September 5, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the level of concern for JuJu Smith-Schuster's knee, Desmond Ridder NOT being named captain for the Falcons, Cite the Bite, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our damber four, our four ready
to go. A lot of doom and glooms circling around
the Patriots as they begin the season with the Eagles.
Can honor Tom Brady this weekend? What is the level
of TATS concern for jew Smith Schuster's knee? Report says
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that his knee is hanging on by a thread. Also,
how do you process Desmond Ritter not being named an
Atlanta Falcons captain? The quarterback in the atl and the
Indianapolis coast looking for some running back help? Are interested
in James Robinson? Does he have any gas left in
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the tank? We'll talk about that as well. Have a
wonderful Tuesday of the holiday week. It is over. It's
back to the grind here. It is our number four.
We didn't even play the game yet and already hobbled. Well.
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Number of players who are already dinged up. We've got
some players who are likely going to miss the games
this weekend because of contract situations. You've got other players
that are hurt. For example, George Kittle of the forty
nine ers unlikely to play for the Niners at this point.
They play Pittsburgh in a big game Week one in
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the Steel City and there are problems in patriot Land.
You didn't hear about that. Maybe not. We have been
told that newly acquired free agent wide out ju Ju
Smith shost Laid of the Kanzas City Chiefs, the reigning
Super Bowl champions and before that, Pittsburgh, that Juju Smith
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Shuster may end up as the weakest link. This comes
to us from NFL guru Bert Breer over there on
NBC Sports Boston, who tells us that Juju Smith Shuster's
knee is a mess that the thing, according to his report,
could explode at any point, come boom, and then there's
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like knee guts everywhere, quote continues, And so you almost
have to keep an extra receiver, Brier said, on the
Patriot's roster, because that's how messed up Juju Smith Shuster's
knee is. Now, keep in mind, if you look at
the Patriots s depth chart, there ain't a lot there.
The cupboards are bare, there's not a lot at the
wide out position. So let us discuss the question what
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is the level of Pat's concern for Juju Smith Shuster's
mangled knee. So we're going to go with the time
tested measurement for concern, better known as the Mallard scale
of concern one to ten, with ten being the worst
of the worst. Just amputated. I'm at a six on
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the Malar scale of concern. I'm out a six. I've
got Gaylord Perry, sore thumb, and volleyball. And we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a banana cream pie, right to the face,
right to the face, a banana cream pie. So to
lead off here, I find it hard to stomach, impossible
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to believe that the Patriots signed off on Juju smith
Schuster's physical. If his knee was that messed up, Beware
of the wounded bear. Beware of the wounded bear. And
I understand mistakes happen. I get that. I'm not naive
to that fact. But the Patriots have been so so
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obsessive when it comes to these injury reports. It's out
of character for Bill Belichick. So that was my first thought.
I was like, I don't know if I believe this.
And then the Patriots, we know they're shopping at the
discount rack. And while Juju smith Schuster got a fair
amount of money in comparison to other wideouts, he did
not get a massive amount of money. And the Patriots
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are always looking at the bargain. But if his knee,
if smith Schuster's knee is being held together by Fedichini Alfredo,
then he would not have cleared the physical. There would
have been some red flags that popped up. So I
look at this report and I have a little bit
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of a side eye. I think of it like an
old baseball player from a couple generations ago named Gaylord Perry,
old school pitcher, that this report is what's known as spitballing.
You're spitballing. Much of being a pundit, much of being
a pundit is using weasel terminology and educated guessing. That's it, right,
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You phrase things to give yourself plausible deniability. You can
bend yourself into a pretzel. But at the same time,
at the same time, you're making some educated guests. It
has been well publicized that Juju Smith Schuster's left knee
is not the greatest. It's been and malformed, and it's
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not for the squeamish, right, it's not for the squeamish
because it's pretty bad. But we already knew. We knew
that he had a patella issue. Back to back seasons
Juju Smith Schuster was injured. You could make a similar
statement though, that the knees of a number of wide
receivers and key players around the NFL are like mashed
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potatoes or hash browns. They're messed up. So you make
that statement about ninety percent of NFL players. There are
many right now who are about to start the season
who are hanging together with scotch tape and staples, and
that's how they're going out on the field. And a
number of them will be hurt. And what's a non
contact injury? What's going on with that? Now, is it
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possible that Juju Smith Schuster's knee implodes in the game
against the Eagles this weekend or early in the season. Sure,
sure it is, But that does not mean that you
know going into the season here that the report is
one the gospel. Again, I tend to think that the
Patriots of all teams, are obsessive about those injury reports,
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paying anyone. If there's any kind of a red flag,
they immediately hit the eject button. Now further onoe, let's
go to Atlanta. Why this is one of the few
times we can talk about the Falcons because they're gonna
stink this year. But the Falcons announced on Labor Day
their team captains for twenty twenty three. Now, I take
these stories with a grain of salt unless unless something
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gets my attention. Why am I bringing this up? Obviously
something got my attention. My eyeballs puffed up a little bit.
I said, wait a minute, we got something, and what
is the story. Here's the story. In the Atlanta area,
they're starting quarterback in his second year. Desmond Ritter is
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not one of the five players honored to wear that
sea patch on the jersey. He didn't get the C.
No C for you, Desmond Ridder, You're out of luck.
But five other players did get the captain patch on
their uniform. So the question how do you process Desmond
Ridder not being named the captain el Capitan of the Falcons.
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So this is not kosher, is what it is. It's
not kosher. It does stand out. It stands out like
a pus filled throbbing sore thumb. It is unmistakable. Your
starting quarterback is given a captain position most of the
time doesn't deserve it. It is given, not earned. It
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is given. It is part of the standard package when
you're the starting quarterback. What is my examples? What is
my average? What are my examples? My examples are in
Houston and Indianapolis. C J. Stroud out of the Ohio
State University Anthony Richardson, who barely played the swamp for
the Gators, both were named starters as rookies and guess
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what they were also named team Captain's Team captain.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
C J.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Stroud and Anthony Richardson. Did they earn it? No, they
didn't earn it, but they got it. Why, because that's
what you do. Your starting quarterback is named one of
the captains of the team. That's how it's always been
and that's how it will always be. And if you
don't do that, that is a vote of no confidence.
All right, that's it. That's a vote of no confidence.
And as a result, we are now getting mixed messages
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from the atl Now. I was always in the camp
that this is just a placeholder until something better comes
along for the Falcons. But last month Arthur Blank put
down the two by fours from home depot the owner
in Atlanta and said that he considered Desmond Rider to
be the cornerback of the future. Of course that's the
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near future, as in this season. He is the starter
for now. But this not give you much confidence at
all going forward. The fact that he was not named
a captain. Now parting shot. Let's go to Indianapolis where
the Colts still have turmoil. It's top seat, tire me
at the running back position. Now, he figured to be
an offen. Just an awful team, Just an awful team.
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This season. Jim Irsay has put together a deck of jokers,
as they will just toss Anthony Richardson out there and
feed him to the Jags, the Texans and the other
teams in that division Tennessee, and so good luck on
that now. But Indy, we know they are devoid of
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a lot of running back depth. Jonathan Taylor, the malcontent,
is gonna miss the first four games. And so the
Colts went out and worked out James Robinson. He's our
running back, James Robinson. Does James Robinson have any gas
left in the tank? Does he have any gas left
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the tank? And so my answer is he needs to
visit the RCO station there and fill up. He's at
about a quarter of a tank. About a quarter of
a tank. In the last couple of years, James Robinson
has been passed around like a volleyball. I've just volleyed
up over the net, back across the net, spike it down.
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He went from Jacksonville to the Jets this offseason. He
was briefly part of the Patriots organization. That didn't work
out and they were not on the same page. He
went to the Giants and that didn't work out. He
got let go by the Giant. So, by my back
of the napkin mal or math, by my calculations, James
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Robinson in the last two years, has been passed over
by almost fifteen percent of NFL teams. They said, thank you,
but no, thank you. We have someone who's better, someone
who is cheaper. We're good. So the moral of the story,
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if James Robinson ends up with the Colts, have nothing
against the man, but he would be what's known as
can spam, roster spam, not a difference maker at that position.
If you're playing fantasy football, you don't go out of
your way to get James Robinson or anyone on the
Colts offense for that matter, because they're going to be
behind early and often early, and often just a practice player.
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Just a practice player, is the way I read that.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are warming
up the old engine this hour. If you want to
be part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, that's
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And we've got new verbage. We mentioned this earlier, we
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did not get to it. New verbiage, upsetting, the narrative
and the tattoo blues. We'll get to all of that
and we will.
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There was a new term invent. We mentioned this earlier.
We didn't pay it off. Bad job by us. Jim Harbaugh.
Did you see this, Eddie? Jim Harbaughs come up with
a new term. I did you see it? Exiled Michigan
football coach. We have some audio that we're gonna play,
so Harball not allowed to coach Michigan here early in
the sea is he's on time out for some rules
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violations a couple of years ago. But Harball, you know
he's he's an interesting cat. Jim Harbaugh thought he was
gonna be the Viking coach. He was convinced he was
going to coach the Minnesota Vikings. Didn't work out, so
he's back at Michigan settling in there, and he created
a new term in place of offense and defense. I
think we have the audio ready to go. So let's
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go to the audio tape. Here's Jim Harbaugh. Take a listen,
snow offense, there's no defense. It's it's a defense. Yeah.
You want to hear that. Play it again, Mark played again.
Let's play it again.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Defense and uh.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That was part of it, the very end of it.
Here one more time, let's see if we can hear
the whole thing for beginning. It's only like a few seconds,
but it's like a drop we're gonna use on the show.
No offense, there's no defense, it's it's a defense. Yeah,
so there's no offensive defense, Eddie, it's all morphed into
a big ball of goo. It's now the defense. Will
that catch on?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Think that'll catch on?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I hope not. I think that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Here we go, Here we go. I think that could
be a good cheer. Here we go. We fans here
we go that way. You don't have to learn two cheers.
That's hard for those, Eddie. Think about the cheerleaders, it's
hard to learn the different cheers.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I have a higher standard than that, Ben.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Really, you have high standards for cheerleaders for everyone, for everyone.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That's right, making things easier on people.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But you know how you have like gender neutral bathrooms
and things like that, Eddie. Jim Harbaugh is just getting
rid of offense and defense. It's just one thing. The
wefense you.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And we had a celebrity fan, die, Eddie, we had
another celebrity fan. Missus Wammy has left us, Eddie, no more,
missus Whammy. Missus Wammy has left the building for the
final time. She's checked out. She's she's mortal. She's a
celebrity NETS fan, Eddie. That's a bad job by you.
A Nets fan, Yes, a celebrity Brooklyn Nets fan.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Missus Way didn't know they had any celebrity fans.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Come on, it's not a celebrity.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Didn't know who was until he saw the article. That's
not true at all. I was a big fan of
miss person. No this is not ridiculous. You rip Marlin's man,
you rip Clipper Daryl, all these big celebrity fans, you
take fans. Yet I see your fat ass on CBS
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every time the Chargers are playing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
We're in some special outfit that says, hey, look at me,
miss Wammy. I don't sure about the game. I just
want to be on TV, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I want to give my respects, my eulogy to missus
Wammy the past away chance. No, I absolutely eighty seven
years old, great run, a great run in life. Her
name was Judy, but call her missus Wammy, and she
would she would go to nets games and she and
her husband would put a curse on They put a
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hex on the opposing player while they were shooting foul shots.
And her husband. By the way, mister Whamy still around.
Mister Whamy's still around, but missus Wamy. Now will mister
Whamy continue now that Missus Wammy's unable.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
To do that? Well, I mean I would say that
he has to carry on the legacy.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yes, it's the family legacy. They and they I agree
with you. They must continue it on. That's what you do.
And then they're going to go on. So rest in peace,
Missus Whammy. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I don't think works very well though, because the Brooklyn nets,
you know, not that great.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, they have been better than when they were the
New Jersey nets back in the day. They were terrible
outside of like two good years they had there. Let's
go to Robert in Oregon. What's going on? Robert holy Buck,
Williams Batman, Hello.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Roy, Just hanging out in my trailer here. Look, you
know this thing with furious I got two ideas about it.
First of all, you know how the Doggers overmannings their pictures.
I think they over man Axton. They you know, the
load management thing got to him and he snapped. But
I also think the reason the Dodgers are kind of
going down in two just kind of like all that
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mud out there at Burning Man. Some people think that
was brought on by some of their debauchery. And you
know how the Dodgers kind of uh disc dis the
Catholics here over the summer with their letting those guys
come in there and kind.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Of you there's a maybe Missus Wami put a hecks
on the Dodgers before.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It is it is conceivable on that. Yeah, I saw
the burn. But I saw the burning man thing, but
that was wild man.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, there walking around rainy mud.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
It's crazy raining raining man. Burning man became raining man.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah you know. I used to be one of those
mud mud slipping hippies a long time ago, where you
dive in the mud to slide across it. And uh,
these guys are all getting the skin burns from it
to this all alkaline terrible.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It didn't go so well for them. The Dodgers are
the Dodgers are now the Dodgers are Jinx Yeah done.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh, stuck in the mud, stuck in the mud.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All right, Robert, there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
The whole thing with the load management man, it's it's
stack fire.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I'm pretty sure that that had nothing to do with
Julio Urius snapping. Uh, he was at a soccer game.
I'm gonna assume the position. I have no insider information,
but he was at a soccer game with a bunch
of other celebrities. I'm guessing that he might have partaked
in some adult beverages. I don't know for sure. And
he was wandering around after the soccer game, and one
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thing led to another and he he ended up going
Mike Tyson punch out. But thank you, Robert, I appreciate that.
So here's a guy that upset the narrative. People are upset.
People are genuinely upset with Dominique Wilkins. There's a name
we haven't said in a long time, right. Dominique Wilkins
was a big star in the nineteen eighties, big NBA legend,
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was at one point considered a better dunker than Michael Jordan.
Believe it or not, some thought he was a better
player than Michael Jordan early on in their careers. When
Dominique took off with the he was usually with the Jazz,
but he took off with the Atlanta Hawks anyway. So
Dominique recently did an interview, and he's upset people who
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loved to attack Boston, he said. Dominique, he played for
the Celtics near the end of his career. He said
he never experienced any racism while in Boston. He said
he lived in Boston for five years after he retired
and he liked it a lot. He said he was
treated very well. Said he lived in a place called Dover,
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mass And he said, for me, I did not see
any of that, meaning the racism personally So what do
you think the reaction was to this. Was the reaction, Hey,
that's great, that's wonderful, or was the reaction, well that's
not true, you're not right. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
We all know what the reaction was.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
The race baders are very upset with Dominique Wilkins. They're like,
wait a minute, you don't You've got against the narrative here,
what's wrong with you? Shame on you. So they're like,
people upset with Dominique Eddy that he didn't follow the
company line. There that and I'm not saying there hasn't been.
There's been a lot of instances in the past in Boston,
but Dominique said he did not have any of that,
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and people are upset. And that was a fair fair
amount of time. I think that was the early two thousands.
I want to say that Dominique played for the Celtics.
I have to look it up, but it was. He
ended up finishing his career in the early two thousands,
so I think it was around between two thousand and
two thousand and five something along those lines off the
top of my head, without looking ninety four, ninety five,
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oh even earlier than that. There you go, he played
with the Clippers in ninety three. Remember that he came
from Atlanta the Clippers and then went to the Celtica
and I think he went to Orlando or something after too.
He played with the Magic. Orlando was his last stop
in ninety nine. Oh so he didn't even play in
the two thousands. Wow, seemed like he did, but he didn't.
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That's a long time ago.
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Twins Trounce the Guardians twenty to six. Royce Lewis from
Minnesota hit his third Grand Slam of the season. Drove
in six in this one.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Anisota fun fact on this game. A fun fact on
this game. We'd like to learn all the affiliates down
the line. Fun fact. This is gonna make your day today.
A lot of people this hour get the jump on traffic, Eddie.
They're starting their day here, other people ending their day.
This is a great fun fact. Lucas Giolito, Oh this game.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Lucas Giledo his debut for the for the Cleveland squad.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
There the Tribe. He became the first pitcher to allow
eight or more runs in a game for three different
big League teams in the same season since Bill McGee.
You know when Bill McGee did.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
It a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Bet eighteen ninety nine goes back to the eighteen hundreds
for the Ville Colonels, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Washington
Senators eighteen ninety nine. Congratulations to Lucas Giledo, who did
it for the White Sox Angels and now the Cleveland
baseball team. That is a fun fact.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
That is not fun for him, but it is for us.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yesdy, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Also not on news from Major League Baseball where Dodgers
pitcher Julio Ris was arrested charge with fellow the domestic
violence late Sunday night. Was released Monday morning. Fifty thousand
dollars bond not with the team, and Baseball says they
are investigating. And I like de Ben Maller on the
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Speaker 1 (24:19):
Some Yankee purist upset with Jason Dominguez. This is the
new phenom edie that the Yankees called up to a
bunch of home runs. He's a kid. He's at a
bunch of home runs for the Yankees. He's the great
savior of the Yankees going forward, the great young hope
of Yankee baseball. And he revealed that his favorite players
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growing up. What do you think, he said, Derek Jeter, Giambi,
somebody like that. No, he's a kid. His favorite players
growing up Jason Dimingez. He said, do you see this,
David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Big, oh, big ball boy, Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
He's from the Dominican Republics. But yeah, that's it's almost
as weird as when remember the Yankees traded for Jeter
downs and and he was playing for the Red Sox.
He's like he was in the Nationals. Now Jeter as
named after Jeter is Derek Jeter and all that. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mallershow let's go to Jim, who's
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in southern California and Jim is next. Hello Jim in
the OC in Irvine.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Hello Jim, what's up, buddy doing?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Jim?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
If I was any better, I'd be a Rendon, but
not Anthony Rendon because I will have forgotten how to
speak English.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Okay, so the urious situation is really bad work because
it's a great pitcher and he's just he doesn't take
it easy. He does because he's good when he's rested.
And I know you'll agree with me on that.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, I think he needs to go back to kindergarten
because I learned in kindergarten you have to keep your
hands to yourself. That's what I learned in kindergarten. That's
what they taught me. That's all I remember that. And
they had to color inside the lines, but I never
did that. But I keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I remember that, yes, And you should not lay hands
on a woman because I was in an abusive relationship
with the vietname Israel, who should be deported. But we'll
not talk about that right now.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's very personal. Yeah, yeah, you should not strike a woman.
But if you you sometimes do have to defend yourself.
If you are struck, you do have to defense.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Giants. The Giants are a bit of a slide right now.
How do you feel about them coming into the postseason
kind of quickly?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Here?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Giants are about to get some help here because the
Dodgers are playing the Marlins this week, and so that
should help the Giants fortify their lead in the wild
card race. But the Giants are not going to make
any noise in the playoffs. The Giants are one of
those teams like the Brewers and these the Marlins. If
they make the one team that could make some noise
there is the Phillies. That's the one team there that
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you look at. They made a run last year. Trade
Turner's coming on that offense is absolutely monster mashing in Philadelphia.
Of all the teams other than the Dodgers and the
Braves in the National League, the Phillies. That's the one gym,
that's the one that scares you.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
A little bit.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Well, Atlanta scares me a lot. But we both know.
We both know it comes down to pitching in the
playoffs and at the coin slip once you get in
the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
And you know this, well, it comes down to not
only pitching, but timely hitting, hitting with runners in scoring position,
having a certain player, not that kind of hitting, no,
we don't need that kind of but having someone who
will step up, like for example, when the Atlanta Braves
went on the run and got to the World Series
and they won in twenty twenty one. Do you remember
(27:48):
who carried them in the NLCS? I do. The guy
he looked like Ty Cobb at home, Eddie Rosario. The
guy was insane. Dodgers couldn't get him out. He better
like five hundred. He was like Pete Rose I think
he I think he bettered over five hundred in the series.
He did.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Yeah, but I mean boach manages that World Series back
in twenty.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
No.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Twenty fourteen, and he played it by by Phil You
don't play analytics, you know this. You play with hot
and Robert.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, but they don't.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
They don't do that, but the Dodgers don't do that.
The Atlanta Braves also do a lot of analytics as well.
The Braves are analytical. The top teams all play the
same way. They all are.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
No, you know, you play with who's hot, and that's
what won the Giants with three chips, like because Bachi
managed the right way.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well, it also helps met mad Bum was insane for
that playoff run. Yeah, gotta, I gotta leave it there, Jim,
I gotta go. I gotta get Cowboy on because thank
you though Jim hot baseball talk with Jim the Giant fans.
Let's go to Cowboy John Brad a fine Canadian land
in Windsor, Ontario, and it's cow Boys Corner.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Okay, Well, Happy eighty seventh birthday Bill Mazarowski. He was
born about a month's before my parents got married, and
he was going a couple of days before Buddy Holly
was born. But also let's see happy eighty fourth birthday
that Bill Kilmer in the old NFL quarterback. Happy sixtieth
birthday to Jeff Brantley, the former Major league left hand
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is the believer and now the Braves are the Reds
radio announcer whom I would like to ruffle up for
the right to be called cowboy.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
And see yesterday you're are cowboy, cowboy, John brad you're
our cowboy.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yeah, I know, thank you. But yesterday, let's see Frank
White and Doyle Alexander were about seventy three, and one
of Hilton Jacobs had played the Freddy Boom Boom cannon
and welcome back Connor was seventy. And also let's see
(29:59):
September third, nineteen seventy, the great Vince Lombardi fifty seventy
is born three days after my father died of colon cancer.
And of course Terry Bradshaw was seventy six on Saturday.
And anyway, ope, you had a great labor day everybody.
And oh, Ken Harrelson, the former MLB player ALMSI yes,
(30:25):
general manager and would be golfer was eighty two yesterday.
So anyway, I think to people tomorrow morning and remember
if that'd be a boy to be a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well, I thank you, Jim. So the tattoo story, I
recommend it's more of a visual story than an audio story.
But several people sent me this and it is wonderful
Bill's Mafia has outdone themselves. So there's a photo going
around of a Bills fan. I do not think this
is Andy the Comic book guy, but I don't know.
(30:53):
Maybe it is Andy the comic book guy. And this
guy got a Josh Allen tattoo on his arm. On
I think it's the front of his arm. If I'm
looking at the photo, it does look like the front
of his arm. And the reason this is outrageous is
Josh Allen is it's it's let me, let me try
(31:15):
to paint the picture for you. Okay, So he's got
a plumber's butt crack on the photo. It's a full
body photo he's got he's wearing a Ezekiel Elliott type
jersey showing his mid drift. But it's from the side
and you can see you're kind of the back and
the side there, and it exposed the the buttocks the
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like a plumber, you know, the old thing of blumber.
But then it gets even better because on the front
you can see a little bit of the front and
it looks like Josh Allen is wearing a cod piece
like he's ready for the ballet. If you know what
I'm saying right now, I don't know, maybe that's the jockstrap,
I don't know, but quite the quite the image there
of some random bild man. And unless this is a
(32:02):
gag and that's not real, as far as I know,
that is a legitimate tattoo that some Bill's guy got,
the first ever Josh Allen butt crack tattoo. Way to
go outstanding. We will have site the Bite, the Great
Sports Radio Mystery Site to Bite. If you'd like to
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It's time now to site site a bite where we
play random generic sound bites, you know, in a sports
and entertainment cliches spoken by so called experts. You trying
to tell us who's doing the talking.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We're eight Sports Radio. Mystory such the fight, and here
we go. Let's go right to the audio tape. You
want to be one of our judges. Before we even
play the audio call right now, a lot of people
hang up if they don't know the answer. They're like,
they panic, and we go through a high volume of calls.
The ones that get on the air, many of them
do not even make it on the air because dude's panic.
(33:48):
So here we go. Let's go to the audio tape.
Someone from the world of sports to the last seven
to ten days. See if you can figure out who
this person is with no clues, take advantage of it,
Take advantage of it. I think I might know this one.
Let's see if I'm right here. No, no, it's not
who I thought it was. That's not who I thought
(34:09):
it was. Will anyone get this right? Will anyone get
this right? I'm going to go caller number five, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I'm gonna go caller number zero. Nobody will get it's
such a hater, I know, but right all the time, though, No,
you're not.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I've won this game more than anyone. What about you? Mark?
Will anyone get this right?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Mark? No?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Mark, Art? What about you? Kovalou? I think someone will
actually get this one? Aha? In your face? See that
caller five. Let's go to the phones eight seven, seven
ninety nine of Fox. Play it again. We'll give you
some clues after every couple of incorrect guesses. Play it again, Mark,
take advantage of it? Okay, who is this person? Let's
go to Mark's old stomping grounds in Chicago and say
(34:54):
hello to Tree. Tree. Do you know the answer? Tree?
Your caller number one?
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Believe I love you guys, Drew Bledsoe?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Is that Drew Bledsoe? Is that is that the guy
from the last seven to ten days? Drew Bledsoe? Is
that the answer?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
But Tree, we love you too, Tree, Thank you. I've
always been a fan of Tree, all right, not Drew
bledsoe let's try Nathan Nathan in Orlando. Hello, Nathan, Hey.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Good evening. It's John Rice Plumbly, UCF quarterback.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Can I have some of what you're having? Nathan? No,
that is incorrect. Time now for our first clue eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox. If you want to
play it is Site to Bite, the Great sports radio mystery.
This person was raised in a tight knit, big Italian family. Okay,
does that give it away? There? Play it again, Play
(35:52):
it again, take advantage of it. Yeah, you gotta take
advantage of that tight knit, big Italian family was raised in.
And let's see, will anyone get it right? Let's go
to caller number three. Blind Scott is my caller number
three from the North end of Boston. Blind Scott, Oh, yeah,
that's Mike Bovis from the famous Bovis Bakery.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
He was raised in a biggest time family and they
keep on Bovis Bak We opened twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
That's going to be him.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah. I love Bova's Bakery, but I was there. Every
time I go to Boston, I go by Bova's Bakery.
That's incorrect, though, Blind Scott. Bad job by you, and
let's see Cowboy John Brad is next year. If you
know the answer, you can be the big winner. You're
my caller number four, Cowboy John Brad.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
OHI is that w W Superstar bron Strowman tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
That is incorrect, but I good, I liked it. You
squeeze that in Cowboy. That's incorrect. All right, Uh so
it's not true. Bledsoe the quarterback at Central Florida. That's
gout or the guy from Bova's Bakery. Let's go to
a uh let me give you another clue, and then
we're gonna go to a random caller, caller five, who's
gonna get it right? The The next clue is this
(37:07):
he broke a completion's record set by Tony Roman. College
caller number five for the wind callar five. You're on
the air, five Call of five. It's Jimmy Garoppolo five
suck Call of five, got stage Fried Eddie
Hello and welcome. It's our damber four, our four ready
to go. A lot of doom and glooms circling around
the Patriots as they begin the season with the Eagles.
Can honor Tom Brady this weekend? What is the level
of TATS concern for jew Smith Schuster's knee? Report says
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that his knee is hanging on by a thread. Also,
how do you process Desmond Ritter not being named an
Atlanta Falcons captain? The quarterback in the atl and the
Indianapolis coast looking for some running back help? Are interested
in James Robinson? Does he have any gas left in
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the tank? We'll talk about that as well. Have a
wonderful Tuesday of the holiday week. It is over. It's
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Number of players who are already dinged up. We've got
some players who are likely going to miss the games
this weekend because of contract situations. You've got other players
that are hurt. For example, George Kittle of the forty
nine ers unlikely to play for the Niners at this point.
They play Pittsburgh in a big game Week one in
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the Steel City and there are problems in patriot Land.
You didn't hear about that. Maybe not. We have been
told that newly acquired free agent wide out ju Ju
Smith shost Laid of the Kanzas City Chiefs, the reigning
Super Bowl champions and before that, Pittsburgh, that Juju Smith
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Shuster may end up as the weakest link. This comes
to us from NFL guru Bert Breer over there on
NBC Sports Boston, who tells us that Juju Smith Shuster's
knee is a mess that the thing, according to his report,
could explode at any point, come boom, and then there's
(03:02):
like knee guts everywhere, quote continues, And so you almost
have to keep an extra receiver, Brier said, on the
Patriot's roster, because that's how messed up Juju Smith Shuster's
knee is. Now, keep in mind, if you look at
the Patriots s depth chart, there ain't a lot there.
The cupboards are bare, there's not a lot at the
wide out position. So let us discuss the question what
(03:24):
is the level of Pat's concern for Juju Smith Shuster's
mangled knee. So we're going to go with the time
tested measurement for concern, better known as the Mallard scale
of concern one to ten, with ten being the worst
of the worst. Just amputated. I'm at a six on
(03:49):
the Malar scale of concern. I'm out a six. I've
got Gaylord Perry, sore thumb, and volleyball. And we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a banana cream pie, right to the face,
right to the face, a banana cream pie. So to
lead off here, I find it hard to stomach, impossible
(04:15):
to believe that the Patriots signed off on Juju smith
Schuster's physical. If his knee was that messed up, Beware
of the wounded bear. Beware of the wounded bear. And
I understand mistakes happen. I get that. I'm not naive
to that fact. But the Patriots have been so so
(04:38):
obsessive when it comes to these injury reports. It's out
of character for Bill Belichick. So that was my first thought.
I was like, I don't know if I believe this.
And then the Patriots, we know they're shopping at the
discount rack. And while Juju smith Schuster got a fair
amount of money in comparison to other wideouts, he did
not get a massive amount of money. And the Patriots
(04:59):
are always looking at the bargain. But if his knee,
if smith Schuster's knee is being held together by Fedichini Alfredo,
then he would not have cleared the physical. There would
have been some red flags that popped up. So I
look at this report and I have a little bit
(05:20):
of a side eye. I think of it like an
old baseball player from a couple generations ago named Gaylord Perry,
old school pitcher, that this report is what's known as spitballing.
You're spitballing. Much of being a pundit, much of being
a pundit is using weasel terminology and educated guessing. That's it, right,
(05:42):
You phrase things to give yourself plausible deniability. You can
bend yourself into a pretzel. But at the same time,
at the same time, you're making some educated guests. It
has been well publicized that Juju Smith Schuster's left knee
is not the greatest. It's been and malformed, and it's
(06:03):
not for the squeamish, right, it's not for the squeamish
because it's pretty bad. But we already knew. We knew
that he had a patella issue. Back to back seasons
Juju Smith Schuster was injured. You could make a similar
statement though, that the knees of a number of wide
receivers and key players around the NFL are like mashed
(06:26):
potatoes or hash browns. They're messed up. So you make
that statement about ninety percent of NFL players. There are
many right now who are about to start the season
who are hanging together with scotch tape and staples, and
that's how they're going out on the field. And a
number of them will be hurt. And what's a non
contact injury? What's going on with that? Now, is it
(06:47):
possible that Juju Smith Schuster's knee implodes in the game
against the Eagles this weekend or early in the season. Sure,
sure it is, But that does not mean that you
know going into the season here that the report is
one the gospel. Again, I tend to think that the
Patriots of all teams, are obsessive about those injury reports,
(07:11):
paying anyone. If there's any kind of a red flag,
they immediately hit the eject button. Now further onoe, let's
go to Atlanta. Why this is one of the few
times we can talk about the Falcons because they're gonna
stink this year. But the Falcons announced on Labor Day
their team captains for twenty twenty three. Now, I take
these stories with a grain of salt unless unless something
(07:34):
gets my attention. Why am I bringing this up? Obviously
something got my attention. My eyeballs puffed up a little bit.
I said, wait a minute, we got something, and what
is the story. Here's the story. In the Atlanta area,
they're starting quarterback in his second year. Desmond Ritter is
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not one of the five players honored to wear that
sea patch on the jersey. He didn't get the C.
No C for you, Desmond Ridder, You're out of luck.
But five other players did get the captain patch on
their uniform. So the question how do you process Desmond
Ridder not being named the captain el Capitan of the Falcons.
(08:22):
So this is not kosher, is what it is. It's
not kosher. It does stand out. It stands out like
a pus filled throbbing sore thumb. It is unmistakable. Your
starting quarterback is given a captain position most of the
time doesn't deserve it. It is given, not earned. It
(08:42):
is given. It is part of the standard package when
you're the starting quarterback. What is my examples? What is
my average? What are my examples? My examples are in
Houston and Indianapolis. C J. Stroud out of the Ohio
State University Anthony Richardson, who barely played the swamp for
the Gators, both were named starters as rookies and guess
(09:05):
what they were also named team Captain's Team captain.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
C J.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Stroud and Anthony Richardson. Did they earn it? No, they
didn't earn it, but they got it. Why, because that's
what you do. Your starting quarterback is named one of
the captains of the team. That's how it's always been
and that's how it will always be. And if you
don't do that, that is a vote of no confidence.
All right, that's it. That's a vote of no confidence.
And as a result, we are now getting mixed messages
(09:34):
from the atl Now. I was always in the camp
that this is just a placeholder until something better comes
along for the Falcons. But last month Arthur Blank put
down the two by fours from home depot the owner
in Atlanta and said that he considered Desmond Rider to
be the cornerback of the future. Of course that's the
(09:54):
near future, as in this season. He is the starter
for now. But this not give you much confidence at
all going forward. The fact that he was not named
a captain. Now parting shot. Let's go to Indianapolis where
the Colts still have turmoil. It's top seat, tire me
at the running back position. Now, he figured to be
an offen. Just an awful team, Just an awful team.
(10:18):
This season. Jim Irsay has put together a deck of jokers,
as they will just toss Anthony Richardson out there and
feed him to the Jags, the Texans and the other
teams in that division Tennessee, and so good luck on
that now. But Indy, we know they are devoid of
(10:38):
a lot of running back depth. Jonathan Taylor, the malcontent,
is gonna miss the first four games. And so the
Colts went out and worked out James Robinson. He's our
running back, James Robinson. Does James Robinson have any gas
left in the tank? Does he have any gas left
(11:00):
the tank? And so my answer is he needs to
visit the RCO station there and fill up. He's at
about a quarter of a tank. About a quarter of
a tank. In the last couple of years, James Robinson
has been passed around like a volleyball. I've just volleyed
up over the net, back across the net, spike it down.
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He went from Jacksonville to the Jets this offseason. He
was briefly part of the Patriots organization. That didn't work
out and they were not on the same page. He
went to the Giants and that didn't work out. He
got let go by the Giant. So, by my back
of the napkin mal or math, by my calculations, James
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Robinson in the last two years, has been passed over
by almost fifteen percent of NFL teams. They said, thank you,
but no, thank you. We have someone who's better, someone
who is cheaper. We're good. So the moral of the story,
(12:05):
if James Robinson ends up with the Colts, have nothing
against the man, but he would be what's known as
can spam, roster spam, not a difference maker at that position.
If you're playing fantasy football, you don't go out of
your way to get James Robinson or anyone on the
Colts offense for that matter, because they're going to be
behind early and often early, and often just a practice player.
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Just a practice player, is the way I read that.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are warming
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did not get to it. New verbiage, upsetting, the narrative
and the tattoo blues. We'll get to all of that
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There was a new term invent. We mentioned this earlier.
We didn't pay it off. Bad job by us. Jim Harbaugh.
Did you see this, Eddie? Jim Harbaughs come up with
a new term. I did you see it? Exiled Michigan
football coach. We have some audio that we're gonna play,
so Harball not allowed to coach Michigan here early in
the sea is he's on time out for some rules
(14:04):
violations a couple of years ago. But Harball, you know
he's he's an interesting cat. Jim Harbaugh thought he was
gonna be the Viking coach. He was convinced he was
going to coach the Minnesota Vikings. Didn't work out, so
he's back at Michigan settling in there, and he created
a new term in place of offense and defense. I
think we have the audio ready to go. So let's
(14:25):
go to the audio tape. Here's Jim Harbaugh. Take a listen,
snow offense, there's no defense. It's it's a defense. Yeah.
You want to hear that. Play it again, Mark played again.
Let's play it again.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Defense and uh.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That was part of it, the very end of it.
Here one more time, let's see if we can hear
the whole thing for beginning. It's only like a few seconds,
but it's like a drop we're gonna use on the show.
No offense, there's no defense, it's it's a defense. Yeah,
so there's no offensive defense, Eddie, it's all morphed into
a big ball of goo. It's now the defense. Will
that catch on?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Think that'll catch on?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I hope not. I think that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Here we go, Here we go. I think that could
be a good cheer. Here we go. We fans here
we go that way. You don't have to learn two cheers.
That's hard for those, Eddie. Think about the cheerleaders, it's
hard to learn the different cheers.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I have a higher standard than that, Ben.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Really, you have high standards for cheerleaders for everyone, for everyone.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That's right, making things easier on people.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But you know how you have like gender neutral bathrooms
and things like that, Eddie. Jim Harbaugh is just getting
rid of offense and defense. It's just one thing. The
wefense you.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And we had a celebrity fan, die, Eddie, we had
another celebrity fan. Missus Wammy has left us, Eddie, no more,
missus Whammy. Missus Wammy has left the building for the
final time. She's checked out. She's she's mortal. She's a
celebrity NETS fan, Eddie. That's a bad job by you.
A Nets fan, Yes, a celebrity Brooklyn Nets fan.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Missus Way didn't know they had any celebrity fans.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Come on, it's not a celebrity.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Didn't know who was until he saw the article. That's
not true at all. I was a big fan of
miss person. No this is not ridiculous. You rip Marlin's man,
you rip Clipper Daryl, all these big celebrity fans, you
take fans. Yet I see your fat ass on CBS
(16:30):
every time the Chargers are playing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
We're in some special outfit that says, hey, look at me,
miss Wammy. I don't sure about the game. I just
want to be on TV, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I want to give my respects, my eulogy to missus
Wammy the past away chance. No, I absolutely eighty seven
years old, great run, a great run in life. Her
name was Judy, but call her missus Wammy, and she
would she would go to nets games and she and
her husband would put a curse on They put a
(17:02):
hex on the opposing player while they were shooting foul shots.
And her husband. By the way, mister Whamy still around.
Mister Whamy's still around, but missus Wamy. Now will mister
Whamy continue now that Missus Wammy's unable.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
To do that? Well, I mean I would say that
he has to carry on the legacy.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yes, it's the family legacy. They and they I agree
with you. They must continue it on. That's what you do.
And then they're going to go on. So rest in peace,
Missus Whammy. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I don't think works very well though, because the Brooklyn nets,
you know, not that great.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, they have been better than when they were the
New Jersey nets back in the day. They were terrible
outside of like two good years they had there. Let's
go to Robert in Oregon. What's going on? Robert holy Buck,
Williams Batman, Hello.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Roy, Just hanging out in my trailer here. Look, you
know this thing with furious I got two ideas about it.
First of all, you know how the Doggers overmannings their pictures.
I think they over man Axton. They you know, the
load management thing got to him and he snapped. But
I also think the reason the Dodgers are kind of
going down in two just kind of like all that
(18:10):
mud out there at Burning Man. Some people think that
was brought on by some of their debauchery. And you
know how the Dodgers kind of uh disc dis the
Catholics here over the summer with their letting those guys
come in there and kind.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Of you there's a maybe Missus Wami put a hecks
on the Dodgers before.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It is it is conceivable on that. Yeah, I saw
the burn. But I saw the burning man thing, but
that was wild man.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, there walking around rainy mud.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
It's crazy raining raining man. Burning man became raining man.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah you know. I used to be one of those
mud mud slipping hippies a long time ago, where you
dive in the mud to slide across it. And uh,
these guys are all getting the skin burns from it
to this all alkaline terrible.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It didn't go so well for them. The Dodgers are
the Dodgers are now the Dodgers are Jinx Yeah done.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh, stuck in the mud, stuck in the mud.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
All right, Robert, there you go.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
The whole thing with the load management man, it's it's
stack fire.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
I'm pretty sure that that had nothing to do with
Julio Urius snapping. Uh, he was at a soccer game.
I'm gonna assume the position. I have no insider information,
but he was at a soccer game with a bunch
of other celebrities. I'm guessing that he might have partaked
in some adult beverages. I don't know for sure. And
he was wandering around after the soccer game, and one
(19:36):
thing led to another and he he ended up going
Mike Tyson punch out. But thank you, Robert, I appreciate that.
So here's a guy that upset the narrative. People are upset.
People are genuinely upset with Dominique Wilkins. There's a name
we haven't said in a long time, right. Dominique Wilkins
was a big star in the nineteen eighties, big NBA legend,
(19:57):
was at one point considered a better dunker than Michael Jordan.
Believe it or not, some thought he was a better
player than Michael Jordan early on in their careers. When
Dominique took off with the he was usually with the Jazz,
but he took off with the Atlanta Hawks anyway. So
Dominique recently did an interview, and he's upset people who
(20:17):
loved to attack Boston, he said. Dominique, he played for
the Celtics near the end of his career. He said
he never experienced any racism while in Boston. He said
he lived in Boston for five years after he retired
and he liked it a lot. He said he was
treated very well. Said he lived in a place called Dover,
(20:40):
mass And he said, for me, I did not see
any of that, meaning the racism personally So what do
you think the reaction was to this. Was the reaction, Hey,
that's great, that's wonderful, or was the reaction, well that's
not true, you're not right. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
We all know what the reaction was.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
The race baders are very upset with Dominique Wilkins. They're like,
wait a minute, you don't You've got against the narrative here,
what's wrong with you? Shame on you. So they're like,
people upset with Dominique Eddy that he didn't follow the
company line. There that and I'm not saying there hasn't been.
There's been a lot of instances in the past in Boston,
but Dominique said he did not have any of that,
(21:22):
and people are upset. And that was a fair fair
amount of time. I think that was the early two thousands.
I want to say that Dominique played for the Celtics.
I have to look it up, but it was. He
ended up finishing his career in the early two thousands,
so I think it was around between two thousand and
two thousand and five something along those lines off the
top of my head, without looking ninety four, ninety five,
(21:44):
oh even earlier than that. There you go, he played
with the Clippers in ninety three. Remember that he came
from Atlanta the Clippers and then went to the Celtica
and I think he went to Orlando or something after too.
He played with the Magic. Orlando was his last stop
in ninety nine. Oh so he didn't even play in
the two thousands. Wow, seemed like he did, but he didn't.
(22:04):
That's a long time ago.
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Twins Trounce the Guardians twenty to six. Royce Lewis from
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Anisota fun fact on this game. A fun fact on
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the line. Fun fact. This is gonna make your day today.
A lot of people this hour get the jump on traffic, Eddie.
They're starting their day here, other people ending their day.
This is a great fun fact. Lucas Giolito, Oh this game.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Lucas Giledo his debut for the for the Cleveland squad.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
There the Tribe. He became the first pitcher to allow
eight or more runs in a game for three different
big League teams in the same season since Bill McGee.
You know when Bill McGee did.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
It a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Bet eighteen ninety nine goes back to the eighteen hundreds
for the Ville Colonels, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Washington
Senators eighteen ninety nine. Congratulations to Lucas Giledo, who did
it for the White Sox Angels and now the Cleveland
baseball team. That is a fun fact.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
That is not fun for him, but it is for us.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yesdy, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Also not on news from Major League Baseball where Dodgers
pitcher Julio Ris was arrested charge with fellow the domestic
violence late Sunday night. Was released Monday morning. Fifty thousand
dollars bond not with the team, and Baseball says they
are investigating. And I like de Ben Maller on the
tire rack dot com, Fox Sports Radio studios.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Some Yankee purist upset with Jason Dominguez. This is the
new phenom edie that the Yankees called up to a
bunch of home runs. He's a kid. He's at a
bunch of home runs for the Yankees. He's the great
savior of the Yankees going forward, the great young hope
of Yankee baseball. And he revealed that his favorite players
(24:39):
growing up. What do you think, he said, Derek Jeter, Giambi,
somebody like that. No, he's a kid. His favorite players
growing up Jason Dimingez. He said, do you see this,
David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Big, oh, big ball boy, Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
He's from the Dominican Republics. But yeah, that's it's almost
as weird as when remember the Yankees traded for Jeter
downs and and he was playing for the Red Sox.
He's like he was in the Nationals. Now Jeter as
named after Jeter is Derek Jeter and all that. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mallershow let's go to Jim, who's
(25:26):
in southern California and Jim is next. Hello Jim in
the OC in Irvine.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Hello Jim, what's up, buddy doing?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Jim?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
If I was any better, I'd be a Rendon, but
not Anthony Rendon because I will have forgotten how to
speak English.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Okay, so the urious situation is really bad work because
it's a great pitcher and he's just he doesn't take
it easy. He does because he's good when he's rested.
And I know you'll agree with me on that.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, I think he needs to go back to kindergarten
because I learned in kindergarten you have to keep your
hands to yourself. That's what I learned in kindergarten. That's
what they taught me. That's all I remember that. And
they had to color inside the lines, but I never
did that. But I keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
I remember that, yes, And you should not lay hands
on a woman because I was in an abusive relationship
with the vietname Israel, who should be deported. But we'll
not talk about that right now.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's very personal. Yeah, yeah, you should not strike a woman.
But if you you sometimes do have to defend yourself.
If you are struck, you do have to defense.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Giants. The Giants are a bit of a slide right now.
How do you feel about them coming into the postseason
kind of quickly?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Here?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Giants are about to get some help here because the
Dodgers are playing the Marlins this week, and so that
should help the Giants fortify their lead in the wild
card race. But the Giants are not going to make
any noise in the playoffs. The Giants are one of
those teams like the Brewers and these the Marlins. If
they make the one team that could make some noise
there is the Phillies. That's the one team there that
(27:01):
you look at. They made a run last year. Trade
Turner's coming on that offense is absolutely monster mashing in Philadelphia.
Of all the teams other than the Dodgers and the
Braves in the National League, the Phillies. That's the one gym,
that's the one that scares you.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
A little bit.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Well, Atlanta scares me a lot. But we both know.
We both know it comes down to pitching in the
playoffs and at the coin slip once you get in
the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
And you know this, well, it comes down to not
only pitching, but timely hitting, hitting with runners in scoring position,
having a certain player, not that kind of hitting, no,
we don't need that kind of but having someone who
will step up, like for example, when the Atlanta Braves
went on the run and got to the World Series
and they won in twenty twenty one. Do you remember
(27:48):
who carried them in the NLCS? I do. The guy
he looked like Ty Cobb at home, Eddie Rosario. The
guy was insane. Dodgers couldn't get him out. He better
like five hundred. He was like Pete Rose I think
he I think he bettered over five hundred in the series.
He did.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Yeah, but I mean boach manages that World Series back
in twenty.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
No.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Twenty fourteen, and he played it by by Phil You
don't play analytics, you know this. You play with hot
and Robert.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, but they don't.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
They don't do that, but the Dodgers don't do that.
The Atlanta Braves also do a lot of analytics as well.
The Braves are analytical. The top teams all play the
same way. They all are.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
No, you know, you play with who's hot, and that's
what won the Giants with three chips, like because Bachi
managed the right way.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well, it also helps met mad Bum was insane for
that playoff run. Yeah, gotta, I gotta leave it there, Jim,
I gotta go. I gotta get Cowboy on because thank
you though Jim hot baseball talk with Jim the Giant fans.
Let's go to Cowboy John Brad a fine Canadian land
in Windsor, Ontario, and it's cow Boys Corner.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Okay, Well, Happy eighty seventh birthday Bill Mazarowski. He was
born about a month's before my parents got married, and
he was going a couple of days before Buddy Holly
was born. But also let's see happy eighty fourth birthday
that Bill Kilmer in the old NFL quarterback. Happy sixtieth
birthday to Jeff Brantley, the former Major league left hand
(29:22):
is the believer and now the Braves are the Reds
radio announcer whom I would like to ruffle up for
the right to be called cowboy.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
And see yesterday you're are cowboy, cowboy, John brad you're
our cowboy.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yeah, I know, thank you. But yesterday, let's see Frank
White and Doyle Alexander were about seventy three, and one
of Hilton Jacobs had played the Freddy Boom Boom cannon
and welcome back Connor was seventy. And also let's see
(29:59):
September third, nineteen seventy, the great Vince Lombardi fifty seventy
is born three days after my father died of colon cancer.
And of course Terry Bradshaw was seventy six on Saturday.
And anyway, ope, you had a great labor day everybody.
And oh, Ken Harrelson, the former MLB player ALMSI yes,
(30:25):
general manager and would be golfer was eighty two yesterday.
So anyway, I think to people tomorrow morning and remember
if that'd be a boy to be a cowboy.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well, I thank you, Jim. So the tattoo story, I
recommend it's more of a visual story than an audio story.
But several people sent me this and it is wonderful
Bill's Mafia has outdone themselves. So there's a photo going
around of a Bills fan. I do not think this
is Andy the Comic book guy, but I don't know.
(30:53):
Maybe it is Andy the comic book guy. And this
guy got a Josh Allen tattoo on his arm. On
I think it's the front of his arm. If I'm
looking at the photo, it does look like the front
of his arm. And the reason this is outrageous is
Josh Allen is it's it's let me, let me try
(31:15):
to paint the picture for you. Okay, So he's got
a plumber's butt crack on the photo. It's a full
body photo he's got he's wearing a Ezekiel Elliott type
jersey showing his mid drift. But it's from the side
and you can see you're kind of the back and
the side there, and it exposed the the buttocks the
(31:39):
like a plumber, you know, the old thing of blumber.
But then it gets even better because on the front
you can see a little bit of the front and
it looks like Josh Allen is wearing a cod piece
like he's ready for the ballet. If you know what
I'm saying right now, I don't know, maybe that's the jockstrap,
I don't know, but quite the quite the image there
of some random bild man. And unless this is a
(32:02):
gag and that's not real, as far as I know,
that is a legitimate tattoo that some Bill's guy got,
the first ever Josh Allen butt crack tattoo. Way to
go outstanding. We will have site the Bite, the Great
Sports Radio Mystery Site to Bite. If you'd like to
be one of our participants in that call right now
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox the Great Audio
(32:24):
Mystery Site to Bite. We'll get to that and we
will do it next.
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Speaker 5 (33:11):
It's time now to site site a bite where we
play random generic sound bites, you know, in a sports
and entertainment cliches spoken by so called experts. You trying
to tell us who's doing the talking.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We're eight Sports Radio. Mystory such the fight, and here
we go. Let's go right to the audio tape. You
want to be one of our judges. Before we even
play the audio call right now, a lot of people
hang up if they don't know the answer. They're like,
they panic, and we go through a high volume of calls.
The ones that get on the air, many of them
do not even make it on the air because dude's panic.
(33:48):
So here we go. Let's go to the audio tape.
Someone from the world of sports to the last seven
to ten days. See if you can figure out who
this person is with no clues, take advantage of it,
Take advantage of it. I think I might know this one.
Let's see if I'm right here. No, no, it's not
who I thought it was. That's not who I thought
(34:09):
it was. Will anyone get this right? Will anyone get
this right? I'm going to go caller number five, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I'm gonna go caller number zero. Nobody will get it's
such a hater, I know, but right all the time, though, No,
you're not.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I've won this game more than anyone. What about you? Mark?
Will anyone get this right?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Mark? No?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Mark, Art? What about you? Kovalou? I think someone will
actually get this one? Aha? In your face? See that
caller five. Let's go to the phones eight seven, seven
ninety nine of Fox. Play it again. We'll give you
some clues after every couple of incorrect guesses. Play it again, Mark,
take advantage of it? Okay, who is this person? Let's
go to Mark's old stomping grounds in Chicago and say
(34:54):
hello to Tree. Tree. Do you know the answer? Tree?
Your caller number one?
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Believe I love you guys, Drew Bledsoe?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Is that Drew Bledsoe? Is that is that the guy
from the last seven to ten days? Drew Bledsoe? Is
that the answer?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
But Tree, we love you too, Tree, Thank you. I've
always been a fan of Tree, all right, not Drew
bledsoe let's try Nathan Nathan in Orlando. Hello, Nathan, Hey.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Good evening. It's John Rice Plumbly, UCF quarterback.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Can I have some of what you're having? Nathan? No,
that is incorrect. Time now for our first clue eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox. If you want to
play it is Site to Bite, the Great sports radio mystery.
This person was raised in a tight knit, big Italian family. Okay,
does that give it away? There? Play it again, Play
(35:52):
it again, take advantage of it. Yeah, you gotta take
advantage of that tight knit, big Italian family was raised in.
And let's see, will anyone get it right? Let's go
to caller number three. Blind Scott is my caller number
three from the North end of Boston. Blind Scott, Oh, yeah,
that's Mike Bovis from the famous Bovis Bakery.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
He was raised in a biggest time family and they
keep on Bovis Bak We opened twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
That's going to be him.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah. I love Bova's Bakery, but I was there. Every
time I go to Boston, I go by Bova's Bakery.
That's incorrect, though, Blind Scott. Bad job by you, and
let's see Cowboy John Brad is next year. If you
know the answer, you can be the big winner. You're
my caller number four, Cowboy John Brad.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
OHI is that w W Superstar bron Strowman tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
That is incorrect, but I good, I liked it. You
squeeze that in Cowboy. That's incorrect. All right, Uh so
it's not true. Bledsoe the quarterback at Central Florida. That's
gout or the guy from Bova's Bakery. Let's go to
a uh let me give you another clue, and then
we're gonna go to a random caller, caller five, who's
gonna get it right? The The next clue is this
(37:07):
he broke a completion's record set by Tony Roman. College
caller number five for the wind callar five. You're on
the air, five Call of five. It's Jimmy Garoppolo five
suck Call of five, got stage Fried Eddie
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