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October 6, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Yankees falling 0-2 against the Blue Jays and Aaron Judge saying "nothing new for us," how big of a blow it is for the Tigers to lose with Tarik Skubal on the mound, Mike McDaniel's Dolphins blowing a massive lead against the Panthers, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball. It's our dumb bird two. Our number two is
ready for you. Is the Toronto baseball team smashing the
Bronx Bombers and the game on Sunday night Sunday evening?
Is Yankee Captain Aaron Judge right to say nothing new
for us? Or is this just postseason denial? Also? How

(00:23):
big a body blow body blow? Is it for the
Tigers to lose with Trek Skubele on the mound? He
wasn't the losing pitcher, but the Tigers lost with him
out there? Also, how do you explain Mike McDaniel's Dolphins
blowing a massive seventeen point lead to low league Carolina?
Will go there as well? Here it is our number two.

(00:46):
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(02:13):
what a scene it was. Oh what a scene. I
don't know if you were watching any of this, I
know we had we had action. We had much action
going on in the NFL throughout the day. But we
also had an interesting the scene in Toronto, the Blue
Jays and the Yankees. They were locking horns here in
a matchup that was going on. Well, NFL football was

(02:36):
going on. I was flipping back. We actually we had
a bunch of games going on in in football and baseball,
uh well two in baseball the American League side of
the bracket. But I bring this up. We start out
in Toronto where the Blue Jays and the Yankees were
going at it. And this game was no contest honte
of you were watching it or not, but it was

(02:57):
absolutely no contest, a domin nation situation for the team
from Canada, Oh, Cada, and someone we had never heard
of stepped up on the mound and shoved it down.
The New York Yankees throats. A rookie Trey Y Savage

(03:19):
set a Blue Jay postseason record by striking out eleven
in five and a third no hit innings in Vladimir
Guerrero Junior hit his first postseason Grand Salami and the
first one in team history.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
There.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Toronto beat the Yankees thirteen to seven, a game that
was not that close the Yankees with some stat stuffing
at the end there and so a two nothing lead
for the team from Canada. The Yankees Mary, it's not
a best of seven, it's a best of five. Someone
named Dalton varshow also had a couple of home runs

(03:57):
there and four extra base hits as the Blue Jays
did it from all sides there. He even had that
cheating astro forever, a cheating astro, George Springer, who hit
a home run there as well. And so the Blue
Jays get again a dominating performance against the New York
Yankees and they are on the brink of advancing. They

(04:18):
won the game on Saturday ten to one. So if
you do the math, that's twenty three to eight advantage
in favor of the team from Canada, which leads us
into the postgame commentary of who else but Aaron Judge.
As Aaron Judge said, I want to chime in on this. Hey,
I got some things to say, and he did, and well,

(04:42):
but we actually have the audio. I believe we have
the audio this. Yes, all right, let's go to the audio. Tip.
Here's Aaron Judge some of his postgame comments as the
New York Yankees end up getting their face smashed in
by the Toronto Blue Jays. Take a listen.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
You know it's supposed to anything's going to happen. You know,
you never know that's going to be a picture duel
till the end, or you know, offenses they are going
to explode early on. So They've been able to do
that both games and kind of put us at bay
earlier when they were ever put up in you know,
six seven, eight runs. You know, the first couple of
innings makes it tough to kind of climb back as
an offense. But it doesn't phasee us offensive. You know,

(05:16):
he's still climbed back to tonight a little bit. But
you know, we got to kind of take it to them,
you know when we get back to New York. You know,
we got to be the ones to score first and
kind of put the pressure on them and kind of
flip the scrip.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
All right, So that's the commentary from Aaron Judges. The
Yankees end up on the wrong side of things. So
let us discuss the question on this one. Is the
Yankees captain Aaron Judge right when he's aid his comment
the money quote that's been going around nothing it's nothing
new for us? Or is this just postseason denial? All right,

(05:47):
that is the question. So let's tackle it this way,
all right, Aaron Judge, you have to be measured when
you're the captain of the Yankees, right. The Yankees is
New York Yankees Alloys book crapping. Also the Yankees are cooked, Okay,
Like there are some teams that have fight that you
know are going to come back and you know are
going to not roll over and play dead. The problem

(06:10):
is the Yankees. I don't think they have it in
him to play three consecutive perfect playoff games, which is
what they're gonna have to do. Even if they're at home,
it doesn't matter. You've got issues in the bullpen with Weaver.
This was a massive, a massive defeat for the Yankees
when you think about the fact that you had Max

(06:31):
Freed on the mound, who supposedly is a big time player,
a big start member with the Atlanta Braves against the
cheating Astros back in the day, and it got completely
charbroiled here. So on the Malord scale of concern for
the New York Yankees one to ten, with ten being
planning your Bahamas vacation, I'm at a nine point zero

(06:57):
for the New York Yankees, a nine point zero for
the Yankees. And I don't care what Aaron Judge says,
you know and all that stuff, and it's listen, the
Yankees are absolutely cooked here. And the fact that they
had nothing against this tray savage of the Toronto Blue

(07:17):
Jays is an absolute stunner. He thought, well, they're not
gonna they're not gonna fall by twelve nothing or whatever
it was. I mean, my god, pathetic. And I don't
care what Aaron Boone saying. It doesn't matter. Nothing's gonna
change with the Yankees. Aaron Boone will still be there.
Aaron Judge, of course, will be there. They're not gonna
get rid of anybody. The Yankees could have done this

(07:38):
three or four years ago. They're gonna lose this series.
Toronto's gonna get to the American League Championship Series. But
nothing's gonna change. Aaron Boone will still be there. They'll
just say, well, we just the pitching fell apart. We
had Andrew, we didn't have Garrett Cole all year. They'll
make a a whole list of excuses, right, they'll do
all of that, and in the end, nothing will change.
The Yankees will be back and we'll have the same

(08:00):
core of the team will be back and they'll be like, well,
we lost one Soto, we still made the playoffs, so
it's all good there. Meanwhile, how about the situation in
Seattle as the Detroit Tigers looking to take a two
to zero series lead over the Seattle Manners after winning
their game on Saturday, And how did this game turn out? Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.

(08:24):
The Mariners had a two to nothing lead against the
ace of the Detroit Tigers and then blew it and
the Yeah, the Tigers came back. The game was tied
to two, and Jay Rod Julio Rodriguez with a tie
breaking ribby double for the Seattle Marriers in the eighth inning.

(08:45):
The crowd goes wild the Mariners who that run the
runner ahead of Rodriguez. The big Dumper got on base
there and the Tigers go down and the Mariners went
three to two the finals. So that means the series
is tied up at one to one. As the Mariners
offense coming to life, cal Raley is he gonna win
the American League VP? Probably not because of the New

(09:06):
York bias, although we should cal Raley with a double
and we won out. And then shortly after that Julio
Rodriguez doubling home rally and the Mariners go up and
they win the game, and so now that series is
tied up at one to one. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room So let us discuss
the question on this one. The Tigers starting pitcher this

(09:30):
game was their the reigning Cy Young winner and the
greatest pitcher the Tigers have had since what Verlander or
Jack Morris depends how far back you want to go.
But the Tigers lose this game, even though by all
accounts their ace pitched pretty well. So how big a blow?

(09:50):
A body blow? Body blow? Body blow? Is this for
the Tigers to lose with Trek Scoobel on the mound
in game number two two of the Alds. So on
this one, it is massive, right, This is the size
of the mighty Pacific Ocean. Is what it is here?
You just expect it's you know what this is. It

(10:12):
is a rotisserie cooker on a late night infomercial. When
you start, if you're the Tigers, you send Errek Scoubel
to the mound. It is a set it and forget
it situation. The late great Ron Popeel the king of
the infomercial back in the day. But it is a
set it and forget it situation. You just assume you're

(10:32):
going to win the game because this guy is one
of the top three or four pitchers in baseball. If
not just top two in all of Major League Baseball.
And obviously they were in position the marriage to win
the game to nothing as Hori Polanco hit a couple
of home runs off of Terrek schouobl You play the
lottery if you're the Seattle Mariners. But the fact that

(10:53):
the Mariners came back, and I don't technically Schooble didn't
lose the game finning in in the bullpen lost the game,
So you say, well, tech, the Tigers did not lose
with Trek Scougle on the mound. However, this was his day.
It's supposed to be guaranteed win day again, set it
and forget it. The Rotissey thing, and that did not
happen for the Detroit Tigers. And so this series is

(11:14):
a total toss up. And you certainly like the Mariners
in Game three, mainly because it's a bet against Flaherty,
who's going to pitch that game and has been not
the most consistent starter for the Detroit You talk about
hot and cold, he's like a yo yo, he's up
and down Jack Flaherty, but he'll be on the mound
there in that game coming up here on. I think

(11:37):
that's on Tuesday travel day on Monday, so they'll play
on Tuesday. And I did see that Hoye Polanco the
fourth Mariner player with multi home well multi home run
game in the postseason. The only other ones to do
it Ken Grivy Junior, Edgar Martinez, and Jay Buhner. They
all did it way back in nineteen ninety five, so
it's been thirty years since the last time that happened. Now. Meanwhile,

(12:02):
moving on from that interesting story in the NFL, I'll
go back to the NFL for a secondly. Miami Dolphins,
a bad team taking on a worst team, at least
in theory a worst team, the Carolina Panthers. So I
don't know if you were watching this game, probably not.
It was regional covers. You had to be flipping over
to the game to watch it, you had to go

(12:22):
out of your way to watch it. So I bring
this up because in this particular game, the Miami Dolphins
jumped out to a seventeen to nothing lead, a seventeen
to nothing lead over the team from Carolina, who has
had all kinds of issues they can't get out of
their own way. And what happens the rest of the game, Well,

(12:44):
I'll tell you what happened. The team from Carolina. From
Charlotte scored twenty seven points the rest of the game.
The Dolphins only got one touchdown, and so Carolina gets
their second win of the year, and the Dolphins dropped
a one in four. They blow a seventeen to nothing

(13:04):
lead against one of the worst teams in the NFL,
the Carolina Panthers. Because the Dolphins also one of the
worst teams. Let's hear from the head coach of the
team from Miami, Miami, Miami, you know we love the
goof on Sean McDermott or not Sean McDermott. Mike McDaniel
got my coaches like the goof on mixed up. But
here's the Dolphins head coach commenting post game after Miami

(13:26):
loses yet again, and it sounds like he's fit to
be tied. Here's the Dolphins head coach, Mike McDaniel, take
a list.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
There's no if, ans or butts about it. You don't
give up that many line of scrimmage yards without or
unless you're uncoordinated in certain ways. It just it can't
continue to go on like this, and it's already gone
too long.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, the Dolphins had the worst run defense in the NFL.
We handicapped this game on Benny versus the Penny. Did
not see a way that Carolina could take advantage of that.
I had no idea that Rico Daladell would play like
he's back in college. Holy the Carolina running back had
two hundred and six yards, averaged nine yards per carry,

(14:11):
nine yards. They had more yards on the ground than
they did passing the ball as the quarterback continues to
suck in Carolina. But it doesn't matter. So the Panthers
are two and three on the year. The Dolphins dropped
to one and four and Tua Tongue of Iloa. You
look at the stat line, Well, he had a good game.
I don't know what you're talking about. He played well,
he played great. Okay, well, not well enough. The Dolphins

(14:36):
needed more. You cannot seventeen point lead against one of
the worst teams in the NFL. That is an embarrassment,
in absolute embarrassment for the Dolphins to lose that game,
and they're gonna blow that whole thing up at the
end of the year. Tyreek Hill, he'll be gone. He's
not gonna come back and play it again for the
Dolphins and Tua. Are they gonna be able to get

(14:57):
out of that contract the language on that, not particularly.
But they'll have a new coaching staff there. They'll have
a new head coach, we'll have a new GM. It's
all going to go away, all of it's going to
have new people there and everyone will be woozy in Miami.
And of course they'll still stink, but they'll have at
least a different kind of stank in Miami because someone
else will be running the show there. But what a

(15:20):
what a horrific day that one. I mean, man, they
were the slight favorite, but to give up twenty seven
points and that wasn't all unanswered because the Dolphins did
score late, but it was twenty unanswered points. And then
the Dolphins got a touchdown pass from Tua, and then
the Carolina came back and they got a late touchdown.

(15:43):
That was the difference in the game. Eight seven seven
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York Yankees. And if you look at the highest postseason

(16:04):
earn run average minimum seventy five innings pitched all time.
Highest postseason earn run average now Clayton Kershaw's at four
point four to nine. That is fourth worst all time.
He's not playing in the playoffs because he sucks and
the Dodgers don't want him on the roster. So Kershaw's
number four David Price and his dog astro at number three.

(16:30):
Number two is al lighter now David Price at four
point sixty two. Al lighter at four point sixty three
and now the highest postseason era minimum seventy five innings
pitched in the history of baseball. Congratulations to Max Freed
of the New York Yankees, as you now have the
worst earn run average five point three to one in

(16:53):
your postseason career. Of the sixty two pitchers all time
with at least seventy five innings pitch in the postseason.
That is the worst. And it's not even close year,
it's not even close, Like you are at the very
very top of the bad list. Congratulations, all right again,
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the live radio program and do it live. Alf says,

(19:04):
and now the Yankees know what it feels like to
get I can't say if I say this word out
it's I'm gonna say it. I'm gonna say the S word. Bob, No,
not movie, but the Yankee pitcher Schlitler. One could say
the something like that. Yes, uh. And then now says
the You could say the team from the team from

(19:27):
New York got you, savaged you. Savage beating is what
they got. Jill is a drowning in quicksand it could
be worse, Jill, you could be a Yankee pitcher. It
could be worse. Let's go to the phone. So there
is a cosmic event we need to know about. And
we still owed to Andrea, who's in Berkeley. She's the

(19:48):
astrology insider, and she's going to enlighten you on a
cosmic event that's going on right now.

Speaker 8 (19:54):
Yeah, how are you?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
If I was any better, i'd be a Yankee, but
not a New York Yankee because they're on the brink
of being eliminated. I wouldn't be a Buffalo Bill because
they lost.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
Well, i'll tell you, it's going to be quite a
night for the New York sports talk radio with the
Yankees losing and the you know, the Jets loss and
the Giants.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yes, that's usually how that goes with the Jets and Giants.
They normally lose because they're bad. They're really bad. Now,
Bill's Monster writes, and he says the baseball players are
heating up. Toronto's going down in five. He says the
Yankees are going to destroy the Phillies and the World Series.
I love October baseball. But he's a Bill's Monster. He's
probably he's self medicating Andrea from a tough Bills game.

(20:39):
So I don't know how much of that he'll remember.

Speaker 8 (20:41):
Yeah, well, it remains to be seen. I think it's interesting.
Aaron Judge is a fellow Taurus. April twenty sixth, nineteen
ninety two, and I saw the postgame interviews. You know,
he's pretty mellow about things. But it'll be interesting to see.
They have the day off Monday, and then they go
back to New York on Tuesday, so home field energy.

(21:01):
But that was tough, you know, grand slam by Guerrero.
I mean, those are very emphatic losses and wins by
the other team. And I think the full moon kind
of added a little more emotionality, a little more intensity
to everything. So that said, we have October six, at

(21:23):
eight thirty two, we have a full harvest moon, which
is the first full moon after the spring equinox, and
it's a supermoon because it's closer to the Earth and
it might even have a bit of an orange tinge
to it. So we have the full harvest moon moon.
I know, I thought I heard you howling before. Was

(21:46):
that you?

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yes, that was Lorena. She had a tough dinner and
she started howling. I don't know what she ate for dinner,
but she started helping.

Speaker 8 (21:55):
Yeah, I thought there was very apropos.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Again, howling.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
So it's the largest and brightest supermoon of the year,
full harvest moon.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
But as you've pointed out, For those of you knew
to the show, we know from your analysis that it's
not just the day of the full moon, correct, it
is a few days before, a few days after the
full month. Like I was getting hassled by some douchebag
at the I was at the Charger game. I was
talking to Eddie and we'll take a quick photo, and
this very mean woman who I don't think she has

(22:31):
a nice bone in her body, and she just was
giving us problems and I was like, well, just what
is a quick photo? Just no courtesy at all, no kindness,
just a complete schmuck. And I think it's because of
the full moon or she's just a mean woman, one
of those two.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
Your point is well taken. I always say the full
moon it's like a cold you feel it two days
before the day of and two days after, so it's
kind of an intensified energy. And it's the first of
three supermoons for twenty twenty five, make it the large
some brightest full moon of the year. So that's just
you know something to know about. So that's Monday, October sixth,

(23:09):
round eight forty seven rather pm and Libra and aries.
If you have planets in those signs, you'll feel it
more acutely and it makes everything more intense. The playoffs.
You know, we've got a lot of sports going on,
so we got you know, basketball.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
We'll see. Well, see now that I looked at the schedule,
So if the Yankees do win the next two games
at home, game five would be on Friday in Toronto.

Speaker 8 (23:34):
Oh okay, they have the home field. Yeah, yeah, so
that'll be interesting to see. But just a tough loss
for New Yorkers with the Jets, Giants and Yankees.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
What happened to Jackson Dart? Are you all you and
New Yorkers told me Jackson Darts God's gift the quarterback?
What happened to Jackson Dart? I mean, how many stores
that I shoved down my throat about how great Jackson Darts?
He lost in the Saints? How god can you be
when you lose to the New Orleans Saints? Spencer Rattler,
are you kidding me?

Speaker 9 (24:07):
My god?

Speaker 8 (24:08):
The New or New Orleans Age.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Oh yeah, the terrible bad team, man bad team. But
there you go. All right, Well, thank you, Andrew, We'll
talk to you later in the week. I'm sure. Thanks
for giving us the update. Appreciate that all right? All right,
there she goes the harvest mood from Andrea. Want more
on that Virgo and service that's going out of Rochester
and make way for the Beast of the East. It's

(24:33):
about to get real now with the Beast of the East.

Speaker 9 (24:36):
Heellow, beast, what's going on, mister Mayler?

Speaker 1 (24:40):
If I was any better, I would be a Buffalo Bill.
But I would not be Josh Allen because he was
in a surly mood because his team lost.

Speaker 10 (24:48):
One bad game. Nobody wins them all anymore. Can't go undefeated.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Well, no one will go undefeated, that is correct. You're
spot on two.

Speaker 10 (24:59):
Things on that. First of all, the Bills were very sloppy.
Obviously they should have won, but you know what, I
like to look at what Rabel's doing, and that quarterback's
a real deal for them, and you know, aside from
penalties and turning the ball over, you're never gonna win
a game like that. But let me tell you about Diggs.

(25:19):
I'm a Viking fan and I live an hour from Buffalo,
so secondary obviously Bills fan of my ninety two year
old mom. I'm hoping they win a Super Bowl four.
But Diggs, when he got traded to the Bills. She
was all happy and everything, and I said, maw.

Speaker 11 (25:39):
You're not going to be happy.

Speaker 10 (25:40):
We knew he was a cancer on the Viking, jealous
of feeling because he was getting the ball more went
to the Bills. Was a cancer there. But there's three
athletes I think of that were really kind of bad
guys when they were in their prime and young and
mellowed out and became real nice. Tiger Woods was one.

(26:03):
I root for him all the time. Now he's just
become much more mellow And I forget who the other one,
but Diggs? Who knows? Maybe all mature.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
You tease, you tease three names Pas to the East,
but you only gave me one name. Athletes that mellowed
out as they got older, that were a holes when
they were younger and then and they mellowed out when
they got older.

Speaker 10 (26:24):
All right, there's another one.

Speaker 9 (26:26):
Here's who, right? Who?

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Mike, Oh, Mike Tyson. Yeah, he just smoked so much.
We he just wants to hug everybody now.

Speaker 10 (26:35):
But you said that, you know, Diggs just trying to
make himself the victim.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
How about Daryl? Darryl Strawberry was kind of surly guy,
he's a real mellow. Now he's like a preacher. I
think he's a minister or something like that.

Speaker 10 (26:48):
Yeah, yeah, and uh but I got to say Chris
Collins where he was worshiping the ground. The guy walked
on tonight on Area and all.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
He does that with every quarterback, Collinsworthy, every every every game.
It's a bubble bats for the quarterback every game, NonStop.
He loves every quarterback.

Speaker 10 (27:07):
Well, he loves everybody who's on the winning team when
they got the lead, kisses ass all the time.

Speaker 9 (27:13):
Stupid because Mike.

Speaker 10 (27:14):
Rico is going to be one of the generational announcers
when he's done, like a Kirk GOUDI man, Mike di
Rico with Troy Aikman, who's also one of my.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Favorite is already busy working with Buck. They're hanging out together.
The Worst, the Worst is Joe the worst.

Speaker 10 (27:36):
Oh he's I just think he's boring, terrible.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
I think he's he's no Kenny Albert. Man, He's no
Kenny Albert. That's our guy, Kenny Albert, friend of the show,
the great Kenny Albert.

Speaker 10 (27:46):
And he got a break because he was one of
the best ones ever. I used to shut the TV
off and turn the radio and you know, the sound
down on the TV and turn the radio onto Jack
and hate strand the great y.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah yeah again old school there. Ye oh you hate
Colin sEH duly noted you hate collins Worth. Got it done?
All right? Thank you? I got to go. Thank you
for that. Let's say hello to Fred who's in Pennsylvania.
It is the Ben Mahlord Show. Later, sorry, we have
Mallard the third degree. Here is Fred, who is going

(28:21):
to enlighten you and dazzle you with amazing information, right Fred,
h Yeah.

Speaker 11 (28:26):
I've had it with the Arizona Cardinals. I've had it
with the football Cardinals. I've been fans is nineteen sixth
till nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Okay, So you made some bad decisions as a child
and you're living with that as an adult now and
you've had enough you I thought, And I'm going to
talk about this later. At some point it'll come up.
I'm sure the Kyler Murray snap off the face mask
which set the not that there's momentum, but it set
things up.

Speaker 11 (28:54):
Make any difference, Ben Well, it was the.

Speaker 9 (28:56):
First of three from the Cardinals suck well, I.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Know they sucked but you should smost have beat Tennessee
because if you look at the suck big board, the
Cardinals sucked less than Tennessee.

Speaker 11 (29:06):
No, they suck worse than anybody.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Have you seen cam Ward? Did you watch the game?
Cam Wward's terrible. He's terrible.

Speaker 11 (29:13):
He won the game, didn't.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
He He's terrible, He's horrific.

Speaker 11 (29:18):
The Cardinals have disappointed me for almost sixty years.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Why didn't you stop after like thirty years? You could
have stopped after thirty years. You could have picked it up.

Speaker 11 (29:28):
They looked good under Coriol. You know they look good
under certain coaches.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Aaric Coriel. There's the name I did not expect to
come up on the big board. You want Neil Lomax back.

Speaker 11 (29:38):
No, No, you don't be better than Murray.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, yeah, I think there's probably some of your local
high school better than Kyler Murray at this point.

Speaker 11 (29:45):
And they tolerate didn't meet in the Super Bowl. They
had They could have won that game.

Speaker 9 (29:50):
Easily against Pittsburgh, and they managed to throw it away.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, that was a good mccurt warner. They were good
enough to win a Bowl.

Speaker 11 (29:58):
They had Larry Fitzgerald, they had Bolton to of the
greatest receivers, you know, and they threw it away. I can't.
I want to ask you, is this can they Is
there any way they can take the franchise away from
the Bidwell family.

Speaker 8 (30:11):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Well yeah, I mean it has happened. You got to
have nobody going to the games. You gotta have a
whole big orchestrated thing. If you do that, if nobody's
going to the games, nobody's watching on TV, then they'll
force the team to be So the Dodgers had a
terrible owner, this guy Frank McCourt, and the fans complained
and they didn't go to the games and they didn't
watch them on TV. And then eventually Baseball's like, hey,

(30:32):
this is a big money maker. The problem is the
Cardinal isn't a big money maker, you know what I'm saying.
They're not.

Speaker 11 (30:37):
They're in a bad, bad area.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Well not a bad it's a beautiful area, but it's
just not a big media market. The market. By the way,
cam Ward for three quarters, I mean, I know he
played well in the fourth quarter, but for three quarters,
Holy canoly?

Speaker 11 (30:50):
How can you go be twenty one and six, twenty
one to six through the first half and then nothing.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
No, I know they did the same. They did the
not the same, they did the opposite. The Thursday Night
gave me in Seattle. Remember they didn't do anything in
the beginning of the game, and then at the end
they made that frantic try to you know, push to
come back in the game.

Speaker 11 (31:10):
Oh my god, I I can't take it anymore.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Well, the good news is the Sam Louis Cardinals baseball
team is also a non competitive so you've got that
going for you as well.

Speaker 11 (31:19):
I remember, I'll tell you something good about the Cardinals baseball. Cardinals.
When I was a kid growing up, they had check book, uh,
Joe Geracciola and Harry Carey as.

Speaker 9 (31:29):
The Harry carry is great, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Legends of the game right there. And they had the
back before the internet, they had the clear channel radio
station that went all over the Midwest, and I was
booming all over KMOX.

Speaker 9 (31:44):
I want to say, Louis and I enjoy your show
very much. We thank you.

Speaker 11 (31:47):
And I want to say, toll Loraina, you sound like
a very lovely lady and a very beautiful voice.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Oh look at that. Well, thank you very much. My
apologies to you are both call any time, Fred, because
I don't don't wait. Don't wait for the don't wait
for the Cardinals to win, because you'll never call us again.

Speaker 11 (32:01):
So just never going to watch him or listen to
him ever again.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's not true. You know you'll be back watching. You
know the Cardinals will make some the baseball Cardinals will
make some move this offseason because the attendance has been down,
so they'll sign somebody of a note and you'll get
all excited again. And yes, and he'd be better than
some of the guys they had playing out of the grave,
literally better. Yes, all right, I gotta go, thank you,

(32:24):
but I'm bom. There you go. All right, let's say
hello to Andrew, who's in Bakersfield. Hello Andrew, Welcome Bennie.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Full full disclosure. I mentioned you on the Bernie Freto Show.
You should check the pod.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
I've heard of Bernie. I know Bernie. I've met Bernie,
me and Bernie. Yeah did Bernie rip me?

Speaker 11 (32:49):
No?

Speaker 9 (32:50):
He allows a rant, So I I you ranted, and.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
You were singing my praises about what a great talk
show host I am and what a wonderful time you
have on the show and how much I poke fun
at you.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yes, well, are you going to check the bog? All
I said was, well, you want.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Me to stop doing the live show and go listen
to a Bernie Frattle podcast?

Speaker 9 (33:09):
You called?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
That seems reasonable? Yes, why don't we just Laurna play
some music and I'll go through the archive on iHeart.
I'll find the Bernie Frattle podcast because Andrew, you know
what time? We'll do a time check. What time did
you call in? I don't know, but okay, so I'll
listen to the whole show. Okay, I'll listen to the
whole show, hoping to hear and then that'll be good.

(33:32):
I don't have to do the rest of the show.
I got a couple of hours to go. I'll just
stop and I'll just listen to Bernie show. That's a
great idea. Okay, So you're an ideas guy. You are
an ideas guy.

Speaker 10 (33:42):
I am.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
I see light bulbs above my head all the time.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
And are those light bulbs that there might be something
else there? You should get that checked out. You might
want to go see a doctor.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, you know, I'm blind.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
I understand, I understand, but.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
A real fan, Okay, we're not looking into the game
showhy was up? He struck out on a fastball down
the middle for like a second time, and I had
my AM radio and the Echo dot, and so I
started playing because I realized when he went up to bat,
he didn't have his walk up song. So I played
feeling Good by Michael?

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Why would he have his walk The game was in Philadelphia,
I know, That's what I was like, Oh.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, they're in Philadelphia. I was just reminded anyway.

Speaker 9 (34:28):
Yeah, but what do you Yeah, well, what what do
you want?

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Say?

Speaker 9 (34:34):
Say it?

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Say it? Or you do a victory lab after game one?
Is that what you're gonna do? You want to do
a victory lab? You want to do a victory lab.
It's game one. You can't do a victory lab after
game one. Yeah, wait till game two at least to
do a victory lab.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
I said, let's go Dodgers. I said, where are you at,
Ben Mallor? Stand up, Ben Malor, clap Ben Mallor. And
then that's all I said.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Okay, you're not riveting, Okay, okay, I'm going to hang
up on you because I want to bang my head
against the wall when I hear you talk. That's why.
So it's nothing personal. It's just your calls are terrible,
but I love you anyway. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
As we are pressing on here through the overnight hours,
and Big Poppy has already decided the series is over

(35:22):
between the Yankees and the Blue Jays. David Ortiz told
Derek Jeter on Fox the only chance the Yankees have
is if you meaning Jeter, Marion Rivera, Andy Pettitt, and
a Rod all came back to play. And then he
said they can bring Jesus back, and they still the
Yankees are going to can koon. It's over. It's a rap.
So there you go. I don't know that Jesus play

(35:45):
for the Yankees. I don't know. It depends what the
meal money is. I guess time now for the insta trivia.
Congratulations to Geno Smith. Gino Smith joined Derek Carr and
Blank as the only Raiders to throw eight or more
interceptions in their first five games of a season in
the last forty years. Gino Smith joined Derek Carr and
Blank only Raiders to have eight plus interceptions in their

(36:07):
first five games of a season the last forty years.
That's the answer, Trivia. The answer next.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
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Speaker 1 (36:24):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Maler Show
up all night, every single night with Mallard of the
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(36:45):
iHeartRadio app. Just search Fox Sports Radio on the app.
Stream us all day every day. We should select Fox
Sports Radio, Ben Maler Show and the Fifth Hour Podcast
as your presets, and the iHeart app always pop up
there at the top of your screen. All right, quickly,
time now for the instant trivia question and and we'll

(37:07):
get to Malade three. Here it is Gino Smith joined
Derek Carr and Blank as the only Raiders to throw
eight or more interceptions the first five games of a
season in the past forty years. That is the question.
What is the answer? George Blanda from mister Irrigation, Mister
Mouth from alf the alien O Piner. That's a good

(37:27):
fine by by Alf kool Aid McKinstry from Scrooge and
the Younger Demo. Jeff George gets by Andy and Lionel
Lakes Minnesota, Roki Sazaki from Fergdog, JaMarcus Russell gets by
Ozzy Waz and a dozen others. Rusty Hilder from Eke.
What say you of a raid? I'm gonna go with
Tony Bergstrom. That's a fine finanswer. The correct answer is

(37:49):
Jeff Hosteller, though in nineteen ninety six Jef Hosteller.

Speaker 9 (37:52):
Here we go, here we got to the third degree.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Here we go, here we go, home, we go, here,
we go here we go quick.

Speaker 12 (38:02):
Then the Indianapolis Cult are now four and one on
the season, and they actually have the best point differential
in all of the NFL at plus seventy four. Do
you think it's the time we start taking them seriously?

Speaker 1 (38:11):
No? They the Raiders gave him like twenty four points,
just handed a Gino Smith here score ole, olole, no, listen,
it's a nice story. Daniel Jones doesn't suck out loud
like he did with the Giants. I don't buy it.
I saw him in person. I wasn't overly impressed with
the Colts against the Rams. They blew a lead late.

(38:32):
Next Ben the Penn State n Nittany Lions. Oh my god,
is LaVar okay? Have we done well with your Errington?

Speaker 12 (38:40):
I don't know, but they were favored by twenty four
points over previously winless he Ley Bruins and and they lost.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
I didn't just lose, U Ben.

Speaker 12 (38:52):
James Franklin is signed through the twenty thirty one season,
but do you think his job is in peril?

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Well, he's got a giant buy out, that's the problem.
I don't know the boosters. I guess LaVar's got a
lot of money, but other people they need so many
with a big, big check to cut it. If they
can find the right booster, he's out. I mean there,
I guarantee there's phone calls going around. We got to
get rid of this guy now. Whether they can find
the money, that's the bomb. Next.

Speaker 12 (39:17):
Earlier in the weekend, it was reported that the Eagles
have absolutely no plans on trading aj Brown after their
loss against the Broncos. He kind of threw Jalen Hurd
side of the bus. You think that's still the case. No,
trading AJ Brown, you know, let's see where they are
at the time of the trade deadlight. It's all on
the table. It's not off the table yet.

Speaker 9 (39:36):
How do we do?

Speaker 1 (39:36):
I mean, James, I want
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