December 22, 2022 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about the fallout from Carlos Correa not signing with the Giants and the reaction from the Giants fans, Ryan Tannehill getting ruled out for the rest of the season, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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oh what a pandemonium. Oh man, if you like a
big commotion, we had that, the outrage machine getting cranked
up all day long. This story is still got legs
our lead this hour. Coming from Flushing in less than
twenty four hours, barely less than twenty four hours, it
is still the story that I am fascinated by. As
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there's an out and out rebellion among a fan base
outraged angered because X cheating, as show Carlos Carea flip
flopped and did not sign with the Giants, ended up
going to the Mets. The free agent infield has happened
during our show yesterday, and the free agent infield they're
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headed to New York. And the reaction, oh my god,
the reaction. There's confusion, there's disorder and hostility, and it's wonderful.
It's if you've not seen it, my god, it's over
the top. And the disobedience among the Giant fan base
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here as the general manager, Farhan Zaidi has been getting
roasted over an open microphone and on social media. The
Giant backers with their proverbial pitchforks and torches or on
the prowl. It is an uprising, complete defiance here. The
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fans demanding answers. It's not right, it's not fair. Sell
the team, blah blah, head drug gonna roll, blah blah
blah blah blah blah. All right, so let us us
the question on this one. What do you make of
the over the top reaction of the San Francisco Giant
fan to Carlos Correa going to the Mets instead of
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the Giant. So I've got paw patrol, home inspection and
snow tires, and we'll tie all of these things together.
We're gonna make garlic fries. It's the time of the
year you need extra garlic, and they have the greatest
garlic fries around there in the Bay Area. So hey, listen,
I love the mutiny on the Bounty. It's wonderful. It
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was predictable. Never though, underestimate the ratby dog sports fan
level headed unless they're not right. As one of the
things we love about all this and what we love
doing sports radio is because of the reactions, the disorder
that is in the community of the fan base. Right,
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it's chaotic and mayhem and all that, and it's hilarious,
it really is. To watch the rats scorry around and
you had the raw emotion of being overly jubilant, and
then you go from that to y rate and as
we talked about in a previous episode show, the previous
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episode of the show, the news conferences when they introduced
the new player, these are religious revivals, These are pep rallies, right,
these are ra ra hometown team. Where the grade is
we and you go from that to wait a minute,
there's they got cancel, it got postponed. Well, well they'll
work it out. And then hours later naa la la
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la la laa good bye. You're way of goodbye. There's
no middle ground. But this Carlos career story is absolutely bananas.
It's next level. I actually had trouble sleeping because of
the primal screams that we're coming from San Francisco, Loyaltists,
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loyalists here, the giant Fancier's. It's it's like being a kid.
The analogy I would give us an old analogy though,
it's like it's like being a kid and your parents say,
you know what we're gonna get you the hottest toy,
the paw patrol toy. They're really popular and it's the
latest toy, and um, but we can't afford it right now.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna they used
to have this thing back in the day called layaway,
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So we're gonna put the toy on layaway and we're
gonna get the toy. And then you're all excited. You're like, Okay,
I'm about to get the toy. This is great. My
parents promised me the toy, and then at the very
last minute they decided they did not want to spend
the forty dollars on the Paw Patrol toy, and the
toy went to your your your nemesis. Uh. They they
got the toy, but but only in the high stakes
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game of baseball. We're talking about forty dollars. We're talking
three hundred and fifty million, three hundred fifty million dead presidents.
Now page two here, how long before we find out
why Carlos Carrell's contract with San Francisco is not finals?
We asked that question again. Now, there are rumors that
are floating around that it's the ankle, dummy, it's the
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ankle other that I buy that, though, I think there's
more to it than just the ankle. An ankle injury
from twenty fourteen, and I think we'll get, as the
late great radio broadcaster Paul Harvey would say back in
his day, the rest of the story, we'll be dropping
in a nice Christmas surprise over the weekend. And the
ankle injury is the popular pick by popular people. I
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believe that was being floated by the agency representing Carlos Correa.
And at this point in the story, the puppet master
is Scott Boris. Guys the savant at this He's so
good and he's controlling the narrative. He's got all these
baseball writers in his back pocket. We've talked about this
in the past, but Boris has the most expensive seats
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you can get. He lives in la in Orange County,
get the most expensive seats at Dodger games and Angel games.
And he goes down there before the game and there's
a parade of baseball scribes that going. It's like getting
a meeting with the president. You know, you get to
sit and you get to talk to him. You know, sit,
but you get to talk to him and he feeds
your notebook. And so Boris has all these guys in
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his back pocket. And eventually the story will flip and
then the Giants will use some of their useful idiots
in the media, and so you'll get their side of
the story. And as always with these things, you've got
three sides. You've got the giant side, You've got the
agent representing the cheater, Carlos Corea side, and you've got
the truth, which is somewhere in the middle. But generally,
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when you agreed to a contract, like the way I
look at this for the giants, it's like buying a house.
You have the home inspection. If you've ever sold a
house or bought a house, you know there's this home inspection.
It's a checklist that they go over there. It's a
licensed home inspector, and you have to go over all
of the things in the house the condition for the sale.
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You dig around find the home appraisal. Let's say you
find out the home is actually worth less than the
offering prize. Well, then you could say, well, wait a minute,
why would I pay this much to the home's not
worth that much? That possibly some severe mold throughout the
entire house, there's a pet kind of a pest infestation there,
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there's vermin in the attic, the foundations got cracks, electrical problems,
any of those things. These things pop up all the time. Now,
people who are savvy would tell you that you would
be wise to walk away right, walk away from the home. Now,
Carlos Korea, it's fair to say that he did a
praise for less because the Mets contract is millions of
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dollars less than the Giants were offering. He does have
a lot of mold. No one can disagree. From the
cheating a stros and there is an infestation of vermin
that continues because he's got that stank on him from
the cheating astros. And whether or not it's a chronic
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back issue or a barking ankle that has a foundational crack,
you get the point right. Either way, we believe in
the long run this is a good thing for the Giants. Now,
it is also fair to point out that in the
industrial complex of professional sports, we've been following this long
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enough to know that if you want the player, you
can find the quack doctor to pass the player on
the physical It's all a matter of semantics. So that
is absolutely legit, and I understand the argument against that,
but it's pretty simple here. The Giants got all flustered
because Aaron Judge rejected them they thought they had Aaron Judge,
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they made an irrational, short sighted move with his punk Korea,
and then commerheads prevailed until they got out him. And
I hate saying that as a Dodger backer, but I don't.
I don't want to praise the hated Higantes. But listen,
that's a that's a good job by them, cares a punk.
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Turn the page. You're better off without him. Now. Every
year there's another top notch free agent, two or three
every single year. So if you don't get the guy
this year, then wait a year or two and there'll
be other free agents and they'll be better than him,
and they won't have the cooties that Carlos Carey has.
All right, last word or so let's turn the page.
And I've been reading story after story. I've been getting
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people sending me links to sports books. The New York Metropolitans,
I gonna win the World Series. They should just cancel
the twenty twenty three World Series. So let's ask the question.
Are the Mets garral Tate Garrod Tate to win the
World Series in twenty twenty three with Carlos Carey. Of course,
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it's a fool's errand we're not talking basketball. In the NBA,
if you have a loaded roster, statistically speaking, you are
all but guaranteed to make a deep playoff runt. As
we have learned over time, Baseball unfortunately does not work
that way. I wish it does. The Dodgers have seven
or eight World Series over the last fifteen years, but
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it doesn't quite work that way. It's fascinating how often
the sports fan falls for the hype. And I'd like
to think that if you listen to this show, you're
a little smarter than the other dumb dumbs. But it's
his fallacy in human nature. Like the Las Vegas Strip,
the mecca of gambling was built. They often talk about
its being built on slot machines because that's a sucker's play.
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But a lot of the bells and whistles that have
been added to those big monstrosities on the Vegas Strip,
the expensive buffets, the exotic furniture, the chandeliers, all that
those were paid for by sucker sports fans, betting chalk,
betting favorites. Listen, the Mets have a very good team.
If you look at your smartphone and you look at
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a depth chart, you're like, oh, that's pretty good. And
who I think the Mets will win one hundred regular
season games? Yes, they should win north of one hundred.
Although the NL East is loaded, the Atlanta Braves are
not exactly chopped liver and the fighting fills added a
good player in Trey Turner, at least for the next
couple of years till he gets long in the tooth.
The problem is, and it's always is, the great quagmire
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when you talk about the loaded baseball team is the postseason.
And that's gonna be the same bugaboo for the Mets.
We've seen it time and again. We have seen it
time and again teams that dominate in the regular season
and then exit stage right in October. It's like driving
an obstacle course and you're dominating the obstacle course and
then the weather gets nasty, it turns into wintertime and
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you don't have snow tires or chains, and suddenly your
car is wobbling and you're not dominating the course anymore.
You're not prepared for the elements that snow, the slush,
the ice causing a slide all over the road and
playoff baseball. And I'm looking at that met rotation and
I'm looking at you, Max Scherzer, and I'm looking at
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you Verlander, the two headed fire breathing dragon for the
Mats and Suz is gonna be thirty nine by next October.
He has a playoff ra last seven playoff games of
over four almost four and a half. That also includes
he missed a key start for the Dodgers because he
had dead art all right, and you got you got
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Matt Max, who's who started twenty two postseason games with
his various teams, and his team has a losing record
four games under five hundred insuresers started a playoff game.
And then we look at Verlander, who will turn forty
in February, and he's got an ERA over four and
a half his last thirteen postseason starts for the cheating
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a Stros. And I've heard a lot of nonsense about
Carlos Karez, mister clutch, he's the greatest postseason player, blah blah,
blah blah blah. It's also bullcrap. Now, Karez had some
big hits in the playoffs, but they're all tarnish because
he's a cheater. And you don't know whether he can
do that without cheating. Now, maybe the metch are planning
on cheating, and that's great for them, and he'll play
very well because we know Correa when he cheats, is
a very good ballplayer. But Coorea also has had multiple
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playoff series where he's batted under two hundred in his
days with a cheating a holes. So the lesson is
bet all your money. The sports books will take your
money to take your by make a lot of money
off you dumb dumbs, and then some other middling team
will end up winning the world series. That's usually how
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hour coming from the wacky and crazy world of the NFL.
As the news does not stop. Our lead actually coming
from the Music City. There was no miracle in the
Music City. We have a changing of the guard in Nashville.
If you have not heard, perhaps not, the Tennessee Titans
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currently leading their division. They would be a playoff team
should the season end. Right now, the Titans are expected
to be without their starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill this weekend
and for the remainder of the season because of snap
crackle pop the right ankle injury. He's gonna need surgery.
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That's based on the scuttle butt around the NFL. So
Tannehill suffered the injury, he reinjured it on Sunday against
the Chargers. Khalil Mack the Mac attack landing on the
right foot of the Tennessee quarterback on that first offensive drive.
Tannehill came out of the game for a brief period
and he ended up going back in. He's out now
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and the backup warming up now in the bullpen playing
long toss Malik Willis. So Malik Willis is expected to
start not only this weekend but the rest of the
year for the Texans. There's only three games to go.
Willis taking first team snaps on Tuesday and Wednesday. The
Titans also desperate to add another quarterback. They were dumpster
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diving off other practice squads and they added Joshua Dobbs,
who's bounced around the NFL. So he's on the active
roster now in Tennessee. But let's discuss the question. Are
you gonna go thumbs up or thumbs down? Are the
Titans dude without Ryan Tanhill. So I am gonna go
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thumbs down on this one. I've got thumbs down. Greyhound,
pep Boys and Megalopolis and we will combine these things
together and we are gonna make some cowboy boots and
we'll go to the Grand Old Opry and we'll dance
at the Grand ol Opry. So number one, that's fair
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to say Tennessee has issues. We're not gonna sit here
behind these microphones and downplay this Things are not going
well for Mike Vrabel's team. That is an understatement. Now,
that said, though, a right Ryan Tannehill being out the
balance of the regular season will not, will not be
the reason that the Titans come apart at the seams.
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You know why, they've already come apart of the seams.
And Ryan Tannehill, if you look at this season and
you are objective, and the one place you come for
objectivity is Overnight Sports Radio, Ryan Tannehill was a Greyhound
bus writer. He was not driving the bus. The Titans
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bus round and round and round and round and rounding
and round and round and round. The Titans wheels on
the bus go. But it was not because of him.
You know that. I know that, and the Tennessee Titans
know that. Now. Normally either quarterback is the king, but
not in Nashville, not this year. Ryan Tannehill. His resume
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this season spotty, spotty, spotty, spotty, spotty, spotty, and the
Titans coming in now have lost four consecutive games at
this point. They lost to the Chargers last week, Jacksonville, Philadelphia,
and the Cincinnati Bengals, so they have gone an entire
month without winning a game and still find themselves in
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first place. Because of the division they're in, the NFC
South or the AFC South rather just just dreadful, absolutely
dreadful as a division. But to say that Tannehill his
absence is going to be the defining moment, I don't
buy that, because again, he's been irrelevant. Tennessee is a
passing offense, is back in the Bronze Age. They are
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ranked twenty nine in passing yards per game. Only Carolina
Atlanta and the Chicago Bears, who wear leather helmets, are
worse Tannehill thirteen touchdowns, six interceptions in twelve games. This
is not the guiding light, this is not the pace
car and now is another opportunity for the backup, the
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much ballyhood Malik Willis, who looked like he had never
held the football before in his life when he played
earlier this season. He was completely in over his head
drowning to get another opportunity, and he started two games
he's attempted this season. Malik will his thirty eight passes,
completing less than forty five percent of them, averaging less
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than five yards per attempt, and his passer rating is
below fifty. A good passer ratings above ninety really goods
above a hundred, he's below fifty in limited sample size. Nevertheless,
going from Ryan Tannehill, who's been a bumm, the guy's
a bumb to Malik Willis, that is a lateral move.
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Slight downgrade, but a lateral move. And Derrick Henry he
is the bell cow. And that's the fact that we
that's obvious, captain obvious. That's the way I'm now page two.
How do you evaluate overall the Tennessee squad, not just
the offense put overall. So Tannehill has been playing, or
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whether he's played or not, he's played hookie because he
hasn't made a lot of plays. But the bigger problem
in my minutes long investigation of the Tennessee Titans the secondary.
And I know this from handicapping the games on Benny
versus the Penny, which will drop on Friday again this
week and every week as we provide marginal handicapping on
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every NFL game. We've done pretty well this year, and
the defense for the Titans, the secondary has been the
pressure point. To the untrained eye, you'll say it was
not a problem overall. The Titans are twelfth in the
NFL in scoring defense for example. However, Over the last month,
they're twenty eight. They're allowing almost thirty points per game,
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but much of that is because of the fatal flaw
in the secondary. And I recommend calling pet Boys because
they need Manny, Moe and Jack in the secondary. They
would help the defense back to the Tennessee is at
the very bottom l sticko. They are the worst past
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defense in the NFL. They're thirty second out of thirty
two teams. Even the wretched Minnesota Vikings are ahead of
the Tennessee Titans. And that past defense cannot stop anything.
And the last month they've gotten even worse, if that's possible.
They played better teams Philadelphia and that the Bengals, but
also Jacksonville and the Chargers and allowing almost three hundred
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fifty passing yards per game. That is the crypte night,
the kryptonite for the Titans and the Jags. We'll see
them on Thursday night tonight, Jacksonville and the Jets. And
Jacksonville's got a golden opportunity. They'll probably have it up,
but they've got a great opportunity to sneak in the
back door and grab the division from right under the
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nose of the Tennessee Titans in the flame heads, they'll
be like, I don't know what happened. I don't I
don't get it. But four losses in role you got
the Texans, which you figure you'll win that game, but
who knows. The Texans have played more competitive football Alaska
weeks to the worst team in football Dallas, and then Jacksonville.
So if Jacksonville wins out, they will win the tiebreaker
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with Tennessee and they will win the division. So the
division is in control of Jacksonville, not Tennessee because of
this four game losing steak. All right, final point. So
let's take a couple steps back and look at the
big picture. What are the odds? What are the odds
that Ryan Tannehill returns to the Titans in twenty twenty three.
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So I'm gonna set the Mallards sportsbook odds on this
at plus nine fifty. Now that implies a less than
ten percent chance that we will see Ryan Tannehill take
another staff another snap in Nashville. Now I'm headed to
the megalopolis known as Splitsville, because that's where Ryan Tannehill
and the Titans are going. They're going to divorce Cord
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Tannehill was already unborrowed time. This was hey, prove you
still belong. This season, he's proven he doesn't belong. Abject failure.
We know in the postseason. This guy's an absolute dog.
In the postseason when the Titans have needed him to
step up and make a play, he's gone a wall.
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He's gone a wall. And now Tennessee's got an escape patge.
They gave him the four year extension years ago. The
Titans have an out after this season if they choose
to activate. I don't know why they wouldn't. They would
have to swallow a marginal salary cap hit eighteen million.
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But I'm a salary cap truther. That is manageable. He
just move some numbers around. You can make the arithmetic work.
It's small potatoes in the high stakes game of the NFL.
And even if Malik Willis is too raw, too rough
around the edges, unable to play and can't beat the
guy in twenty twenty three, then there's plenty of other options.
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You can go out and get a stopcap, whether it's
Jared Goff who's going to be let go likely by
the Lions, and be free to move around the NFL
or Jimmy Garoppolo from the forty nine ers. There are options,
There are examples of people out there you can get
for a year or two and plug them in, plug
and play and move on. And it's not Tannehill, anybody
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but Tannehill. So he got he out of there. He
will not play another game, Ryan Tannehill for the Tennessee Type.
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Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. How
about that? To the third degree? This is one big band.
Gets Grail the Coop Dowload. Speaking of Justin Fields, he
complains on Tuesday about the lack of calls that he
gets for late hits on him after he slides. He
said he plans to just get on the refs and
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beg every time it happens, and hopefully he will start
getting those calls. Will his strategy work? No, Justin Fields,
you gotta understand that if you build it, the calls
will come. By begging and whining to the rafts, You're
just going to annoy them and it's going to delay
things even further. The NFL calls on the way the
calls work in the NFL, it's like a sliding skill.
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Do you play for a glamour team? Are you a
headline player? The NFL powerbrokers decide who gets special leeway
and Justin Fields is ascending, but he's not anywhere in
that rarefied air like Patrick Mahomes and players like that.
So you got to pay your dues and no ounce
of whining is going to get you there. The NFL
calls are not even. It's not a level playing field. Next,
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Reggie Bush sent a warning of sorts to the nc
double A and outgoing president Mark Emmett. He implied that
the ncable A paid eight million dollars to cover up
mistakes that they made in the USC investigation years ago, Ben,
do you think anything will come of this? No, it's
it's not zero, but it's like one percent chance. The
NCAA they're barely holding onto what little power they have.
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And if Reggie Bush ever gets his highsman back, he'll
be really older day. So and Reggie Bush. The greatest
college player I ever saw was Reggie Bush. But he's
not He's not getting that trophy back. Next. Currently, the
Sunday night football game for Week seventeen, it's slated to
be Chargers versus Rams, but we know that'll probably be
flexed out. Normally, decision on what game will have been
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put there will have been made by now, but the
NFL is opted to delay that. Which matchup do you
think they'll go with? Ben? So it's not a good
card in Week seventeen, I would say, looking at the
card Vikings, Packers, Patriots, Dolphins, one of those two most
likely will be the game. But that's depending on what
happens this weekend, like if Miami loses, if New England loses,
that changes it obviously, But those are the two that
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stand out. Oh, there's a lot of lopsided matchups that week.
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the question. All right, ben, um, let me let me
see here. How are you laughing? What are you? I'm
just I'm stunned. Now, how how on time? You are? O'clock?
For the clock? Posibly? All about the clock time. We're
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gonna start off with a question. We're on time? What
are you talking about? No? No, I'm yeah. I wasn't
being started at once. Uh. This is a question for
everybody from late night drug tester. He wants to know
have any of you tried the meal kit deliveries service? Well?
I don't know what that is, so I guess well, no,
it's like any meal kit delivery service. Yes, oh yeah,
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I know you have, Eddie. We've had them for advertisers,
Eddie where you know you get the pre paid that
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I understand. Sorry, I have not. I have not done that.
I have relatives that that like it a lot might
actually won't wait a minute, I haven't done it. My
wife actually signed up for one of those for a
while for to take the work and uh, and she
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she liked it a lot. I was. I was like,
you know, I'm good, it's not I like to make
my own stuff and I'm not into but U but Eddie,
you should I say the name of it or no? Yeah?
That were they an advertiser? Yeah, well they well they
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Fox book, right and they so they gave us so
you know, they gave it to us for free for
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a little while, of course, you know, like the first
one is free and then, uh, we liked it so
much we've kept it this entire time. My wife and
I love it. Now do you do it for? What meal?
Do you use it for? Dinner? Yeah? Dinner, yes, yes?
And how many nights do you use? Three? Three nights
a week? Three nights a week? Is it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday?
It's when all right, it's cost effective for you, it's good. Yeah, yeah,
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and it's uh, you know, the portions are kind of smaller,
but you know it's it's good for you know that
kind of thing. Yeah, I got you, all right, Roberto,
You ever dabbled in that world? No? No, Roberto's like, now,
come on, man, I'm making my own Tamali's here. What's
come on, We're making Tamali's over here. What about you? Yes,
(31:34):
I have been a subscriber for like three years or so. Um,
I'm I mean, I don't think we have any sponsors
that do this. So I'm I, oh, we did we
did well? No, I mean like currently right, Yeah, yeah,
it's been a while. I mean I don't care. Uh,
coops a rebel. I'm I'm with home chef. Uh and
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I like Eddie. We do. We do three meals a
week and I like it a lot. Though I have
noticed recently, I don't know if this is like a
nationwide thing, but the quality of the ingredients is kind
of slipping. So I'm thinking of maybe yeah, yeah, I'm
thinking maybe going back and trying out Eddie's blue apron. Yes, Roberto,
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would you like to plug any home build every food
service while we're at no I'm good? Yeah, all right,
fair enough, And it's uh, what's the term for that?
When they shrink? Do they shrink the portion sizes where
they charge you the same and then they give you less?
Isn't that? Well? Yeah, the price has gone up for mine? Anyway?
All right, what is next year? It's asked Ben your questions?
(32:40):
Our ANSWER's got time for one more and then we'll
have a long block of questions. All right, let's do
E wants to know if you're at an open bar,
what drink are you ordering? First? Yeah? So I'm pretty
basic with the open bar. I don't go too exotic
on that. I haven't been to an open bar. When
was the last time I was an open bar? I
don't even remember. But I pretty much drink what I
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usually would drink, which is just some kind of beer.
That's it. I'm boring. What about you, Eddie? Same? All right,
we're boring, Roberto. Yeah, give me beer, but after a while,
let's start going beer and to keep at the same time. Yeah,
I mean, if you want to stick it, if you
want to yep, yeah, you go you go whiskey, go
hard liquor, and you can really stick it to the
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person who's got the open bar. What about you, Coop?
Probably champagne? Oh really, I mean, if it's open bar,
it's probably some sort of like celebration, so's weddings, bar
mitzvah's birthday's funerals, you know, something like that. So yeah,
all right, we'll pause with the cause. Keep the questions
coming in hashtag ask Ben. Hashtag ask Ben your questions,
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our answers for the arrest of the hour. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Back over to
the Cooper Loop for the reading of the questions. We
do not want to get sidetracked. What do we have here? Kobaloo?
All right, I'm gonna read this question from Orange and
Blue Blood Brett, but I'm gonna change it just a
(34:09):
little bit. You're altering the question. You're not supposed to
do that, bad job. But yeah, well see he's asking
if if when if we When we were kids, we
all believed in Santa Claus. But I feel like that's
the case for most kids. So I'm just gonna add
at what age did you stop believing? Oh? I guess
not for you know, Ben? You know, I don't know.
Do you guys have fight? I believed in Hanaka Harry?
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That is that? Is that a thing? I don't It
was on Saturday Night Live, Eddie? What about you? Eddie?
What do you? What do you think? Oh? Gosh, I
don't know. Maybe thirteen maybe something like that, twelve thirteen
maybe I don't know. He came an eight hole. Okay,
what about you, Rebert? I don't think I ever believe
in Santa Claus. Never, never listen. He was born with
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hair on his chest? Right, what are you talking about?
Come on? Please? What about you? Koo? I was twelve
when I think when I when I stopped believing? Was
it devastating? No? They tell me he still believed. Well,
this is the guy who asked the question on Twitter
said that his dad told him right away that there's
no Santa Claus because he didn't want anybody to get
credit from what he bought him. Oh Man, right, Well,
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Coop does believe in Santa but it's just a strain
of weed, that's all right. J D and Boston wants
to know, Uh do you prefer shopping in stores or online?
And if you do go to stores, do listeners or
fans recognize you? Guys? But we are big stars, as
you know. And but but no, I like going to
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the store. I like going to the brick and mortar store.
It's just because I like, I grew up with it.
I mean, it's like buying stuff Online's fine and all that,
and most things we end up buying online. But I
think there's something cool about it. But I know I'm old.
I'm a dinosaur, I guess because I like going to
the store and seeing that what I'm gonna get and
like picking out which one I want. And what about you, Eddie, Yeah,
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I definitely go to the store. Um, And I've never
been recognized at the store. I have been recognized at
various sporting events, which I guess makes sense, but no,
never anywhere else. No. I actually got recognized at the
Charger game the other night when they were playing. That
was a Dolphins A couple of games ago when I
was in Arizona, this guy randomly saw me at that.
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I was like, wow, Okay, it's always surprising when it happens,
but it was. It was cool and the guy works
at at Sofiet, He's one of the guys that works there,
and he was getting ready for work. He works at
UPS during the week, and he was like, yeah, yeah,
but he's a he was a fan of show and
he wanted to say hello, and it was really it
was cool. It was pretty neat. I was like that,
that's nice. But anyway, uh, Michael in Venice is the
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guys now. I was trying to remember Michael in Venice
at the guy's name, Roberto. You get recognized all the time, right,
yeah there with your Tamali's no never look. I like,
I like going to the store and buying stuff, but
the best deal is always online. I like buying a
lot of sports here and you always get a better
deals online. Well, you go to website that sells the
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stuff out of China, you can get dirty. What about you, Coop.
I definitely prefer shopping online because I'm lazy. But then
I'm so lazy that I wait too long and then
can no longer ordered online because it won't arrive fast enough,
so then I have to go to the store. Anyway,
I'll give you an example, right, So, my my bag,
(37:23):
my work bag, I take through the studio. I dropped
it in some vomit in the parking lot, and I
want to buy a new bag. I don't want to
use the bag anymore, but I don't want to buy
one online. I want I've been going to stores trying
to find the right bag, and I haven't been able
to find it. So I don't know what I'm gonna
do with you. I gotta find something quick though. Anyway,
what is next year? To ask? Ben? I will ask
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a question from Syria. Sean, by the way, for a dog,
I'm disappointing your questions this week? Oh, shots fired? Shots
fired across the bow? Sean wants to know do you
have any goals for the new year? Come on, you're
better than that, Sean. Come on, No, I don't make
New Year's resolutions. If I have a problem, if it's
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you know, April, I fix it. I don't wait until
January to fix it. I've never never been that guy
to make New Year's resolumes. It's a goal, Well is it? Goals?
Who resolutions? The same thing? It's semantics? What about you, Eddie? No, no,
all right, it's a terrible question. Roberto no oh for
three Coopa loop. Yes, I will answer your question, Sean,
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I haven't gone to the gym since I went on
that crazy twice until keep going. You'll be sure to
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and the iHeartRadio app. And now to enlighten us on
all things Paul duel with Eddie Darcy. All right, Ben,
let's start off talking about the top team in the NHL.
The Boston Bruins extend their season opening home ice point
streaked to nineteen games in a row with a seven
three win over the Florida Panthers. It's the longest point
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streak to start a season in the NHL for a
few years. Last team to do it the twenty thirteen
Chicago Black Arks. They had twenty four games in a
row with a point to start the season. So the
Bruins are five away from the NHL record. Boston twenty
five four and two overall, seventeen zero and two at
home for the first team the NHL this season at
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the fifty point mark, and they already set an NHL
record for most home victories to start a season with
twelve in a row. Earlier this year, Mitch Martner's twenty
three game point streak ended with a three one loss
to the Rangers. Marner streak was the longest in Toronto
Maples history, but still not even halfway to the NHL
record fifty one by Wayne Gretzky Back in the day.
Ben your Boy, John Tortorella, battling with the media in Philadelphia,
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the first year head coach made a controversial decision to
bench the team's leading scorer, Kevin Hayes because he felt
that Hayes had a bad game. Former flyer Keith Yandel,
who's now working in the media, called Towards out on
the decision. Hayes said he was not happy with being benched,
of course he wouldn't be, but Tortorella then reinserted Hayes
into the lineup the next game, and when he was
asked how Hayes played after the game, Towards said that
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he wasn't going to talk about it, and he said
the media is trying to pit the player against the
coach and the coach against the player. The avalancher taken
on the Islanders recently, and New York's Matthew Barzol was
called were tripping penalty on Carlordo's Kale mccar. Mccarr motioned
to the referee waving his hands no, indicating that he
actually wasn't fouled. The ref then got on the mic
and said no penalty on the play. The replay showed
(40:42):
that Barzel did not trip mccar and mccar just fell
over on his own color d up winning the game
one nothing going to shoot out now. Some were praising
mccarr's sportsmanship, while mccar said afterwards that he apologized to
his teammates for costing them a power play and said
he would not do it again. Journeyman, and again the
refs are in company. They want to make a bad call,
and you know North in your favor, go ahead and
(41:03):
let him a journeyman. Andrew Hammond announce his retirement from
the NHL after playing parts of seven seasons and thirty
four year old goalie captured the attention of fans and
media for two things. First, in the twenty fourteen fifteen season,
he was called up the Miners due to injury. He
went twenty one and two for the one point seven
nine goals against Hambards and a nine forty one percentage,
played out of his mind in twenty four games and
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help the Senators make the Stanley Cup playoffs. And second,
his nickname was the Hamburglar, and after he was going
on this magical run, fans would throw hamburgers on the
ice to salute him. To waste of food. People are
starving Eddie in Africa. I'm sure somebody wrote that story.
I was a kid. So McDonald's wanted to jump in
on the publicity and they apparently the story was they
offered him food for life. So after he announced his retirement,
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he was doing some interviews talking about his career and
he was asked, does did he in fact get food
for life from McDonald Yes, that's why he was. He
confirmed he did get a gold card from McDonald He
reportedly can use it as many times as he want
for as much food as he wants, but he says
he's never actually used it and he doesn't plan to.
He says it's currently framed in his house. Is it's
(42:10):
more of a memento of the lame. I should get
one of those, like raising games or something like they
go out of business. Come on, man, I've been there
every day lunch and dinner. Oh my god, what's wrong
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oh what a pandemonium. Oh man, if you like a
big commotion, we had that, the outrage machine getting cranked
up all day long. This story is still got legs
our lead this hour. Coming from Flushing in less than
twenty four hours, barely less than twenty four hours, it
is still the story that I am fascinated by. As
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there's an out and out rebellion among a fan base
outraged angered because X cheating, as show Carlos Carea flip
flopped and did not sign with the Giants, ended up
going to the Mets. The free agent infield has happened
during our show yesterday, and the free agent infield they're
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headed to New York. And the reaction, oh my god,
the reaction. There's confusion, there's disorder and hostility, and it's wonderful.
It's if you've not seen it, my god, it's over
the top. And the disobedience among the Giant fan base
(02:32):
here as the general manager, Farhan Zaidi has been getting
roasted over an open microphone and on social media. The
Giant backers with their proverbial pitchforks and torches or on
the prowl. It is an uprising, complete defiance here. The
(02:52):
fans demanding answers. It's not right, it's not fair. Sell
the team, blah blah, head drug gonna roll, blah blah
blah blah blah blah. All right, so let us us
the question on this one. What do you make of
the over the top reaction of the San Francisco Giant
fan to Carlos Correa going to the Mets instead of
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the Giant. So I've got paw patrol, home inspection and
snow tires, and we'll tie all of these things together.
We're gonna make garlic fries. It's the time of the
year you need extra garlic, and they have the greatest
garlic fries around there in the Bay Area. So hey, listen,
I love the mutiny on the Bounty. It's wonderful. It
(03:36):
was predictable. Never though, underestimate the ratby dog sports fan
level headed unless they're not right. As one of the
things we love about all this and what we love
doing sports radio is because of the reactions, the disorder
that is in the community of the fan base. Right,
(03:58):
it's chaotic and mayhem and all that, and it's hilarious,
it really is. To watch the rats scorry around and
you had the raw emotion of being overly jubilant, and
then you go from that to y rate and as
we talked about in a previous episode show, the previous
(04:21):
episode of the show, the news conferences when they introduced
the new player, these are religious revivals, These are pep rallies, right,
these are ra ra hometown team. Where the grade is
we and you go from that to wait a minute,
there's they got cancel, it got postponed. Well, well they'll
work it out. And then hours later naa la la
(04:44):
la la laa good bye. You're way of goodbye. There's
no middle ground. But this Carlos career story is absolutely bananas.
It's next level. I actually had trouble sleeping because of
the primal screams that we're coming from San Francisco, Loyaltists,
(05:04):
loyalists here, the giant Fancier's. It's it's like being a kid.
The analogy I would give us an old analogy though,
it's like it's like being a kid and your parents say,
you know what we're gonna get you the hottest toy,
the paw patrol toy. They're really popular and it's the
latest toy, and um, but we can't afford it right now.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna they used
to have this thing back in the day called layaway,
(05:25):
So we're gonna put the toy on layaway and we're
gonna get the toy. And then you're all excited. You're like, Okay,
I'm about to get the toy. This is great. My
parents promised me the toy, and then at the very
last minute they decided they did not want to spend
the forty dollars on the Paw Patrol toy, and the
toy went to your your your nemesis. Uh. They they
got the toy, but but only in the high stakes
(05:48):
game of baseball. We're talking about forty dollars. We're talking
three hundred and fifty million, three hundred fifty million dead presidents.
Now page two here, how long before we find out
why Carlos Carrell's contract with San Francisco is not finals?
We asked that question again. Now, there are rumors that
are floating around that it's the ankle, dummy, it's the
(06:09):
ankle other that I buy that, though, I think there's
more to it than just the ankle. An ankle injury
from twenty fourteen, and I think we'll get, as the
late great radio broadcaster Paul Harvey would say back in
his day, the rest of the story, we'll be dropping
in a nice Christmas surprise over the weekend. And the
ankle injury is the popular pick by popular people. I
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believe that was being floated by the agency representing Carlos Correa.
And at this point in the story, the puppet master
is Scott Boris. Guys the savant at this He's so
good and he's controlling the narrative. He's got all these
baseball writers in his back pocket. We've talked about this
in the past, but Boris has the most expensive seats
(06:54):
you can get. He lives in la in Orange County,
get the most expensive seats at Dodger games and Angel games.
And he goes down there before the game and there's
a parade of baseball scribes that going. It's like getting
a meeting with the president. You know, you get to
sit and you get to talk to him. You know, sit,
but you get to talk to him and he feeds
your notebook. And so Boris has all these guys in
(07:16):
his back pocket. And eventually the story will flip and
then the Giants will use some of their useful idiots
in the media, and so you'll get their side of
the story. And as always with these things, you've got
three sides. You've got the giant side, You've got the
agent representing the cheater, Carlos Corea side, and you've got
the truth, which is somewhere in the middle. But generally,
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when you agreed to a contract, like the way I
look at this for the giants, it's like buying a house.
You have the home inspection. If you've ever sold a
house or bought a house, you know there's this home inspection.
It's a checklist that they go over there. It's a
licensed home inspector, and you have to go over all
of the things in the house the condition for the sale.
(07:59):
You dig around find the home appraisal. Let's say you
find out the home is actually worth less than the
offering prize. Well, then you could say, well, wait a minute,
why would I pay this much to the home's not
worth that much? That possibly some severe mold throughout the
entire house, there's a pet kind of a pest infestation there,
(08:20):
there's vermin in the attic, the foundations got cracks, electrical problems,
any of those things. These things pop up all the time. Now,
people who are savvy would tell you that you would
be wise to walk away right, walk away from the home. Now,
Carlos Korea, it's fair to say that he did a
praise for less because the Mets contract is millions of
(08:43):
dollars less than the Giants were offering. He does have
a lot of mold. No one can disagree. From the
cheating a stros and there is an infestation of vermin
that continues because he's got that stank on him from
the cheating astros. And whether or not it's a chronic
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back issue or a barking ankle that has a foundational crack,
you get the point right. Either way, we believe in
the long run this is a good thing for the Giants. Now,
it is also fair to point out that in the
industrial complex of professional sports, we've been following this long
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enough to know that if you want the player, you
can find the quack doctor to pass the player on
the physical It's all a matter of semantics. So that
is absolutely legit, and I understand the argument against that,
but it's pretty simple here. The Giants got all flustered
because Aaron Judge rejected them they thought they had Aaron Judge,
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they made an irrational, short sighted move with his punk Korea,
and then commerheads prevailed until they got out him. And
I hate saying that as a Dodger backer, but I don't.
I don't want to praise the hated Higantes. But listen,
that's a that's a good job by them, cares a punk.
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Turn the page. You're better off without him. Now. Every
year there's another top notch free agent, two or three
every single year. So if you don't get the guy
this year, then wait a year or two and there'll
be other free agents and they'll be better than him,
and they won't have the cooties that Carlos Carey has.
All right, last word or so let's turn the page.
And I've been reading story after story. I've been getting
(10:33):
people sending me links to sports books. The New York Metropolitans,
I gonna win the World Series. They should just cancel
the twenty twenty three World Series. So let's ask the question.
Are the Mets garral Tate Garrod Tate to win the
World Series in twenty twenty three with Carlos Carey. Of course,
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it's a fool's errand we're not talking basketball. In the NBA,
if you have a loaded roster, statistically speaking, you are
all but guaranteed to make a deep playoff runt. As
we have learned over time, Baseball unfortunately does not work
that way. I wish it does. The Dodgers have seven
or eight World Series over the last fifteen years, but
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it doesn't quite work that way. It's fascinating how often
the sports fan falls for the hype. And I'd like
to think that if you listen to this show, you're
a little smarter than the other dumb dumbs. But it's
his fallacy in human nature. Like the Las Vegas Strip,
the mecca of gambling was built. They often talk about
its being built on slot machines because that's a sucker's play.
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But a lot of the bells and whistles that have
been added to those big monstrosities on the Vegas Strip,
the expensive buffets, the exotic furniture, the chandeliers, all that
those were paid for by sucker sports fans, betting chalk,
betting favorites. Listen, the Mets have a very good team.
If you look at your smartphone and you look at
(11:57):
a depth chart, you're like, oh, that's pretty good. And
who I think the Mets will win one hundred regular
season games? Yes, they should win north of one hundred.
Although the NL East is loaded, the Atlanta Braves are
not exactly chopped liver and the fighting fills added a
good player in Trey Turner, at least for the next
couple of years till he gets long in the tooth.
The problem is, and it's always is, the great quagmire
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when you talk about the loaded baseball team is the postseason.
And that's gonna be the same bugaboo for the Mets.
We've seen it time and again. We have seen it
time and again teams that dominate in the regular season
and then exit stage right in October. It's like driving
an obstacle course and you're dominating the obstacle course and
then the weather gets nasty, it turns into wintertime and
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you don't have snow tires or chains, and suddenly your
car is wobbling and you're not dominating the course anymore.
You're not prepared for the elements that snow, the slush,
the ice causing a slide all over the road and
playoff baseball. And I'm looking at that met rotation and
I'm looking at you, Max Scherzer, and I'm looking at
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you Verlander, the two headed fire breathing dragon for the
Mats and Suz is gonna be thirty nine by next October.
He has a playoff ra last seven playoff games of
over four almost four and a half. That also includes
he missed a key start for the Dodgers because he
had dead art all right, and you got you got
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Matt Max, who's who started twenty two postseason games with
his various teams, and his team has a losing record
four games under five hundred insuresers started a playoff game.
And then we look at Verlander, who will turn forty
in February, and he's got an ERA over four and
a half his last thirteen postseason starts for the cheating
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a Stros. And I've heard a lot of nonsense about
Carlos Karez, mister clutch, he's the greatest postseason player, blah blah,
blah blah blah. It's also bullcrap. Now, Karez had some
big hits in the playoffs, but they're all tarnish because
he's a cheater. And you don't know whether he can
do that without cheating. Now, maybe the metch are planning
on cheating, and that's great for them, and he'll play
very well because we know Correa when he cheats, is
a very good ballplayer. But Coorea also has had multiple
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playoff series where he's batted under two hundred in his
days with a cheating a holes. So the lesson is
bet all your money. The sports books will take your
money to take your by make a lot of money
off you dumb dumbs, and then some other middling team
will end up winning the world series. That's usually how
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hour coming from the wacky and crazy world of the NFL.
As the news does not stop. Our lead actually coming
from the Music City. There was no miracle in the
Music City. We have a changing of the guard in Nashville.
If you have not heard, perhaps not, the Tennessee Titans
(16:05):
currently leading their division. They would be a playoff team
should the season end. Right now, the Titans are expected
to be without their starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill this weekend
and for the remainder of the season because of snap
crackle pop the right ankle injury. He's gonna need surgery.
(16:27):
That's based on the scuttle butt around the NFL. So
Tannehill suffered the injury, he reinjured it on Sunday against
the Chargers. Khalil Mack the Mac attack landing on the
right foot of the Tennessee quarterback on that first offensive drive.
Tannehill came out of the game for a brief period
and he ended up going back in. He's out now
(16:48):
and the backup warming up now in the bullpen playing
long toss Malik Willis. So Malik Willis is expected to
start not only this weekend but the rest of the
year for the Texans. There's only three games to go.
Willis taking first team snaps on Tuesday and Wednesday. The
Titans also desperate to add another quarterback. They were dumpster
(17:12):
diving off other practice squads and they added Joshua Dobbs,
who's bounced around the NFL. So he's on the active
roster now in Tennessee. But let's discuss the question. Are
you gonna go thumbs up or thumbs down? Are the
Titans dude without Ryan Tanhill. So I am gonna go
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thumbs down on this one. I've got thumbs down. Greyhound,
pep Boys and Megalopolis and we will combine these things
together and we are gonna make some cowboy boots and
we'll go to the Grand Old Opry and we'll dance
at the Grand ol Opry. So number one, that's fair
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to say Tennessee has issues. We're not gonna sit here
behind these microphones and downplay this Things are not going
well for Mike Vrabel's team. That is an understatement. Now,
that said, though, a right Ryan Tannehill being out the
balance of the regular season will not, will not be
the reason that the Titans come apart at the seams.
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You know why, they've already come apart of the seams.
And Ryan Tannehill, if you look at this season and
you are objective, and the one place you come for
objectivity is Overnight Sports Radio, Ryan Tannehill was a Greyhound
bus writer. He was not driving the bus. The Titans
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bus round and round and round and round and rounding
and round and round and round. The Titans wheels on
the bus go. But it was not because of him.
You know that. I know that, and the Tennessee Titans
know that. Now. Normally either quarterback is the king, but
not in Nashville, not this year. Ryan Tannehill. His resume
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this season spotty, spotty, spotty, spotty, spotty, spotty, and the
Titans coming in now have lost four consecutive games at
this point. They lost to the Chargers last week, Jacksonville, Philadelphia,
and the Cincinnati Bengals, so they have gone an entire
month without winning a game and still find themselves in
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first place. Because of the division they're in, the NFC
South or the AFC South rather just just dreadful, absolutely
dreadful as a division. But to say that Tannehill his
absence is going to be the defining moment, I don't
buy that, because again, he's been irrelevant. Tennessee is a
passing offense, is back in the Bronze Age. They are
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ranked twenty nine in passing yards per game. Only Carolina
Atlanta and the Chicago Bears, who wear leather helmets, are
worse Tannehill thirteen touchdowns, six interceptions in twelve games. This
is not the guiding light, this is not the pace
car and now is another opportunity for the backup, the
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much ballyhood Malik Willis, who looked like he had never
held the football before in his life when he played
earlier this season. He was completely in over his head
drowning to get another opportunity, and he started two games
he's attempted this season. Malik will his thirty eight passes,
completing less than forty five percent of them, averaging less
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than five yards per attempt, and his passer rating is
below fifty. A good passer ratings above ninety really goods
above a hundred, he's below fifty in limited sample size. Nevertheless,
going from Ryan Tannehill, who's been a bumm, the guy's
a bumb to Malik Willis, that is a lateral move.
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Slight downgrade, but a lateral move. And Derrick Henry he
is the bell cow. And that's the fact that we
that's obvious, captain obvious. That's the way I'm now page two.
How do you evaluate overall the Tennessee squad, not just
the offense put overall. So Tannehill has been playing, or
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whether he's played or not, he's played hookie because he
hasn't made a lot of plays. But the bigger problem
in my minutes long investigation of the Tennessee Titans the secondary.
And I know this from handicapping the games on Benny
versus the Penny, which will drop on Friday again this
week and every week as we provide marginal handicapping on
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every NFL game. We've done pretty well this year, and
the defense for the Titans, the secondary has been the
pressure point. To the untrained eye, you'll say it was
not a problem overall. The Titans are twelfth in the
NFL in scoring defense for example. However, Over the last month,
they're twenty eight. They're allowing almost thirty points per game,
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but much of that is because of the fatal flaw
in the secondary. And I recommend calling pet Boys because
they need Manny, Moe and Jack in the secondary. They
would help the defense back to the Tennessee is at
the very bottom l sticko. They are the worst past
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defense in the NFL. They're thirty second out of thirty
two teams. Even the wretched Minnesota Vikings are ahead of
the Tennessee Titans. And that past defense cannot stop anything.
And the last month they've gotten even worse, if that's possible.
They played better teams Philadelphia and that the Bengals, but
also Jacksonville and the Chargers and allowing almost three hundred
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fifty passing yards per game. That is the crypte night,
the kryptonite for the Titans and the Jags. We'll see
them on Thursday night tonight, Jacksonville and the Jets. And
Jacksonville's got a golden opportunity. They'll probably have it up,
but they've got a great opportunity to sneak in the
back door and grab the division from right under the
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nose of the Tennessee Titans in the flame heads, they'll
be like, I don't know what happened. I don't I
don't get it. But four losses in role you got
the Texans, which you figure you'll win that game, but
who knows. The Texans have played more competitive football Alaska
weeks to the worst team in football Dallas, and then Jacksonville.
So if Jacksonville wins out, they will win the tiebreaker
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with Tennessee and they will win the division. So the
division is in control of Jacksonville, not Tennessee because of
this four game losing steak. All right, final point. So
let's take a couple steps back and look at the
big picture. What are the odds? What are the odds
that Ryan Tannehill returns to the Titans in twenty twenty three.
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So I'm gonna set the Mallards sportsbook odds on this
at plus nine fifty. Now that implies a less than
ten percent chance that we will see Ryan Tannehill take
another staff another snap in Nashville. Now I'm headed to
the megalopolis known as Splitsville, because that's where Ryan Tannehill
and the Titans are going. They're going to divorce Cord
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Tannehill was already unborrowed time. This was hey, prove you
still belong. This season, he's proven he doesn't belong. Abject failure.
We know in the postseason. This guy's an absolute dog.
In the postseason when the Titans have needed him to
step up and make a play, he's gone a wall.
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He's gone a wall. And now Tennessee's got an escape patge.
They gave him the four year extension years ago. The
Titans have an out after this season if they choose
to activate. I don't know why they wouldn't. They would
have to swallow a marginal salary cap hit eighteen million.
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But I'm a salary cap truther. That is manageable. He
just move some numbers around. You can make the arithmetic work.
It's small potatoes in the high stakes game of the NFL.
And even if Malik Willis is too raw, too rough
around the edges, unable to play and can't beat the
guy in twenty twenty three, then there's plenty of other options.
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You can go out and get a stopcap, whether it's
Jared Goff who's going to be let go likely by
the Lions, and be free to move around the NFL
or Jimmy Garoppolo from the forty nine ers. There are options,
There are examples of people out there you can get
for a year or two and plug them in, plug
and play and move on. And it's not Tannehill, anybody
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but Tannehill. So he got he out of there. He
will not play another game, Ryan Tannehill for the Tennessee Type.
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Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. How
about that? To the third degree? This is one big band.
Gets Grail the Coop Dowload. Speaking of Justin Fields, he
complains on Tuesday about the lack of calls that he
gets for late hits on him after he slides. He
said he plans to just get on the refs and
(26:50):
beg every time it happens, and hopefully he will start
getting those calls. Will his strategy work? No, Justin Fields,
you gotta understand that if you build it, the calls
will come. By begging and whining to the rafts, You're
just going to annoy them and it's going to delay
things even further. The NFL calls on the way the
calls work in the NFL, it's like a sliding skill.
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Do you play for a glamour team? Are you a
headline player? The NFL powerbrokers decide who gets special leeway
and Justin Fields is ascending, but he's not anywhere in
that rarefied air like Patrick Mahomes and players like that.
So you got to pay your dues and no ounce
of whining is going to get you there. The NFL
calls are not even. It's not a level playing field. Next,
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Reggie Bush sent a warning of sorts to the nc
double A and outgoing president Mark Emmett. He implied that
the ncable A paid eight million dollars to cover up
mistakes that they made in the USC investigation years ago, Ben,
do you think anything will come of this? No, it's
it's not zero, but it's like one percent chance. The
NCAA they're barely holding onto what little power they have.
(27:56):
And if Reggie Bush ever gets his highsman back, he'll
be really older day. So and Reggie Bush. The greatest
college player I ever saw was Reggie Bush. But he's
not He's not getting that trophy back. Next. Currently, the
Sunday night football game for Week seventeen, it's slated to
be Chargers versus Rams, but we know that'll probably be
flexed out. Normally, decision on what game will have been
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put there will have been made by now, but the
NFL is opted to delay that. Which matchup do you
think they'll go with? Ben? So it's not a good
card in Week seventeen, I would say, looking at the
card Vikings, Packers, Patriots, Dolphins, one of those two most
likely will be the game. But that's depending on what
happens this weekend, like if Miami loses, if New England loses,
that changes it obviously, But those are the two that
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stand out. Oh, there's a lot of lopsided matchups that week.
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s R to listen live. It's now time for time
for Ask be Twitter. Send us your questions on Twitter. Now,
all right, here we go, it's time to aff for
ask Ben your question and our answers to the rest
of the hour the coopo loop with the reading of
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the question. All right, ben, um, let me let me
see here. How are you laughing? What are you? I'm
just I'm stunned. Now, how how on time? You are? O'clock?
For the clock? Posibly? All about the clock time. We're
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gonna start off with a question. We're on time? What
are you talking about? No? No, I'm yeah. I wasn't
being started at once. Uh. This is a question for
everybody from late night drug tester. He wants to know
have any of you tried the meal kit deliveries service? Well?
I don't know what that is, so I guess well, no,
it's like any meal kit delivery service. Yes, oh yeah,
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I know you have, Eddie. We've had them for advertisers,
Eddie where you know you get the pre paid that
all the ingredients and you can either cook it or
I understand. Sorry, I have not. I have not done that.
I have relatives that that like it a lot might
actually won't wait a minute, I haven't done it. My
wife actually signed up for one of those for a
while for to take the work and uh, and she
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she liked it a lot. I was. I was like,
you know, I'm good, it's not I like to make
my own stuff and I'm not into but U but Eddie,
you should I say the name of it or no? Yeah?
That were they an advertiser? Yeah, well they well they
were of my podcast for a while. Oh not a
Fox book, right and they so they gave us so
you know, they gave it to us for free for
(30:49):
a little while, of course, you know, like the first
one is free and then, uh, we liked it so
much we've kept it this entire time. My wife and
I love it. Now do you do it for? What meal?
Do you use it for? Dinner? Yeah? Dinner, yes, yes?
And how many nights do you use? Three? Three nights
a week? Three nights a week? Is it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday?
It's when all right, it's cost effective for you, it's good. Yeah, yeah,
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and it's uh, you know, the portions are kind of smaller,
but you know it's it's good for you know that
kind of thing. Yeah, I got you, all right, Roberto,
You ever dabbled in that world? No? No, Roberto's like, now,
come on, man, I'm making my own Tamali's here. What's
come on, We're making Tamali's over here. What about you? Yes,
(31:34):
I have been a subscriber for like three years or so. Um,
I'm I mean, I don't think we have any sponsors
that do this. So I'm I, oh, we did we
did well? No, I mean like currently right, Yeah, yeah,
it's been a while. I mean I don't care. Uh,
coops a rebel. I'm I'm with home chef. Uh and
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I like Eddie. We do. We do three meals a
week and I like it a lot. Though I have
noticed recently, I don't know if this is like a
nationwide thing, but the quality of the ingredients is kind
of slipping. So I'm thinking of maybe yeah, yeah, I'm
thinking maybe going back and trying out Eddie's blue apron. Yes, Roberto,
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would you like to plug any home build every food
service while we're at no I'm good? Yeah, all right,
fair enough, And it's uh, what's the term for that?
When they shrink? Do they shrink the portion sizes where
they charge you the same and then they give you less?
Isn't that? Well? Yeah, the price has gone up for mine? Anyway?
All right, what is next year? It's asked Ben your questions?
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Our ANSWER's got time for one more and then we'll
have a long block of questions. All right, let's do
E wants to know if you're at an open bar,
what drink are you ordering? First? Yeah? So I'm pretty
basic with the open bar. I don't go too exotic
on that. I haven't been to an open bar. When
was the last time I was an open bar? I
don't even remember. But I pretty much drink what I
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usually would drink, which is just some kind of beer.
That's it. I'm boring. What about you, Eddie? Same? All right,
we're boring, Roberto. Yeah, give me beer, but after a while,
let's start going beer and to keep at the same time. Yeah,
I mean, if you want to stick it, if you
want to yep, yeah, you go you go whiskey, go
hard liquor, and you can really stick it to the
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person who's got the open bar. What about you, Coop?
Probably champagne? Oh really, I mean, if it's open bar,
it's probably some sort of like celebration, so's weddings, bar
mitzvah's birthday's funerals, you know, something like that. So yeah,
all right, we'll pause with the cause. Keep the questions
coming in hashtag ask Ben. Hashtag ask Ben your questions,
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our answers for the arrest of the hour. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Back over to
the Cooper Loop for the reading of the questions. We
do not want to get sidetracked. What do we have here? Kobaloo?
All right, I'm gonna read this question from Orange and
Blue Blood Brett, but I'm gonna change it just a
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little bit. You're altering the question. You're not supposed to
do that, bad job. But yeah, well see he's asking
if if when if we When we were kids, we
all believed in Santa Claus. But I feel like that's
the case for most kids. So I'm just gonna add
at what age did you stop believing? Oh? I guess
not for you know, Ben? You know, I don't know.
Do you guys have fight? I believed in Hanaka Harry?
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That is that? Is that a thing? I don't It
was on Saturday Night Live, Eddie? What about you? Eddie?
What do you? What do you think? Oh? Gosh, I
don't know. Maybe thirteen maybe something like that, twelve thirteen
maybe I don't know. He came an eight hole. Okay,
what about you, Rebert? I don't think I ever believe
in Santa Claus. Never, never listen. He was born with
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hair on his chest? Right, what are you talking about?
Come on? Please? What about you? Koo? I was twelve
when I think when I when I stopped believing? Was
it devastating? No? They tell me he still believed. Well,
this is the guy who asked the question on Twitter
said that his dad told him right away that there's
no Santa Claus because he didn't want anybody to get
credit from what he bought him. Oh Man, right, Well,
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Coop does believe in Santa but it's just a strain
of weed, that's all right. J D and Boston wants
to know, Uh do you prefer shopping in stores or online?
And if you do go to stores, do listeners or
fans recognize you? Guys? But we are big stars, as
you know. And but but no, I like going to
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the store. I like going to the brick and mortar store.
It's just because I like, I grew up with it.
I mean, it's like buying stuff Online's fine and all that,
and most things we end up buying online. But I
think there's something cool about it. But I know I'm old.
I'm a dinosaur, I guess because I like going to
the store and seeing that what I'm gonna get and
like picking out which one I want. And what about you, Eddie, Yeah,
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I definitely go to the store. Um, And I've never
been recognized at the store. I have been recognized at
various sporting events, which I guess makes sense, but no,
never anywhere else. No. I actually got recognized at the
Charger game the other night when they were playing. That
was a Dolphins A couple of games ago when I
was in Arizona, this guy randomly saw me at that.
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I was like, wow, Okay, it's always surprising when it happens,
but it was. It was cool and the guy works
at at Sofiet, He's one of the guys that works there,
and he was getting ready for work. He works at
UPS during the week, and he was like, yeah, yeah,
but he's a he was a fan of show and
he wanted to say hello, and it was really it
was cool. It was pretty neat. I was like that,
that's nice. But anyway, uh, Michael in Venice is the
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guys now. I was trying to remember Michael in Venice
at the guy's name, Roberto. You get recognized all the time, right,
yeah there with your Tamali's no never look. I like,
I like going to the store and buying stuff, but
the best deal is always online. I like buying a
lot of sports here and you always get a better
deals online. Well, you go to website that sells the
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stuff out of China, you can get dirty. What about you, Coop.
I definitely prefer shopping online because I'm lazy. But then
I'm so lazy that I wait too long and then
can no longer ordered online because it won't arrive fast enough,
so then I have to go to the store. Anyway,
I'll give you an example, right, So, my my bag,
(37:23):
my work bag, I take through the studio. I dropped
it in some vomit in the parking lot, and I
want to buy a new bag. I don't want to
use the bag anymore, but I don't want to buy
one online. I want I've been going to stores trying
to find the right bag, and I haven't been able
to find it. So I don't know what I'm gonna
do with you. I gotta find something quick though. Anyway,
what is next year? To ask? Ben? I will ask
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a question from Syria. Sean, by the way, for a dog,
I'm disappointing your questions this week? Oh, shots fired? Shots
fired across the bow? Sean wants to know do you
have any goals for the new year? Come on, you're
better than that, Sean. Come on, No, I don't make
New Year's resolutions. If I have a problem, if it's
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you know, April, I fix it. I don't wait until
January to fix it. I've never never been that guy
to make New Year's resolumes. It's a goal, Well is it? Goals?
Who resolutions? The same thing? It's semantics? What about you, Eddie? No, no,
all right, it's a terrible question. Roberto no oh for
three Coopa loop. Yes, I will answer your question, Sean,
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I haven't gone to the gym since I went on
that crazy twice until keep going. You'll be sure to
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
(38:53):
and the iHeartRadio app. And now to enlighten us on
all things Paul duel with Eddie Darcy. All right, Ben,
let's start off talking about the top team in the NHL.
The Boston Bruins extend their season opening home ice point
streaked to nineteen games in a row with a seven
three win over the Florida Panthers. It's the longest point
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streak to start a season in the NHL for a
few years. Last team to do it the twenty thirteen
Chicago Black Arks. They had twenty four games in a
row with a point to start the season. So the
Bruins are five away from the NHL record. Boston twenty
five four and two overall, seventeen zero and two at
home for the first team the NHL this season at
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the fifty point mark, and they already set an NHL
record for most home victories to start a season with
twelve in a row. Earlier this year, Mitch Martner's twenty
three game point streak ended with a three one loss
to the Rangers. Marner streak was the longest in Toronto
Maples history, but still not even halfway to the NHL
record fifty one by Wayne Gretzky Back in the day.
Ben your Boy, John Tortorella, battling with the media in Philadelphia,
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the first year head coach made a controversial decision to
bench the team's leading scorer, Kevin Hayes because he felt
that Hayes had a bad game. Former flyer Keith Yandel,
who's now working in the media, called Towards out on
the decision. Hayes said he was not happy with being benched,
of course he wouldn't be, but Tortorella then reinserted Hayes
into the lineup the next game, and when he was
asked how Hayes played after the game, Towards said that
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he wasn't going to talk about it, and he said
the media is trying to pit the player against the
coach and the coach against the player. The avalancher taken
on the Islanders recently, and New York's Matthew Barzol was
called were tripping penalty on Carlordo's Kale mccar. Mccarr motioned
to the referee waving his hands no, indicating that he
actually wasn't fouled. The ref then got on the mic
and said no penalty on the play. The replay showed
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that Barzel did not trip mccar and mccar just fell
over on his own color d up winning the game
one nothing going to shoot out now. Some were praising
mccarr's sportsmanship, while mccar said afterwards that he apologized to
his teammates for costing them a power play and said
he would not do it again. Journeyman, and again the
refs are in company. They want to make a bad call,
and you know North in your favor, go ahead and
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let him a journeyman. Andrew Hammond announce his retirement from
the NHL after playing parts of seven seasons and thirty
four year old goalie captured the attention of fans and
media for two things. First, in the twenty fourteen fifteen season,
he was called up the Miners due to injury. He
went twenty one and two for the one point seven
nine goals against Hambards and a nine forty one percentage,
played out of his mind in twenty four games and
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help the Senators make the Stanley Cup playoffs. And second,
his nickname was the Hamburglar, and after he was going
on this magical run, fans would throw hamburgers on the
ice to salute him. To waste of food. People are
starving Eddie in Africa. I'm sure somebody wrote that story.
I was a kid. So McDonald's wanted to jump in
on the publicity and they apparently the story was they
offered him food for life. So after he announced his retirement,
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he was doing some interviews talking about his career and
he was asked, does did he in fact get food
for life from McDonald Yes, that's why he was. He
confirmed he did get a gold card from McDonald He
reportedly can use it as many times as he want
for as much food as he wants, but he says
he's never actually used it and he doesn't plan to.
He says it's currently framed in his house. Is it's
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more of a memento of the lame. I should get
one of those, like raising games or something like they
go out of business. Come on, man, I've been there
every day lunch and dinner. Oh my god, what's wrong
with you? And that's your puck, The World Report
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