October 9, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about what this latest playoff loss does for Aaron Judge's Yankees resume, if Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman are in the danger zone in the Bronx, Derek Jeter saying that the Mariners thought this series was over implying that's why they lost, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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follow those channels. But here in our number two, what
does this latest playoff loss for the the American League side?
For Aaron Judges Yankees, they've been exterminated from the playoffs.
What does this do for the resume of Aaron Judge?
Also are Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman in the Stranger
danger Zone in the Bronx.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And how do you react to Fox's Derek Jeter saying
that the Mariners thought this series was over, implying that
is why they lost Game four to the Tigers. They
had a big lead in the middle innings and it
all went away. Will parse the words of Derek Jeter.
We'll get to that right now here. It is our
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lead this hour We talked a lot about the National
League as the Phillies and the Cubs stay alive. So
we will get game fours in the National League. But
we'll start out here in the Bronx the hour of
American League Divisional Championship Series baseball, and we'll start out
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with a game that could have ended at all, Game four.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Of the America League Divisional Series.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
There the Yankees looking to beat the Blue Jays and
force a winner take all game.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Back in all, did you watch? Perhaps not?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, we got your cover. We got you covered on
this because we have nothing else to do. We wished
an entire day watching sports. Vladimir Guerrero Junior and that
cheating astro George Springer each drove in a run, and
eight Toronto pitchers, eight Toronto pitchers shut down the mighty
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New York Yankees lineup five to two the final on
Wednesday night. Then that sent the Blue Jays flying high
to the American League Championship Series. They've reached the final
four for the first time in nine years. Toronto smacked
out twelve hits in smothering the Yankees. The a L
East champion Toronto Blue Jays, well, now move on. They
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take the divisional series three games to one. They will
host game number one in best of seven American League
Championship Series. That'll be on Sunday. We'll be watching football,
but they'll be playing baseball there against either the Tigers
or the Seattle Mariners, and those teams are set to
decide their playoff series. That'll be on Friday night in
game number five, Game number five there in Seattle. More
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on that in a minute. But the better story, as
you talk Yankees and Blue Jays, is in the losing
locker room. And it's always a special time when the
Yankees lose in the playoffs. I know Supermarket Steve always
looks forward to it. He can't get enough of it.
So let us discuss the question. We'll focus in on
the big Ragou, the big ragu for the Yankees. So
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what does this latest playoff loss doe for Aaron Judges
Yankees resume?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What does it do?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
So?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You go to his Wikipedia page, you go to his
Baseball reference page.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
What does this do? So?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I've got rewriting, academia and Nintendo, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are gonna make
your Babushka's favorite soggy nachos, soggy ballpark nachos.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
See, the nachos are like it's like my theory on
fast food, and I'm never wrong about this. I'm never
My theory on fast food is every second that goes
by once you pick up your food like that. I
used to eat fast food all time. But when you
get the fast food, you've got to eat it right
away because every second it goes it degrades. The quality
of the meal goes down, similar to nachos. Like it's
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like when I was a kid, My mom used to
make you give me cereal, like give most kids. You
get cereal when you're a kid, and I would get
it and it would always bother me because I had
to eat it so fast, because you don't want to
eat soggy cereal because the milk and the cereal.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So nachos are the same thing. But back to the point.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So what does this latest playoff loss do for Aaron
Judges Yankees Rosumee so number Aaron Judge is a magician?
Can we all agree on that? Does anyone disagree? Anybody
in the back of the room disagree? Aaron Judge is
a magician. He is untracted to the impossible. They and imaginable,
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the most mind blowing trick around have a full career
wearing pinstripes and get no bling, bling abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's wild.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It is insane to the membrane that here we are
and Judges already passed his athletic prime and has nothing
in terms of championships, which is how you are judged
as a Yankee. Now here's Aaron Judge. But we'll go
into the locker room. Here's Aaron Judge talking about yet
another ending to a Yankee season that ended the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
No, I like our chances, and I like our chances
all year as a special group. And it just sucks
for the guys that might be a lot of time
wearing pinstripes. You're not get a chance to have a
long run with him, and in the championship. You know,
especially to the fans all year that have been you know,
showing up supporting us even in these postseason games, even
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when we get down, you know they stayed right in
their season, you know, cheering us on. So it's just
disappointed we let all those guys down.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So it's pretty standard, pretty standard there from Aaron Judge,
the captain of the Yankees. It is ironic that John
Hayman and one of the great f ups ever by
a baseball insider when he reported that Arson Judge was
going to the Giants, but yet in the playoffs for
the Yankees, the teams Aaron Judge plays for, it's an
Arson job. At least I'm gonna be Benny Bright, people
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said to negative malor, I'll be Benny Bright's out here,
because it's not all bad for Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
At least.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
According to Fox broadcaster Joe Davis, Aaron Judge finally had
his playoff moment.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
He had his playoff moment.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It was a home run in the fourth inning of
Game three of the divisional series that went off the
foul poll.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Or the fifth inning wherever it was against Toronto.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yankee propaganda aside, all right, Yankee propaganda side. Judge is
the Matinee idol for this era of Yankee underachievement. So congratulations.
We are now talking about ten plus years, ten plus
years in the Bronx bomber's uniform, and he has been
given a team that has always one of the top
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pay rolls in baseball, and yet in the playoffs bupkis.
In terms of championships, he is thirty three. He'll turn
thirty four in April. Your athletic prime ends about thirty two.
You can stretch you out a couple of years if
you're a superhero and all that, but that means we're
talking about the tail end, even if Judge has another
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couple of good years in him. And for all of
the crooked numbers, for all of the gotdy numbers, and
the little trophies he's gotten and all that stuff, and
all you guys that love that exit velocity porn, you
get your you're all excited there because of.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
The exit velocity.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Aaron Judge is the he's reincarnated as he's like Donnie
Baseball reincarnated or Dave Winfield that era of Yankee Baseball,
great regular season guy. And that's a team that's judged
on winning championships and all that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He's got no jewelry, well, I'm sure he's got a
nice jewelry. Probably got a roll Exra two because he's
got a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But he's done the impossible, being what many believe is
the top hitter in baseball since Barry Bonds most likely
better though, because we don't believe Aaron Judges on the
sauce who knows and the clear in the cream and
somehow still not winning. Like you think of every era
of baseball with the Yankees, Babe Ruf, Lou Garrett, Jolton,
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Joe DiMaggio, they all did it. The only ear that
didn't do it was Dave Winfield, Don Mattingly, that was it.
But all the legends in Monument Park, for the most part,
carried the damn franchise to the top of the mountain.
Now Aaron Judge again, he's rewriting the Yankee history book
here for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And the man's going to finish his career.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
As the best you know what that means, as good
as all the rest, best player ever to wear the
uniform without a championship. Like he's better than Don matting
He's better than Dave Winfield, and yet they didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Go down the Canyon of Heroes, and neither is Aaron Judge.
Tik tik tik tik tick. You can hear tik tik
tik tik tick.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The clock is ticket and the Yankees so called window
of opportunity, while it never really closes because the Yankees
spent a lot of money. In all reality, it's a
very small window, very small window. It really is the
longest drought in modern Yankee history is seventeen years from
nineteen seventy nine to nineteen ninety five. And then they
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had the Joe Tory run, and with him as the manager,
and Paul O'Neill and Jeter and then Jorje Posad and
Bernie Williams and all those guys, and now they're at
sixteen right now. The difference all right, And back then
they got they had maddingly in that run where they
didn't get it done. Sad wistful eyes of Donnie Baseball,
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who I believe is a coach with the Blue Jays.
Now they've got Aaron Judge's blank postseason stare.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Now Judge put up great stats. Woo o o.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Batt at six hundred had a home run off the
foul pole, had his moment. According to Joe Davis, a
Fox had his moment. Six RBIs, four walks against Blue Jays.
Spoiler alert, Vladimir Guerrero Junior was better. The other team's
top player was better than your team's best player.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
That's it. And again Aaron Judge, despite what Joe.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Davis said, his signature moment is fumbling and bumbling and
stumbling a ball in center field in Game five of
the World Series where the Yankees had.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
A dominating lead they were gonna get right back in
the World Series. Heft it up. That's his moment.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And this series in the Bronx, Vlattie doing backflips and
carrying Toronto while Aaron Judge can only watch and watched
the celebration a little dazed and confused.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And so the Yankee So he used to own October Man.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That was all Yankee baseball in October House of Horrors,
Yankee Stadium. Now, I guess they rent by the hour.
You know, It's like it's sleazy hotel. They rent by
the hour, all right now.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Page two.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So the big Komodo dragon in the room in the
Bronx continues to be will there actually be legitimate changes?
Every year the Yankees losing the playoffs, and every year
the question gets asked, are they going to whack this guy?
Are they going to whack that guy? So you've got
Aaron Boone who is always being discussed as a guy's
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going to lose his job and all this well here
is Aaron Boone asked whether or not he's going to
come back. Do you think Aaron Boone is going to say, Ay,
I shouldn't come back. I've done a terrible job. B
I don't want to come back because this team's a
bunch of losers.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Or see, I expect to be back. Let's go to
the audio tape.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Aaron, I'm sorry on it, but it becomes a subject
every year. Do you have any reason to think you
won't be back managing the team next year?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
I'm under contract, so no, I don't expect any thing.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Can I ask a question? I would like to ask
you a question.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
What journalism school do they tell you to apologize before
you ask the question?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Does that guy have no balls? Can we play that again?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I believe I just heard a supposed reporter apologize before
asking the question, like, what are we doing it?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
What are your buddies with him? Going out drinking with
them after the news car?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Take a lesson?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Aaron, I'm sorry on it, but it becomes a subject
every year. Do you have any reason to think you
won't be back managing the team next Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
All right, I don't, this is Aaron. I'm sorry, I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh crap, all right, question, are Aaron Boone and Brian
Cashman the GM there in the danger zone? Stranger danger?
Are they in the danger zone in the Bronx? So
I am shaking my head? No, right, isn't the Bronx anymore?
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You know, it's not like it used to be. It
used to be you lose in October and it would
be like Halloween. There'd be heads on spikes outside Yankee Stadium.
Now it's modern deferred accountability.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's you know again, we say it every year.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
These aren't your daddy's pinstripers or your granddaddy's pinstripers. Brian
Cashman has been running the show since Bill Clinton was
in the White House with Monica Lewinsky having a good time.
Yankee Baseball has turned in to academia. Aaron Boone, I
am convinced. Aaron Boon's not going anywhere. Brian Cashman's not
going anywhere. Heck, they could both get promoted. They are
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tenured professors. At this point, you can't whack a tenured guy.
You gotta jump to a lot of hoops to get
rid of a tenured professor. They've got lifetime appointments to
the Bronx Ivy League is what they've got. And the
Steinbrenner clan that owns the team, the kids like, they're
not They're not the boss, the sequels, not the equals.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
We know. You look at all.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The legacy ownership groups in sports, they're just not as good.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
They're just not as good.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Al Davis was a tyrant with the Raiders. It didn't
go well at the end of our life. But his
kid is a joke. Mark Davis with the Raiders an embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Right, and you give me to go down.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Then all the groups where the next generation takes over,
it's it gets worse. It does not get better, It
gets worse. Genie Buss horrific owner with the Lakers, right,
old man, great owner. She was terrible and she's finally
sold the team, I guess eventually, but she wants to
hold on because she gets to go to.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Cocktail parties in Beverly Hills. But whatever. Fine.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
So the point is that the old man, George Steinbrener
was lighting managers on fire every other homestead. He had
a revolving door with these guys like Billy Martin. Now
you're fired. Two years later, you're hired. You know that
he had I think it was eleven changes in like
a four year span or some ridiculous thing like that
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back in the day. But now he fired Yogi Bear
left them at the airport in Chicago baseball legend. That
was the George Steinberner years. Now it's a daycare center, right.
The current group, it's just a cash cow. It's the
the illusion of contention is all you need. They're printing money,
you know, the seventeen dollars beers and all that. And
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I've been told by boots on the ground that the
luxury area behind home plate is the top in baseball,
where they have the seafood table with crab legs and
high ends sushi, they have the Kobe beef over to
the sun and all that. It's just insane, right because
they appeal to the Wall Street the one percenters there
in New York and then don't appeal to the to
the bleacher creatures and all that stuff. And so as
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long as they can convince the fans that just making
the playoffs there and that you know, losing in the
wild card of the divisional round is equal to a championship.
That's championship stands. The Yankees have become a theme park attraction.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
They really have.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You know, as long as the turnstiles are spending and
you're riding the dumbbell ride and the networks selling their
ads and they got all the spots paid.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
For, no one's storming the castle. It's not happening.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Aaron Boone could sleep walk, right, could sleep walk through
a ninety win season, and Brian Cashman's gonna still be
ordering catered lunches for his army of nerds.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
As Goose Gotchi's tremulously said back in the day.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Now, the real question is who is going to pay
the price for the Yankees issues, Because why I believe
Aaron Boone and Cashman are safe, someone's going to lose
their job. Normally, what you do is you sacrifice one
of the coaches. Depends how upset you are. You might
get rid of the first base coach. If you're not
that upset, you get rid of the third base coach,
if you're a little more upset. If you're really really upset,
you get rid of the pitching coach and the hitting coach.
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The one name that I will put there at the
very top is of my big board, not a list
Terry in England, my big board. The fall guy is
going to be Jazz Chisholm Garantee, Jazz Chisholm, free agent
butcher in the field, he was an All Star and
he was caught yawning while trailing in an elimination game,
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and then mock the people that made fun of him
yawning during the game on the field, yawning while the
game was going on. He's the perfect scapegoat, bad clutch player,
not a big time player. Two eleven batting average in
the postseason, one eight two in the American League Divisional Series, underwhelming.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
When it matters, underwhelming when it matters.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And you know, meanwhile, Brian Cashman is up in the
suite stress testing the next NERD approved depth chart and
they're already.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Going over who can we get on the weaver wire?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Now, the danger zone does not exist in the Bronx
at this point.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It's more of a comfort zone. It's more of a
comfort zone than that. And as long as they're selling
the illusion of the evil Empire.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No one is actually in any real danger. Yankee baseball
is where tenure meets mediocredy. There's an intersection of tenure
and mediocrety. All right, final point to motown we go.
And it looked early on like it was going to
be a bubbly bath for the boys from Seattle.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But then they had to play the rest of the game.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And somebody named Riley green is somebody named Hobby Bias
homeward four run, sixth inning, and the.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Tigers had they ried, I'll roared back to keep their season.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'll stand alive, staying up nine to three, dominating win
over the Mariners on a sleepy Wednesday afternoon their Game
four of the American League Divisional Series.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So that means we are gonna get a game five.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Tigers force a Game five by winning at Comerica Park
for the first time in more than a month. They'd
lost eight straight home games. How embarrassing, How Lou Whitaker
and Alan Tramball right, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Che Lemon's rolling over in his grave? Might swong with you?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So the decisive game of the series be Friday in Seattle,
Cy young winner Tarret Scoobel on the mound for the
Motor City Kiddies against George Kirby. George Kirby uh More
on that in a minute. But the better story's in
the losing locker room as the Tridents blew a three
to nothing lead in the fifth inning. Question, how do
you react to Fox's Derek Jeters.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Saying the Mariners?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
He said on the Fox postgame he said the Mariners
thought the series was over, implying that that somehow is
why they lost. All right, So listen, Derek Jeter, legendary
bad take, nonsense. Manager Dan Wilson did the thing you
can't do at the time he can't do it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
He trusted his.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Bullpen and they the pipe burst on the bullpen under
the immense pressure of October baseball. So it started out
with this lefty Gabe Spier who I looked at the
they had the stats on the broadcast. He had a
zero point seventy five ERA. He had allowed one run
in twelve innings since September sixth, So of course he
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came in there and poured kerosene all over the game.
And then it was a funeral procession of relievers. People
I've never heard of, Eduard Bizardo and Carlos Vargas, guys
like that, Just like bullpen spam came in and they
would have been better off throwing Robbie the Mariner fan crying,
Craig JJ in Renton and no stradinas on the mountain.
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They all sucked at the time. He cannot suck so Seattle.
What they needed was to call the people that used
to own the team from Nintendo and get Mario and Luigi.
Of course we know those are plumbers. Get them in
there to solve the bullpen some solid plumbers. So unsolicited advice,
what can the Mariners do to beat Tigers Ace Trek
Scuoble in Game five?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Because everyone's gokinda, oh, this game series over.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Tigers have their guy, They're gonna win Game five, go
on to play Toronto in the American League Championship Series.
So the mallord advice call it the Schooble Survival pack,
the schoolbal survival pack. You don't have to was see
the thing people don't understand when you face a number
one starting pitcher, Okay, you don't have.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
To win the duel. You just have to endure it, right,
you just have to do it. And now what do
I mean by that?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like the Big Dumper cal Riley and friends, the mission
is not conquest. The mission is not to be eat
Trek Schooble, it's to contain him, meaning that you just
have to end up in a situation where where Schoop
is gonna go out. He'll slice your lineup up like
a sushi chef and just cut you up with a
nice big butcher's knife. The goal is to keep pace.
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The goal is not to beat him. It's just co
author the chapter. Match it, blow for blow, inning for inning,
have Kirby pitch well, go to the bullpen, have some
guys come in there and get it done. And you
just got to write it out. And you got to
either have a zero zero score or a one nothing score,
or you have the lead when you go to the
tigers bullpen or where they go to the bullpen, and that's.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
When the ink starts to smudge a little bit, and
so that's what you get.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You're not gonna beat Schooble more likely than not, but
if you have a shot, you just gotta you gotta
go blow for blow, blow for It's like a boxer,
you kind of sandbag a little bit early on, kind
of you know, let the fight come to you, that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
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So wow, deal with it. Yeah, back to it, back
to it we go. Email.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Their emailer named Kevin writes in he says that he's
uh listen lives in Vancouver. He likes the show and
he's upset that I did not sarahenade the Yankees out
of the playoffs. So I apologize Kevin in the Vancouver area.
I don't think you came to the mallor meet and greet.
Bad job by you. But if you want me to
do it, I guess I'm like a trained seal, right, Lorena,
(25:31):
I'm a trained seal.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
All right?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Here we go?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Ready, good bye?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
There?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You got it?
Speaker 7 (25:44):
You have me?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You have me, Kevin? You want me to sing any
other songs? I can sing other songs. I got. I
got talent, man. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I could have been Taylor Swift if I was a woman,
I could have been you know. I chose to go
to the other way. I chose to go to the
dark side overnight talk radio. But I could have done
other things. I want to be like Gaga, h Well,
I was back in the day. I don't want to
be like her anymore yet. But I do have a
poker face, right I haven't got a pretty good poker face, right,
I think?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
So for radio? I have a good poker face for radio?
Why not? Yeah? See what do we have on the
X Machine.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Late Night Drug tester writes in he says, what a
day to be a Toronto fan. Both the Maple Leaves
and the Blue Jays one on the same day. First
time that's happened since nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Wow, Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Super Marcus Steve writes in he says he's a Yankee fan.
He says they should should have fired jazz Chism after
he made those stupid comments about how they were the
best team in baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
While being only one game ahead in the wild card race.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, that's part of the beauty of jazz Chism is
that he's a bit up toose. He's a bit up toose.
Yeh Joe writes in She's a big Yankee fan.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
He says, I.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Cannot decide what you're happier about Kershaw or the Yankees losing.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
There will be no organizational change. Oh hell nah, I
know exactly You're right.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I agree with you, Jill, and I do take joy
out of Kershaw because, again, as I mentioned, Jill, I
don't know if you were listening last hour. I am
still getting email from fanboys and was that not the
most perfect beginning? If you were listening last hour, go
back and hear the podcast if you missed it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
But it was so perfect.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Because I did this whole rant and I laid out
everything on like what the Kershaw fanboys would say, and
this guy Jay in La called up and repeated verbatim
all of the talking points to defend Kershaw.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
All of them was great. I was, go to the
phones and.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
We'll take your calls right now, and we'll say hello
to Lucky Tony in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Hello, Lucky Tony, Welcome, Hey man.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
Two things.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
What is David Vassay's signature question for Dodger players?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Did you eat pineapple?
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And Lord Shayan hear my prayers?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
All right, let's go. Let's go to Mike in Tucson.
What's going on? Mike? Welcome? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
If if I was any better, go go ahead.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You don't care, Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
So I called last week after I still listen to
the podcast, and then you said, Mikey and Kusan. I
was so well away because I'm five ft four. All
the friends called, they all call me Mikey. I've been
calling my whole life. But Ben, but today my daughter,
my daughter is on fall break. She's a weak. I
didn't talk about you.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
She had one.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Question to ask you. She said, why did call him
Big Ben? Honey?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, So my dad said that you're like seven feet tall,
and if you're that tall, then why didn't she just
playing the NBA? And I think, well, that's great question,
that is a good question. Well what's your what's your
daughter's name? Again? There, Mikey, what's your jasmine?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, I could have gone to the NBA, but I
thought it's actually harder to do syndicated overnight talk radio.
There are fewer overnight syndicated talk radio jobs in playing
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Do you realize that.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
There are more people playing in the NBA than doing
what I do for a living. So I actually defied
the odds by going in this. And it pays so well.
I mean, and Mikey, you let your daughter know. I mean,
this pays so well. It's and Lorena and Coop, you
guys working in radio, you both know this is NBA
like money that we've got tea, we get all the
creature comforts. We've got the biggest cockroaches in radio. We
(29:42):
have the greatest skunks that get into this. The air
conditioning system in our building, we have the classic computers
from the year two thousand. We've got a vending machine
from nineteen ninety two. We got the greatest of the greatest.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Here we do, she said.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I told her. I told her YouTube suff and she said,
you loved it. Why do they call him that Mallard?
I said, you don't. I don't have no idea.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
He's big, he's so tall.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
If he saw NBA, I said, we you asked that
Jax real quick man. Over the weekend we had a
brand new son, Jackson. My daughter was there. Me and
my daughter told my wife. We never had a middle name.
We said, Mallard, Jackson, Malar Burron. What does your mom say, honey?
(30:29):
He said, no, we were in the hospital weekend, DMC.
We didn't have a middle name. And I said, hey, Jackson,
bron Mill Mallard. She said, the guy you listened to overnight.
You're crazy. I don't even know how that would be.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
That would be a great honor, and that would be
an amazing honor. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I feel a little awkward on that one, but try
the effort was, the effort was made.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I appreciate that. It's uh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
I think people hold the gross for my daughter being
up late, that's the that's gonna be called.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, but you gotta let you gotta let your wife know,
and I'm sure your daughter will agree. The most creative
people are up at night. The most creative people in
the world are up in the middle of the night
because there's not many people around.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
To bother them, and you can just kind of do
stuff and nobody messes with you. So it's just a
good time to be away late at night.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
I think your show is the best, of course, so
I told my wife. Growing up, we never got to
listen to Angy. My mom was so strict, no sports
soul strick Me and my brother Johnny had to listen
to Great Papa for the Raiders Al.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
McCoy for the Suns.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
The only time she left at the town, we saw
the Diamondbacks and the Yankees best Whites ever Game seven.
But that's how we're so radio radio.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Heads we had. We we need more.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Well, God bless your mom, because we need more people
that love radio. I'm all about it, man. You know that, Mikey,
I love raid. I grew up listening to radio too,
so it's the same thing I love. And I got
to meet the great Al McCoy before he checked on
and left this mortal coil, and I told him I
had a brief conversation with Al McCoy was a longtime
Sons broadcaster and when I was a little kid, I
before the Interweb, I had to scan the radio dial to.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Hear these far away radio stations.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And I get to Suns games sometimes at night living
in southern California, and I used to listen to Suns
games because I just loved radio, late night radio and
Al McCoy and I actually told HS because I have
family in Phoenix and we would go to Phoenix. And
I remember I told my mom when we went to
Phoenix to visit family, I want to go to Whataburger?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
She said, why on God's Earth you want to go
to Waterburger? What the hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
And I said, because this guy in the Suns, when
somebody would make a three point shot, he say, what
a shot?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
What a burger?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And it was Al McCoy, who was the play by
play guy of the Suns. And so it was just
a kind of a funny thing.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Anyway, Thank you, Mike, You thank your daughter. Go to bed.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I guess I don't know stay awake, do whatever the
hell you want. Mike and Jasmine, great question. Why didn't
just play in the NBA? And I'm not seven feet tall?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I'm not six.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
If I stand I've bad posture, So I kind of
lean over a lot. If I stand up straight, I'm like,
I'm pretty tall, but I usually lean over some shorter
That's usually what happens, bad posture.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Uh for sure. Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Scrooge says he's in northern California. He's part of the
younger demo. He says, Lucky Tony is a great representation
of the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
That's what he says is go back to the phones.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
We'll say, Lo to homeless Mike in tim Pe, our buddy,
homeless mic, Hello, homeless Mike.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
How'd the date go with the older lady?
Speaker 6 (33:37):
She's not older, she's younger than me.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Oh I thought she was older than you.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Why you made it seem you know?
Speaker 10 (33:45):
No, I can go that route.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Then come on, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
God forbid, I know, all right? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Have you heard of the frontal lobe in your brain
that uh that's addicted to alcohol?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well for your brain, I'm not I don't addicted. Yeah,
I'm not. I don't believe I'm addicted alcohol.
Speaker 10 (34:12):
I don't think you But have you heard of that?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Well, addiction is yeah, it's a it's a slippery slope,
right the I don't know it's the frontal lobe.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
But yeah, from what I've read about you, you've been
down some slippery rope.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I was addicted. I was addicted to food.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
But the prefrontal cortex, the frontal lobe of the brain,
is supposedly controls decision making, problem solving, conscious thought, attention, uh, speech, production, personality,
body movement, emotional and behavior control.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
And intelligence. That seems like a lot of stuff.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
So you get where I'm going, right.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, I'm right here. I'm listening all right.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Uh God, I hate to way waste so much of
your time on the air.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
But no, you don't.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
I got a problem, then I need your help?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay? How can how can I help you? What can
I do?
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Advice?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Okay? What's your problem?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Drinking?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
All right? Well, you gotta stop, you gotta start drinking
before we know, we know, we know how this ends,
we know, and think of all them.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Let's make it a different way.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
To what do you what do you want me to
give you a number somebody can call, Like, I'm not
a counselor I can give you.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I can get you in contact with somebody if you want.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
I've already done that ten times.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well, you gotta keep going. The batting average is not
very good.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
My bad average is like.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Like one no.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
No, they say that you gotta go to rehab mold.
I remember reading about this years ago. Like the batting
people think you just go to rehab, you're fine, but no,
normally you go there and you're flum mixed and you're it.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Just doesn't You're bewildered by rehab.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
But you got to keep going and eventually it'll it'll
settle in or whether that works or it just kind
of gets into your mind a little bit, and you're
you do it on your own, but you're you' just
gotta you gotta figure it out, man, because I don't
want you to check out early.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
You gotta got to keep the full ride.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You want to check out the ride early, right, you
doAnd the ad you want to jump off the roller
coaster mid ride in a loop de loop. I mean
the fact that the fact that you wanna Okay, you
want advice hold on, homeless mind. I'll put you on
hold and we'll we'll see if you can give you
some some quality advice. There.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It is the Ban Malor Show. As we press on,
we are going.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
To have Straight Ahead and we'll try to figure out
what to do with that homeless mic. You can give
them some places to go, although I'm guessing he's going
to reject whatever advice I give.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Him, But we will have Mallard of the third of Go.
Here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Blank is the only player in Yankee history to have
a three game span in a single postseason with nine
or more strikeouts and no hits.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
That's as a batter.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Blank is the only player in Yankee history to have
a three game span in a single postseason with nine
or more hits or nine or more strikeouts rather and
no hits.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
That's the Insta trivia. The answer next.
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Speaker 2 (38:04):
We got Mallard of the third degree, but quickly quick
right here is the insta Trivia Blanc is the only
player in Yankee history to have three plus or three
games man in a single postseason with nine plus strikeouts
and no hits. I know Jill, the Yankee fan knows this,
and she thinks I'm piling on.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
But no.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Elvis Duran Guests by Bobby in Florida, Don Perione.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
From Stevie Meetballs.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Keep up the ridiculous champagne showers in the locker room
when you make the playoffs like he did something. Chuck
Knobloch from Andy and Lionel Lakes, Willie G. Wilson from
Mister Irrigation Eraaldas Chapman from Scrooge, Roy Tarpley guests by
Shane and de Moine, The Captain, Thurman Munson from ekeon
Roseville Minnesota. Who else do we have Page down a
sid the Sloth from King Roy very funny Chucky from
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Eileen in San Francisco, Parker Crane guest by someone who
else to have? Mickey Rivers from Robin, Minnesota, Fred Stanley
from BP.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Do you have any it's not Billy Martin gets by Gt.
The wing Man. Do you have an answer?
Speaker 7 (39:04):
I'm feeling Adam Laroche Ben or Laroach No, that is
increases in the walls.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yes, the correct answer Anthony Volpi this postseason.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Very impressive Anthony Volpi to get rid of him to.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
The third degree, This is one Big Ben gets grilled
all right, cooperlo.
Speaker 11 (39:30):
The Houston Astros are sticking with their leadership in GM
Dana Brown and manager Joe a Spotted, despite their late
season collapse causing them to miss the playoffs for the
first time in a decade. Both of their contracts only
run through twenty twenty six, though. Is this going to
be a lame duck season next year for the Astros?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Well, every season is a lame duck season until they
get rid of Altuve. I believe he's the last of
the cheaters still there.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Tuve's falling apart, and it's just not a good team.
And it sounds like they're not going to spend a
lot of money to fatten up the roster.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
So it's a hot mess. And yeah, I mean, these
guys are not forever. They're not long term Joe Spota
and Dana Brown. So I'm gonna go yes, the Arrows
point ds.
Speaker 11 (40:13):
Next, the San Antonio Spurs have officially listed Victor wembin
Yama at seven foot five, two hundred and thirty five pounds.
That's two inches taller and twenty five pounds heavier than
when he entered the league. Ben, do you think we
were going to see an MVP type season from Wemby?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Yeah, what he did because he went to China and
he was hanging out with the monks, right.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
It wasn't that what he did this offseason. That was
what his big preparation was.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
He had like the thing of silence and all that.
But I think the Spurs only have to like make
the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
That seems to be a problem there.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
I mean, still, they should be better. He's great, he's
still fragile at two thirty five.
Speaker 11 (40:48):
Next, former NBA player Richard Jefferson said that most of
his peers would have gladly accepted an under the table
deal like Kawhi if they were in a similar position
to him. He went on to say that no active
performer player would be upset with Kawhi. Ben, do you
think that's true?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Yeah, I mean from what I've heard. You know, this
has been going on around the NBA. He's not the
only He's been going on in the NFL, all the sports.
How do we do he passed? How does they win?
Speaker 6 (41:12):
Hey go?
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Unlike the Yankees. I won, unlike the Yankees.
Play ball.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number two, our number two, and hello to you.
It is the I guess we sit up all night
to record this fresh audio podcast. And you want to
watch the YouTube feed, It's on YouTube dot com at
Benmatlers Show. You should follow that also Benny Vspenny, both channels,
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follow those channels. But here in our number two, what
does this latest playoff loss for the the American League side?
For Aaron Judges Yankees, they've been exterminated from the playoffs.
What does this do for the resume of Aaron Judge?
Also are Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman in the Stranger
danger Zone in the Bronx.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And how do you react to Fox's Derek Jeter saying
that the Mariners thought this series was over, implying that
is why they lost Game four to the Tigers. They
had a big lead in the middle innings and it
all went away. Will parse the words of Derek Jeter.
We'll get to that right now here. It is our
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lead this hour We talked a lot about the National
League as the Phillies and the Cubs stay alive. So
we will get game fours in the National League. But
we'll start out here in the Bronx the hour of
American League Divisional Championship Series baseball, and we'll start out
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with a game that could have ended at all, Game four.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Of the America League Divisional Series.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
There the Yankees looking to beat the Blue Jays and
force a winner take all game.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Back in all, did you watch? Perhaps not?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, we got your cover. We got you covered on
this because we have nothing else to do. We wished
an entire day watching sports. Vladimir Guerrero Junior and that
cheating astro George Springer each drove in a run, and
eight Toronto pitchers, eight Toronto pitchers shut down the mighty
(03:35):
New York Yankees lineup five to two the final on
Wednesday night. Then that sent the Blue Jays flying high
to the American League Championship Series. They've reached the final
four for the first time in nine years. Toronto smacked
out twelve hits in smothering the Yankees. The a L
East champion Toronto Blue Jays, well, now move on. They
(03:59):
take the divisional series three games to one. They will
host game number one in best of seven American League
Championship Series. That'll be on Sunday. We'll be watching football,
but they'll be playing baseball there against either the Tigers
or the Seattle Mariners, and those teams are set to
decide their playoff series. That'll be on Friday night in
game number five, Game number five there in Seattle. More
(04:23):
on that in a minute. But the better story, as
you talk Yankees and Blue Jays, is in the losing
locker room. And it's always a special time when the
Yankees lose in the playoffs. I know Supermarket Steve always
looks forward to it. He can't get enough of it.
So let us discuss the question. We'll focus in on
the big Ragou, the big ragu for the Yankees. So
(04:45):
what does this latest playoff loss doe for Aaron Judges
Yankees resume?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What does it do?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
So?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You go to his Wikipedia page, you go to his
Baseball reference page.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
What does this do? So?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I've got rewriting, academia and Nintendo, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are gonna make
your Babushka's favorite soggy nachos, soggy ballpark nachos.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
See, the nachos are like it's like my theory on
fast food, and I'm never wrong about this. I'm never
My theory on fast food is every second that goes
by once you pick up your food like that. I
used to eat fast food all time. But when you
get the fast food, you've got to eat it right
away because every second it goes it degrades. The quality
of the meal goes down, similar to nachos. Like it's
(05:34):
like when I was a kid, My mom used to
make you give me cereal, like give most kids. You
get cereal when you're a kid, and I would get
it and it would always bother me because I had
to eat it so fast, because you don't want to
eat soggy cereal because the milk and the cereal.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So nachos are the same thing. But back to the point.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So what does this latest playoff loss do for Aaron
Judges Yankees Rosumee so number Aaron Judge is a magician?
Can we all agree on that? Does anyone disagree? Anybody
in the back of the room disagree? Aaron Judge is
a magician. He is untracted to the impossible. They and imaginable,
(06:11):
the most mind blowing trick around have a full career
wearing pinstripes and get no bling, bling abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's wild.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
It is insane to the membrane that here we are
and Judges already passed his athletic prime and has nothing
in terms of championships, which is how you are judged
as a Yankee. Now here's Aaron Judge. But we'll go
into the locker room. Here's Aaron Judge talking about yet
another ending to a Yankee season that ended the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
No, I like our chances, and I like our chances
all year as a special group. And it just sucks
for the guys that might be a lot of time
wearing pinstripes. You're not get a chance to have a
long run with him, and in the championship. You know,
especially to the fans all year that have been you know,
showing up supporting us even in these postseason games, even
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when we get down, you know they stayed right in
their season, you know, cheering us on. So it's just
disappointed we let all those guys down.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So it's pretty standard, pretty standard there from Aaron Judge,
the captain of the Yankees. It is ironic that John
Hayman and one of the great f ups ever by
a baseball insider when he reported that Arson Judge was
going to the Giants, but yet in the playoffs for
the Yankees, the teams Aaron Judge plays for, it's an
Arson job. At least I'm gonna be Benny Bright, people
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said to negative malor, I'll be Benny Bright's out here,
because it's not all bad for Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
At least.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
According to Fox broadcaster Joe Davis, Aaron Judge finally had
his playoff moment.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
He had his playoff moment.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It was a home run in the fourth inning of
Game three of the divisional series that went off the
foul poll.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Or the fifth inning wherever it was against Toronto.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yankee propaganda aside, all right, Yankee propaganda side. Judge is
the Matinee idol for this era of Yankee underachievement. So congratulations.
We are now talking about ten plus years, ten plus
years in the Bronx bomber's uniform, and he has been
given a team that has always one of the top
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pay rolls in baseball, and yet in the playoffs bupkis.
In terms of championships, he is thirty three. He'll turn
thirty four in April. Your athletic prime ends about thirty two.
You can stretch you out a couple of years if
you're a superhero and all that, but that means we're
talking about the tail end, even if Judge has another
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couple of good years in him. And for all of
the crooked numbers, for all of the gotdy numbers, and
the little trophies he's gotten and all that stuff, and
all you guys that love that exit velocity porn, you
get your you're all excited there because of.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
The exit velocity.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Aaron Judge is the he's reincarnated as he's like Donnie
Baseball reincarnated or Dave Winfield that era of Yankee Baseball,
great regular season guy. And that's a team that's judged
on winning championships and all that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He's got no jewelry, well, I'm sure he's got a
nice jewelry. Probably got a roll Exra two because he's
got a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But he's done the impossible, being what many believe is
the top hitter in baseball since Barry Bonds most likely
better though, because we don't believe Aaron Judges on the
sauce who knows and the clear in the cream and
somehow still not winning. Like you think of every era
of baseball with the Yankees, Babe Ruf, Lou Garrett, Jolton,
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Joe DiMaggio, they all did it. The only ear that
didn't do it was Dave Winfield, Don Mattingly, that was it.
But all the legends in Monument Park, for the most part,
carried the damn franchise to the top of the mountain.
Now Aaron Judge again, he's rewriting the Yankee history book
here for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And the man's going to finish his career.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
As the best you know what that means, as good
as all the rest, best player ever to wear the
uniform without a championship. Like he's better than Don matting
He's better than Dave Winfield, and yet they didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Go down the Canyon of Heroes, and neither is Aaron Judge.
Tik tik tik tik tick. You can hear tik tik
tik tik tick.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
The clock is ticket and the Yankees so called window
of opportunity, while it never really closes because the Yankees
spent a lot of money. In all reality, it's a
very small window, very small window. It really is the
longest drought in modern Yankee history is seventeen years from
nineteen seventy nine to nineteen ninety five. And then they
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had the Joe Tory run, and with him as the manager,
and Paul O'Neill and Jeter and then Jorje Posad and
Bernie Williams and all those guys, and now they're at
sixteen right now. The difference all right, And back then
they got they had maddingly in that run where they
didn't get it done. Sad wistful eyes of Donnie Baseball,
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who I believe is a coach with the Blue Jays.
Now they've got Aaron Judge's blank postseason stare.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Now Judge put up great stats. Woo o o.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Batt at six hundred had a home run off the
foul pole, had his moment. According to Joe Davis, a
Fox had his moment. Six RBIs, four walks against Blue Jays.
Spoiler alert, Vladimir Guerrero Junior was better. The other team's
top player was better than your team's best player.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
That's it. And again Aaron Judge, despite what Joe.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Davis said, his signature moment is fumbling and bumbling and
stumbling a ball in center field in Game five of
the World Series where the Yankees had.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
A dominating lead they were gonna get right back in
the World Series. Heft it up. That's his moment.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And this series in the Bronx, Vlattie doing backflips and
carrying Toronto while Aaron Judge can only watch and watched
the celebration a little dazed and confused.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And so the Yankee So he used to own October Man.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That was all Yankee baseball in October House of Horrors,
Yankee Stadium. Now, I guess they rent by the hour.
You know, It's like it's sleazy hotel. They rent by
the hour, all right now.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Page two.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So the big Komodo dragon in the room in the
Bronx continues to be will there actually be legitimate changes?
Every year the Yankees losing the playoffs, and every year
the question gets asked, are they going to whack this guy?
Are they going to whack that guy? So you've got
Aaron Boone who is always being discussed as a guy's
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going to lose his job and all this well here
is Aaron Boone asked whether or not he's going to
come back. Do you think Aaron Boone is going to say, Ay,
I shouldn't come back. I've done a terrible job. B
I don't want to come back because this team's a
bunch of losers.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Or see, I expect to be back. Let's go to
the audio tape.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Aaron, I'm sorry on it, but it becomes a subject
every year. Do you have any reason to think you
won't be back managing the team next year?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
I'm under contract, so no, I don't expect any thing.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Can I ask a question? I would like to ask
you a question.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
What journalism school do they tell you to apologize before
you ask the question?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Does that guy have no balls? Can we play that again?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I believe I just heard a supposed reporter apologize before
asking the question, like, what are we doing it?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
What are your buddies with him? Going out drinking with
them after the news car?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Take a lesson?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Aaron, I'm sorry on it, but it becomes a subject
every year. Do you have any reason to think you
won't be back managing the team next Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
All right, I don't, this is Aaron. I'm sorry, I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh crap, all right, question, are Aaron Boone and Brian
Cashman the GM there in the danger zone? Stranger danger?
Are they in the danger zone in the Bronx? So
I am shaking my head? No, right, isn't the Bronx anymore?
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You know, it's not like it used to be. It
used to be you lose in October and it would
be like Halloween. There'd be heads on spikes outside Yankee Stadium.
Now it's modern deferred accountability.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's you know again, we say it every year.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
These aren't your daddy's pinstripers or your granddaddy's pinstripers. Brian
Cashman has been running the show since Bill Clinton was
in the White House with Monica Lewinsky having a good time.
Yankee Baseball has turned in to academia. Aaron Boone, I
am convinced. Aaron Boon's not going anywhere. Brian Cashman's not
going anywhere. Heck, they could both get promoted. They are
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tenured professors. At this point, you can't whack a tenured guy.
You gotta jump to a lot of hoops to get
rid of a tenured professor. They've got lifetime appointments to
the Bronx Ivy League is what they've got. And the
Steinbrenner clan that owns the team, the kids like, they're
not They're not the boss, the sequels, not the equals.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
We know. You look at all.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The legacy ownership groups in sports, they're just not as good.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
They're just not as good.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Al Davis was a tyrant with the Raiders. It didn't
go well at the end of our life. But his
kid is a joke. Mark Davis with the Raiders an embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Right, and you give me to go down.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Then all the groups where the next generation takes over,
it's it gets worse. It does not get better, It
gets worse. Genie Buss horrific owner with the Lakers, right,
old man, great owner. She was terrible and she's finally
sold the team, I guess eventually, but she wants to
hold on because she gets to go to.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Cocktail parties in Beverly Hills. But whatever. Fine.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
So the point is that the old man, George Steinbrener
was lighting managers on fire every other homestead. He had
a revolving door with these guys like Billy Martin. Now
you're fired. Two years later, you're hired. You know that
he had I think it was eleven changes in like
a four year span or some ridiculous thing like that
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back in the day. But now he fired Yogi Bear
left them at the airport in Chicago baseball legend. That
was the George Steinberner years. Now it's a daycare center, right.
The current group, it's just a cash cow. It's the
the illusion of contention is all you need. They're printing money,
you know, the seventeen dollars beers and all that. And
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I've been told by boots on the ground that the
luxury area behind home plate is the top in baseball,
where they have the seafood table with crab legs and
high ends sushi, they have the Kobe beef over to
the sun and all that. It's just insane, right because
they appeal to the Wall Street the one percenters there
in New York and then don't appeal to the to
the bleacher creatures and all that stuff. And so as
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long as they can convince the fans that just making
the playoffs there and that you know, losing in the
wild card of the divisional round is equal to a championship.
That's championship stands. The Yankees have become a theme park attraction.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
They really have.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You know, as long as the turnstiles are spending and
you're riding the dumbbell ride and the networks selling their
ads and they got all the spots paid.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
For, no one's storming the castle. It's not happening.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Aaron Boone could sleep walk, right, could sleep walk through
a ninety win season, and Brian Cashman's gonna still be
ordering catered lunches for his army of nerds.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
As Goose Gotchi's tremulously said back in the day.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Now, the real question is who is going to pay
the price for the Yankees issues, Because why I believe
Aaron Boone and Cashman are safe, someone's going to lose
their job. Normally, what you do is you sacrifice one
of the coaches. Depends how upset you are. You might
get rid of the first base coach. If you're not
that upset, you get rid of the third base coach,
if you're a little more upset. If you're really really upset,
you get rid of the pitching coach and the hitting coach.
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The one name that I will put there at the
very top is of my big board, not a list
Terry in England, my big board. The fall guy is
going to be Jazz Chisholm Garantee, Jazz Chisholm, free agent
butcher in the field, he was an All Star and
he was caught yawning while trailing in an elimination game,
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and then mock the people that made fun of him
yawning during the game on the field, yawning while the
game was going on. He's the perfect scapegoat, bad clutch player,
not a big time player. Two eleven batting average in
the postseason, one eight two in the American League Divisional Series, underwhelming.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
When it matters, underwhelming when it matters.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And you know, meanwhile, Brian Cashman is up in the
suite stress testing the next NERD approved depth chart and
they're already.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Going over who can we get on the weaver wire?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Now, the danger zone does not exist in the Bronx
at this point.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It's more of a comfort zone. It's more of a
comfort zone than that. And as long as they're selling
the illusion of the evil Empire.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
No one is actually in any real danger. Yankee baseball
is where tenure meets mediocredy. There's an intersection of tenure
and mediocrety. All right, final point to motown we go.
And it looked early on like it was going to
be a bubbly bath for the boys from Seattle.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But then they had to play the rest of the game.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And somebody named Riley green is somebody named Hobby Bias
homeward four run, sixth inning, and the.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Tigers had they ried, I'll roared back to keep their season.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'll stand alive, staying up nine to three, dominating win
over the Mariners on a sleepy Wednesday afternoon their Game
four of the American League Divisional Series.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
So that means we are gonna get a game five.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Tigers force a Game five by winning at Comerica Park
for the first time in more than a month. They'd
lost eight straight home games. How embarrassing, How Lou Whitaker
and Alan Tramball right, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Che Lemon's rolling over in his grave? Might swong with you?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So the decisive game of the series be Friday in Seattle,
Cy young winner Tarret Scoobel on the mound for the
Motor City Kiddies against George Kirby. George Kirby uh More
on that in a minute. But the better story's in
the losing locker room as the Tridents blew a three
to nothing lead in the fifth inning. Question, how do
you react to Fox's Derek Jeters.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Saying the Mariners?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
He said on the Fox postgame he said the Mariners
thought the series was over, implying that that somehow is
why they lost. All right, So listen, Derek Jeter, legendary
bad take, nonsense. Manager Dan Wilson did the thing you
can't do at the time he can't do it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
He trusted his.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Bullpen and they the pipe burst on the bullpen under
the immense pressure of October baseball. So it started out
with this lefty Gabe Spier who I looked at the
they had the stats on the broadcast. He had a
zero point seventy five ERA. He had allowed one run
in twelve innings since September sixth, So of course he
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came in there and poured kerosene all over the game.
And then it was a funeral procession of relievers. People
I've never heard of, Eduard Bizardo and Carlos Vargas, guys
like that, Just like bullpen spam came in and they
would have been better off throwing Robbie the Mariner fan crying,
Craig JJ in Renton and no stradinas on the mountain.
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They all sucked at the time. He cannot suck so Seattle.
What they needed was to call the people that used
to own the team from Nintendo and get Mario and Luigi.
Of course we know those are plumbers. Get them in
there to solve the bullpen some solid plumbers. So unsolicited advice,
what can the Mariners do to beat Tigers Ace Trek
Scuoble in Game five?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Because everyone's gokinda, oh, this game series over.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Tigers have their guy, They're gonna win Game five, go
on to play Toronto in the American League Championship Series.
So the mallord advice call it the Schooble Survival pack,
the schoolbal survival pack. You don't have to was see
the thing people don't understand when you face a number
one starting pitcher, Okay, you don't have.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
To win the duel. You just have to endure it, right,
you just have to do it. And now what do
I mean by that?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like the Big Dumper cal Riley and friends, the mission
is not conquest. The mission is not to be eat
Trek Schooble, it's to contain him, meaning that you just
have to end up in a situation where where Schoop
is gonna go out. He'll slice your lineup up like
a sushi chef and just cut you up with a
nice big butcher's knife. The goal is to keep pace.
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The goal is not to beat him. It's just co
author the chapter. Match it, blow for blow, inning for inning,
have Kirby pitch well, go to the bullpen, have some
guys come in there and get it done. And you
just got to write it out. And you got to
either have a zero zero score or a one nothing score,
or you have the lead when you go to the
tigers bullpen or where they go to the bullpen, and that's.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
When the ink starts to smudge a little bit, and
so that's what you get.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You're not gonna beat Schooble more likely than not, but
if you have a shot, you just gotta you gotta
go blow for blow, blow for It's like a boxer,
you kind of sandbag a little bit early on, kind
of you know, let the fight come to you, that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
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be used against you in the court of sport radio.
So wow, deal with it. Yeah, back to it, back
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Speaker 2 (25:09):
Their emailer named Kevin writes in he says that he's
uh listen lives in Vancouver. He likes the show and
he's upset that I did not sarahenade the Yankees out
of the playoffs. So I apologize Kevin in the Vancouver area.
I don't think you came to the mallor meet and greet.
Bad job by you. But if you want me to
do it, I guess I'm like a trained seal, right, Lorena,
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I'm a trained seal.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
All right?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Here we go?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Ready, good bye?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
There?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You got it?
Speaker 7 (25:44):
You have me?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You have me, Kevin? You want me to sing any
other songs? I can sing other songs. I got. I
got talent, man. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I could have been Taylor Swift if I was a woman,
I could have been you know. I chose to go
to the other way. I chose to go to the
dark side overnight talk radio. But I could have done
other things. I want to be like Gaga, h Well,
I was back in the day. I don't want to
be like her anymore yet. But I do have a
poker face, right I haven't got a pretty good poker face, right,
I think?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
So for radio? I have a good poker face for radio?
Why not? Yeah? See what do we have on the
X Machine.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Late Night Drug tester writes in he says, what a
day to be a Toronto fan. Both the Maple Leaves
and the Blue Jays one on the same day. First
time that's happened since nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Wow, Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Super Marcus Steve writes in he says he's a Yankee fan.
He says they should should have fired jazz Chism after
he made those stupid comments about how they were the
best team in baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
While being only one game ahead in the wild card race.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, that's part of the beauty of jazz Chism is
that he's a bit up toose. He's a bit up toose.
Yeh Joe writes in She's a big Yankee fan.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
He says, I.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Cannot decide what you're happier about Kershaw or the Yankees losing.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
There will be no organizational change. Oh hell nah, I
know exactly You're right.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I agree with you, Jill, and I do take joy
out of Kershaw because, again, as I mentioned, Jill, I
don't know if you were listening last hour. I am
still getting email from fanboys and was that not the
most perfect beginning? If you were listening last hour, go
back and hear the podcast if you missed it.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
But it was so perfect.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Because I did this whole rant and I laid out
everything on like what the Kershaw fanboys would say, and
this guy Jay in La called up and repeated verbatim
all of the talking points to defend Kershaw.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
All of them was great. I was, go to the
phones and.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
We'll take your calls right now, and we'll say hello
to Lucky Tony in the Bay Area.
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Hello, Lucky Tony, Welcome, Hey man.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
Two things.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
What is David Vassay's signature question for Dodger players?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Did you eat pineapple?
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And Lord Shayan hear my prayers?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Thanks?
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Ben?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
All right, let's go. Let's go to Mike in Tucson.
What's going on? Mike? Welcome? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
If if I was any better, go go ahead.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You don't care, Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
So I called last week after I still listen to
the podcast, and then you said, Mikey and Kusan. I
was so well away because I'm five ft four. All
the friends called, they all call me Mikey. I've been
calling my whole life. But Ben, but today my daughter,
my daughter is on fall break. She's a weak. I
didn't talk about you.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
She had one.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Question to ask you. She said, why did call him
Big Ben? Honey?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, So my dad said that you're like seven feet tall,
and if you're that tall, then why didn't she just
playing the NBA? And I think, well, that's great question,
that is a good question. Well what's your what's your
daughter's name? Again? There, Mikey, what's your jasmine?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, I could have gone to the NBA, but I
thought it's actually harder to do syndicated overnight talk radio.
There are fewer overnight syndicated talk radio jobs in playing
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Do you realize that.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
There are more people playing in the NBA than doing
what I do for a living. So I actually defied
the odds by going in this. And it pays so well.
I mean, and Mikey, you let your daughter know. I mean,
this pays so well. It's and Lorena and Coop, you
guys working in radio, you both know this is NBA
like money that we've got tea, we get all the
creature comforts. We've got the biggest cockroaches in radio. We
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have the greatest skunks that get into this. The air
conditioning system in our building, we have the classic computers
from the year two thousand. We've got a vending machine
from nineteen ninety two. We got the greatest of the greatest.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Here we do, she said.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I told her. I told her YouTube suff and she said,
you loved it. Why do they call him that Mallard?
I said, you don't. I don't have no idea.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
He's big, he's so tall.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
If he saw NBA, I said, we you asked that
Jax real quick man. Over the weekend we had a
brand new son, Jackson. My daughter was there. Me and
my daughter told my wife. We never had a middle name.
We said, Mallard, Jackson, Malar Burron. What does your mom say, honey?
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He said, no, we were in the hospital weekend, DMC.
We didn't have a middle name. And I said, hey, Jackson,
bron Mill Mallard. She said, the guy you listened to overnight.
You're crazy. I don't even know how that would be.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
That would be a great honor, and that would be
an amazing honor. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I feel a little awkward on that one, but try
the effort was, the effort was made.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I appreciate that. It's uh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
I think people hold the gross for my daughter being
up late, that's the that's gonna be called.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yeah, but you gotta let you gotta let your wife know,
and I'm sure your daughter will agree. The most creative
people are up at night. The most creative people in
the world are up in the middle of the night
because there's not many people around.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
To bother them, and you can just kind of do
stuff and nobody messes with you. So it's just a
good time to be away late at night.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
I think your show is the best, of course, so
I told my wife. Growing up, we never got to
listen to Angy. My mom was so strict, no sports
soul strick Me and my brother Johnny had to listen
to Great Papa for the Raiders Al.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
McCoy for the Suns.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
The only time she left at the town, we saw
the Diamondbacks and the Yankees best Whites ever Game seven.
But that's how we're so radio radio.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Heads we had. We we need more.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Well, God bless your mom, because we need more people
that love radio. I'm all about it, man. You know that, Mikey,
I love raid. I grew up listening to radio too,
so it's the same thing I love. And I got
to meet the great Al McCoy before he checked on
and left this mortal coil, and I told him I
had a brief conversation with Al McCoy was a longtime
Sons broadcaster and when I was a little kid, I
before the Interweb, I had to scan the radio dial to.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Hear these far away radio stations.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And I get to Suns games sometimes at night living
in southern California, and I used to listen to Suns
games because I just loved radio, late night radio and
Al McCoy and I actually told HS because I have
family in Phoenix and we would go to Phoenix. And
I remember I told my mom when we went to
Phoenix to visit family, I want to go to Whataburger?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
She said, why on God's Earth you want to go
to Waterburger? What the hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
And I said, because this guy in the Suns, when
somebody would make a three point shot, he say, what
a shot?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
What a burger?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And it was Al McCoy, who was the play by
play guy of the Suns. And so it was just
a kind of a funny thing.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Anyway, Thank you, Mike, You thank your daughter. Go to bed.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I guess I don't know stay awake, do whatever the
hell you want. Mike and Jasmine, great question. Why didn't
just play in the NBA? And I'm not seven feet tall?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I'm not six.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
If I stand I've bad posture, So I kind of
lean over a lot. If I stand up straight, I'm like,
I'm pretty tall, but I usually lean over some shorter
That's usually what happens, bad posture.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Uh for sure. Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Scrooge says he's in northern California. He's part of the
younger demo. He says, Lucky Tony is a great representation
of the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
That's what he says is go back to the phones.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
We'll say, Lo to homeless Mike in tim Pe, our buddy,
homeless mic, Hello, homeless Mike.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Hey, how are you?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
How'd the date go with the older lady?
Speaker 6 (33:37):
She's not older, she's younger than me.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Oh I thought she was older than you.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Why you made it seem you know?
Speaker 10 (33:45):
No, I can go that route.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Then come on, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
God forbid, I know, all right? What's going on?
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Have you heard of the frontal lobe in your brain
that uh that's addicted to alcohol?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Well for your brain, I'm not I don't addicted. Yeah,
I'm not. I don't believe I'm addicted alcohol.
Speaker 10 (34:12):
I don't think you But have you heard of that?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Well, addiction is yeah, it's a it's a slippery slope,
right the I don't know it's the frontal lobe.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
But yeah, from what I've read about you, you've been
down some slippery rope.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I was addicted. I was addicted to food.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
But the prefrontal cortex, the frontal lobe of the brain,
is supposedly controls decision making, problem solving, conscious thought, attention, uh, speech, production, personality,
body movement, emotional and behavior control.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
And intelligence. That seems like a lot of stuff.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
So you get where I'm going, right.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, I'm right here. I'm listening all right.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Uh God, I hate to way waste so much of
your time on the air.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
But no, you don't.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
I got a problem, then I need your help?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay? How can how can I help you? What can
I do?
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Advice?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Okay? What's your problem?
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Drinking?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
All right? Well, you gotta stop, you gotta start drinking
before we know, we know, we know how this ends,
we know, and think of all them.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Let's make it a different way.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
To what do you what do you want me to
give you a number somebody can call, Like, I'm not
a counselor I can give you.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I can get you in contact with somebody if you want.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
I've already done that ten times.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well, you gotta keep going. The batting average is not
very good.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
My bad average is like.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Like one no.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
No, they say that you gotta go to rehab mold.
I remember reading about this years ago. Like the batting
people think you just go to rehab, you're fine, but no,
normally you go there and you're flum mixed and you're it.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Just doesn't You're bewildered by rehab.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
But you got to keep going and eventually it'll it'll
settle in or whether that works or it just kind
of gets into your mind a little bit, and you're
you do it on your own, but you're you' just
gotta you gotta figure it out, man, because I don't
want you to check out early.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
You gotta got to keep the full ride.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You want to check out the ride early, right, you
doAnd the ad you want to jump off the roller
coaster mid ride in a loop de loop. I mean
the fact that the fact that you wanna Okay, you
want advice hold on, homeless mind. I'll put you on
hold and we'll we'll see if you can give you
some some quality advice. There.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It is the Ban Malor Show. As we press on,
we are going.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
To have Straight Ahead and we'll try to figure out
what to do with that homeless mic. You can give
them some places to go, although I'm guessing he's going
to reject whatever advice I give.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Him, But we will have Mallard of the third of Go.
Here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Blank is the only player in Yankee history to have
a three game span in a single postseason with nine
or more strikeouts and no hits.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
That's as a batter.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Blank is the only player in Yankee history to have
a three game span in a single postseason with nine
or more hits or nine or more strikeouts rather and
no hits.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
That's the Insta trivia. The answer next.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Bill Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
It is the Ben Maler Show, up all night, every night,
Insomniacs night Owls, The Malar militia.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Do not just listen live it Live the show.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Follow the Ben Maler Show on Instagram at Ben Maler
on Fox and on Facebook at Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Behind the Scenes, Chaos.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Bonus, Hot Takes Overnight, Mattison behind the scenes photos support
the circus.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
That tent never closes. Back to it.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
We got Mallard of the third degree, but quickly quick
right here is the insta Trivia Blanc is the only
player in Yankee history to have three plus or three
games man in a single postseason with nine plus strikeouts
and no hits. I know Jill, the Yankee fan knows this,
and she thinks I'm piling on.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
But no.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Elvis Duran Guests by Bobby in Florida, Don Perione.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
From Stevie Meetballs.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Keep up the ridiculous champagne showers in the locker room
when you make the playoffs like he did something. Chuck
Knobloch from Andy and Lionel Lakes, Willie G. Wilson from
Mister Irrigation Eraaldas Chapman from Scrooge, Roy Tarpley guests by
Shane and de Moine, The Captain, Thurman Munson from ekeon
Roseville Minnesota. Who else do we have Page down a
sid the Sloth from King Roy very funny Chucky from
(38:50):
Eileen in San Francisco, Parker Crane guest by someone who
else to have? Mickey Rivers from Robin, Minnesota, Fred Stanley
from BP.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Do you have any it's not Billy Martin gets by Gt.
The wing Man. Do you have an answer?
Speaker 7 (39:04):
I'm feeling Adam Laroche Ben or Laroach No, that is
increases in the walls.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yes, the correct answer Anthony Volpi this postseason.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Very impressive Anthony Volpi to get rid of him to.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
The third degree, This is one Big Ben gets grilled
all right, cooperlo.
Speaker 11 (39:30):
The Houston Astros are sticking with their leadership in GM
Dana Brown and manager Joe a Spotted, despite their late
season collapse causing them to miss the playoffs for the
first time in a decade. Both of their contracts only
run through twenty twenty six, though. Is this going to
be a lame duck season next year for the Astros?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Well, every season is a lame duck season until they
get rid of Altuve. I believe he's the last of
the cheaters still there.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Tuve's falling apart, and it's just not a good team.
And it sounds like they're not going to spend a
lot of money to fatten up the roster.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
So it's a hot mess. And yeah, I mean, these
guys are not forever. They're not long term Joe Spota
and Dana Brown. So I'm gonna go yes, the Arrows
point ds.
Speaker 11 (40:13):
Next, the San Antonio Spurs have officially listed Victor wembin
Yama at seven foot five, two hundred and thirty five pounds.
That's two inches taller and twenty five pounds heavier than
when he entered the league. Ben, do you think we
were going to see an MVP type season from Wemby?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Yeah, what he did because he went to China and
he was hanging out with the monks, right.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
It wasn't that what he did this offseason. That was
what his big preparation was.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
He had like the thing of silence and all that.
But I think the Spurs only have to like make
the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
That seems to be a problem there.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
I mean, still, they should be better. He's great, he's
still fragile at two thirty five.
Speaker 11 (40:48):
Next, former NBA player Richard Jefferson said that most of
his peers would have gladly accepted an under the table
deal like Kawhi if they were in a similar position
to him. He went on to say that no active
performer player would be upset with Kawhi. Ben, do you
think that's true?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Yeah, I mean from what I've heard. You know, this
has been going on around the NBA. He's not the
only He's been going on in the NFL, all the sports.
How do we do he passed? How does they win?
Speaker 6 (41:12):
Hey go?
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Unlike the Yankees. I won, unlike the Yankees.
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