October 22, 2021 • 36 mins
Ben Maller discusses NLCS Game 5 where the Atlanta Braves failed to take out the Dodgers thanks to the heroics from Chris Taylor, a friendly wager on Game 6 between the guys, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our number one
of our radio program recorded in the audio format repackaged
for podcasting. So here an hour number one the National
League Championship Series, Game number five, Game number five in
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the NLCS, the Braves going for the kill shot, but
they don't get it done. Atlanta had the early lead,
they had the better starting pitcher, and they didn't get
to win on the road. So they've opened up the
door for the Dodgers to come back again. Are you
surprised that the big Blue wrecking crew did not roll
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over and rallied back. We'll discuss that and more right
now in our number one not going away, at least
not yet going away. Well, come in the beginning of
another edition of the Ben Maller Show. We are together
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So I know you were exciting. Many of you were
looking forward to calling up as the trolls that you are,
and We're looking forward to this show, anticipating the last
rites would have been given to the Dodgers. Surprise, surprise, surprise,
even I was taken aback by the baseball. We will
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lead this hour with baseball because baseball has been very
good to me. Not really this week, but in the
last few hours it's been very good. So you know
what the story is. There's no need to pretend like
this something else. Dodgers Stadium the site, all right there,
it is right there, Chavez Ravine, the Atlanta Braves looking
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to finish off the kill shot, take care of business
and advanced back to the World Series. Since way back
in the nineties the last time the Braves franchise was
in the World Series, and they had the Dodgers were
starting a bullpen game, they could eliminate the Dodgers. Everything
was set up perfectly for Atlanta. It seemed seemed like
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they had a thumb on the scale. Atlanta starting Max Freed,
who had the lowest earned run average. You saw the broadcast.
They brought this up lowest ear in baseball since the
beginning of August, the second half of the season, there
was no pitcher better than Max Freed, and he got
the ball for Atlanta. The Dodgers counted with the dreaded
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bullpen game, so clearly Atlanta was gonna win the game. Now,
if you didn't see the game we watched for you,
Chris Taylor. Look at that, he looked like Eddie Rosario.
Chris Taylor hit not one, not two, three home runs.
He drove in six runs, had a chance for a
four and the Dodgers they fell behind early and then
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they ended up ambushing the Bravos eleven to two, eleven
to two. Wow, and that cuts the Braves lead in
the NLCS down to three to two. Aj Pollock, who
normally would be the headliner, you had a couple of
home runs, have four RBIs, that's big, But you got
to take a back seat to Chris Taylor. Now, Game
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six back in Georgia on Saturday, even though the Dodgers
were twenty games better than Atlanta during the regular season.
Because of the fugazi rob Manford rules the clueless Commissioner,
Atlanta has home field advantage because they won a division
even though they were terrible in comparison side by side
of the Dodgers during the regular season. But the Braves
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have two more chances to not have a deja vu situation.
Remember they blew a three to one lead last year,
and if they win one of the next two games,
they get back to the World Series for the first
time since nineteen ninety nine. Holy crap, that was a
long time ago. Fox Sports Radio didn't even exist in
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nineteen ninety nine. All right, so let us discuss the question.
Are you surprised that the Dodgers got up off the
deathbed at least for a day and rallied back? And
I am nodding my head. Yes, yes, I've got bell Bottoms,
Grizzly Bear, and Twilight Zone and we'll combine all of
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these things together now. Number So the word here is stunning, right,
the fact that Joe Kelly came out this. I hate
these bullpen games. I can't stand them. All we seem
to get or even when there's good starting pitchers, we
get bullpen games. But Joe Kelly comes trotting out of
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the bullpen and immediately poops his pants right there on
the mound. POOPSI pants. Yeah. Freddie Freeman, bamn. Remember when
Freddy first ate at bats he had seven strike us
and he was oh for eight with seven strikers. Even
first seven at bats, he struck out well. Freddie Freeman's
heated up back in Socaw where he grew up, and
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a two run homer, and here we go, Braves jumping
out ahead. Here we go again, but instead it was surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise,
And you can hold the funeral potatoes for now. The
fat lady can take a night off from warming up
her vocal cords. The Dodgers, now they're still on life support.
It's not like they're off life support, but the vitals
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are improving. The vitals have improved, and the team that
is still gasping for oxygen, they're not quite as bad.
The oxygen levels are coming up, and because of Chris
Taylor and AJ Pollock and others, they're starting to get
some color back and not turning blue anymore. And you're
starting to say, wait a minute, I need to change
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my fashion here. I got to go to Bell Bottoms
because the ultimate Disco Kings said it best back in
the nineteen seventies. The bags all right, staying alive, staying alive,
and the Dodgers will live to see another day on Saturday.
Actually we'll over to see two more days. And they've
won seven straight elimination games, seven of them, which is
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not the ideal situation. To mean, you don't want to
have to have won seven straight elimination games. The fact
that you keep going into elimination games, the word for
that is maddening. Maddening said, you want me to have
high blood pressure? Come on, all right. Secondly, now, the
Dodgers in this game, you saw the game on Turner.
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The Dodgers did not just beat the Braves. This was
a crime of passion. It was done out of raid
seventeen hits, five home runs. Even Trade Turner showed up
Trade Turner that pep talk we gave him last night.
He was inspired by that. I played like the regular
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season batting champ that he has been in, not the
total stiff that he had shown up in the NLCS.
The Dodgers stomped a mud a hole in that Atlanta
locker room. Char broiled Bravos was available to anyone that wanted,
anyone that wanted the charboiled Bravos. So where has that been?
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Where has that offense been? It has been hibernating. And
so the Dodgers, there's there's not out of the woods yet,
but they are the damaged grizzly bear. Beware of the
wounded bear, and they're wounded. No, Justin Turner, no problem.
We knew that he wasn't playing very well anyway. One
eleven hitter, Bye bye, Clayton Kurse. I was not walking
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through that door. And this guy's out, that guy's hurt,
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But facing a
standing eight count, they have not been counted out yet.
Now final point. Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snicker, Now he
can dismiss this, and the Braves are saying all the
right things. I've read some of the quotes in the
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locker room and the media session. It's not the locker room.
Nobody's allowed in the locker room anymore because of the COVID,
but the media in the interview room that talked to
these guys, and some of the quotes that I've seen
Brian Snicker and others that just kind of dismissing this
and say Braves will bounce back, They'll be fine. And
while there is no such thing as momentum, I suddenly
believe that there is a thing known as lack of confidence.
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And you start looking around the bulk of this Atlanta
roster witnessed the Great Collapse of twenty twenty in a
neutral environment. But it doesn't really matter. The thing about
the neutral environment, the fans don't really matter that much
in the sport of baseball. It The advantage you have
in baseball is that final at bat when you're the
home team, and that is key to home home field advantage.
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Ballparks play a little bit different, but a lot of
the ballparks are the same, outside of some freaks of
nature like Finway and a few other places. But the
Atlanta Ballpark doesn't play that crazy. That suburban ballpark that
they just opened up, and so they had home you know,
the games at home. They the neutral site situation last
year and they blew it. But that's fresh in the
mind now. You watch out for paranoia, delusions and hallucinations.
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The bullpen game, this was the shot. This was the shot.
And I mean, the Braves aren't gonna win, but this
was their best opportunity. You had your top guy, Max
Freed on the mound, number one pitcher in baseball since
the beginning of August, Dodgers going with a bunch of slop,
no confidence, nothing, and then out of thin air now
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on paper anyway, the tables have turned. If things go
back to a normal world, then the Dodgers are set up.
Max Scherzer and Walker Bueller. That's on the table for
the Dodgers. Here the next couple of games. Now, sure
some of those got a dead Armin Bueller has not
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been good, but that's better at least again, if you
look at it and say what their resumes are, that's
better than anything the Bravos can counter with. Unfortunately, the
NLCS up until this point has been the Twilight Zone picture,
if you will, a world where everything is the exact opposite.
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Up is down, first is last? Good has become bad?
Wrong is now right? You see where I'm going with this.
Logical sports explanations are now illogical. Giving is now taking.
That has been the National League Championship Series, the Twilight
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Zone where Eddie Rosario looks like the Wi incarnation of
Hammer and Hank It's insane, and Chris Taylor a gift
from the Seattle Mariners years ago, lighting up Reggie Jackson
style for the Dodgers. So where will the pendulum swing?
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On Saturday Night? Is the tide turning? Inquiring minds would
like to know. We will find out on Saturday. I
just want a game seven. I want to see a
game seven. Not that I have any confidence in Walker
Bueller in a game seven, because I don't, but I
want to see it. I would like to see a
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nice game seven. And I want to see the Red
Sox beat the Astros because I'd like to see a
game seven in the American League. That would be a
good weekend. Okay, I would like to have a good
week So let's let you know. All right, it's Ben
Maller's show on Fox. If you would like to be part,
we'll take your phone calls now. The lines are open
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for business. I think eight seven seven won't have any
sound from the Dodger game, and so we'll press on.
We'll take your calls eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
Also on Twitter at Ben Mallard. If you'd like to
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some message there, give us real time feedback. And I
know it's a tough time for the trolls. Go back
to hiding, crawl back behind the refrigerator. You're gonna have
to wait now with a couple of days you do
not get to sell up break there's no celebration, premature celebration.
And have a couple of Atlanta Brave fans that are
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in the email chain that I get from listeners of
the show. Those Braves fans biting their fingernails right now, well,
concern right like, what's going on? Here's what's going on now.
I would also like to again flog a dead horse,
because there's there's something that continues to percolate in the
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baseball playoffs and I keep seeing it. I keep shaking
my head, and so I need to rant and ravee.
It's my pet peeves, So I need to do it.
We'll get to that, and we will do it next.
You led the Dodgers to the World Series victory. Be
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It's so big. I don't think you could really kind
of get your mouth around it. I mean, it's you
know what I'm saying, and alive from the Fox Sports
radio studios. It's Ben Maller. Tough night for Eddie. Also
hanging there, Eddie. I know you think the show is
not gonna be as good because the the Dodgers won.
But it'll be okay, Eddie, everything will be all right.
I mean, you know, I'm just I'm just thinking about us,
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not you know, not just you. Yeah, I'm feeling good.
That's not good for the show. No, it's great. It
really is wonderful many ways. Lou says, can we call
him Ferris Bueller so he can be a couldn't care
less hero? Courty to Lou, Ricky, Bobby writes, and he says,
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I give that Mala monologue an eight point five. The
Dodgers have all the momentum on their side. See right there,
that is what I'm talking about, Rick And yet again,
now I have ranted, I have preached from the bully
pulpit over the last several days and really years, and
I've had a very consistent position, momentum is bullcrap. It
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is after the fact explaining what happened. And yet again,
yet again, the same dumb dumbs in the media are
out there, Well, the Dodgers have all the momentum. Chris
Taylor swings the momentum back to the Dodgers. Ah, yeah,
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classic example this. There was the big columnist in the
La Times, Bill Plashkey, his lead on his column I
believe it was the Thursday edition. Was momentum lost? So
the Dodgers, apparently they found it very quickly, just like
the Braves lost it when Bellinger hit the bomb and
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Mookie Bets drove in the go ahead run. So the
Braves lost it, then they found it. It doesn't exist.
Can we all agree? Can we all? I know, we
all like our sports, and it's just a lazy sports
trope that people repeat momentum as the next day starting pitcher.
Well that was Earl Weaver's way of dismissing momentum also.
But stop. And then there's people in Atlanta like, well,
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the Bribe still have all the momentum because they're going home,
you know, and stop. No, it doesn't exist. It there's
no ounce of momentum, there's no pound of momentum. That
there's nothing. It is thin air. Look, I'm eating momentum.
Chop chop chop Tu I'm eating get it's in my ballet.
Momentum is in my ballet. What I'm fat on. Momentum
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it doesn't exist when I I fast, Aliz, it's my
Michie guys, I like, I don't eat them much. I
fast during the week, eight one meal a day, couci.
That's no all right anyway, So don't distract me. So
when I'm doing my fasting here I can say I'm
not really fasting. I'm eating momentum, because momentum does. It
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exists in the science world, in the sporting world. It
is just earliest sports writers we're looking for a different
way to describe something that happened in a sporting event,
and they said, all right, let's use the word momentum.
And generations of dumb dumbs have repeated. It's the same
thing like in in college basketball mostly college college football too.
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Student athlete like student athlete, another pet peeve of mine,
another these dopey terms in sports. So student athlete was
created because the NC double a was getting sued up
the Wazoo. People were dying playing football, and there was
workers comp claims that people were making. And you can
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look this up and I'm giving you the the loose
version of the story, but essentially, worker comps claims and
so as a workaround to avoid having to pay out
tons of money to injured college football players. So, can't
claim workers comp if you're a student athlete, can't do it.
So that's what they came up with. They just kept
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repeating it year after year and generations. I have just
repeated that. And if you turn on any of the
broadcast channels on a Saturday, there is a big time
college football game on every channel. Now finally here in
twenty twenty one, the players are getting paid to wear
blue jeans and to drink different sports drinks and all
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that nonsense. But man, just the whole this whole nonsense
just just not stop, all right, Robin Vegas says, Ben,
you do realize what you have just done. Correct, Now
that you're you've had four or five minutes to reflect
on that monologue you just delivered, the light bulb has
come on. Yes, I am afraid so the dreaded curse
of the Benbino on your behalf. I'd like to apologist
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that also doesn't exist. You dope, that doesn't It does
not Listen. Look at the team's I support Dodgers World champions,
Clippers final four in the NBAS, Final four in the NBA. Yeah,
tell that to coach k Final four in the NBA.
The Rams were in the Super Bowl a couple years
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ago with Jared Golf with Joe, and the Rams just
won the off season. They got the top quarterback in football,
the leading candidate for the MVP Award, Matthew Stafford. And
so there's no curse. There's no, it does not exist.
It is. It is a myth propagated by dumb people
who called the radio show a long time ago. That
I believe there's MotorCity Mike who originated the curse of
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the ben Bino prophet. And no, no, no, he doesn't
call the show. Anybody's long guns. That amazing. He moved,
he moved back to the dreaded day shift. Yeah, the
dreaded day shift is where he went. H Let's see
who do we have page down here? Page down? Joe says,
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the word momentum in sports means a combination of contagious
positive emotion on one team and contagious lack of confidence
on the other team. It is a real phenomena, even
though it is poorly named. No, it is not Joe Joe.
You are Schmo Joe the Schmo. What an appropriate name
that is? Ryan writes in Clearly Visiting the Liquor Cabinet.
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He says, I look forward to hearing your Angels playoff
monologue next year. The Angels are signing Chris Taylor along
with the best player, best baseball player in history, Mike
trout Otani, and they will finally have a pitching step.
Was Chris Taylor going to pitch for the the Angels?
Is that that's gonna work there? Good luck? Yeah? This
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is Sean writes in Sean is a fan of the
cheating Stros. He says, the Dodgers come back is pretty fishy. Humbbna. No, No,
the Dodgers, and they're not the ones that cheat. You're
a team, you're a squad. How great is I think
about those as stro fans, the cheating Asters, And even
if they were to win the World Series, nobody will
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give them credit. They're fraudulent franchise. So even by weeding
a World Series this year and they still get no props.
How sad is that for them? But that's the reality.
You've got jose Albouve on your team. You got that
punk Alex Bregman in his punchable face, and Carlos Correa.
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You got losers on your team that didn't get punished.
So anything they do the rest of their career we
don't take seriously. So enjoy have fun. But America pulling
for the Red Sox to come back, the great comeback.
If you don't know the facts, then you got a child.
Yeah exactly, that's Carloska. Yeah, that's that's the guy right there. Yeah, yeah,
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that's the guy you support right there. It was the
devil not available to share for so you picked him.
What's going on with that? J D and KC. He's
a big troll, he says D plus on that monologue.
Straight up homerism? How was that homerism? I did? I
not admit I was genuinely surprised that the Dodgers won
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that game. I did not think they were gonna win
that game. I did not. People were texting me early
on when Freddie Freeman hit that home run that, yeah, pilot,
it was a dog pile Robert, I'm not correct, Yeah,
dog piling on at that point that ah, here we go,
and uh, you budget of losers. You know, all the
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Braves fans, they dusted off their Greg Maddox jerseys and
they had There were even some people old school they
were like Dale Murphy. We used to have a guy
called the show, the late Great Gary from Spokane, Spokane Gary,
we called him. That was his nickname on the show.
He called me for years and the early days of
the show, and he loved the Atlanta Braves, and his
claim to fame was Dale Murphy for the Hall of Fame.
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He would just randomly call up and and that that
was just like big talking point, Dale Murphy for the
Did you see Dale Murphy's been out to baseball for
a million years, you still see Braves. I watched those
games in Atlanta. Did you see Roberto there? He was
there at the throughout the first pitch. No, but I
saw people wearing the Dale Murphy jersey. Still they still
had him in their closet. They dust didn't off put
him out. It's kind of like what Steve Garvey is
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to dodge a fan. But he never won anything with
the Braves. Isn't he from Spokane? Is that why you
he would call in and pump him up? There is that?
I don't I don't remember. I think so well, that
would make sense, that would make sense. But like I said,
momentum is the next stay starting pitcher, big bend. So
the Dodgers don't have any momentum in because the goals
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four Indians again, four and a third like it was,
the dogs ain't gonna win. No, he's got a dead arm.
He said, he's got a dead arm. His arm is dead.
They should bury his arm. He's atak arrest. So he's
got to go to these seven. No way, there is
no way he goes set. I agree with zero plus.
There's him go seven right, third time through the lineup,
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he'll go seven. After he's shutting them down. No, no,
you want to bet on it. I'll bet you right,
I bet you dollar right, a dollar dollars, I'll bet
you five dollars in eddie, would you like to take money?
I'll bet you gonna be all right? All right, So Roberto,
you get ten dollars. If maxuers a go seven or more, okay, yeah,
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and if not, we both get five dollars. But if
he's if he's pitching a good game, they're not gonna
pull him. Agree, No, no, I don't agree. Have you
not watched Dave Roberts. Come on, all right, I just
pulled the guy who just wanting to no hitter a
few years ago. Right he if he spent six innings
the Dodgers are up in the game, he's gonna go seven. No,
don't seemin They'll get cocky and say, well, we're gonna
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win on Sunday, and so you know we'll take him out.
We'll save him for their world. No, no, no, not happening. No,
I'm telling you, I know how these idiots, these these
guys operate. All right, I hope I'm wrong. I'd love
to pay you five dollars if he goes seven innings dominantning.
What if he goes seven innings and gives up seven runs?
I just forgot all my own my daughter and toy.
Now what you lost him to? Your daughter? I said,
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I said, if h I said, if pools it's a
home runn right here, I'll buy you a toy. And
she's like, I'm no, what about the Dodgers? Dodgers win better.
I'm like, Okay, the Dodgers, I'm gonna taken you down.
That's gone on, and let me renegotiate it. Does your daughter?
Does your daughter understand at a very young age there
that toy for a parent is a weasel turn. There's
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all kinds of different price, very crazy. Okay, that's let's
go to the grocery store. They have a little toy section.
You can get all yeah, bouncy ball exactly get the
bounce you want that grab by the way Hollywood Jedi
is writing in, he says, I want a piece of
that action. I'll bet Roberto five dollars, So, Hollywood Jed,
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I would also like to take Roberto's money. He also
wants a piece of that action. So just letting you know.
Be sure to catch live editions. So the Ben Maller
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Always exciting news when the government wants to get involved
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in sports, and two House Democrats have sent a letter
to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell demanding the league provide Congress
with the results of the investigation of the Washington football
team workplace culture. Of course, the big fallout from the
emails was the John Gruden resignation, and then the NFL's like,
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and that's it. Nothing to see here, and well, apparently
some folks in the government are like, not so fast.
We would like to see those emails, and we want
to see what's going on behind the scenes. So we'll
see if the NFL can can work their way around
this or not. Well, we will adjust that later, yeah,
we really, we will will have the Well, John Gruden
was in the Sporting News here and there something happened
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with him, and the it's all tied together, Eddie, it's
all tied together. We have the topic tree, which is
very exciting. Do not touch the topic tree, Eddie. That'll
be coming up in a later turkey Hole. Yeah, that's
actually John Tree. John moved to the turkey Hole. That's
where he's living right now. Apologize to the Raider nation. Yes,
you'd like to apologize to you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
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and you in the back everybody. Everybody gets an apology.
Absolutely all right, we will go off the gride here
and check in for a bizarre night at the Applebe's.
But we should take a call before we get to
that nonsense. And let's go to the phones right now.
Who do we have any meany miny mole. Let's say
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hello to Andy in Seattle. Hello, Andy, Hello, mister so
I got a list. But you know how how our
heart is this stand on weight because then you start
out with one thought and then you got a thousand
other ones because of listening to it your thing. I
would like to apologize that you have a lot of thoughts.
I do well. Okay, So the other night you got
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you were talking about the most memorable home runs, right yeah,
and then but remember when the two Grippey honestly, okay,
so remember when the two Gryppi's father and son had
home runs in the same night in Anaheim? Yes, yea
in a great, a regular, random, regular season game. Yeah,
and then you know, you know, Jeffy and lady left.
He who my camera and came and he had four
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home runs and one getting those days. Are we doing
great moments in Mariner histories? That no, no, no, no,
no no no, that's just I'm trying to I started
out thinking about just um, you say the love, the
light bulbs, you say so many things that just brings
so many thoughts. But and you talked about sandwiches. My
dad was as st depressionary guy, and he came when
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he got out the sandwich, he got out of bread,
a loaf of bread and some gold cups. He was
so happy. It was this funny youself, I didn't. Yeah,
so you're in the depression that my my grandfather was
in the h grew up in the depression. In the depression.
You to me, it's like it's like that Blues Brother song. Right,
you got two slices of bread and you wish you
had some meat. That's the Oesterday, I said, I'm want
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them on Facebook with my buddies from Chicago. I'm six.
He said, we have these uh um uh sensibilities that
we all share. The brown shoals that we heard songs
and we heard television shows. We heard and so you can.
But then I'm just I'm always disappointed when they don't understand.
But you said the minute ago of South Beach, but
I remember, uh North Bob Coast Bob Oh, No, Bobby
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was like Italian restaurants. Time out. Andy, You're you're a
health of skelter. Andy, You're amazing. You're bouncing around. My
head is spreating here? Andy? You I really stressing down that. No, No,
you're like the non secretary guy. He's just all over
the I love it. And how many flats here? I
gotta hand out this list? And so you said about
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five minutes ago, you used to have talked about the
light bulb coming up. Well. In high school, I very
I had an English class, and I keep in contact
though my old high school teacher and I always had
class after a lunch. So I was always stoned, and
he was always looking around the class. He would have
saved some provocket of sentence or something. You know, he
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would try and ask a thought provoking question. I gotta go, Andie,
I'm gonna need I'm gonna need some of what beer
drinking Brian's having and that jet who fled. If this
continues any longer, I'm sorry, I'm not kidding. He was
stressing me out listening to him talk. I'm just like, yeah,
I got a headache. Top. It's a double edged sword
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because it's both amazing and terrible at the same time.
He's all over the place, which is terrible, but it's
amazing that his mind is bouncing around. I kind of
have to be a little creative to do this most
of the time, but I'm not. I'm not like him
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like Andy's. He's all over the place. Speaking of being
all over the place, did you see this, this story
about Alan Iverson? This is great. So Alan Iverson recently
did a podcast and he was telling stories about about weed.
I guess he became a brand ambassador APPS recently and
so he shared a couple of stories. I guess it
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was actually with GQ he did this. I thought it
was a podcast, but he did it with GQ, And
so he recently told some stories and I just saw
this and he claimed Iverson that he once smoked too
much weed and he was looking for a corona and
you know he's out. He was high, he said, and
he said that he started walking up an interstate He
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didn't say where, but he said he was walking on
an interstate highway, he said, with cars flying by, and
he's just walking down the road. He was trying to
find a bar, Irison claimed, and he said he started
having visions of teammates, former teammates, his lady, his kids,
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people that he loved. And he said about ten minutes
after this, he told the story. He said he woke
up and was laying down in a ditch. Alan Irison,
one of the great NBA players, lying in a ditch
and he said, I'm in a MF and ditch and
he was looking around and all that said. Now he says,
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this is from Wheat. Let's go to our weed expert,
Cooper Loop. You think this was weed, Coop? You think
that this was just old fashioned weed. Have you ever
walked down an interstate highway? Coop? No, you have note,
so that has not that has not taken place. He's
he said he was trying to find I guess an
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Apple's bees. That's that was the deal on that. But man, well,
what was he like walking in traffic? Like, well, he
was at an apple? Yeah, he's well, he said, he
was walking. He was at an Applebee's. He had a
crazy night. It smokes some weed and he was trying
to find He's trying to find a corona. But wouldn't
they have al They don't have corona and Applebee's that
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that doesn't make sense that part of the story. He's
last didn't have corona. They were out, so he's like,
I gotta get the corona. So against the hard one here. Okay,
all right, it is the Benn Maler Show. We'll push
back the NFL picking for time reasons, for timing reasons.
Here's the who am I? Game? The Dodgers Chris Taylor
joining me as the second player in postseason history with
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two or more home runs and five or more runs
battered in in an elimination game, a potential elimination game
in the league championship series or later again, Chris Taylor
joining me as just the second player in postseason history
to have two or more home runs five or more
runs battered in in a potential elimination game in the
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few minutes longer? Who am I? Game? Each and every week?
Heal every day at this time, five days a week.
All right, So Chris Taylor joining me is just the
second player in postseason history they have two or more
home runs five or more runs batted in in a
potential elimination game in the league championship series round or later.
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Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer.
Let's see double oh Mexican, says Steve the Forearm Garvey.
It's the Garve, He says, page down. Charlie Garinger from
David in Seattle, who knows where all the good restaurants are?
Jose A Kendo from the Late Night Drug Tester Alec Baldwin.
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I see what you did there? Justin in Cincinnati. Quintin
McCracken guest by Oscar. There's a good name. Kevin Euclus
from Robbie the Mariner fan. Let's see page down. Key
k Hernandez from Eke Pee Wee Reese guests by Lou
Do you have an answer ready quickly? Yeah? Pablo Sandoval. No,
it's Johnny Damon. Johnny Damon back for the Red Sox
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in Old four. Who knew
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our number one
of our radio program recorded in the audio format repackaged
for podcasting. So here an hour number one the National
League Championship Series, Game number five, Game number five in
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the NLCS, the Braves going for the kill shot, but
they don't get it done. Atlanta had the early lead,
they had the better starting pitcher, and they didn't get
to win on the road. So they've opened up the
door for the Dodgers to come back again. Are you
surprised that the big Blue wrecking crew did not roll
(00:43):
over and rallied back. We'll discuss that and more right
now in our number one not going away, at least
not yet going away. Well, come in the beginning of
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So I know you were exciting. Many of you were
looking forward to calling up as the trolls that you are,
and We're looking forward to this show, anticipating the last
rites would have been given to the Dodgers. Surprise, surprise, surprise,
even I was taken aback by the baseball. We will
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lead this hour with baseball because baseball has been very
good to me. Not really this week, but in the
last few hours it's been very good. So you know
what the story is. There's no need to pretend like
this something else. Dodgers Stadium the site, all right there,
it is right there, Chavez Ravine, the Atlanta Braves looking
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to finish off the kill shot, take care of business
and advanced back to the World Series. Since way back
in the nineties the last time the Braves franchise was
in the World Series, and they had the Dodgers were
starting a bullpen game, they could eliminate the Dodgers. Everything
was set up perfectly for Atlanta. It seemed seemed like
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they had a thumb on the scale. Atlanta starting Max Freed,
who had the lowest earned run average. You saw the broadcast.
They brought this up lowest ear in baseball since the
beginning of August, the second half of the season, there
was no pitcher better than Max Freed, and he got
the ball for Atlanta. The Dodgers counted with the dreaded
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bullpen game, so clearly Atlanta was gonna win the game. Now,
if you didn't see the game we watched for you,
Chris Taylor. Look at that, he looked like Eddie Rosario.
Chris Taylor hit not one, not two, three home runs.
He drove in six runs, had a chance for a
four and the Dodgers they fell behind early and then
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they ended up ambushing the Bravos eleven to two, eleven
to two. Wow, and that cuts the Braves lead in
the NLCS down to three to two. Aj Pollock, who
normally would be the headliner, you had a couple of
home runs, have four RBIs, that's big, But you got
to take a back seat to Chris Taylor. Now, Game
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six back in Georgia on Saturday, even though the Dodgers
were twenty games better than Atlanta during the regular season.
Because of the fugazi rob Manford rules the clueless Commissioner,
Atlanta has home field advantage because they won a division
even though they were terrible in comparison side by side
of the Dodgers during the regular season. But the Braves
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have two more chances to not have a deja vu situation.
Remember they blew a three to one lead last year,
and if they win one of the next two games,
they get back to the World Series for the first
time since nineteen ninety nine. Holy crap, that was a
long time ago. Fox Sports Radio didn't even exist in
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nineteen ninety nine. All right, so let us discuss the question.
Are you surprised that the Dodgers got up off the
deathbed at least for a day and rallied back? And
I am nodding my head. Yes, yes, I've got bell Bottoms,
Grizzly Bear, and Twilight Zone and we'll combine all of
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these things together now. Number So the word here is stunning, right,
the fact that Joe Kelly came out this. I hate
these bullpen games. I can't stand them. All we seem
to get or even when there's good starting pitchers, we
get bullpen games. But Joe Kelly comes trotting out of
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the bullpen and immediately poops his pants right there on
the mound. POOPSI pants. Yeah. Freddie Freeman, bamn. Remember when
Freddy first ate at bats he had seven strike us
and he was oh for eight with seven strikers. Even
first seven at bats, he struck out well. Freddie Freeman's
heated up back in Socaw where he grew up, and
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a two run homer, and here we go, Braves jumping
out ahead. Here we go again, but instead it was surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise,
And you can hold the funeral potatoes for now. The
fat lady can take a night off from warming up
her vocal cords. The Dodgers, now they're still on life support.
It's not like they're off life support, but the vitals
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are improving. The vitals have improved, and the team that
is still gasping for oxygen, they're not quite as bad.
The oxygen levels are coming up, and because of Chris
Taylor and AJ Pollock and others, they're starting to get
some color back and not turning blue anymore. And you're
starting to say, wait a minute, I need to change
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my fashion here. I got to go to Bell Bottoms
because the ultimate Disco Kings said it best back in
the nineteen seventies. The bags all right, staying alive, staying alive,
and the Dodgers will live to see another day on Saturday.
Actually we'll over to see two more days. And they've
won seven straight elimination games, seven of them, which is
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not the ideal situation. To mean, you don't want to
have to have won seven straight elimination games. The fact
that you keep going into elimination games, the word for
that is maddening. Maddening said, you want me to have
high blood pressure? Come on, all right. Secondly, now, the
Dodgers in this game, you saw the game on Turner.
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The Dodgers did not just beat the Braves. This was
a crime of passion. It was done out of raid
seventeen hits, five home runs. Even Trade Turner showed up
Trade Turner that pep talk we gave him last night.
He was inspired by that. I played like the regular
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season batting champ that he has been in, not the
total stiff that he had shown up in the NLCS.
The Dodgers stomped a mud a hole in that Atlanta
locker room. Char broiled Bravos was available to anyone that wanted,
anyone that wanted the charboiled Bravos. So where has that been?
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Where has that offense been? It has been hibernating. And
so the Dodgers, there's there's not out of the woods yet,
but they are the damaged grizzly bear. Beware of the
wounded bear, and they're wounded. No, Justin Turner, no problem.
We knew that he wasn't playing very well anyway. One
eleven hitter, Bye bye, Clayton Kurse. I was not walking
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through that door. And this guy's out, that guy's hurt,
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But facing a
standing eight count, they have not been counted out yet.
Now final point. Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snicker, Now he
can dismiss this, and the Braves are saying all the
right things. I've read some of the quotes in the
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locker room and the media session. It's not the locker room.
Nobody's allowed in the locker room anymore because of the COVID,
but the media in the interview room that talked to
these guys, and some of the quotes that I've seen
Brian Snicker and others that just kind of dismissing this
and say Braves will bounce back, They'll be fine. And
while there is no such thing as momentum, I suddenly
believe that there is a thing known as lack of confidence.
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And you start looking around the bulk of this Atlanta
roster witnessed the Great Collapse of twenty twenty in a
neutral environment. But it doesn't really matter. The thing about
the neutral environment, the fans don't really matter that much
in the sport of baseball. It The advantage you have
in baseball is that final at bat when you're the
home team, and that is key to home home field advantage.
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Ballparks play a little bit different, but a lot of
the ballparks are the same, outside of some freaks of
nature like Finway and a few other places. But the
Atlanta Ballpark doesn't play that crazy. That suburban ballpark that
they just opened up, and so they had home you know,
the games at home. They the neutral site situation last
year and they blew it. But that's fresh in the
mind now. You watch out for paranoia, delusions and hallucinations.
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The bullpen game, this was the shot. This was the shot.
And I mean, the Braves aren't gonna win, but this
was their best opportunity. You had your top guy, Max
Freed on the mound, number one pitcher in baseball since
the beginning of August, Dodgers going with a bunch of slop,
no confidence, nothing, and then out of thin air now
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on paper anyway, the tables have turned. If things go
back to a normal world, then the Dodgers are set up.
Max Scherzer and Walker Bueller. That's on the table for
the Dodgers. Here the next couple of games. Now, sure
some of those got a dead Armin Bueller has not
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been good, but that's better at least again, if you
look at it and say what their resumes are, that's
better than anything the Bravos can counter with. Unfortunately, the
NLCS up until this point has been the Twilight Zone picture,
if you will, a world where everything is the exact opposite.
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Up is down, first is last? Good has become bad?
Wrong is now right? You see where I'm going with this.
Logical sports explanations are now illogical. Giving is now taking.
That has been the National League Championship Series, the Twilight
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Zone where Eddie Rosario looks like the Wi incarnation of
Hammer and Hank It's insane, and Chris Taylor a gift
from the Seattle Mariners years ago, lighting up Reggie Jackson
style for the Dodgers. So where will the pendulum swing?
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On Saturday Night? Is the tide turning? Inquiring minds would
like to know. We will find out on Saturday. I
just want a game seven. I want to see a
game seven. Not that I have any confidence in Walker
Bueller in a game seven, because I don't, but I
want to see it. I would like to see a
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nice game seven. And I want to see the Red
Sox beat the Astros because I'd like to see a
game seven in the American League. That would be a
good weekend. Okay, I would like to have a good
week So let's let you know. All right, it's Ben
Maller's show on Fox. If you would like to be part,
we'll take your phone calls now. The lines are open
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for business. I think eight seven seven won't have any
sound from the Dodger game, and so we'll press on.
We'll take your calls eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
Also on Twitter at Ben Mallard. If you'd like to
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some message there, give us real time feedback. And I
know it's a tough time for the trolls. Go back
to hiding, crawl back behind the refrigerator. You're gonna have
to wait now with a couple of days you do
not get to sell up break there's no celebration, premature celebration.
And have a couple of Atlanta Brave fans that are
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in the email chain that I get from listeners of
the show. Those Braves fans biting their fingernails right now, well,
concern right like, what's going on? Here's what's going on now.
I would also like to again flog a dead horse,
because there's there's something that continues to percolate in the
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baseball playoffs and I keep seeing it. I keep shaking
my head, and so I need to rant and ravee.
It's my pet peeves, So I need to do it.
We'll get to that, and we will do it next.
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It's so big. I don't think you could really kind
of get your mouth around it. I mean, it's you
know what I'm saying, and alive from the Fox Sports
radio studios. It's Ben Maller. Tough night for Eddie. Also
hanging there, Eddie. I know you think the show is
not gonna be as good because the the Dodgers won.
But it'll be okay, Eddie, everything will be all right.
I mean, you know, I'm just I'm just thinking about us,
(14:20):
not you know, not just you. Yeah, I'm feeling good.
That's not good for the show. No, it's great. It
really is wonderful many ways. Lou says, can we call
him Ferris Bueller so he can be a couldn't care
less hero? Courty to Lou, Ricky, Bobby writes, and he says,
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I give that Mala monologue an eight point five. The
Dodgers have all the momentum on their side. See right there,
that is what I'm talking about, Rick And yet again,
now I have ranted, I have preached from the bully
pulpit over the last several days and really years, and
I've had a very consistent position, momentum is bullcrap. It
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is after the fact explaining what happened. And yet again,
yet again, the same dumb dumbs in the media are
out there, Well, the Dodgers have all the momentum. Chris
Taylor swings the momentum back to the Dodgers. Ah, yeah,
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classic example this. There was the big columnist in the
La Times, Bill Plashkey, his lead on his column I
believe it was the Thursday edition. Was momentum lost? So
the Dodgers, apparently they found it very quickly, just like
the Braves lost it when Bellinger hit the bomb and
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Mookie Bets drove in the go ahead run. So the
Braves lost it, then they found it. It doesn't exist.
Can we all agree? Can we all? I know, we
all like our sports, and it's just a lazy sports
trope that people repeat momentum as the next day starting pitcher.
Well that was Earl Weaver's way of dismissing momentum also.
But stop. And then there's people in Atlanta like, well,
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the Bribe still have all the momentum because they're going home,
you know, and stop. No, it doesn't exist. It there's
no ounce of momentum, there's no pound of momentum. That
there's nothing. It is thin air. Look, I'm eating momentum.
Chop chop chop Tu I'm eating get it's in my ballet.
Momentum is in my ballet. What I'm fat on. Momentum
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it doesn't exist when I I fast, Aliz, it's my
Michie guys, I like, I don't eat them much. I
fast during the week, eight one meal a day, couci.
That's no all right anyway, So don't distract me. So
when I'm doing my fasting here I can say I'm
not really fasting. I'm eating momentum, because momentum does. It
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exists in the science world, in the sporting world. It
is just earliest sports writers we're looking for a different
way to describe something that happened in a sporting event,
and they said, all right, let's use the word momentum.
And generations of dumb dumbs have repeated. It's the same
thing like in in college basketball mostly college college football too.
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Student athlete like student athlete, another pet peeve of mine,
another these dopey terms in sports. So student athlete was
created because the NC double a was getting sued up
the Wazoo. People were dying playing football, and there was
workers comp claims that people were making. And you can
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look this up and I'm giving you the the loose
version of the story, but essentially, worker comps claims and
so as a workaround to avoid having to pay out
tons of money to injured college football players. So, can't
claim workers comp if you're a student athlete, can't do it.
So that's what they came up with. They just kept
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repeating it year after year and generations. I have just
repeated that. And if you turn on any of the
broadcast channels on a Saturday, there is a big time
college football game on every channel. Now finally here in
twenty twenty one, the players are getting paid to wear
blue jeans and to drink different sports drinks and all
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that nonsense. But man, just the whole this whole nonsense
just just not stop, all right, Robin Vegas says, Ben,
you do realize what you have just done. Correct, Now
that you're you've had four or five minutes to reflect
on that monologue you just delivered, the light bulb has
come on. Yes, I am afraid so the dreaded curse
of the Benbino on your behalf. I'd like to apologist
(18:51):
that also doesn't exist. You dope, that doesn't It does
not Listen. Look at the team's I support Dodgers World champions,
Clippers final four in the NBAS, Final four in the NBA. Yeah,
tell that to coach k Final four in the NBA.
The Rams were in the Super Bowl a couple years
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ago with Jared Golf with Joe, and the Rams just
won the off season. They got the top quarterback in football,
the leading candidate for the MVP Award, Matthew Stafford. And
so there's no curse. There's no, it does not exist.
It is. It is a myth propagated by dumb people
who called the radio show a long time ago. That
I believe there's MotorCity Mike who originated the curse of
(19:34):
the ben Bino prophet. And no, no, no, he doesn't
call the show. Anybody's long guns. That amazing. He moved,
he moved back to the dreaded day shift. Yeah, the
dreaded day shift is where he went. H Let's see
who do we have page down here? Page down? Joe says,
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the word momentum in sports means a combination of contagious
positive emotion on one team and contagious lack of confidence
on the other team. It is a real phenomena, even
though it is poorly named. No, it is not Joe Joe.
You are Schmo Joe the Schmo. What an appropriate name
that is? Ryan writes in Clearly Visiting the Liquor Cabinet.
(20:19):
He says, I look forward to hearing your Angels playoff
monologue next year. The Angels are signing Chris Taylor along
with the best player, best baseball player in history, Mike
trout Otani, and they will finally have a pitching step.
Was Chris Taylor going to pitch for the the Angels?
Is that that's gonna work there? Good luck? Yeah? This
(20:39):
is Sean writes in Sean is a fan of the
cheating Stros. He says, the Dodgers come back is pretty fishy. Humbbna. No, No,
the Dodgers, and they're not the ones that cheat. You're
a team, you're a squad. How great is I think
about those as stro fans, the cheating Asters, And even
if they were to win the World Series, nobody will
(21:01):
give them credit. They're fraudulent franchise. So even by weeding
a World Series this year and they still get no props.
How sad is that for them? But that's the reality.
You've got jose Albouve on your team. You got that
punk Alex Bregman in his punchable face, and Carlos Correa.
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You got losers on your team that didn't get punished.
So anything they do the rest of their career we
don't take seriously. So enjoy have fun. But America pulling
for the Red Sox to come back, the great comeback.
If you don't know the facts, then you got a child.
Yeah exactly, that's Carloska. Yeah, that's that's the guy right there. Yeah, yeah,
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that's the guy you support right there. It was the
devil not available to share for so you picked him.
What's going on with that? J D and KC. He's
a big troll, he says D plus on that monologue.
Straight up homerism? How was that homerism? I did? I
not admit I was genuinely surprised that the Dodgers won
(22:10):
that game. I did not think they were gonna win
that game. I did not. People were texting me early
on when Freddie Freeman hit that home run that, yeah, pilot,
it was a dog pile Robert, I'm not correct, Yeah,
dog piling on at that point that ah, here we go,
and uh, you budget of losers. You know, all the
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Braves fans, they dusted off their Greg Maddox jerseys and
they had There were even some people old school they
were like Dale Murphy. We used to have a guy
called the show, the late Great Gary from Spokane, Spokane Gary,
we called him. That was his nickname on the show.
He called me for years and the early days of
the show, and he loved the Atlanta Braves, and his
claim to fame was Dale Murphy for the Hall of Fame.
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He would just randomly call up and and that that
was just like big talking point, Dale Murphy for the
Did you see Dale Murphy's been out to baseball for
a million years, you still see Braves. I watched those
games in Atlanta. Did you see Roberto there? He was
there at the throughout the first pitch. No, but I
saw people wearing the Dale Murphy jersey. Still they still
had him in their closet. They dust didn't off put
him out. It's kind of like what Steve Garvey is
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to dodge a fan. But he never won anything with
the Braves. Isn't he from Spokane? Is that why you
he would call in and pump him up? There is that?
I don't I don't remember. I think so well, that
would make sense, that would make sense. But like I said,
momentum is the next stay starting pitcher, big bend. So
the Dodgers don't have any momentum in because the goals
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four Indians again, four and a third like it was,
the dogs ain't gonna win. No, he's got a dead arm.
He said, he's got a dead arm. His arm is dead.
They should bury his arm. He's atak arrest. So he's
got to go to these seven. No way, there is
no way he goes set. I agree with zero plus.
There's him go seven right, third time through the lineup,
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he'll go seven. After he's shutting them down. No, no,
you want to bet on it. I'll bet you right,
I bet you dollar right, a dollar dollars, I'll bet
you five dollars in eddie, would you like to take money?
I'll bet you gonna be all right? All right, So Roberto,
you get ten dollars. If maxuers a go seven or more, okay, yeah,
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and if not, we both get five dollars. But if
he's if he's pitching a good game, they're not gonna
pull him. Agree, No, no, I don't agree. Have you
not watched Dave Roberts. Come on, all right, I just
pulled the guy who just wanting to no hitter a
few years ago. Right he if he spent six innings
the Dodgers are up in the game, he's gonna go seven. No,
don't seemin They'll get cocky and say, well, we're gonna
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win on Sunday, and so you know we'll take him out.
We'll save him for their world. No, no, no, not happening. No,
I'm telling you, I know how these idiots, these these
guys operate. All right, I hope I'm wrong. I'd love
to pay you five dollars if he goes seven innings dominantning.
What if he goes seven innings and gives up seven runs?
I just forgot all my own my daughter and toy.
Now what you lost him to? Your daughter? I said,
(25:02):
I said, if h I said, if pools it's a
home runn right here, I'll buy you a toy. And
she's like, I'm no, what about the Dodgers? Dodgers win better.
I'm like, Okay, the Dodgers, I'm gonna taken you down.
That's gone on, and let me renegotiate it. Does your daughter?
Does your daughter understand at a very young age there
that toy for a parent is a weasel turn. There's
(25:23):
all kinds of different price, very crazy. Okay, that's let's
go to the grocery store. They have a little toy section.
You can get all yeah, bouncy ball exactly get the
bounce you want that grab by the way Hollywood Jedi
is writing in, he says, I want a piece of
that action. I'll bet Roberto five dollars, So, Hollywood Jed,
(25:45):
I would also like to take Roberto's money. He also
wants a piece of that action. So just letting you know.
Be sure to catch live editions. So the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey,
I'm Doug Gottlie. The post is called All Ball. We
usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's more
about the stories about what made these people love their
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sport and all the interesting interactions along the way. We
talked to coaches, we talked to players. We tell you stories.
You download it you listen to it, I think you'll
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the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or ever you get your podcast.
Always exciting news when the government wants to get involved
(26:30):
in sports, and two House Democrats have sent a letter
to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell demanding the league provide Congress
with the results of the investigation of the Washington football
team workplace culture. Of course, the big fallout from the
emails was the John Gruden resignation, and then the NFL's like,
(26:50):
and that's it. Nothing to see here, and well, apparently
some folks in the government are like, not so fast.
We would like to see those emails, and we want
to see what's going on behind the scenes. So we'll
see if the NFL can can work their way around
this or not. Well, we will adjust that later, yeah,
we really, we will will have the Well, John Gruden
was in the Sporting News here and there something happened
(27:11):
with him, and the it's all tied together, Eddie, it's
all tied together. We have the topic tree, which is
very exciting. Do not touch the topic tree, Eddie. That'll
be coming up in a later turkey Hole. Yeah, that's
actually John Tree. John moved to the turkey Hole. That's
where he's living right now. Apologize to the Raider nation. Yes,
you'd like to apologize to you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
(27:35):
and you in the back everybody. Everybody gets an apology.
Absolutely all right, we will go off the gride here
and check in for a bizarre night at the Applebe's.
But we should take a call before we get to
that nonsense. And let's go to the phones right now.
Who do we have any meany miny mole. Let's say
(27:57):
hello to Andy in Seattle. Hello, Andy, Hello, mister so
I got a list. But you know how how our
heart is this stand on weight because then you start
out with one thought and then you got a thousand
other ones because of listening to it your thing. I
would like to apologize that you have a lot of thoughts.
I do well. Okay, So the other night you got
(28:18):
you were talking about the most memorable home runs, right yeah,
and then but remember when the two Grippey honestly, okay,
so remember when the two Gryppi's father and son had
home runs in the same night in Anaheim? Yes, yea
in a great, a regular, random, regular season game. Yeah,
and then you know, you know, Jeffy and lady left.
He who my camera and came and he had four
(28:40):
home runs and one getting those days. Are we doing
great moments in Mariner histories? That no, no, no, no,
no no no, that's just I'm trying to I started
out thinking about just um, you say the love, the
light bulbs, you say so many things that just brings
so many thoughts. But and you talked about sandwiches. My
dad was as st depressionary guy, and he came when
(29:03):
he got out the sandwich, he got out of bread,
a loaf of bread and some gold cups. He was
so happy. It was this funny youself, I didn't. Yeah,
so you're in the depression that my my grandfather was
in the h grew up in the depression. In the depression.
You to me, it's like it's like that Blues Brother song. Right,
you got two slices of bread and you wish you
had some meat. That's the Oesterday, I said, I'm want
(29:24):
them on Facebook with my buddies from Chicago. I'm six.
He said, we have these uh um uh sensibilities that
we all share. The brown shoals that we heard songs
and we heard television shows. We heard and so you can.
But then I'm just I'm always disappointed when they don't understand.
But you said the minute ago of South Beach, but
I remember, uh North Bob Coast Bob Oh, No, Bobby
(29:49):
was like Italian restaurants. Time out. Andy, You're you're a
health of skelter. Andy, You're amazing. You're bouncing around. My
head is spreating here? Andy? You I really stressing down that. No, No,
you're like the non secretary guy. He's just all over
the I love it. And how many flats here? I
gotta hand out this list? And so you said about
(30:12):
five minutes ago, you used to have talked about the
light bulb coming up. Well. In high school, I very
I had an English class, and I keep in contact
though my old high school teacher and I always had
class after a lunch. So I was always stoned, and
he was always looking around the class. He would have
saved some provocket of sentence or something. You know, he
(30:33):
would try and ask a thought provoking question. I gotta go, Andie,
I'm gonna need I'm gonna need some of what beer
drinking Brian's having and that jet who fled. If this
continues any longer, I'm sorry, I'm not kidding. He was
stressing me out listening to him talk. I'm just like, yeah,
I got a headache. Top. It's a double edged sword
(30:55):
because it's both amazing and terrible at the same time.
He's all over the place, which is terrible, but it's
amazing that his mind is bouncing around. I kind of
have to be a little creative to do this most
of the time, but I'm not. I'm not like him
(31:15):
like Andy's. He's all over the place. Speaking of being
all over the place, did you see this, this story
about Alan Iverson? This is great. So Alan Iverson recently
did a podcast and he was telling stories about about weed.
I guess he became a brand ambassador APPS recently and
so he shared a couple of stories. I guess it
(31:37):
was actually with GQ he did this. I thought it
was a podcast, but he did it with GQ, And
so he recently told some stories and I just saw
this and he claimed Iverson that he once smoked too
much weed and he was looking for a corona and
you know he's out. He was high, he said, and
he said that he started walking up an interstate He
(32:03):
didn't say where, but he said he was walking on
an interstate highway, he said, with cars flying by, and
he's just walking down the road. He was trying to
find a bar, Irison claimed, and he said he started
having visions of teammates, former teammates, his lady, his kids,
(32:28):
people that he loved. And he said about ten minutes
after this, he told the story. He said he woke
up and was laying down in a ditch. Alan Irison,
one of the great NBA players, lying in a ditch
and he said, I'm in a MF and ditch and
he was looking around and all that said. Now he says,
(32:49):
this is from Wheat. Let's go to our weed expert,
Cooper Loop. You think this was weed, Coop? You think
that this was just old fashioned weed. Have you ever
walked down an interstate highway? Coop? No, you have note,
so that has not that has not taken place. He's
he said he was trying to find I guess an
(33:10):
Apple's bees. That's that was the deal on that. But man, well,
what was he like walking in traffic? Like, well, he
was at an apple? Yeah, he's well, he said, he
was walking. He was at an Applebee's. He had a
crazy night. It smokes some weed and he was trying
to find He's trying to find a corona. But wouldn't
they have al They don't have corona and Applebee's that
(33:32):
that doesn't make sense that part of the story. He's
last didn't have corona. They were out, so he's like,
I gotta get the corona. So against the hard one here. Okay,
all right, it is the Benn Maler Show. We'll push
back the NFL picking for time reasons, for timing reasons.
Here's the who am I? Game? The Dodgers Chris Taylor
joining me as the second player in postseason history with
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two or more home runs and five or more runs
battered in in an elimination game, a potential elimination game
in the league championship series or later again, Chris Taylor
joining me as just the second player in postseason history
to have two or more home runs five or more
runs battered in in a potential elimination game in the
(34:13):
league Championship Series or later. Who Am I? The answer? Next?
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It's Ben Maller at time. Now for the who am
I Game? A blatant attempt to get you listen a
(34:58):
few minutes longer? Who am I? Game? Each and every week?
Heal every day at this time, five days a week.
All right, So Chris Taylor joining me is just the
second player in postseason history they have two or more
home runs five or more runs batted in in a
potential elimination game in the league championship series round or later.
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Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer.
Let's see double oh Mexican, says Steve the Forearm Garvey.
It's the Garve, He says, page down. Charlie Garinger from
David in Seattle, who knows where all the good restaurants are?
Jose A Kendo from the Late Night Drug Tester Alec Baldwin.
(35:44):
I see what you did there? Justin in Cincinnati. Quintin
McCracken guest by Oscar. There's a good name. Kevin Euclus
from Robbie the Mariner fan. Let's see page down. Key
k Hernandez from Eke Pee Wee Reese guests by Lou
Do you have an answer ready quickly? Yeah? Pablo Sandoval. No,
it's Johnny Damon. Johnny Damon back for the Red Sox
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