the Yankees get it done, and that is the
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first Yankee players since me to have at least a
five hundred batting hammerge a five to seventy five on
base percentage of seven to twenty five slugging percentage in
any six games span in the postseason. Who am I?
(39:37):
That is the question? What is the answer, Let's see,
does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Random?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Ryan and Carolina's going with the iconic Dick Trickle Bobby
and Florida, says Bob Coosey. The COO's still alive. He's old,
but he's alive. Bob Bucky Jacobson from William that's his answer.
Iohuasca dealer of Aaron Rodgers from Just Josh, My favorite Yankee,
Andy and Linol Lakes, Minnesota, says Dave win Field, mister
may who else do you have? Page down? Miles Morales
(40:05):
guests by Scrooge in the Younger Demo, Bob Shirley in
the Older Demo from Mister Nice Guy. That's his answer.
The Immidget Eddie Goodell from Rob the Goatman. Marcus Colston
guessed by she Who in des Moines Goldy from Alf
the erin Partner, What say you of Loraine Up, I'm
gonna go with Freddy krueger Ben. That's an iconic his
(40:27):
historical horror figure. No, the correct answer is Paul O'Neill
in two thousand. Paul O'Neil, the last Yankee to do
what Judge did over the Six Games. Here Paul O'Neill
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