August 25, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller discusses if Cal Raleigh has passed Aaron Judge in the AL MVP race as he breaks the record for most homeruns by a catcher, the Yankees benching SS Anthony Volpe, Shohei Ohtani high-fiving a Padres heckler, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The big dumper. Does it again?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well, come in the beginning of our number two and
another multi home run game for cal Raley, who has
passed Salvador Perez by. He's now the king of dingers
for catchers. So has cal Raley also passed Aaron Judge
of the Yankees by in the American League MVP race.
(00:26):
We'll discuss that in a benching heard round the baseball world.
In the Bronx, the Yankees putting Anthony Volpi, their shortstop,
on the bench for the Sunday night game. A win,
a rare win over the Boston baseball team. Is this
the beginning of the end for Anthony Volpi in the Bronx.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And the Dodgers avoided a sweep at the hands of
the Padres. What's the word for Dodger Stars show? Heil
Tani high fiving a Padre Heckler. He did it after
hitting a home run late.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
In that game.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We'll talk about that and more right now here. It
is our number two, A big dumper. Delight, Welcome in
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Baseball and we'll go to Seattle with the story everyone's
been yapping about.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Here cal Raleigh doing it again.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The Mariners star cal Raley homer and his first two
at bats against Jacob Lopez of the Athletics. Not the
Sacramento Athletics, not the Oakland Athletics, not the Kansas City Athletics,
not the Philadelphia Athletics.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
They're just the Athletics.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But that home run bonanza by cal Raleigh, he broke
the MLB record for home runs by a catcher in
a single season minimum seventy five percent of games played
as a catcher. So I assume you heard about that.
If you've been listening, you know about it. We've talked
about it and maybe not. But Salvador Perez of the
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Royals had the previous record with forty eight home runs.
That was back in twenty twenty one. Man, it was
so long ago, like four or five years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Now Raleigh has forty home runs this season while playing
behind home play, so forty home runs as a catcher.
So he's still technically not one but two home runs
away from that record. Just home runs by a catcher.
That was Hobby Lopez of the Atlanta Braves back in
the day forty two. The most ever, take that, Mike
(03:38):
Piazza and all those other catchers, they had a lot
of home runs back in the day. All right, so
let us discuss the question based on the latest developments.
Has cal Raley passed Aaron Judge by in the American
League MVP race. So I've got Google Maps, Airbnb, and
modern art, and we will combine all of these things
(04:01):
together and we will ring the bell.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Again and again and again and again.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So number one, I said, number one. Yeah, So they're
in a dead heat at this point, right dead heat.
If you look at the American League MVP race down
the stretch we go. Here we are, it's late August,
the baseball season heating up. Boy, it's toasty hot most places,
(04:27):
and we're setting up for a photo.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Finish like at the Kentucky Derby the very end there.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And if you look at where we're at, cal Raley's
got this record, the record as opposed to the Royals catcher.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He's got that.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He's gonna have the all time record. He's gonna hit
at least three more home runs this year unless he
gets hurt, so he's gonna have the all time record.
And we know that catching is more difficult than playing outfield,
like Aaron Judges for the Yankees or Dhing which he's
been doing somewhat lately because of some injury stuff. So
the issue though, and this is the problem, and I
(05:02):
want that dope from Seattle to call up hate Kyl Roll.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
We do the show today. We're worried about today's show.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
So today, as we talk today, cal Raley is dead
even and even has a slight edge, a hair of
an edge over Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The issue is Google Maps.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
If you look at the geography, cal Raley plays, as
the old NFL coach Jimmy Johnson said back in the day,
he plays in southern Alaska. There's no workaround to that.
There is what about the Internet, There's no work around
you have. You have to overcome the geography and Aaron Judge,
all things being equal, Aaron Judge East Coast bias and
(05:42):
all that stuff. And also even in the age of
social media, Aaron Judge playing in New York and he's
got that superhero costume, the pinstripes. You know, good luck, right,
the tie will go to Judge. If it's even, the
tie goes to Aaron Judge. So Raleigh needs to be
a full head and shoulders ahead of Aaron Judge to
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take home the American League MVP Award this year, and
the Yankees have a one game lead over the Mariners
if you look at the overall standings in a lost column,
a one game lead for the wild and now they're
both wildcard teams. But the Mariners are one game behind
the Yankees in the head to head standings.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Judge is on pace. He's on pace.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Didn't play well, particularly on that Sunday night game I
was watching. The Yankees did actually beat the Red Sox,
which I didn't think they could do anymore, but they did.
I was watching that game a little bit. The Yankees
have a one game lead, as I mentioned, Judge on
pace head to head with the Mariners. Judge on pace
for thirty two doubles, fifty home runs and one hundred
and fifteen RBIs now cal Raley is tracking for twenty
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three doubles and he's also on pace to hit sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I believe it's sixty one.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Home runs at this point and one hundred and thirty
one RBIs so so big time numbers there now.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Page two, we stay in the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Bronx and we we've talked about Aaron Judge, and we're
not gonna talk about Aaron Judge right now, because the
Yankees made a roster decision prior to that game with
the Red Sox on Sunday Night that raised some eyebrows here.
The Yankees have benched shortstop Anthony Volpi Sunday Night baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
He was out of the starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He did get in the game as a defensive replacement late,
but he was no longer the starting shortstop for the
New York Yankees in their win against the Red Sox.
So the question is this the beginning of the end
for Anthony Volpi in the Bronx?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Is this it?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The Yankee shortstop Anthony Volpi there benched in that game
last night. So I'm gonna nod my head yes on
this one in terms of this being the end. We
did a rant about Anthony Volpi a couple weeks back,
and it's.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Only gotten worse.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's only gotten worse at this particular point, and the
Vulpy thing just isn't working. The message has been sent here.
The Yankees are trying to sell Vulpi. They've been trying
to sell them, and this is gonna all work out.
You know, he's got the hold, the roots, he's got
the backstory. Everyone loves the backstory and all that he's
the next Derek Jeter and all that, and what they've
(08:12):
got is they've got the equivalent of a version of
Windows Vista that is promised as this next big innovation
and all that stuff, but it's actually just filled with
a virus. And that's what they got. The numbers don't like.
Vulpi is hitting too eight. Well, building average doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter to some people.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Too eight.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
He's a career two twenty two hitter, so he's barely
above the Mendoza line, which is terrible. And his ops
is in the six hundreds, which I'm told is not
particularly good. That is not Yankee shortstop material. It should
not be whether you have Derek Jeter or not. That
should not be the case there. That is where you're
playing in Central Park, playing softball, and that's where you
(08:56):
are with that kind of stat line. And he's got
more errors at this point then our friend Big Balls
Bob trying to get on the internet.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
There's a lot of errors there.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And the Yankees fans have been living this mirage.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
They're like, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Ever since Jeter retired, it's like, oh, we're gonna be
We're gonna find the next year it's flotsam and jets
them that they've had at shortstop.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
They tried d D Gregorios. Howd that work out? Not good?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Glaber Torres. That was a bus. Now they have Volpi
who throws balls into the stands. He wants to give
everyone a souvenir. Does that a lot? Ball bounces in
the dart bounces in the crowd, the whole thing there,
And it's like the Yankees are running an airbn B.
It's an Airbnb for shortstops at this particular point. There's
a different guy every couple of years, every couple of years.
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None of them seem to live up to the brochure.
And you know the photos and thero You sign up
for the Airbnb and you're like, all right, I'm gonna
stay there. And you show up and instead of the
presidential suite in the nice king sized bed, you're giving
a sleeping bag under an overpass. And that is you know,
it's indoor outdoor living, is what it is. Indoor outdoor living,
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and that's it, and that's just not the way it's
supposed to go. It's like, you know, you're not in
Rancho Cucamonga. You're You're the New York Yankees and all that.
And if you stink for multiple seasons, which Volpi is there,
he costs them.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
He helped cost them the World Series.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Now, I loved it when he was a stumblebom against
the Dodgers in the fifth inning of Game five of
the World Series. Everyone focuses on Aaron Judge muffing the
ball in the outfield and Garrett Cole not making the play,
not covering first baseball.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
How about Vulpi? He booted a ball.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
In that World Series also, So the guy's a bust
with a capital B at this point, and you go
out and replace him. Now they can't do anything now.
The trade deadline's pass, so they're stuck with what they have.
The Yankees, good luck on that all right now. Final
point to San Diego we go where the pot did
not did not sweep the Dodgers, but the Dodger offense
(11:04):
very limp over the weekend there in San Diego. The
Dodgers did rally back to beat the Podres in the
game that was played on Sunday to avoid the old sweep.
The old sweepero at the hands of the Fish tacos.
There was something that happened the game within the game.
Here they caught my attention and got a lot of buzz,
a lot of attention. So I don't know I saw
(11:26):
the highlight or heard about the highlight or not. The
Dodgers were getting smoked early.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
In the game. Not smoke, but they were down.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
They had a futile offense all week, and they came
back and they got a little bit of insurance late
when shohy Otani connect. And the story is about that
home run. So there was a Padre fan who was
sitting right next to the Dodger dugout in San Diego,
and this guy was busting the balls of show a time,
(11:54):
busting his chops all series, and Otani was horrific. He
had ten at bats, He was zero for ten for
the Dodgers against the Padres in this Showdown NL West
matchup prior to that home run.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So he was doing.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Absolutely bupkus for the Dodgers up until then. And then
finally what happens. He goes Deepits a home run. There
you go. And what did Otani do after the home run?
He gave the guy a high five. He gave the
guy a high five. So what is the word? Here's
the question, what is the word for Dodger star shohe
(12:32):
O'tani high fiving a heckler wearing podre merch? All right,
so my word is refreshing with a capital R. Refreshing
with the capitol R. Here's why. I'll tell you why,
because how many stories have we done over the last
couple of years about athlete X losing their mind, losing
(12:56):
their mind because somebody was heckling.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Them and they crossed still line. This is not right
and all it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So I found it refreshing that rather than have the
fan escorted out of the stadium, which Otani could have done,
all Otani had to do was tap on the shoulder
of the security guy and that would have been it
for the heckler. So it was refreshing that Otani did
not do that. Most of these guys today seem to
(13:24):
be very thin skinned, and they're very touchy and hyper
sensitive to all the noise and all this stuff, and
anybody boos them boom. We used to have a guy
called boom Man that called the show back of the boom.
And normally what happens is if you boost certain of
the players these guys will immediately contact stadium security like
(13:47):
a mall cop and get that person out of there.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You're done, and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And so to me, heckling it is modern art when
done properly. It should be hung in an museum when
you're able to heckle properly and get a player off
his game a little bit. And I said, well, this
is this backfire? Well did it backfire? Otni had one
home run. The entire series was zero for ten prior
to that at bad but this is a masterpiece. It's
(14:14):
like Picasso or Warhol, one of the great painters there.
And you get in the player's head, you rasm right,
give him a hard time, and then that's what he
players pretend like, I don't hear it. I got my
earmuffs on, I'm not hearing what's going on there. And
then you end up hitting a home run like Otani,
and Otani, you'd think he'd be relieved because that really
(14:34):
cemented the game for the Dodgers, and they were about
to get swept by the Padres if they had not
come back in that game. But he wasn't seemingly overjoyed
because he hit the home run that helped guarantee the
Dodgers got to win. He was happy because you got
to put a cork in the heckler's mouth. That's what
he was happy about. That's great, Like, thank god, I
(14:54):
finally got one. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Now. The pottery fan basically pushed him into the hole. Run.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It was all over Otani. It was great and finally
he connected on one, and that's that's how it ended.
But this is not This is not the way it
normally goes done. So many of these stories where it's
like this guy's gotta get kicked out, that guy's gotta
get kicked out, it's like, what are.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We doing here?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
In fact, there was a time for players it was emasculating.
If you had a fan kicked out, it was like
a badge of honor, the heckling that would be going
on back in the day. And then so it's it's different.
But the the boo birds are chirping, that is a
sign of honor. That is not a something to be
upset about. You should be honor Eddy. As the old
line goes, they don't boot nobody's right. You're gonna be
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good to get booed and so there's Oltani the face
of major League baseball, not even close the face.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Of major League baseball.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You got Otani out there working his magic, hitting a
home run, and then that fans, you know, some guy
making normal, normal dough.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And he ends up getting you know, Tani's head.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So that is a w for the heckler and also
inspiration for other hecklers around major League baseball.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
When the playoffs get going here in a month and the.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Dodgers, whether they win the division or the wild card team,
they're going to be in the playoffs somewhere, and then
Otani will have an opportunity to be heckled by random
people all over the place.
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Was it? Absolutely? Yeah?
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just the baseball, just.
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That gives you a little taste of Disneyland without actually
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Yeah, yeah, next time you're next time you're, uh yeah.
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Oh yeah, I went to the pool. That's all you need, man,
got some food.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
They loved the game.
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It's not depressing that it was a father like you
could probably take your kids to like the local cheesy
hotel in Chicago. So if it's got a pool, he'd
be happy. You know, you have to fly him to
California and all that stuff.
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Right, they just want to pool.
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They just want to pool, just have some space to
run around. Get loud. So I did a good time.
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That's nice, man, very cool. So you you you called
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Show you worked for UPS, right, you said that you
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Twenty years so right when I start up, that's where
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I appreciate.
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I always forget the guy's name. Who's the guy I met? Coop?
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The guy at the Cubs game. He was there's a
White Sox cub game a couple of years back. Remember anyway,
one of the guys that's uh he will be Phase.
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Yes, Fase, I met Fase. You don't even know who
that is either, because I would you. He's a stranger.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
But faith, I was at a cub game and I
was like saying, hey, is anybody here who listens to
the show.
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And Fase happened to beat the game, so I met
him and stuff.
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You made it here on the on the dime of UPS.
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There you go. Well, I want to thank you for listening. Tree.
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It's awesome that you've tuned in at night. Man, driving
around Chicago and all that, no matter what, right, whether socks,
you're still driving around.
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Get your own.
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You weren't a cup jersey, but you got you know,
you have to wear your UPS uniform right when you're
on the show.
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they did.
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Oh that's good. Yeah, so that was a good been
a few years now, though.
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Think about the people before me.
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They had to wait, I know, they didn't. They live
their lives, died, and they didn't win the.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
World Series right the way thirty four? Yeah, yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Anyway, I'm sorry, guys.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That's all right, you're comfortable. See, we're we're just having
a conversation. What do you think of our stuiods?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
This is better. We used to be across the hall
the This is not bad. We haven't given you were
the worst host. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Sorry, we can show you the vending machine. We can
share where the cockroaches. Yeah yeah, there's did the did
the guak chips ever come down?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
I'm not sure we haven't. We haven't been over there.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I did ten minutes on my podcast about the guak chips.
I'm serious. I did like ten minutes.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
About Yeah, why is it always my snacks that get
stuck in the vent?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I thought that was Coops. I thought Coop wanted to
go chip.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
She asked me to try and, uh dislodge the chips.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh that makes sense that yeah, why would coopy quak chips?
That didn't make a lot of sense to at the time,
I thought you wanted them Coop because we were You
should have seen it. We were both over there like
we're trying to press on the vending machine.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
I should have recorded it.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I didn't know it was tag team. It was on camera.
There's a camera over there.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
There's security cameras in the building, so it was recorded
by the security.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Can could you to teamwork for much? Were we were
trying to get the chips and it did not work?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Ferg Dog rights and he says it was not Wrigley Field.
West angel fans were there loud and proud. Nobody takes
over the big.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Tree.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Would you like to respond to Ferg Dog? Come on, man,
you saw it. You saw the score. It was twelve
to one on Saturday. It was it was a beat.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Down man, even he doesn't believe.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Yeah, yeah, gave us fireworks.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
My daughters loved the fireworks, man, So you know, thank
you even in the beat down.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, still here entertainment. Did they did they hit you
up for any souvenirs. Do They didn't eat anything from
the gift shop or no.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Oh good, okay.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
I think they were just thinking, you know, happy that
someone was there to watch it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That's right. It was a good time for we moved
the Actually not for Doug. Who is it?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Just Josh Rights And he said, straight up, Mariner porn
been to open this hour hour number two. Is Robbie
the Mariner fan blackmailing you or something? I'm asking for
a friend? No, I said, at this point, it's a
dead heat for the MVP in the American League and
that's it. That's not marin or porn. By the way,
Salsa who did not attend. Salsa was not in attendance
(25:32):
in the Mountain. He said, I missed the flight by
one seat. And there you go. Yeah, Big Lou was there,
but he drove. And Big Lou didn't show up to
the UNLV game. Even though he said he was going
to go to the UNOV game with some other people.
He didn't actually show up to that.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So it fit the other people show up. Uh No,
I don't. I don't know. I don't know the whole
details on that. I have no idea. You want to
take a cal Tree.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You want to pick somebody out here on the phones,
we can talk to somebody here.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
We've got Ben at the Comedian. I guess some other
names up there.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Anybody stand out or if not, if you think they
all suck, we don't have to take a call.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
So shere's looking at the board. He's examining all the
names on the board.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Let go Chris.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You want to go with Chris? All right, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Chris seems the safest, right. Chris is in southern California.
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You're on Fox Sports Radio. It's me Ben and our
buddy Tree. He's from Chicago. He's not hanging out with
us here.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Hey, that's great. Hey, we're glad you enjoyed California Tree
the Hey NL West.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You know the.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Division is going to get decided in the next three games,
and you know, some a lot of this may be
about strength to schedule, but you know, when the Mariners
played the Padres already this here because they're supposedly quote rivals,
they swept San Diego in Petco and you know, Padre's
got to go up now to a crazy hot Mariners
team and the Dodgers are going to be hosting the
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Reds the rest of the way through. After these next
three games, the Dodgers have only six games against teams
that give a crap. Everybody else is already basically eliminated.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Chris hold On, didn't the Dodgers just lose a couple
of games in Colorado this week?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
This past week? Have you lose a Rocks?
Speaker 9 (27:07):
All right, that's fine, they split Colorado, But we took
four out of six from the Padres, bang, bang, bang,
right back to back.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
You think that was it?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Wait, Chris, you think that was a good weekend? That
the Dodgers looked good this weekend?
Speaker 9 (27:18):
I think that the first two games, I think they
look like crap. But they won four out of six
week week.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I mean, listen, you you're you're very optimistic. I mean,
you are very You're very optimistic. You're more optimistic than
I am. I look at this Dodger team. I mean,
that's not a championship team. That does not look like
a championship team to me. It doesn't well, you know,
you know.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
We'll see what happens in the postseason. But just in
terms of the Padres catching up, we beat them nine
to thirteen. We got the tie break. You know, if
if the Mariners take two out of three and the
Dodgers take two out of three, well, now they're not
going to be able to catch back up. There's just
no way. You look at who who's going to be,
you know what each team's got to do the rest
of the way through. I mean, if you think the
(27:59):
Dodgers are going to collapse playing against the White Sox
and the Rockies again and all that, yeah, I don't.
I don't see that happening.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, but the lineup there putting out there, even with
ough Tany and Freeman and Betts, there's a lot of
that backside of that lineup is terrible. So horrific lineup.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But anyway, I thank you. That was a hard old
baseball call. Tree is what that was hard? Now?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Are you are you optimistic about the Cubs? Tree proud?
Are Are you gonna be diplomatic or are you going
to be a fan guy? Where are you at on
the cups?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Here?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Now?
Speaker 6 (28:29):
I'll go out what I see. I think we peeking
at the right time.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Yeah, our best I should be best player at Tucker
is getting hot.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
You know you got hot this weekend, So, oh.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Did you play? He played well this week after they
benched him. After they benched him last week.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
He had two home runs. Doing the series, he went
four for five.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
It's against Angels. Pitching doesn't really mean anything.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
It's like it says.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
I was close to five hundred so you know, I
was being competitive. But I'll say that.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
But we got to enjoy that because he's gonna leave, right,
he's gonna want It was about five hundred million. I
want five hundred million to the tree. You probably tell
you ps when you're you know, I want I want
five hundred million. They don't give you that money though.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Right, Yeah, the Yankees probably gonna come and get them, man,
But no, I got us going to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, I got the Cubs versus the Tigers. Cubs and Tigers.
That's an all Midwestern affair. Is that your Midwestern bias?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
There?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
No, no is legit that school of dude. He like
you the truth.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, he's legit.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
I don't know that create problems in the household, that world.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
That's right. Your wife is from destroy Hoop.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
I'm four too. I can't wait, can you believe? But
she's like me she'll rub it in my face.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, well that's good. That's what you're supposed to do.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's the right. That's a great thing about sports. You
can throw at each other's face, the whole thing. It's wonderful. Yeah, man, absolutely,
So you're heading back.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
To Chicago today, is that right?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Hand bag? Man?
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Flight at twelve? So, man, it's been a good time.
I can't thank you guys. And oh can I say
one thing?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh and one that never goes well? The one thing
I don't know what going to?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Okay, I still want you permission, perst go nohead, blind Scott, Yeah,
Blad Scott, you need a hug.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
We all love you.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
I don't know what you call the station if it's scripted,
I don't know if Ben got something going on? What
you're gonna say?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
No, no, there's nothing going on. No, no, no, got it.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
No blast guy, there's some love out there.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
You just got a fan of man. Every day cannot
be as bad. Yeah, if ideots man, give me a call. Man,
you're a good guy and I love you.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Look at that tree.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Positivity to blind Scotts, who's I'm sure listen will send
him seven. I'll show you if you want, hold on
to let me see here. Let me see if I
get this out, not yet, hold on me click this here,
I'm gonna show you my show email. Uh, this is
you can see this, see that? Hold on, I see
the Scott here. This is all blind Scott. Don't say
(30:42):
his last name on here, but that's all his email.
You see that, You see that all this is all
of his email. It's it's page after There's a few
other ones in there, but it's page after page this.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Oh, look at look at this. This is almost all him.
There's there's a surfer. Todd the comedian got in there somehow.
But it's it's not suck, it's a it's the entire show.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
I love you guys too.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
But Jesus, that's we don't harass us with the email though,
that's that's different, right.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I felt like I was harassing Coop, just letting them
know I was here.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
No, No, I was worried.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I when I actually I told somebody because you had
said you wanted to come here and you didn't email me, so,
oh you didn't email me, you're.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Not showing up. And then Coop had mentioned me, he
mentioned me that you had contacted him.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So, yeah, yeah, I try to bother people. Man, No,
I appreciate it. This was I appreciate man. Well, thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Keep listening. Don't forget about us when you get back
to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, you got to keep listening now, and tell
you tell your friends and all that, and we'll come.
I'll be and she I got family that I told
you about, So I'll come there at some point. We'll
have a meet and greet and we'll come by and
hang out.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Tell some old war stories and all that. So safe
travels back to Chicago.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Tree. I really appreciate it. Man, Thank you, guys, thanks, thanks.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
All right, the great tree hanging out here with us
from Chicago as we press on.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
You brought some great socks.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
He brought socks, good socks. They have my name on them.
Oh did he?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I have not looked at my back. I feel weird,
like opening gifts when people around. I don't know why
that is. It's very odd. Hey, it's my thing. It's
one of my weird things. Anyway, we will have Mallard
the third degree. We'll get to that coming up here momentarily.
Time now for the Insta trivia and here it is
Blank now has five explosive receptions that's sixteen plus yards
(32:18):
in the last three games, leading all NFL receivers during
the preseason. Again, Blank now has five explosive receptions sixteen
plus yards in the last three games, leading all NFL
receivers during the preseason.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Which is now over. That is the instant trivia the answer.
We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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the Insta Trivia. According to True Meeta, whatever that is,
Blank now has five five explosive receptions sixteen or more
(34:06):
yards in the last three games, leading all NFL receivers
during the preseason, which is now over. So that is
the instant trivia. What is the answer? And let's see
does anyone know Scrooge is going with Deacon Jones as
his answer. Ferg Dog says, it's Tree, who didn't almost
(34:28):
get you fired? Unlike the Leprechaun. Great job by Tree.
Who else do we have? Page Dan can't read that?
On the air Cde Lamb guest by Andy and Lionel
Lakes Minnesota, Bert Cobain from Donkey Sausage. I see what
you did there? Don Hudson from j T The Wingman
in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tree Rollins in honor of Tree, Tree
(34:51):
Rollins guests by Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Mike Stanton from Random,
Ryan in Carolina, Jalen Speedy Naylor from Ben who else?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Page down?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Attilo says the head chef at the Madonna Inn, he
loves the Gabba Ghoul. He loves the Gabba Ghoul. They
have really good cake there at the Madonnian.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Right, you've been? Have you been there? In the mid
course you've not? Why have you not? In San Luis
Obispo you've not gone to the Madonna in? No? Why not?
Speaker 8 (35:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Bad job by you? Is that like South?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Is that by San Diego?
Speaker 6 (35:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Sant Luis Obispo is in central California on the way
to San Francisco off.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Highway one, Highway one on one.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, that's a bad job, bad geographical knowledge by you?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
All right?
Speaker 8 (35:40):
What else?
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Do we have?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
A page down? And Miguel on Fire love Tree And
here's a great job by Tree.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
What can Brown do for you? All right? Enough of
that turn your mic back on. Here we go.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
It's time now for the insta trivia payoff. A blank
now has five explosive receptions sixteen or more yards in
the last three games all NFL receivers during the exhibition games,
which are now done.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
It's gotta be Serena Williams.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Serena Williams are really explosive receptions for Serena. No, that
is a correct someone named Brennan Presley, I ams, you
can ram at all day and you can all night.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Here we are, Miller. How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
To the third degree, this is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Here we all and to the coop a loop for
the questions the quiz that we call mallard of.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
The third degree.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
The Phillies announced on Saturday the starting pitcher Zach Wheeler
will miss the remainder of the season.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yes, he could have died. People die from blood Clott's coop.
They die from blood clots.
Speaker 8 (36:45):
Yes, Ben, How big of a blow is this for
the Phillies World Series hopes?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Well, it sucks.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
However, the Phillies I am convinced if they're gonna do
anything here, it's going to be based on their offense.
I don't think that's an outrageous take. Oh, you're really
a shock jock with that take. No, they remember a
couple years ago they got the World Series and then
they stopped hitting. But you've got a lineup that is
absolutely stacked with Trey Turner, Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper, jt
Riamuto at the top. Those top four hitters are among
(37:12):
the top hitters in all of the National League, all
the baseball So they score runs. They've got enough pitching.
Oh you're you're crazy. No, Sanchez has been wonderful this year.
He's their number one now with Wheeler out, Lozardo is
not terrible, and Rangel Suarez has had some moments. So,
I mean, there's some other guys in there, Taiwan Walker
(37:34):
and whatnot. But I don't think this eliminates the Phillies
by any means.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
It makes it a little more difficult.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
It makes it a better story for the Phillies to
get to the World Series. I look at the National
League as wide open. The Dodgers are beatable. Not only
the Podres are invincible by any means. Here you look around,
the Brewers look good, but can they do it in
the playoffs? Trees, Cubs So, to answer your question, Coop,
it hurts, but it's not. It's not a kill shot
for the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Next.
Speaker 8 (38:02):
Over the weekend, the Vikings traded backup quarterback Sam Howell
and signed Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
The great former Ram Carson Wentz.
Speaker 8 (38:09):
Right, well, yeah, a lot of people are calling this
an upgrade at backup, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
No, it is a lateral move.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
It is not an up good I'm actually a ran
More about this later. Carson Wentz has been washed up
for five years, six years, and he still gets jobs
in the NFL. Wouldn't that be great if you're you
proving you're not good at your job and he gets
bounced around.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
He's played for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Colts, Commanders, Rams, Chiefs, and now the Vikings since twenty twenty.
Either way, the Vikings are putting all their chips in
the JJ McCarthy basket.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
We all know that, right.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
If McCarthy sucks, they're cooked. They're absolutely cooked. It's not
like they're in better shape if Carson Wentz gets it
there in place. It's not like all of a sudden,
oh we're in good shit, we got Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
We're ready to go. Come on, all right.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
Next, Paul Skin's just the way gem in this fiftieth
start the Majors and now has the second lowest ere
of any pitcher in the Live ball era through fifty starts.
But do you think the Pirates are going to waste
a generational talent much like the angel did with Mike Trout?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Well, waste you mean, but Trout's still there.
Speaker 8 (39:14):
They're just not winning. I Otani would be the better
comp right, because the Trout's already wasted. He's a thirty
four now.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
But Otani.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
They got nothing for Otani. They just let Otani leave
in free agency. They could have traded Otani like Paul Skans.
The Pirates are going to end up trading him in
the next couple of years, right, So they're not gonna
get nothing for him. Are they gonna win the Pirates? No,
that's another team. There's a lot of teams in baseball coupe.
Good ballpark, bad team. The Pirates are on that good ballpark.
(39:45):
The Giants, now, we had that our buddy, the Giant
fans showed up to that meet and greet the ugly
orange Giant hat on. I said, good good ballpark, bad team.
The Pirates are on that list. But no, they're not
gonna win. They'll win when Paul Skans pitches, and then
when he doesn't pitch. You know it's and then every
once in a while you get a team that because
they have so many terrible seasons, they get all these
(40:05):
collection of young players at the same time. But no,
I'm they're gonna They're not gonna win anything in Pittsburgh
with Paul Skeins while he's there, and he'll go pitch
for the Yankees or the Dodgers of the Red Sox
or someone like that, or mystery team, and then he'll
go on and find glory somewhere else. All right there,
it is Mallard of the third degree. How did we do.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
You pass this edition?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
That is a pass?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, So so we had we had Tree, and I
gave Tree the ten centaur of the Fox Sports Radio studios.
I pointed out, I said, that's where the cockroaches die.
I said, that's the room where wrong button Bob turned
the entire network off. Right over there, there's a button.
We don't know which button he pressed, but there's a button.
I said, here's the vending machine, which used to be cheap.
And then one of the one of the board ops
complained and they raised the prices. He's not here anymore,
(40:53):
so I don't know his name. I forget his name.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
I don't know who that is. But that's a bad
job by him, bad job by him.
The big dumper. Does it again?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well, come in the beginning of our number two and
another multi home run game for cal Raley, who has
passed Salvador Perez by. He's now the king of dingers
for catchers. So has cal Raley also passed Aaron Judge
of the Yankees by in the American League MVP race.
(00:26):
We'll discuss that in a benching heard round the baseball world.
In the Bronx, the Yankees putting Anthony Volpi, their shortstop,
on the bench for the Sunday night game. A win,
a rare win over the Boston baseball team. Is this
the beginning of the end for Anthony Volpi in the Bronx.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
And the Dodgers avoided a sweep at the hands of
the Padres. What's the word for Dodger Stars show? Heil
Tani high fiving a Padre Heckler. He did it after
hitting a home run late.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
In that game.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We'll talk about that and more right now here. It
is our number two, A big dumper. Delight, Welcome in
the beginning of another.
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been yapping about.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Here cal Raleigh doing it again.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The Mariners star cal Raley homer and his first two
at bats against Jacob Lopez of the Athletics. Not the
Sacramento Athletics, not the Oakland Athletics, not the Kansas City Athletics,
not the Philadelphia Athletics.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
They're just the Athletics.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But that home run bonanza by cal Raleigh, he broke
the MLB record for home runs by a catcher in
a single season minimum seventy five percent of games played
as a catcher. So I assume you heard about that.
If you've been listening, you know about it. We've talked
about it and maybe not. But Salvador Perez of the
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Royals had the previous record with forty eight home runs.
That was back in twenty twenty one. Man, it was
so long ago, like four or five years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Now Raleigh has forty home runs this season while playing
behind home play, so forty home runs as a catcher.
So he's still technically not one but two home runs
away from that record. Just home runs by a catcher.
That was Hobby Lopez of the Atlanta Braves back in
the day forty two. The most ever, take that, Mike
(03:38):
Piazza and all those other catchers, they had a lot
of home runs back in the day. All right, so
let us discuss the question based on the latest developments.
Has cal Raley passed Aaron Judge by in the American
League MVP race. So I've got Google Maps, Airbnb, and
modern art, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we will ring the bell.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Again and again and again and again.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So number one, I said, number one. Yeah, So they're
in a dead heat at this point, right dead heat.
If you look at the American League MVP race down
the stretch we go. Here we are, it's late August,
the baseball season heating up. Boy, it's toasty hot most places,
(04:27):
and we're setting up for a photo.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Finish like at the Kentucky Derby the very end there.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
And if you look at where we're at, cal Raley's
got this record, the record as opposed to the Royals catcher.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He's got that.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He's gonna have the all time record. He's gonna hit
at least three more home runs this year unless he
gets hurt, so he's gonna have the all time record.
And we know that catching is more difficult than playing outfield,
like Aaron Judges for the Yankees or Dhing which he's
been doing somewhat lately because of some injury stuff. So
the issue though, and this is the problem, and I
(05:02):
want that dope from Seattle to call up hate Kyl Roll.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
We do the show today. We're worried about today's show.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
So today, as we talk today, cal Raley is dead
even and even has a slight edge, a hair of
an edge over Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The issue is Google Maps.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
If you look at the geography, cal Raley plays, as
the old NFL coach Jimmy Johnson said back in the day,
he plays in southern Alaska. There's no workaround to that.
There is what about the Internet, There's no work around
you have. You have to overcome the geography and Aaron Judge,
all things being equal, Aaron Judge East Coast bias and
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all that stuff. And also even in the age of
social media, Aaron Judge playing in New York and he's
got that superhero costume, the pinstripes. You know, good luck, right,
the tie will go to Judge. If it's even, the
tie goes to Aaron Judge. So Raleigh needs to be
a full head and shoulders ahead of Aaron Judge to
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take home the American League MVP Award this year, and
the Yankees have a one game lead over the Mariners
if you look at the overall standings in a lost column,
a one game lead for the wild and now they're
both wildcard teams. But the Mariners are one game behind
the Yankees in the head to head standings.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Judge is on pace. He's on pace.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Didn't play well, particularly on that Sunday night game I
was watching. The Yankees did actually beat the Red Sox,
which I didn't think they could do anymore, but they did.
I was watching that game a little bit. The Yankees
have a one game lead, as I mentioned, Judge on
pace head to head with the Mariners. Judge on pace
for thirty two doubles, fifty home runs and one hundred
and fifteen RBIs now cal Raley is tracking for twenty
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three doubles and he's also on pace to hit sixty.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I believe it's sixty one.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Home runs at this point and one hundred and thirty
one RBIs so so big time numbers there now.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Page two, we stay in the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Bronx and we we've talked about Aaron Judge, and we're
not gonna talk about Aaron Judge right now, because the
Yankees made a roster decision prior to that game with
the Red Sox on Sunday Night that raised some eyebrows here.
The Yankees have benched shortstop Anthony Volpi Sunday Night baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
He was out of the starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He did get in the game as a defensive replacement late,
but he was no longer the starting shortstop for the
New York Yankees in their win against the Red Sox.
So the question is this the beginning of the end
for Anthony Volpi in the Bronx?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Is this it?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The Yankee shortstop Anthony Volpi there benched in that game
last night. So I'm gonna nod my head yes on
this one in terms of this being the end. We
did a rant about Anthony Volpi a couple weeks back,
and it's.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Only gotten worse.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's only gotten worse at this particular point, and the
Vulpy thing just isn't working. The message has been sent here.
The Yankees are trying to sell Vulpi. They've been trying
to sell them, and this is gonna all work out.
You know, he's got the hold, the roots, he's got
the backstory. Everyone loves the backstory and all that he's
the next Derek Jeter and all that, and what they've
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got is they've got the equivalent of a version of
Windows Vista that is promised as this next big innovation
and all that stuff, but it's actually just filled with
a virus. And that's what they got. The numbers don't like.
Vulpi is hitting too eight. Well, building average doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter to some people.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Too eight.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
He's a career two twenty two hitter, so he's barely
above the Mendoza line, which is terrible. And his ops
is in the six hundreds, which I'm told is not
particularly good. That is not Yankee shortstop material. It should
not be whether you have Derek Jeter or not. That
should not be the case there. That is where you're
playing in Central Park, playing softball, and that's where you
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are with that kind of stat line. And he's got
more errors at this point then our friend Big Balls
Bob trying to get on the internet.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
There's a lot of errors there.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And the Yankees fans have been living this mirage.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
They're like, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Ever since Jeter retired, it's like, oh, we're gonna be
We're gonna find the next year it's flotsam and jets
them that they've had at shortstop.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
They tried d D Gregorios. Howd that work out? Not good?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Glaber Torres. That was a bus. Now they have Volpi
who throws balls into the stands. He wants to give
everyone a souvenir. Does that a lot? Ball bounces in
the dart bounces in the crowd, the whole thing there,
And it's like the Yankees are running an airbn B.
It's an Airbnb for shortstops at this particular point. There's
a different guy every couple of years, every couple of years.
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None of them seem to live up to the brochure.
And you know the photos and thero You sign up
for the Airbnb and you're like, all right, I'm gonna
stay there. And you show up and instead of the
presidential suite in the nice king sized bed, you're giving
a sleeping bag under an overpass. And that is you know,
it's indoor outdoor living, is what it is. Indoor outdoor living,
(10:09):
and that's it, and that's just not the way it's
supposed to go. It's like, you know, you're not in
Rancho Cucamonga. You're You're the New York Yankees and all that.
And if you stink for multiple seasons, which Volpi is there,
he costs them.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
He helped cost them the World Series.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Now, I loved it when he was a stumblebom against
the Dodgers in the fifth inning of Game five of
the World Series. Everyone focuses on Aaron Judge muffing the
ball in the outfield and Garrett Cole not making the play,
not covering first baseball.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
How about Vulpi? He booted a ball.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
In that World Series also, So the guy's a bust
with a capital B at this point, and you go
out and replace him. Now they can't do anything now.
The trade deadline's pass, so they're stuck with what they have.
The Yankees, good luck on that all right now. Final
point to San Diego we go where the pot did
not did not sweep the Dodgers, but the Dodger offense
(11:04):
very limp over the weekend there in San Diego. The
Dodgers did rally back to beat the Podres in the
game that was played on Sunday to avoid the old sweep.
The old sweepero at the hands of the Fish tacos.
There was something that happened the game within the game.
Here they caught my attention and got a lot of buzz,
a lot of attention. So I don't know I saw
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the highlight or heard about the highlight or not. The
Dodgers were getting smoked early.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
In the game. Not smoke, but they were down.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
They had a futile offense all week, and they came
back and they got a little bit of insurance late
when shohy Otani connect. And the story is about that
home run. So there was a Padre fan who was
sitting right next to the Dodger dugout in San Diego,
and this guy was busting the balls of show a time,
(11:54):
busting his chops all series, and Otani was horrific. He
had ten at bats, He was zero for ten for
the Dodgers against the Padres in this Showdown NL West
matchup prior to that home run.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So he was doing.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Absolutely bupkus for the Dodgers up until then. And then
finally what happens. He goes Deepits a home run. There
you go. And what did Otani do after the home run?
He gave the guy a high five. He gave the
guy a high five. So what is the word? Here's
the question, what is the word for Dodger star shohe
(12:32):
O'tani high fiving a heckler wearing podre merch? All right,
so my word is refreshing with a capital R. Refreshing
with the capitol R. Here's why. I'll tell you why,
because how many stories have we done over the last
couple of years about athlete X losing their mind, losing
(12:56):
their mind because somebody was heckling.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Them and they crossed still line. This is not right
and all it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So I found it refreshing that rather than have the
fan escorted out of the stadium, which Otani could have done,
all Otani had to do was tap on the shoulder
of the security guy and that would have been it
for the heckler. So it was refreshing that Otani did
not do that. Most of these guys today seem to
(13:24):
be very thin skinned, and they're very touchy and hyper
sensitive to all the noise and all this stuff, and
anybody boos them boom. We used to have a guy
called boom Man that called the show back of the boom.
And normally what happens is if you boost certain of
the players these guys will immediately contact stadium security like
(13:47):
a mall cop and get that person out of there.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You're done, and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And so to me, heckling it is modern art when
done properly. It should be hung in an museum when
you're able to heckle properly and get a player off
his game a little bit. And I said, well, this
is this backfire? Well did it backfire? Otni had one
home run. The entire series was zero for ten prior
to that at bad but this is a masterpiece. It's
(14:14):
like Picasso or Warhol, one of the great painters there.
And you get in the player's head, you rasm right,
give him a hard time, and then that's what he
players pretend like, I don't hear it. I got my
earmuffs on, I'm not hearing what's going on there. And
then you end up hitting a home run like Otani,
and Otani, you'd think he'd be relieved because that really
(14:34):
cemented the game for the Dodgers, and they were about
to get swept by the Padres if they had not
come back in that game. But he wasn't seemingly overjoyed
because he hit the home run that helped guarantee the
Dodgers got to win. He was happy because you got
to put a cork in the heckler's mouth. That's what
he was happy about. That's great, Like, thank god, I
(14:54):
finally got one. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Now. The pottery fan basically pushed him into the hole. Run.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It was all over Otani. It was great and finally
he connected on one, and that's that's how it ended.
But this is not This is not the way it
normally goes done. So many of these stories where it's
like this guy's gotta get kicked out, that guy's gotta
get kicked out, it's like, what are.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
We doing here?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
In fact, there was a time for players it was emasculating.
If you had a fan kicked out, it was like
a badge of honor, the heckling that would be going
on back in the day. And then so it's it's different.
But the the boo birds are chirping, that is a
sign of honor. That is not a something to be
upset about. You should be honor Eddy. As the old
line goes, they don't boot nobody's right. You're gonna be
(15:38):
good to get booed and so there's Oltani the face
of major League baseball, not even close the face.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Of major League baseball.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
You got Otani out there working his magic, hitting a
home run, and then that fans, you know, some guy
making normal, normal dough.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And he ends up getting you know, Tani's head.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
So that is a w for the heckler and also
inspiration for other hecklers around major League baseball.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
When the playoffs get going here in a month and the.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Dodgers, whether they win the division or the wild card team,
they're going to be in the playoffs somewhere, and then
Otani will have an opportunity to be heckled by random
people all over the place.
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Speaker 2 (19:51):
We go, and we have that very rare. Now this
is very rare. And if managements listening. This guy just
got here, did not show up twelve hours ago like
Mike the Leprechaun, but a gentleman who occasionally calls us
up from the Windy City all the way here.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Get right on that microphone, hold on, sack here, there
we go. Let's walkome in the tree is here?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Look at this. We got that these words cup gear.
He's ready to go. He was out here for that
cub series with the Angels. A domination situation right tree.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Sweet baby, sleep baby, that's what that's what we're trying
to do. Man.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Was it regally feel? Was it regally feel the West?
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Was it? Absolutely? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
I was just in that telling the reign of a story, like, uh,
I think he was in that too. My wife was
looking around, like, uh so this is the cup section.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
A lot of blue, man, lout of blue. We did that.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Any any Disney stuff or anything, or just the baseball,
just the baseball, just.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
The baseball, baseball. Take the keys around. We took them
to Disneyland before. Okay, she kind of saw. She was
like that going to Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
So the next time you hear the cheat code is
what downtown Disney right? That gives you.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
That gives you a little taste of Disneyland without actually
having to spend your entire paycheck going in there. And
they have a great downtown area with like a kid's
run around stuff, which would be perfect for your little ones.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Man, that's so good to know.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, yeah, next time you're next time you're, uh yeah.
Do you enjoyed the traffic? It took me forever to
get here, by the way to I don't know what's
going on, you mean a long time to get here.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Not too bad. Once you got here. My kids out,
they pretty smooth. They loved the pool.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh yeah, I went to the pool. That's all you need, man,
got some food.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
They loved the game.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
It's not depressing that it was a father like you
could probably take your kids to like the local cheesy
hotel in Chicago. So if it's got a pool, he'd
be happy. You know, you have to fly him to
California and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Right, they just want to pool.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
They just want to pool, just have some space to
run around. Get loud. So I did a good time.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
That's nice, man, very cool. So you you you called
the show a few times.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Show you worked for UPS, right, you said that you
worked the overnight shift in Chicago.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Twenty years so right when I start up, that's where
you going. There you go clock there, eleven o'clock. Here
for you guys. Perfect, y'all get the night going. For me, man,
I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Have you met Eugene in Chicago or you Feeme or
g Man or any other guys. Actually, I was at
a cup gate I met uh not I forget.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I always forget the guy's name. Who's the guy I met? Coop?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
The guy at the Cubs game. He was there's a
White Sox cub game a couple of years back. Remember anyway,
one of the guys that's uh he will be Phase.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yes, Fase, I met Fase. You don't even know who
that is either, because I would you. He's a stranger.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
But faith, I was at a cub game and I
was like saying, hey, is anybody here who listens to
the show.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And Fase happened to beat the game, so I met
him and stuff.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
So did you look inside your your your gift back
had not yet? Tree gave us like UPS hats.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh you did. Oh that's awesome. Thank you. You don't
have one of those yet? No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
That's a great hat. No, seriously, UPS is a great
company've been. They're taking care of you, right. Yeah, Hey
I made it here.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You made it here on the on the dime of UPS.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Yes, it's not good company, man, I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
There you go. Well, I want to thank you for listening. Tree.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
It's awesome that you've tuned in at night. Man, driving
around Chicago and all that, no matter what, right, whether socks,
you're still driving around.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Man. We got to get the people they stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Man, People need their packages, they need stuff.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
People happy to see this, man, They pay to see this,
so they yeah, we got to bring the good.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
So always they.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Get your own.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
You weren't a cup jersey, but you got you know,
you have to wear your UPS uniform right when you're
on the show.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
But we want the World Series. They let me get
they did.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Oh that's good. Yeah, so that was a good been
a few years now, though.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Think about the people before me.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
They had to wait, I know, they didn't. They live
their lives, died, and they didn't win the.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
World Series right the way thirty four? Yeah, yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Anyway, I'm sorry, guys.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
That's all right, you're comfortable. See, we're we're just having
a conversation. What do you think of our stuiods?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
This is better. We used to be across the hall
the This is not bad. We haven't given you were
the worst host. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Sorry, we can show you the vending machine. We can
share where the cockroaches. Yeah yeah, there's did the did
the guak chips ever come down?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
I'm not sure we haven't. We haven't been over there.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I did ten minutes on my podcast about the guak chips.
I'm serious. I did like ten minutes.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
About Yeah, why is it always my snacks that get
stuck in the vent?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I thought that was Coops. I thought Coop wanted to
go chip.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
She asked me to try and, uh dislodge the chips.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh that makes sense that yeah, why would coopy quak chips?
That didn't make a lot of sense to at the time,
I thought you wanted them Coop because we were You
should have seen it. We were both over there like
we're trying to press on the vending machine.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
I should have recorded it.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I didn't know it was tag team. It was on camera.
There's a camera over there.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
There's security cameras in the building, so it was recorded
by the security.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Can could you to teamwork for much? Were we were
trying to get the chips and it did not work?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Ferg Dog rights and he says it was not Wrigley Field.
West angel fans were there loud and proud. Nobody takes
over the big.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Tree.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Would you like to respond to Ferg Dog? Come on, man,
you saw it. You saw the score. It was twelve
to one on Saturday. It was it was a beat.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Down man, even he doesn't believe.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Yeah, yeah, gave us fireworks.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
My daughters loved the fireworks, man, So you know, thank
you even in the beat down.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, still here entertainment. Did they did they hit you
up for any souvenirs. Do They didn't eat anything from
the gift shop or no.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Oh good, okay.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
I think they were just thinking, you know, happy that
someone was there to watch it.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That's right. It was a good time for we moved
the Actually not for Doug. Who is it?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Just Josh Rights And he said, straight up, Mariner porn
been to open this hour hour number two. Is Robbie
the Mariner fan blackmailing you or something? I'm asking for
a friend? No, I said, at this point, it's a
dead heat for the MVP in the American League and
that's it. That's not marin or porn. By the way,
Salsa who did not attend. Salsa was not in attendance
(25:32):
in the Mountain. He said, I missed the flight by
one seat. And there you go. Yeah, Big Lou was there,
but he drove. And Big Lou didn't show up to
the UNLV game. Even though he said he was going
to go to the UNOV game with some other people.
He didn't actually show up to that.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So it fit the other people show up. Uh No,
I don't. I don't know. I don't know the whole
details on that. I have no idea. You want to
take a cal Tree.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You want to pick somebody out here on the phones,
we can talk to somebody here.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
We've got Ben at the Comedian. I guess some other
names up there.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Anybody stand out or if not, if you think they
all suck, we don't have to take a call.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
So shere's looking at the board. He's examining all the
names on the board.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Let go Chris.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
You want to go with Chris? All right, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Chris seems the safest, right. Chris is in southern California.
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You're on Fox Sports Radio. It's me Ben and our
buddy Tree. He's from Chicago. He's not hanging out with
us here.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Hey, that's great. Hey, we're glad you enjoyed California Tree
the Hey NL West.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You know the.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Division is going to get decided in the next three games,
and you know, some a lot of this may be
about strength to schedule, but you know, when the Mariners
played the Padres already this here because they're supposedly quote rivals,
they swept San Diego in Petco and you know, Padre's
got to go up now to a crazy hot Mariners
team and the Dodgers are going to be hosting the
(26:50):
Reds the rest of the way through. After these next
three games, the Dodgers have only six games against teams
that give a crap. Everybody else is already basically eliminated.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Chris hold On, didn't the Dodgers just lose a couple
of games in Colorado this week?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
This past week? Have you lose a Rocks?
Speaker 9 (27:07):
All right, that's fine, they split Colorado, But we took
four out of six from the Padres, bang, bang, bang,
right back to back.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
You think that was it?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Wait, Chris, you think that was a good weekend? That
the Dodgers looked good this weekend?
Speaker 9 (27:18):
I think that the first two games, I think they
look like crap. But they won four out of six
week week.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I mean, listen, you you're you're very optimistic. I mean,
you are very You're very optimistic. You're more optimistic than
I am. I look at this Dodger team. I mean,
that's not a championship team. That does not look like
a championship team to me. It doesn't well, you know,
you know.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
We'll see what happens in the postseason. But just in
terms of the Padres catching up, we beat them nine
to thirteen. We got the tie break. You know, if
if the Mariners take two out of three and the
Dodgers take two out of three, well, now they're not
going to be able to catch back up. There's just
no way. You look at who who's going to be,
you know what each team's got to do the rest
of the way through. I mean, if you think the
(27:59):
Dodgers are going to collapse playing against the White Sox
and the Rockies again and all that, yeah, I don't.
I don't see that happening.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, but the lineup there putting out there, even with
ough Tany and Freeman and Betts, there's a lot of
that backside of that lineup is terrible. So horrific lineup.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
But anyway, I thank you. That was a hard old
baseball call. Tree is what that was hard? Now?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Are you are you optimistic about the Cubs? Tree proud?
Are Are you gonna be diplomatic or are you going
to be a fan guy? Where are you at on
the cups?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Here?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Now?
Speaker 6 (28:29):
I'll go out what I see. I think we peeking
at the right time.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Yeah, our best I should be best player at Tucker
is getting hot.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
You know you got hot this weekend, So, oh.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Did you play? He played well this week after they
benched him. After they benched him last week.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
He had two home runs. Doing the series, he went
four for five.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
It's against Angels. Pitching doesn't really mean anything.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
It's like it says.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
I was close to five hundred so you know, I
was being competitive. But I'll say that.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
But we got to enjoy that because he's gonna leave, right,
he's gonna want It was about five hundred million. I
want five hundred million to the tree. You probably tell
you ps when you're you know, I want I want
five hundred million. They don't give you that money though.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Right, Yeah, the Yankees probably gonna come and get them, man,
But no, I got us going to the World Series.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, I got the Cubs versus the Tigers. Cubs and Tigers.
That's an all Midwestern affair. Is that your Midwestern bias?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
There?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
No, no is legit that school of dude. He like
you the truth.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, he's legit.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
I don't know that create problems in the household, that world.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
That's right. Your wife is from destroy Hoop.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
I'm four too. I can't wait, can you believe? But
she's like me she'll rub it in my face.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, well that's good. That's what you're supposed to do.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's the right. That's a great thing about sports. You
can throw at each other's face, the whole thing. It's wonderful. Yeah, man, absolutely,
So you're heading back.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
To Chicago today, is that right?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Hand bag? Man?
Speaker 7 (29:42):
Flight at twelve? So, man, it's been a good time.
I can't thank you guys. And oh can I say
one thing?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh and one that never goes well? The one thing
I don't know what going to?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Okay, I still want you permission, perst go nohead, blind Scott, Yeah,
Blad Scott, you need a hug.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
We all love you.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
I don't know what you call the station if it's scripted,
I don't know if Ben got something going on? What
you're gonna say?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
No, no, there's nothing going on. No, no, no, got it.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
No blast guy, there's some love out there.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
You just got a fan of man. Every day cannot
be as bad. Yeah, if ideots man, give me a call. Man,
you're a good guy and I love you.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Look at that tree.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Positivity to blind Scotts, who's I'm sure listen will send
him seven. I'll show you if you want, hold on
to let me see here. Let me see if I
get this out, not yet, hold on me click this here,
I'm gonna show you my show email. Uh, this is
you can see this, see that? Hold on, I see
the Scott here. This is all blind Scott. Don't say
(30:42):
his last name on here, but that's all his email.
You see that, You see that all this is all
of his email. It's it's page after There's a few
other ones in there, but it's page after page this.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Oh, look at look at this. This is almost all him.
There's there's a surfer. Todd the comedian got in there somehow.
But it's it's not suck, it's a it's the entire show.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
I love you guys too.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
But Jesus, that's we don't harass us with the email though,
that's that's different, right.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I felt like I was harassing Coop, just letting them
know I was here.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
No, No, I was worried.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I when I actually I told somebody because you had
said you wanted to come here and you didn't email me, so,
oh you didn't email me, you're.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Not showing up. And then Coop had mentioned me, he
mentioned me that you had contacted him.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So, yeah, yeah, I try to bother people. Man, No,
I appreciate it. This was I appreciate man. Well, thanks
for coming in.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Keep listening. Don't forget about us when you get back
to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
All right, you got to keep listening now, and tell
you tell your friends and all that, and we'll come.
I'll be and she I got family that I told
you about, So I'll come there at some point. We'll
have a meet and greet and we'll come by and
hang out.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Tell some old war stories and all that. So safe
travels back to Chicago.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Tree. I really appreciate it. Man, Thank you, guys, thanks, thanks.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
All right, the great tree hanging out here with us
from Chicago as we press on.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
You brought some great socks.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
He brought socks, good socks. They have my name on them.
Oh did he?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I have not looked at my back. I feel weird,
like opening gifts when people around. I don't know why
that is. It's very odd. Hey, it's my thing. It's
one of my weird things. Anyway, we will have Mallard
the third degree. We'll get to that coming up here momentarily.
Time now for the Insta trivia and here it is
Blank now has five explosive receptions that's sixteen plus yards
(32:18):
in the last three games, leading all NFL receivers during
the preseason. Again, Blank now has five explosive receptions sixteen
plus yards in the last three games, leading all NFL
receivers during the preseason.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Which is now over. That is the instant trivia the answer.
We'll get to it. We will do it next.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
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Speaker 1 (32:49):
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(33:36):
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the Insta Trivia. According to True Meeta, whatever that is,
Blank now has five five explosive receptions sixteen or more
(34:06):
yards in the last three games, leading all NFL receivers
during the preseason, which is now over. So that is
the instant trivia. What is the answer? And let's see
does anyone know Scrooge is going with Deacon Jones as
his answer. Ferg Dog says, it's Tree, who didn't almost
(34:28):
get you fired? Unlike the Leprechaun. Great job by Tree.
Who else do we have? Page Dan can't read that?
On the air Cde Lamb guest by Andy and Lionel
Lakes Minnesota, Bert Cobain from Donkey Sausage. I see what
you did there? Don Hudson from j T The Wingman
in Knoxville, Tennessee. Tree Rollins in honor of Tree, Tree
(34:51):
Rollins guests by Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Mike Stanton from Random,
Ryan in Carolina, Jalen Speedy Naylor from Ben who else?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Page down?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Attilo says the head chef at the Madonna Inn, he
loves the Gabba Ghoul. He loves the Gabba Ghoul. They
have really good cake there at the Madonnian.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Right, you've been? Have you been there? In the mid
course you've not? Why have you not? In San Luis
Obispo you've not gone to the Madonna in? No? Why not?
Speaker 8 (35:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Bad job by you? Is that like South?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Is that by San Diego?
Speaker 6 (35:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Sant Luis Obispo is in central California on the way
to San Francisco off.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Highway one, Highway one on one.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, that's a bad job, bad geographical knowledge by you?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
All right?
Speaker 8 (35:40):
What else?
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Do we have?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
A page down? And Miguel on Fire love Tree And
here's a great job by Tree.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
What can Brown do for you? All right? Enough of
that turn your mic back on. Here we go.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
It's time now for the insta trivia payoff. A blank
now has five explosive receptions sixteen or more yards in
the last three games all NFL receivers during the exhibition games,
which are now done.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
It's gotta be Serena Williams.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Serena Williams are really explosive receptions for Serena. No, that
is a correct someone named Brennan Presley, I ams, you
can ram at all day and you can all night.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Here we are, Miller. How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
To the third degree, this is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Here we all and to the coop a loop for
the questions the quiz that we call mallard of.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
The third degree.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
The Phillies announced on Saturday the starting pitcher Zach Wheeler
will miss the remainder of the season.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yes, he could have died. People die from blood Clott's coop.
They die from blood clots.
Speaker 8 (36:45):
Yes, Ben, How big of a blow is this for
the Phillies World Series hopes?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Well, it sucks.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
However, the Phillies I am convinced if they're gonna do
anything here, it's going to be based on their offense.
I don't think that's an outrageous take. Oh, you're really
a shock jock with that take. No, they remember a
couple years ago they got the World Series and then
they stopped hitting. But you've got a lineup that is
absolutely stacked with Trey Turner, Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper, jt
Riamuto at the top. Those top four hitters are among
(37:12):
the top hitters in all of the National League, all
the baseball So they score runs. They've got enough pitching.
Oh you're you're crazy. No, Sanchez has been wonderful this year.
He's their number one now with Wheeler out, Lozardo is
not terrible, and Rangel Suarez has had some moments. So,
I mean, there's some other guys in there, Taiwan Walker
(37:34):
and whatnot. But I don't think this eliminates the Phillies
by any means.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
It makes it a little more difficult.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
It makes it a better story for the Phillies to
get to the World Series. I look at the National
League as wide open. The Dodgers are beatable. Not only
the Podres are invincible by any means. Here you look around,
the Brewers look good, but can they do it in
the playoffs? Trees, Cubs So, to answer your question, Coop,
it hurts, but it's not. It's not a kill shot
for the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Next.
Speaker 8 (38:02):
Over the weekend, the Vikings traded backup quarterback Sam Howell
and signed Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
The great former Ram Carson Wentz.
Speaker 8 (38:09):
Right, well, yeah, a lot of people are calling this
an upgrade at backup, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
No, it is a lateral move.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
It is not an up good I'm actually a ran
More about this later. Carson Wentz has been washed up
for five years, six years, and he still gets jobs
in the NFL. Wouldn't that be great if you're you
proving you're not good at your job and he gets
bounced around.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
He's played for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Colts, Commanders, Rams, Chiefs, and now the Vikings since twenty twenty.
Either way, the Vikings are putting all their chips in
the JJ McCarthy basket.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
We all know that, right.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
If McCarthy sucks, they're cooked. They're absolutely cooked. It's not
like they're in better shape if Carson Wentz gets it
there in place. It's not like all of a sudden,
oh we're in good shit, we got Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
We're ready to go. Come on, all right.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
Next, Paul Skin's just the way gem in this fiftieth
start the Majors and now has the second lowest ere
of any pitcher in the Live ball era through fifty starts.
But do you think the Pirates are going to waste
a generational talent much like the angel did with Mike Trout?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Well, waste you mean, but Trout's still there.
Speaker 8 (39:14):
They're just not winning. I Otani would be the better
comp right, because the Trout's already wasted. He's a thirty
four now.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
But Otani.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
They got nothing for Otani. They just let Otani leave
in free agency. They could have traded Otani like Paul Skans.
The Pirates are going to end up trading him in
the next couple of years, right, So they're not gonna
get nothing for him. Are they gonna win the Pirates? No,
that's another team. There's a lot of teams in baseball coupe.
Good ballpark, bad team. The Pirates are on that good ballpark.
(39:45):
The Giants, now, we had that our buddy, the Giant
fans showed up to that meet and greet the ugly
orange Giant hat on. I said, good good ballpark, bad team.
The Pirates are on that list. But no, they're not
gonna win. They'll win when Paul Skans pitches, and then
when he doesn't pitch. You know it's and then every
once in a while you get a team that because
they have so many terrible seasons, they get all these
(40:05):
collection of young players at the same time. But no,
I'm they're gonna They're not gonna win anything in Pittsburgh
with Paul Skeins while he's there, and he'll go pitch
for the Yankees or the Dodgers of the Red Sox
or someone like that, or mystery team, and then he'll
go on and find glory somewhere else. All right there,
it is Mallard of the third degree. How did we do.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
You pass this edition?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
That is a pass?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, So so we had we had Tree, and I
gave Tree the ten centaur of the Fox Sports Radio studios.
I pointed out, I said, that's where the cockroaches die.
I said, that's the room where wrong button Bob turned
the entire network off. Right over there, there's a button.
We don't know which button he pressed, but there's a button.
I said, here's the vending machine, which used to be cheap.
And then one of the one of the board ops
complained and they raised the prices. He's not here anymore,
(40:53):
so I don't know his name. I forget his name.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
I don't know who that is. But that's a bad
job by him, bad job by him.
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