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October 15, 2024 • 37 mins

Ben Maller talks about the NY Mets taking Game 2 of the NLCS against the Dodgers, what happened to Ohtani and the Dodgers offense, where do things stand between the Mets & Dodgers after 2 games, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our NBIR two hour two. We
head to La La Land, where the Mets and Dodgers
played Game two of the Nationalleague Championship Series. How do
you dissect the Dave Roberts Dodger loss? They were never
really in the game and what happened to the show

(00:20):
hail tany Dodger offense? The top of that lineup was futile.
And we are two games in now into the NLCS
tied one one. Where do things stand between the Mets
and the Dodgers? Heading back to Flushing. We'll talk about
all that and more right now here. It is our
number two, the CounterPunch. Wel come, in the beginning of

(00:48):
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show me sly. This hour is from Chavez Ravine. We'll
start with that. That is where the Dodgers and Mets
played Game two of the National League Championship Series, a
quick turnaround after La absolutely humiliated the Mets nine to

(01:53):
nothing in the opener, and it was a reversal of
fortune for the Dodgers in the sequel here if you
were not watching, the game started four o'clock Eastern, one
o'clock in the West, and it was over early as
Francisco Lindor led off the game with a home run
and then in the second inning a grand salami. Get

(02:17):
out the rde bread and mustard. Grandma, Yeah, grand salami
time as Mark Vinto's hitting a grand slam.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
There.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
The Mets absolutely pulvarized the Dodgers seven to three the finals.
So it's one one now in the National League Championship
Series and they head back to Queens after a day off,
a travel day. Although the teams I believe already on
their way at this hour, probably somewhere over the Midwest
right now, on their way to New York for Games three, four,

(02:49):
and five. The better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will begin to the
discussion how do you dissect the Dave ro Roberts Dodger
loss in game two? So I've got etch a sketch,
diet plan, and calendar app and we will combine all

(03:12):
of these things together and we are going to make
a I want to get away vacation, because you'd like
to think that the Dodgers somewhere along the way realize, well,
what have we done here? Like what is that that's terrible?
We'll start with the culpability, and I point the finger

(03:33):
at Dave Roberts and the nerds. We have long pointed
out the ridiculousness of these bullpen games, and in many ways,
the game was lost before it was even played. Going
with the dreaded bullpen game, Real baseball people, knowledgeable baseball
people know how stupid the bullpen games are. It's a
gimmick that should be saved for the Cactus League or

(03:56):
the Grapefruit League and maybe some regular season game. If
you're a small market, second rate operation like Tampa Bay,
you do the bullpen game. But in the final four
of Major League Baseball. It's unbecoming. It is unbecoming, and
occasionally it works, but that just reinforces the lack of

(04:16):
consistency with the bullpen game. The point that we have
been making for some time here. It is a flawed strategy.
And I've ranted and raved and howled the moon many
a night about this. And it's like drawing a masterpiece,
but you're doing it on an etche sketch. You need

(04:36):
perfection and one blemish, one drop, and all of a sudden,
the whole thing goes sideways. It's all oversea. You later
or go. In this particular game, someone named Landon Knack,
who did not have a knack for pitching. It looked
like he might have been on crack while he was pitching.
My god, did he suck. The Italian chef was on

(04:58):
the mod here's a meat ball, here's a meat ball.
Here's a meat ball. Everyone gets a meat ball. Disgusting,
It was absolutely disgusting the way that guy pitched. I'd
take him off the roster right now. I take him
off the NLCS roster right now. But that's a bullpen game.
And Dave Roberts was hell bent on the plan, and

(05:19):
this is one of the flaws the Dodgers have. They
have to overcome this. It's all about the plan, they
It's all about the three ring binder. And here's how
we're gonna do it. And and then you know, this
guy's gonna start. Braginier's gonna start, and he's gonna go
out there, and then Nack's gonna pitch multiple endings. Blah
blah blah blah blah bah. So Nat goes two innings,
fifty five pitches, gives up a Grand Slam, a total

(05:41):
of five runs, torpedoing the Dodger chances as they were
playing uphill. Now one run, you say, all right, well
the Lindor home run? Who knt? One runs nothing? Anytime
you can tie the game. Everyone can hit a home
run in modern baseball. But the Grand Slam, that was it.
And yet again Dave Roberts, as he has done so often,

(06:04):
he's the fifth losing his manager in postseason history. And
this loser, Andy the comic book guy, wanted me to
apologize to Dave Roberts what a loser he is to
want me to buy Why don't tal apologize to Dave
Roberts All right, Dave Roberts has paid a lot of
money to not f up, and he often f's up.
He's bad at his job on a regular basis. Is

(06:25):
a great example. Right, Read the room, Dave, Read the room, Dave.
You know know when somebody's got it, know when somebody
doesn't have it? And I knew watching on my TV
that Landon Knack had flop sweat all over his brow.
The moment was too big. The guy couldn't handle it.
You knew he was a softy and he couldn't handle it.
And sure enough, by the time he took him out

(06:47):
of the game, the Dodgers were They found themselves in
a sinkhole bullpen game. That's a bullpen game.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
One guy sucks, the whole thing goes kaboom.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
That's a bullpen game. Hate it, hate it, hate it,
hat it, hated hate it.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's minor league. It's bush league bullpen game. Bullpen game,
hate it, hate it. You do that maybe in June
against the Rockies. You don't do that in the final
four of Major League Baseball.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's embarrassed. It's embarrass Now the other part of this
page two here, what happened to Shohey O'tani and the
Dodger offense. Now, they didn't get shut out in this game, right.
We mentioned the Mets jumped out to a big lead
and the final score was seven to three. I just
put up three runs. At one point they had the
bases loaded, a situation where they could have really put

(07:38):
some real pressure on the Mets and gotten back into it.
But the top of the Dodger lineup, the guys that
have all those three hundred million dollar contracts, was a
zombie operation there at the very top, and nocturnal. I
guess they're not day workers. Yikes, completely hornswag. Let's face,

(07:58):
the Mets have an average pitching staff. They're not all
that good. It's a bit of a fluke. What's happened
to the Mets?

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Here?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
And sure enough the Dodger top five batters, though, how
bad was it? Otani, Bets, Ti, Oscar Hernandez, Freddie Freeman,
and Will Smith, the fresh Prince of Chavez Ravine sucked
at a time you cannot suck. The nineteen at bats
Oho for nineteen not one hit out of the top
five hitters in the lineup against second rate pitching. Hey,

(08:26):
come on, what are you doing all right? It's good
you get out. It's a good loss. We'll get it
out of the system, all right, now, page the final
page here, and really the final point on all this.
We are two games in to the National League Championship Series,
two games in, and where do things stand at this
point between the Dodgers and the Mets. So it's a

(08:50):
dead heat one one. I give the edge to the
Dodgers because they're better. They have better players, and so
if you have better players and it's even up, you
have the advantage. The Mets don't have as good a
roster is the Dodgers have, so the edge is still
in favor of the Dodgers. And yes, say, well neck
and neck and all that. But if you look at
your calendar app on your phone, it's the season of giving.

(09:13):
And the thing that does scare you a little bit
is that Dave Roberts and the Nerds will likely send
out another bullpen game down the line, and they make
those traditional It's a season of giving, right, so the
charitable donation Dave Roberts and Landon knack handing that particular
game Game two to the New York Mets. But overall,

(09:34):
on a malar scale of concern one to ten. I'm
like a one again. It's best of five now. It's
not like there's any intimidation playing in New York. Mets
fans are losers. Dodgers have no problem playing in New York.
It's not a big issue there. And whether they can
be afraid of Grimace, Oh my god, Grimmace is there.
Oh my god. We can't play baseball because Grimmas is there.

(09:56):
There's no real home field advantage with the Mets, and
so you don't have to worry about that. And Dodgers
recently in San Diego they dominated the last couple of
times they played on the road, and so and New
York's also just not a fundamentally sound team. They're not
a good defensive baseball team, and that normally will come

(10:17):
back to bite you. There's plenty of holes there to
exploit for the Dodgers against the Mets. Of course, the
great equalizer here is the nerd factor, and Dave Roberts
just doing whatever he's told the Nerds advise him to do.
But the matchup in Game three, after a day off
on Tuesday, they'll be back at it on Wednesday, and

(10:37):
be Walker Buehller, who's terrible, but Luis Severino, who's no
good either, on the mound for the Mets, so it's
not exactly herscheizer Gooden two point zero in that particular matchup.
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Speaker 1 (12:23):
Alf the Alien, opiner writes in from Springfield, mass home
of the pro Bouncy Ball Hall of Fame, where you
can see Muffett McGraw in shrined. Alf says, I left
the house and shorts and a T shirt, only to
find the tailgate of the alfmobile frozen. Shut. Doesn't feel
like baseball around here. I tuned into the Dodger game
long enough to see keyk ground into a double play

(12:46):
to kill a late rally. The socks version of KEYK. Yeah,
although that is it. Joe Davis. Boy, he really loves
him some KEYK man. He lays it on thick how
great he is. I don't think he's all great. Late
night Drug tester says the Dodgers were obviously distracted before
Game two watching the Kings Senators mattin a game with

(13:08):
all the offense or offense on the ice, No wonder
their bats were silent. Yeah, that's it, clearly. King Roy says, hypothetically,
if the Mets find a way to win the World Series,
will Bobby Benia get a ring? Since he is on
the payroll, why not give him a ring. Let's go

(13:29):
to the phones. We'll say hello to Let's say hello
to Paul, who's in Florida. Hello, Paul, welcome.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Good morning, Good morning, mister ben How you.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Doing, Paul?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
If I was any better, I would be a guardian,
but not a Cleveland guardian because they lost.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, I wanted to talk a little baseball.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Let's talk some ball. Let's talk some baseball right now,
let's do it.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Out of these four teams out of left uh. I
like the Yankees. I like the Yankees to take that
series with Cleveland. I don't know what you like in
that situation, but I wanted to ask your opinion in
the National League as as as you talk about the pitching.

(14:20):
The pitching in the National League is garbage. To put
it nicely, pretty much all of the teams left. The
Indians got a great bullpen, that's about it. Do you
really think the Mets can get through that series?

Speaker 1 (14:38):
No, the Dodgers will end up winning, They'll be in
the World Series. But I don't think the Yankee pitching
is great. Garrick Cole in the playoffs is like a
number three starter in the playoffs. And you look at
the rest of that rotating, I don't I don't think
there's a great rotation the Yankees have.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
No No, that's what I'm saying. No good pitching left anywhere.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, that's by design, though many they dumb it down.
I want all these relieve pitchers, and they don't want
pitchers to go deep in the games. It's the nerds
they've taken over. They've dominated in.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
The last in the last five to ten years, they've
changed it. They don't let these guys go more than
four or five innings.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah. Wow, Hopefully at some point they'll go back and
they'll change it, because if everyone's playing this way, you
actually have an advantage if you can have starting pitching
that goes deep into games. And they're they're so paranoid
by the numbers, like, oh my god, you can't go
third time through the lineup. But you know, I don't
know how old you are, but in my youth, the

(15:40):
greatest moments in baseball history often involved going through the
lineup a third time. That the dominant pitching performances. We're
going through a lineup the third time, and they didn't
have to put diapers on to get through that third
time through the lineup.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
We agree when we're that's bad talk radio, we agree.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
And you were speaking a little bit about that. Dave Roberts,
he's been doing this bullpen stuff for years now.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Yeah, well, it's it's the disease. It's really the Tampa
Bay Rays. They they hired Andrew Friedman and he runs
the Dodgers, and he brought the plague of Tampa Bay
to the Dodgers. It's like, we're gonna play like Tampa Bay,
except we're gonna spend a gazillion dollars on our roster.
But we're gonna play the way the Tampa Bay Rays play.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I agree. So so in your opinion, what you think
this is gonna be a Yankee Dodgers World Series.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yes, and they'll set all kinds of records they haven't
had since like the nineties. And they'll sell a bunch
of merchandise in Japan and it'll be amazing, and baseball
will be smiling from ear to ear. They're like Baseball's back,
the Otani's the star and then the whole thing. So
all righty call me more often, but I need you
more than then once in a while. Paul, Thank you,

(17:00):
Thank you, buddy. All right, there's a Paul. We'll stay
in Florida. We'll check in with a man who enjoys
bad baseball. Angry Bill, Hello, Angry Bill.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
How you doing, gentlemen?

Speaker 1 (17:15):
There's a bullpen game. Good job, Bill, you called it
that bullpen game. That's the Angry Bill strategy right there.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
See what you fail to mention in the previous series,
the bullpening game was used four times, the team won
four times. It was used to perfection.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Okay, so I'm not worried about what happened in the
last round. I'm worried about what just happened. Yeah, I'm
worried about this. Explain to me what just so? The
Mets won with a bullpen game in game one, they
lost the Dogs one with a bullpen game again, and
they lost. You're wrong, You are completely wrong about this.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
You couldn't get the first base.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
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weed Man, Hippie, And yeah, there is my man, the
weed Man.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
Oh, the Yankees. The Yankees are doing great. The Yankees
Dogs World Series.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Would be great.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
You didn't watch a second of the Yankee game. I
love I know you love the TV, you know, but
he's watching stuff on his phone. You have those those
Russian websites, don't you? Yeah, I know you did.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
I know.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
I didn't tell him about that.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
Told me that receiver of last play he slipped. That
would have been a perfect cash And you know it's
not four two and four.

Speaker 7 (18:35):
I mean, how do.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
You get to the playoffs and two and four? Wow,
you gotta win like ten games. There's only like seventeen games.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
I mean, no, it's it's the products watered down weed man.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Can they do that?

Speaker 7 (18:49):
Can they make the playoffs?

Speaker 1 (18:50):
You think yeah, they can win the division.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
They're on that.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
If that one they would have been in first place
in the division. Yeah. Right now, the team that the
last team in the playoffs in the a f C,
the seventh seed is Indianapolis and they're three and three.
The Jets, the Jets are Yeah, I mean it's only
been a few weeks. It's been six games. There's a
lot of games to go. He mad, just stupid people. Yeah,

(19:18):
the Jets right now are in the tenth spot in
the AFC. They're behind Miami and Denver.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
In a couple of games.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
Just like they lost this game by chance. I mean,
come on, they were all the eighteen online when they
got picked off.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
That was terrible.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
That was just terrible.

Speaker 7 (19:39):
Aaron Rodgers, it was a really good story.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
I'd really like to.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
See him do will How is it a good story?
He's he's been there now two years. The first year
he played four or five plays and got hurt. The
second year they had the same record they did when
Zach Wilson was playing quarterback after six games. So there's
not any better than what they had before. He's a
better name, but the production's not there.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
And gallic Cole, I mean you're hitting on Garrett Cole.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
But I mean he went.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
Sevn Ings, gave up one run.

Speaker 7 (20:09):
I mean that was a good outing.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, in the playoffs. Though overall in his career he's
the Yankees, he's not been more than a number three starter.
So that means, if you base the law of averages,
that means he's due to have a bad outing against
the Guardians in the game later on Tuesday.

Speaker 7 (20:27):
Yeah, lame jokes, no.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Name jokes are on Friday, weed Man, will you be
there for lame jokes? Weed Man? I will all right,
your dream cometry. You have your own segment every week
on the radio. It's weed Man's lame jokes everyone.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (20:43):
I love doing it.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
And the great thing about is you don't. You don't
seem to care the most defensive jokes about you, and
you don't. You're not bothered by it because you know
it's a joke. It's all about comedy.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Joke.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, have you found Have you found a new place
to live yet?

Speaker 2 (20:58):
No?

Speaker 6 (20:58):
I wish flid me a players.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Really, just buy some headphones. That's it. Just get some headphones. Boom,
You're done.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
That's because then I can't I can't plug it in.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, it doesn't work. I tried that. I can't even
plug it in.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah. Wireless headphones, yeah, yeah, have you you know they
have wireless headphones. I know you're an older guy, weed Man,
but they have wireless headphones. They're called bluetooth. You know
what bluetooth is?

Speaker 6 (21:23):
Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
No, you know it's not a confident Yeah no, no,
it's like it's like out of a sci fi movie,
weed Man. You can connect on your phone. Somebody probably
has to show you magic, but it'll connect and there's
no wire no cables, no cables needed you. Yes, I have.
I do have headphones that are that are Bluetooth. Yeah

(21:48):
I do. I'm not in the radio, we're not. We're
not allowed to use them in the studio. We have
to have wired headphones. But when I'm when I'm out
and about walking around, or if I'm at the on
the on the treadmill, the gym, Yeah I got I
got wireless headphones. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
So on my settings, I have a thing called bluetooth.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
And I.

Speaker 8 (22:05):
Love old people.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
I love weed Man. You know you're a you're a treasure,
weed Man. So what kind of phone do you have?
Your Obama phone. What kind of Obama phone? Okay, that's okay, fine.
You have an iPhone, so it's very simple. You click
on well, this is somebody tuning in right now.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
It's the tech shows.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, I don't know about that, not after this. So
so weed man, on your iPhone, click on that settings thing,
you know, the thing that says settings on your on your.

Speaker 8 (22:36):
Ass, Welcome to the Apple Genius Bar.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
But you have to have see the thing is, weed men,
you have to have the headphones that are bluetoothed. So
then you click if you click on settings, the third
thing down on your iPhone will say Bluetooth. So then yeah, shocking,
And then you click on that. And then if you
have Bluetooth headphones and they're charged, they will come up
on that there's a list of my device over there.

(23:00):
Oh yeah yeah yeah, so then your headphones will be there.
You just click on that and you'll automatically be connected.
It's like you're in a space ship out in an
outer space somewhere.

Speaker 7 (23:12):
That's great, Yeah all right.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
And they're not that. These wireless headphones we made, you
can get them for probably by a pair, for less
than twenty bucks, I would think.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
Okay, cool, yeah.

Speaker 9 (23:22):
The device just popped up on my phone, that says
Ben Maller show. Is that your laptop?

Speaker 1 (23:27):
That is my I think that is my phone or
my laptop one of them is named that. Yeah, wow,
I don't know what that is. I've on mine. I have.
I don't have anything interesting. I have Justin's iPhone. I
can click on that. Maybe I can click on that
right there? Whose phone that is Justin's iPhone? Who could
that be?

Speaker 6 (23:45):
Do you use this this Bluetooth headphone?

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Are you talking to you?

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Coop?

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah? Coop? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah I have.

Speaker 9 (23:54):
They're called AirPods.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Well you don't have to have AirPods, so there's like
ripoff version their Yeah, yeah, there's cheaper weeds, but we
Man is on a budget, you know, government's paying for it.
So and Lorena, your headphones Bluetooth.

Speaker 8 (24:06):
Yes, yeah, My jbls that I use here at worker Bluetooth.
So I use those all the time. And they're noise
canceling too, which is really nice, so the outside noise
stays out and your sound stays in. Yeah oh yeah, no,
it's great.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
It's great.

Speaker 8 (24:19):
But you don't get those on the twenty dollars ones.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
No, but he doesn't. You don't need all the bells
and whistles. You're just trying to survive with a You
have a weird awkward I don't know.

Speaker 8 (24:27):
You seem kind of bougie weed Man.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Are you bougie weed Man?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
I wish well it is.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
When he was in jail, he demanded the extra soap,
so he was boogie there. All right, all right, weed Man,
thank you? Good luck here. Well it's it's uh basic
life life lessons with weed Man.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
Hey, people sending in jokes, yes, jokes, all right?

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Uh Ben Malors show at gmail dot com. Put jokes
in the headlines. I thank you weed Man. I gotta go.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
He's gonna say, send me money, he said, send jokes
some of that.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
I'm worried about the segment he wants to see Joe
money for his new headphones. Yeah, okay, there's life with
weed Man. Bluetooth sounds like a new segment. How long
has Bluetooth been around a couple of years? A decade
at least a decade, at least a decade.

Speaker 8 (25:17):
My airpod's made my head hurt, though, like they gave
me a headache.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
I have rip off AirPods. Although my wife says she's
gonna buy me AirPods because the new version has a
hearing aid. She thinks I need a hearing aid, so
she's gonna buy me the new version when they come out.
Good idea. I think I'm fine. I like saying I
can't hear that way. If I'm in a social setting,
I don't have to participate, I can say.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Like.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Working radio. So it's a problem with the radio. But
this job is not that easy.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
And we roll on through the early morning hours. We're
here all night, five nights a week. Podcast on the weekends,
TV show on the weekends. There's a lot of crap
going on in these parts of a lot of crap
going on in these parts. Next hour we'll have Malard's
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sports radio mystery that'll be coming your way. But right now,

(26:15):
fun fact, fun fact, fun fact, fun back, fun back
man malord, fun fact, the fun fact of our nobers
two three. Now we mentioned you got it wrong with
riading this back. It's our two.

Speaker 8 (26:28):
Sorry number two. Oh hold on, wait a second, hold on.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
I mentioned Lugerious Sneid how bad he has been for
the Titans his great accord to the nerds at Pro
Football Focus, he's got a thirty six point three grade,
which is last among all defensive backs in the NFL.
He is the worst defensive back in the NFL this season,
and out of four hundred and ninety two defensive players,

(26:59):
the former Chiefs defensive back Lugeria's need is ranked four
hundred and eighty eighth, four hundred and eighty eighth out
of four hundred ninety two. And that is my fun
fact of our number two. Let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Eeny Meani, Miny Moe. Let's say
load to blind Scott, who's on the north end of Boston. Hello,

(27:22):
blind Scott, Hey.

Speaker 7 (27:24):
What's going on you? I can't wear those those AirPods.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I have the iteges.

Speaker 7 (27:29):
I have effects your hearing too. It so that way
that I could damage my hairy so that I wouldn't
be able to see or hear at the same time.
That'd be pretty bad, you.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Know, that would be unfortunate. It would be like a
very famous person in Hollywood's past.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
There.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
But you don't want that.

Speaker 7 (27:43):
Yeah, yeah, you'd be the technology is too high. Do
you get to that step?

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Dude?

Speaker 7 (27:47):
To this guy that's pitcher Walker Bueler. He got his
watch stolen, right, like somebody's stolen off his hands.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, a bunch of thugs came over and took his
watch at a racetrack.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
Yeah, yeah, I was worried about these Dodger fans. Man.
I don't want to sound racist by saying this, but
did gangs in the stands at dogs? You know what
I mean?

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Like, that's not there's a theory anytime you say you
don't want to do something and then throw the word
button there, you actually did want to do what you did. Racist?

Speaker 7 (28:17):
Yes, yeah, the Mexican games there, man, what are they doing?

Speaker 1 (28:21):
What are you worried about? You're in boss, you're ready
to worry about that? You're not going to Dodger Stadium
or fine?

Speaker 7 (28:27):
Yeah, but Met fans can't even go to the games here.
It's not even tasty.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
There were plenty of MED fans in the game. What
are you talking about it? They were play of Met
fans there.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
Yeah, but they get chased away in the parking lot like, uh,
you know, this is baseball, This is his sacred game.
I don't know what they're doing over there at Dodger Stadium, but.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
I think there's buying large. The Dodgers or the Dodger
fans are fine. There are some knuckleheads in the fan base,
but there's like I've been to Phillies games before. They're
knucklehead Philly fans. They'll kick your ass in the parking lot,
but most of them are fine.

Speaker 8 (28:56):
Yeah, if you're gonna start a fight, you're gonna start
a fight. But that doesn't mean everyone's out there in that.

Speaker 7 (29:01):
We don't do that in body.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Oh please, plenty of people. Are you nuts? Come on
you hear lere.

Speaker 7 (29:09):
He's gonna buy the Celtics. Maybe you know.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Bron can't afford the Celtics.

Speaker 7 (29:14):
Who's buying the Celtics?

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Think that somebody that's got more money than Lebron James
going by the Celtics. How about that.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
I'm gonna protest any stadium they try to build and
bought it. We can't afoid we don't have the room here,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
What if somebody but if somebody builds it with their
own money? Who you can't protest that?

Speaker 7 (29:31):
The streets can't hold it.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
They're not gonna build it on the North End, of course,
they're not gonna put it there because there is no
room there. But they'll build it somewhere in the suburbs. Somewhere.

Speaker 7 (29:40):
They put that Punts in hart Be Casino. You can't
even get there. It takes three hours to go twenty
minutes anytime of the day to get there. You can't.
You can't build anything here anymore. It's too it's too tight.
It's a you're gonna move everything out to La you
know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
No, no, no, no, you just knock some stuff down
and build new stuff. That's what they do everywhere else.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
That's they can't make any Celtics can't make money if
they don't have their own stadium.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Because they're making money. They're just not making enough money.
They want to make more money. That's the problem. They're
making money, they're not they're no one's going poor with
the Celtics.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
Say they said they made no money last year. That's
why they're telling the father.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Okay, why do you ask them, Say listen, if you
open up the books and let us see the books
that you made no money, then we'll we'll do something
they will not open up the books because they made money.
They just didn't make enough money.

Speaker 7 (30:28):
You could these teams have numbers. You can call them
up and get someone live. Like I could call the
Bruins and be like, I want to speak to Kim
Neely and they'll they'll put your right through to them.
Sometimes they these places are so easy to prank, you
know what I mean, You could prank just to what
anybody wants pank.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
What did you call? Say you were like the GM
of the Winnipeg Jets. You're trying to get a hold
of Cam Neely or something.

Speaker 7 (30:48):
Limba all the time.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Called Rush Limbaugh. Well that's a radio show that's different. Now.
There was a guy years ago that was a super
fan of the show, and I don't know what happened
to the guy, but he famously pranks called Tony Dungee
during Sunday Night football and got like Dungee on the phone.
It said some crazy stuff and and he pretended to
be like the GM of the Bills or something. It

(31:11):
was some craziness back years ago.

Speaker 7 (31:13):
Anybody I listened to the American Greek podcast to learn
how to scam people. You know, there's so many different
stands out there nowadays.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
What's your what's your favorite scam? Blind Scott, what's your
favorite scam?

Speaker 7 (31:25):
I like the celebrity Like in Orange County they have
the celebrity gold digger ladies, you know what I mean,
And they hook onto these guys and they just take
them to like everything they're worth, and then they just
move on to the next guy.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
And well, yeah, it's well they're called gold diggers. That's
that's an age old situation.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
There's no shortage of guys like that. Or I like
the sex worker scam with a guy, guy that paid
for sex and you go to his hotel room and
you steal his watch on your way out, you know,
for your simple stuff that people you like.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
A basic You're you're a purist with your scam.

Speaker 8 (32:00):
Listen, if you're inviting people to your house, you better
hide the goods.

Speaker 7 (32:04):
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't have anybody in here. I'm blind.
I mean I was on the news beginning by that time.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
I know, yeah, yeah, I got run over on the
North End right in front of.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
Had all these scumbags from my past show up and
everything they saw me on the news, Like, I wouldn't
trust anybody I wouldn't trust anybody who's who hasn't been
married before, or I haven't had some jobs.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
You're Mary doesn't as I mean, all right, I thank you.
I gotta go back. There's a blind Scott who loves
a good scam and he treats the podcasts about scams
as an educational podcast on how to scam other people.

Speaker 8 (32:38):
That's how I do with murder shows.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Well, speaking of scamming, I saw that Clayton Kershaw has
decided he wants to come back and pitch in twenty
twenty five. Why not. The Dodgers will pay him five
million dollars to do nothing. He's done. He can't pitch anymore,
can't make it more than ten starts at the most.
But Kershaw says he'll be back for his eighteenth season,
so he'll have a Kershaw bobblehead next year. And the

(33:03):
New York Mets radio broadcast complaining about Dodger Stadium, why
are upset? They're upset by the noise at Dodger Stadium,
the public address announcing system at Dodger Stadium. Yeah, they said,
just lucky that there's two here and then back home
where things are a little less brutally loud. They complained.

(33:25):
Howie Rose, who is eighty nine thousand years old, how
he Rose complaining there about the volume, which is a
great indication that you have gone a little past your
expiration date when you're complaining about the public address system.
Which is amusing because when I first started going to
dodging games and the media, the players always complained it

(33:48):
was like a tabernacle and all they had was organ music,
and it was like going to church, and the players
would complaining they wanted rock music, they wanted a contemporary music,
and now they have that, and now it's the broadcasters
that can plain. Anyway. We have Mallard of the third degree.
We'll get to that coming up in a minute time.
Now for the Insta Trivia Blank Force, ten miss tackles

(34:10):
by the opposing defense on Sunday on only twelve carries
during the game, and that is the highest missed tackle
rate of any rusher so far this season. That's the
Insta Tributa The answer next.

Speaker 5 (34:22):
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Speaker 1 (34:56):
But first, the insta trivia blank Force ten ten minu
tackles by the opposing defense on Sunday on only twelve
carries during the game. That missed tackle rate at over
eighty three percent, the highest of any recorded by a
rusher so far this season with a minimum of ten
carries or more. That is the question. What is the answer?

(35:18):
Emerald Lagassi, who is sixty five today, Bam from Late
Night Drug Tester, Rudy tom Janovich from Cowboy Killer, the
former Laker Hacksaw, Jim Duggan from Rob in Vegas, Genius
Bar Employee of the Week, Ben mal all Right thank you,
Fergie Lo I can work at the Genius Bar, right,
come on?

Speaker 2 (35:38):
No? Uh?

Speaker 1 (35:40):
The A can of Ramlin root beer from Alf the
Alien o'pyre going old school Earl Greasy Neil from Mason
in Huntington Beach, Pro Football Hall of Famer Alonso Highsmith
from DA Boy Malcolm Derek Henry, guests by John Mike
Alstott from King Rory, What say you, Eddie?

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Former Los Angeles Rams, Elroy Crazy Legs.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Hirsh no the correct answer for me? Detroit Lions David
Montgomery and Cowboy Defense say what here we go?

Speaker 5 (36:14):
It's smeller? How about that to the third degree? Yeah,
this is one big fan gets grill who all loop so.

Speaker 9 (36:25):
Quila Williams has strung together some good performances lately, and
with four touchdowns against the Jaguars in London, some analysts
are starting to throw around words like superstar.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Oh yeah soon, it's still becoming a superstar? Well, I
don't know. Is he on the menu at Carls Junior?
I don't know? No here, listen, Caleb Williams is playing
very well lately for the Chicago Bears. But to be
a superstar you have to do it for more than
a month. So no, but he's supposed to be the
guy was the number one pick in the GIRAFT. He's
supposed to be a superstar next.

Speaker 9 (36:57):
Peene Manning made a podcast appearance where he said he
hopes one of his records gets broken someday, his twenty
eight interceptions that he threw as a rookie. Now, Ben,
is this a record that will stand the test of time.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yes, because anytime someone gets close to that, they'll bench him.
They'll say, oh no, we gotta bench him, we gotta
shut him down and all that. That is one of
those records and be very difficult. I don't see it
anytime soon. The way the NFL's played today, that will
be a record that will be in danger of being
broken next.

Speaker 9 (37:25):
So, the Broncos offense was an EP for three quarters
on Sunday, Then in the fourth quarter when they went
to no huddle and Bonick started changing plays with the
Lions began to produce and a lot of Broncos fans
on social media are throwing blame at Sean Payton and
his play calling.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
You think there's any truth to that the blame there, Well,
Sean Payton did, as we talked about on the TV show,
he was questioning b Nick, saying he goes off the
script that they're not exactly on the same page group,
So yes, how do we do coopolo? Yes, that is
a wing of the puddy on the ball won the game.
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