Rhythmic Claps & Garbage Cans

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as far as live sporting events. But occasionally, when you
have two teams with let's just say less than a

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great offensive pedigree playing each other professional baseball in a
playoff game, and eight gazillion instant replays and trips to
the mound and relief pitchers, you end up having live
baseball plus extra hitting baseball. So but I'm not paying
any attention to that at all. No, no, not because

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the baseball playoffs have been tarnished by a cheating scandal.
Things have gone sideways. They have, They've gone sideways. All
that bluster, that flamboyance coming out of Houston. Put it
on the shelf right now. You can put it on
the shelf. If you saw the American League Championship Series.
The early game on Tuesday, the Boston Red Sox essentially

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put the Houston Astros in the organ grinder, and so
Boston now just two wins away from getting rid of
this annoyance which is the Astros, and eliminating them, putting
them back in their place of irrelevancy in Major League Baseball.
But the thing we need to discuss here is not
about Jackie Bradley Junior unloading a grand salami against the

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notorious Astro League pitcher Roberto Asuna. Yeah, cook, listen, I
don't necessarily believe in karma, but if there is such
a thing as karma, that's that's wonderful. But this involves
incriminating activity. Now in a scoop for the ages the
Metro website, which is a national website, but the Boston branch,

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it's a national website which focuses on local news. And
so the Boston Metro, all right, they did their thing
and they had the scoop. They've exposed the notorious Astros
and their nefarious ways. Now, if you are an Astro lapdog,

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how's that going for you? Yeah, you say, well, this
is just trying to gain a competitive advantage. But it
is wild. Now, the story started out kind of small.
There weren't a lot of details. We didn't know that
much about it. We just knew that this character had
been kicked out of an area at Finway, but not
kicked out of the ballpark. He was an employee of

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the Astros. It's very vague, very vague. And then as
the time progressed, the mainstream media that cover baseball for
some reason, they were oblivious to this, and then once
it was reported by that small operation, the Metro in Boston,
it got picked up and the floodgates opened up. We

(04:12):
were off to the races, and we have learned of
a shady actor, because any good mystery needs a shady actor,
a guy named Kyle McLaughlin. Never heard of him, of course,
you've never heard of now mccaughlin. Who was caught, if
you believe the reporting, was caught in Cleveland and in

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now Boston spying. He's a spy. He's a Russian spy.
He's at a Russian spy, is what he is. Cleveland
and Boston. He was using his weapon of choice smartphone,
weapon of choice smartphone in the opposing dug out. He

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was using the cell phone at the opposing dugout. He
is not listed publicly as an employee of the Astros,
we were told, but there are photos that have been
obtained by some of the mainstream media that show him
wearing an Astro's ID badge, flying on a private plane
with the Astro's logo on ed just tip of the iceberg.

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We were just at the start of this. There's a
photograph that was obtained by Yahoo that showed McLaughlin aiming
a cell phone in the Cleveland's dugout during the Indians
loss that ended their season. Can you say stay it
with me now, smoking gun or in this case, smoking
cell phone. Now. McLaughlin is the same man that was

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caught taking pictures near the Red Sox dugout during Game
one of the America League Championship Series. That was the
report from the Metro in Boston. All right, they had
at first the Metro Times at Boston. Mccaughlin was removed
by security at Finway from that area. He was taken away,
but he was not kicked out of the ballpark. The
guy said, A'm an Astro's employee. Mccaughlin has seen in

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photos with Jim Crane. Who is Jim Crane? Wait for it,
plot twist, the owner of the Astros, the spy with
the owner, the spy and the owner together. That's your
Astros right there, That's right. The plan also had logos

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of some of the other businesses the Astros owner owns
on his personal Here's where it gets really good. This
is what we call covering your tracks on his Instagram account,
his personal Instagram account. This chady guy named Kyle McLaughlin,
who we've never heard of before a few hours ago,
used to list the Astros on his bio, But once
the scandal hit the social media pages, guess who changed

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their bio on Instagram? Ding Ning Ning, Ning, ning Ningning
chicken dinner. That's right. So the question is what do
you make of the accusations the Astros have been caught cheating.

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I don't know how you can look at it any
other way than they're guilty. But my observations here you
have the inside job. Poetic justice may toss that out
there as well. And just the tip, that's it, just
the tip of the spear, all right. Now, First of all,
we'll see how this story unfolds in the coming days.

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We'll keep an eye on this. If you go by
the book PR Crisis one oh one, we've seen enough
of these type of stories over the years to know
how this is going to play out. Baseball will immediately
circle the wagons. They will say this is not a
big deal. They will attempt to put the kebbash on it.
But there is enough smoke here to call in the

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forest department to check out. See what you know, It's
not just a campfire it's not a campfire. There's more
than a campfire going on. This is a brush fire,
all right. That's what we got in this case with
the Astros and this cheating. And it certainly sounds based
on some of the early reporting that we are being
told here that the Astros were warned and they continued

(08:21):
to do this, right, that the Oakland Athletics supposedly were
the first team to figure it out, solve the rubrics,
cube and may the Astros were warned and continued this.
I think about that they continued it. You talk about integrity,

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there's no integrity. And Astro's baseball. And this guy McLaughlin,
I don't know who he is, but he looks shady.
He looks guilty to me, he looks like he has
the look of a guilty person. He smells like trouble
and I can't even smell and he smells like trouble. Now.
The Yahoo reporting claimed that the Oakland Is and the
Indians were originally the ones that blew the whistle on
the scandal. It started in late August. The Athletics were

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playing the Astros, and check this out. They noticed rhythmic
clapping from the Houston dugout before pitches, and they determined
through their investigation that they Astros, using the rhythmic clap
were relaying stolen signs to the pitchers in the batters box. Right,

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they had stolen signs from the pitchers and they was
going to the batters box. The A's called the league office.
The League office said, we'll investigate. Now what happened, We
don't know. Supposedly it's ongoing. Some reports say that the
Astros were worn to knock it off. Two major league
players said they personally witnessed the Houston Cheaton Astros heating

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a trash can in the dugout in recent years, and
they believed they were re laying signs to hitters rhythmic
clapping trash cans. Guilty guilty, guilty, throw away the key,
throw away the key. Should also point out the Los

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Angeles Dodgers believed that they were wrong in the World
Series that the Astros were stealing signs in the Fall
Classic last season. Now I'm gonna expand on this. I
have to spend a lot of time thinking about this. Now,
my theory is day jah voo. That's my theory. Now,
when I say I'm gonna I'm gonna combine this with

(10:38):
a football story, Baseball's Spygate. Now you remember the Bill
Belichick famous story, The originator of all the accusations against
the Patriots started with what was known as Spygate. Patriots
got in trouble for having a camera guy recording in
a spot where he was not supposed to be, even

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though in previous years he was allowed to be there.
They had changed the rules and so the Patriots got
caught recording during a game from a spot they weren't
supposed to be. And do you remember the coach of
the Jets was Eric Mangini. Now why does that matter?
Eric Mangini was a disciple of Bill Belichick. He was
an assistant of Bill Belichick. Mangini had knowledge of the

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Patriots and what they were doing, recording and whatnot, and
he had a feeling that they were going to be
doing that against the Jets. So he tipped off the
Jets brass and they caught this guy for the Patriots.
In the case of the Red Sox, the reason why
I'm using the word deja vaux with the Red Sox
and Astros, this has the makings of an inside job.
Alex Cora is a disciple of who he is a

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disciple of A. J. Hinch Right. He was an Astro's assistant.
He was the right hand man. So it's being spun
as you know, the Cleveland Indians, the A's were the
ones that were the originators of this, that they started it.
My theory is that it was actually Alice Cora who

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tipped off the Red Sox brass that the Astros were
up to no good, and he was the one that explained,
here's the person to look out for. This is palace
industry intrigue is what it is. Now. Secondly, since the
security at Finway caught this dirt bag and they didn't
kick him out, but they caught him and his photographs
going around, we have seen a sea change in the

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American League Championship Series. Right, if you just look at
circumstantial evidence, you say, wow, this is amazing. The Astros
are really no good without this, right because this was
in Game one. Now, the Astros pulverized the Red Sox
in Game one of the American League Championship Series. But
since this guy was caught red hand right cheating with

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the cell phone camera in a place he wasn't supposed
to be at a time he wasn't supposed to be there.
The Red Sox have pulverized Houston pitching. They've scored fifteen
runs the past two games. The unhittable Astro pitching staff
is suddenly very human, very very human, the Astro pitching staff.
Is that just a coincidence or is there more to

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this story? M inquiring minds. I don't know. The Astros
appeared to be shell shock, No, suddenly not so invincible
without inside information. Now, since Houston got caught, they're trying
to spin this now that this is another wonderful tentacle
to this story. The Astros are claiming that what happened

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here was and this is wonderful spin, but it's lazy spin.
The Astros are spinning this story saying, well, what actually
happened here is that they were just trying to ensure
that the Red Sox were not the ones cheating. They
were just making sure the Red Sox weren't cheating. Now,
where have we heard this excuse before? That would be
former Saint Louis cheat and Cardinals scouting director. I think

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it was Chris Correa was his name. He's the one
that committed corporate espionage. His defense, as I recall, was
that the Red Birds were spying. They were checking into
the Astro database to make sure the Astros weren't stealing
the Cardinals data. Right, did the judge believe him? Guess
what happened? They guy's in prison. He's been in jail.

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He pled guilty to five counts of unauthorized access to
protected computer from twenty thirteen twenty fourteen at least, and
he was promoted during that to the Saint Louis Director
of Baseball Development. He was sentenced to four years in
prison for that, and the Astros have the hutzpah to

(14:39):
use that as their excuse, the same thing the other
guy got sent to jail four What the hell is that?
It's lazy? And this is what it is. Last point here, Now,
there has been a cloud. I think we'd agree on this.
Every man, woman and child around Houston baseball. It has
shadowed them. I I have been one who's brave enough

(15:02):
to point it out. I've been taking some blowback for that.
I'd like to hear that that gas back in the
morning on Houston radio. Who was having some fun? How
dare you say you're cheating? Well? Hello, Hello, your morons,
your bunch of cheaters in Houston. This is shadowing you, right,

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the Astros. And what makes it even more wonderful and
poetic justice is the Astros have been selling this false
narrative that we do things the right way, we win
the right with the white the wonderful right way, and
it's bogus, all right. Reports of pitchers doctoring the ball
to increase spin rates, stealing signs from you, Darvish and

(15:49):
the Dodgers in Game seven of the World Series, and
now we'll Baseball do anything. That's the problem. Baseball typically
does know you. The Cardinals had a guy go to
jail for four years. They got a slap on the
risk from the Commissioner's office. Rob Manford is gutless when
it comes to punishing teams for this kind of stuff.
Let's see if he gets a pair of balls and
actually does something and puts it into it. Now, I

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would like to recommend to begin the healing process from
this horrible injustice the Astros have been part of. I
believe at first what Baseball should do is they should
have the Astros vacate the twenty seventeen World Series championship.
They didn't deserve it. They didn't outscore the Dodgers. They
were clearly cheating, using rhythmic clapping and trash cans to cheat.

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How hello, can you go trash cans and rhythmic clapping.
So begin with that, Astros have to vacate the twenty
seventeen World Series. I would also ban them from postseason
play for thirty years. I would do that, I would
take away every draft pick for the next forty years,
and I would force them to play in a little
league field. While we're at Why not is that too extreme? No?

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Not extreme enough? Right? Yeah, exactly, Finito done. That's right,
They're done. It's over. Turn out the lots, the parties over.
Go back to sucking Astros. You can't cheat anymore with
your trash cans and your rhythmic clapping. The guys right

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there with the Astros owner, what a bunch of cheers,
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and raving of Ben Maller, I know as you're talking
about Ralph, Oh you're not here, that's right, Virtual Ralph.
We should have Eddie Collins from the plane three two
turn us, Mike? Was that our turn? The tape off? There? Sorry,

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I hit the wrong button. Bad job by you. That's
a that's a winner. The Dodgers have won, to pettit,
they just won a game. That's all right, yeah, all right,
now we can do the regular show. Can we start
the show over now? Cody Bellinger my new favorite Dodger.
That's right, you sucking Brewers, bullpit. I hate all of you, all,

(19:08):
twelve of your relief pictures. I can't stand you all
and the Dodgers of now one losing. Go to instant
replay again, council, Why do you review that play? Go
back crack, counsel, and go to instant replay again, you scum.
I had I was there for four hours. I was

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there witnessing this nonsense with relief pitchers and instant replay
and the Dodgers of Everything's okay, everything is great in baseball.
The Dodgers have one Cody Bellinger making up for that
week Yasmani Grandall and Keika hern I guess the fans
were better, Kei King and Dodge one. There you go,

(19:50):
retire Key King sucking. My favorite part of that was
Dave Robert Sue said he was taken out of context.
You can't be taken out of bers when there's all
do you you You only are taking out of context
in print when there's no audio. Right now, I had
a lot of very strong things to say. By the way,
Dodgers won two to one, so they s the NLCS

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is now a best of three. The Brewers are in
trouble about how about Dave Roberts taking out David Freeze
in the second inning? Oh yeah, well, we can go
down the list there. How many times do the Dodgers
have to have hitters frozen at home plate watching pitches
right down the middle before maybe they try to swing
it some of those pitches with runners scoring position. But
through it all, the Dodgers have won a couple and

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then they'll win again on Wednesday, and they'll go back
and I'll have to win just one game in Milwaukee,
and it'd be that map more painful for Bob Yuker
and friends there in Milwaukee. But I want to get
props to Alex Cora. I heard I was watching the
game Murder today and I heard all that's Cora tell
his players. He's got great he's got great hitters there,
home and hitters on his team. He says, we have
to humble ourselves, guys, we have to we have to

(20:53):
come with a different approach. Yeah at the plate. So
she's saying that players are capable of changing their approach,
or you're saying yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Really the Dodgers
here out, I don't know. They it seemed to want
to hit a home run every ten one Without hitting
a home run, they were able to win a game
without hearing a home run. Of course, it took seventeen
hours to play the game, but they they got to

(21:14):
play two hours. I mean, here's a memo to Major
League baseball players. If your game ends while the Ben
Maller Show is on, you've done something wrong. Okay, we
are on two am to six in the morning. If
your game is going on while I'm in the studio
here at Fox, you've screwed something up. Okay. When I
come into the iHeartMedia building in Los Angeles and the
Premier Networks and you're still playing baseball, something has gone

(21:37):
terribly wrong with your team. Okay, bingo, All right, Hey,
we'll press on here. We'll get to that art art
scandal if you want, and we have a rebuttal bunch
of cheaters. Man we have We will hear from one
of the astros PR people. He's called in here the
number one apologies for the Astros will call in. This

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is a huge deal. If you'd missed it, go back
to the podcast. Hear the Mala monologue. This is massively big.
What a sad day for baseball. I don't know, this
could ruin baseball? The astros A what a just a.
I can't say what I want to say because we're
on radio, we're in commercial radio. We're governed by the
Federal Communications Commission. I can't say the words I would
like to say, but I think you know what you

(22:19):
know the seven things you can't say many of those
words I would like to say. And hello toward listeners
and he's simbo yes, shout out to it, by the way,
Proud to be on the Astro station. How you do
a Boys seven ninety my favorite affiliate in Houston. You
guys are the greatest. You show so much love for
our show, and I know you guys are just gonna
be like the Rocket fans who vanished as soon as
the Rockets lost to the Warriors. Suddenly you guys all

(22:42):
scrambled away, and you know the guy was still waiting
for that pizza the Rocket fan bet, remember the pizza
we were, Well, you weren't here, Roberta. We had a
bet for pizza. Coops still upset about that. He still
wants that pizza pie from the Rockets fan. But yeah,
there you go. So it's reality. We'll press on here.
We'll get to all that and many people anticipating this

(23:04):
Rockets and not Rockets. Astro's pr guy and what he's
going to say. We'll get to that in a moment
right now, though, from the Geico Fox Sports radio studios
where the Dodgers have beaten the Brewers. Well not here,
but we watched it on Fox Sports one. We say
hello to wreck Itt Ralph Ralfie boy the Rhino with

(23:24):
the latest. It's a final is Schevezzervine crown ball base
hit in the right field, the tunnels on his way home,
part of the plate, and the Doctors will win it.
They win it two to one, and this series is
all even M five to seventy. LA Sports and the
Dodgers Radio Network with the call as LA does in fact,

(23:46):
even that series two games apiece, game number five just
fourteen and a half hours away, as it will get
started at five oh five pm Eastern time. Earlier, in
the American League Championship Series, Jackie Bradley junior AU grand
slam in the eighth sealed Boston's eight to win in Houston.
The Red Sox now leave the Astros in that series

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two games to one, and it was opening night in
at the NBA on Tuesday, pair of games on the hardwood,
Jason Tatum scored twenty three points, Marcus Morris sixteen and
ten rebounds. Boston belt at Philly one five eighty seven,
and Russell Westbrook did not suit up for Oklahoma City.
They fall at Golden State. The Warriors win one O
eight one. They cover the spread, though I wonder if

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they covered the spread. I didn't watch a second of
the NBA. I have no interest. I mean, what a
great what a great job by the NBA to start
when there's baseball playoff, because the players are such pussy
willows and they have to have extra days off during
the season, so they start, they start the NBA season
when no one gives a crap way to go. Good job, NBA.
Whatever Lebron and the players want. What if they wanted,

(24:49):
why don't you play year round? Didn't take like months off?
How about that? Would that be a good idea? All right?
So the Ben Mallis Show, We are comedy from the
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Geico dot com for a free rate quote. Warriors did
not cover the spread. They won by eight. They were
thirteen point favorites. So if you bet on Oklahoma City,

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they covered by five and the Celtics were only a
five point favorite and they covered by thirteen points over
the highly overrated Philadelphia seventy six ers. Trust the process,
Yeah that's not so good. Not so good. All right. Now,
let's go to the rebuttal and we go to longtime

(25:34):
Houston lapdog apologist sycophant Chris Wow in Houston. He's claims
he's wonder what he's gonna say. I'm sure he'll say
the Astros are guilty. I'm sorry. I want to apologize.
I think that's the classy thing to do. Chris. I'd
like you to apologize. Go ahead, I know you called
up to apologize, So go ahead. No, I didn't tell

(25:55):
up to apologize. And first of all, then let me
get this outwere a looha rather Ralph? How you're doing
He's not. Yeah, he's literally checked out. He's literally walking
down the hall. He has no Do you think I'm
embellishing this? He literally just left the building. Okay. He

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is no longer in the broadcast wing of the Premier
Network studios here at I Heeart. He's not even here.
He's gone. I don't we watch ye give him a
shout out. I give him a shout out, and he
burned off on me. Yeah, he hates you. Ralph does
not like you because you're a caller. He hates all callers. Second,
you two, you and Roberto. Now we all, we all
know that Roberto is only on your side for another

(26:36):
month and then listen. You know he's gonna be back
over there, Coop. But you two are like Yogi Yogi
and booboo you Yogi and he's bob Well you know
what this says every time listen to what you do.
That's because he's a good Bennett. All right, that's Roberto,
unlike these my favorite team man. We'll see about that

(26:58):
we'll see about that. But listen to me. What you
doing is a red herring. You are not addressing the
exactly the komodo dragging in the room. Your team got
caught talking about. Oh you know, I don't know. There's
photographic evidence, there's video of the crime. Guilty. What do
they do? What do they do? Guilty? Guilty? Did what

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they do? They use? This is baseball in their little
historians with all playing Why did wait? Was it? Three
major league teams have now complained about cheating, and you
think this is nothing. There's only thirty teams and three

(27:43):
of them. Three of them have accused the Astros of
this activity, rhythmic clapping and garbage cans, using that cheating, cheating, cheating, cheating.
And since since the scandal was uncovered, your team has
given up fifteen runs and been pummeled by be much
better Boston Red Sox want a couple of games series

(28:08):
being no, no, no, you were I read some of
those morns in Houston. They are gonna run the table.
They're the greatest team ever in baseball. No one can
stop the ashes. I'm like, what the hell are these
people watching? What? I know? Everything's bigger in Texas. You're
a fan boy, Well, Roberto is a fan boy. You're
a fan boy. No, I'm not, No, I'm not. I
will rip later, but not for the slide. I will

(28:29):
rip him for something else, he said. I will tell
you what I would even though I want my Astros
to repete, we are World Series champions and you can
you can't take that away. But I watch that'll be.
That'll be vacatedism to the Boston Red Sox if the
Dodgers in the Boston see but I agree, I would
love to see that paid fan boys, paid fan The

(28:51):
Boston radio been a dominant force in Boston overnight radio
for many, many years. We have a big audience in Boston.
That's why war for that. Oh no, not at all. Listen,
I can't wait for your concession speech. When the Astros
are eliminated. I look forward to that. I hope it's
on a night we're on the air. I think it
will be. We'll be here, we'll get to enjoy that.
And if it's not a night that I'm on the air,

(29:12):
I'll come in and do the show for Jonas just
to hear you cower. When the Astros are eliminated, it's
going to be so wonderful, it's gonna be so glorious.
But being when I've seen Jackie Bradley hit that grand slam,
I basically thought like, I'm glad I'm not big because
I ripped them in the podcasting, I'm sorry. Well, I'm
sure you celebrated Roberto. You probably are celebrated Roberto sooner. Yeah,

(29:36):
he knows how to hit people. Yeah, why would why
would Aid to even use him in an under three
two vessels? At least so soon? It was hitting men
this time, not women. So that's that's a step in
the right direction for accurate statement. Though baby steps, it's
an actual statement, you know, it's an act being He's
an innocent man spended by guilty in baseball, guilty in
the eyes of baseball, suspended for domestic violence and the

(29:58):
eyes of baseball guilt. All right, anything else you'd like
to say, I know you stayed up late, Chris. Your
family hates you because you're supposed to be with them,
but you with us. We're your radio family. So anything
you would like to say, all right, I'm out and
go after rows, all right, and enjoy the off season.
Where will they go before they go to Hawaii or
the Caribbean. Where will they go? Inquiring minds one of them?

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And now for the other side in truth and broadcasting.
Let's go now to the North End of Boston. Now,
if you're not familiar with Boston, the North Ends the
really cool part. That's like the old part of Boston.
The streets are really small. They've got some old restaurants,
old bakries, old pizza shops. It's really my favorite part
of Boston, although you can't really drive there because it's

(30:40):
the car. The streets are designed for like horses. But
let's go out to the North end of Boston and
blind Scott, I might have keep your car to park
on the sidewalk in the North side of Boston in
the past two and a half years. But the Celtics one,
the red one, the Boston's post break. He's overdulating his phone.

(31:04):
All right, I'll put him on hold, tell him, explain
to him that he's yelling so much the phone is dying.
Oh that's disappointing. It's very unfortunately. He's very excited today,
very very every day he is, he gets he gets
very very excited that he's doing good. Oh man, oh man,

(31:25):
all right, so the Ben malla Show on Fox. Now
we're gonna have the debut of the NBA. Pick him.
That's right. Yeah, since Eddie's not here, we have no one.
No one in the studio of the newsroom is empty tonight.
Everything's on tape. So we will have the NBA pick him,
pick him, pick him, pick him, pick him, pick him.

(31:45):
That's it's our payback. It's ours. That's right, a bunch
of games in the NBA. I'm telling you on a
Wednesday night, we'll get to that art mellow drama because
that's a pretty good story. You're listening to the Ben
Mallett Show on the Box Radio, And here's the who
am I game? According to the NFL's next Gen Stats,
that's the super analytical end of the world of baseball,

(32:10):
or the NFL in this case, I have caught five
of five tight window targets this season for one hundred
and forty four yards and two touchdowns. Again, among all
receivers in the NFL, I am number one. I have
caught five of five tight window targets for one hundred
and forty four yards and two touchdowns. Those are the

(32:31):
toughest catches to make in the NFL, and I've made
all five of them that have been thrown my way.
Who am I? The answer? Next? On the Ben Mallers Show,
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We can't wait to hear from you. But now let's
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the first time the new NBA Season's amazing how that works?

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Can you feel the buzz in the air? Hey? By
the way, the Dodgers beat the Brewers tonight. Everything's okay.
What a nightmare it would have been if the Brewers
don't care? Bob Basketball? Right now, Ben, Now we have
a segment we have to do here. It's very important,
very very important, doing God's work. But here's the who
am I game? According to the NFL's next Gen stats,

(33:38):
I have caught five of five tight window targets for
one hundred and forty four yards in two touchdowns. Now,
what is a tight window targets? Less than one yard
of separation? At least according to some guy that was
watching the game that said there was less than one
yard of separation. So who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? Valls fan Jimmy's going with Marvin

(34:00):
shoot him up Harrison as his answer, Lamont going old
school Houston Oilers. I love this, Ernest Gibbons. I like
the card, the photo, the old Oilers uniform that's cool
and the powder blues solid. Who else do we have?
Chris Long from ed in Spokane's Sonny Bono from The
Little Troller? Who else do we have? Page down? Page

(34:22):
and Lance Allworth from Cardiac Stanley at that we don't
have that? Billy white Shoes, Johnson from Jay Scoop, the
winner of the Ben Maller Talent Show a few months back.
Page down, page down, page down, Adam Feeling from Fluffy
Dave in Minnesota, Connor McGregor from Trucker Joe, Ralph, do

(34:42):
you have an answer, Ralph? Well, I believe that Lamont
was on the right track, but I'm going with Mike Renfrow.
Oh well, that is another good name from the past,
but no, it is incorrect. The correct answer from the
Los Angeles Chargers of Carson Tyrrell Williams of the l
A Chargers the only player with a one catch rate

(35:04):
on tight window targets less than one yard of separation.
And you had to have at least five targets like that,
and this guy, Tyrell Williams is the only one. I
hadn't even heard of him, but I guess he's been
good in those situated According to the numbers, he's been
very good. The Dodgers beat the Brewers. With more on that.
Manuel in Guardina, we get him to the front of

(35:26):
the line. On Fox Sports Radio, Hello, Mane Blanco buns
with blond Scott, good job, good on your bill. Maybe
I heard the call earlier. You're doing good. We will
seat you guys in the World Series. But Benny to
night is a night to rejoice. Cocado Machado comes through,

(35:49):
Bellinger comes through, Julio Urias comes through. All these guys
were under fire. I think we're guys. Moni and Yaziell
are ready to break out. Often Arnge is also gonna
have some prominent at bats. Oh man, I'm feeling it.
I'm with Rob never on the ranch because Ranch is
still terrible. I don't understand how he consumes it. It's disgusting. Yeah,

(36:13):
it's rotting. It's rotting. Food is rach dressing. Ball doesn't
even matter right now, not even King James matters right
now exactly, Dodgers season baby, and hey, Benny, you are
the best coop the m F and loop in the
house and Rob stop with the ranch, please, man, you're

(36:35):
crying now. Raider fans do not ranch. That is correct,
Thank you. All right, buddy, there you go go. That
sounds like a coop drop them there. Yeah, that's that's
got to be a coop drop from man. Well, he's
really passionate. Let's go to Rachel in Montabello and when
the Dodgers win the World Series, me and Rachel will
be side by side on the float going down figure
roll the Bovard in Los Angeles. Hello, Rachel, Jesus, we won.

(37:00):
We won. Ding Ding ding dinging. That's right. Hit the
Daily double. D Now, that's the Daily Double. The Astrals
got caught cheating and the Dotches beat the Brewers. That's
a great day. You're having a good It was nail
biting time in La La Land. Yes it was. I'll
already bite my nails. I don't need that to buite
my nails. That's a bad habit. Then it was just breathtaking,

(37:23):
I mean speechless. I was speechless. Yeah, well it's that
for radio in your speechlessness, you know, Rachel, because that's
when that's all we have his words. All we have
is words. But the boys were inspired by your singing, Rachel. Oh, Ben, Yeah,
I'm still practicing for that, the parade, the song, I mean,
it's it's gonna be marvelous. Yeah, well you need to

(37:45):
work on a new number. Now, I'll do a dance
and you can perform some music there and we'll do
side by side and we'll entertain millions of people. What
we're gonna do. What a what a day? What a day? Ban? Yes,
a wonderful day. I thank you, Rachel, be good, Rachel,
thank you. She goes the lovely Rachel. That check it
in very happy, Thank you, Ben and Eddie Cooper and

(38:05):
Bert drops for important. Yeah, where's that wet blanket? Angry Bill?
So take that in your pooper and pocket. Yeah, he's
getting ready for Yankee spring training in February. What he's
doing trying to figure out what's going on with that? Well,
it is basketball season somewhere. Now you have you done?

(38:26):
There you go. You have the music, look at you
where he might not have the John Tesh music, which
is synonymous the NBA. This is it's great minds me
and my youth. Ben. I see a guy with a
layup drill. When I see this, I see, seriously, that's
a flashback the NBA. Oh, here we go, it's the NBA.
Pick him. We got a bunch of games on a

(38:48):
Wednesday night, so we're short on type. Cooper Loop, who
is going to go first? On this edition, a first
inaugural edition of the NBA Pick him for the new season?
That it's correct. I finally got on the board with
my first NHL win, so I the first pick, right,
and with my first pick, I will go with Jannis
and Teacumbo. Okay, Roberto, I will go with Anthony Davis, scumbag,

(39:09):
James Harden, James Harden from the Rockets rap back to back,
Ralph the big scorer against the lowly Clippers, Nicola Jokichi
and Victor Oladipo did not have either one of those
on my board. I've got here's the surprise. No, no,
I'm not gonna take my surprist Carl Anthony Town Okay, Roberto,

(39:30):
go ahead, Roberto, Chris Paul Wow, Wow, he's already heard.
That's awful. It's a terrible pick. I'm gonna go with
Rudy Gobert Okay, and not impressed. Andre Drummond. Ooh, that's
like fifteen point seven rebounds. That's not that great UNDS pick. Roberto,
Please take your time analyze the board. Let's see here.

(39:53):
Who got Kawhi Leonard Kawhi Leonard Okay, if he plays,
I will go with Kevin Love the stats stuff for
now for the terrible Cavs and Ralph go ahead, Ralph Mitchell,
Donovan Mitchell. He's only good in the playoffs for the Jazz. Ralph.
That's a terrible last pick. Player the murder gotta go, Yeah,
I gotta go. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven

(40:15):
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
It was a baseball version of waterboarding. The Brewers and
Dodgers ending within the last hour. Within the last hour,
they ended Cody Bellinger walking it off for the boys
in Blue. We will discuss as the Dodgers and Brewers

(40:37):
are squared up two two, it's a best of three
in the National League Championship Series. Welcome in the beginning
of another hour, It's the Ben Mallers Show. We are
in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports Radio network,
emanating live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. Fifteen

(40:58):
minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on your
car insurance. Just visit Geico dot com for a free
rate quote. One of the interesting things about the postseason
in any sport is you have a chance to reinvent yourself.
You have a chance to erase past sins. For example,
Cody Bellinger, who had been stealing money for the Dodgers,

(41:20):
been terrible in the playoffs the entire postseason, but he
ends up with the walk off Ribby single in the
bottom of the thirteenth inning, a game that took over
five hours to play, and more on that in a moment.
But the Dodgers beat the Brewers two to one. There
were many more strikeouts than exciting things that happened to
the game, but Bellinger ending a game that lasted five

(41:42):
and a half hours to give you an idea how
long the game took. And I'm not sitting here complaining.
I'm just merely pointing out how this relates to me,
because it's all about me, because I'm an egomania, I'm
a talk show. I have a big ego. So I
was at the game. I was participating as a member
of the media in Game four of the National League

(42:03):
Championship Series. O, they're very early. I was schmoozing. I
was hanging out. I was freeloading with the media elite,
some of them that like me, some of them don't
like me, many of them to have no idea who
I am. So I'm doing my thing, a schmoozing, which
is what you're supposed to do, and I was having
some fun. The game starts. I got there many hours
before the game. The game starts, I'm thinking, well, the

(42:24):
game started six o'clock in LA, so I figured three
three and a half hours. The game's gonna end latest,
It's gonna ends like nine thirty LA time, which will
leave me plenty of cushion plenty of cushion to make
it to the studios. We broadcast from the iHeart Media
building here the Fox Sports Radio studios. So I figured out,

(42:45):
I'm no problem. And then the game began and it oh,
it was was baseball water boarding. It was. It was
just ridiculous. But Bellinger the hero and the Dodgers who
just had all these opportunities and kept flailing away there.
But Bellinger is now three for twenty five in the postseason,

(43:09):
which I don't think is good anywhere. Now. I'm not
not the expert one on one baseball guy. I'm not
a rod but I'm pretty confident that that ain't great.
When you're when you're sitting at three for twenty five,
something ain't going right for it, right, you know, you
know what I'm saying. I mean, I'm just I'm just
pointing that out there. Horrible, horrible. Yeah. But the Dodgers

(43:33):
have won and Manny Machado scored the winning run, getting
a lot of pushback on social media for a play
earlier in the game, but Machado reached on a single
the left in the bottom of the thirteenth inning. He
then went over to second on a wild pitch by
junior garat and end up scoring the winning run on

(43:55):
the Cody Bellinger ribby single. So Machado ends up scoring
the game winning play. But that's part of the store, right,
So what are the big takeaways here? Let's frame it
this way. What are the big takeaways as we talk
about Game four of the n LCAs What are you
going to remember? Now? I've got the struggle, the panic,

(44:17):
and the faux outrage. All right, the struggle, the panic,
and the faux outrage, and we will combine all this together. Now,
first of all, the struggle is real. The offensive struggle
for both of these teams ridiculous. I mean, he's supposed
to people to score runs. I think in baseball generally,

(44:39):
maybe I'm wrong on this, more enjoyable when teams actually
score runs, get hits, don't stand there and watch pitches
go down the middle. And then we got runners to
score position. There are strike three. Look right down Broadway.
What are you doing. It's a bad job by you.
It's bad job by you, bad job by you. Bad job.
But it doesn't It's not just the Dodgers, it's the
Milwaukee Brewers. We keep hearing how the Brewers are different.

(45:00):
They approach things differently. Their offense was garbage. Their offense sucked.
The entire game was a plotting game. And this was
Biden sign. You know who I blame, Craig Council. That's
who I blame. The Milwaukee Brewers are bad for baseball.
This style of baseball is toxic. It's bad for the sport.

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And I'll be that guy right. Baseball is a beautiful
game when it's played right. What the Milwaukee's Brewers do
with baseball is an atrocity. It is disgusting. I don't
want to hear no, no no, it's it's all they have
to It's a struggle. It's it's choppiness, it's there's no
rhythm to the game. It's a million trips out for

(45:47):
instant replay and mound visits and relief pitchers. It is despicable.
Deplorable would be another adjective we could use to describe
the way the Brewers approach things. And now we get
to a point, which is always fun because Game five,

(46:07):
traditionally in a best of seven series tied up at
two two, these numbers will go around. The winner of
Game five wins a gazillion percent more than the loser
of Game five. So while it is a best of
seven series, oftentimes the team that wins Game five is
going to be the team that wins the series in
a seven game set up. And so that presents a
situation where you're going to figure out who is going

(46:29):
to panic, which of these two teams is going to
wet the bed, who is going to go out there?
And the anxiety is going to be too much in
game five? And it's a quick it's a quick turner, right,
it's an early game, which I don't like. They did
not counsel me as an overnight talk to your host.
They did not ask me about that. That's a bad

(46:49):
job by them. They're shame on. So we'll see, I mean,
And oftentimes what happens in these game fives is you
have confusion. I like it because it's an acid test
to find out who can handle it and who can't
handle it. And I was obviously at home. They have
an advantage to win game five, and then they only
have to win one game in Milwaukee, so it sets

(47:12):
up pretty nicely, sets up pretty pretty nicely. Now, the
final point here is the faux outrage. What is this
about the faux outrage would be from the Milwaukee Brewers,
who have essentially accused Manny Machado of committing a war crime.
Now Machado's right. Machado, if you did not watch the

(47:35):
game on Fox Sports, one bad job by you, Shame
on you. Many will only remember this as the Manny
Machado game because there was an incident earlier in the
game where Manny Machado is called out for being dirty
and he did the old drag. He did the old drag,
and was it intentional? Probably so, with his left foot

(47:59):
across the Brewer first basement, Jesus Aguilar's leg. And we
actually just so to give you an idea. If you
didn't see the game, and maybe you're blind, you can't
see the game. But let's let's go to the audio here.
Let's say to this. This is how the play went down.
This is the controversial play. Heyesus Aguilar's at first place
and Machado is the base runner. Aguilard talking to Machado.

(48:21):
There's Machado when he ramped past the bag. He also
hit the right leg of Aguilar. How Charles Lombard getting
betraying the two of them. Eric Crotch pushing Machado out
of the way. The penches are beginning to clear. The
Aguilar's foot was in the way. The runner has the
option to go past the bag. Machado was not attempting

(48:42):
to make contact with the right foot. Machado was on
the bag with the left foot. It appeared well, no,
actually it was the right foot that was on the
bag of Maccado did drag his left foot, all right.
So that was Rick Monday, the Great Rick Munday and
Charlie Sneiner on the call on this particular play. Let's

(49:03):
hear from Manny Machado, and we'll hear from Dave Roberts here.
Let's let's hear from Machado first on the play that happened.
This was back in the tenth inning, the famous Machado
Aguilar play. Of course, that incident at first base in
the tenth inning. What did you tell him what happened
on that play? No, we're family. You know, things happen
every everything's that happens on the field stays on the field.

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And you know, he's a great guy. We go way back,
you know, since since the minor league, so you know,
it's just a friendly game. We'll I'm trying to compete here.
We're trying to win. He's trying to do whatever he
can to to hup his team over there, and we're
doing the same way here. All Right, they hugged it out,
they had to hug it out, but the Brewers do
not agree with that. Christie Yelich was asked at about

(49:45):
the Machado play and he said, of the incident with
Jesus Aguilar, he said, quote, it's a dirty play by
a dirty player. That's the quote quote from Christian Yellich,
dirty play by a dirty player. And that seems the
sentiment we're getting some of the quotes that are coming
in from the Brewers clubhouse, and that seems to be
the consensus. Craig Counsel began his state, do we have

(50:09):
counsel right, Let's listen to counselor because I believe he
had a pointed comic because somebody was trying to defend
the Machado play by saying that he was he was
being aggressive and that's what happened. But I believe Counsel
pushed back on that. Let's go to the audio tape
here we know, I don't know. I guess they got
tangled up at first base. I don't I don't think

(50:31):
he's playing all that hard. See that that I will
agree with, Like I would like to rant later about
some other things Manny Machado did that are that are
separate from this particular play. But here's my my ten
cents on the play. All right, This is full outrage,

(50:52):
is what it is by the Milwaukee Brewers, because at
the trade deadline, the team that was desperate to get
any Machado other than the Dodgers was the Milwaukee Brewers.
So it's nice that Craig Counsel says he doesn't play hard,
and it's very nice of these other Brewer players to
call out Machado and he's a heathen, and Christian Yellich

(51:14):
says he's a dirty player and all that stuff, which
I don't think is necessarily a bad thing, but you know,
maybe now in this you know, softened up society we're in,
it is a bad thing. But all these guys in
the Brewers, they were this close to having Machado in
their locker room as a teammate, and we're now supposed
to believe that he's public Enemy number one because he's

(51:34):
wearing different laundry and I hate to say this, but
I guess somebody has to say it. Memo to Jesus
Aguilar at first base, if you don't want to get spiked,
don't allow Machado the opportunity to spike you. Stop being
a slug and get your foot off the bag. Okay,
that's what when you're the first baseman, If you leave

(51:54):
your foot on the bag, you leave the opportunity for
that to happen. I cannot do that. If Aguilar is
not lazy. And Aguilar was lazy on that play and
he didn't get his foot off the bag, you gotta
have cat like reflexes. He did not have cat like reflexes.
Bad job by you. And this reaction of people is absurd.

(52:17):
Now again, I feel that the whole slide rule is silly.
I think that's dumb. Do I think Machado plays hard. No,
I don't think Machado plays sorry. Do I think this
is a war crime what Machado did against the Brewers?
Absolutely not. I think this reaction is over the top.
Nonsense is what it is. It's absolutely ridiculous. It's absurd.
What are we talking about here, Baseball. It's kind of

(52:40):
like that whole thing. I guess the world is changing.
Guess we have to adapt. You know, It's like when
I used to watch NFL films years ago, and they
would celebrate the hardest hits, human torpedoes, safeties that would
come off and just deliver bone chilling hits. Now people
run to their smartphones. Oh my god, I've been triggered.
I need my blankie because I saw it hit in

(53:01):
the NFL. And in baseball the equivalent of that, anything
with physical contact is a nightmare. Baseball. Again, they used
to talk about how players would do anything to gain
an edge, and they would you bend the rules, and
you hear some of these these stories from the olden
days of baseball on guys, if you didn't get your
foot out of the way, you're gonna get spiked, and
it was celebrated. Right. That was the only part of

(53:24):
macheesmo that was in baseball. And now now we have
a bunch of I can't say, but we have a
bunch of people right now. It's the worsification that annoys me.
It's absurd. And if you're one of these people with
his faux outrage, just like the Brewer players and Craig
counsel about Manny Machado. They would love to have Manny
Machado right now. If they could have Manny Machado, they

(53:46):
would take him on their team. They wanted him, They
tried to get him, couldn't get him, couldn't do it,
weren't good enough, didn't have enough players to get him.
It's the The Benn Raller Show on Fox. A game
that took five half hours and had fifteen total hits
five and a half hours. Let's hear from Dave Roberts,
who's in the awkward position of having to tap dance

(54:10):
around all of this. Here's Dave Roberts on the Machado play.
We just give you my version of events. Here is
the Dodger skipper. I think it was one of those
things where Aggie had his foot on first base and
didn't give Manny a whole lot of room on the back.
They didn't see the replay, so he stepped on his foot,
and I think that's what Manny was talking about. But

(54:33):
we all worked it out. We all worked it out.
What did you go to group therapy? What exactly did
you do? So we have this weird thing going on,
Like many Machado I don't know ran about this later
some my list, But like many Machado is is lazy, right,

(54:53):
So on one hand he's ad minute he's lazy, but
now he's dirty, so he's like dirty lazy, Like, aren't
those two things opposite? I mean those you have to
if you're lazy, how can you be dirty? All right?
If you're dirty, how can you be lazy? Like I'm
trying to figure out, you know what I'm saying. Maybe
I'm wrong on this. I don't know, Maybe I'm I

(55:15):
mean correct. I think I'm I'm writing the negative stories
are He's like, I agree, I don't think he plays hard.
I agree with that, and I can rip Machado for that.
But this particular play, if Aguilar gets his foot off
the bag quickly, he's a big fat toad. He can't
get his foot off the bag. If he could, then
many Machado cannot do that. But instead we're gonna blame Machado.

(55:37):
But again, it's a playing baseball in the past would
be celebrated. Eddie is on a flight to Europe. I
would guess at this hour he's probably somewhere over the Atlantic.
And yeah, been on a plane right now for seven
hours I think at this point, Yeah, better him than me,
that's all I have to say. Better him than me.

(55:58):
And we have alf on tape here and Ralph when
he came in, it's great. When he came in to
tape his his work. He brought a baggie with him
and his baggie said, Ralph's on it. It's great. What
an ego maniac? What kind of egomaniac comes in here
with a I mean, that's like a Lebron James douchebag move.

(56:19):
He comes in here with a bag with his name
on it. It's unbelievable. Do you see that, Roberto when
he was in here earlier? Roberto, Yeah, it's crazy, can't
believe it. Man out of control. I like Mannie Machado. Ben,
you're a fan. Yeah, you were the first one, and
you you were you were an early guy on the
Machado bandwagon. You bought a Machado shirt before he had

(56:39):
done anything. You know, who's also lazy? Who's that man
ram with the Red Sox? It was also lazy. But yeah,
I liked him because he was good for talk radio.
Many Ramirez in many rays. Machado has been good for
us in talk radio. We've done several several shows because

(57:00):
of Machado. He gets a reaction out of people. People
are freaked out, and on and on it goes, all right,
we'll take your calls again. Eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox, the Dodgers win. The Astros, big story in
the American League, have been caught cheating. The floodgates have
opened on that. We are told the Astros had a
friend of the owner who was kicked out of an

(57:22):
area at Finway. There are photos of this dirt bag
and his activity there, and it's very early in the story,
but apparently, if you believe the initial reporting, the Athletics,
the Cleveland Indians, and the Los Angeles Dodgers all have
accused the Astros of this activity. They were using what
we believe at this point to be rhythmic clapping and

(57:43):
a garbage can to signal to their players what the
other team was doing. They had, they had a cheat
code to the other team. A bunch of cheaters. Man,
It's one of the great ethical violations of our time.
I put it right next to the Black Sox scandal.
Oh yeah, from back in the day. I mean, you
think of the great scandals in sport. All of the
success the Astros have had has been wiped away, it

(58:07):
has been vacated. You were just over the top on this.
I know, I'm not. I feel like I remember you
being one of the people. Anytime a story like broke
about one team accusing the other team of stealing signs,
you were always the one. Oh well, that's that's gamesmanship,
Like you know, that's that's part of baseball, stealing signs. Yeah,
when you're not doing it with someone outside the dugout.

(58:28):
That's why teams used to employ old guys. This goes
in above and beyond. This is a criminal act, and
the Astros are caught and they're trying to spin it.
No one, you know, smart people don't believe it. Dumb
people believe it. It's just embarrassing. It's a sad day
for baseball. And I hope that Rob Manford will see
it in his heart to do the right. Yeah. It's
a dirty Yeah. It's one thing to hire like a

(58:50):
ninety year old guy to be your bench coach because
he's good at stealing signs. Yeah, that's different. It is different.
It's another guy to have a guy outside the dugout
with his smart phone there and the end of the
owner a dirt bag who's doing the nefarious activity. Alright,
So the Ben Maller Show on Fox, we have a
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is ringing the damn bell every five seconds? Is Hector

(01:00:00):
Salomachia in studios Salamanca, salomonca. It's a breaking bad reference. Well,
let me tell you a fun house. Let me explain
what happens. We have a new rule on the show.
We went to corporate, and every time I make a
correct point, there's a bell that is being rung there.
And so it just that the bell keeps being wrung.
Because I'm so smart, everything I say is right, and

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so it's just a constant over the top bell bell bell, bell, bell,
bell bell. It's just amazing. I don't know how that happens.
I'm right all the time, shocking, how does that happen?
I have no idea except when it comes to the Clippers.
Clippers are starting their playoff run Wednesday night. Down go

(01:00:42):
the Nuggets. It's hip to clip, that's right, hip to clip.
I might even be there. I might be a witnessed.
Me and Clipper Daryl be hanging out bonding. Now, you'll
beat the Dodger game, Ben, Well, the Dodger games during
the day, Roberto, the Clipper game is at night. So
I'm I might be able to to do a double differ.
But I want to point out that I'm not the

(01:01:06):
most famous talk shows. I don't have the biggest audience.
I certainly don't make the most money. But I can
now say I am friends with Clipper Darryl and Marlins Man.
All right, I can say that I have more on
that later. I want to make sure I don't think
we're on right now in our LA affiliates. I'm gonna wait,
I'm gonna save that. I'm gonna embargo that till later.

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But I can't say that now. Speaking of the Marlins,
though this is great. You know that disgusting atrocity and
center field, the seven story Homer sculpture with the moving dolphins.
So I guess it's a Marlin. But they have like

(01:01:47):
all kinds of I think there's a dolphin in there too.
They've got palm trees and it's disgusting, and I guess
it's modern art. To the old owner of the Marlins,
Jeffrey Lauria, he paid a lot of money. But that
they're gonna move that. Derek Jeter is going to move
that out of Marlins Park. Now my favorite part of

(01:02:08):
the story. There's two parts of the story that I love.
The first part of this story is that the Marlins
originally paid two point five million dollars for this disgusting eyesore,
which is a blight on their stadium, and the owner
paid two point five million for it. And then my

(01:02:30):
other favorite part of the story is that the Marlins
announced they're moving the art sculpture because they can't get
rid of it. They can't destroy it because the Art
in Public Places Board of Miami Dade County, who knew
that was a thing, they had to approve this. They
approved the sculpture to be relocated outside the stadium. So
they're gonna still have to have it outside the stadium
so people can urinate on it. And I guess, but

(01:02:53):
the Marlins announced that in place of the sculpture, this
is great, they're going to put a standing room only section. Now,
what is the only team in baseball other than like
the Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays that does
not need a standing room only section in their stadium.
There's no one going to Marlins games. There's no one

(01:03:16):
going to And how much is this gonna cost? It
costs two point five million to put the structure and
it was commissioned for two point five million. I've got
to think it's gonna take at least a million dollars
to move it, which means that's gonna come off the
Marlins payroll. They're gonna have to take that off the
Marlins payroll. But Derek Jeter is making his mark. The

(01:03:36):
team blows and the players suck, but at least they're
gonna have a standing room only area in the outfield
for the seventeen people that watch Marlin's baseball. So where
to go? Good job, Jets, Where to go? Got that right? Solid?
Jenior wanted to go take a bow. He's like, oh yeah,
I mean, we listen to our fans where you live.

(01:03:58):
Of course, when the fans don't trade, Christian Yelich and
Gian Carlos standing that Jeter wasn't listening then. But if
the Marlin fan wants an art structure relocated, Jeter's all years.
All right, Just don't ask the Marlins to, you know,
get good players, because they can't do that. It's rudaka.

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We'll press on here. It is the bettomut of the
show on Fox. Later this hour. We are gonna have
Mallard to the third degree. We'll also get to the
land of Enchantment and parlays. We'll go there as watch
some people lined up. I see these guys. They want
to yap about Manny Machado and other things. We'll get
to all that. We will do it here momentarily from
the Fox Sports Radio studios, made possible by our friends

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at Geico. But right now over there he is, unless
he's not actually here. Wreck it Ralph, who somehow is
going to guess the accurate score of the Dodging game.
I don't know how he did that. The Dodgers were, Now, Roberto,
can you play the one where he said the Brewers
one two to one, because we can goof with Ralph?

(01:05:02):
Can you play that one? Yeah, Okay, let's see it.
Hit that one over here? See how that sent? What
a night for Christian yellowch is. He led the Brewers
to a three one series lead over the Dogs. Ye
see see what rob No, I'll tell you like Ralph
comes in here and he like does different versions like
he it's a real pain in the ass. All right,
Now play the right one again, go ahead, Play the
right one again? All right? Go ahead? What a night

(01:05:24):
for the Dodgers. Round ball pass hit in the right field,
the tunnel's on his way home, part of the plate
and the Doctors will they win it two to one
and the series is all even and five seventy LA
Sports and the Dodgers Radio Network with the call as
La escapes. Game four with the two one win series

(01:05:45):
is tied to two games a piece. In Game five,
thirteen and a half hours away, could be Clayton Kershaw's
final home games seen and a half hours away. I
gotta get a night's sleep, I got hours of radio
to do with then, not looking out for me, motob
my health. Yeah, it could be your last chance to
see Clayton Kershaw and Dodger Blue at Dodger Stadium. I
hope so, especially if he loses, get rid of him. Meanwhile,

(01:06:06):
Boston an eight two winner at Houston. They take a
two games to one series lead. Game four that series
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(01:06:28):
were on the schedule. First, Boston saw the return of
Gordon Hayward. He scored ten points and he didn't break
his legs, So that's a step in the right direction
in a end that out in post Roberta in a
one oh five eighty seven win. Jason Tatum led the
Celtics with twenty three points nine rebounds, and at the

(01:06:49):
Warriors got their championship rings and were one o eight
one hundred winners over Oklahoma City Steph Curry with thirty
two points. Russell Westbrook did not play. How set must
a run? And David Ortiz like, these guys have to
stay late to do the post game, and very few
people are watching the post game. You're after these big
long baseball games. They're like a Roun's Like, I made

(01:07:11):
like five hundred million dollars playing baseball. What am I
doing here? I am I'm hooking up with a beautiful
woman who's a celebrity. I have houses all over the place.
What am I doing here? David Ortiz the same thing.
He made a ton of money playing baseball, and I'm
one of my It's ridiculous. Now. Frank Thomas, he made
a lot of money. But I when I and I
see Frank Thomas, I think of all those commercials he's

(01:07:33):
doing for those mail products. Oh yeah, get all right,
you know what I'm talking about? My man, the big
hurt he's going big hurt. Yeah, yeah, help He'll help
you out, boys, Frank Thomas, he will. He's looking out
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free rate quotes. All you have to do. Let's go
to Brad in Vegas. Who is up next on Fox
Sports Radio? Hello, bradst time? Yeah, Brett, I would like
you to go further away from the phone, if that's possible, Brett,
can you go over go over to gold better? Yes? Better?
Next time, go over to Perrump where the late great

(01:08:15):
Art Bell used to live, and then cause him. Yeah,
I'm Mount Charleston. Okay, well, congratulations. How can we help you? Well,
I was just kind of watching that game. Played a
lot of baseball growing up, and a big fan of baseball.
You hit a three, a three, bounced chopper, routine chopper
to shortstop. Shortstop lolligag throws it over to first base.

(01:08:36):
You lolli gag at the first base, and you still
find it necessary to try to bush lead kick the
first baseman's foot. Kind of question that I'm gonna hang up,
listen to your comments. All right. I like that. That's
a good old school way to end the phone call.
I'll take that call off the air. I like talking
about he's talking about Machado being lazy, but it was

(01:08:57):
as slow developing plays that what he's it was a
developing play and all that. And he was lollygagging down
the line. And when you run through first Blase, you
gotta run through the bag. Yeah, I mean exactly. Yeah,
it's just sour grapes by the fans. What are you
supposed to do? That was in Vegas, he wasn't in Wisconsin. Yeah,
hear those stories about old school baseball players and how

(01:09:19):
they used to, you know, step up. He better get
out of the way. They're gonna step on you. Imagine
if they had like social media back in those people
always been like this or is this just like a
new thing. Is it just a new thing? I think
I don't think so. Maybe people have always been like this,
but they're just exposing it more because they react immediately
on you know, social media stuff. I just it's bizarre.

(01:09:42):
It's bizarre. Machado is a dirty, lazy player, like you said, Yeah,
of course he was wearing that Brewer logo. He would
not be anything. There's a lot of people jealous of
the Dodgers popularity. Get a lot of that hate Yasi
because he's yeah Boyant, hate Machado because he's a Dodger.
I get it now, I have my issues with the Chata.

(01:10:02):
Point that out and I'll get to that later. Let's
go to blind Scott. The last time we talked to
Blind Scott, he was so over the top loud, his
phone overmodulated. Hello, blind Scott, the north end of Boston. Yeah,
I'm gonna be purchasing the landline so and I can't
take this cell phone stuff anymore than Jooney mistakes my
cell phone full on the clilet to kill And I'm
on my neighboring stuff phone. Now I'm watching down Police Street,

(01:10:24):
cours hand the street right now, the Celtics rush it,
the red touch trush, the Patriots question to throw question,
what are you're gonna do about Boston? Using what are
you gonna do? You still listening Jilo AAM station, ninety
good station all days go the gun nowsh on Fostboards radio,
But hey, what are you gonna do? Man with blond
struck hunts for you. I got all those trolls on Twitter,
the all parking me. This Poston's the greatest part. It's

(01:10:45):
the greatest to celting to the greatest post. It is
so shafe right now, the plicetide police in the street
creamage here with me? Come ons ever get told me
he stopped watching. But you don't do it. You just
can't touch Boston Man. Jackie probably junior man, he's MVP
in the playoffs. Jadie my hears doesn't even try to
swinging the bat yet. Just wait till we play those Dodges. Man.
The Dodge is in my favorite team two. They haven't

(01:11:07):
won a World Series since nineteen eighty eight. Actually they
haven't lost one since ninegeen eighty eight last year. But
I don't know what I'm gonna do. You know, we've
got so many rings here. Did you know anyone, David
or Gee? They've been fifty thousand dollars phone night a
gay you know. Oh he's back. It's just unbelievable. I
love the Celtics. Who I was looking The Center's Maxwell
in between man center Maxwell's back, good flat back. Well,

(01:11:31):
the Celtics gonna win the year. The Golden State Warriors
suck the open pay alright, Golden State, all right, thank you, yes,
all right. It's Blind Scott, the deputy. He's out there
the people's police sit down when he's wandering around the

(01:11:51):
North end of Boston, and if you do anything illegal,
if he sees it, he will report it. And you've
heard it first on The Ben Mallis Show. That is
a fair point pipe Blind Scott. I mean. J. D.
Martinez is batting oh ninety one in the American League
Championship Series and the Red Sox have won two of
the three games. Think about it. The guy that was
the dominant force in the Alpha Dog or the Red

(01:12:14):
Sox offense in the middle as the number three hitter.
J D. Martinez is hitting oh ninety one and the
Red Sox have won two of three games. He also
didn't do much last year with the Diamondbacks. They weren't.
They weren't in very long. They weren't in very long.
And the Red Sox have been ridiculously good on the road.
They played very well at Yankee Stadium, and they now

(01:12:36):
play well in in Houston. In the first game in Houston.
It is the The Benn Maller Show on Fox let's
go now to Whoopee Pie Blair. While back to back
with blind Scott and Whoopee Pie Blair. This might be
too much there he is. Yeah, you know it. You
know won tonight though it was the tops. I heard
you went to that guy, the guy, that guy I

(01:13:00):
send to you. He's gonna shut up after we sleep
from four to one. Baby's Brian Scott. I love you,
Blan Scott, because we're gonna win it. We got the
Pennant Raise coming, so we'll be playing now, We'll be
We'll be Pie Blair, so coming for your Dodgers, will
be at your nation. Shut up, We're coming for you

(01:13:21):
all as we got the best players in the nation.
I just want to clarify, all right, I want to clarify.
You said that the Red Sox are going to sweep
the Astros four to one. Is that accurate? Well, okay,
I'll come down because my mom's asleep again. I'm not
are you. Have you made up with your mom? By
the way, you're in good terms of your mom. I

(01:13:42):
try to be. Yeah, she got your porn cool mom network,
so I could watch that's I watched the game. But
Blair Blair, listen, no one's sucking hockey and he's gone.
We don't have to pretend like we like. Hockey's out
of hunt wherever he's going. He flew over Boston. He
waved at you as he was flying over me. No, listen,

(01:14:06):
you should not be upset with you. You have the
coolest mom in the world. Your mom bought who here's
about that? Your mom got your porn. I had to
go out and sneak around to get porn when I
was you you your mom might put you up. Oh,
I'm about to get another one. Who tweet that out? Coop?

(01:14:26):
Can you tweet that out on the Fox Sports radio
Twitter feed right away? Yes? Breaking news? Whoopee pie Blair?
Who does not know how to? Oh? Okay, I thought
you were to talk about hockey the Astros. That's right,
this guy got caught. Yeah, you should never be in
the with your camera. Ye never do what he did.

(01:14:48):
I gotta go, Scott, I got Scott, Whoopie Pie play?
I gotta go? Okay? Can I can I go? Thank you?
Go watch your movies or whatever? Who is that Shirley.
We're gonna get to Mallard of the third degree. We'll
get to that coming up here. Shortly, and here's the
instant trivia. Blank has hit. This is random. Blank has
hit the most home runs in the major leagues of

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any player born in the state of New Jersey. This
is a tribute to Angry Bill. Blank has hit the
most home runs of any player born in the state
of New Jersey. That is the question. The answer next.
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(01:15:52):
All right, here we got time. Now for the instant trivia.
Blank has hit the most home runs of any player
born in the state of New Jersey's random? It's fun?
Why not? Kurt is going with Bruce bon Jovi as
his answer, James Gandolfini, the late great soprano as his
answer Chris Christie. That's from Larry D. Chris Christy guests

(01:16:12):
by Tony Who else do we have? Page down? Page down?
Let's see, can't read that? Chris says the bed. I
am going to sleep on a great call by Blair.
He says, go Astros. Yeah, good luck on that. Marv
Albert's to pay guess by mister nice guy. Dick Allen
from the Dick Poled account, Ted Williams from the New

(01:16:33):
York Bozo The duff Man guess by Andrew rod the
Ambassador of Bakersfield got this right, clearly cheating. It's a
bad job by you. Mike from the LBC not cheating,
went with Hank Greenberg as his answer. Philly Rob checks
in with Doug Glanville. Do you have an answer there,
Ralph ron Kittle. No, the correct answer the Pride of Hackensack,

(01:16:58):
New Jersey. But he grew up in and diego. Eric
Carros the LA Dodgers home run king Eric Carros two
hundred and eighty four home runs in the Big Leagues.
Not all with the Dodgers. Here we go, let's do
it's Meller, how about that to the third degree? Right?
This is one big fan gets guilled, Benn. We learned

(01:17:20):
yesterday that Cooper Cup could miss some time with the
sprained MCL that he suffered against the Broncos. The Cup
received a ridiculous amount of praise from fans after returning
in the second half of that game. Ben Ago a
fan of this as well. Or do you think it's
a bit reckless? Yeah, it was impressive, Like we live
in the age of the lightweight. We live in the
age of the lightweight. The fact that Cooper Cup was
able to fight through the pain an attempt to help

(01:17:43):
his team win in a game that must face the
Rams if they lost to the bron because it would
have been embarrassing. But big deal. It's a week six
of the NFL regular season. The word is extraordinary. That's
the adjective that he was able to come back there.
The Rams medical staff cleared him and it was up
to the Cup up to decide if he could handle
the paint and b This is a throwback to the

(01:18:04):
days again, another one of these things. Back in the
old days in the NFL used to celebrate Jack young
Blood played in a Super Bowl with a broken leg.
Ronnie Lott legendarily cut off the tip of his pinky
finger before a game against the Jets, as the legend goes, Yeah,
I mean this is not up to that level, but
it's kind of cool. Yeah. Next, well, the John drud
In a state sale has begun and the first piece

(01:18:26):
up for grabs is apparently Amari Cooper. Another Raiders are
reportedly seeking a first round pick for Cooper. What do
you think the chances are that they get it? Yeah,
pretty good, although not great. I have this at plus
three hundred, which implies a twenty five percent chance. I
think that's pretty fair. I got two teams that are
going to be in on Amari Cooper if I'm John Gruden.

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The two teams I contact, first team, the Colts, obviously
Jim Ursey does irrational things. They need help at the
receiver position. Still, they've got very little behind the front line,
so I could see that. And then the Kitty Cats
of Carolina, the Carolina Panthers. They think they're a legit
contender in the NFC. They're lacking the receiver position, so

(01:19:09):
that would be an upgrade. So I got Carolina and
the Colts for Amari Cooper. Next, Evans Joseph was asked
if he is playing for his coaching life this week
against the Cardinals, and he diffused the question by saying, yes,
every coaches every week. Ben, did he get fired at
the Broncos don't win Thursday, Well, he should get fired.
But it's risky, right, the risky move for the Broncos.

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We've seen this before, the NFL results oriented business and
all that. The fact that Vance Joseph came back. He's
on borrowed time. Many people said he should have been
fired last year. He didn't know what he was doing.
They brought him back, They gave him another chance. The
Broncos have been charbroiled week after week that the risk
is this, if you fire him and you hire I
don't know this guy, Tom McMahon, the special team's coach,

(01:19:52):
somebody like that. If the Broncos are good, you might
keep him. It's a small sample size, that's the risk.
The Browns did this with Romeo Cordell a few years ago.
Teams have done it. But that's the risk. But yeah,
he deserves to be fired. If they lose, how do
we do coopolo? Then he passes it. I want the game.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller

(01:20:14):
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. We
are only a couple of wins away by the Dodgers
and the Red Sox from my personal hell, my personal
armageddon in the World Series. And we are in that
position because of the Red Sox and Dodgers victorious in
their series. We'll talk about that in particular, Houston having

(01:20:35):
some problems on and off the field. Welcome in the
beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We
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(01:20:57):
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The Dodger game ended. What our show was on the air,
Cody Bellinger coming through or the Ribby hit and the
Dodgers shut up the brook Crow the Brookery were they
were still chirping after the game. Were on that at
the moment. But I wanted to start this particular hour

(01:21:20):
with the the mike just moved all over the hell
was that? Cooper? Look? The mic just moved? Is there
a ghost in the studiod. Let's never have the mic
just did just did you hear that? The mic just
just dropped? Go call Art. I guess Art Bell is dead.

(01:21:42):
But call Maybe that's the ghost start but uh, but
Nori up there over the coast to coast there might
be a ghost in the studio that just moved the microphone.
That's unbelievable. Are we being haunted some weird stuff? Wow,
we might have to hire the ghostbusters to come in

(01:22:03):
here to Fox Sports Radio. That's nuts. Did you heard
that right? The mike fell? I didn't. I didn't really
touch it just fell, all right? Anyway, the blustering Astros
and their fan base. Boy, oh, they're biting their fingernails
right now. Yeah, that's right. They can see you can
see the cuticles. You can see the cuticles there if

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you watch the American League Championship Series, not on Fox.
If you watch it, you know what I'm talking about.
But you might have missed. It was on early Jackie
Bradley Junior belting a Grand Slam and the Red Sox
ended up pummeling the Astros eight to two in Game
three of the ALCS. The much maligned JB J. Jackie

(01:22:46):
Bradley Jr. Who got out the rye bread and the
mustard Grandma because it was grand Salami time. Now, my
old old partner Looney used to say that's a four
run homer, but other people say grand slam. It was
the knock out blow was wonderful. Came at the top
of the eighth inning off Roberto Osuna. Yeah, that guy.

(01:23:09):
We talked a lot about robertos sooner months ago at
the trade deadline. Not all Robertos are related, I'm told,
but this Roberto, the bad Roberto, and he gave up
the meatball and the Red Sox ended up getting the win.
They have a two to one lead down and the
Astros have some explaining to do now. My Boston radio

(01:23:31):
show occasionally, although I will not be on this week
because of some scheduling issues with other stuff I've got
going on. But Jackie Bradley Junior. I had him traded
in June. I had Jackie Bradley Junior traded in June.
He had been one for seventeen with seven strikeouts with
the bases loaded during the regular season. He ends up

(01:23:52):
hitting the go ahead, three run double back in Game
two of the ALCS against Garret Cole on Sunday, and
he just emasculated Roberto Osuna and the host Astros at
Minute May Park, and it was wonderful. It was great
to see the Red Sox got some help on the mound.
Nathan Vivaldi, who's been better in the pluffs. He was

(01:24:15):
okay in the regular season, has been very good in
the playoffs. He held the Astros to two runs in
six innings like a real major league starting pitcher, and
it did look like he was gonna be out there,
just for a very brief amount of time. In the
first inning he was on ice. It was not a
good situation. He had twenty six pitches in the first
inning and it appeared that they were stressful pitches. He
wasn't gonna last very long. But he settled down and

(01:24:37):
he ended up had He had a nine pitch inning
and eleven pitch inning very effective after that, and of all,
the ended up being a big part of this Red
Sox win. So the question, since the better story is
in the losing locker room, how concerned should the Astros
be They were riding high, high, high, and high at

(01:24:58):
Fenway Game one, strutting around, pumping their chest out, taking
a bow is what they were doing. So I'm gonna
dust off the Mallard scale of panic. The Mallard scale
a panic. If you're new to our show, welcome one
to ten, with one being the lowest and ten being
the highest. So ten would be like you Darvish on

(01:25:18):
the mound in game seven or yasmani grandall behind the plate.
That would be a ten. Okay, that's a ten, and
then one's like who care? So my observations here you
have front runners, you have historic and you also have
the unlikable bunch. All right, if those things will tie
them all together, you know the drill. First of all,

(01:25:39):
the Astros define cocky, which makes it that much more
enjoyable that they're going to lose. I don't mind the arrogance.
It makes for good conversation, gets a reaction and emotion
out of people. But the thing I've noticed about the
Astros is they've been empowered by many cheerleaders in the

(01:26:01):
local and national media and a lot of laziness the
Houston media and the fanboys in that area who believe.
And I saw some of these stories that were out
there that this Astro team, they were talking about, this
team running the table in the postseason running the table
eleven and oh in the playoffs is what they were talking.

(01:26:24):
Maybe they knew the Astros were cheating they couldn't lose.
Maybe they knew that. I don't know, But how's that
working out for you? All rights? Yeah? Pretty good? Right?
The Astros are the definition of a front runner. They
have the front runner mindset, which works great when everything's
going well and you're winning, but it becomes problematic when
you fall behind in a series. It's hard to be

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smug and arrogant and cocky when you are having your
dinner handed to you. It's very difficult to be that
that type of player that listen. Roberto a Sooner was
a mass sculated by Jackie Bradley Jr. This was supposed
to be the secret weapon for Houston. The astrofront office

(01:27:07):
took a lot of grief. They traded for a guy
suspended for domestic violence while bragging about a zero tolerance
policy for players with domestic violence. They were trading for
a guy, but they said, okay, we'll put up with
it because he's going to come through in the playoffs.
And then he defecated all over the mound in Houston
and it was beautiful. It was the greatest public defecation

(01:27:29):
I've ever seen. I enjoyed it. I went back and
watched it several times. I want to see it over
and over again. Now. Secondly, while past results do not
guarantee future outcomes, We've mentioned this many times, what they
do do is they give you an indication of what
you're likely to expect going forward. They're an indicator and

(01:27:51):
with that as the backdrop, Houston should have extra helpings
of their anxiety meds because this is not gonna go well.
History is not on the astro side. Teams that win
the third game of a best of seven series after
splitting the first two like this American League Championship series,
like the Red Sox have done, go on to win

(01:28:13):
sixty nine percent of the time, almost seventy percent of
the time in this situation. So that's what has happened,
doesn't guarantee what's going to happen. Houston is sending Charlie
Morton to the mound in Game four. This is also
something to have concern about. Why Charlie Morton in the
last month, you know how many pitches he's thrown, fifty

(01:28:35):
eight more pitches than you've thrown in the last month,
so there's gonna be a little bit of rush there
for mister Morton in this game number four, and Boston
is going to counter with the suddenly postseason savvy Rick Porcello,
who's been very good out of the Red Sox bullpen.
So you have to favor the matchup for the Red
Sox at least at the start of the game. We'll

(01:28:57):
see how the game plays out, but advantage Boston in
at the start of the game. And then the final
point here, the Astros are the team with the pressure.
They have the immense pressure. Despite one hundred and eight
wins by the Red Sox, the perception is that the
Astros are the ones who are invincible, not the Red Sox.
That Boston. While there is a certain amount of implied

(01:29:20):
pressure being in that particular media market, but even that
seems to be embellished somewhat. Boston can be looser by
playoff standards, and they've certainly been that way in the road.
We mentioned this earlier, but the Red Sox have won
all three of the road games in the playoffs, and
they've outscored the Yankees and Red Sox twenty eight to
six in three road games twenty eight to six. In

(01:29:44):
the three road games the Red Sox have won. And again,
the Astros are the unlikable bunch, is what the Astros are.
Alex Bregman runs around like an entitled frat boy, Roberto
soon as a scum bag. They make for a good
villain in the playoffs. Houston also has their built in

(01:30:06):
fall guy. All right, They've got two built in excuses
that they were rattled, Number one by this cheating allegation,
which is more than an allegation. There's photographic evidence. And
Baseball's part of this. They're an accomplice to this because
apparently Baseball is covering it up. There's some reports that
Baseball is looking the other way while the Astros have

(01:30:28):
been doing this, and we'll see if that is accurate
or not. But that is a scandalous layer to this cake,
this multilayer cake, which is this Astro cheating scandal. If
you missed it, Major League Baseball will now apparently investigate
again suspected cheating by the Astros during Game one of
the American League Championship Series. They're gonna look into This

(01:30:52):
report came out of the Metro website, the Boston Chapter
of the Metro website and indicates this photographic evidence that
they were the first one to report it. But this
guy claiming to be an Astro employee was removed from
the media credential area next to the Red Sox dugout.
He did not have a credential. He had a small camera.
He was texting and he was relaying. He was like

(01:31:14):
a drug mule. He was relaying information to Red Sox brass.
Apparently the Red Sox are spinning this these very serious allegations,
and the Red Sox are spinning this story and they're
claiming there's nothing to see here, and that the Astros
are saying, well, we were just trying to make sure
that the Red Sox were the ones that weren't cheating. Yeah,

(01:31:36):
and even the most gullible fan boy Astro fan doesn't
necessari believe that, you know what I'm saying. But that
commune excuse the Astros said, why we were rattled. You
know this guy, Kyle McLaughlin, I guess it's the guy's name.
He's in the center the eye of the storm here,
the cheating scandal, and he's a former pitcher at Farley
Dickinson University who knew that, but cau red handed. There

(01:32:01):
are Yahoo has photos of this guy committing the crime,
committing the crime the act. He might as well be
holding the knife. How can baseball allow this to happen? Yea.
The Astros should be forced to forfeit, that should be
forced to. This is embarrassing. Where are you, Rob Manford?

(01:32:22):
Where are the guardians of baseball? Where's the leadership of
baseball on this? Now? The other excuse the Astros have
is their roster is falling apart. Jose Altuve is now
a designated hitter. He's about as tall as a fourth
grader and he's the designated hitter for the Astros. And
Carlos Correa, traditionally batting much higher in the Astro's batting order,

(01:32:44):
is now he's number seven hitter. Because those guys, they're
gonna claim, you know, this is gonna happen. The Astros lose,
they say, wow, those guys are hurt. We fell apart.
You know, injuries caught up to us, the grind of
the playoffs last year. We just couldn't overcome it. You
know that's coming. You know, that's Steve Ben Maller Show
on Fox. If you'd like to be part of the program.

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You are more than welcome the number eight seven seven
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the NLCS tied up at two wins apiece. The Dodgers
on a Cody Bellinger Ribby hit and they got to

(01:33:25):
win in Game four, and so the series has tied
up best of three, and the Dodgers will toss out
Clayton Kershaw and if Yasmani grandalls behind the plate, oh,
if he's behind the plate, Okay, if that happens, heads
are going to row. There's no way he can play.

(01:33:47):
It's a shame he got into the game, and this
particular game he got out there. He was able to
play in this game that ended while we were on
the air, but he had to because Dave Robberts went
through the whole roster in link two inning. I would
have considered him off the roster. That's what I would
have done. I would have rather seen a pitch your hit. Absolutely.
The Brewers check this out. You want you want offense,

(01:34:09):
don't watch the NLCS. The Milwaukee Brewers are hitting two
twenty four as a team in the NLCS which makes
them the big brew Crew, wrecking crew. The Brewers are
hitting two twenty four, the Dodgers are batting two oh one. Wow,
you have a team hitting two oh one who is
still in position to win the series, and a team
hitting two twenty four who's also still in position to

(01:34:32):
win the National League Championship Series. You also had the
story within the story, Manny Machado who upset several agitated
Milwaukee players when he was running down the first place
line or jogging down the first base line, and he
kicked at a sus Aguilar, the rotund first baseman of

(01:34:52):
the Brewers, who, as I pointed out accurately, so people
don't like to hear this, because it's the truth. If
Aguilar had had cat like reflexes and moved his foot,
Machado cannot kick his foot. But of course Aguilar's very slow,
and Machado had an opportunity to do. That's a really
I saw the play again. It's not that bad, exactly.
It's not that bad at all. It's not good called

(01:35:15):
by you, Roberto. I'm gonna give you a golden ticket.
That's a good job by you. You got a golden ticket. Congratulations, Roberto, awesome,
thank you. Yeah, we say hello to he's Ralph is off?
He's there now? Did he wake up? I think he?
I think he's here. All right, let's see here. Eddie's
on a plane to London. So if you're at Heathrow

(01:35:36):
and you see a guy wearing Steeler gear and La
King's gear, it's probably Eddie Chargers. If you see him
through customs, well, he's a Charger season ticket over. Who
knew that a Charger Titan game would be very important
for the staff at Fox Sports Radio Clay Travis and
Eddie Garcia traveling across the Atlantic Ocean to see a
Charger Titan game. I'm not gonna even watch the game.

(01:35:58):
No interest in that game. Do you have any interest
in that game? I've done it. No interesting night, No,
it does nothing for him. I've checked out football season already.
You're oh, yeah, you're you're You're done. That's it. I
love my favorite football season since I was a kid.
I love the NFL. Man, this is the greatest season
ever for you. Yeah, because you can ram it all
day and you can ram it all night. That's right. Yeah,

(01:36:20):
that's correct, absolutely correct. On that yip yip yip yip
yipp yip Yip yipp used to be. How about the
land of Enchantment. This is great and Parlay's sports betting
is on its way to a state near you. Big
news for our friends in New Mexico. I have a

(01:36:41):
buddy of mine, Scott Giletti, who does radio and Albert
Querque used to work in La years ago. That did
work with him back in the day. Uh, sports betting
now open in New Mexico, the land of Enchantment, New Mexico.
Good job by you, Good job by the politicians in
New Mexico. And of course New Mexico gave us the
iPhone because that's where Roswell happened, and that's that's alien technology.

(01:37:05):
So all this new technology is from Roswell, New Mexico.
And that means now that we have sports books that
are open in Delaware, Mississippi, Nevada. Of course they've always
been over in New Jersey, New Mexico, and West Virginia.
We've got that. Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are supposed to
start in the next couple of months. So right now Delaware, Mississippi, Nevada,

(01:37:29):
New Jersey, New Mexico, and West Virginia, we've got all
those states with two more on tap in the Batter's Box,
the Keystone State and Rhode Island. And yet I saw
a quote from a politician in California political pundit who said,
it's complicated to figure out how to allow sports betting
in California. Why so, what you're really saying is that

(01:37:53):
the politicians in New Mexico, West Virginia, New Jersey, and
Nevada and wellnot Nevada, missus HIPI in Delaware, they're all
smarter than you because they've already figured it out, because
we really know what this is. Nevada does not want
California to have legalized sports betting because you said, well,
most people don't bet on sports, but a lot of
people do go to Vegas from La in particular, or

(01:38:16):
in northern California hit a reno to bet on games,
and so they don't want to lose that they don't.
All right, you see the Ben Mallers Show on Fox,
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Fox Sports Radio Studios. Here he is Ben Maller, Robbie

(01:39:21):
the Mariner fan, right so, and he says Manny Machado
will be suspended for the next game due to his
egregious actions. Mark my words, Robbie, I will bet you
three golden tickets. That doesn't happen. Does not app I'll
tell you why, all right. Major League Baseball does not
suspend players generally in this round of the playoffs of

(01:39:43):
the World Series. The Houston Astros had a racist baseball
player last year in the dugout during a game make
a racist gesture caught on camera. He didn't get suspended
for the World Series. Shout out Julie Guriel of the Astros. Yeah, so,
if you're not going to suspend a racist Astro's player,
why would you suspend Manny Machado. You're not You're not

(01:40:03):
gonna not gonna do it. They're not gonna It's not
gonna happen. Just Josh is where else are you going
to get a monologue ripping a four foot designated hitting
midget and the mystery of a ghost at the microphone? Bravo. Yeah,
I don't know what kind of shadowy presence was in
here or maybe still was in here, haunting What if

(01:40:25):
it's Genie and Medford? What if Genie and Medford's like
coming back to goof with us. She's like, Ah, I'm not,
I'm not with the living, but I am gonna spook
the hell out of these idiots. I am gonna I
am gonna be there as a phantom of the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. M interesting, let's go to let's see here,
where shall we go? Let's say hello to Angry Bill.

(01:40:49):
Who's up next on Fox Sports Radio? Hello, Angry Bill?
What about a nine year old girl? Answer that question?
That's my best bud doing. Danny will be in here
in a couple of hours. You're my best bug. That's
a lie. I love listening to you. Ben, you know
you hate that you say you say that to Jonas,

(01:41:10):
you say that to everybody. Everyone's your best friend. You
think you're gonna get more airtime. You're just sucking up.
You don't really like me. This these cheating astros. That's right,
it's just unbelievable. I cannot believe how they're demographing baseball.
Keep going on, keep going, keep going. It's amazing how
these Houston astro hitters go up to the plate ready

(01:41:30):
to hit the ninety five hundred milear fastball and they
hear rhythmic chanting from the dugout. How they do that?
They're they're so fabulous, they are so fabulous players that
they hear there's rhythm chanting. They go, no, the curve
notes a sliders. I agree, it's amazing that they're able
to do it. I it's it's amazing they've been able

(01:41:51):
to get away with it. Yeah, you're saying, Ben, it
is horrible. This thing. Don't forget the trash can because
the the rhythmic chanting and lapping and also the trash can.
That's what the two ways the Astros were cheating. If
you're just joining us big scandal, I'd put it on
par with the Black Sox scandal. I agree with you
right on the head. Yes, that's right. Put an explanation

(01:42:14):
point on the cheating ash. Thank you very much. That's
a that's a great call by you. Let's go to
John who's in Texas? Who's next on Fox Sports Radio? Hello? John? Nice?
If you ain't cheating, he ain't trying? You sure that
I ain't winning? Are you married? Who doesn't cheating? Sports? Everybody?
Are you married? Oh? Yeah? Do you cheat on your wife? No? Don't.

(01:42:38):
You're not trying? What's up with that? Man? You come on?
I mean that's that's now. You're not breaking stories there, man,
I'm sorry, But everybody cheating? No, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, no no no no. This is different a
little game. I'm against games from Ship. I preached, evangelized

(01:43:00):
and rhapsodized by games and Ship. I don't mind games
and Ship. But this goes beyond that. This is someone
outside the dugout, outside the inner circle, a nefarious, dirty
actor for the Astros, and it's it's a shame, and
Baseball will likely do nothing because they get a spineless commissioner.
But this, this, this deserves major punishment. It tarnishes everything,

(01:43:22):
everything the Astros have done it, It tarnishes everything. Look,
how wherever you call this evidence? You found a guy
in the sand texting our phone during the game. Oh
my god? What what? How about that's a nice way
to to soften it. How about three of thirty Well
they well discount the Astros because they're one of the

(01:43:42):
teams guilty, but three of the other twenty nine teams
have now accused the Astros of this egregious activity. And
you have a non credential personnel who was not supposed
to be in an area which I believe is trespassing
where this guy was, and he got caught and kept
doing it. It's it's like it's one thing if you
said you so he got he did it one time.

(01:44:04):
But according to the stories that are out there right now,
what we're hearing is the Astro's got dinged on this
and they went back and did it again multiple times.
You know, you know what you know this is this
is Northern Yankee aggravation. Because the Astros won the World
don't want it to happen again. So we should believe

(01:44:24):
this is a Southern versus Northern battle. Is that what
this is? Well? Yeah, last year, last year we beat
the Yankees and and and and went on and won
the World Series. And I surez don't want us to
beat the precious Red Sox that all the Yankees love. No, sorry,
I'm just not buying it. All right, I gotta get

(01:44:45):
the work, all right, good good luck. Make sure you
cheat at work, steal some stuff, you know, all right,
thank you not cheating, you're not trying. That's what it
help him out. Well, the candy Man, the new candy
Man of baseball, that would be did you see this
Rich Hill who went bananas in the dugout? He wouldn't

(01:45:05):
nuts and he was very upset. Now, they said it
was candy Joe Buck, who you might have seen in
the game. Joe Buck had a good line. They played
the clip of Rich Hill who was very upset, very
upset with himself. He smashed a cooler against the bench
that the dugout bench there at Dodger Stadium. And the

(01:45:26):
report said he sent candy going around, but it was
it looked like like a bubble gum type of thing.
It wasn't candy. I don't think the guys are eating
snickers in the dugout, but they are. And so the
bubblegum thing went everywhere and Joe Buck said Happy Halloween,
and it was it was pretty good. I like that
was a pretty good meltdown by rich Hill. He kicked
it bam and that just stuff went flying everywhere. Does

(01:45:50):
he have to tip the clubhouse guys more because they
have to clean that crap? He has to well, he
just gotta pick it up, though. Man, that's a lot
of that's a lot of stuff though, you know stuff.
But I'm told by David Vassey that he told me
that rich Hill's the pitcher of the people. It's the
man of the people. That's what he said. They won

(01:46:10):
the game he started, so I'm okay, yeah he was.
It's all good. Long gone by then, it's good. Yeah.
I need a game show contestant. I am calling for
a game show contestant. We gotta get on this quick.
Chop chop chop chop eight seven seven ninety nine. The
game we're gonna plays too much but not enough. We'll
get to that here. Mam Ma Tilly also have Roberto's
Wall of drops, but right now from the Geico Studios

(01:46:32):
live on tape, wreck it Ralph. Tuesday night, the Boston
Red Sox made a statement two ball, two strike pitch
once again, the George Springer from any Rodriguez swenging on
him miss strike three in the Red Sox take a
two games to one lead in the American League Championship Series.
Red Sox Radio with the callers, Boston does take that

(01:46:54):
two one series lead. Game four of the series will
be Wednesday night at Mini Made Park. Meanwhile, the Dodgers
two one winners over Milwaukee that in the thirteen innings,
Cody Bellinger with the game winning RBI driving in that
winning run there in the thirteenth ending. Game five of
that series will be at five o'clock Eastern, just twelve

(01:47:15):
and a half hours from right now. How you gotta
say that, man, I gotta I got a chance to
go to that game. I gotta get sleep and I
got stuff to do. And that's a nightmare, especially for
the Dodgers, who used every single one of their pictures
on the roster in this game. They're not gonna show
they're gonna forfeit the game as opposed to the Brewers,
who will be replacing Geo Gonzalez on their roster with

(01:47:36):
a fresh arm. Yeah, that's great, so then they can
make another bullpin change. That's just what I want to
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(01:48:20):
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(01:49:07):
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He's gonna play Hello Dylon, you Dylan? What's going on? Man?
What are you doing Kentucky? Driving off from work right now?
Very cool? What part of Kentucky are you in? Western Kentucky?

(01:50:14):
What's a great place on? God? There? What kind of
work do you do? I worked underground? Come on? Are
you working at coal mine? Really? Yeah? Wow? How long
you've been doing that kind of work? Eight and a
half years? Wow? That's crazy, that's all it. So how
many hours a day do you spend in the coal mine?

(01:50:35):
I went in at three o'clock and I'm just now
leaving about twelve hours. Wow. Crazy, that's wild man. That's good.
That's hard labor, right, that's hard, hard work down there
coal mine. Yeah, I thought we did hard. Neighbor all right, talking,
it's very difficult, man, I gotta talk for four hours man,
all right, well, that's good luck, Dylan. We'll play too
much out and off. We've got as many as five questions.

(01:50:59):
We have three we'll start with and then we'll see
what happens. But if you get all three right, you
win the game. You can go five for five, you
get two golden tickets. Good luck to Dylan the coal
miner in western Kentucky. Question number one, Jackie Bradley Junior
hit the tenth Grand Slam in Red Sox postseason history.

(01:51:20):
Is that too much or not enough for the old
town team? Not enough, he says, not enough? Is Dylan correct? No, Dylan,
too much? Believe it or not. The Red Sox had
a stretch of many years where they weren't in the
playoffs that often. But the answer is too much. That

(01:51:40):
was the sixth Grand Slam for the Socks in their history.
Question number two, Aaron Rodgers just became the third quarterback
in NFL history to have consecutive four hundred yard games
with no interceptions. Is that too much or not enough

(01:52:01):
for the Green Bay quarterback? Not enough, he says, not enough.
Dylan's trying to get on the off the schneid here,
is he right? Oh my god, No, it's too much.
He was the first, believe it or not, the first
to do it, according to the stat geeks. I mean
called time out, calling time out, TiO, gonna call it

(01:52:23):
time our Dylan, listen to me. This is not going
well for you. Dylan. Okay, things are not going well.
All right, I'm giving you a pep talk right here.
Whatever your initial answer is, go the other way. Okay,
all right, all right, here we go. Game on question
number three. For Dylan, he's the guy just spent twelve
hours in a coal mine. Here we go. The Tampa

(01:52:43):
Bay Bucks have allowed thirteen four hundred yard games since
Mike Smith became the defensive coordinator. They just fired him
back in twenty sixteen. Is that too much or not
enough for the former NFL coach? Not enough, he says,
not enough. Is he right that the time out worked? Good?

(01:53:05):
Time out worked? Good job by you. The Buccaneers have
allowed twenty four hundred yard games? Is that that's amazing? Wow?
All right, good job, Dylon. You're back on the board.
You will not be shut out. We move on to
question number four. Before winning we're playing. By the way,
if you just saying, what the hell is this nonsense?

(01:53:25):
It's too much. You're not enough. Before winning this week,
David Price, the much maligned Red Sox pitcher, had gone
seven starts without a team win in the postseason. Is
that too much or not enough? Remember what I told
you my time out? Not enough? Is he right? It

(01:53:48):
worked again? It worked again, the malam and over worked again.
Good job by you, Dylan. Not enough. He had gone
ten consecutive starts with teams like the Tigers and the
Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay Rays without getting there.
And you are on the cusp. We are facing a
waterloo moment here, Dylan. This is it. It's one question

(01:54:13):
for all the glory. Are you ready? Yeah? It's one
of the great comeback stories. This is like a Cinderella
story that you're in this position. It's it's like you're
down three games to none and you've come back and
you've won, and you've forced You've won three games, you've
forced a deciding game seven. Here we go, or in
this case, at game five, the rights the greatness of

(01:54:36):
our Raiders. The Raiders have been shut out ten times
since twenty zero six. Is that too much or not enough? Dylan?
Too much? That's so loud. I want to point out.

(01:54:58):
My coaching is available. Teams with like to hire me
for a nominal fee. Dylan, congratulations, you get a golden ticket.
It's very valuable on our show. You get to the
front of the line. Good job, Dylan. Get some rest,
get some sleep, take a shower, have a great day.
Thank you, Dylan. All right, good job. There he goes
Dylan the coal miner in western Kentucky. Some of my

(01:55:20):
greatest coaching. Might I add, that's better coaching than some
of these stiffs that are managing in the big leagues.
I want to point that out right now, do you
hear that? Yeah? Coach Maller makes his debut. We'll press on.
We will get to this is exciting. Also, boy, there's
a lot of Roberto. This is his favorite part of
the week. He's so excited. It's Roberto's wall of drops. Er. Well, yeah,

(01:55:46):
I'm gonna forget about that. Roberto's waller drops. We'll get
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(01:56:29):
We need to bring it back. It's a bad job
by us. There's a lot going on, but I can't
think of anything more important than this. I really cannot
think of anything more important. Turn on the lines, find
something else. It's time for Roberto's wall of drafts lay now.
Each week our tech place three drops that should be
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(01:56:52):
on his digital wall. So you get to help Roberto
build a wall. Answer that question. Since he was fifteen
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(01:57:14):
of Robert Nick and Jesson. Here's robertos Wallop drops and
here we go, Yeah, and again Roberto's waller drops. Another
week is upon us. And if you're new to the show,
our friend Roberto who famously had romance with Roberto, one
of the great hits in the history of radio. Has
that been saved on the internet on like YouTube. We haven't.

(01:57:36):
We haven't saved, Ben, They're good, Okay. We were basically
told that we could no longer do that segment because
the other shows were jealous of the ratings that we
were getting. Yes, it was amazing, Coopa loop. It was
such such great advice. It really will be aired on
the Best of New Years. All right, But what this
particular segments about. We've got three classic drops from the archives,

(01:57:57):
all the historical drops. I've been here for way too long.
We've saved him from callers, stupid things I've said, other
people have said. Ralph of course has said but Ralph's
sleeping right now, so we won't bring him up. And
then you will vote, will pick three out and Roberto
will play all three and then you'll have a chance
to vote. I will pull up for the next forty
eight hours on my Twitter page at Ben Maller. One

(01:58:19):
vote per customer vote for your favorite out of the three,
and then on Friday morning Thursday and the Friday will
announce right before lame jokes, the winner. Roberto, what are
our drops this week? Here's the first one band this
one labeled as Grandma laugh. But I think this is Lauren. Okay,

(01:58:41):
it's not Lauren. No, no, well who is it? Cool?
That's Montana Bear played again? Right, yeah, I think so,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right Montana Bear. How
you doing shout out? Montana Bear? We don't do shout out.
It's Montana Bear. Holpe your best, hope your backs feeling better?
We miss you? All right? That's number one, number two,

(01:59:03):
and the second one is helmet Man, Fell asleep, fell sleep.
Helmet Man's great. He's like a car, He's like a
cartoon character. The way he says is it's just wonderful.
He's got a gift for Gab. I love helmet Man.
All right. That's number two. And then number three, what
do we have numbers? And we got Genie come oh yeah,
that is a classic Genie in Medford. So those are

(01:59:26):
the three drops on Roberto's waller drops. You pick the
classic SoundBite that you want to hear in a higher
rotation on the Ben mallow Show. And again one vote
per customer, Very important election. I think this is the
biggest uh. And again we have the Grandma laugh from
the mont Montana Bear helmet man fell asleep and Genie

(01:59:46):
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So if you're just getting up and you're getting the
jump start on traffic, we could Some people say, I
get up, I only hear the last hour your show. Maller,
get up earlier. I gotta go to work, all right. So,
while we were on the air within the last four

(02:00:50):
hour window. The Dodgers won a game that went thirteen
in He took five and a half hours and a
half hours to play. I was at this game. I
had to leave the game in the ninth inning, and
they played for like another hour and a half after
I left, And I was there for four hours of
baseball and they still were going. But Cody Bellinger with

(02:01:13):
a ribby single in the bottom of the thirteenth and
that scored Manny Machado for the game winning run. The
Dodgers are now square up with the brew Crew two
wins apiece, and the winner of this series will go
on to the World Series. Right, That's how it works,
And the Dodgers have another game right back at it,

(02:01:33):
five o'clock Eastern, two o'clock in the West. Dodgers and Brewers.
Typically the winner of Game five wins the series. So
a big win for the Dodgers. Not a lot going
on in this game other than Manny Machado getting called out. Now,
if you want to hear my thoughts on the play
in question, it was a play involving in the tenth
inning Manny Machado, who dragged his left foot across Jesus

(02:01:57):
Aguilar's leg. That was a play that was being blown
up by some very delicate, sensitive people who the same
crowd that wants to take the tackling out of tackle football,
the same crowd. That's the same group of people. But
I would like to talk about not baseball for a
second drama, because the Dodgers in the last twenty four hours,

(02:02:21):
give or take, have had Keik Hernandez blame Dodger fans
for their loss the other night and then apologize while
his manager said he was taken out of context. Yasmani
Grandall who got benched. He ended up playing anyway because
of the game win thirteen innings. He said the media
was more worried about his defensive shortcomings than he was.
You had that, but that's all small potatoes compared to

(02:02:45):
the crescendo, which is manny Wood two point zero. And
this does not involve the Hayesus Aguilar play at first
base in the tenth inning. This is something that was
way before this the curious case of Many Machado and
an interview that he did with Ken Rosenthal and Machado.

(02:03:07):
I should point out not Buyer's remorse per se but
the Dodgers thought they were getting a top five player
in baseball. Machado has not been a top five player
in baseball and a Dodger uniform. He has not. He
has not been able to dominate the National League playing
at Dodger Stadium the way he could in Baltimore in

(02:03:28):
the American League East and at Camden Yards. Now, Machado
has been called out at many points for slacking. We've
done it. I'vean Mallar monologues on this. We've talked about
Machado and his laziness, and that's really defined him more
than anything with the Dodgers anyway. He's been called out
multiple times. There have been more of those moments than

(02:03:50):
big moments of him getting a big hit in a
Dodger uniform. And now, Machado, this is great. So he's
not apologizing for his sloth like approach to playing professional baseball.
Manny Machado, if you missed it, it's great, he said.
He's quote never given excuses for not running, claimed he's
not hurt, and he's always been the same player, is

(02:04:14):
what he said. Now, for those that believe Manny Machado
should play with more, Gusto dopes like me, you can
forget about. Machado nipped that in the butt, he declared, said, obviously,
I'm not going to change. I Am not the type
of player that's going to be Johnny Hustle. Meanwhile, fans

(02:04:38):
of the Big Red Machine are turning over in their
grave right now. Yeah, he said, Johnny Hustle is what
he said. And run down the line and slide to
first base, he said, And you know, whatever can happen,
that's just not my personality. Machado announced, that's not my
cup of tea. That's not who I am. All right,

(02:05:02):
so who are you, Mannie Machado? Well he did, he did.
The rest of that quote continues, but Chado said, I
am the type of player that has stayed in the
zone I'm playing, and I'm just in the zone. He
talked about being in the show as well. All right,
so there's a lot to unpack. It a lot to unpack. Now.
Some are actually defending Machado on social media. For get this,

(02:05:27):
This is great. I love being alive, conserving his energy
and not risking injury. That that this is actually the
savvy move that Machado is avoiding serious injuries by you know,
not running hard? All right? So what do you make

(02:05:49):
of this defense? Forget the comments for a second of Machado.
What do you make of this defense by some who
think that this is just I can't or start all right?
The defense of Machado. My thoughts, You've got the gods, honest,
Abe and Siberia, all right, the gods honest, Abe and Siberia.

(02:06:10):
Not to lead off. When I hear people defending pro
athletes who are slacking, the one thing you do not
have to have great skill to do is to just
like run hard, something anyone can do if you're physically
gifted to be an athlete. And when I see this
and I hear people defend them, I just shake my head.
It is the fan boys psychosis run a muck. I mean,

(02:06:33):
there are a lot of people, and a lot of
them in the media, but a lot of fans. Obviously,
we treat these guys like their gods. It's pathetic, MANI
Machado is apparently predisposed to being lazy. Okay, And I
said this, and it bears repeating. He's the Carmelo Anthony
of the Big Leaves. You can get away with it

(02:06:55):
as long as your talent is elite, but as soon
as that starts to decline, you get exposed. It's ugly.
It's ugly. There's a lot of ball players over the
years that have had this happen to him, and it's
not very pretty to look at. Now. Secondly, I will
give Manny Machado on a plus for something. You know

(02:07:16):
what that is. It starts with an h honesty. All right,
he's not even pretending anymore like he's gonna hustle. He's like, listen,
I'm not That's not who I am. He didn't pretend
like he is. In the past he has said things
that were clearly disingenuous about being a banana slug, but

(02:07:38):
he's not anymore now. I will give Manny an f
minus for baseball history. Did he combine? Maybe he combined
Pete Rose and Johnny Man's because he said Johnny Hustle.
Now it's like, yeah, Charlie Hustle. Most people know that
Charlie Hustle and Pete Rossel. Did he combined Johnny Manziel

(02:08:01):
and Pete Rose? Remember, Machado's the same guy that apologized
to Buck showalters several times in carefully crafted statements which
clearly came from the Baltimore Orioles PR Department in Maryland
for his lack of due diligence within the hustle department.
His base running misadventures have been duly noted by many

(02:08:23):
a gas bag and pundit and those that chronicle baseball.
So he has not obtuse to how bad this looks.
He simply doesn't give a damn. He knows it's a
bad look. He's aware of this, but he's like, no,
it's just essentially he's saying, it's in my DNA. I'm
unable to change, is what he's saying. It's a unique situation. Now,

(02:08:46):
major League Baseball, we've discussed this. We know that's filled
with players who often cut corner. Is it really no
different in any job I work in radio, there's people
are very lazy in radio that don't prepare and they
don't do the kind of things you're supposed to do
to be a professional. It happens all the time, and
they'll come in here and whatever's on the big websites,

(02:09:06):
they just that's that's what they go with. They don't
put any thought into it, and they just come in
here and they know. Let they pay a lot of money.
I should do that too, say, be a lot of time,
you know, a lot of anxiety. I would be much
better off. But I'm not wired that way. But a
lot of baseball players are. But any business, whatever it,
there's always people. Whatever you do for a living, there's
people are gonna cut corners. And in baseball it's called
the Big League Jog. Now Manny Machado is taking the

(02:09:30):
Big League Jog to Hall of Fame levels in Baltimore
and now Los Angeles. It is social loafing, right, It's
like you know that terms social look, except in baseball
you're doing it in front of twenty thirty forty fifty
thousand people. The idea that Manny Machado is doing this

(02:09:50):
to avoid injury is to quote out Michael's farcical is
what is what it is. It's it's comic book like
and it's really something where you've got to go back
in honest Abraham Lincoln, the Great baseball punt in Abraham Lincoln,
honest Abe, the classic quote applies here. You can fool
some of the people all the time, and all of

(02:10:12):
the people some of the time, but you cannot Manny
Machado fool all of the people all the time. And
now obviously he's not trying to fool anybody. But the
final word on this, there is no way, no way
that a established team that's trying to win can give
Manny Machado a four or five year contract. And you can't,

(02:10:36):
I mean, anything more than a basic three or four
year contract would be baseball neglige. Now that being said,
free agency in baseball is a parlor game. It's a
sucker's paradise, and there's always a sucker out there. So
who would be the comp to Manny Machado in baseball?
Robbie Cano? Don't you know, Robinson? You can know with

(02:10:58):
the Yankees put up great numbers and was eating dog food, right,
he was a dog. He didn't hustle that. They called
him out, some of the tabloids in New York. And
what did the Seattle Mariners do. Well, they said, we'll
give you the trifecta. Come to Seattle. You'll be sleepless
in Seattle, but you'll be very wealthy. And the Mariners
gave Robbie Cano and his passive baseball play two hundred

(02:11:22):
forty million dollars over ten years. How's that working out?
You know what Robbie Cano's signature moment is as a
Seattle Mariner. He's been there for five seasons. You know
what his signature moment as a Mariner is being suspended
for peeds. That's his signature moment in a Mariner uniform,
getting suspended. You talk about a return on investment. So

(02:11:44):
my theory on Manny Machado, the teams that are really
going for it are not going to offer him a five, six,
seven year contract. So that means if he wants to
get that longer contract, he's gonna have to go to
the baseball version of Siberia. What is the baseball version
of Siberia. That would be the Texas Rangers or the

(02:12:04):
Anaheim Angels, one of those teams that never win and
on the outskirts of baseball, one of those type teams.
But I can't imagine. You think of the elite teams,
and Machado's been tagged to go to the Yankees and
the Dodgers. I don't know how aggressive they'll be. Maybe
they'll turn to another dog like Bryce Harper and and

(02:12:27):
somebody like that. But but you wonder, like if the
team's Philadelphia was mentioned the Phillies think they're a contender.
They completely fell off the Grand Canyon the last month
of the season in Philadelphia. It's gonna be intriguing to
see what happens. It will We'll keep an eye. It
is the Ben Maller Show on Fox. If you would
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(02:12:49):
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six
three six nine. A wild quote out of the Brewer Clubhouse.
This is this is great. So Christian Yelich, who unloaded
on Manny Machado in the post game for the incident
in the tenth then he now he plays with the

(02:13:09):
Milwaukee who was called out by Well. Machado was called
out by Yellich, who called him dirty, and also Craig
Counsel called out Machado for being dirty, but Yelich, according
to reports out of the media covering the Nationally Championship Series,

(02:13:31):
after Christian Yellich got done answering questions in the Brewers
Clubhouse about Machado, he walked away from his locker and
blurted out, f that mother effer is what he said
about Machado and the reporters were all there. That's a
tough guy. That is you te I'll tell you what.

(02:13:51):
Who would win a fight between Machado and Christian Yellich Machado.
I disagree. I'll tell you why, because Machado would tap
out shot. It'll be like, I'm tired. I don't want
to do this. I don't want to fight. Hey, I
agree with him, but I don't. I don't want him
to get hurt. You don't want to get hurt, Then
why does he even leave his house? He should just
stay at home because he could get hurt driving to

(02:14:13):
the stadium. You could do that. He can get hurt
next Hivern, not right now? All right, like like a month,
he can get hurt. Yeah, okay, I got you, all right,
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be part of the festivities. There's an accusation of some
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Sports Radio studios, and here he is, the nocturnal Colonel
Ben Maller. Some pitching games and ship from the Milwaukee Brewers.
They don't have real starting pitchers and they are sending
one of the few starting pitchers they have to disabled lists.

(02:15:39):
Geo Gonzalez, he's going on the disabled list. Well, there's
no disabled list in the Plus, they're just taking him
off the roster. So they're gonna add another picture, which
means even more pitching changes because he assumed they're going
to bring in a relief pitcher again. So it's just
it's so disgusting, it's so despicable what the Brewers are
doing to this. So the Dodges really wanted to take

(02:15:59):
off off the rosters. They can just say, oh, he
has a hurt wrist. Yes, they can make up some
bogus injury. They're saying that Geo Gonzalez has a high
ankle sprain, which is also code for I can't pitch
more than three innings because they take me out of
the game. I think that's also the same code that
they use. Believe that's that's accurate. Now the Astros. You
can go back to the podcast on iTunes and downloaded.

(02:16:22):
I had a full Mala monologue on the big revelation
that has rocked the sports world. What a scandal. This
is gonna be the lead everywhere today. Astro's cheat guilty GUI,
the Court of mall guilty, the Houston Astros sign stealing
three teams with accusations the Red Sox caught the guy

(02:16:45):
red handed in the actor's photos of this bozo from
the Astros in the act. But the most amazing part
of that story is who chimed in to give his
hot take, The notorious Chris Area who now Chris Correa
is the former Saint Louis Cardinal scouting director And is

(02:17:07):
why we call them the cheating Cardinals. We'll have to
call the Astros something similar but Chris Correa on Twitter randomly.
Now he went he was sentenced to jail for forty
six months in prison. Apparently he's aid a halfway house.
What we're being told is at a halfway house at
an undisclosed location. But Chris Correa went on Twitter and

(02:17:28):
when the news came out about the astros cheating, he said,
guess who isn't surprised? Question Mark? Wow, Wow, that's big.
That's big. Now keep in mind that this Twitter account
had only sent out I think the tweets that hadn't

(02:17:48):
been deleted. There were six tweets sent out by this account.
He goes back to January of o'night. It's not a
verified account, but it is believed to be the Twitter
account of Chris Correa, the former Cardinal executive who went
to prison for corporate espionage and is now chiming in
on this. Let's go to the phones. Well, that's great.

(02:18:08):
What that's a nice little layer to that story. That's
pretty good. Getting juice here, it's great. Let's go to
legally blind Chris. He's hanging out in North Carolina. Is
he still there? Hello, legally blind Chris, Well, thank you
for taking my call, mister Maller. Well, thank you be
on the Morning Drive with you, the number one podcast
for Fox Sports Radio. Yes, let me tell you, mister Mallory.

(02:18:31):
All right, here's the issue that's in play. We have
cheaters everywhere. Maybe the Houston Astros have decided, if they
can't cheat by sending smoke signals, loud drum cells on
the inside the dug out, maybe we can send brail
like the multiple Oils did with their uniforms. You would
give them the opportunity to have only eight percent of

(02:18:52):
the Major League Baseball audience to recognize how they're cheating. Now,
how does it feel from a member of the blind community,
legally blind, Chris, how does it feel when you know
that the Orioles did the brail thing and the Astros
they're doing it not even in brail, they're doing it
right in your face. Well, you know, mister Mailer, the
bottom line is this, Yes, the if the Orioles can't

(02:19:15):
win by cheating with brail, the Astros can't win by
cheating with their process. The whole bottom line is the
Brewers are cheating with the pitching messons. The only way.
You're right, it's it's a bad style, it's esthetically unpleasing.
And might I add here you talk about all this,
how about the rhythmic clapping that the Astros were apparently doing.

(02:19:38):
We know about that, the garbage can that they were
banging on. This is disgusting, This is horrible stuff. I
feel dirty. I feel bad for the I feel bad
for the children. It's what I feel bad for. I
really feel bad for the kids. It just boils down
to this is the only way Major Lived Baseball is
going to get the Brewers and the Astros into the
World Series. It's cheating. Yeah, well, no, we must put

(02:19:58):
a stop to this. We must this atrocity. I hope
that the federal government will step in. We must put
an end to this. I'm gonna you know, I like you.
You called me mister Maller. No one does me. No
one calls me mister maller. I've never been called that
before other than like two people. So I'm gonna give
you a golden ticket just for calling me mister Maller.
You get a golden ticket. There you go, tickets called

(02:20:19):
Thank you, mister Mallard. I'm praying for Major League Baseball
justice with the Dodgers and the Red Sox in the
World series. Thank you for your times? All right, well,
thank you? All right? I like this seemed like a
very pleasant person there. Legally blind Chris enjoyed that. Let's
go now to the North side of Chicago. You got

(02:20:39):
that Doc, Doc Mike, the unofficial doctor of the Ben
Maller Ship. Everybody's going to be calling you, mister Mallor
when we get to Washington. Oh that's right. How's the
election going? Now? We're we're facing the mid term, so
we're in the twenty twenty election. Doc, we are rolling pell.
I've got my posters. Do you want me to send
you another poster? Heard? Yeah? Enough, we know. Well I

(02:21:02):
have what I'd like is like a photoshop version of
me and you side by side, because I would frame
that do that, you know, because I still have my
rad uh my nineteen forty five radar machine here. Yeah.
You don't believe in technology. You're a techno phoe? Right, Yeah,
what what about? Why not? Get At wants to buy

(02:21:25):
me a cell phone, you know, so that he can
find me in the late evening, but I refused. You
refused a free phone. Your boss was gonna buy you
a phone, and you said no, why not just keep
it in your glove, BOMF. You know I don't need that.
I got enough problems with my brain. Okay, no, I disagree.

(02:21:46):
I think your brains won. I hear the Dodgers one
last night, I fell asleep. They I mean what asleep
I was? I was on I was at the game.
I fell asleep too, and I was at the mind.
Yeah it was terribly Yeah, and then went to work, Yes, shocking.
I was at the game. And then I drove and yeah,
here I am. That's right amazing. Yeah, when this thing

(02:22:06):
called the car and then I drove and it's got
four wheels on it, a big engine and gets decent
gas mileage. In here. I've got some buggy whips here
if you ever decide to go back to the Yeah,
you know when I was born. Oh, the horse and buggy.
You've got that. Yeah, yeah, the horse and buggy. Do
you still own part of that goat farm in Michigan?

(02:22:27):
And knowing Western Iowa? Oh, Western, I I'm sorry. Iowa
talked to the guy the other day and he doesn't
have any more goats. But there's other farmers out there
that if I need a one those massive heads, you know, well,
we have a new guy on the on the staff here,
Doc Roberto, who does not know the fact that you've
sent how many bloody goat heads have you sent? The

(02:22:49):
Fox Sports radio to Fox Sports. Yeah, but you're your
guys were intercepting him, so I st well, no, what
happened was we had one of our bosses. Is the
people in the mail room, they when they get a
package and there's blood dripping out of it, it's not
it's not good, and it's addressed to me. And I

(02:23:10):
was getting the blowback Doc, because the people in the
mail department at the company were upset. And then Moran
coming from Doc Mike, what did they think? It was?
A yeah? And then Miranda you sent one Miranda with
the late great friend. Yeah, Frank Pollock took one of anyone. Yeah,
a lovely lady. Uh and my apologies tour, but yeah,
yeah with Doc. So if you want to send if

(02:23:30):
you can find like some kind of animal had to
send Roberto, you'd love that. Yeah, yeah, that would be
like a great prize for Roberto. Roberto there he must
be what of your new engineers. Yeah, he's he's a
producer engineer. Yeah, he's he's up in on the show. Yeah, well,
I'll tell you what he's uh, studying under one of
the best radio guys on the planet. Wow, you're very Doc. Yeah,

(02:23:52):
Cooper is very good. Yeah, Coops right there? Yeah, yeah,
absolutely all right, Doc. When are you leaving? You're you're
going to Ecuador for your other girlfriend right in Ecuador? Yes, yeah,
but I think we're probably going to break up. No, Doc,
what happened? Doc? Oh, the longest relationship was not what
she was looking. Oh. No, that means you're gonna be

(02:24:14):
on the DOC. You're gonna You're gonna be on the prowl.
Doc is what that means? Right? We want to alert
all the fine women there in Ecuador. The DOC is
now available. Up. Your daughter is coming to town. You
got Doc? Can you? Can you say the Bears seventy three? No,

(02:24:38):
Roberto Doc is but Doc Mike his buddies with Mike Ditka.
He's like his friends. Yeah, he's a friend of Yeah,
all right, I gotta go there you Doc, all right,
by there you go the great You got the Doc?
I like that game. He's a good dude. I've mentioned
this before, but if you're new to the show. I
made an appearance in Kansas City there's some chicken fingers

(02:25:00):
named that to me at a fine restaurant in the
greater Kansas City area. So I went there one time
and Doc drove down from Chicago and set up a
table and was signing autographs the whole time. For my
appearance at a fine restaurant in Kansas City, Doc Doc
Bow guarded it and was signing autographs and doing selfies
and it was just just and then he came out

(02:25:23):
with like a screwdriver and in the on dark side
street outside the restaurant on you know you you're you're
hanging out as it kind of it was an okay
part of Kansas City. But he had a screwdriver and
he took the license plate off his car and gave
it to me and then my my girlfriend who's not
my wife, and he said, here you have my license plate.
That's awesome. Crazy. Will press on Hey, password the word

(02:25:46):
Game of the Stars. If you want to play password,
call right now eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
We're gonna get the password in a moment for our
rest of the hour, as they like to say, we'll
get to that, but right now from the Geico studios
of Fox Sports Radio, right over there, Reckett Ralph to
give you a I'm gonna sit there on the name,

(02:26:06):
but Recket Ralphs he's on tape, so I can't say
the wrong name. Well, thank you very much, Ben, And
it was quite a night for the Boston Red Sox.
I want to know to Pierce and Pierce trills one
deep till that field down the line. If it stays fair,
it's gone. It is fair, it is gone. Or the
Red Sox lead it three to two on a solo
home run by Steve Pierce, Red Sox Radio Network with

(02:26:27):
the call, that's all they would need it, but they
would get a lot more, as Boston would win eight
two to take a two games to one series lead
in the ALCS. Game four will be Wednesday night at
Minute Made Park. Of course, it was Game four in
Los Angeles, the Dodgers hosting the Milwaukee Brewers, and a
thirteenth inning RBI single by Cody Belliger. Okay, anyway, yeah,

(02:26:52):
sound a little tired, No, I'm great, sure, Yes, tough
doing overnights sometimes. Yeah, it's about the time you start
feeling it a little bit. No, no, no, I'm feeling
about two hours later. Two hours later. Yeah, continue had
no worries. Cody Bellinger with the RBIs single to give
LA a two one win again in thirteen innings and

(02:27:13):
tie the series at two games apiece. Game number five.
It will be taking place in less than twelve hours
from right now. Are you sure? Maybe they'll push the
game back to give the players more sleep. No, I
don't think so. They need their rest. No, they they're
gonna go the way they are. They're delicate little flowers,
these baseball players. They need more rest. Well, maybe the

(02:27:33):
shortstop in white is but you know the rest I
don't know. And white? Wait you racist? No, there's one
team wearing white jerseys and the other team wears gray
or boy, depending on what time, was racist thing you've
ever said? Rob Uh huh right, I'm offended, But if
you'd like to apologize, No, I'm not gonna apologize for
the Dodgers wearing white at home. I'm colorblind. I don't

(02:27:54):
see color. Well, you do see white or gray, and
that's the difference between what the Dodgers and yeah, yeah, yeah, Roberto,
do you see water gray? You're losing your credibility here,
Chief Roberto says he doesn't white. Yeah, he says he
does not angry. What color is your jersey? There, Roberto,
it's white. There you go, it's not these line's gray.

(02:28:14):
He's line. It's white. No, it's gray. There's no gray
area in this one. Ben, it's white. Thank you for
that route. In tonight's Discovery Card key matchup, the New
York Rangers take on the Washington Capitals at seven pm Eastern.
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(02:28:36):
more at Discover dot com. Slash match limitations apply. And
it was opening night in the NBA. Two games on
the hardwood, Boston one O five eighty seven win over
Philadelphia in the return of Gordon Hayward to the parquet,
and the Golden State Warriors got their championship rings and
a one O eight one hundred win over Oklahoma City.

(02:28:56):
It is ni Ben Mallis Showhere company from the getic
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen
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dot com for a free great quote. One story from
the NFL that happened overnight there was a report. This
is wild. So a report out of Dallas said that
not only is Jason Garrett not in trouble as the

(02:29:18):
Cowboy coach, that Jerry Jones is considering giving him a
contract extension, which he has done such a great job.
But Jones did not confirm that he was asked about it.
He did respond to some reports speculating that Jason Garrett
was gonna get a contract extension. He said, I don't
know where the reporter or he says name here is

(02:29:40):
getting his information. He's pulling one out of the air
there as far as any knowledge. Keep in mind, though
Jerry Jones did not deny that Jason Garrett's going to
get a contracts extension to coach the Dallas Cowboys, So
that would be just wonderful. I fully support and our

(02:30:01):
favorite coach. Guess which coach said. Let's see if you
can figure out which coach said. We aren't tanking anything.
I hear the hatred out there, some of the rumors
that we are tanking it to get a first round
pick or a higher pick. You said, We're not getting
up at four o'clock in the morning to tank it.
Who said that? I know it? I go ahead there,

(02:30:23):
John Gruden. Yes, John, that's what John Gruden said. So
should you believe the actions of John Gruden or the
words of John, Well, you don't care a Bertough. You're
no longer a fan of the tank Tank Tank the
team tank here like you love the tank talk for

(02:30:44):
the Raiders. Yeah, I'm I'm on tank talk now, the
greatness of the rights. Yes, who will be traded next?
Throwing darts at the roster? Who are you gonna trade? Yip?
Yip yip yep yep. I know. Ralph's devastated because the
retirement rumors about Michael Boublet. He's very upset about that, right,
is that right, Ralph? Yes, not at all? Yeah, all right,
very upset, but he's denying it. You know, you never

(02:31:06):
believe what he says on the air. It's he's off
the year position, that's what you believe, big fan, Ralph.
Actually a lot of people don't know this. He listens
to nothing but Michael Boublet music. He loved it. Yeah,
that's true. He loves the croner. He loves that. Can't
get enough who Michael Boublay, Yeah exactly. Yeah, Well he's
he's retiring, so you know all right, it's sho should

(02:31:29):
we Let's introduce our contestants real quick, hit that right there,
hit that button right there, there you go, we'll introduce
the Oh, let's see who do we have we've got? Oh,
we don't need to hit that button. Let's go say
hello to Craig in Boca. Hello, Craig, good morning. Then
how are you gotta murder? Gotta go right? Not today?
Not today? Good? Okay? Good uh? And Craig, course, keeping

(02:31:51):
the people of Bolca safe and appreciate that. And hold
on set, Craig. And we also have who do we have?
We have RC in South Carolina? Hello, RC, try me
in go ahead? Okay? Do you want me to go
ahead with the show? Yes, sir, all right, I we'll
go ahead with the show. What would you like me

(02:32:12):
to say? He said, count me in? Go ahead? Oh?
I thought he said, go ahead with the show. Well,
what do you do for a living? Rc? Um? I
worked two doubts, one for the government, which disclose and
list driver on the side. Oh, what do you think
he does for the government? What do you FBI spy CIA? Yeah,

(02:32:36):
secret government operative or he's like a trash man, a
rally actor, rally actor Okay, Craig, who would you like
to partner up with? Craig you got on the air first. Oh,
I'll do you, Ben. Oh, thank you Craig. If i'd
use that language, but thank you. I appreciate that. All right,
my wife might have a problem. A hold on a second,
and RC, you can play with Ralph, Roberto or the

(02:32:59):
Cooper loop. Put do you a partner up with RC?
I'll take too. There's an odd reference. All right, RC
and Hideo Nomo and Craig and me. We'll get the
password the word game of the Stars and we'll get
to it next. You have to multitask to navigate through life,

(02:33:20):
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Ben and more. Now back to the Geico Fox Sports
Radio Studios and password with Ben Maller. Well, Ralph, you

(02:33:41):
and Roberto are good friends now right? You guys are tight? Yeah,
good friends. I see Roberto all the time. We talk. Yeah,
hang sure are you? Yeah? I mean you haven't come
in here once, Ralph, what's what's going on? Everything? All right?
You know, if you don't have something nice to say,
don't say anything, you know. Wow, Shot, I mean you

(02:34:05):
know one of us has invaded the other studio tonight.
I'm not gonna say which one. Wow, that's true, unbelievable.
One of us doesn't have a bag with his name
on it. I'll point that out. Yeah, neither does one
of us have a grocery store with the same name.
So there ain't going egomaniac. It's gonna douche move to

(02:34:29):
have a bag with your name on it. Keeping clean. Okay,
here we go, let's do it here. Password, you idiot,
password the word Game of the Stars, here's Ben Miller
and no ware we go. It is past word time.

(02:34:49):
We have our contestants lined up. Craig in Boca is
a law enforcement officer. He'll be teamed up with me
keeping the people of Boca safe. And we have RC
who works for the government. Will not reveal what he
does and as a part time job driving lift so
he's got that going for him. Two Lock r C
in with lock Craig in. All right, gentlemen, good luck.

(02:35:09):
We have a list of words one through ten. Now,
Coop is with RC. I am with Craig as I
think I've said, and Craig, you were on the air first.
Pick a number between one and ten, will get passwords
started three? Number three? All right, let's go with sculpture museum. No, oh,

(02:35:33):
all right, all right, RC. You heard Ben's clue with me, right,
leave me out of this? Okay, you are there, r
C right, rc O, Man, they're both up. Got him up.
Maybe he got a murder. He had to go, r C.
There are you with me? He's so board, Coop he

(02:35:54):
hung on. Oh my goodness, hear me? Yeah, now I
can hear you. Okay, did you hear Ben's clue? Yes?
I heard it. Okay, I'm gonna go with figuring. That's good.
Remember Ben's clue, No, leave me out of this, leave
me out of this? Uh oh boy, no, no, no,

(02:36:21):
all right, I got we got this. Craig, I said, sculpture.
Let's go with bronze. Dah, yeah, we go. That's what
I'm talking about. When he said sculpture, well, I mean
what else he's what else he supposed to say besides
sculpture bronze? I mean, I like your whining, Arcy. I

(02:36:42):
respect that. Hi, go ahead, picking number but one and
ten and we'd already used number three. Al right, number eight?
Go ahead, all right, let's go with mm hmmm, let's
go with Wasn't that easy? Vices, he didn't think about what?

(02:37:08):
Number eight? What? Yep? What? Okay? What was the clue again? Vices,
don't even listen? It's dumb clue mauver. I'm using the
malam maneuver. I'm gonna do give give the wrong answer
so I can win. Okay, hurry up, salt, No, all right,

(02:37:33):
forget all that, Craig, I'm gonna attempt the malam maneuver.
Here we go through it regular coffee. No, no, my
clue was bad. That's that's better. That's a better clue.
Though you said dumb. What you said it is stupid,

(02:37:56):
though it's it's a good. Hurry up, go ahead, chop chop,
all right, passwords. Let's go with winning with Craig. Um,
chop up do do. That's a terrible word, coop. You
can't use words like this. Okay, let's let's go with. Yeah. Okay,

(02:38:17):
you enough. You heard the clues, right, you heard all
the clues. You're wasting time. Let's go with summer up.

(02:38:38):
What I think of the summertime? I think of catch up? Yes, nice,
catch up? All right, Craig, I why don't we just
throw this word out? Can we throw it out? Can
we do that? Yeah? The word regular season. I don't
know what Coop is doing season things with spices. No,
but you don't. Seasoning and season are different, Coop. What

(02:38:59):
I said right now, it's football. I did regular as
a regular. That's all right. Stop, I'm moving on, Craig,
picking another number, not three and not eight? Number seven?
All right, let's go with grime dirt. No, sorry, hurry up, Coop,

(02:39:24):
you got like ten seconds. All right, you heard grime,
you heard dirt. Let's go with powder flud. I love you, Arc.
You're so bad at this game. That's it. We're out
of time, Craig. You win a golden ticket and dust.
We were looking for dust. Rcy. Go have some catch

(02:39:45):
up in the summer when it comes back around. Okay,
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