September 30, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the New York Mets deciding to keep manager Carlos Mendoza despite their late season collapse, why Bob Melvin was given his walking papers as Giants manager, how the Pirates keeping their manager and GM impacts the future of Paul Skeens, Maller's Mountain of Money: Kieran Culkin Edition, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three, our number three, ready to go.
And here in our number three talk in baseball, the
playoffs begin today in baseball, we're gonna look at some.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Of the teams that didn't make the playoffs. Though.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here in our number three of the Ben Mather Show.
What message are the New York Metropolitans sending to their
fans after this epic choke job? They keep manager Carlos Mendoza.
Apparently they like that Mendoza line. And why was Bob
Melvin given his walking papers in the Bay Area as
Giants manager hey out he gone, while the Pittsburgh Pirates
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are keeping their interim manager Don Kelly and the GM
Ben Charrington. How does that impact the future of star
pitcher Paul Skens. The silly season of baseball, the Hot
Stove League will be here before you know it, All
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So coming up later this hour if you stay with
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We're gonna get away from the football because we got
baseball action. We have Major League Baseball playoff activity today
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talking bays ball.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, all day.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And depending on where you are on the West Coast,
these games start at ten in the morning, getting up
for the middle part of that early game. But it's
the Cleveland Guardians and the Tigers, So I don't know
that it's a must see, must see TV now with
that as the backdrop, and we will spend a lot
of time over the next month or so talking about
the baseball playoffs, the good, the.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Bad, and we love the ugly. We're all about the ugly.
We love the ugly.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But I bring this up here because the fallout from
the regular season still has some legs as the playoffs
will get going here on Tuesday. So the teams that
didn't get invited, the teams that are not the cool
kids not invited to the party, left to pick up
the pieces, if you will. Now, one of those teams
is the New York Metropolitans. If you saw what happened
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to they were epic choking dogs. The New York Mets.
Just pathetic, spineless baseball by the New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So what do they do?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
They obviously fired their manager as a no brainer. You
play like that, you fire the Mendoza line, No say what?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
They I'm telling you they didn't fire him. I know
it's shocking. Well, Carlos Mendoza has been given a pardon
by the New York Mets front office.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
He will return.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
According to the early word out of Flushing, the Mets
will keep Carlos Mendoza as their manager. In twenty twenty
six that according to the President of Baseball Ops Chief
nerd David sterns Zah, he said, quote, I believe Carlos
has all the same traits and assets that we believed
in when we hired him two years ago, the Mets
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brainy executive said today media gathering at City Field. So
the dissecting and the analyzing of the Mets and other
teams underway, and the decision to keep the manager, I
think that's a good jumping off point. So let's discuss
the question what message are the New York Mets sending
their fans by keeping manager Carlos Mendoza.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Is there a message that they are sending. So I've got.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Waffle house, drywall, and cafeteria food and we'll combine all
of these things together to make the Baba Ganoosh. We're
gonna make the Baba Ganoosh. Now, first of all, welcome,
for those of you a little slow in the back
of the room, we'd like to welcome you to modern
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professional sports, in this case professional baseball. The manager for
about one hundred and seventy five years, the manager in
Major League Baseball was expendable that if things were not
going well, the line.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Is, you can't get rid of the players. You get
rid of the manager. Cannot do it, cannot do it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Like the manager is just the guy that hands over
the lineup card to the umpires and that's it. That's
his power, and that's all. And that's the way baseball
is today. Like that's the way they operate here. That's
the superpower. That's it. It's like you're the assistant shift
manager at Walmart. You're not the one making the decisions.
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You're not that guy. Pal and Carlos Mendoza, ironically, the
Mendoza line, he's not pushing the buttons, he's not deciding
who plays and where they play and when they play,
and how often they play. He's not doing any of that,
all right, that's it. He's just kind of hanging out.
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You gotta read the three ring Binder. Now, you do
have to read the three ring Binder. The general manager
David Sterns with his Harvard degree Harvard YUD. He's the
puppet master. David Stearns is the puppet master the Mets.
They've got Nerd Army, right. Nerd Army is the front office.
They're the ones that do all the managing of the
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New York Mets. And they put the lineup together that
Mendoza goes out and trots out and hands to the
umpiring crew and here, mister Mendoza, play one. So here,
I want you to put Pete Alonzo in this spot
in the lineup because the algorithm says he's going to
do pretty well there. And then I want you to
shift Jeff McNeil like this, and then Mendoza just nods okay,
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and then I'll talk to the media and then that'll
be that. He's essentially Surrey with like with syrups. He
gets to where the uniform right and all that, and
that's great. But in the old days, this would never fly.
You could not get away with something like this for
one hundred and seventy five years of baseball. But now,
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times obviously have changed, and so now it's like, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Forget about. You blew the entire season.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The team sucked, the players are chronic underachievers, and you
had the biggest payroll in baseball. Your ass is supposed
to be grass. But not anymore, right, not anymore. You know,
for a long time, before the team even got back
to their home city after the final game, the manager
was given its walking papers see you later. But in
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the old country, the owners, when it was a mom
and pop here's the guy, right thing. When it was
a mom and pop business, managers were whacked all the time. Hey,
they got rid of these guys all the time, and
they just, well, you follow instructions now, that's all you're
supposed to do. But in the old days, you wouldnt
even get off the tarmac to get on the plane.
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They'd leave you behind and be like, oh, you've got
to figure out your travel arrangements to get back to
where you need to go. And the manager's just a
temporary person there. It's like a substitute teacher and just
kind of do your thing, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And the Mets, even though they're.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Not owned by a mega corporation, but they're owned by
a fanboy. And Steven Cohne, the Mets owner there, and
what is he telling. The message here is rather obvious.
The message from the New York Mets is this is
not Carlos Mendoza's team.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
We have neutered him.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He has no balls. The manager of the Mets is
a ballless wonder. We're gonna bring him back because he
has no nuts, and he doesn't make any decisions. All right,
that's it, no decisions. We'll bring him back. And it's
just the algorithm. Blame the algorithm. You can't blame the
algorithm because it's just an algorithm.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And that's all. He's just a.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Middle manager, Carlos Mendoza. He might as well be working
at a waffle house in South Carolina. His job is
to make sure the hash browns get to the table,
while the real power is the person making the hash
browns in the kitchen and the ball of grits and
the pecan waffles and all that stuff. Now, so the
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Mets are flat out saying again for those of you
a little slow. The Mets are flat out saying that
results don't matter. Carlos Mendoza doesn't matter. He doesn't make
any decisions. There's no real accountability. And I'm just gonna motorrod.
That's it, Chop, that's it. It's a motorod. As long
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as the nerds in the lab coats approve of the lineup,
and Mendoza just keeps sending out the same crap, that's
all that matters.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
He's safe.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Secondly, we did we did get a change in San Francisco.
Bob Melvin, he goll see you later. Bob Melvin. Two
first names, Bob mikes. Melvin's the first old first name.
But Bob Melvin has been whack a doodle. He's out
whacked as the manager of the Giants, See you later.
The Giants played one hundred and sixty two games. They
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lost eighty one, they won eighty one average average.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Now, they did tease fans a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
They got off to a pretty good start, and then
they went on a terrible dumpster fire run. Then they
won thirteen out of sixteen in late August early September,
worked themselves back into playoff contention because everyone's a contender
in baseball.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And then they.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Went two to nine in a stretch and then that
was not an ana.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Good Bye.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's it now. Buster Posey, grown man named Buster, not
his real name. He said, just looking to find a
different voice that can take us in a different direction.
Close quote from Buster Posey, the general manager of the Giants.
So San Francisco, we know they went big. In fact,
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the night I was at the the only Dodger game
I went to this year with the Marlins man, my
buddy Marlin's man. He's very upset the match did not
make the playoffs. He has He sent me a message
I got Mets tickets for all the playoff games.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
They're not in the playoffs. Well, I said, well that's
a bummer anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So they traded for rafa Ol Devers from the Red
Sox on a Sunday night, just before a Sunday night game,
and they were supposed to turn.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
On the afterburns. The never turned on the after burners.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Didn't happen. Didn't happen, So the question why the Mets,
who underachieved. They kept their manager, but in San Francisco
not the case. So why was Bob Melvin given his
walking papers as the Giants manager when the Giants didn't
have any real expectations this year compared to the team
like the Mets.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So this was a more of a mercy firing.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
What happened in San Francisco disguised as a philosophical pivot
by the franchise. Like Bob Melvin, the problem he had
is the team was boring and he's boring. Can't have both,
cannot have both. And you don't need some kind of
sabermetric chart. I don't need to put a chart up
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to show you here to figure out that the Giants
had a morbid offense this year. They played bland baseball,
a lack of passion. If they were a color in
the rainbow, they would be beige. Well, there's no bage
in the rainbow. Just go with it, dummy, It's beige.
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Beige baseball is what it is. They teased, they choked,
They teased a get, They choked to get eighty one
and eighty one. That is baseball's version of driving cross
country and never leaving a rest stop. That is essentially
what the Giants did. Now here's the key. The difference.
When you juxtapose what the Giants are doing firing Bob
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Melvin compared to the Mets and Carlos Mendoza. The difference here,
and this is a big one, is Buster Posey is
not some kind of mit nerd.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He is not.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
He didn't ride the Ivy League coattails the gravy train
there in some corner office. And he's a kid from
Georgia who played for the Seminoles of Florida State, played baseball,
was very good there. That's his stock. He's a Seminole.
By nat you're there, and he knows because he played
a long time. He knows what's going on. He's got
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the pine tar still under his fingernails. It's hard to
get that out. He's still got some pine tar under
on his right hand. He's got a little pine tar
right there. And he inherited Bob Melvin. That's the other
part of this. He didn't hire Bob Melvin. He inherited
Bob Melvin. And when you inherit a manager who's milk
Toast personified, eventually you say, well, I kind of want
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a little jolt cola.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I want some I want a little caffeine here.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I want someone who's overcaffeinated, and that's not the guy.
I want someone who's a little louder and all that stuff,
or just a better manager. That was supposed to be
the turbo boost when they got Rafael Devers. It did
not turn out that the after burners were there for
the San Francisco Giants. Instead, it's another case of the
Giants here where they rev up the engine but never
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really pulled onto the highway. Didn't pull onto the freeway there.
And Posey, he also knows it's entertainment. It's entertainment.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And Bob Melvin, although a study.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Handed a experience after that Gabe Kaepler buffoon, you put
Bob Melvin in there. He's a grown up in the room, right,
He's a grown up in the room and all that stuff,
and that's wonderful. But watching the Giants play was about
as interesting as watching drywall. Just sitting there and staring
at drywall. Not a lot of entertainment, not a lot
of wow factor when you do that. Now, it is
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interesting to note that Buster Posey's beloved manager is now available.
The Texas Rangers said bye bye to Bruce Bouchie. He's
out in Arlington. Only time that Rangers have been any good.
They won the World Series with Bruce Bochie, and now
they have said bye bye to Bouchie. So he's out,
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and so that opens the door for Bruce Bochie to
return to the San Francisco Genas. Now he's not the
most exciting guy in the world, but he's got the resume.
He's got the actually resume. You can sell the resume.
You can get people to buy tickets. They get all
horny because you look at all those championships Boch he
won back in the day.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Meanwhile, final thought to Pittsburgh, we'll do this quickly, quick, right,
we'll do it quickly. So the Pittsburgh Pirates a horrific
baseball team. Now, they actually fired their manager during the season.
They put somebody named Don Kelly in as the interim manager.
They then had a losing record with Don Kelly six
games under five hundred.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So the Pirates have decided what you'd expect them to do.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
They've kept Don Kelly as their manager because they are losers.
Not only that, the Pirates have decided that they're incompetent.
GM Ben Charrington, red Sox trash who landed in Pittsburgh
that he will remain as the general manager of the
Pittsburgh Pirates. So how does all of that impact the future?
Because the Pirates aren't interesting, but there's one guy in
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the Pirates that is interesting. So how does that impact
the future of pitching phenom Paul Skens the decision to
keep the manager and the general manager there in Pittsburgh.
So you might remember Paul Skins near the end of
the regular season said something to the effect of, if
we don't learn from this, meaning if changes aren't made,
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that's the way I interpreted it, then it's a wasted
time for the Pittsburgh Pirates. So this is a once
in a generation situation the Pirates have on the mound,
and instead of making the necessary changes to put a
championship caliber team around Paul Skins, giving him a reason
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to stay at least for a few more years. At
least for a few more years, what are the Pirates do?
They do what they always do. They cheap out, They stall,
And now all the tea leaves continuing to indicate every
single every single key indicator pointing to an exit stage
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left that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The usual suspect of the Mets, the.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Dodgers, the Cobs, all of the big market teams. You
got to think the Red Sox will be on being
on Paul Skans also here, they're all going to be
on the prowl to try.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
To get Paul Skins.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And it's really up to his group of hanger on
so the people that are writing his coatails whether or
not he's going to press the issue here, press your
luck and attempt to get a trade whommy, no hammy,
big money, big money, a stop, that's the question. And
so we'll see whether or not he wants to do that.
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The Pirates had an opportunity. They have futched away the opportunity,
and so the front office is essentially telling their franchise player, Hey,
you're on your own, big fella, but keep bringing that
lady friend around. People seem to like her on social media.
But we're not serious about winning. We just want to
put a halfway decent team on the field, but not
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a good team. Not a good team here, and so
no changing culture, no changing identity, none of that. No
change even just for optics. They're not even pretending that's
the beauty of the Pirates. They don't even try like
some teams would they'd make changes just to make changes, like,
they don't even do that. They're like, listen, we got
in a competent GM, we got a manager who's nothing special.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Let's keep them both. Why not?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Man, We'll this go with the status quo, went in doubt, punt,
went in doubt punt. And so they've got that gray
cafeteria food in the elementary school. They've got that just
cafeteria foods all gray. That's Pirates baseball, kind of like
the sky in Pittsburgh a lot of the year, just
kind of gray and overcast and all that stuff. And
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so good luck, and we'll see what happens next, but
a whole lot of nothing. And once the playoffs and
we'll hear a lot of rumors, speculation and all that.
And I can see the slogan for the twenty twenty
six Pirates. If Paul Skeins is not traded, come see
the comet before the comet goes away. And and that's it.
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Comics already likely packing the bags as we speak right now,
but we'll see what the future holds. It is the
Ben Mahler Show. If you'd like to be part eight
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That's at Ben Maller coming up later. This are your calls.
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Also the always popular Mallard's Mount of Money that'll be
coming up a little bit later. Here's the riddle of
the day, and we'll go to pro Bouncy Ball's media
day around the NBA. So a lot of cliches, a
lot of nonsense around pro bouncy Ball.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
But here's the riddle of the day.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Guard Lonzo Ball, remember him, Lonzo Ball was asked about
his new home with the Cavaliers. He said, I didn't
even know Cleveland had blank. Again, Guard Lonzo Ball, now
on the Cavaliers, said I didn't even know Cleveland had blank.
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That is the malor riddle of the day.
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The answer, We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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to it all right time Now for the Mallor Riddle
of the day guard Lionzo Ball that is a basketball
player about he was asked about his new home in
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the NBA.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Is gonna play for the Cavaliers?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
He said, I didn't even know Cleveland had blank all right,
Mister irrigation says, indoor toilets is the the answer. Tammy
in Vegas says he did not know Cleveland had any
other sports teams?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, what else do you have? Shannon Wye cheetad he
got it right back? Job by him?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What kind of a late night drug? Tester says hotels?
Because who vacations in Cleveland? Alf the alien opiners says
knuckleball pitchers.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
That's all we'll say on that. That's it. Who else
a ferg dog? He he cheated. It's a bad job
by you for dog.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Andy in Lino Lake says I didn't know they had
indoor dining in Cleveland. Shampoo bottles from King Rory Boy,
those are interesting shampoo bottles.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Indoor plumbing guests by Dante Just Josh got it right now.
Freddie says did not know the Cleveland Cavaliers had a championship. Yeah,
let's see Jay Dot in Utah. Our buddy Jay Dot
says Lonzo Ball did not know Cleveland had shopping malls.
Rivers that burn from William That was his answer. Kyahoga
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donkey sausage going with electricity. Did not know they had electricity?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Page nine, Let's see year they had the ballet at
many established. It's from Ozzie Waz in Western Australia. Who
else do we have to see? Page down? Lizzo Calves
guessed by Slunk.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Let's say his name. Let's see page down.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Trucker Joe said, did not know that Cleveland had the
black version of weed Man Hippie?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Is that right? Is there a guy in Cleveland like
weed Man Hippie? But uh interesting?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
If they do have one, he needs to call our show.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
JT the wing Man said, cheese curds. Oh god, those
are so good Culver's cheese curds. I gotta go back
and visit my brother just for the cheese curds. What
else do we have? See page down? See a jail
from Johnny Q. That was his answer. Bidezz from Monkey Biz,
Doug in South Korea as in day has kicker on
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the Browns from mad Jack that's his answer. A huge
Lego land location from Mike the Leprechaun skyline, Chili from
Brian Well, that's Cincinnati's known for that. A roller co
from Hugh on the five, Paul's going with sushi, Loraina,
do you have an answer? It's the Mallard Riddle of
the day. A Lonzo Ball basketball player on his new team,
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the Cavaliers, said, I didn't even know Cleveland had blank.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Yeah, he didn't know that Cleveland still had brothels brothels?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Wow? Okay, is that is that great? Brothels?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Wrong?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Uh see, Shane says, Kelly says, says she doesn't know,
but he's eating a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Okay, apparently not all right.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
The correct answer is Lonzo Ball on Cleveland says, I
didn't even know Cleveland had water.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I didn't know they had water. Seriously, how their answer
was running water?
Speaker 8 (25:40):
But everyone kept on saying plumbing. So I was like, no,
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, yeah, I would have gotten it right. Well, you're
not supposed to get it right. And no, no you don't.
You're not supposed to get it right. That's not right
to get it right. It's wrong to get it right.
Don't get it right. Let's go to the funds and
let's say hello.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
To hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, minassot Hello, hollow.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Ring James, Hello, I got the right line.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Punched up here, I got my buttons pushed.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Then you fell asleep again.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
He's a very loud sleeper.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, I know, he like he likely fell asleep and
then hung up and then the phone.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Still I don't know who cares. Let's go to Nick
in Berkeley. What's going on? Nick? Welcome? Welcome?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
He was doing on then? Hey man, So basically my
forty nine ers man, I don't know what happened for
forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
We don't even have an inventoy, man, because all my
players are hurt. So I didn't know what to do.
What's going on with that? Like, you know, we died.
He tried to come back, but you know, we can't
win a game with four turnovers. But you know, like
Bob Melvine, he's infected with a former GENS disease. Man
for hand, he didn't know what he was doing and
he came good. So you know, post he had to
get rid of him, just just for the heck of it, man.
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And yeah, I mean it's like it wasn't gonna work out, man.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
So is it true? Is it true?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
The forty nine are now headed towards a three game
losing streak. You lost to Jacksonville. You lose the Rams
on Thursday and they play at Tampa Bay in week six.
That's not looking great there, Nick and Berkeley.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Hey, man, we're about to We're about to left the
Rams habit. We're about to let the Rams Tabbage and
then hopefully we'll limp into Tampa Bay. Trying to speak
one out. But you know, Baker, Baker Mayfield, he's like
he's been liking the last few seasons. Man, he's been
the number one sutch down throwing quarterbacks. Who knew you
know what I'm saying. Like, you know, he's out there
and stones and throwing the ball around deep. It's looking good.
But you know, Tampa bayking be beat man, but it's
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gonna be a tough call.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Man.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Hopefully mac Jones can hang in there. Otherwise. I don't
even know who our thirst string quarterback is. I can't
remember his name, man, but he's looking Graham right now.
Being we're down with.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, we're not good though. The once mighty forty nine
ers there man.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Right, I don't know what. I don't know what's going
on with our training, but man, it's the word dropping
my flyers out there. Man, we we need some you
know what you need.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You need more passion like Robert Salah, that's what you need.
Who supposedly lots. Did you see the sound he said?
You supposedly went up to well Liam Cone said keep
my name out of your mouth, and then Robert Sallas
supposed to said I will end your effing life.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I love that type of stuff.
But you know, man, like you know, you gotta watch
out man, little kids. You're watching Solo. Man, my deep
and just fired up. And so I'm not even really
worried about my Boston Ben. Even if we don't Core,
I mean, we don't have to cut to the Tampa
Bay and.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You lose the Rams. I know you're trying to be positive.
You're trying to be positive here, Nick, and I get it.
You're trying to positive affirmations and all that. But it's
not not going to work out. So the Rams on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I'll call you back Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Dame.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
You know what we got record?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
No, no, I know what happens. What happens to you?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Nick and Alamidalu and her nest Do and Lance the
boss driver. Suddenly the phone stopped working. When the Niners
lose against the Rams with if the if the Niners.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Beat the Rams, it'll be I'll be doing.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Like local San Francisco talk radio, right It'll be on
non stop. It'll be a conga line of forty nine
er fans. All right, but I know, I know, all right,
thank you. There's a Nick in Berkeley where he goes
only he knows because it's Nick and Berkeley. I do
need some contestants for Maller's Mountain Money. So if you
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would like the play cleared out a couple of lines.
If you want to play Mallers Mountain Money, call right
now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight
seven seven nine nine six six three six nine. We
stay in Berkeley, just down the street from Nick. We
say hello to Andrea in Berkeley. She's got all the
inside of her she's got these strology charts, actually astrology insider.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Things not looking good for Tyreek Hill at this point.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Hello Andrea, Welcome, Hello, How are you? If I was
any better, I'd be sleeping, but I'm not.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I'm here and excited to be here.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, I know. We appreciate your show. It's been quite
a day here in the Bay Area with the Bob
Milvin firing, and yeah, I saw the lot with the
Mets as well with Carlos Mendoza. But first off, Bob
Melvin Scorpio, like Lorena and Coop.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
She smiled when you said that. Lorena smiled.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
I love being a Scorpio.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I'm quite proud.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, the only thing I don't be proud of that
you really had no choice in it, right, you were
born into it.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
That's true if you think that everything happens not on purpose.
But you know, world has a way of planning and
working things, and it wanted me to be a Scorpio.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So you wouldn't be happy if you were like a cancer,
a tourist, or a virgo.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Areas I'd be way too.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Oh yeah, it's interesting you brought up aries. Bob Melvin
is a Scorpio. Let's see October twenty eighth, nineteen sixty
one Buster Poseys and Aries and Airs and Scorpio clash
because they're both ruled by Mars. So there was definitely
a power struggle and in the mix, you know, the transits,
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which is what's happening currently. Mars is in Scorpio, which
rules energy, assertion and aggression, and it started about a
week and a half ago. Nick post is a scorpio
when mors in scorpio hit his son in scorpio and
he got the injury. So suffices to say moris transit
is once every two years. Rules, energy, assertion, aggression, and
(31:25):
power struggles. And that was interesting because Buster Posey actually
picked up the option on Bob Melvin's contract for twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yes, that's called the Golden parachute. That is a nice
parting gift. Very kind of Buster Posey to do. That
is like, listen, the giants have a lot of money,
the owners have a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
We'll just cut you a giant check to go away.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh is that you still get paid if they pick
up your option.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yes, it's likely you're not going to get the full amount,
but he's going to get a nice, big fat check
to go away.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Okay, Oh yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
May we all have bosses that are nice enough to
actually give raises out and to actually uh you know,
take care of you.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, no, that's good. I learned something new every day. Okay, yeah,
so you know that said I actually liked Bob Melvin.
I remember him with the a's.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I like him a lot that's right.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I remember you were close with you lost some of
the a's back in the day, Barry Zito, right then,
and play with the giants too.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Really open it into astrology. He was an eccentric tourist.
I like you.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
All right, Well, let's put the ball on this because
we do have to get to the game. So let's
sum this up in one amazing sentence. Here can we
sum all of this up right now?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, it's that time of year when everything gets evaluated.
So go with the flow and uh trust your land
in the right place at the right time.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There you go, life advice from the from the cosmos,
from the astrology, and so thank you Andrea, thank you Ben.
All right, there she goes our friend Andrew Virgo and
service on X will pause for the cause, and we
are going to have Malard's amount of money.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You want to senator right now? Cooper, you just want
to get to the game. What do you want to do?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, no, no imaging holiday.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Every day is a holiday with holiday in l a
Hello holiday.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Haven't heard from him in a while? Hello holiday man.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
It is always a pleasure to speak to you, my friend,
always been a while.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
My man been a while well, welcome. Who do you
want to partner up with? You got me ben a Coop.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Over there, Lorena, I give you three gases in the
first two.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Don count being you already know I'm going with you.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
No, look at that, Coop. You're not picked first? Yeah,
see that? Me and Holiday?
Speaker 8 (33:35):
Bad choice.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's a great choice. I've never picked.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
All right, hold on Holiday and uh boy, will be
fun if you were picked?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
All right, Lorena picked number one or number two?
Speaker 7 (33:44):
Number two?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right? You picked Hugh on the five? Hello, Hugh
on the five? Welcome you.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I want more Gana.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
There's a dated reference Morgana the Kissing Vanit Wow, that's
a solid.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
All right, you're gonna team up with Coop A. You're
okay with that? Yes, I don't hear. Where'd you go?
H oh Do we need to go to our backup already?
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Hugh?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Oh man?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
All right, Well, I'm glad see Tyler's smart man. Some
of these these people hang up right away, but Tyler
did not. Hello Tyler, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Tyler? And Boston? You're ready to go. You're in there.
You're right out of a bullpen, Tyler.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
I couldn't have been happy to stay on the line.
I usually do.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I know, I know most people do. Hang up, allre
you gonna play with cool loop? What are the categories here? Coop,
please hurry upchup, chump jump jo right.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
This is the Kieran Colkan addition, he turns forty three today.
The categories are home alone, Father of the Bride, succession,
and a real pain and holiday.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
You run first? Which category would you like?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Alone?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Home alone? Okay? All right?
Speaker 8 (34:46):
And Tyler, how about you?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Succession?
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Succession?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
All right? Everyone? Hold on here where you are going
to have Malar's amount of money. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
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Speaker 4 (35:33):
Now, Mailer's mountain of money. Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 9 (35:43):
Not?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
All right, right to the game, no wasting of time.
We have Holiday a long time listening to the show.
We've not heard from him in a while.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
And Tyler, who's locked in and he made the wise
decision not to hang up because she won. The five's
line dropped, and so Tyler gets to play with Coop,
and I'm with.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Holiday, and let's get right to the game. It's the
what is it, Coop, the Kieran Keran Kulkin Edition.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
It's mccully's brother.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Okay, and you picked home alone Holiday? Is that correct? Yes?
All right?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
These athletes come from a big family, and we need
the first and last Dame.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
We are on our way and go known as the
Greek Freak for the Bucks in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yes, start running back for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
He played for the Carolina Panthers, his father, Yes, tight
end for the Patriots. He's retired now he's on the
NFL on Fox.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yes. The Human Highlight film for the Atlanta Hawks. Back up.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yes, a catcher for the Saint Louis Cardinals in the
two thousands. He had a bunch of stick them up,
all right. White guy for the Rockets out of New Zealand.
Kind of got long hair tattoos, that whole deal, all right,
baseball player, same name as a mech Sicken rock star.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Yeah, that was gonna be my clue for that.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
All right, all right, we got the one hundred point.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
We didn't get Steven Adams, Yadier Molina two hundred points.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
Alright, alright, Tyler, we have succession here. Uh.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
These athletes all followed in their father's footsteps. Uh need
the first and last name. Forty five seconds, Tyler, are you.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Ready ready to go? All right?
Speaker 9 (37:28):
Begin all right, famous basketball player died in a helicopter crash. Yes,
this guy was the all time home run king. Yes uh.
This guy was the kid for the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
Uh, this is one of the Splash brothers, not Steph Curry,
but the other one.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (37:48):
This guy was a linebacker for the Packers. He had
long hair. Yes, uh, this guy is one of the
best second basement of all time.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
His father's sandy Yes uh this guy is a safety
on the Tampa Bay Bucks. He No, I don't know
what else to say about him.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yes, wow, was my guy. That was my guy. Yeah,
it was was That was who was was? No, that
was not you.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
That was Holiday. That was Holiday. You said that Holiday.
You said it. Holiday said it good, good tyler.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
No, Holiday said it sweep Holiday, sweeping, Holiday said it?
Speaker 5 (38:33):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
All right, what do you want? Holiday shop today? Putting
out answers?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Holiday, that's it's hard turn, father of the bride or
a real pain, real pain?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
All right?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Forty five seconds on the clock were on our way.
And uh Go was a wide receiver at Tennessee. Played
in the NFL in the early nineties for the Bengals.
Also the Tennessee Times. Was a Rookie of the Year
on offense at a No, all right, I can't say
the clue. I want to say, white guy offensive lineman
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for the Raiders. He went a wall right before the
Super Bowl in Tijuana from the center.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
All right, uh pitcher for the Chicago We're not doing well.
Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, who threw.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Gatorade bottles in the dugout about ten years ago. Now,
defensive back for the for the Steelers play with the
Rams and the Jaguars.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Alright forty I think I think he lost.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Well you counted the holiday.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
No, but holiday said the end you get you're taking credits,
Tyler
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three, our number three, ready to go.
And here in our number three talk in baseball, the
playoffs begin today in baseball, we're gonna look at some.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Of the teams that didn't make the playoffs. Though.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here in our number three of the Ben Mather Show.
What message are the New York Metropolitans sending to their
fans after this epic choke job? They keep manager Carlos Mendoza.
Apparently they like that Mendoza line. And why was Bob
Melvin given his walking papers in the Bay Area as
Giants manager hey out he gone, while the Pittsburgh Pirates
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are keeping their interim manager Don Kelly and the GM
Ben Charrington. How does that impact the future of star
pitcher Paul Skens. The silly season of baseball, the Hot
Stove League will be here before you know it, All
of that coming your way right now. Settle in on
this Tuesday, the thirtieth day of September. Here it is
our number three. There used to be a point in
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time where if you underachieved, if you lacked the pedigree
to get a job done, you lost your job. In
many cases, that is not happening anymore. In the industrial
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Speaker 2 (02:28):
So coming up later this hour if you stay with
us for the full hour, we will give you later
on the Riddle of the Day. Also Mallard's Mountain of Money.
We're gonna get away from the football because we got
baseball action. We have Major League Baseball playoff activity today
(02:50):
talking bays ball.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, all day.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And depending on where you are on the West Coast,
these games start at ten in the morning, getting up
for the middle part of that early game. But it's
the Cleveland Guardians and the Tigers, So I don't know
that it's a must see, must see TV now with
that as the backdrop, and we will spend a lot
of time over the next month or so talking about
the baseball playoffs, the good, the.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Bad, and we love the ugly. We're all about the ugly.
We love the ugly.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But I bring this up here because the fallout from
the regular season still has some legs as the playoffs
will get going here on Tuesday. So the teams that
didn't get invited, the teams that are not the cool
kids not invited to the party, left to pick up
the pieces, if you will. Now, one of those teams
is the New York Metropolitans. If you saw what happened
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to they were epic choking dogs. The New York Mets.
Just pathetic, spineless baseball by the New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So what do they do?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
They obviously fired their manager as a no brainer. You
play like that, you fire the Mendoza line, No say what?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
They I'm telling you they didn't fire him. I know
it's shocking. Well, Carlos Mendoza has been given a pardon
by the New York Mets front office.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
He will return.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
According to the early word out of Flushing, the Mets
will keep Carlos Mendoza as their manager. In twenty twenty
six that according to the President of Baseball Ops Chief
nerd David sterns Zah, he said, quote, I believe Carlos
has all the same traits and assets that we believed
in when we hired him two years ago, the Mets
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brainy executive said today media gathering at City Field. So
the dissecting and the analyzing of the Mets and other
teams underway, and the decision to keep the manager, I
think that's a good jumping off point. So let's discuss
the question what message are the New York Mets sending
their fans by keeping manager Carlos Mendoza.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Is there a message that they are sending. So I've got.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Waffle house, drywall, and cafeteria food and we'll combine all
of these things together to make the Baba Ganoosh. We're
gonna make the Baba Ganoosh. Now, first of all, welcome,
for those of you a little slow in the back
of the room, we'd like to welcome you to modern
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professional sports, in this case professional baseball. The manager for
about one hundred and seventy five years, the manager in
Major League Baseball was expendable that if things were not
going well, the line.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Is, you can't get rid of the players. You get
rid of the manager. Cannot do it, cannot do it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Like the manager is just the guy that hands over
the lineup card to the umpires and that's it. That's
his power, and that's all. And that's the way baseball
is today. Like that's the way they operate here. That's
the superpower. That's it. It's like you're the assistant shift
manager at Walmart. You're not the one making the decisions.
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You're not that guy. Pal and Carlos Mendoza, ironically, the
Mendoza line, he's not pushing the buttons, he's not deciding
who plays and where they play and when they play,
and how often they play. He's not doing any of that,
all right, that's it. He's just kind of hanging out.
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You gotta read the three ring Binder. Now, you do
have to read the three ring Binder. The general manager
David Sterns with his Harvard degree Harvard YUD. He's the
puppet master. David Stearns is the puppet master the Mets.
They've got Nerd Army, right. Nerd Army is the front office.
They're the ones that do all the managing of the
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New York Mets. And they put the lineup together that
Mendoza goes out and trots out and hands to the
umpiring crew and here, mister Mendoza, play one. So here,
I want you to put Pete Alonzo in this spot
in the lineup because the algorithm says he's going to
do pretty well there. And then I want you to
shift Jeff McNeil like this, and then Mendoza just nods okay,
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and then I'll talk to the media and then that'll
be that. He's essentially Surrey with like with syrups. He
gets to where the uniform right and all that, and
that's great. But in the old days, this would never fly.
You could not get away with something like this for
one hundred and seventy five years of baseball. But now,
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times obviously have changed, and so now it's like, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Forget about. You blew the entire season.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The team sucked, the players are chronic underachievers, and you
had the biggest payroll in baseball. Your ass is supposed
to be grass. But not anymore, right, not anymore. You know,
for a long time, before the team even got back
to their home city after the final game, the manager
was given its walking papers see you later. But in
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the old country, the owners, when it was a mom
and pop here's the guy, right thing. When it was
a mom and pop business, managers were whacked all the time. Hey,
they got rid of these guys all the time, and
they just, well, you follow instructions now, that's all you're
supposed to do. But in the old days, you wouldnt
even get off the tarmac to get on the plane.
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They'd leave you behind and be like, oh, you've got
to figure out your travel arrangements to get back to
where you need to go. And the manager's just a
temporary person there. It's like a substitute teacher and just
kind of do your thing, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And the Mets, even though they're.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Not owned by a mega corporation, but they're owned by
a fanboy. And Steven Cohne, the Mets owner there, and
what is he telling. The message here is rather obvious.
The message from the New York Mets is this is
not Carlos Mendoza's team.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
We have neutered him.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He has no balls. The manager of the Mets is
a ballless wonder. We're gonna bring him back because he
has no nuts, and he doesn't make any decisions. All right,
that's it, no decisions. We'll bring him back. And it's
just the algorithm. Blame the algorithm. You can't blame the
algorithm because it's just an algorithm.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And that's all. He's just a.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Middle manager, Carlos Mendoza. He might as well be working
at a waffle house in South Carolina. His job is
to make sure the hash browns get to the table,
while the real power is the person making the hash
browns in the kitchen and the ball of grits and
the pecan waffles and all that stuff. Now, so the
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Mets are flat out saying again for those of you
a little slow. The Mets are flat out saying that
results don't matter. Carlos Mendoza doesn't matter. He doesn't make
any decisions. There's no real accountability. And I'm just gonna motorrod.
That's it, Chop, that's it. It's a motorod. As long
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as the nerds in the lab coats approve of the lineup,
and Mendoza just keeps sending out the same crap, that's
all that matters.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
He's safe.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Secondly, we did we did get a change in San Francisco.
Bob Melvin, he goll see you later. Bob Melvin. Two
first names, Bob mikes. Melvin's the first old first name.
But Bob Melvin has been whack a doodle. He's out
whacked as the manager of the Giants, See you later.
The Giants played one hundred and sixty two games. They
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lost eighty one, they won eighty one average average.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Now, they did tease fans a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
They got off to a pretty good start, and then
they went on a terrible dumpster fire run. Then they
won thirteen out of sixteen in late August early September,
worked themselves back into playoff contention because everyone's a contender
in baseball.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And then they.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Went two to nine in a stretch and then that
was not an ana.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Good Bye.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's it now. Buster Posey, grown man named Buster, not
his real name. He said, just looking to find a
different voice that can take us in a different direction.
Close quote from Buster Posey, the general manager of the Giants.
So San Francisco, we know they went big. In fact,
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the night I was at the the only Dodger game
I went to this year with the Marlins man, my
buddy Marlin's man. He's very upset the match did not
make the playoffs. He has He sent me a message
I got Mets tickets for all the playoff games.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
They're not in the playoffs. Well, I said, well that's
a bummer anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So they traded for rafa Ol Devers from the Red
Sox on a Sunday night, just before a Sunday night game,
and they were supposed to turn.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
On the afterburns. The never turned on the after burners.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Didn't happen. Didn't happen, So the question why the Mets,
who underachieved. They kept their manager, but in San Francisco
not the case. So why was Bob Melvin given his
walking papers as the Giants manager when the Giants didn't
have any real expectations this year compared to the team
like the Mets.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So this was a more of a mercy firing.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
What happened in San Francisco disguised as a philosophical pivot
by the franchise. Like Bob Melvin, the problem he had
is the team was boring and he's boring. Can't have both,
cannot have both. And you don't need some kind of
sabermetric chart. I don't need to put a chart up
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to show you here to figure out that the Giants
had a morbid offense this year. They played bland baseball,
a lack of passion. If they were a color in
the rainbow, they would be beige. Well, there's no bage
in the rainbow. Just go with it, dummy, It's beige.
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Beige baseball is what it is. They teased, they choked,
They teased a get, They choked to get eighty one
and eighty one. That is baseball's version of driving cross
country and never leaving a rest stop. That is essentially
what the Giants did. Now here's the key. The difference.
When you juxtapose what the Giants are doing firing Bob
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Melvin compared to the Mets and Carlos Mendoza. The difference here,
and this is a big one, is Buster Posey is
not some kind of mit nerd.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He is not.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
He didn't ride the Ivy League coattails the gravy train
there in some corner office. And he's a kid from
Georgia who played for the Seminoles of Florida State, played baseball,
was very good there. That's his stock. He's a Seminole.
By nat you're there, and he knows because he played
a long time. He knows what's going on. He's got
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the pine tar still under his fingernails. It's hard to
get that out. He's still got some pine tar under
on his right hand. He's got a little pine tar
right there. And he inherited Bob Melvin. That's the other
part of this. He didn't hire Bob Melvin. He inherited
Bob Melvin. And when you inherit a manager who's milk
Toast personified, eventually you say, well, I kind of want
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a little jolt cola.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I want some I want a little caffeine here.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I want someone who's overcaffeinated, and that's not the guy.
I want someone who's a little louder and all that stuff,
or just a better manager. That was supposed to be
the turbo boost when they got Rafael Devers. It did
not turn out that the after burners were there for
the San Francisco Giants. Instead, it's another case of the
Giants here where they rev up the engine but never
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really pulled onto the highway. Didn't pull onto the freeway there.
And Posey, he also knows it's entertainment. It's entertainment.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And Bob Melvin, although a study.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Handed a experience after that Gabe Kaepler buffoon, you put
Bob Melvin in there. He's a grown up in the room, right,
He's a grown up in the room and all that stuff,
and that's wonderful. But watching the Giants play was about
as interesting as watching drywall. Just sitting there and staring
at drywall. Not a lot of entertainment, not a lot
of wow factor when you do that. Now, it is
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interesting to note that Buster Posey's beloved manager is now available.
The Texas Rangers said bye bye to Bruce Bouchie. He's
out in Arlington. Only time that Rangers have been any good.
They won the World Series with Bruce Bochie, and now
they have said bye bye to Bouchie. So he's out,
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and so that opens the door for Bruce Bochie to
return to the San Francisco Genas. Now he's not the
most exciting guy in the world, but he's got the resume.
He's got the actually resume. You can sell the resume.
You can get people to buy tickets. They get all
horny because you look at all those championships Boch he
won back in the day.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Meanwhile, final thought to Pittsburgh, we'll do this quickly, quick, right,
we'll do it quickly. So the Pittsburgh Pirates a horrific
baseball team. Now, they actually fired their manager during the season.
They put somebody named Don Kelly in as the interim manager.
They then had a losing record with Don Kelly six
games under five hundred.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
So the Pirates have decided what you'd expect them to do.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
They've kept Don Kelly as their manager because they are losers.
Not only that, the Pirates have decided that they're incompetent.
GM Ben Charrington, red Sox trash who landed in Pittsburgh
that he will remain as the general manager of the
Pittsburgh Pirates. So how does all of that impact the future?
Because the Pirates aren't interesting, but there's one guy in
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the Pirates that is interesting. So how does that impact
the future of pitching phenom Paul Skens the decision to
keep the manager and the general manager there in Pittsburgh.
So you might remember Paul Skins near the end of
the regular season said something to the effect of, if
we don't learn from this, meaning if changes aren't made,
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that's the way I interpreted it, then it's a wasted
time for the Pittsburgh Pirates. So this is a once
in a generation situation the Pirates have on the mound,
and instead of making the necessary changes to put a
championship caliber team around Paul Skins, giving him a reason
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to stay at least for a few more years. At
least for a few more years, what are the Pirates do?
They do what they always do. They cheap out, They stall,
And now all the tea leaves continuing to indicate every
single every single key indicator pointing to an exit stage
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left that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The usual suspect of the Mets, the.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Dodgers, the Cobs, all of the big market teams. You
got to think the Red Sox will be on being
on Paul Skans also here, they're all going to be
on the prowl to try.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
To get Paul Skins.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And it's really up to his group of hanger on
so the people that are writing his coatails whether or
not he's going to press the issue here, press your
luck and attempt to get a trade whommy, no hammy,
big money, big money, a stop, that's the question. And
so we'll see whether or not he wants to do that.
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The Pirates had an opportunity. They have futched away the opportunity,
and so the front office is essentially telling their franchise player, Hey,
you're on your own, big fella, but keep bringing that
lady friend around. People seem to like her on social media.
But we're not serious about winning. We just want to
put a halfway decent team on the field, but not
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a good team. Not a good team here, and so
no changing culture, no changing identity, none of that. No
change even just for optics. They're not even pretending that's
the beauty of the Pirates. They don't even try like
some teams would they'd make changes just to make changes, like,
they don't even do that. They're like, listen, we got
in a competent GM, we got a manager who's nothing special.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Let's keep them both. Why not?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Man, We'll this go with the status quo, went in doubt, punt,
went in doubt punt. And so they've got that gray
cafeteria food in the elementary school. They've got that just
cafeteria foods all gray. That's Pirates baseball, kind of like
the sky in Pittsburgh a lot of the year, just
kind of gray and overcast and all that stuff. And
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so good luck, and we'll see what happens next, but
a whole lot of nothing. And once the playoffs and
we'll hear a lot of rumors, speculation and all that.
And I can see the slogan for the twenty twenty
six Pirates. If Paul Skeins is not traded, come see
the comet before the comet goes away. And and that's it.
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Comics already likely packing the bags as we speak right now,
but we'll see what the future holds. It is the
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Speaker 1 (20:36):
But here's the riddle of the day.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Guard Lonzo Ball, remember him, Lonzo Ball was asked about
his new home with the Cavaliers. He said, I didn't
even know Cleveland had blank. Again, Guard Lonzo Ball, now
on the Cavaliers, said I didn't even know Cleveland had blank.
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to it all right time Now for the Mallor Riddle
of the day guard Lionzo Ball that is a basketball
player about he was asked about his new home in
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the NBA.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Is gonna play for the Cavaliers?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
He said, I didn't even know Cleveland had blank all right,
Mister irrigation says, indoor toilets is the the answer. Tammy
in Vegas says he did not know Cleveland had any
other sports teams?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, what else do you have? Shannon Wye cheetad he
got it right back? Job by him?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
What kind of a late night drug? Tester says hotels?
Because who vacations in Cleveland? Alf the alien opiners says
knuckleball pitchers.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
That's all we'll say on that. That's it. Who else
a ferg dog? He he cheated. It's a bad job
by you for dog.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Andy in Lino Lake says I didn't know they had
indoor dining in Cleveland. Shampoo bottles from King Rory Boy,
those are interesting shampoo bottles.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Indoor plumbing guests by Dante Just Josh got it right now.
Freddie says did not know the Cleveland Cavaliers had a championship. Yeah,
let's see Jay Dot in Utah. Our buddy Jay Dot
says Lonzo Ball did not know Cleveland had shopping malls.
Rivers that burn from William That was his answer. Kyahoga
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donkey sausage going with electricity. Did not know they had electricity?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Page nine, Let's see year they had the ballet at
many established. It's from Ozzie Waz in Western Australia. Who
else do we have to see? Page down? Lizzo Calves
guessed by Slunk.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Let's say his name. Let's see page down.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Trucker Joe said, did not know that Cleveland had the
black version of weed Man Hippie?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Is that right? Is there a guy in Cleveland like
weed Man Hippie? But uh interesting?
Speaker 7 (24:23):
If they do have one, he needs to call our show.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
JT the wing Man said, cheese curds. Oh god, those
are so good Culver's cheese curds. I gotta go back
and visit my brother just for the cheese curds. What
else do we have? See page down? See a jail
from Johnny Q. That was his answer. Bidezz from Monkey Biz,
Doug in South Korea as in day has kicker on
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the Browns from mad Jack that's his answer. A huge
Lego land location from Mike the Leprechaun skyline, Chili from
Brian Well, that's Cincinnati's known for that. A roller co
from Hugh on the five, Paul's going with sushi, Loraina,
do you have an answer? It's the Mallard Riddle of
the day. A Lonzo Ball basketball player on his new team,
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the Cavaliers, said, I didn't even know Cleveland had blank.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Yeah, he didn't know that Cleveland still had brothels brothels?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Wow? Okay, is that is that great? Brothels?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Wrong?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Uh see, Shane says, Kelly says, says she doesn't know,
but he's eating a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Okay, apparently not all right.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
The correct answer is Lonzo Ball on Cleveland says, I
didn't even know Cleveland had water.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I didn't know they had water. Seriously, how their answer
was running water?
Speaker 8 (25:40):
But everyone kept on saying plumbing. So I was like, no,
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, yeah, I would have gotten it right. Well, you're
not supposed to get it right. And no, no you don't.
You're not supposed to get it right. That's not right
to get it right. It's wrong to get it right.
Don't get it right. Let's go to the funds and
let's say hello.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
To hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, minassot Hello, hollow.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Ring James, Hello, I got the right line.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Punched up here, I got my buttons pushed.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Then you fell asleep again.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
He's a very loud sleeper.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah, I know, he like he likely fell asleep and
then hung up and then the phone.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Still I don't know who cares. Let's go to Nick
in Berkeley. What's going on? Nick? Welcome? Welcome?
Speaker 5 (26:28):
He was doing on then? Hey man, So basically my
forty nine ers man, I don't know what happened for
forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
We don't even have an inventoy, man, because all my
players are hurt. So I didn't know what to do.
What's going on with that? Like, you know, we died.
He tried to come back, but you know, we can't
win a game with four turnovers. But you know, like
Bob Melvine, he's infected with a former GENS disease. Man
for hand, he didn't know what he was doing and
he came good. So you know, post he had to
get rid of him, just just for the heck of it, man.
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And yeah, I mean it's like it wasn't gonna work out, man.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
So is it true? Is it true?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
The forty nine are now headed towards a three game
losing streak. You lost to Jacksonville. You lose the Rams
on Thursday and they play at Tampa Bay in week six.
That's not looking great there, Nick and Berkeley.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Hey, man, we're about to We're about to left the
Rams habit. We're about to let the Rams Tabbage and
then hopefully we'll limp into Tampa Bay. Trying to speak
one out. But you know, Baker, Baker Mayfield, he's like
he's been liking the last few seasons. Man, he's been
the number one sutch down throwing quarterbacks. Who knew you
know what I'm saying. Like, you know, he's out there
and stones and throwing the ball around deep. It's looking good.
But you know, Tampa bayking be beat man, but it's
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gonna be a tough call.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Man.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Hopefully mac Jones can hang in there. Otherwise. I don't
even know who our thirst string quarterback is. I can't
remember his name, man, but he's looking Graham right now.
Being we're down with.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, we're not good though. The once mighty forty nine
ers there man.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Right, I don't know what. I don't know what's going
on with our training, but man, it's the word dropping
my flyers out there. Man, we we need some you
know what you need.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You need more passion like Robert Salah, that's what you need.
Who supposedly lots. Did you see the sound he said?
You supposedly went up to well Liam Cone said keep
my name out of your mouth, and then Robert Sallas
supposed to said I will end your effing life.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I love that type of stuff.
But you know, man, like you know, you gotta watch
out man, little kids. You're watching Solo. Man, my deep
and just fired up. And so I'm not even really
worried about my Boston Ben. Even if we don't Core,
I mean, we don't have to cut to the Tampa
Bay and.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You lose the Rams. I know you're trying to be positive.
You're trying to be positive here, Nick, and I get it.
You're trying to positive affirmations and all that. But it's
not not going to work out. So the Rams on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I'll call you back Thursday night.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Dame.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
You know what we got record?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
No, no, I know what happens. What happens to you?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Nick and Alamidalu and her nest Do and Lance the
boss driver. Suddenly the phone stopped working. When the Niners
lose against the Rams with if the if the Niners.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Beat the Rams, it'll be I'll be doing.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Like local San Francisco talk radio, right It'll be on
non stop. It'll be a conga line of forty nine
er fans. All right, but I know, I know, all right,
thank you. There's a Nick in Berkeley where he goes
only he knows because it's Nick and Berkeley. I do
need some contestants for Maller's Mountain Money. So if you
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would like the play cleared out a couple of lines.
If you want to play Mallers Mountain Money, call right
now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight
seven seven nine nine six six three six nine. We
stay in Berkeley, just down the street from Nick. We
say hello to Andrea in Berkeley. She's got all the
inside of her she's got these strology charts, actually astrology insider.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Things not looking good for Tyreek Hill at this point.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Hello Andrea, Welcome, Hello, How are you? If I was
any better, I'd be sleeping, but I'm not.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I'm here and excited to be here.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah, I know. We appreciate your show. It's been quite
a day here in the Bay Area with the Bob
Milvin firing, and yeah, I saw the lot with the
Mets as well with Carlos Mendoza. But first off, Bob
Melvin Scorpio, like Lorena and Coop.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
She smiled when you said that. Lorena smiled.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
I love being a Scorpio.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I'm quite proud.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, the only thing I don't be proud of that
you really had no choice in it, right, you were
born into it.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
That's true if you think that everything happens not on purpose.
But you know, world has a way of planning and
working things, and it wanted me to be a Scorpio.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So you wouldn't be happy if you were like a cancer,
a tourist, or a virgo.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Areas I'd be way too.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Oh yeah, it's interesting you brought up aries. Bob Melvin
is a Scorpio. Let's see October twenty eighth, nineteen sixty
one Buster Poseys and Aries and Airs and Scorpio clash
because they're both ruled by Mars. So there was definitely
a power struggle and in the mix, you know, the transits,
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which is what's happening currently. Mars is in Scorpio, which
rules energy, assertion and aggression, and it started about a
week and a half ago. Nick post is a scorpio
when mors in scorpio hit his son in scorpio and
he got the injury. So suffices to say moris transit
is once every two years. Rules, energy, assertion, aggression, and
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power struggles. And that was interesting because Buster Posey actually
picked up the option on Bob Melvin's contract for twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yes, that's called the Golden parachute. That is a nice
parting gift. Very kind of Buster Posey to do. That
is like, listen, the giants have a lot of money,
the owners have a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
We'll just cut you a giant check to go away.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh is that you still get paid if they pick
up your option.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yes, it's likely you're not going to get the full amount,
but he's going to get a nice, big fat check
to go away.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Okay, Oh yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
May we all have bosses that are nice enough to
actually give raises out and to actually uh you know,
take care of you.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, no, that's good. I learned something new every day. Okay, yeah,
so you know that said I actually liked Bob Melvin.
I remember him with the a's.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I like him a lot that's right.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I remember you were close with you lost some of
the a's back in the day, Barry Zito, right then,
and play with the giants too.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Really open it into astrology. He was an eccentric tourist.
I like you.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
All right, Well, let's put the ball on this because
we do have to get to the game. So let's
sum this up in one amazing sentence. Here can we
sum all of this up right now?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, it's that time of year when everything gets evaluated.
So go with the flow and uh trust your land
in the right place at the right time.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There you go, life advice from the from the cosmos,
from the astrology, and so thank you Andrea, thank you Ben.
All right, there she goes our friend Andrew Virgo and
service on X will pause for the cause, and we
are going to have Malard's amount of money.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
You want to senator right now? Cooper, you just want
to get to the game. What do you want to do?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, no, no imaging holiday.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Every day is a holiday with holiday in l a
Hello holiday.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Haven't heard from him in a while? Hello holiday man.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
It is always a pleasure to speak to you, my friend,
always been a while.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
My man been a while well, welcome. Who do you
want to partner up with? You got me ben a Coop.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Over there, Lorena, I give you three gases in the
first two.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
Don count being you already know I'm going with you.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
No, look at that, Coop. You're not picked first? Yeah,
see that? Me and Holiday?
Speaker 8 (33:35):
Bad choice.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's a great choice. I've never picked.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
All right, hold on Holiday and uh boy, will be
fun if you were picked?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
All right, Lorena picked number one or number two?
Speaker 7 (33:44):
Number two?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right? You picked Hugh on the five? Hello, Hugh
on the five? Welcome you.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
I want more Gana.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
There's a dated reference Morgana the Kissing Vanit Wow, that's
a solid.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
All right, you're gonna team up with Coop A. You're
okay with that? Yes, I don't hear. Where'd you go?
H oh Do we need to go to our backup already?
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Hugh?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Oh man?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
All right, Well, I'm glad see Tyler's smart man. Some
of these these people hang up right away, but Tyler
did not. Hello Tyler, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Tyler? And Boston? You're ready to go. You're in there.
You're right out of a bullpen, Tyler.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
I couldn't have been happy to stay on the line.
I usually do.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I know, I know most people do. Hang up, allre
you gonna play with cool loop? What are the categories here? Coop,
please hurry upchup, chump jump jo right.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
This is the Kieran Colkan addition, he turns forty three today.
The categories are home alone, Father of the Bride, succession,
and a real pain and holiday.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
You run first? Which category would you like?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Alone?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Home alone? Okay? All right?
Speaker 8 (34:46):
And Tyler, how about you?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Succession?
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Succession?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
All right? Everyone? Hold on here where you are going
to have Malar's amount of money. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
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Speaker 1 (35:00):
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Speaker 4 (35:33):
Now, Mailer's mountain of money. Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 9 (35:43):
Not?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
All right, right to the game, no wasting of time.
We have Holiday a long time listening to the show.
We've not heard from him in a while.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
And Tyler, who's locked in and he made the wise
decision not to hang up because she won. The five's
line dropped, and so Tyler gets to play with Coop,
and I'm with.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Holiday, and let's get right to the game. It's the
what is it, Coop, the Kieran Keran Kulkin Edition.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
It's mccully's brother.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Okay, and you picked home alone Holiday? Is that correct? Yes?
All right?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
These athletes come from a big family, and we need
the first and last Dame.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
We are on our way and go known as the
Greek Freak for the Bucks in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yes, start running back for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
He played for the Carolina Panthers, his father, Yes, tight
end for the Patriots. He's retired now he's on the
NFL on Fox.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yes. The Human Highlight film for the Atlanta Hawks. Back up.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yes, a catcher for the Saint Louis Cardinals in the
two thousands. He had a bunch of stick them up,
all right. White guy for the Rockets out of New Zealand.
Kind of got long hair tattoos, that whole deal, all right,
baseball player, same name as a mech Sicken rock star.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Yeah, that was gonna be my clue for that.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
All right, all right, we got the one hundred point.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
We didn't get Steven Adams, Yadier Molina two hundred points.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
Alright, alright, Tyler, we have succession here. Uh.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
These athletes all followed in their father's footsteps. Uh need
the first and last name. Forty five seconds, Tyler, are you.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Ready ready to go? All right?
Speaker 9 (37:28):
Begin all right, famous basketball player died in a helicopter crash. Yes,
this guy was the all time home run king. Yes uh.
This guy was the kid for the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
Yes.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
Uh, this is one of the Splash brothers, not Steph Curry,
but the other one.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (37:48):
This guy was a linebacker for the Packers. He had
long hair. Yes, uh, this guy is one of the
best second basement of all time.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
His father's sandy Yes uh this guy is a safety
on the Tampa Bay Bucks. He No, I don't know
what else to say about him.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yes, wow, was my guy. That was my guy. Yeah,
it was was That was who was was? No, that
was not you.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
That was Holiday. That was Holiday. You said that Holiday.
You said it. Holiday said it good, good tyler.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
No, Holiday said it sweep Holiday, sweeping, Holiday said it?
Speaker 5 (38:33):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
All right, what do you want? Holiday shop today? Putting
out answers?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Holiday, that's it's hard turn, father of the bride or
a real pain, real pain?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
All right?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Forty five seconds on the clock were on our way.
And uh Go was a wide receiver at Tennessee. Played
in the NFL in the early nineties for the Bengals.
Also the Tennessee Times. Was a Rookie of the Year
on offense at a No, all right, I can't say
the clue. I want to say, white guy offensive lineman
(39:06):
for the Raiders. He went a wall right before the
Super Bowl in Tijuana from the center.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
All right, uh pitcher for the Chicago We're not doing well.
Pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, who threw.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Gatorade bottles in the dugout about ten years ago. Now,
defensive back for the for the Steelers play with the
Rams and the Jaguars.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Alright forty I think I think he lost.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Well you counted the holiday.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
No, but holiday said the end you get you're taking credits,
Tyler
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