October 3, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Yankees eliminating the Red Sox from the postseason behind a stellar performance from pitcher Cam Schlittler, the Padres getting eliminated by the Chicago Cubs, the Tigers moving on after beating the Guardians, and much more!
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Here we go. Welcome. It's our number one, our one
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later today. Also in our one here Major League Baseball's
Wild Card elimination Day. The Yankees ejected the Socks from
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the playoffs. Where did things go wrong for Alex cors
Red Sox? The Cubs eliminated the Podres Thumbs up or
thumbs down? Should San Diego gm aj Preller be fired
for mortgaging the future to try to win a World Series?
He went World Series or bust, and he gambled, and
well they went bust. Also, the Tigers have eliminated the
Guardians from the postseason? Is this season considered a success
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for Guardians? Manager Steven Vote as they did get to
the playoffs will tackle that as well. Here it is
our number one. We'll call it the Bronx come back.
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Sure Be. So I had an editorial decision to make,
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And before we get into that, I will point out
that the normal social media rundown of all the topics
to come not up yet because it's a one man band.
Then I didn't have time to do it, So screw you.
It'll be up later. It'll be up later for those
loads of you that have no life and need that information,
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you'll just have to stand by. You'll just have to
stand by. But I did have an editorial decision to make.
Did I go with the football game a week five
NFL regular season game or a day that was tied
for the greatest elimination day in baseball history? And I
made that editorial decision. Play the hit, small man, play
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the it. So we'll start with baseball. We have plenty
of time. It's a blank canvas of talk radio four
hours to paint in oil painting or in our case
of finger painting. But we will be here all night,
so we have plenty of time to get down to
business on all the things that took place in the
sporting world. But our lead this hour is from the
burrow of the Bronx. And to mention it, three elimination
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games all day would have been four, but the red
screwed that up and they lost to the Dodgers in two.
So we'll start our in depth team coverage around the
clock in the Bronx mentioned Game three Wildcard round, Red
Sox and Yankees. A couple of no name pitchers on
the mound. And I don't know if you were watching
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this or not. It was going against the NFL game.
Maybe you're not a baseball person, but I checked it out.
I was flipping back and forth, my right hand was
getting a workout, and rookie right hander Cam Schlittler gotta
say that slowly, that's an FCC violation waiting to happen.
Cam Schlittler, who grew up a Socks fan, he grew
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up a Red Sox fan, but we didn't hear that story,
did we all know? They didn't. They didn't really promote
that at all. No, they wanted to keep that on
the DL, keep that on the down low. Well, Cam
went out and struck out not one, not two, not three,
not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight,
not nine, not ten, not eleven, how about twelve in
eight dominating innings. And the Yankees, who looked like they
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were on the doorstep of death early on in this series,
they have come all the way back here. The Bronx
Bombers ended up stomping the Red Sox for nothing in
the deciding third game of the wild Card round. So
that means now we can all sing na da da
da la good bye, just like that. So that's it.
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If you had the Red Sox going to the divisional Series,
you were a loser. And so this taking place, the
pitching performance of Cam Schlittler, putting him right in the
middle of that Yankee Red Sox lore, the rivalry twenty
four years old, overpowering the futile Boston Red Sox lineup
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there and in his fifteenth Major league start. Now, who's
that guy the mizz from the Brewers who made the
All Star team after like two starts or something like that,
so they don't even care anymore. Who cares? Just did I?
We just want you to be good. So we're gonna
we're gonna make you be good. And you're good. And
it was a great night, fifteenth Big league start. And
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I didn't think he would pitch like that. I don't.
You didn't either. Don't lie to me. You didn't think
like he was gonna do that? Come on?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So New York is on now to the best of
five divisional series against the American League Eastern Champions and
the team of the Great North, Oh god, the Toronto
Blue Jays. That begins Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, we won't be
watching that, We'll be watching college football, but that'll start
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on Saturday. The better story, though, is in the losing
locker room. That's right in the losing locker room. And
so that is where we will begin our in depth
team coverage here as it goes the way of the Yankees.
So where did things go wrong for Alex Cora's Red Sox.
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I've got Rodo Ruter, Radiohead and water Fowl, and we'll
put all these together and we're going to deep fry
some crunchy tacos. That's right. The proper way to eat
tacos is the gringo taco, which is a fried taco.
That's the proper way to eat. The taker, my buddy
Alex may he rest in peace, who said they what
are you doing eating tacos like that? I said, they
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just taste better. He said, you're crazy. I said, don't care.
They just taste better. And that's it. Before we get
into the meat of it, though, let's hear from Alex
core the losing manager here, as he was commenting on
the performance of Cam Schlittler of the Yankees tailors. We
needed to be perfect tonight because he was perfect.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean, the stuff is outstanding.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He was under control. That was electric. That was electric. Yes, electric.
Of course you helped him. Let's not pretend like that
didn't happen there. My advice to the Red Sox is
to watch the old Tom Emanski VHS instructional videos to
learn the fundamentals of baseball, because that's a big part
of the stay. They said, well, Red Sox didn't score,
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and so you can't win if you don't score, and well,
that certainly is true. Wowsers it's the little things here.
Cody Bellinger, who was completely washed up at the end
of his time with the Dodgers and bounced around. I
have found a home there with the Yankees. But Bellinger
popped up to shallow center field. It was a fourth
inning Sedane, Rafaela Romei, Gonzalez, and William A. Bra all conversed.
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He got three players all converging on the on the play,
and they all watched as the ball dropped and it
was a Belly double. And later on there was a play.
Trevor Store he dove. He failed to get a Ahmed
Rosario single, so all could have gotten that play. Anthony
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Volpi hit a little bit of a dribbler there that
eluded Romey Gonzalez for a double, and so it kind
of looked like a Benny Hill sketch. There was some
bumbling over there, There was some fumbling over there, stumbling defense,
all of that. But wait, there's more. In what could
have been a massive double playball, Austin Wells hit a
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ground ball that bounced off the glove of Nathaniel Low.
Doesn't Nathaniel Low look like he should be working in
a cubicle somewhere and not playing professional baseball. This guy
looks just's very odd. I know he's been decent and
at a decent carebait. He just looks weird in that
Red Sox uniform. It looks like he should be working
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nine to five, like a corporate job in an office
somewhere and have a cubicle and then go to the
break room and get stuff out of the vending machine.
Not playing in the baseball playoffs, but anyway, so needless say,
Austin Wells hit a grounder bounced off the glove of
Nathaniel Low into right field, and that allowed another two
runs to score, and so instead of it being just
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a reasonable margin, it was for nothing, game, set and match. Now,
Alice Cork should have also just contacted Rodo Ruter needed
a plumber there, the leaky defense sparking the Yankees rally
in this one, and the Red Sox apologist will say, well,
I didn't have Roman Anthony, he was her blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bah. However,
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even without that, they were still in position here. Self
inflicted wounds. Self inflicted wounds. Now, Jared Duran, who he
said himself. I'm not ripping him. He just said I
cost the Red Sox Game two with his poor defensive play.
He also ended up batting ninety one, which I believe
is an interstate in the series. And that defensive blunderbacking
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Game two. Sedane Rafaela, we talked about him. He had
as many hits in the wild card round as you
and I had a zero zero, zero batting average, and
he brought a glove that was a could also double
as a frying pan in this particular game. So you know,
I didn't play professional baseball. I'm just just observing. He
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did not look did not look very good. Did not
look very good. All right, now, tourny the pitch. We
go to Chicago. We headed to the Windy City, the
Friendly Confines, where our friend Yafimi, our buddy Eugene in Chicago,
tree in Chicago. All the boys very happy there, the
Chicago wing of the matl or Militia because the Cubbies
got it done. Pete crow Armstrong, who took the second
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half of the baseball season off, hit a Ribby single
off of you, Darby. I remember that, you, Darbish. I
remember that guy. That is the guy I watched in
twenty seventeen Game seven against the cheating a Holes. I
saw that, you, Darvish. I saw that guy. Now you
like that sandyego. That's you, Darvish. Well, are thin gonna say?
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He was tipping his pictures. Every time a pitcher has
a bag game, he was tipping his pictures. No pitchers
allowed to have a bad game. It's always there tipping
their pictures. Anyway, you Darvish, shaky, needless by more than shaky.
And the Cubs shut down the peak Fernando Tatis Junior
and the Podres. There was some horrifically bad Umpiring. I
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think the cub Umpire his favorite. Well the home played
Umpire's favorite Cub, Harry Carey, not just all a bit
outside ah no, no, oh my god. What there was
one call in the ninth inn he by the Padres
have gotten some of those calls against them. When you know,
years ago they were in the World Series against the
Yankees and there was a guy named Mark Langston. You
know who that is, but he was on the mountain
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and I think it was Tino Martinez and there was
a pitch like right down the middle, and they called
it a ball and then anyway, so that was a
terrible call, but nonetheless, the Padres end up going down.
The Cubs clinch it. They win three to one in
Game three. Next up for Chicago the very short road
trip up to their NL Central rival, the Brew Crew
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in a rather compelling divisional series matchup, and that'll begin
also on Saturday, We'll be watching college football, but that'll
be going on. You've got Craig Counsel who left the
Brew Crew, a native son of Wisconsin, left Broo Crew.
He got the cash, show me the money they paid him,
the money he took. The cash goes to Chicago. But
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the better story is on the loser side and the
San Diego Padres. What an epic disaster. This is just
so bad considering everything that they did. They did everything
right and they end up getting bumped out of the
playoffs in three games. So now people pointing fingers at
the front office in San Diego. So we'll address that
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thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down? Should
should Padres gm aj Preller be fired for mortgaging the
future of the Podres on a world series or bus
gamble which has now busted. So I'm gonna go thumbs
down on this. I'm gonna go thumbs down to me.
This is a bugs life. Sometimes you're the windshields, sometimes
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you're the bug. And this time Preler's padres got crushed
like a stink bump bug on a highway. Right, just
squashed U. And yeah, you can cueue the radiohead track
let down, Right, it's a let down. They went all in.
They shoved every chip to the middle of the table.
The nerds were having coronarias, Oh my god, you traded
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all of our prospects, Oh my god. And yes they busted. Nevertheless,
I thought it was refreshing at the time. I'm not
gonna alter my take. I liked I'm not a Padre guy, right,
you know some of you know I started by radio
sojourn in San Diego. I'm not a Padre guy. But
I thought it was refreshing in a sport where most
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of the teams are run by IVY League. And let
me point out Breler' is an IVY League guy. He
just doesn't act like it a lot of the time.
But these gms, most of them sit on their hands
clutching their precious future assets. We can't trade the future.
We can't give up the future because every young player
is gonna be great, and the reality is most of
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them blow and Preler said, screw. He said, we want
to win. We want to win now. We've never want anything.
So let's fortify the roster. Let's take the real swing
and go for it. And that's exactly what they did.
They built a super bulpen and prospects. I've said this
for years, they're a renewable energy. You draft every year,
you restock every year. The system replenishes itself in baseball.
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And losing a few high end teenagers in a ball
for a real shot to get that hunk of metal,
I'll take that gamble ten out of ten times. The
bigger problem here, the guys that were already in Podre
uniforms sucked at a time you cannot suck. The core
of the roster did not show up when it mattered.
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And I'm talking about Fernando Tatist who batted eighty three
many machato. These guys love to talk and all that.
He batted one hundred and then the cherry on top.
My guy, you darbish, who could not even survive more
than one inning, twenty one pitches, twenty one pitches in
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an elimination game for you, Darvers, I'm told that is
the shortest outing of his entire career. The vaunted bullpen.
They didn't get to sniff the lead because in this
game they didn't have the lead, and so Preler took
the shot. He did his job. Your job is to
improve the roster to give them the top opportunity to win.
He did that. It's the stars who couldn't get it
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done right. They're the ones thatf this up. Now, last word,
we go to Cleveland. Why because there was another elimination
game and someone named Dylan Dingler, but he got picked
on in school. Dylan Dingler, that's a catcher for Detroit
from Northeast Ohio. Another one of these stories, right, we
mentioned Cam Schlittler of the Yankees got a lot of
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attention from being a Boston guy or a Massachusetts guy,
and he shoved it down the throat of the Red Sox. Well,
Dylan Dingler theme of the day from Northeast Ohio. He
grew up a fan of a Cleveland Indians, not the Guardians,
because they were the Indians when he's a little kid
and he had a go ahead solo home run in
the sixth inning. The Tigers would go on to score
five runs and they ended up beating the Cleveland Baseball
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team six to three the final in the early game.
And so the Tigers now head to Seattle for a
playdate with the Big Dumper and cal Raley, I know, crying.
Craig's excited about that. Robbie the Marina fan, JJ and
Rent and those guys are all all fired up nostradinas
for sure, And so that'll be that. But the better
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story here is obviously on the other side. So the
question on this one quick, right, the question is this
season considered a success or a failure for Guardians manager
Steven Voight as they end up getting eliminated in the
wildcard round. So I'm gonna go success. So I'll nod
my head yes on success, which is very bizarre. You know,
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even my cynical Talk Radio has to acknowledge the Kmodo
dragon in the room here that these guys had no
business being in the playoffs, right, total interlopers. The Cleveland
Baseball team, the little Engine that could, the waterfowl, the
ugly ducklings who were waddling into the playoff pond, and
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the other geese were like, what are you doing here?
You don't belong here? And what are you doing, ugly ducklin?
Get out of here, ugly ducklin. You don't belong here,
were the geese. You're an ugly ducklin and they stayed. Yeah,
but it was serious everything. They shouldn't have been here
at all. And it's a testimonial to how incompetent the
Tigers are that they got here. I mean, this was
not champagne and lobster roles. This was like wedding crashers
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sneaking in trying to steal some dessert and hit the
mini bar, the open mini bar, and go for that.
But they finished. Cleveland finished with eighty eight wins. They
ranked twenty eight out of thirty teams in runs, scored,
worst offensive team ever to make the playoffs. That's not
just below average, that is actively offensive, actively offensive to
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your taste. Buds. They had not one, but two pitchers
who are in the doghouse because of gambling accusations. They
were throwing pitches for prop bets so their buddies could
make money allegedly, So these were not thoroughbreds, these were
rescued dogs. Hard four there were fifteen and a half
games back in July. I believe they were still eleven
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games back in September, and somehow Someway staged the largest
in season comeback in baseball history to steal the American
League Central, only to exit stage left after three games.
But that's a pigeon showing up at the Kentucky Derby.
It was a September to remember, twenty and seven, twenty
and seven, seven forty one winning percentage, top record in baseball,
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and it looked like they had found the magic carpet
and they were flying. However, as we know, because we're
smarter than the average bear, momentum is bullshoy. It does
not exist. And so the playoffs started and poof, see
you later, bye bye. The carpet yank, the magic carpet
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yanked away, and they did a face first plant right
in the mud, right in the mud. So but despite that, again,
i'll be Benny brightside, Cleveland did overachieve. They're not that
good a team they made it. Congratulations to Steven Vod
got more out of that roster than anyone should have
gotten out of that roster. So there you go. Not
that that helps you feel any better because you've been eliminated.
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It Ferg dog writes and, says, Hey, ben The Red
sox got what they. Deserved you have a cheating astro
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manager and a cheating astro third baseman and Talkings Alex
bregman at third. Base so, long losers And. Ben did
you see your Buddy Marlin's man in the front. Row
he was checking his phone a lot in the ninth.
Inning were you Texting Marlin's? Man we have had correspondent this.
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Week Marlin's man is back on the. Road my guy
a big member of The mallard militia there In, miami
and he's he's making the circuit in. Baseball he actually
sent me his schedule to let me know where he's planning,
Ongoing and if The dodgers defy all logic and do
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end up getting deep into the, playoffs there's a pretty
good chance that my Guy Marlin's man will reunite with,
me will be able to hang out at least at
one of the games in the. Playoffs that's about the
only Way i'll go to one of those, games to
be honest with. You but we'll, See we'll see what.
Happens scrooge in The Bay, area right since says, Hey,
ben IF i remember, correctly didn't that Clown poppy say
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that he was going to shove it in your face
when the podres held up The World series trophy this?
Season let me let me check my notes, Here, scrooge
who's in the younger demo in Northern. California let's see, Here, yeah, yeah,
yeah it says right here. Bottom a month, Ago poppy
was pumping his chest, Out i'm very excited about The pod,
squad how good they were going to, Be and, yeah
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are there going to be elephants and clowns at this? Circus? Ben,
well as you, know The wolkester's ruined the, Circus so
you're only allowed to have. Humans now you can't have animals.
Anymore so apparently it's you're allowed to throw a humans
up in the, air but you can't have you can't have.
Animals what else do we? Have Shannon moyes, says callback
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semi pro paul a plus. Call, okay he's got these
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See page down THE Kc Carl haller right since SAYS
i cannot wait for the divisional round of the playoffs
so THAT i could see the greatest venue In Major League,
Baseball Citizens Bank. Park that is not not the, greatest
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not not the greatest. Venue bat job by, You King
rory writes in From. Wisconsin he, Says i'm looking forward
to The Brewers cub series because nothing would feel better
besides winning A World series than Eliminating greg Clown cell
and these scrubs from the. Playoffs BUT i know That
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Major League baseball is going to have The cubs win it,
all So i'm not going to get my hopes. Off
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decision my fat, ass don't bury the, lead my, Man eileen,
says get to the forty nine as being, There i've
got all, Night, EILEEN i don't need to rush on.
This we can just kind of let it breathe a little,
bit let the show. Breathe that's. It, atillo, Right yank,
says The yankees played at, home so they had plenty
Of Jersey gabba gooul for their pregame. Snack so he's
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crediting The gaba gooul for The yankees game. Done that
is why they were able to, win, clearly. Clearly if
you want to join the conversation there on next At
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i read are so. Stupid and imagine the ONES i don't.
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just how it. Is so we just start with the
baseball the three games in baseball and all day from
morning till night. Situation as the playoffs have moved on
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to the second. Round, now let's say hello To Blind Sea,
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Bass welcome Brother.
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welcome to welcome.
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other than you, know My titans hanging got off the
crapper yet, though, man My commodore's.
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Brother they have sounded so great this season so. Far you,
know we got the, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Big game this, weekend right. BIG i don't know That
i'm prepared to live in a world Where vanderbilt actually
has a good football team, THOUGH i don't know that
they can handle. THAT i that's just gonna mess up
everything if they actually have a good Football to my entire,
life they've been. Garbage SO i.
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Can't, yeah this is, like this is not my. Grandfather you,
know my father's Vander Vanderbilt. COMMODORES i Mean Clark. Lee
he's got them playing, right and you know they Got
pavia who's in his twelve.
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Years and, discontinues then someone's gonna poach your, coach and
then you'll have you'll you'll go back to ground, zero,
right you know that's what.
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Alumni Of, vanderbilt he played in the early two. Thousands,
yeah oh, TOO i THINK i get.
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council who's From he's From. Wisconsin he was managing The
brewers and he left to go to The, cups a.
Rival he just took off to go to The cubs
because they paid more.
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Money SO i don't Think Clark lee's going.
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Don't you Like.
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Vanderbilt of course you don't think that's gonna. Happen. OBVIOUSLY
i don't MEAN i don't doubt. That you don't think
that's going to, happen of, COURSE.
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I, mean you, know AND i thought that too with
uh was his name up At Penn State. Franklin NOW
i thought he'd never left But, Lee but you, Know
franklin offered, HIM i, Mean Penn state offered him more,
money and he, bounced and we end up With, mason
AND i just try to forget those.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Years, yeah, no, NO i understand. Completely more, importantly, now
you are one of the blind listeners on the, Show
but unlike many of the other blind, listeners you FEEL
i feel like you've settled in things are better for
you on like some of these other guys that call the,
show that you're in a good. Spot would that?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Be, yeah, yeah So i've actually completely quit. DRINKING i
quit smoke for. You my only advice now IS i
still do AND i probably do that for my whole
life Because i've done SINCE i was. Twelve he.
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Did it's a to back chewing. Toback he's still. Deals,
no he. MIGHT i don't know if he. Deals, HEY
i don't know what his you, know maybe he's trying
to make a little money on the. SIDE i don't
know what he's. GOT i have no. Idea have you
watched The Cocaine quarterback documentary On? Netflix but you can't
watch you can hear.
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It it's, uh it's interesting right, now just with with
everything going on to, school like we hit fall break
And i'm just trying to stay on top of all
my all my recordings and.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
STUFF i got to get done this weekend to have
ready About. Wednesday, well thanks for.
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Checking, Well i'll talk to him like five. Months you
call once every five months.
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Or, so, right, yeah probably Around december when we get.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Out that's not that's that's a big. Yeah, yeah, yeah thank.
You all, RIGHT a little small time caught up. THERE
i like his, voice you, like, well he's going to broadcasting,
blind he's heading into the broadcasting. World so he's on
his way right. There, yeah all, right, anyway it is
(32:01):
The Baine Mallor. Show as we are on our way
as well mentioned we mentioned this earlier going to the.
Park well why not we have some audio From Aaron,
Boone Aaron, boone and here the question and the. Answer
Here's Aaron boone commenting on his starting, Pitcher Cam. Schlittler
(32:25):
gotta say that. Slowly love that. Name, yeah that's a good. Name,
aaron was there a moment early on in the game
where he thought could deliver that type of performance last?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Night, honestly every time he's taking the, ball, LIKE i
feel so good about him that he's capable of doing
anything because he's such a good strike thrower and with that.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Stuff but felt great.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
About where he was mentally last night when he was.
Leaving and you, know AS i, said results, society you
never know what the results gonna. Be LIKE i knew
it wasn't gonna be too baked for.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Him.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
But JUST i, mean what a. Performance yeah all, right
well well, yeah, please what a load of crap that.
Was and here's more From Aaron boone and this is
over the. Top you want to hear bull. Crap here
Is Aaron, boone who is managed in The World. Series
Here's Aaron boone commenting on the, setup the vibe in
The bronx take a. List honestly going into the.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Night for me, personally it felt like as pressure pack
game As i've ever been in as a. Player Man's
World series. Games that's clinching to go to The World series,
game you, know just because it's, Like, man the context
in my brain of like WHAT i think our team
is a great, opponent a storied. Opponent here Down one
(33:41):
boys answered the bell and played great baseball these last
couple of.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Days, yeah his nose is. Growing he had no if
The yankees had lost that, game he wasn't gonna get.
Fired he'll never get. Fired he doesn't do. Anything he
just sits there and whatever the three ring binder, says
he just does. It SO i was, like what's the big.
Deal he also said later on that he said he
was Praising Cam schlitzler and he said a star is.
(34:07):
Born he, said, SO i guess he's going to get
a spot In Monument. Park. Now cam the playoff start
until he goes out Against toronto and rides the vomit
comet in the next, Round but for, now a star
is wonderful. Night wonderful. Night, well that leads us into
the who AM? I? Game this is where we pretend
(34:27):
to be somebody. Else's we call it the who AM? I?
Game the Aforementioned yankee Starter Cam schlitzler had one magical.
Night Cam schlitler twelve. STRIKEOUTS i don't, KNOW i just
heard of. That, yeah it's a great name until you mispronounced. It,
yes there was a beer with that. Name yankee Started
(34:49):
Cam schlitzer twelve strikeouts tied for the third most with
no walks in a postseason, game behind Only Garrett cole
and me, Again yankees Starter Cam hitler twelve strikeouts tied
for the third most with no walks in a postseason,
game behind Only Garrett cole and. Me who AM? I
that is the? Question what is the? Answer we will
(35:13):
get to it and we will do it.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
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gonna have the play of The day coming. Up as
soon AS i get the green light on. That david
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writes in he, Says, Hey, ben AM i the only
one that wonders how Blind SeaBASS is going to become
a broadcast. Announcer if you can't see the, games well
there's other. Job obviously not gonna be a play by
play guy if you're. Blind, however it is, conceivable right
you could do a talk radio. Show you get, podcasts,
whatever there's gigs that you can. Do you don't have to.
(36:50):
See Becky probb you better as a talk shows if
you couldn't, see he'd be. Better it slows, you slows you,
down is what you. Do all. Right we have the
play of the, day always excep one of my favorite
moments here the play of the, day and we'll go
to That ram forty nine er. Game we'll talk more
(37:11):
about this next. Hour but this is the, setup as
we say in broadcasting for the Tire Iraq play of the.
Day The rams matriculating the ball down the field in.
Regulation they were setting up for a game winning touchdown
with a little over a minute. Ago all they had
to do was hold onto the, ball get in the
end zone and beat the forty nine. Ers and then
(37:31):
the unimaginable. Happened take a, Listen stafford takes Gives Tyron
williams and he is he fumbled.
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It The niners are saying they got. It the play
was shy the line, again wait for a. Signal they're
unpiling everybody at the. One the forty Nine ers come
out of. There Alfred collins has the, football.
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for the who AM? I? Game or we pretend to
be somebody else? Here it is yeah you Starter Kim
schlitzler twelve, strikeouts tied for the third most with no.
Walks that's the key. Thing no walks in a postseason
game in baseball, history behind Only Garrett cole and. Me
who AM? I that is the? Question what's the? Answer?
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Wild Card elimination Day. The Yankees ejected the Socks from
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the playoffs. Where did things go wrong for Alex cors
Red Sox? The Cubs eliminated the Podres Thumbs up or
thumbs down? Should San Diego gm aj Preller be fired
for mortgaging the future to try to win a World Series?
He went World Series or bust, and he gambled, and
well they went bust. Also, the Tigers have eliminated the
Guardians from the postseason? Is this season considered a success
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the playoffs will tackle that as well. Here it is
our number one. We'll call it the Bronx come back.
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And before we get into that, I will point out
that the normal social media rundown of all the topics
to come not up yet because it's a one man band.
Then I didn't have time to do it, So screw you.
It'll be up later. It'll be up later for those
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Did I go with the football game a week five
NFL regular season game or a day that was tied
for the greatest elimination day in baseball history? And I
made that editorial decision. Play the hit, small man, play
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the it. So we'll start with baseball. We have plenty
of time. It's a blank canvas of talk radio four
hours to paint in oil painting or in our case
of finger painting. But we will be here all night,
so we have plenty of time to get down to
business on all the things that took place in the
sporting world. But our lead this hour is from the
burrow of the Bronx. And to mention it, three elimination
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games all day would have been four, but the red
screwed that up and they lost to the Dodgers in two.
So we'll start our in depth team coverage around the
clock in the Bronx mentioned Game three Wildcard round, Red
Sox and Yankees. A couple of no name pitchers on
the mound. And I don't know if you were watching
(04:22):
this or not. It was going against the NFL game.
Maybe you're not a baseball person, but I checked it out.
I was flipping back and forth, my right hand was
getting a workout, and rookie right hander Cam Schlittler gotta
say that slowly, that's an FCC violation waiting to happen.
Cam Schlittler, who grew up a Socks fan, he grew
(04:42):
up a Red Sox fan, but we didn't hear that story,
did we all know? They didn't. They didn't really promote
that at all. No, they wanted to keep that on
the DL, keep that on the down low. Well, Cam
went out and struck out not one, not two, not three,
not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight,
not nine, not ten, not eleven, how about twelve in
eight dominating innings. And the Yankees, who looked like they
(05:05):
were on the doorstep of death early on in this series,
they have come all the way back here. The Bronx
Bombers ended up stomping the Red Sox for nothing in
the deciding third game of the wild Card round. So
that means now we can all sing na da da
da la good bye, just like that. So that's it.
(05:29):
If you had the Red Sox going to the divisional Series,
you were a loser. And so this taking place, the
pitching performance of Cam Schlittler, putting him right in the
middle of that Yankee Red Sox lore, the rivalry twenty
four years old, overpowering the futile Boston Red Sox lineup
(05:51):
there and in his fifteenth Major league start. Now, who's
that guy the mizz from the Brewers who made the
All Star team after like two starts or something like that,
so they don't even care anymore. Who cares? Just did I?
We just want you to be good. So we're gonna
we're gonna make you be good. And you're good. And
it was a great night, fifteenth Big league start. And
(06:13):
I didn't think he would pitch like that. I don't.
You didn't either. Don't lie to me. You didn't think
like he was gonna do that? Come on?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So New York is on now to the best of
five divisional series against the American League Eastern Champions and
the team of the Great North, Oh god, the Toronto
Blue Jays. That begins Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, we won't be
watching that, We'll be watching college football, but that'll start
(06:39):
on Saturday. The better story, though, is in the losing
locker room. That's right in the losing locker room. And
so that is where we will begin our in depth
team coverage here as it goes the way of the Yankees.
So where did things go wrong for Alex Cora's Red Sox.
(06:59):
I've got Rodo Ruter, Radiohead and water Fowl, and we'll
put all these together and we're going to deep fry
some crunchy tacos. That's right. The proper way to eat
tacos is the gringo taco, which is a fried taco.
That's the proper way to eat. The taker, my buddy
Alex may he rest in peace, who said they what
are you doing eating tacos like that? I said, they
(07:20):
just taste better. He said, you're crazy. I said, don't care.
They just taste better. And that's it. Before we get
into the meat of it, though, let's hear from Alex
core the losing manager here, as he was commenting on
the performance of Cam Schlittler of the Yankees tailors. We
needed to be perfect tonight because he was perfect.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean, the stuff is outstanding.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He was under control. That was electric. That was electric. Yes, electric.
Of course you helped him. Let's not pretend like that
didn't happen there. My advice to the Red Sox is
to watch the old Tom Emanski VHS instructional videos to
learn the fundamentals of baseball, because that's a big part
of the stay. They said, well, Red Sox didn't score,
(08:04):
and so you can't win if you don't score, and well,
that certainly is true. Wowsers it's the little things here.
Cody Bellinger, who was completely washed up at the end
of his time with the Dodgers and bounced around. I
have found a home there with the Yankees. But Bellinger
popped up to shallow center field. It was a fourth
inning Sedane, Rafaela Romei, Gonzalez, and William A. Bra all conversed.
(08:29):
He got three players all converging on the on the play,
and they all watched as the ball dropped and it
was a Belly double. And later on there was a play.
Trevor Store he dove. He failed to get a Ahmed
Rosario single, so all could have gotten that play. Anthony
(08:50):
Volpi hit a little bit of a dribbler there that
eluded Romey Gonzalez for a double, and so it kind
of looked like a Benny Hill sketch. There was some
bumbling over there, There was some fumbling over there, stumbling defense,
all of that. But wait, there's more. In what could
have been a massive double playball, Austin Wells hit a
(09:12):
ground ball that bounced off the glove of Nathaniel Low.
Doesn't Nathaniel Low look like he should be working in
a cubicle somewhere and not playing professional baseball. This guy
looks just's very odd. I know he's been decent and
at a decent carebait. He just looks weird in that
Red Sox uniform. It looks like he should be working
(09:33):
nine to five, like a corporate job in an office
somewhere and have a cubicle and then go to the
break room and get stuff out of the vending machine.
Not playing in the baseball playoffs, but anyway, so needless say,
Austin Wells hit a grounder bounced off the glove of
Nathaniel Low into right field, and that allowed another two
runs to score, and so instead of it being just
(09:54):
a reasonable margin, it was for nothing, game, set and match. Now,
Alice Cork should have also just contacted Rodo Ruter needed
a plumber there, the leaky defense sparking the Yankees rally
in this one, and the Red Sox apologist will say, well,
I didn't have Roman Anthony, he was her blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bah. However,
(10:16):
even without that, they were still in position here. Self
inflicted wounds. Self inflicted wounds. Now, Jared Duran, who he
said himself. I'm not ripping him. He just said I
cost the Red Sox Game two with his poor defensive play.
He also ended up batting ninety one, which I believe
is an interstate in the series. And that defensive blunderbacking
(10:39):
Game two. Sedane Rafaela, we talked about him. He had
as many hits in the wild card round as you
and I had a zero zero, zero batting average, and
he brought a glove that was a could also double
as a frying pan in this particular game. So you know,
I didn't play professional baseball. I'm just just observing. He
(11:00):
did not look did not look very good. Did not
look very good. All right, now, tourny the pitch. We
go to Chicago. We headed to the Windy City, the
Friendly Confines, where our friend Yafimi, our buddy Eugene in Chicago,
tree in Chicago. All the boys very happy there, the
Chicago wing of the matl or Militia because the Cubbies
got it done. Pete crow Armstrong, who took the second
(11:23):
half of the baseball season off, hit a Ribby single
off of you, Darby. I remember that, you, Darbish. I
remember that guy. That is the guy I watched in
twenty seventeen Game seven against the cheating a Holes. I
saw that, you, Darvish. I saw that guy. Now you
like that sandyego. That's you, Darvish. Well, are thin gonna say?
(11:45):
He was tipping his pictures. Every time a pitcher has
a bag game, he was tipping his pictures. No pitchers
allowed to have a bad game. It's always there tipping
their pictures. Anyway, you Darvish, shaky, needless by more than shaky.
And the Cubs shut down the peak Fernando Tatis Junior
and the Podres. There was some horrifically bad Umpiring. I
(12:06):
think the cub Umpire his favorite. Well the home played
Umpire's favorite Cub, Harry Carey, not just all a bit
outside ah no, no, oh my god. What there was
one call in the ninth inn he by the Padres
have gotten some of those calls against them. When you know,
years ago they were in the World Series against the
Yankees and there was a guy named Mark Langston. You
know who that is, but he was on the mountain
(12:28):
and I think it was Tino Martinez and there was
a pitch like right down the middle, and they called
it a ball and then anyway, so that was a
terrible call, but nonetheless, the Padres end up going down.
The Cubs clinch it. They win three to one in
Game three. Next up for Chicago the very short road
trip up to their NL Central rival, the Brew Crew
(12:48):
in a rather compelling divisional series matchup, and that'll begin
also on Saturday, We'll be watching college football, but that'll
be going on. You've got Craig Counsel who left the
Brew Crew, a native son of Wisconsin, left Broo Crew.
He got the cash, show me the money they paid him,
the money he took. The cash goes to Chicago. But
(13:09):
the better story is on the loser side and the
San Diego Padres. What an epic disaster. This is just
so bad considering everything that they did. They did everything
right and they end up getting bumped out of the
playoffs in three games. So now people pointing fingers at
the front office in San Diego. So we'll address that
(13:30):
thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down? Should
should Padres gm aj Preller be fired for mortgaging the
future of the Podres on a world series or bus
gamble which has now busted. So I'm gonna go thumbs
down on this. I'm gonna go thumbs down to me.
This is a bugs life. Sometimes you're the windshields, sometimes
(13:54):
you're the bug. And this time Preler's padres got crushed
like a stink bump bug on a highway. Right, just
squashed U. And yeah, you can cueue the radiohead track
let down, Right, it's a let down. They went all in.
They shoved every chip to the middle of the table.
The nerds were having coronarias, Oh my god, you traded
(14:16):
all of our prospects, Oh my god. And yes they busted. Nevertheless,
I thought it was refreshing at the time. I'm not
gonna alter my take. I liked I'm not a Padre guy, right,
you know some of you know I started by radio
sojourn in San Diego. I'm not a Padre guy. But
I thought it was refreshing in a sport where most
(14:37):
of the teams are run by IVY League. And let
me point out Breler' is an IVY League guy. He
just doesn't act like it a lot of the time.
But these gms, most of them sit on their hands
clutching their precious future assets. We can't trade the future.
We can't give up the future because every young player
is gonna be great, and the reality is most of
(14:57):
them blow and Preler said, screw. He said, we want
to win. We want to win now. We've never want anything.
So let's fortify the roster. Let's take the real swing
and go for it. And that's exactly what they did.
They built a super bulpen and prospects. I've said this
for years, they're a renewable energy. You draft every year,
you restock every year. The system replenishes itself in baseball.
(15:22):
And losing a few high end teenagers in a ball
for a real shot to get that hunk of metal,
I'll take that gamble ten out of ten times. The
bigger problem here, the guys that were already in Podre
uniforms sucked at a time you cannot suck. The core
of the roster did not show up when it mattered.
(15:45):
And I'm talking about Fernando Tatist who batted eighty three
many machato. These guys love to talk and all that.
He batted one hundred and then the cherry on top.
My guy, you darbish, who could not even survive more
than one inning, twenty one pitches, twenty one pitches in
(16:06):
an elimination game for you, Darvers, I'm told that is
the shortest outing of his entire career. The vaunted bullpen.
They didn't get to sniff the lead because in this
game they didn't have the lead, and so Preler took
the shot. He did his job. Your job is to
improve the roster to give them the top opportunity to win.
He did that. It's the stars who couldn't get it
(16:29):
done right. They're the ones thatf this up. Now, last word,
we go to Cleveland. Why because there was another elimination
game and someone named Dylan Dingler, but he got picked
on in school. Dylan Dingler, that's a catcher for Detroit
from Northeast Ohio. Another one of these stories, right, we
mentioned Cam Schlittler of the Yankees got a lot of
(16:49):
attention from being a Boston guy or a Massachusetts guy,
and he shoved it down the throat of the Red Sox. Well,
Dylan Dingler theme of the day from Northeast Ohio. He
grew up a fan of a Cleveland Indians, not the Guardians,
because they were the Indians when he's a little kid
and he had a go ahead solo home run in
the sixth inning. The Tigers would go on to score
five runs and they ended up beating the Cleveland Baseball
(17:13):
team six to three the final in the early game.
And so the Tigers now head to Seattle for a
playdate with the Big Dumper and cal Raley, I know, crying.
Craig's excited about that. Robbie the Marina fan, JJ and
Rent and those guys are all all fired up nostradinas
for sure, And so that'll be that. But the better
(17:35):
story here is obviously on the other side. So the
question on this one quick, right, the question is this
season considered a success or a failure for Guardians manager
Steven Voight as they end up getting eliminated in the
wildcard round. So I'm gonna go success. So I'll nod
my head yes on success, which is very bizarre. You know,
(17:57):
even my cynical Talk Radio has to acknowledge the Kmodo
dragon in the room here that these guys had no
business being in the playoffs, right, total interlopers. The Cleveland
Baseball team, the little Engine that could, the waterfowl, the
ugly ducklings who were waddling into the playoff pond, and
(18:19):
the other geese were like, what are you doing here?
You don't belong here? And what are you doing, ugly ducklin?
Get out of here, ugly ducklin. You don't belong here,
were the geese. You're an ugly ducklin and they stayed. Yeah,
but it was serious everything. They shouldn't have been here
at all. And it's a testimonial to how incompetent the
Tigers are that they got here. I mean, this was
not champagne and lobster roles. This was like wedding crashers
(18:43):
sneaking in trying to steal some dessert and hit the
mini bar, the open mini bar, and go for that.
But they finished. Cleveland finished with eighty eight wins. They
ranked twenty eight out of thirty teams in runs, scored,
worst offensive team ever to make the playoffs. That's not
just below average, that is actively offensive, actively offensive to
(19:05):
your taste. Buds. They had not one, but two pitchers
who are in the doghouse because of gambling accusations. They
were throwing pitches for prop bets so their buddies could
make money allegedly, So these were not thoroughbreds, these were
rescued dogs. Hard four there were fifteen and a half
games back in July. I believe they were still eleven
(19:25):
games back in September, and somehow Someway staged the largest
in season comeback in baseball history to steal the American
League Central, only to exit stage left after three games.
But that's a pigeon showing up at the Kentucky Derby.
It was a September to remember, twenty and seven, twenty
and seven, seven forty one winning percentage, top record in baseball,
(19:50):
and it looked like they had found the magic carpet
and they were flying. However, as we know, because we're
smarter than the average bear, momentum is bullshoy. It does
not exist. And so the playoffs started and poof, see
you later, bye bye. The carpet yank, the magic carpet
(20:10):
yanked away, and they did a face first plant right
in the mud, right in the mud. So but despite that, again,
i'll be Benny brightside, Cleveland did overachieve. They're not that
good a team they made it. Congratulations to Steven Vod
got more out of that roster than anyone should have
gotten out of that roster. So there you go. Not
that that helps you feel any better because you've been eliminated.
(20:33):
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seven nine nine six six three sixty. Nine if you
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Park going to the, park what is that all? About
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Tech Queen Hi, bell don't talk to? Me And kooper
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loop right over there at A bronco. Fan your comments
can and most certainly will be used against you in
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back to, it all, right we, Are we're back at.
It Ferg dog writes and, says, Hey, ben The Red
sox got what they. Deserved you have a cheating astro
(23:38):
manager and a cheating astro third baseman and Talkings Alex
bregman at third. Base so, long losers And. Ben did
you see your Buddy Marlin's man in the front. Row
he was checking his phone a lot in the ninth.
Inning were you Texting Marlin's? Man we have had correspondent this.
(24:00):
Week Marlin's man is back on the. Road my guy
a big member of The mallard militia there In, miami
and he's he's making the circuit in. Baseball he actually
sent me his schedule to let me know where he's planning,
Ongoing and if The dodgers defy all logic and do
(24:22):
end up getting deep into the, playoffs there's a pretty
good chance that my Guy Marlin's man will reunite with,
me will be able to hang out at least at
one of the games in the. Playoffs that's about the
only Way i'll go to one of those, games to
be honest with. You but we'll, See we'll see what.
Happens scrooge in The Bay, area right since says, Hey,
ben IF i remember, correctly didn't that Clown poppy say
(24:43):
that he was going to shove it in your face
when the podres held up The World series trophy this?
Season let me let me check my notes, Here, scrooge
who's in the younger demo in Northern. California let's see, Here, yeah, yeah,
yeah it says right here. Bottom a month, Ago poppy
was pumping his chest, Out i'm very excited about The pod,
squad how good they were going to, Be and, yeah
(25:07):
are there going to be elephants and clowns at this? Circus? Ben,
well as you, know The wolkester's ruined the, Circus so
you're only allowed to have. Humans now you can't have animals.
Anymore so apparently it's you're allowed to throw a humans
up in the, air but you can't have you can't have.
Animals what else do we? Have Shannon moyes, says callback
(25:30):
semi pro paul a plus. Call, okay he's got these
random random, references random? References what else do we have to?
See page down THE Kc Carl haller right since SAYS
i cannot wait for the divisional round of the playoffs
so THAT i could see the greatest venue In Major League,
Baseball Citizens Bank. Park that is not not the, greatest
(25:54):
not not the greatest. Venue bat job by, You King
rory writes in From. Wisconsin he, Says i'm looking forward
to The Brewers cub series because nothing would feel better
besides winning A World series than Eliminating greg Clown cell
and these scrubs from the. Playoffs BUT i know That
(26:14):
Major League baseball is going to have The cubs win it,
all So i'm not going to get my hopes. Off
That's King roy checking. In let's see, here Super Marcus
steve is complaining about the, show which is not. New
he does not enjoy the, show but for some reason
he listens to the. Show eileen In San francisco, says editorial,
(26:37):
decision my fat, ass don't bury the, lead my, Man eileen,
says get to the forty nine as being, There i've
got all, Night, EILEEN i don't need to rush on.
This we can just kind of let it breathe a little,
bit let the show. Breathe that's. It, atillo, Right yank,
says The yankees played at, home so they had plenty
Of Jersey gabba gooul for their pregame. Snack so he's
(26:57):
crediting The gaba gooul for The yankees game. Done that
is why they were able to, win, clearly. Clearly if
you want to join the conversation there on next At
ben mallor that's At Ben, mahler if you'd like to
be part of your comments that we'll well could be
read on. Them i'm gonna say some of THESE i
don't read on the air because some of the ONES
(27:18):
i read are so. Stupid and imagine the ONES i don't.
Read you Think i'm reading. Everything i'm not reading. Everything
like there's ones that don't make the air that are
just beyond, ridiculous just, dumb da, dumb dumb dumb h
just how it. Is so we just start with the
baseball the three games in baseball and all day from
morning till night. Situation as the playoffs have moved on
(27:42):
to the second. Round, now let's say hello To Blind Sea,
bass who is in the Greater nashville. Area, Hello Blind Sea,
Bass welcome Brother.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Benjamin how have you been my?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Brother IF i was any, Better i'd be A, titan
but not A tennessee type because they're they're not. Good yeahs,
ass that's not my that's not that's not my. Opinion
The titans are, asked that's your starting quarterbacks? Opinion The titans.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Are, Asked oh, YEAH i, know, yeah trust, ME i.
Know he's. Here he's he's not happy and a lot
of us are not. Either but, Dude i'm actually, uh
there's been. MINISTERS i talked to, you, brother you, know
started the new university.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And good fid how's? It how's it going with you're
what's your? Major what are you what are you planning
on doing?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Here broadcast? Announcing, alright look at.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You welcome to the. Industry, yeah you might want to
run the other, direction but that's. FINE i know it's
welcome to welcome.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Everyone, yes, yeah but, no, man you, KNOW i mean
other than you, know My titans hanging got off the
crapper yet, though, man My commodore's.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Brother they have sounded so great this season so. Far you,
know we got the, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Big game this, weekend right. BIG i don't know That
i'm prepared to live in a world Where vanderbilt actually
has a good football team, THOUGH i don't know that
they can handle. THAT i that's just gonna mess up
everything if they actually have a good Football to my entire,
life they've been. Garbage SO i.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Can't, yeah this is, like this is not my. Grandfather you,
know my father's Vander Vanderbilt. COMMODORES i Mean Clark. Lee
he's got them playing, right and you know they Got
pavia who's in his twelve.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Years and, discontinues then someone's gonna poach your, coach and
then you'll have you'll you'll go back to ground, zero,
right you know that's what.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Happened, NO i don't think, so Because clark is A vanderbilt.
Alumni Of, vanderbilt he played in the early two. Thousands,
yeah oh, TOO i THINK i get.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
That, well look at. It we just talked About Craig,
council who's From he's From. Wisconsin he was managing The
brewers and he left to go to The, cups a.
Rival he just took off to go to The cubs
because they paid more.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Money SO i don't Think Clark lee's going.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Anywhere of, course you.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Don't you Like.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Vanderbilt of course you don't think that's gonna. Happen. OBVIOUSLY
i don't MEAN i don't doubt. That you don't think
that's going to, happen of, COURSE.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I, mean you, know AND i thought that too with
uh was his name up At Penn State. Franklin NOW
i thought he'd never left But, Lee but you, Know
franklin offered, HIM i, Mean Penn state offered him more,
money and he, bounced and we end up With, mason
AND i just try to forget those.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Years, yeah, no, NO i understand. Completely more, importantly, now
you are one of the blind listeners on the, Show
but unlike many of the other blind, listeners you FEEL
i feel like you've settled in things are better for
you on like some of these other guys that call the,
show that you're in a good. Spot would that?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Be, yeah, yeah So i've actually completely quit. DRINKING i
quit smoke for. You my only advice now IS i
still do AND i probably do that for my whole
life Because i've done SINCE i was. Twelve he.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Did it's a to back chewing. Toback he's still. Deals,
no he. MIGHT i don't know if he. Deals, HEY
i don't know what his you, know maybe he's trying
to make a little money on the. SIDE i don't
know what he's. GOT i have no. Idea have you
watched The Cocaine quarterback documentary On? Netflix but you can't
watch you can hear.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
It it's, uh it's interesting right, now just with with
everything going on to, school like we hit fall break
And i'm just trying to stay on top of all
my all my recordings and.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
STUFF i got to get done this weekend to have
ready About. Wednesday, well thanks for.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Checking, Well i'll talk to him like five. Months you
call once every five months.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Or, so, right, yeah probably Around december when we get.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Out that's not that's that's a big. Yeah, yeah, yeah thank.
You all, RIGHT a little small time caught up. THERE
i like his, voice you, like, well he's going to broadcasting,
blind he's heading into the broadcasting. World so he's on
his way right. There, yeah all, right, anyway it is
(32:01):
The Baine Mallor. Show as we are on our way
as well mentioned we mentioned this earlier going to the.
Park well why not we have some audio From Aaron,
Boone Aaron, boone and here the question and the. Answer
Here's Aaron boone commenting on his starting, Pitcher Cam. Schlittler
(32:25):
gotta say that. Slowly love that. Name, yeah that's a good. Name,
aaron was there a moment early on in the game
where he thought could deliver that type of performance last?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Night, honestly every time he's taking the, ball, LIKE i
feel so good about him that he's capable of doing
anything because he's such a good strike thrower and with that.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Stuff but felt great.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
About where he was mentally last night when he was.
Leaving and you, know AS i, said results, society you
never know what the results gonna. Be LIKE i knew
it wasn't gonna be too baked for.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Him.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
But JUST i, mean what a. Performance yeah all, right
well well, yeah, please what a load of crap that.
Was and here's more From Aaron boone and this is
over the. Top you want to hear bull. Crap here
Is Aaron, boone who is managed in The World. Series
Here's Aaron boone commenting on the, setup the vibe in
The bronx take a. List honestly going into the.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Night for me, personally it felt like as pressure pack
game As i've ever been in as a. Player Man's
World series. Games that's clinching to go to The World series,
game you, know just because it's, Like, man the context
in my brain of like WHAT i think our team
is a great, opponent a storied. Opponent here Down one
(33:41):
boys answered the bell and played great baseball these last
couple of.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Days, yeah his nose is. Growing he had no if
The yankees had lost that, game he wasn't gonna get.
Fired he'll never get. Fired he doesn't do. Anything he
just sits there and whatever the three ring binder, says
he just does. It SO i was, like what's the big.
Deal he also said later on that he said he
was Praising Cam schlitzler and he said a star is.
(34:07):
Born he, said, SO i guess he's going to get
a spot In Monument. Park. Now cam the playoff start
until he goes out Against toronto and rides the vomit
comet in the next, Round but for, now a star
is wonderful. Night wonderful. Night, well that leads us into
the who AM? I? Game this is where we pretend
(34:27):
to be somebody. Else's we call it the who AM? I?
Game the Aforementioned yankee Starter Cam schlitzler had one magical.
Night Cam schlitler twelve. STRIKEOUTS i don't, KNOW i just
heard of. That, yeah it's a great name until you mispronounced. It,
yes there was a beer with that. Name yankee Started
(34:49):
Cam schlitzer twelve strikeouts tied for the third most with
no walks in a postseason, game behind Only Garrett cole
and me, Again yankees Starter Cam hitler twelve strikeouts tied
for the third most with no walks in a postseason,
game behind Only Garrett cole and. Me who AM? I
that is the? Question what is the? Answer we will
(35:13):
get to it and we will do it.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Next be sure to catch live editions Of The Ben
Maler show weekdays at two Am eastern eleven Pm, Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
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weekend in THE. Nfl we handicap it tell you what should,
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(36:07):
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it all, right we get back to, it and we're
gonna have the play of The day coming. Up as
soon AS i get the green light on. That david
(36:29):
writes in he, Says, Hey, ben AM i the only
one that wonders how Blind SeaBASS is going to become
a broadcast. Announcer if you can't see the, games well
there's other. Job obviously not gonna be a play by
play guy if you're. Blind, however it is, conceivable right
you could do a talk radio. Show you get, podcasts,
whatever there's gigs that you can. Do you don't have to.
(36:50):
See Becky probb you better as a talk shows if
you couldn't, see he'd be. Better it slows, you slows you,
down is what you. Do all. Right we have the
play of the, day always excep one of my favorite
moments here the play of the, day and we'll go
to That ram forty nine er. Game we'll talk more
(37:11):
about this next. Hour but this is the, setup as
we say in broadcasting for the Tire Iraq play of the.
Day The rams matriculating the ball down the field in.
Regulation they were setting up for a game winning touchdown
with a little over a minute. Ago all they had
to do was hold onto the, ball get in the
end zone and beat the forty nine. Ers and then
(37:31):
the unimaginable. Happened take a, Listen stafford takes Gives Tyron
williams and he is he fumbled.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
It The niners are saying they got. It the play
was shy the line, again wait for a. Signal they're
unpiling everybody at the. One the forty Nine ers come
out of. There Alfred collins has the, football.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
One of the great f ups and rams. History the
forty Nine ers they'll get to win. There that is
the forty Nine Ers radio the Tire raq play the.
Night for over forty, years Ty iraq has been helping
customers find the right tires for, how what and where they.
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(38:17):
for the who AM? I? Game or we pretend to
be somebody else? Here it is yeah you Starter Kim
schlitzler twelve, strikeouts tied for the third most with no.
Walks that's the key. Thing no walks in a postseason
game in baseball, history behind Only Garrett cole and. Me
who AM? I that is the? Question what's the? Answer?
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Easy?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Easy three oh five From, miami Says. Peter peter the
Pumpkin eater is the. Answer thank you for, That. Kindergarten
we'll be back in session. Later larry dies is going
With Ed witson as his. Answer Ronnie lott From Big
Lou he's on number. Two thanks for that. Photo appreciate That.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
THE.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Kc Car haller is going With Dennis. Oil can boyd
is his. Answer Johnny cu says old Man ayahuasca is
the way to. Go chorro from The Nature boy dating.
Himself whatever? Happened was she still? AROUND i loved. You
she's still alive for. Sure she's still sexy. Too oh my,
gosh she posts all the. Time, yes there's a cutoff
(39:21):
on that. One age is. Undefeated Randy johnson guest By Spocks.
Weed who else do we? Have let's say see, Here Dooley,
womack Former yankee pitcher From attillo who loves The? Gabba
Ghoul Uh paige. Down Joe sambto From sean in The
valley of The. Sun Billy martin guests By eileen the
(39:43):
forty nine er fan in The bay Are eke In,
Roseville minnesota going With Burley grimes is his. Answer magglio
ordonis from mister Nice. Guy THE Mlb scriptwriters From King
Rory Hollering james guests By. Milkman mike In Colera. Dorado
who else do we? Have Cal Ripken junior From shane
(40:05):
In De, Moine The Big, dumper the Og Big, Dumper
robbie The mariner. Fan that's a good photo Of. Robbie
that's from when he was in junior high. School all,
right do you have an? Answer? Lorrain, NO i can't
believe no one guessed. This it's Obviously Jose. Ramirez, no
It's tom Sever in nineteen seventy THREE. O SIVER nlcs
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