September 4, 2023 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the highlights and headlines coming out of college football week 1, Coach Prime and Boulder upset TCU, LSUs loss to Florida State, MLB Pick ‘Em, and much more!
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Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Maler Show podcast.
It's me Ben. Be sure to catch us live every
weeknight from two to six Eastern eleven pm. Hello and welcome.
It's a brand spanking new week of the Ben Mahler
Show on Labor Day. We're laboring on Labor Day and
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a lot of college football to begin the new week.
What did you take away from Dion Sanders' debut as
Colorado coach? Also, how did you grade Dion sanders lecture
to a sports reporter over doubting the Buffaloes. You've got
UCLA's Chip Kelly ripping the changes to the NCAA rule
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book in terms of timing and when to stop the clock.
Are the new clock rules working to shorten college football games? Also,
we react to Brian Kelly and LSU as they go
down a terrible second half for LSU is Florida State
gets the big win. That and much more Right now here,
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The NFL is going to commundeer these airwaves starting on
Thursday night when Kansas City puts the curtain up on
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the twenty twenty three NFL regular season against the Detroit Lions.
So from that point forward it's pretty much all NFL,
all the time. But this being Labor Day weekend, the
NFL on hiatus and it's all about the semi professional
football league, and so we're gonna hold off. I could
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have began with a rail about the LSU getting absolutely
smothered by the seminoles of Florida State, and that would
have been good, compelling talk radio. But don't bury the lead,
my man. The biggest story by far was not LSU
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getting throttled by Florida State. No, no, no, no. It
was in Fort Worth, Texas over the weekend. If you
didn't watch it because you're out doing stuff, you might
have missed it. But that was the location of Dion
Sanders much anticipated debut as coach of the Buffaloes, a
road game against a team that was in the National
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Championship Game a year ago. And it was the coach's kid,
Sredur Sanders, Dion's Sun, who threw for a Colorado record.
He won over five hundred yards and four touchdowns, and
he had the game winner with a little less than
five minutes to go in the game, a forty six
yard catch and run by someone named Dylan Edwards. We
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don't know who that is. He's apparently a true freshman
in Colorado, stunning the pig skin establishment with a three
point win as twenty one point underdogs over the seventeenth
ranked Horned Frogs of TCU, who were again the runner
up in college football a year ago. So let us
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discuss the question what did you take away from Dion
Sanders Baffo Saco debut as the Colorado coach. So I've
got goodyear, blimp, the pineapple, upside down cake and camouflaged
and we will tie all of these things together and
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we are going to make a sore, a big old
partay is what we're gonna make. So a let's start
with this coach prime who apparently knows a thing or
two about coaching. Now, we were already the believers, if
you will. We were drinking the Dion Delight, the kool aid.
There haters like Eddie Garcia and other media pugnans who
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took shots at Deon Sanders did not buy the hype,
but we were on board. We bet the over on
Colorado's win total this year. Looking pretty good. Right now,
it's only one game, but Dion at this point can
do a pierauet and you never get that second chance
to make a first impression. The whole college football world
was watching as Colorado took the field. There it was
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on fox and Dion Sanders took full advantage of the moment,
and his players took full advantage of the moment, setting
the tone for what is to come here and coach Prime.
It's like he rented out the Goodyear blimp there and
advertised to the heavens, the Buffaloes have arrived. The stampede
has begun. And that was an atomic elbow to the
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orthodoxy of college football, the establishment, because the consensus was
that Deon Sanders was setting up for a absolute disaster.
He did things that you're not supposed to do at
the time you're not supposed to do him. For example,
he fired just about everyone who had anything to do
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with Colorado football, either fired them or encouraged them to leave.
We had a mass exodus Colorado, bringing in eighty seven
new players, all shapes and sizes, coming into that football program,
turning the Colorado Buffaloes into it essentially an expansion franchise
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of college football. After the one win season a year ago, now,
following up on that page two here with the upset win, now,
I would like to criticize Deon Sanders, even though I
am on the Dion Sanders hype train. Dion attempted to
immediately settle some scores with those in the media that
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did not buy into his ability. In a press conference
exchange with a random reporter, Rams sure the name of
this reporter, but whoever the reporter was did not have
flattering things to say about Dion Sanders, and so Sanders
got into it a back and forth, a tit for
tat situation here as he confronted the reporter, do you
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believe now we actually have the audio? Take a listen,
Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Balls you believe now?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Hold on, hold on? Oh no, do you believe in that? Huh?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Oh no, no no, I read through that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Bull junkie wrote that. I read through that. I sipped
it through all that. Oh no, come on, do you believe?
You don't believe? You just answered it? You don't believe?
Takes question?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So Dion falling into the preacher there giving a sermon,
and he wanted the in the tabernacle to give him
the amen, and he did not get the amen. And
also when he was exiting that news conference, he said
he would keep receipts and he mentioned that at least
a couple other times during postgame interviews. So how do
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you grade Dion Sanders. You heard the rant, most of
it to a random sports ride over doubting Colorado football.
So this was the word I use is clumsy. This
was clumsy, and Dion should know better. There's no reason
to be upset. It's not last I checked the reporter's
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job to be a cheerleader for Colorado football. Dan I
should know this. He's of an older generation. He's not
from the modern generation where teams have reporters who are
on the payroll for their websites. The flunkies that fall around,
follow around the teams and give manny and petty reports
on what's going on. Dion is from an era where
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this is how it was done. That you were, people
were critical, and that's how it was supposed to be.
But you don't have to have buddies who are the
media people. And Deon Sanders what he ought to do
is give that writer and all the other people that
were critical the Pineapple upside down kick as a gift.
Why because the critic is the inspiration. Like I'm on
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the Deon Sanders hype trin I'm not the person Deon
Sanders wants you should want the so called in air
quotes haters. Those are the people should want that you
listen to the haters. It's always been the way, it's
my entire life. At some point I had an epiphany
and I realized all of sports is teams winning and
saying nobody believed in us. We overcame the odds, all
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of that right, and so here Colorado is with Dion Sanders,
one of the most famous people to play the game
of football in the last couple of generations, head coach.
Now the main oozes confidence and he's got people out
there that do not believe he can get it done.
And the establishment of college football. We talked about that
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a lot over the last couple of weeks and months,
that they are cheering against the unseen. But Dean, I
will embrace all of that because it's jet fuel in
terms of motivation, that manufactured outrage, that you are determined
to prove the doubters wrong and you're gonna do it
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all right, last word here, So let's move over to
the Chipster former Philadelphia Eagles coach, former forty nine Ers coach.
Guy's a vagabond coach, he's at UCLA. Now, the UCLA
Bruins playing you talk about a tough schedule. Coastal Carolina.
Holy crap, what a great opponent. Now, I'm not going
to talk about the game itself, but something chip Kelly
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said the UCLA Bruins said coach caught my attention. He
was very unhappy with the NCAA's adjustment to the clock
and in Division one and other divisions. But we only
care about Division one because that's all we care about.
But the clock no longer stops when teams get first downs,
unless it's last two minutes of the half. The clock
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just keeps running and running. What does that remind you of? Oh,
the NFL. Now, the NCAA says that they're doing this
in an effort to shorten games. Chip Kelly spoke out
against this. He said, the new rule, it's crazy. He
said he did this at halftime of UCLA's game over
the weekend against Coastal Carolina. Said, we had four drives
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in the first half. This game goes fast, and then
sarcastically the rotun chip Kelly said, I hope you guys
are selling a lot of commercials close quote, so are
the new clock rules working to shorten college football games.
So I am shaking my head. No, if that was
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the state goal, the answer is no, that is a
saw wing, a saw wing and a miss. Chip Kelly
and the other coaches who have ranted. Chip's not alone,
but he was the most voisterous of the bunch. They're
spot on, and I'm not buying what the NCAA is
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selling the theory that college football big time college football.
The reason that they're doing this is out of an
abundance of caution to shorten games, to protect the players.
There's too many players in college football. No, I go
by the theory that the NCAA is doing this because
they know that they're going to fill the gaps with
extra commercials during college football games. And even though they
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like to pretend they're all about the student athlete and
all that, this is really just a chance to get
more commercials on a broadcast. Nobody questions things. If you
say they're done for players safety out of an abundance
of caution, you can do whatever you want. We learned
that during COVID a couple of years ago. You ship
shut the country down. You can do all kinds of
crap if you say it's out of an abundance of caution.
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This in this particular incident, a rule change. Rather in
college football, it is camouflaged advertising, is what it is.
By the NCI. We're going to shorten the game, but
we're just gonna put more commercials in there. Now, what
is my evidence? The data? The data. Now, last year,
the average time of game was three hours and twenty
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seven minutes for a collegiate football game, big time college football.
To start this year, now, it's only been a few
games that don't have a full sample size of all
season and all that, but the early results are tracking
at an average game time of three hours and twenty
nine minutes. My computer like brain tells me that's two
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minutes longer. So if your effort is to quicken up
the game, get the games over with, and then the
games are actually going a little longer than they did
a year ago in the early going. What is going
on here? What's making up the difference? Well, I think
we know what's making up the difference. And so they've
replaced the plays the action a few more plays with
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car commercials or commercials for some kind of medical product
or you name it. And they've knocked themselves out with
that is what they've done. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
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And we began talking some college football. Colorado big win
over the weekend game was on Fox on Saturday, the
Buffaloes beating t CU, and then Deon Sanders going on
a rant, did not name Eddie Garcia, though could have
easily named Eddie Garcia as the as a hater, did
not name Eddie Chip and the cues rights and says
a plus on the Maland monologue. When you mentioned the chipster,
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I thought for a split second that I'd finally made
it as a subject of a Mallard monologue. Why I
ever would be so for anything, except maybe by dropping dead?
I don't know. Chip. Well, don't worry, Ship, Everything's okay,
Becky says, Dion was calling out ed Warder of ESPN
was upset with Edwards. JC right since says the Colorado
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TCU game can be describing two words horrible defense. Well,
that is true, horrible defense. But it's kind of like
playing on the easiest mode possible on a video game
and just scoring at will, back and forth, up and down.
And then jac says the bust will find out next
week against Nebraska the things are not always so easy. Yeah,
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hold your horses there, JC, I'll hold your horses on that.
If you look at the Colorado schedule and I see
Colorad's gonna lose a bunch of games. I'm not here
to say they're not. But if you look at the
Colorado football schedule and you to say, where is this
thing going?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
This is a tough week for Colorado because are gonna
have their ass kissed all week and beating TCU putting
up forty five points the offense, the passing offense was
insane to the membrane. So the Nebraska games, it's gonna
be a letdown game for Colorado against Nebraska. That's a
home game in Boulder and a very hot ticket. I
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think the cheapest ticket you can get for that game
is almost four hundred dollars for a Colorado Nebraska game.
That seems a little outrageous to me, but what do
I know. Then you got the in state rivalry game
with Colorado the real point of demarcation for Dion Sanders.
They should beat Nebraska in Colorado state, get off to
a three to zero start. But then you have Oregon
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in Eugene and sc that game in Boulder. So those
are the two games your circle and say, okay, that's
the case, and the way Colorado played, you'd be like, Okay, Colorado,
They're not gonna play smash mouth football. They're just going
to try to outscore people, which is kind of like
what sc plays and in many respects what Oregon does.
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That's just like the way of the Pac twelve, although
the Pac twelve is going the way of the Dinosaur.
Jason writes in in Kansas City, he says, ten out
of ten on the Mallard monologue band I had to
write because the Buffaloes are my team, and I feel
I have gone through the wilderness of disappointment with him
for two decades. Yes, Coach Prime is brash and confident,
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but so far he has backed up his swagger some
Jason in Casey Stevie Meatballs writes, since says, I highly
respect the entertainment you provide us in the Mallard militia
on a holiday when most radio blowhards are not there
because they clearly hate their jobs. You clearly love yours,
and I don't doubt that you love us. There you
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go and the phony douche of Baba Ganoosh. Thank you
for your kindness, Stevie Meatball's Fercat writes, and he says,
speaking of Chip Kelly and you see La you. He says,
you're not the only one with a news show, Ben,
and then he names somebody else here. Well, ferg Cat,
I don't know who that person is. That person I've
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never heard of that person before, so I can't give
them promotion. But I do like the fact that Ferg
Cat and a blatant attempt to promote my fledgling new
TV show, which starts this week. Ferg Cat did claim
to be a native of Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago, that
he sent messages on social media to say that he
was a native of all of those places, and Inka
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Terra called him out. Inca Terror called him out. Speaking
of Inka Terror, he says, Bennie, you are a man
of the people, A plus, and the mall monologue of
I can't have Baba gans Pineapple upside down cake is
a worthy replacement. It's my first year to know college football.
Since I don't know how many bills, how my bills
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will do? Rather, he says, I will follow the buffaloes.
It's from Kotarr, who's in New York, upstate New Let's go.
We'll go to the phones. Why don't we say hello
to Dominican Mike, who it says here is cashing a
golden ticket. Hello, Dominican Mike.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay, Demavennie, what's up?
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I gotta I got somebody talks to you right here?
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Hel Hi? Hello? Hello? What's your name?
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William B?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
William V. How about that? Look at you and you're
hanging out with the legendary Dominican Mike. It's it's an
honor to speak to you, William.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, Oh is that right there?
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You go?
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Look at you, Dominican Mike. How about it's a family
affair here. Now you in Florida? Are you? Are you
in Arizona or Florida? Because you do go back and forth.
I'm actually I'm actually there in Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm
actually in Florida right now. Okay, we haven't a late
night family party. Yeah, that is a late night My goodness, man.
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This is well you don't have to go down early
for school or work or anything like that, so who
cares stay up?
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Oh exactly, it's a holiday.
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Yeah all right, well man, Dominican Mike, I'm honored that
you brought the whole family. This is like old school radio.
Everyone rallies around the radio kind of sits around there.
This is the way it should be Dominican Mike.
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Absolutely. But you know I'm a big I'm a big
radio during like you.
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Were of course too, you know.
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So yeah yeah, So come on, William and say something
so over here I.
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Think is going to bring it in you do, okay,
oh boy? Bringing it up? All right, all right, all
I enjoyed the night. There you go the minute. That's see.
They just check you in to let us know they're
listening there. So so do we get credit for all
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of them? The ratings are going to skyrocket here. It's
a holiday, Labor Day. Who's who's hanging out with us? Now?
I know in the passive way, we've had certain holidays
which require massive amounts of consumption of certain beverages or
certain foods and whatnot. Labor Day. Not sure if that
qualifies on the list. We've done very well over the
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years when there's like a big storm, which is not
like a planned holiday, but people bunker down and enjoy
certain drinks and beverages because there is a blizzard coming
through town here and they have to entertain themselves one
way or another. Straight ahead, we'll take some more of
these calls because why not. That was a great start
to making Mike and family. You can join us here
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at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox gas Lighting
in the Bayou. We will get to that, but right now,
let's get you caught up on everything going on in
me overnight. And here he is, the Dion Sanders hater
of them all, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
All right, thank you, Ben. Let's start with some college
football where we had the only battle of ranked teams
in Week one coming up on Sunday night, and that
was eighth ranked Florida State with a forty five twenty
four win over number five LSU. The Tigers were up
three and a half then outscored by the Seminoles thirty
two to seven in the second half. FSU quarterback at
Jordan Travis three hundred and forty two yards passing. He
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had five touchdowns, four through the air and one on
the ground. Eighteenth Oregon State wins at San Jose State
forty two to seventeen. Beavers quarterback DJ leungele l five touchdowns,
three passing and two rushing. He was, of course, the
transfer from Clemson. It was his first game with Oregon State.
Rutgers the winner over Northwestern twenty four to seven baseball games.
Of note, we had the Giants being blanked by the
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Padres four to nothing. The Orioles knockoff the Diamondbacks eight
to five. Baltimore still leads the AL East by two
and a half games on Tampa Bay as the Rays
beat the Guardians six to two. You had the Reds
getting clabbered by the Cubs fifteen to seven, Chicago scoring
seven runs in the eighth inning e and a half,
three hits, four RBI. Chicago now three and a half
back in Milwaukee and the NL Central as the Brewers
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lost to the Phillies four to two. Marlins beat the
National six to fourth, so Miami's moved into a four
way tie with San Francisco, Arizona, and Cincinnati for the
last wild guard spot in the National League. Mariners lose
to the Mets six three. Astros followed the Yankee six
to one, while the Rangers top the Twins six to five.
Texas moves into a tie with Houston. They're both one
game back of Seattle in that AL West race. He
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had the Blue Jays beat the Rockies seven to five.
Toronto came in at back of both Houston and Texas
for the last wildcard spot in the AL and the
Dodgers avoid being swept in the four game series at
home against Atlanta with a three to one win over
the Braves. And if it's at the standings, shocking news,
the Oakland A's are not the worst team in Major
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League Baseball. Congratulations to your Kansas City Royals, who are
now forty two and ninety six. That is one more
loss than the Oakland A's, who we thought would for
sure be the worst team in baseball, but no Kansas
City at the moment has topped them. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
But perception is reality, and the perception is the A's
are the worst team. So for they're both off. They
both got off, but the Royals don't get the publicity
for being got awful. So the public perception, if you
ask the casual fan, it doesn't pay attention, doesn't look
at the standings, which is most people that you say
who's the worst team in baseball twenty twenty three, they
are going to say it is the Oakland Athletics. They're
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the worst team in baseball. So the Royals, while technically
worse than the Athletics, in the court of public opinion,
it is in favor of the Oakland Athletics, who are
the Royals or Vegas Athletics.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Are quietly horrible, while the A's are i guess more
loud horrible just because of all the news surrounding them
in their move and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So we have a case of gas lighting.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
We're go.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
We call this gas lighting in the Bay. You a
game I could have easily started the show with. I
could have done a good ten minutes on LSU going
down in flames against Florida State. Could have easily done that.
I chose not to. I thought that Deon Sanders story
was the biggest story from college football. But on Sunday,
LSU played Florida State and a game of much importance
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of you buy into the preseason rankings, the final and
a made for TV contest in orl The Seminoles get
a win. It was a close game for a half
and then in the second half Florida State went to
They went next level forty five to twenty four as
the Seminoles get the win. But the story here is
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Brian Kelly, the man that gave us that great fake
Hajun accent when he was hired from Notre Dame to
go down to Baton Rouge. So the LSU coach is
being called out. He's being called out for some comments
he made prior to the game and then comments he
made after the game. So let me set this up now.
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Speaking after the LSU club got smoked by Florida State,
Chip Kelly took shots at the attitude of the Bengal
Tigers there. He took some shots at him. He ripped
the team their attitude going into the game. The money
quote here he said, for some reason, we meaning LSU,
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thought we were something else. We thought we were the
two time defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs. We were mistaken.
So Brian Kelly talking about what happened in the second half, Well,
the problem with that is Brian Kelly what he said
prior to the game. This is where the gas lighting
comes in. Here's the quote that Brian Kelly said prior
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to LSU playing Florida State. He said, there are still
areas that are going to need to be improved. We're
going to take fifteen freshmen on this trip and fourteen transfers,
so nearly forty percent of this travel roster are going
to go overnight for the first time with LSU Chip
Kelly or Chip Kelly. Brian Kelly stated, got my Kelly's
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mixed up? All those Kelly's are the same anyway. Brian
Kelly went on to say, and that's not a disclaimer
of any kind. We're going to beat the heck out
of Florida State. Close quote. So that last part there
from Brian Kelly going to beat the heck out of
Florida State was the money quote. And then after the
game he's like, we're going around like we're the two
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time defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs. We were mistaken. So
that is what's known as guest It's like he's pretending
he didn't say what he had said prior to the game.
And this is another example of someone in a position
of power in sport who is lacking Accountability is the
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word of the day. Countability. What a fun magical word
that is. Yes, well, there you go, so Brian Kelly,
the LSU coach, and things come at you fast there
in baton rouge. If you do not succeed, and you
look at some of the numbers here and there are
people who are like, wait a minute, is Brian Kelly
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going to survive. It's only one game, everything will be fine.
But LSU allowing forty five points against the Seminoles, that
is tied for the most allowed in a season opener
by a team perceived to be a top five team,
at least in the eyes of the Associated Press since
nineteen thirty six. That is tied for the most. You
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gotta go all the way back in the hot tub
time machine to the year nineteen sixty eight when then
number five Oklahoma Boomers sooner allowed that many points. So
a historical level of suckage in this particular performance by LSU.
But wait, there's more. Our friend Tim mcdalby points out.
(30:39):
He passes this note on that if you look at
the LSU football program the last ten games, Brian Kelly
had some big moments early on in Baton Rouge, But
the last ten games here the LSU squad has lost
three times by at least twenty points, and they also
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lost a fourth time to A and M by fifteen.
So what do I know about college football? But where
I come from, that's not good. I mean, maybe it
is good, but does not appear the numbers are all
that great. In fact, crappy would be the way we
(31:21):
could describe that now. Brian Kelly, also, in addition to
the quote we gave you about LSU's performance, he also
said the loss to Florida State was a quote total failure,
a total failure for LSU, which would be about accurate
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and much like we talked last last segment about Deon
Sanders in the Colorado schedule, in the next couple of games,
assuming they don't have a letdown, they should be all right.
But LSU the perfect tonic for the LSU Bengal Tigers.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
There.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Their next game is against Grambling State, so that is
a show up and collect a win game for LSU.
Just make sure you roll the football out there, make
sure all the players show up on time, and you
will end up getting a victory. And then after that
you play a pretty mediocre, bad Mississippi State team. So
things will be looking up here the next couple of
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weeks or Brian Kelly, Oh, that game is on the
road if it matters that much for LSU. And of
course here's the other problem. You start losing a bunch
of games here down the line. Yeah, you set yourself
up by losing the Florida state, and it becomes a
self fulfilling prophecy. Not a good situation at all. Eight
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He's only done the show one other time. Shay is
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to be part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
A number eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
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sixty nine. Time now for the who am I Game?
A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer with us, we call it the who MI game?
And here it is. I hold the Major League Baseball
record for the most consecutive games with a leadoff home run.
Again playing the who am I Game? This is where
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I pretend to be somebody else. They've been playing baseball
since the late eighteen hundreds. They've been keeping track of
the statistics in baseball for almost as long as the
stats before, like nineteen ten, aren't particularly great, but you
get the points. So again, I hold the Major League
Baseball record for the most consecutive games without a leadoff
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home run. Who am I? The answer? We'll get to
that and we'll have the MLB pick them. We'll do
it all, and we will do it next.
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And time now for the who am I?
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Game?
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A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer and heres today's who Ami game? On this
Labor Day, I hold the MLB record for the most
consecutive games with a leadoff home run? Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer. Let's see
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does anyone know? We will have time to take a
call or two before we get to the MLB pick them,
But let's see does anyone know the answer. Mister nice
Guy's going with Reggie Smith, Red Sox legend Reggie Smith,
Kermit d Frog from alf the Alien Opiner in Springfield, Massachusetts,
home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, where Muffett
McGraw is enshrined. Huff Duffy from Robbie the Mariner fan
(35:14):
the penny guessed by ferg Caty. That's not the penny
for cat you. You might have to go back to
your to your eye doctor when the eye doctor opens up.
Who else do we have? Page down? A page down
Mickey Hatcher guess by the Fendly fanatic Burner account. Lou
Brock from Obscene Dean Floyd Banister tossed out by Rob
(35:38):
in Minnesota, Stevie Meatballs in the Sunshine State going with
Robert Kraft Supermarket. Steve says he completely forgot the Chip
Kelly coach the forty nine ers is a non sequitor.
Poly d is going with Ronald Acuna Junior. It's his answer.
Malo prop Guy says Benny the Bopper. Yeah, well, thank
(35:59):
you malaprop guy, and I hope you were there for
my bobblehead night. It was quite the night. Mayor Parker
the snow Dog, the unofficial official mascot of the Denver Broncos.
I can't wait to watch the Bronco Raider game and
see the b roll of Parker the snow Dog there
in front of the Rocky Free time every CBS always
(36:23):
shows Mayor Parker the snow Dog. He's going with Mickey
Morandini as his answer. Calbasa Daniels from Sean in the
Valley of the Sun the Jordi account got it right.
Bad job by him, the herbinator from hl alex Verdugo,
guess by the herbinator craig Elo from Big Lou in
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the lb C. Jonathan and Delaware got it right, so
did the legend. Bad job by them, obviously cheating Eddie.
Do you have an answer, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Oh, I mean it seems like the obvious answer would
be Ricky Henderson, so I'll go with.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
That, okay. And how often do I go with the
obvious answer, Eddie? Very often, very rarely do I go
with the obvious answer that is incorrect, Eddie. The correct
answer a man who only hit fifty home runs one time.
I think the next closest he got the fifty home
runs was like in the mid twenties, Brady Anderson of
the old the Baltimore Orioles of the mid nineties, Brady
(37:23):
Anderson who went to UC Irvine. He was an anteater
and hit fifty home runs one year. I don't know
if he did any funny stuff, but he had had
the rest of his career he never hit that many
home runs, So you can figure that out. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to Rock and
Rob who's in Louisiana. Hello, Rock and Rob. Hello Rob,
(37:46):
you're on the air now, Rob? Hello?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Okay, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
If I was any better, Rob, I would be a Kelly,
but not Brian Kelly, because man, what's up with that?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
We don't even know what coach it is? I mean,
you know, it's kind of wild. Are they ever gonna
make it? I think they'll be ranked twenty fifth in
the nation in three weeks.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
They got to bring back the Cajun Fred flintstones that
they got to bring back at Eddie.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Oh coach, Yeah, they got to bring something back.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Yeah, what are you up to here? Celebrating Labor Day?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Here?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
If I feel like you called up but you don't
have much to say, Rock and Rob? Is that accurate.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
No, it's not accurate. I just think that LSU is
gonna be in the next three weeks. Now, I'm gonna
ask you this, who would you think that would be.
I don't know. It's Florida State gonna make it up there.
They're gonna be better.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
It's hard to tell. We have to figure out whether
LSU sucks or if LAS used good and Florida Stitch
is just better. You don't know that because they haven't.
They only played one game. It's a small sample size.
But the way Florida State played in the second half,
you'd say they're gonna be right back in the top
of college football. They were great.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
The reason the reason why I call you because I
didn't see I didn't see the game. I didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
You see what were you doing?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Well, all of them? The truck I was traveling on
and I couldn't see it.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
But were you working? Were you out there working? Yes, yes,
you're laboring, that's what you see. Your your honoring Labor Day.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
By labor Labor Day.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, labor on Labor Day. But I wanted to get
your ideal on that because I'm sure you saw it.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I did. I had it on I mean, I wasn't
it was the second half was. The first half was
not thrilling in the second half was a lopsided games.
It wasn't the most entertaining game. I had no skin
in the game, Rock and Rob. You know what I'm saying,
I'm not a fan.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Or if I got Dion Sanders, which I love, I love.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That listen because I have a bet with Eddie Garcia
and he's gonna have to pay up here. And this
is a game that everyone had had Colorado losing and
they won their first first game and all that. But
it is only one win. But it's still in a
nice building block the Buffaloes. All right, I got I'll
leave it that rocking Rock, thank you. Well, he's working man,
the guy was. He was doing this thing. They didn't
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have time to partake in watching the game, but he
heard on the radios. So there you go. We're gonna
have the MLB pickhim. In fact, why don't we do
that right now? Here? We go it's MLB pick them.
At some point we're gonna shift because, believe it or not,
basketball and hockey you'll be starting before you know. We're
already into September now. But we got to finish out
(40:28):
the baseball season, got a month to go, and then
we'll have the playoff. Pick him. He's always a fan favorite.
Now when Coop is away, I can go first because
we go by order of longevity on the show, and
so I will go first, followed by Eddie, followed by
Mark and then Shay. So Mark actually goes third for
(40:50):
the first time in terms of longevity. But I'm gonna
go first. And with the first selection, team Malor picks
Justin Steele of the Chicago c Eddie, let's go with Aaron.
You don't even know who that is, Eddie, Mark, go ahead, Mark, please,
Cook Palell good pick old school Shay back to.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Back, Masahiro tanaaka.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Are you trying to win? And one more please?
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Oh we're losing Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Okay, that's a good take. B It's a little pick,
but it's a good pick. And Mark Andre Dawson, Oh
the Hawk, MVP. Eddie.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
I'll take my cousin Odalas Garcia.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
He's in a big contract. Push. Give me Cody Bellinger
and I'll take Trey Turner, a couple ex Dodgers. My
pick's Eddie O tany the better Mark, Why not the pick?
All right?
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Shay bill Leroy from The Savannah Bananas.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Bill le Okay, good picks for Coop. There you go.
Coop's gonna win. I'll be very happy with those picks.
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a lot of college football to begin the new week.
What did you take away from Dion Sanders' debut as
Colorado coach? Also, how did you grade Dion sanders lecture
to a sports reporter over doubting the Buffaloes. You've got
UCLA's Chip Kelly ripping the changes to the NCAA rule
(00:41):
book in terms of timing and when to stop the clock.
Are the new clock rules working to shorten college football games? Also,
we react to Brian Kelly and LSU as they go
down a terrible second half for LSU is Florida State
gets the big win. That and much more Right now here,
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the twenty twenty three NFL regular season against the Detroit Lions.
So from that point forward it's pretty much all NFL,
all the time. But this being Labor Day weekend, the
NFL on hiatus and it's all about the semi professional
football league, and so we're gonna hold off. I could
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have began with a rail about the LSU getting absolutely
smothered by the seminoles of Florida State, and that would
have been good, compelling talk radio. But don't bury the lead,
my man. The biggest story by far was not LSU
(03:18):
getting throttled by Florida State. No, no, no, no. It
was in Fort Worth, Texas over the weekend. If you
didn't watch it because you're out doing stuff, you might
have missed it. But that was the location of Dion
Sanders much anticipated debut as coach of the Buffaloes, a
road game against a team that was in the National
(03:40):
Championship Game a year ago. And it was the coach's kid,
Sredur Sanders, Dion's Sun, who threw for a Colorado record.
He won over five hundred yards and four touchdowns, and
he had the game winner with a little less than
five minutes to go in the game, a forty six
yard catch and run by someone named Dylan Edwards. We
(04:01):
don't know who that is. He's apparently a true freshman
in Colorado, stunning the pig skin establishment with a three
point win as twenty one point underdogs over the seventeenth
ranked Horned Frogs of TCU, who were again the runner
up in college football a year ago. So let us
(04:22):
discuss the question what did you take away from Dion
Sanders Baffo Saco debut as the Colorado coach. So I've
got goodyear, blimp, the pineapple, upside down cake and camouflaged
and we will tie all of these things together and
(04:44):
we are going to make a sore, a big old
partay is what we're gonna make. So a let's start
with this coach prime who apparently knows a thing or
two about coaching. Now, we were already the believers, if
you will. We were drinking the Dion Delight, the kool aid.
There haters like Eddie Garcia and other media pugnans who
(05:08):
took shots at Deon Sanders did not buy the hype,
but we were on board. We bet the over on
Colorado's win total this year. Looking pretty good. Right now,
it's only one game, but Dion at this point can
do a pierauet and you never get that second chance
to make a first impression. The whole college football world
was watching as Colorado took the field. There it was
(05:30):
on fox and Dion Sanders took full advantage of the moment,
and his players took full advantage of the moment, setting
the tone for what is to come here and coach Prime.
It's like he rented out the Goodyear blimp there and
advertised to the heavens, the Buffaloes have arrived. The stampede
has begun. And that was an atomic elbow to the
(05:54):
orthodoxy of college football, the establishment, because the consensus was
that Deon Sanders was setting up for a absolute disaster.
He did things that you're not supposed to do at
the time you're not supposed to do him. For example,
he fired just about everyone who had anything to do
(06:18):
with Colorado football, either fired them or encouraged them to leave.
We had a mass exodus Colorado, bringing in eighty seven
new players, all shapes and sizes, coming into that football program,
turning the Colorado Buffaloes into it essentially an expansion franchise
(06:39):
of college football. After the one win season a year ago, now,
following up on that page two here with the upset win, now,
I would like to criticize Deon Sanders, even though I
am on the Dion Sanders hype train. Dion attempted to
immediately settle some scores with those in the media that
(07:02):
did not buy into his ability. In a press conference
exchange with a random reporter, Rams sure the name of
this reporter, but whoever the reporter was did not have
flattering things to say about Dion Sanders, and so Sanders
got into it a back and forth, a tit for
tat situation here as he confronted the reporter, do you
(07:26):
believe now we actually have the audio? Take a listen,
Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Balls you believe now?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Hold on, hold on? Oh no, do you believe in that? Huh?
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Oh no, no no, I read through that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Bull junkie wrote that. I read through that. I sipped
it through all that. Oh no, come on, do you believe?
You don't believe? You just answered it? You don't believe?
Takes question?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So Dion falling into the preacher there giving a sermon,
and he wanted the in the tabernacle to give him
the amen, and he did not get the amen. And
also when he was exiting that news conference, he said
he would keep receipts and he mentioned that at least
a couple other times during postgame interviews. So how do
(08:18):
you grade Dion Sanders. You heard the rant, most of
it to a random sports ride over doubting Colorado football.
So this was the word I use is clumsy. This
was clumsy, and Dion should know better. There's no reason
to be upset. It's not last I checked the reporter's
(08:38):
job to be a cheerleader for Colorado football. Dan I
should know this. He's of an older generation. He's not
from the modern generation where teams have reporters who are
on the payroll for their websites. The flunkies that fall around,
follow around the teams and give manny and petty reports
on what's going on. Dion is from an era where
(09:01):
this is how it was done. That you were, people
were critical, and that's how it was supposed to be.
But you don't have to have buddies who are the
media people. And Deon Sanders what he ought to do
is give that writer and all the other people that
were critical the Pineapple upside down kick as a gift.
Why because the critic is the inspiration. Like I'm on
(09:25):
the Deon Sanders hype trin I'm not the person Deon
Sanders wants you should want the so called in air
quotes haters. Those are the people should want that you
listen to the haters. It's always been the way, it's
my entire life. At some point I had an epiphany
and I realized all of sports is teams winning and
saying nobody believed in us. We overcame the odds, all
(09:49):
of that right, and so here Colorado is with Dion Sanders,
one of the most famous people to play the game
of football in the last couple of generations, head coach.
Now the main oozes confidence and he's got people out
there that do not believe he can get it done.
And the establishment of college football. We talked about that
(10:09):
a lot over the last couple of weeks and months,
that they are cheering against the unseen. But Dean, I
will embrace all of that because it's jet fuel in
terms of motivation, that manufactured outrage, that you are determined
to prove the doubters wrong and you're gonna do it
(10:29):
all right, last word here, So let's move over to
the Chipster former Philadelphia Eagles coach, former forty nine Ers coach.
Guy's a vagabond coach, he's at UCLA. Now, the UCLA
Bruins playing you talk about a tough schedule. Coastal Carolina.
Holy crap, what a great opponent. Now, I'm not going
to talk about the game itself, but something chip Kelly
(10:51):
said the UCLA Bruins said coach caught my attention. He
was very unhappy with the NCAA's adjustment to the clock
and in Division one and other divisions. But we only
care about Division one because that's all we care about.
But the clock no longer stops when teams get first downs,
unless it's last two minutes of the half. The clock
(11:16):
just keeps running and running. What does that remind you of? Oh,
the NFL. Now, the NCAA says that they're doing this
in an effort to shorten games. Chip Kelly spoke out
against this. He said, the new rule, it's crazy. He
said he did this at halftime of UCLA's game over
the weekend against Coastal Carolina. Said, we had four drives
(11:38):
in the first half. This game goes fast, and then
sarcastically the rotun chip Kelly said, I hope you guys
are selling a lot of commercials close quote, so are
the new clock rules working to shorten college football games.
So I am shaking my head. No, if that was
(11:59):
the state goal, the answer is no, that is a
saw wing, a saw wing and a miss. Chip Kelly
and the other coaches who have ranted. Chip's not alone,
but he was the most voisterous of the bunch. They're
spot on, and I'm not buying what the NCAA is
(12:19):
selling the theory that college football big time college football.
The reason that they're doing this is out of an
abundance of caution to shorten games, to protect the players.
There's too many players in college football. No, I go
by the theory that the NCAA is doing this because
they know that they're going to fill the gaps with
extra commercials during college football games. And even though they
(12:43):
like to pretend they're all about the student athlete and
all that, this is really just a chance to get
more commercials on a broadcast. Nobody questions things. If you
say they're done for players safety out of an abundance
of caution, you can do whatever you want. We learned
that during COVID a couple of years ago. You ship
shut the country down. You can do all kinds of
crap if you say it's out of an abundance of caution.
(13:04):
This in this particular incident, a rule change. Rather in
college football, it is camouflaged advertising, is what it is.
By the NCI. We're going to shorten the game, but
we're just gonna put more commercials in there. Now, what
is my evidence? The data? The data. Now, last year,
the average time of game was three hours and twenty
(13:26):
seven minutes for a collegiate football game, big time college football.
To start this year, now, it's only been a few
games that don't have a full sample size of all
season and all that, but the early results are tracking
at an average game time of three hours and twenty
nine minutes. My computer like brain tells me that's two
(13:48):
minutes longer. So if your effort is to quicken up
the game, get the games over with, and then the
games are actually going a little longer than they did
a year ago in the early going. What is going
on here? What's making up the difference? Well, I think
we know what's making up the difference. And so they've
replaced the plays the action a few more plays with
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car commercials or commercials for some kind of medical product
or you name it. And they've knocked themselves out with
that is what they've done. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
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And we began talking some college football. Colorado big win
over the weekend game was on Fox on Saturday, the
Buffaloes beating t CU, and then Deon Sanders going on
a rant, did not name Eddie Garcia, though could have
easily named Eddie Garcia as the as a hater, did
not name Eddie Chip and the cues rights and says
a plus on the Maland monologue. When you mentioned the chipster,
(16:52):
I thought for a split second that I'd finally made
it as a subject of a Mallard monologue. Why I
ever would be so for anything, except maybe by dropping dead?
I don't know. Chip. Well, don't worry, Ship, Everything's okay,
Becky says, Dion was calling out ed Warder of ESPN
was upset with Edwards. JC right since says the Colorado
(17:14):
TCU game can be describing two words horrible defense. Well,
that is true, horrible defense. But it's kind of like
playing on the easiest mode possible on a video game
and just scoring at will, back and forth, up and down.
And then jac says the bust will find out next
week against Nebraska the things are not always so easy. Yeah,
(17:40):
hold your horses there, JC, I'll hold your horses on that.
If you look at the Colorado schedule and I see
Colorad's gonna lose a bunch of games. I'm not here
to say they're not. But if you look at the
Colorado football schedule and you to say, where is this
thing going?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
This is a tough week for Colorado because are gonna
have their ass kissed all week and beating TCU putting
up forty five points the offense, the passing offense was
insane to the membrane. So the Nebraska games, it's gonna
be a letdown game for Colorado against Nebraska. That's a
home game in Boulder and a very hot ticket. I
(18:20):
think the cheapest ticket you can get for that game
is almost four hundred dollars for a Colorado Nebraska game.
That seems a little outrageous to me, but what do
I know. Then you got the in state rivalry game
with Colorado the real point of demarcation for Dion Sanders.
They should beat Nebraska in Colorado state, get off to
a three to zero start. But then you have Oregon
(18:42):
in Eugene and sc that game in Boulder. So those
are the two games your circle and say, okay, that's
the case, and the way Colorado played, you'd be like, Okay, Colorado,
They're not gonna play smash mouth football. They're just going
to try to outscore people, which is kind of like
what sc plays and in many respects what Oregon does.
(19:05):
That's just like the way of the Pac twelve, although
the Pac twelve is going the way of the Dinosaur.
Jason writes in in Kansas City, he says, ten out
of ten on the Mallard monologue band I had to
write because the Buffaloes are my team, and I feel
I have gone through the wilderness of disappointment with him
for two decades. Yes, Coach Prime is brash and confident,
(19:26):
but so far he has backed up his swagger some
Jason in Casey Stevie Meatballs writes, since says, I highly
respect the entertainment you provide us in the Mallard militia
on a holiday when most radio blowhards are not there
because they clearly hate their jobs. You clearly love yours,
and I don't doubt that you love us. There you
(19:49):
go and the phony douche of Baba Ganoosh. Thank you
for your kindness, Stevie Meatball's Fercat writes, and he says,
speaking of Chip Kelly and you see La you. He says,
you're not the only one with a news show, Ben,
and then he names somebody else here. Well, ferg Cat,
I don't know who that person is. That person I've
(20:10):
never heard of that person before, so I can't give
them promotion. But I do like the fact that Ferg
Cat and a blatant attempt to promote my fledgling new
TV show, which starts this week. Ferg Cat did claim
to be a native of Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago, that
he sent messages on social media to say that he
was a native of all of those places, and Inka
(20:32):
Terra called him out. Inca Terror called him out. Speaking
of Inka Terror, he says, Bennie, you are a man
of the people, A plus, and the mall monologue of
I can't have Baba gans Pineapple upside down cake is
a worthy replacement. It's my first year to know college football.
Since I don't know how many bills, how my bills
(20:53):
will do? Rather, he says, I will follow the buffaloes.
It's from Kotarr, who's in New York, upstate New Let's go.
We'll go to the phones. Why don't we say hello
to Dominican Mike, who it says here is cashing a
golden ticket. Hello, Dominican Mike.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Okay, Demavennie, what's up?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I gotta I got somebody talks to you right here?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Hel Hi? Hello? Hello? What's your name?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
William B?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
William V. How about that? Look at you and you're
hanging out with the legendary Dominican Mike. It's it's an
honor to speak to you, William.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, Oh is that right there?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You go?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Look at you, Dominican Mike. How about it's a family
affair here. Now you in Florida? Are you? Are you
in Arizona or Florida? Because you do go back and forth.
I'm actually I'm actually there in Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm
actually in Florida right now. Okay, we haven't a late
night family party. Yeah, that is a late night My goodness, man.
(21:56):
This is well you don't have to go down early
for school or work or anything like that, so who
cares stay up?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Oh exactly, it's a holiday.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah all right, well man, Dominican Mike, I'm honored that
you brought the whole family. This is like old school radio.
Everyone rallies around the radio kind of sits around there.
This is the way it should be Dominican Mike.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Absolutely. But you know I'm a big I'm a big
radio during like you.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Were of course too, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
So yeah yeah, So come on, William and say something
so over here I.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Think is going to bring it in you do, okay,
oh boy? Bringing it up? All right, all right, all
I enjoyed the night. There you go the minute. That's see.
They just check you in to let us know they're
listening there. So so do we get credit for all
(22:43):
of them? The ratings are going to skyrocket here. It's
a holiday, Labor Day. Who's who's hanging out with us? Now?
I know in the passive way, we've had certain holidays
which require massive amounts of consumption of certain beverages or
certain foods and whatnot. Labor Day. Not sure if that
qualifies on the list. We've done very well over the
(23:05):
years when there's like a big storm, which is not
like a planned holiday, but people bunker down and enjoy
certain drinks and beverages because there is a blizzard coming
through town here and they have to entertain themselves one
way or another. Straight ahead, we'll take some more of
these calls because why not. That was a great start
to making Mike and family. You can join us here
(23:27):
at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox gas Lighting
in the Bayou. We will get to that, but right now,
let's get you caught up on everything going on in
me overnight. And here he is, the Dion Sanders hater
of them all, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
All right, thank you, Ben. Let's start with some college
football where we had the only battle of ranked teams
in Week one coming up on Sunday night, and that
was eighth ranked Florida State with a forty five twenty
four win over number five LSU. The Tigers were up
three and a half then outscored by the Seminoles thirty
two to seven in the second half. FSU quarterback at
Jordan Travis three hundred and forty two yards passing. He
(24:05):
had five touchdowns, four through the air and one on
the ground. Eighteenth Oregon State wins at San Jose State
forty two to seventeen. Beavers quarterback DJ leungele l five touchdowns,
three passing and two rushing. He was, of course, the
transfer from Clemson. It was his first game with Oregon State.
Rutgers the winner over Northwestern twenty four to seven baseball games.
Of note, we had the Giants being blanked by the
(24:27):
Padres four to nothing. The Orioles knockoff the Diamondbacks eight
to five. Baltimore still leads the AL East by two
and a half games on Tampa Bay as the Rays
beat the Guardians six to two. You had the Reds
getting clabbered by the Cubs fifteen to seven, Chicago scoring
seven runs in the eighth inning e and a half,
three hits, four RBI. Chicago now three and a half
back in Milwaukee and the NL Central as the Brewers
(24:47):
lost to the Phillies four to two. Marlins beat the
National six to fourth, so Miami's moved into a four
way tie with San Francisco, Arizona, and Cincinnati for the
last wild guard spot in the National League. Mariners lose
to the Mets six three. Astros followed the Yankee six
to one, while the Rangers top the Twins six to five.
Texas moves into a tie with Houston. They're both one
game back of Seattle in that AL West race. He
(25:08):
had the Blue Jays beat the Rockies seven to five.
Toronto came in at back of both Houston and Texas
for the last wildcard spot in the AL and the
Dodgers avoid being swept in the four game series at
home against Atlanta with a three to one win over
the Braves. And if it's at the standings, shocking news,
the Oakland A's are not the worst team in Major
(25:29):
League Baseball. Congratulations to your Kansas City Royals, who are
now forty two and ninety six. That is one more
loss than the Oakland A's, who we thought would for
sure be the worst team in baseball, but no Kansas
City at the moment has topped them. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
But perception is reality, and the perception is the A's
are the worst team. So for they're both off. They
both got off, but the Royals don't get the publicity
for being got awful. So the public perception, if you
ask the casual fan, it doesn't pay attention, doesn't look
at the standings, which is most people that you say
who's the worst team in baseball twenty twenty three, they
are going to say it is the Oakland Athletics. They're
(26:08):
the worst team in baseball. So the Royals, while technically
worse than the Athletics, in the court of public opinion,
it is in favor of the Oakland Athletics, who are
the Royals or Vegas Athletics.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Are quietly horrible, while the A's are i guess more
loud horrible just because of all the news surrounding them
in their move and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
So we have a case of gas lighting.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
We're go.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
We call this gas lighting in the Bay. You a
game I could have easily started the show with. I
could have done a good ten minutes on LSU going
down in flames against Florida State. Could have easily done that.
I chose not to. I thought that Deon Sanders story
was the biggest story from college football. But on Sunday,
LSU played Florida State and a game of much importance
(26:54):
of you buy into the preseason rankings, the final and
a made for TV contest in orl The Seminoles get
a win. It was a close game for a half
and then in the second half Florida State went to
They went next level forty five to twenty four as
the Seminoles get the win. But the story here is
(27:17):
Brian Kelly, the man that gave us that great fake
Hajun accent when he was hired from Notre Dame to
go down to Baton Rouge. So the LSU coach is
being called out. He's being called out for some comments
he made prior to the game and then comments he
made after the game. So let me set this up now.
(27:42):
Speaking after the LSU club got smoked by Florida State,
Chip Kelly took shots at the attitude of the Bengal
Tigers there. He took some shots at him. He ripped
the team their attitude going into the game. The money
quote here he said, for some reason, we meaning LSU,
(28:04):
thought we were something else. We thought we were the
two time defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs. We were mistaken.
So Brian Kelly talking about what happened in the second half, Well,
the problem with that is Brian Kelly what he said
prior to the game. This is where the gas lighting
comes in. Here's the quote that Brian Kelly said prior
(28:28):
to LSU playing Florida State. He said, there are still
areas that are going to need to be improved. We're
going to take fifteen freshmen on this trip and fourteen transfers,
so nearly forty percent of this travel roster are going
to go overnight for the first time with LSU Chip
Kelly or Chip Kelly. Brian Kelly stated, got my Kelly's
(28:49):
mixed up? All those Kelly's are the same anyway. Brian
Kelly went on to say, and that's not a disclaimer
of any kind. We're going to beat the heck out
of Florida State. Close quote. So that last part there
from Brian Kelly going to beat the heck out of
Florida State was the money quote. And then after the
game he's like, we're going around like we're the two
(29:10):
time defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs. We were mistaken. So
that is what's known as guest It's like he's pretending
he didn't say what he had said prior to the game.
And this is another example of someone in a position
of power in sport who is lacking Accountability is the
(29:30):
word of the day. Countability. What a fun magical word
that is. Yes, well, there you go, so Brian Kelly,
the LSU coach, and things come at you fast there
in baton rouge. If you do not succeed, and you
look at some of the numbers here and there are
people who are like, wait a minute, is Brian Kelly
(29:53):
going to survive. It's only one game, everything will be fine.
But LSU allowing forty five points against the Seminoles, that
is tied for the most allowed in a season opener
by a team perceived to be a top five team,
at least in the eyes of the Associated Press since
nineteen thirty six. That is tied for the most. You
(30:15):
gotta go all the way back in the hot tub
time machine to the year nineteen sixty eight when then
number five Oklahoma Boomers sooner allowed that many points. So
a historical level of suckage in this particular performance by LSU.
But wait, there's more. Our friend Tim mcdalby points out.
(30:39):
He passes this note on that if you look at
the LSU football program the last ten games, Brian Kelly
had some big moments early on in Baton Rouge, But
the last ten games here the LSU squad has lost
three times by at least twenty points, and they also
(31:00):
lost a fourth time to A and M by fifteen.
So what do I know about college football? But where
I come from, that's not good. I mean, maybe it
is good, but does not appear the numbers are all
that great. In fact, crappy would be the way we
(31:21):
could describe that now. Brian Kelly, also, in addition to
the quote we gave you about LSU's performance, he also
said the loss to Florida State was a quote total failure,
a total failure for LSU, which would be about accurate
(31:42):
and much like we talked last last segment about Deon
Sanders in the Colorado schedule, in the next couple of games,
assuming they don't have a letdown, they should be all right.
But LSU the perfect tonic for the LSU Bengal Tigers.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
There.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Their next game is against Grambling State, so that is
a show up and collect a win game for LSU.
Just make sure you roll the football out there, make
sure all the players show up on time, and you
will end up getting a victory. And then after that
you play a pretty mediocre, bad Mississippi State team. So
things will be looking up here the next couple of
(32:20):
weeks or Brian Kelly, Oh, that game is on the
road if it matters that much for LSU. And of
course here's the other problem. You start losing a bunch
of games here down the line. Yeah, you set yourself
up by losing the Florida state, and it becomes a
self fulfilling prophecy. Not a good situation at all. Eight
(32:42):
seven seven ninety nine on Fox is number. Shay is in.
He's only done the show one other time. Shay is
in for Kooper Loop, who is not laboring. Of course
when he's here, he's normally not laboring either, but he's
not here for the show either. And if you want
to be part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
A number eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
(33:02):
sixty nine. Time now for the who am I Game?
A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer with us, we call it the who MI game?
And here it is. I hold the Major League Baseball
record for the most consecutive games with a leadoff home run.
Again playing the who am I Game? This is where
(33:24):
I pretend to be somebody else. They've been playing baseball
since the late eighteen hundreds. They've been keeping track of
the statistics in baseball for almost as long as the
stats before, like nineteen ten, aren't particularly great, but you
get the points. So again, I hold the Major League
Baseball record for the most consecutive games without a leadoff
(33:46):
home run. Who am I? The answer? We'll get to
that and we'll have the MLB pick them. We'll do
it all, and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
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Speaker 5 (34:04):
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It's Ben Malor.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
And time now for the who am I?
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer and heres today's who Ami game? On this
Labor Day, I hold the MLB record for the most
consecutive games with a leadoff home run? Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer. Let's see
(34:49):
does anyone know? We will have time to take a
call or two before we get to the MLB pick them,
But let's see does anyone know the answer. Mister nice
Guy's going with Reggie Smith, Red Sox legend Reggie Smith,
Kermit d Frog from alf the Alien Opiner in Springfield, Massachusetts,
home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, where Muffett
McGraw is enshrined. Huff Duffy from Robbie the Mariner fan
(35:14):
the penny guessed by ferg Caty. That's not the penny
for cat you. You might have to go back to
your to your eye doctor when the eye doctor opens up.
Who else do we have? Page down? A page down
Mickey Hatcher guess by the Fendly fanatic Burner account. Lou
Brock from Obscene Dean Floyd Banister tossed out by Rob
(35:38):
in Minnesota, Stevie Meatballs in the Sunshine State going with
Robert Kraft Supermarket. Steve says he completely forgot the Chip
Kelly coach the forty nine ers is a non sequitor.
Poly d is going with Ronald Acuna Junior. It's his answer.
Malo prop Guy says Benny the Bopper. Yeah, well, thank
(35:59):
you malaprop guy, and I hope you were there for
my bobblehead night. It was quite the night. Mayor Parker
the snow Dog, the unofficial official mascot of the Denver Broncos.
I can't wait to watch the Bronco Raider game and
see the b roll of Parker the snow Dog there
in front of the Rocky Free time every CBS always
(36:23):
shows Mayor Parker the snow Dog. He's going with Mickey
Morandini as his answer. Calbasa Daniels from Sean in the
Valley of the Sun the Jordi account got it right.
Bad job by him, the herbinator from hl alex Verdugo,
guess by the herbinator craig Elo from Big Lou in
(36:47):
the lb C. Jonathan and Delaware got it right, so
did the legend. Bad job by them, obviously cheating Eddie.
Do you have an answer, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Oh, I mean it seems like the obvious answer would
be Ricky Henderson, so I'll go with.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
That, okay. And how often do I go with the
obvious answer, Eddie? Very often, very rarely do I go
with the obvious answer that is incorrect, Eddie. The correct
answer a man who only hit fifty home runs one time.
I think the next closest he got the fifty home
runs was like in the mid twenties, Brady Anderson of
the old the Baltimore Orioles of the mid nineties, Brady
(37:23):
Anderson who went to UC Irvine. He was an anteater
and hit fifty home runs one year. I don't know
if he did any funny stuff, but he had had
the rest of his career he never hit that many
home runs, So you can figure that out. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to Rock and
Rob who's in Louisiana. Hello, Rock and Rob. Hello Rob,
(37:46):
you're on the air now, Rob? Hello?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Okay, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
If I was any better, Rob, I would be a Kelly,
but not Brian Kelly, because man, what's up with that?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
We don't even know what coach it is? I mean,
you know, it's kind of wild. Are they ever gonna
make it? I think they'll be ranked twenty fifth in
the nation in three weeks.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
They got to bring back the Cajun Fred flintstones that
they got to bring back at Eddie.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Oh coach, Yeah, they got to bring something back.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Yeah, what are you up to here? Celebrating Labor Day?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Here?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
If I feel like you called up but you don't
have much to say, Rock and Rob? Is that accurate.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
No, it's not accurate. I just think that LSU is
gonna be in the next three weeks. Now, I'm gonna
ask you this, who would you think that would be.
I don't know. It's Florida State gonna make it up there.
They're gonna be better.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
It's hard to tell. We have to figure out whether
LSU sucks or if LAS used good and Florida Stitch
is just better. You don't know that because they haven't.
They only played one game. It's a small sample size.
But the way Florida State played in the second half,
you'd say they're gonna be right back in the top
of college football. They were great.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
The reason the reason why I call you because I
didn't see I didn't see the game. I didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
You see what were you doing?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Well, all of them? The truck I was traveling on
and I couldn't see it.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
But were you working? Were you out there working? Yes, yes,
you're laboring, that's what you see. Your your honoring Labor Day.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
By labor Labor Day.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, labor on Labor Day. But I wanted to get
your ideal on that because I'm sure you saw it.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I did. I had it on I mean, I wasn't
it was the second half was. The first half was
not thrilling in the second half was a lopsided games.
It wasn't the most entertaining game. I had no skin
in the game, Rock and Rob. You know what I'm saying,
I'm not a fan.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Or if I got Dion Sanders, which I love, I love.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That listen because I have a bet with Eddie Garcia
and he's gonna have to pay up here. And this
is a game that everyone had had Colorado losing and
they won their first first game and all that. But
it is only one win. But it's still in a
nice building block the Buffaloes. All right, I got I'll
leave it that rocking Rock, thank you. Well, he's working man,
the guy was. He was doing this thing. They didn't
(40:06):
have time to partake in watching the game, but he
heard on the radios. So there you go. We're gonna
have the MLB pickhim. In fact, why don't we do
that right now? Here? We go it's MLB pick them.
At some point we're gonna shift because, believe it or not,
basketball and hockey you'll be starting before you know. We're
already into September now. But we got to finish out
(40:28):
the baseball season, got a month to go, and then
we'll have the playoff. Pick him. He's always a fan favorite.
Now when Coop is away, I can go first because
we go by order of longevity on the show, and
so I will go first, followed by Eddie, followed by
Mark and then Shay. So Mark actually goes third for
(40:50):
the first time in terms of longevity. But I'm gonna
go first. And with the first selection, team Malor picks
Justin Steele of the Chicago c Eddie, let's go with Aaron.
You don't even know who that is, Eddie, Mark, go ahead, Mark, please,
Cook Palell good pick old school Shay back to.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Back, Masahiro tanaaka.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Are you trying to win? And one more please?
Speaker 4 (41:18):
Oh we're losing Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Okay, that's a good take. B It's a little pick,
but it's a good pick. And Mark Andre Dawson, Oh
the Hawk, MVP. Eddie.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
I'll take my cousin Odalas Garcia.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
He's in a big contract. Push. Give me Cody Bellinger
and I'll take Trey Turner, a couple ex Dodgers. My
pick's Eddie O tany the better Mark, Why not the pick?
All right?
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Shay bill Leroy from The Savannah Bananas.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Bill le Okay, good picks for Coop. There you go.
Coop's gonna win. I'll be very happy with those picks.
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