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October 14, 2024 • 37 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Dodgers blowing out the Mets 9-0 in Game 1 of the NLCS, who gets the blame bagel for the Mets, the performance of Jack Flaherty in the game, how this game impacts the rest of the series, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, It's the Original Recipe Podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Finally, finally, here.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
We are Game number one of the National League Championship Series,
the Mets and the Dodgers, and who gets the blame
bagel for the Mets? How would you describe the Dodgers'
performance of one Jack Flaherty as the Dodgers get to
shut out behind the former Tiger. And how does Game

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one impact the rest of the National League Championship Series?
Another game coming up later today, We'll get to all
that and more right now here. It is our number one,
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tirebind should be og Rart puffin, he said. The Dodgers
won by ten thousand runs over those pathetic Mets, Like
those are the Mets. That's the Mets. I love the

(01:45):
Mets that go out and puke all over the field.
How beautiful was that? How great was that to watch
another gutless Mets baseball team out there and they thought
they were going to storm into Dodger Stadium and win
Game one of the National League Championship Series.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
That is where we will begin in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I would like to thank the NFL for a dog
food Sunday night game. Normally we just talk about Sunday
night football, because why not, It's Sunday night football.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
But they put a couple of dogs with fleas.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
In that Sunday night timeslot, the Bengals and the Giants
the Turnbowl, so we need to not talk about that.
Who cares about that game? Instead, it's Major League Baseball
and it was on Fox as That was the beginning act,
the opening act of the National League Championship Series, Game

(02:37):
number one, heavyweight matchup, all the hype leading into it,
the woebegone Mets, well, the Met's top team at baseball
for the last couple of months, like that matters?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Who cares?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Francisco Lindor, Oh, he's the real MVP. He plays shortstop
against shohe Otani of the Dodgers and where you watching?

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
This game was posted to be close. It was not.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
It was one of the great blowouts in baseball postseason history,
as starter Jack Flaherty combining on a three hitter, as
the Doyers pitching staff did it again, they did it again,
bringing back memory so the Baltimore Orioles from a by
God era as they put up thirty three consecutive scoreless

(03:24):
innings in playoff baseball, mallywopping the Mets nine nothing, one
runaway from the mercy rule in a playoff game. Game
one of the National League Championship Series goes to the
good guys over the bad guys. Show Hey O TODDI.
He had a couple of hits, he scored a couple
of runs, drove in or run. Did a little bit

(03:45):
of this, a little bit of that. Mookie Betts piling
on late, had a three run ribby double in the
eighth inning and the largest shutout win by margin in
Dodger postseason history. Holy Sandy Kofax and Tommy Lasorda Batman
biggest Dodger route or root in playoff history, and the

(04:08):
pathetic Mets biggest playoff loss in franchise history for the Mets,
as they go down, and they go down hard. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. So
that is where we will begin here. Who gets the
blame bagel for the Metropolitans as they put up a

(04:29):
bagel in this game? So I've got ramshackle Wooden and
the law, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a parade of excuses,
parade of excuses for the Mets. So hey, we'll start
with this. It was a team wide, team wide situation

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of lethargic play for the Mets. But for all the
hype cardiac kids at BASEBA and the Mets have the
Dodgers right where they want them come back attack is
ready to go. It starts at the very top right.
The fish stinks from the head on down, And so
we start the finger of blame with Francisco Lindor. You

(05:16):
told me how amazing this guy was. You look like
you're not a stiff. You look at a stiff in
game one, Lindor not impressed. Not impressed with Lindor. I
thought he was gonna set the tone for the entire series.
Is that the tone?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
One? Two, three, can't coom? That was the tone?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Man MVP runner up, de facto MVP runner up behind
the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Otani oh for three. He had a walk in.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Lindor, Brandon Nimo, and Pete Alonso, three of the top
four met hitters there at the beginning, all guilty of absenteeism,
collectively zero for nine against various Dodger pitchers in this game,
where's the juice? They had no juice. There was no juice.
They were out of juice. The vending machine was out
of juice.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
In this game.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
It was lifeless, flat baseball. And I loved every second
of it. I don't know about you. I loved every
second of it, right total ramshackle met lineup, up and down,
up and down, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
And it really appeared to me, and I don't know
about you, the Mets enjoyed sucking. It was a collective suck.
They really liked the suck. They really brought the suck.

(06:24):
They did clearly overpowered by the star power of the
Dodger lineup here and you mix in. I don't know
who was the backup plan to start Game one for
the Mets, but Senga CODEI Senga of the Mets, and
he started another couple of games in this series. Man,

(06:45):
he lasted just ten batters in the game. That's it
your Game one start of League Championship series. Ten batters,
got only four outs. And he has this supposedly unhittable
ghost pitch, the ghost fork pitch. But if you don't
swing at it, and then you don't have to worry abou it.
And Dodgers didn't swing at it, and he couldn't throw
it for a strike. He had no control. And again,

(07:06):
it's just wonderful. That's like they say in the gambling commercials,
say no sweat bet. That was a no sweat bet situation,
Easy Street, e Z Street. And it's a tough night.
It's a tough night for the trolls. I know, I know,
you were so hoping the Mets were going to win
that game. You were praying the Mets were going to
win that game. The Mets did not win that game.
So sorry, you'll have to wait another day at least. Now,

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how would you describe as we turned the Patriot, how
would you describe the Dodgers performance from one Jack Flaherty
on the mound. We already documented the numbers, But that's
the guy they thought they were getting.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
I was.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I was on the radio the day of the trade deadline,
and right at the deadline, the Dodger hadn't done anything
of note. And then they got the very last possible
second Jack Flaherty from the Detroit Tigers in a fire
sales situation for the Tigers. Nice gutless effort by the Tigers,
by the way, that game for them to advance to
the American League Championship Series over the weekend as the Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Bridges beat them.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
But Jack Flaherty's still very much alive, and that's why
the Dodgers got him. And he followed the John Wooden wisdom.
Now what is the John Wooden wisdom? That is, make
each day your masterpiece. And now that was a virtuoso performance,
painting the Mona Lisa. Seven innings of two hit ball
zeros in the air everywhere for Jack Flaherty and the

(08:29):
Dodgers offense surgically, slicing apart the various met pitchers, the
conga line of met pitchers that came in there, and
they did it the old fashioned way.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
No home runs, no home runs.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
The Dodgers won a playoff game without hitting a home
run and scored a bunch of runs. They did it
with convoys, attacking, attacking. Now, the final part of this
and the Dodgers that was great nine nothing win whipopy
damn do the last part of this though, how does.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
One win in game one? Game one win? How does
that impact the rest of the NLCS?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
So it is a one of them. I'm not gonna
sit here and say that Dodgers have all of momentum.
Oh my god, they're never gonna lose. They have all
the momentum they've got Uncle Mo.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
No, they don't, all right.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
And the reason they don't have all the momentum is
because momentum does not exist. You can't have something that
does not exist. It doesn't.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's just not reality.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Right now, You and your dope a little sports mine
can say it's it's reality, but not it doesn't exist, right.
Momentum only exists if it's convenient to the one saying
that exists. And you think I would want to embrace
moment There's no such thing as momentum. It doesn't it's
just bull crap. Right on cross examination. When you cross
examine momentum, right you cross examine that, it just crumbles.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
The whole thing crumbles a part here.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
So the Dodgers are going with a bullpen game in
just hours from now, because there's a Monday's Show and
Monday afternoon at four o'clock Eastern, one o'clock in the West,
Dodgers will go with a bullpen game.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
And the law, the law.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Is working against them, the law of averages that extreme
outcomes are followed by more moderate ones. The also the
do factor, the dippity do factor, is in play here
and meeting. The Mets are due to score and the
Dodgers are due to give up some runs here, and
so we'll see if they're able to score enough. Nothing
will last much further than two or three games at

(10:32):
any one point in time. And so Sean Mania not
exactly an invincible starting pitcher for the New York Mets.
It's not like you see Sean Mania's name, You're like,
oh man, we can't win that game.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Sean Manya's on them out. Holy crap.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Now, he's just a piece of a typical middle of
rotation starting pitcher, nothing exciting, nothing exotic from Sean Mania.
And he'll start Game number two for the Mets. It'd
be the first time the Dodgers have faced a left
handed starter in the postseason, so we'll see how that goes.
And again the dreaded bullpen game, which I can't stand.
I know it worked against the Padres because the Padres

(11:08):
are gutless. That's a pathetic franchise. Where are those Padre
losers where they are? It disappeared convenient, But I do
hate the bullpen game. I do, and it would it
would be nice to see the end of this nonsense.
It's a gimmick. I hate it. I can't stand it.
It's unbecoming, these bullpen games. Even if it works, it's

(11:29):
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bounty on it. What is that all about. We'll get
to it and we will do it.

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Speaker 2 (12:46):
Dog writes, and he says, if the Dodgers pitch a
shutout in every game the rest of the playoffs, would
that be even more impressive than they won the most
difficult World Series of all time in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I think it just might be.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Well, they're not going to pitch a shout out and
game and the twenty twenty the hardest World Series of all.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Time in baseball history. So it will not match.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
I will not match that or surpass winning it during
a global pandemic in a different type of baseball season.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
We all know that.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Stuck in Sacramento says Holy Batman Ben. That monologue was epic,
an instant classic, thirty three consecutive scoreless innings, matching a
major league postseason record. I'm headed to LA with my
son for the World Series and getting out of the
crap box city Sacramento. Let's go, Doyers, says Stuck in Sacramento.

(13:36):
He's all planned o road trip. Are you planning for
the World Series? Getting ready to go? Christopher wrights it,
he says. The NLDS is over. Great monologue. Dodgers can
just wait to line up pitching staff for the World
Series against the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Dodgers seven game series. Good thing. The Tigers gave you
a winner in Jack.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
How dare you talk down to my tig How dare
your Tigers go out there and choke in the final game?
Bad job by them, Shame on them. Now Kevin is
checking in. Kevin is listening. He's on his way back
to Florida after fleeing the Sunshine State because of the hurricane.
He got out of there, but now he's going back

(14:18):
because the hurricane has passed over. Sus Like, I'm not
I'm not stupid. I'm going back now. I'll be back
there in matter of hours, back in the Sunshine State.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Uh, well, a.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Whole bunch of homes for sale over in the Sunshine State.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Ben, Oh, yeah, you're looking to buy a house in Florida.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
You know, I was thinking about it. Might want to,
you know, hunker down and live through a hurricane once
in my life.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, well, if you can get a good deal. Are
the houses destroyed. I wouldn't buy a house that's destroyed.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Probably get it for real cheap weed.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Man's looking for a roommate.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
Right, I could let him rent it out while.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, I just look at you could let him, you know,
move in with you.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
He doesn't need a roof for anything like that. Calboyide
Cowboy Drew says.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Arnie Spanners's Twitter account or ex account was suspended. Is
that true, that's what I heard.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, I heard. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Why would you have your account suspended? Though he must
have violated the rules. What Arnie, Arnie is a harmless
I heard.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
That he got hacked, which sounds pretty suspicious.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Who would hack Arnie Spain?

Speaker 5 (15:16):
That's what I was thinking, of all the people to
hack Arnie.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Why why he's just sitting there in little Burlington, Vermont,
in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Theres not much going on there.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Right, I mean, it's just yeah, hack Usher or this
place you stop on the way to Montreal or vice versa.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Come on, Arnie is much more popular than Usher.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah. Interesting, interesting move there.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Andy the comic book guy says, I owed Dave Roberts
an apologize if you lost your mind. Andy, I know
you're a fanboy and you probably have your little shrine
to Dave Roberts like you do do Josh Allen, you said,
I mean, it's ridiculous, Absolutely no. Dave Roberts should have
been let go years ago, whether they win the World
Series or not. In competence of Dave Roberts in this run,

(16:05):
the Dodgers should have two or three more World Championships.
I really liked him in that spot. Dave Roberts makes
me want to puke in my mouth. Now everyone's kissing
his ass, and these little fanboys like Andy the comic
book guy. It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. Eugene in Chicago right
since says, congratulations on your Dodgers. But it's only one game, Eugene.

(16:27):
It's not a single elimination. It's not the NCAA tournament.
You have to keep winning in order to advance. He says,
good luck to the New York Yankees. He says, all right,
are you jumping on the Yankee bandwagon, Eugene. That's unbecoming
of you.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Manuel
in Guardina, Hello, Manuel in Guardina, in so Cal who October.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
And Vanny in the everywhere, especially San Diego. Hey, you puke,
Greates fan. How do you like that history repeats itself?
You losers? So continue to shine up that empty trophy

(17:12):
case and continue to hate on La because you can
never beat La. Hey, Benny, but I'm with you. Tonight
was one game. Momentum is the next day starter, the
next day's first run. Other than that, we're just up

(17:34):
one to Oh we got seven more dubs to go, Benny,
and ay, I'll go. You don't give Dave Roberts the
respect that he deserves. I always have I always have it.
You know that.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yes, the.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Fifth losingest manager in postseason history, Dave Roberts, and the.

Speaker 6 (17:53):
Winningness in the regular season history.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
But uh, he's not he's not the winningest man. Answer
in history.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
It is the year twenty four Dodgers World Championship book
it Hey, senior Sprinklers, in all years.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
All your phone is dying. Man, I don't know what.

Speaker 7 (18:17):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
You couldn't hear the end of that. I don't know
what happened to your phone there, but it was. It
was terrible, Maddie writes. He says, when's the Dodgers prayed?
I have to look at the calendar. See, the NLCS
will likely end sometime next week and then and.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Then follow the World Series will be another two weeks.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
So we're looking at after Halloween, early November, first week
in November, something like that Dodger parade down figure.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh yeah, something like that. That works about right? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Uh. The Cowboy Killer says, you're absolutely right that momentum
does not exist, but destiny does, and the Yankees are
destined to be world serious champions. Uh that's that's actually
not true. You're just making that up, which is which
is fine. Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
You mix things up all you want. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Uh. Overnight, Joe says, I wonder what Tony Bruno's new
house in Florida costs? He says, all right, did something
happened to tonya? Do we know anything happened to Tony?
I didn't see if any happened to Tony lives in
like Hurricane Alley, though, I don't know what happened. I
didn't keep track of that. Ferg Dog writes in says
Rack manuelan Guardina, it's a great call, racket. Is that

(19:32):
the huge call today? Do we know if that? I
don't know if that's the huge I don't know if
that qualifies for the huge call today.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
I love this though the bounty is back.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
The bounty is back in baseball over the weekend, the
Cleveland baseball team formerly known as the Cleveland Indians, but
then the Wolkester said, you can't be called that God forbid,
So now they're named after a bridge Jose Ramirez, who
plays for that baseball team and has been spotty in
the postseason. But we are told that he offered his
teammates a bounty a bounty, a bounty, a bounty for

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success in the final game against the Tigers. He offers
teammates one thousand dollars for each home run five hundred
dollars for each run batted in in Game five of
the American League Divisional Series against the Tigers. The source
on that is Carlos Bierga, a former Cleveland baseball hero,

(20:27):
who claims that Jose Ramirez that was the the offer.
So you're wondering how many dollars did he have to
pay at Ramirez got one of those two hundred million
dollar contracts and all that Cleveland ended up scoring a
total of seven runs. The big winner, if you will,
would be none other than Lane Thomas, the former Natitude

(20:51):
Lane Thomas ended up hitting a Grand Slam for the
Cleveland baseball team at five runs batted in, and Jose
Ramirez also drove in a run. But so Laine Thomas,
if my math is correct on that at per RBI
five hundred dollars per run battered in plus one thousand

(21:12):
dollars for a home run.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Let's do the math on that.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
So five one hundred and then you times that the
five and then you add on that's a thirty five
hundred dollars day for lane time. The thing about the
bounties in baseball, it's kind of hot. They're all rich,
Like even the poor players in baseball are rich. So
it seems kind of pointless having a bounty. Like the
whole bounty thing is it really works if you don't

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have a lot of money. If you have a lot
of money, it's like, what's the point of it. You're
already rich. It's like, you really need that extra five.
I know you want to ran, but it seems a
lodd But hey, he was offering a bounty a little
extra money. Yeah, well, a story that is so sweet,
so sugary, it could give you diabetes. Something happened over

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the weekend involving a team that was eliminated from the
baseball playoffs. We'll get to that coming up here in
a moment, but right now, let's get you caught up
on everything going on in the overnight. And we say
to a man who does not have a computer, I
learned that tonight, Eddie Garcia.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Well, I have a computer, but I didn't have one
too to work.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Kicked me out of the room.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
I was in minding my own business, even though he
walked by multiple computers he could have worked on. He
walked to where I was to sit where I was,
to kick me out of my room.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
I appreciate you kicked.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
Me out of my room. So whose room did you take?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
He kicked me out of my room. He said, you
can't I need a computer. Oh my god, I know
of a computera. Oh my god. He was freaking out.
I was like, my god, there's two other computers in
the other room.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Well, first of all, I don't know why you weren't
in the main studio. There's nobody in there.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
I don't want anyone to bother me.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
I hide back there so no one will bother me.
I don't want anyone to bother me.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
He's like a hermit back there.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I'm in the lab. I'm working on the show. I
don't want to bother me if any people bothered me.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
After I kicked you out, I found out that the
computer in there is apparently no longer working. So you
were kicked out for no reason. So then I went
and kicked Lorraine out of her room. She wasn't really
doing anything, so I should have probably kicked her out
to begin with. So next time, I'll just kick Lorraina.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Now there's another studio, walked by another studio that had
at least two or three computers in it.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
I've never been in those studios, of course, I don't
know how those.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
What if they don't print?

Speaker 1 (23:18):
They're right there booming.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
All's well, that ends, well, thank you for being concerned.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
I'm very worried. I know you're just your computer.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Read He's never on that side of the building. Before
the show starts.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
I know.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
It caught me off guard. I was like, you're not
the Sager.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
No, the only one that comes over there is the Sager.
It's a quick hello, he's he doesn't like to talk either,
and then he friend. He doesn't go over there. He's
not allowed over there.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
He's be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
The Sunday night NFL game The Giants and Bengals another
masterpiece by Daniel Jones, who continues to be an absolute Barrasmith,
one of the great enigmas of this.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Generation of the NFL. And the Giants like they can't
get rid of the guy. They just they re.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Signed him, right, He didn't even play that well. They
won a sticking playoff game against the Vikings a couple
of years ago, so they kept him around. And the
guy is just the epitome of a suck bag, and
he continues to be the quarterback of the Giants. He
was twenty two of forty one in this game, average
five yards of pass, no touchdowns, and in interception they

(24:28):
passer rating of below sixty any way you slice it.
Just a terrible athlete in terms of football, and the
Giants continue to send him out there. And I believe
he is now what one in fourteen in primetime games.
He's yet to win a primetime game and home. The
only prime time win he's had was against the Washington

(24:50):
whatever they're called now.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
And that's it.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
So the Bengals get to two and four. The Giants
are also two and four, but they are mathematically alive
because of the division they play in, the NFC Worst.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
What a bad division that is, with the.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Cowboys who blow and the Washington has no defense and
the Giants and the Eagles are pathetic. That's quite the
division they've assembled. Their fun fact time, fun fact time,
fun fact, Here we go. Fun fact so in the postseason,
the first postseason of his career, sho Heltani's had fifteen
at bats with the bases empty. He is zero for

(25:29):
fifteen with eight strikeouts with the bases empty. But when
Otani has come to the plate with runners on base
this postseason, he is six for eight with a home run,
a double, and six runs batted in. And that is
the fun fact of the hour. Let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Andre who's in the Commonwealth.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Hello, Andre, welcome, Yes, thank you so much.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
Ben, it's good to be with you. A rough start
for the amazings, for the New York Mets, and again,
being from the Garden State, born in New Jersey, impartial
to the Mets, but I just want to.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Say I thought it was impressive, Andre. I really liked
the way they collectively sucked as a team.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I thought it was nice.

Speaker 7 (26:13):
Sure, sure, you know. And but Ben, we go back
and I'm dating my I'm dating myself.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
A little bit here.

Speaker 7 (26:20):
But you'll remember the Atlanta Braids in the World Series
in the late nineties with Andrew Jones. There a couple
of Jacks beat the Brakes off of the Yankees, and
the Yankee Storm back and eventually won that series. So
I'm not saying that's what's going to happen here, but
I just want everyone to kind of take a break.
You know, it's an impressive win. The Dodgers seemed to be,

(26:42):
you know, this culmination of all this talent, all this payrolls,
you know, rolling in the right direction. They're a formidable team.
But Ben, we can't count my Amazings out now. A
team that we can begin to count out. You started
talking about the NFC least the NFC East have a
Dallas Cowboys Mike Tyson knockout statement game by the Detroit Lions,

(27:03):
which you may be getting into in the second hour.
You can count Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 8 (27:07):
Out right now.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
You can count them out. And I look different than
the Amazings and Mets. Who's the first person to the podium,
Ben after this? She lacking the man, the myth, allegend,
the person who's principally responsible for this moribun result. Jerry Jones. Okay,
so Cowboys they are who we thought they were. They're
not even going to have a good regular season before their.

Speaker 8 (27:29):
First round exit.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
Might make the playoffs because they playing in a weaker conference.
But Cowboys are going nowhere fast, and listen, Ben, can
you convince Jimmy Jones to come back to be a
special consultant or anything else, because that's the only time
I'll have any type of trust in his team when
they bring back Jimmy Jones to corral.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Jerry Corral, Jerry, I think you mean Jimmy Johnson.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
But Jimmy Johnson lives in Key West and does TV
once a week and make some the scene amount of money,
So I don't think Jimmy Johnson's can be now. Jimmy
Jones might come back, but I don't know about Jimmy Johnson.

Speaker 7 (28:05):
To put that right, I got that wrong, But you
know what I mean, Jimmy Johnson, and I'll go in
on that. No, Cowboy, They're done the Amazing Mets. They're
going to make this a competitive series and represent themselves well.
Jimmy Johnson for crying out.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Maybe the NASCAR version of Jimmy Johnson, they can get him.
He's younger, the football version of Jimmy Johnson probably too old,
probably too old at this point, but living large man here.
He's got a great life and Key West and is
just living living great.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Jimmy Jimmy is eighty one years old, so.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
He's a little bit younger than Jerry Jones, who just
celebrated his alleged eighty second birthday, although it appears he's
a lot older than that.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Let's say hello to Blind Scott. Who's next? Hello Blind Scott?

Speaker 8 (28:46):
Hey, what's about I really like you West. Actually I
read all those Hemingway books on Kindle. You can do
all the books on the audio now, which is really good.
Can gets rid of the audio market audible?

Speaker 6 (28:57):
Dude?

Speaker 8 (28:58):
Hey, I love the Mats too. I don't know if
Grimmas was their time, but Doylan, he's a big Mets fan.
My dog and I listened to a lot of they
talk about the trash bar show. Hey, o Tani in
New York. So if the Dodgers do me beat the Mets,
I have to play the Yankees. They say his pitching sucks,
he was only able to steal those bases because he
didn't play the field, and they said much other stuff.

(29:19):
I don't want to get you in trouble for saying it,
you know what I mean. Then this guy called a
few weeks ago, his name was Jeff. You thought he
was drunk you met him before. He has a truck.
He's going to Denver to meet you. He has a
truck you can live in. It has a bed, a shower,
a kitchen and everything. I'll get him to call again.
He has a speech impediment. He'd be great for the
show if we call all the time.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
You remember, right, uh vaguely?

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we do like people with speech impediments.
They're good for the show. That is true.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
Yeah. I've been riding my exercise fight so hard. I
got this saddle rash and I used this preparation. Ah,
it cleaned it up right away. It's like a miracle.
I couldn't I couldn't tell enough. I just going into
a I just got into a fight. I'm shaking so
much like an hour.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
No we want to fight you. No one would want
to fight you. You're a farmless person.

Speaker 8 (30:07):
Yeah, my neighbors actually they wanted to fight me, like
about an hour ago. I had to call the kid's father.
It's pretty pretty dramatic. It's a lot of dramatics going on.
I'm worried about these people in Tampa though I know
some of them from the show, and they've just been
wiped off the map. I don't know what happened to him.
Where where are they just thinks.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, if their helms are destroyed, they're in shelters waiting,
waiting for their places.

Speaker 8 (30:32):
They can't judge their cell phones that you don't even
get on their phones or anything like. I'm really I
want to help out people that need help, you know,
like there's anyone out.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
There all right, I mean there are charities you can
donate to. Scott, I might.

Speaker 8 (30:45):
Give it right to the person. I like to give
the money right to the person. You know, when you
give it the charity. By the time the person gets
like they get pretty sense. And then the politicians are
doing a.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Donation.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
That is true, they do take most of the money.

Speaker 8 (30:57):
I'll call them. I help. I'm a supporter of the
weed Man. Actually, I got a shirt.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, he wants he wants to live. Can you and
him be well? Imagine that blind Scott and weed Man
his roommates on the North end of Boston.

Speaker 8 (31:11):
He don't want to come here. I was trying to
get him to come up here.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
I could set very peaky.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
He's very very piky for almost yeah, for a guy
that has no money and no hope, he's very.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Very you know, he's always wanting somewhere to live.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, and treating this like a real estate.

Speaker 8 (31:25):
Show, like any typical New York He's a loud mouthed.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
A hole, you know.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, but he's he smiles while being a loud mouth
a hole. That's the beauty of thing. He's smiling.

Speaker 7 (31:36):
Did you hear?

Speaker 8 (31:37):
The Los Angeles Kings are homeless. They've been homeless for
like two months. They're like torn all around East coast
because the Clippers left and they like going to make
a super like a room now out of the where
the Clippers used to hang out. So the Kings haven't
even been able to go to the Staples Center for
two months.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Oh good for them.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
They enjoy traveling around and those the first class plane
flights and the.

Speaker 8 (31:59):
People up Quebec. The Kings have been causing all these
prompts in Quebec. That's a quiet little time. I have
friends up there, and they've been causing all these prongs
up there, using it as their own little like training
camp in ever's not right.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's a bad job by the Kings. They should not
be be respectful. Thank you, go away, all right. There's
a blind Scott, so the finger pointing galore. There were
some reports over the weekend that the Padres, the front
running Padres, did not handle their gutless loss to the
Dodgers very well, shocking that a Padre team would implode

(32:32):
the way they did getting shut out in an elimination
game on Friday, and some chatter around the dark web
indicating that the Padres locker room after their shutout performance
there that the players were not happy. There was called

(32:53):
a toxic environment there. There was finger pointing going on.
No names mentioned, but you would imagine that that Fernando Tatis,
the greats I guess he ran out of the right
mix there to hit those home runs, the peacock Fernando
Tatis and then Manny Dirty Machado unable to get it done.

(33:13):
But then they were getting it done in the locker room,
supposedly pointing fingers and screaming and yelling and playing the
blame game. Always fun to play the blame game. So
we'll see if anything comes out of that in the
coming days and weeks. But supposedly the Padres not handling
losing all that well.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Time now for the who am I? Game? Here we go.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Detroit quarterback Jared Goff had a one hundred and fifty
five point eight passer rating in Week four prior to
Detroit's by in Week five in the second quarter second
quarterback in NFL history to have a passer rating of
one hundred and fifty or higher in back to back starts,
He joins me again, Jared Goff, becoming the second quarterback

(33:58):
in NFL history to record a passer rating of one
hundred and fifty or higher in back to back starts.
He joins me, Who am I? That's the question, the answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

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Speaker 1 (34:45):
Here's the who amigame for our one. Who am I?

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Game?

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Is where we tend to be somebody else? That's I
call it who Am I?

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Game?

Speaker 2 (34:54):
And we'll go to that blowout in the NFL, the
Detroit Dallas game, the teams we always want on Thanksgiving.
Detroit quarterback Jared Goff, who did it again? He's the
second quarterback in NFL history to record a passer rating
of one hundred and fifty or higher, and back to
back starts.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Joining me, Who am I?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
That is the question? What is the answer? And we'll
see if anybody knows the answer? Nick is going with
Mark Bolger, who has the answer?

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Who else?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Rob in Vegas says Stone Cold Steve Austin? Who Ferg
Dog Fullerton's own Jim Edmonds is the answer? Just by Fergie?
Andre Tippett, misspelled by Cowboy Killer who had an extra
e on there? Bad job by you boyd Stevens, guest
by Benito. There's a lot of Who's a Milt Plum

(35:47):
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Christopher Columbus from King Roy.
I saw over the weekend that they've identified the remains
of Christopher Columbus.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
No, five hundred years after is it five years?

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I guess they they thought it was him and then
they did the DNA testing and they found his bone, and.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
So they talked about this before. Columbus Day is kind
of celebrated in certain parts.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
It used to be very big in New York, but
then they tried to cancel Christopher Columbus because he's a
bad guy. But then everyone's a bad guy at some point,
so I don't know what happened with that, but yeah,
I think in Boston too. I know New York, but
I think in Boston Columbus Day was used to.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Be not a thing here though, right not in l A.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
No, No, what's a big holiday here? What do we
do like day or something like that.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Valentine Yancey thig Ben guests by Sean and Portland, Sammy
Ball from Dante, Marcus Tuiyasa Sopo from Malibu, Rubben that's
his answer, Ikey the Ikey shuffle Woods from Big Alu.
He's on number two. Baker Mayfield from Johnny Q. Chris
Chandler from Sean in the Valley the Sun. Owen's going

(37:00):
with slinging Sammy Baughs. His answer, what say you, Eddie?

Speaker 3 (37:03):
It's the throwing Samoan.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Jack Thompson a fine name from Football Pass, but unfortunately
incorrectly correct the answer.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
A man that was so terrible at TV he didn't
last a year. Drew Brees is the answer. Drew Brees
back at twenty eighteen
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