September 4, 2023 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks MLB and what we learned from the Braves @ Dodgers match up, Max Scherzer injury, how are things looking for Cody Bellinger as he gets closer to free agency, and much more!!!
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Hello and welcome, it's our Bert. Hour two is ready
to go talking baseball and now that it's all over,
what did we learn from the Atlanta Braves taking three
of four from the Dodgers in that National League showdown series? Also,
is this Mac Schurzer injury story something or nothing for
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the Texas Rangers? And how are things looking for Cody Bellinger,
Cago Cub Slugger as he gets closer to free agency.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.
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lead this hour, coming from the National League, the very
top of the National League, the upper crust, as the
Dodgers and Braves wrapped up the weekend throwdown in Los Angeles,
closing it out showdown top of the National League. It's
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fair to say if the Atlanta Braves are going to
have the top record in the National League, and should
they end up in the NLCS, they will end up
as having home field advantage. We determined that based on
what we've seen over the last four days. I don't
know if you watched it or not. Bobby Miller tossing seven
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dominant innings against a brave lineup that is not exactly
full of holes there and Los Angeles picking up a
three to one win and they avoid a sweep at
the hands of Atlanta. The Braves end up taking three
of four. One of those games went to extra innings.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The first game was a high scoring matchup, the Brave
barely holding off the Dodgers, but they did win three
or four.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So let us discuss the question what did we learn?
What did we learn from the Braves and Dodgers matchup
in Los Angeles. My observations, We've got the fifty to
fifty raffle ticket, French army, and redistricting, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to make the Babaganoche. We're gonna make the Babaganoons. Now,
nuber wha. The big takeaway the thing that I learned
Braves Dodgers, it is validation. This series was confirmation, is
what it was. The Dodgers and Braves are the top
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two dogs in the National League. Everyone else a pretender.
There is a wide gap between the top of the
field and everybody else in Atlanta had better pitching, although
they gave up their share of runs in this series.
They had better pitching than La in this matchup over
the weekend. But when they played down the line, and
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they should play, they need to play down the line
if they can weather the storm early on in the playoffs. Here,
if you look at this matchup, it is a toss
up situation the Braves. If you look at that Atlanta team,
they won an extra inning game on Saturday, the shootout
on Thursday. They lose the game on Sunday. The forecast,
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the long term forecast, calls for these teams to duke
it out in October. And it is like a fifty
to fifty raffle ticket of a matchup. It could go
anyway any direction. Dodgers. Now important to node, the Dodgers
did not pitch their top starting pitcher, Clayton Kershaw this series.
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He's starting the game on Tuesday. Dodgers have the day off.
Why any team in baseball is the day off on
Labor days beyond me. But the Dodgers have the day off,
and so they'll play the Marlins on Tuesday in Miami,
and Kershaw is gonna start that game. The Dodgers also
possibly will get a break. Walker Buehler, who's been gone
with Tommy John surgery, had his first minor league appearance
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as he works his way back into the big league rotation.
The question is will the Dodgers toss him out there
in a high leverage situation in the playoffs. I say,
why not? But they are known to protect their pitchers,
and so they have to figure out whether or not
Bueller's gonna be able to go and if he could
be a difference maker in the postseason. But the Dodgers
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figure to be a different team in a month from now,
as will the Atlanta Braves. And the great thing about
the postseason, as we have learned over the years, it
does not matter. You can have the greatest regular season team.
Dodgers had the greatest regular season team in baseball last year,
and they went out and they puked, They took a
ride on the vomit comment. And the only thing that
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stands out in October the great thing about it is
who can overcome tight took a syndrome and who can
get it done in the moment. In the moment, that's
what matters most. Now turn to the page. Interesting story,
not exactly warm and fuzzy out of Arlington, as we
talked baseball here to begin this hour number two, we
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go to Arlington where over the weekend, Rangers starter Max Schurzer,
the big pickup from the Metropolitans. Left his start after
six innings and eighty eight pitches. He claimed he had
tightness in his forearm, alarm bells going off. He told
reporters after the game. Was mostly a precautionary decision, he said, Schurzer,
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claiming that it was. He was at his limit, he said,
said the shoulder and his arm were good, but he
won to avoid putting undue pressure on himself and putting
himself in a dangerous position. So let's discuss the question.
Is this mac Schuerzer leaving of a start early with
an injury something or nothing? So the arrow on this
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one is pointing towards something. It is a harbinger of
things to come. And I saw this first hand several
years back when Schurzer was pitching for the Dodgers. They
acquired him from the Washington Nationals for that natitude, and
the Dodgers needed Max Schurzer to start against the Atlanta
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Braves in the twenty twenty one postseason. They needed them
to start Game six. He said, I can't do it
all my aching arm, I cannot do it. And he said, well,
maybe I'll pitch in Game seven. Where there was no
Game seven because they didn't win Game six, and Sureser
then blamed the Dodgers and mac Schurzer. Since he left
the Nationals, he is an honorary member of the French Army.
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He goes into retreat mode late in the season. In
the fund zone. He is the Drama o Rama Ride,
but he has a tendency to check out. He has
a tendency to check out. Big game. You need sures
Of to step up. You need him to go out
there and pitch with perseverance, show determination, you finish the start,
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put the team on his back. All those hokey cliches
hammer away. And he's often the one in the training
room with a bag of ice on his shoulder, ready
to toss in the sponge. We saw it with the Dodgers.
He got lit up with the Mets in the postseason.
Now he's with the Rangers and he's up to his
old Shenanigans yet again. And my advice to my friends
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in Arlington, the Rangers simply cannot depend on Mad Max
to step up to the challenge in late season games
in both the regular season and the postseason. Hasn't been
that guy, Pal. He hadn't been that guy for a
number of years, all right, final point, So a lot
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of wild guessing going on. We're not even done with
the regular season. People already looking ahead to the Hot
Stove League, and some people putting their scuba gear on
and going down to the bottom of the free agency ocean.
In the middle of all of that is an outfielder
for the Chicago Cubs who can play first base, Cody Bellinger,
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who is likely to cash in. He's had a big
return to glory season in Chicago. Now we are told
to expect a biding war. The latest report says, a
bitting war between the Yankees, Giants, and Padres for Cody
Bellinger unless he runs into some kind of roadblock. And
we're making it right now. Bob Nightingale tells us that
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Cody Bellinger is seeking a deal worth more than two
hundred million dollars. Fine and dandy. I'm sure that there
are many players that would like two hundred million dollar contracts.
I know some gas backs that would like two undred
million dollar contracts. So the question on this one, how
are things looking for Cody Bellinger in free agency at
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this point? Based on this latest reporting. So we are
at the part of the Bellinger story where we're in
the redistricting phase, meaning that super agent Scott Boris, who
already took a shot at the Dodgers, implied that it
was their fault that Bellinger stunk for two years. Scott
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Boris has a lot of friends who are baseball writers,
and it makes sense if you were a baseball writer,
you do want to be friendly with Scott Boris because
he knows everything. He's the most powerful man in baseball,
and so Boris right now is using his sock puppets
in the baseball media to readdistrict the maps, his preferred
destinations for Cody Belcher. He's got it all planned out.
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It's all wishful thinking. It would be malpractice for anyone
to give Cody Bellinger two hundred million dollars based on
one good season. He's been great. I'm gonna say, sit
here behind these microphones and say that Bellinger has not
been wonderful in the bubble of playing at Wrigley Field
for the Cubs. He's been great, But how do you
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know for sure that this is not a mirage? And
are you gonna pay what could be a one off?
Because Bellinger was completely overmatched by big league pitching in
both twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two look like
he should be selling insurance rather than playing professional baseball.
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And now everyone's supposed to just zip their lips up
right now because Belger's had a big season in twenty
twenty three. But yet he was waist deep in quicksand
utter garbage, so much so that the Dodgers said good
by to a guy that was an MVP for their team.
They said, we're not gonna even offer you a contract.
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You're that useless. Get out of here. And so he
goes to Chicago. He plays well. Now Bellinger's going to
get a contract. But if I'm in charge, I'm not
paying Code Belger two hundred million dollars? Are you kidding me?
But all it takes is one sucker, And Scott Boris
knows better than just about anybody in the world. There's
always a sucker out there. There's always some owner who's
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horny to make the big free agent signing that's willing
to overpay. Lately, that's that owner's been in San Diego.
That's been the way it's gone. But I would pay
Ballenger for three years, I'd pay him seventy five million.
That seems like it's trump change in modern baseball. But
I would not go two hundred million dollars. But it's
not my money, so keep your eyes peeled. But I
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do like the fact that they're already planting Scott Borris
and his agency leaking information to certain baseball writers, in
this case Bob Nightingale, to try to redistrict and plan
out the bidding war for Cody Bellinger. It is the
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what happened in the NFL, the good, the bad, and
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those that dominate and all in between. But for now,
we can talk some baseball here this week, and also
college football. We started the show about an hour ago.
We ranted and raved about Dion Sanders and his debut
Brian Kelly at LSU as they got cooked by Florida State.
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Total failure, according to Brian Kelly, who prior to the
game was singing a different song. But that's usually how
it works. That's usually how it works. A big league
owner is underattack for being.
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A bullite bullite, a big league owner under attack.
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For bunny ball. We'll get to that and we will
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Maller started out talking to baseball Dodgers and Braves played
over the weekend as we wind down the baseball season
the month of September, the playoffs right around the corner
here and supermarket Steve writes, and he also wants to
yap about something we mentioned with Cody Bellinger, the seed
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being planted on where Bellinger is going to end up
in free the agency Scott Boris making sure to plant
a story about that, and super Marcus Steve says Cody
Bellinger was ruined by the shift.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
If the shift was still around, he would be batting
one fifty with thirty or so.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Dingers. We according to Scott Boris, the super agent there
for Major League Baseball and it happens to be Cody
Bellinger's right hand man. There. He said, no, it's because
the Dodgers forced Bellinger to play while he was hurt.
And then I did like the fact we mentioned this
last week at the end of the week, how Scott
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Boris then had to clarify what he was saying. You
had to clarify what he was saying in order to
not piss off the Dodgers, because that's one team. If
you're Scott Boris, you can take shots at the Oakland
A's or the Royals because they're not going to sign
any of your clients. It doesn't matter. They're not a
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team that you deal with. There are thirty Major League
Baseball teams, but realistically the teams that bid on Scott Boris' clients,
there's probably about a dozen, if that many. About a
dozen got the Red Sox and the Yankees, the Mets
in theory, those teams, the Dodgers, You've got the Cubs
occasionally not now, the Texas Rangers, the Padres, the Phillies,
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the Atlanta Braves in theory would be on that list,
and a few other teams. And that's how it goes.
I wait for my board to be reset. A big
league owner under attack for bully ball. What is this
all about, you say?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Dateline San Diego explosive story over the weekend involving the
pod Squad Padres.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Have been spending a lot of money, a lot of money.
They one of the big ticket teams. Just had them
on that list of teams that Scott Boris negotiates with.
But the guy that owns the Padres, the feel good
owner who's spending all kinds of money on the Podre
roster there has been accused of being a business bully.
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Peter Seidler is his name, you know. He's the grandson
of Walter O'Malley the Bums when they moved from Brooklyn
to Los Angeles in nineteen fifty eight. He's been owning
the Podres since twenty twenty, been spending tons of money.
But Peter Sider called out big story in The New
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York Post over the weekend, saying that the Podres owner
owns a company that, according to the allegations, has been
playing dirty with mom and pop businesses and it's all
about franchising of martial arts. Say what, let me explain here.
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So there was a lawsuit filed and the company that
Peter Siler, one of the companies that Peter Siler runs,
ended up overtaking this massive mixed martial arts franchise business.
There's this big group and they oversee your neighborhood mixed
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martial arts operation, right. And so there's a lawsuit filed
in federal court last year alleging that these people that
were part of this martial arts outfit, the mom and
pop businesses, were tricked into becoming operators after being given
false promises, including the amount of profit they were going
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to make from the karate studio and the amount of
hours they were going to have to use to operate them.
And it goes into great detail here that they were
given the old bait and switch. They signed up and
then it's like, oh, you'll make a lot of money,
but you have to work a certain amount of money
a certain amount of hours. And these people thought they
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wouldn't have to work that hard. Surprise, surprise. Yeah. And
so the lawsuit is claiming that the guy that owns
the padres that's been spending all this money, has this
amazing reputation. People in San Diego love this guy's the
greatest owner in the history of San Diego Sports, Peter Sidler.
But he is when he's not running the Podres. Penny Pincher,
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Penny Pincher, Peter Sidler, and they have the third biggest
payroll in baseball, the San Diego Padres. Xander Bogarts, who
can't even figure out how to run the bases since
he left the Red Sox, is on that list, Manny Machado.
They paid the steroid guy big money to tease. He's
got the big money. And the Padres have not only
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been a baseball team, they've been abject failures this season.
But we'll see what happens with this lawsuit. And the
owner of the team, they're the Padres again being called
out that he's apparently been trying to silence these these
these people here and it's his equity as a Seidler
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Equity Partners group, and these these hedge fund operators, these
are the people, man, These are the people that stir
the product. Yeah, all right, let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Pete in Pittsburgh. It must
be a holiday if Peter's calling in, Hello.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Pete and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
Happy Labor Day. Ben do you hear me?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
No, I can't hear you.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Okay, Happy Labor Day, America. We're making a comeback. Don't
worry about these past couple of years. It's going to
get better. We're gonna make it. Donald Trump is coming back.
America is going to come back. We love this country,
we love freedom, we love Peter.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Pete, you've always been kind of against labor though, Pete,
you've always been up against labor.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I have not labored much in my life.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I've known you for a long time, and you've never
been like the kind of guy that's out the.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Labor very much. Either you're on the radio, well that
is true. Wait a minute, dumb laugh track in the background.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
You do not like the laugh track with the laugh track? No,
you're being distracted, Pete, your professional radio caller.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
I think we got rid of Roberto. The call screen
was really nice to make.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Really, he must not know you.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Sha another guy, the guy with the.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I don't know what you're talking about, but here's a
fun fact, Pete, the guy that's screening the calls here,
I bet he was like a toddler when he first
started calling Fox Sports Radio. About that?
Speaker 8 (22:36):
Does America know that you're going to TV.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, I don't think. I don't think America is prepared
for me to be on teen Man.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Listen, you're on the national radio show. If you're in
the market, and you better tell everybody, now.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Peter, are you going to be watching? That's the question.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You can absolutely all right.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I can't believe. This is the most exciting thing I've heard.
That's why I'm calling you tonight. You're gonna do Benny
Versus a Penny, and it's going to be on TV,
and America loved you. A lot of people follow you
on Twitter. I'm in shock.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
This is amazing. Pet You never thought now. You told
me years ago that I was destined to be just
a failure as an overnight I.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Said that sarcastically. I always knew how talented you are.
Do you hear how great your voice is. I love women,
but you have a really nice voice.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, Pete, please, I mean we're like, yeah, I mean, Pete,
you know.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
What I mean. Like, you have a very strong, structured
voice where you could turn on people now turning us
on on the radio. You know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Calm down, Pete, keep your pants on now, Peter, I
feel like you're trying to butter me up now because
I'm doing a TV show, So now you want to
be my friend again because you haven't called in a
long time. And then you see that news and now
now you've you've popped out of the woodwork and you're like, hey,
let me call Maller up because maybe I get a
cameo on the TV show.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
You know, you're a auge celebrity. Let's talk. I called
for one reason tonight, to let America know the Pitts,
Perks Ollers are back. It's been allowed. You know, Big
Ben Roethl's burn here a Hall of Famer. We thank you.
But we have Kenny Pickett. Now we have a Hey Ben,
this is getting cornty right now with all this soundtrack.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I'm not controlling any of the drops here. I have no.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Control over whoever is controlling.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You're getting frustrated.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Now they're playing more drops, Pete because you're being annoyed.
So now they're playing more drops on the show.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
What do you think about the Steelers going to this season?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well, I like the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Well, Mike tom I would have been a Tomlin guy
because he's always there's a lot. There's a good physicality
with the Pittsburgh Steels, the way they play defense. But
they are a team.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
That's you're you're telling me you're not even following it.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, no, no, I am following you.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
I am even know how good we're going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
They're not gonna be that good.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Oh, we're not going to be that good. Definitely, you're
not following it. Ben, You're too busy.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No, you're too You're too far into the middle.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
One. You better follow this. You better really be in
depth with what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, I am. It's going to be start debuts on
Friday on television. All right, all right, Pete, hang up
on yourself the material, Jonathan and Delaware says, please, uh gong, Pete,
he's effing horrible, horrible caller who needs a pop filter
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on his said headset and also has been very creepy,
he says, towards women in his community. Well, he does
work at a ballet there, Jonathan in Pittsburgh. From what
I From what I understand, Ferdcat says, with calls like that,
it's easy to see why Eddie is such a big
fan of the legend. Pete and Pittsburgh understandable. I'm not
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playing unless I get mine brawl. We'll get to that story.
A follow up on that story also later the hour,
we have Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I'll do all of it, but.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Right now, let's get you caught up on everything going
on in the old over night.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And we bounced the microphone over to eighty Guarcia, who
will run around with games of note.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
I don't know what that person was talking about. I
love pet and Pittsburgh. What are you talking about, fellow
Steeler fan? We're tight peting.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Third Kat say. He did say you're a big fan
of the legend Pete and Pittsburgh. Yeah, that would not
be you playing those soundbites, because that would be wrong
of you to do that. That would be inappropriate to
try to.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
No, No, I don't have the ability to do that
kind of thing. No, I just read the scorees. I
don't have nothing to highlight. It's nothing, none of it.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They in your lane. Maybe it was park of the
snow dog that was in here and hitting buttons with
his paw.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
I can either confirm nor deny that. Let's start with
some college football. We had a battle of ranked teams
two teams in the top ten. The only battle of
ranked teams from Week one to college football, and was
pretty good game for a half. Second half, though, eight
th ranked Florida State pulls away from fifth ranked LSU
for a forty five to twenty four victory. LSU led
by three at the half, are outscored thirty two to
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seven in the second half. Seminoles quarterback Jordan Travis a
big game three out of forty two yards passing with
five touchdowns, four through the air and one on.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
The ground in the victory.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Eighteenth rank Oregon State had their way at San Jose
State forty two to seventeen. Beavers quarterback dj Ungilile, the
transfer from Clemson, five touchdowns three passing, two rushing in
the victory and big ten. It season opener for both
the Rutgers. In Northwestern the Scarlett Knights with a twenty
four to seven win over the Wildcats. In baseball games
of note, you have the Giants being shut up by
the Padres four nothing, San Francisco dropping three to four
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against San Diego. In that series, the Diamondbacks lose to
the Orioles eight to five. Baltimore still leading the Al
East by two and a half on Tampa. Bay Rays
beat the Guardian six to two. Reds fall hard of
the Cubs fifteen to seven, Chicago, scoring seven times in
the eighth inning e and a half three open four
Chicago three and a half back in Milwaukee the Nlcentral Race.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
The Brewers did lose to the Phillies four to two, and.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
The Marlins drop up a four game series sleep of
the Nationals six ' four. In the finale, Miami now
in a four way tie, but the final wildcards BoNT
in the National League along with San Francisco, Arizona and Cincinnati.
Mariners lose to the Mets six to three. Petawanzo for
New York two homers. He's got forty on the season
one hundred runs driven in as well. Yankees wrap up
a three game sweep in Houston with a six to
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one win over the Astros, while the Rangers edged the
Twins sixty five and oh Dallas Garcia's walk off solo
homer in the ninth, so Texas moves to a tie
with Houston and they're both one game back of Seattle
in that AL West Race. Blue Jays down the Rockies
seven to five. Toronto's a game and a half out
in the AL wildcard race behind both Houston and Texas,
and the Dodgers avoid being swept in a four game
series in La as they get a three.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
To one win over the Braves.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
I know you're very excited to know about the US
men's basketball team losing in the Foebo World Cup to Lithuania.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
All my side the flag, Eddie. I can't believe four
Iyer Steve Kerr immediate.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Team USA losing to Demonte Sabonis and Jonas Valan Schunis,
who apparently are NBA players, are worth one time. USA
is still advancing though from Sacramento quarterfinals. They've got a
four one record up next day we'll face Italy on Tuesday.
We will all be glued to our television.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I'm told by one of my basketball that the rebounding
is an issue for Team USA because you have to
work hard to get rebounds, and apparently they're not working
that hard. But the story here, Eddie. In college football,
how about this Texas State Eddie, twenty seven and a
half point underdog. Over the weekend they beat Baylor. Oh
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my yeah, and daj.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Greg Tooey is doing a dance, famous, famous bobcatle Um.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
But the Texas Tech twenty seven at point dogs. They
beat Baylor. The Texas State program brought in fifty one
new scholarship players. The only school that brought in more
was Colorado with Dion Sanders.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
And how much did Texas State get paid to beat Baylor?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Oh, I see you're gonna bring up Fresno State, and
I knew you were going to bring that. I don't
know the amount of money that Texas Estate got paid.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Well, you you mentioned fres State got paid one point
five million to go and beat Purdue.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
But I gotta mentioned that. You mentioned that.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I did mention that. I did.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You just mentioned it. I didn't mention it.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's a guy.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
I got to imagine that that they got at least
that much, right from Baylor. Baylor's got more money than Purdue,
you would think.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I don't know. I'll have to look it up. We'll
have to see if we can figure out how much
it's closer to travel though, right don't they have to
cover the travel? Isn't that also part of the deal
because Fresno had to travel to Indiana for that game
with Purdue.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
I don't know if that works as far as the
payment and where it goes and what it's for.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Include some of the travel costs and all that stuff.
I thought it's possible.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
It's possible.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, did you. I assume you watched every second of it,
every second.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Glorious, glorious victory.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Get a smile from here to year.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
You want to be honest to God.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Truth.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Yeah, it made my whole day. And my wife is smart.
She took advantage. She's like, oh, you're in a really
good mood. Let's do all these honey do lists around
the house. I'm like, you know what, I don't even
Let's do it. Let's do all of that. I don't care.
I'm I'm so happy. We'll do whatever you want to do.
One do yard work. I want to do whatever. Let's
do it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, smile on your face. Your your Fresno steak.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
You're on.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You have the flag out in front of your house, right,
you state flag? The whole routine though, now your whole,
your whole stick. When Fresno State wins a game, do
they have another money game coming in?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
They do a couple of weeks they'll be at Arizona
State that game.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I think I am going to that game.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You're gonna you're that excited, You're gonna make a little
road trip. You're gonna drive over to Phoenix for the
day there.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Huh I think I am.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, all right, all right.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I've made that drive a couple of times where I
just drove out for a few hours and then drove back.
You're gonna do that?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Are you gonna spend No, I'll stay. I'll stay and
come back on Sunday, Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Because I know good place is a truck stop out
in the Arizona Desert.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
You can stop there, and I know you know good
truck stops, airport hotels, you know all those.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Of course, a man of the people condolences. Sad news,
Eddie Roade Dog Nick passed away. We found out over
the weekend. Friend of our friend, Moving Man Matten there
in Boston. Road Dog Nick. The demon's got him, so
rest in peace, road Dog Nick. We've we've heard a
lot of stories about road Dog Nick over the years
from Moving Man mad and he'll hopefully be calling in.
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I don't know, he's gonna call in now or sometime
this week, and he'll give us the lowdown. Robin rights
and says, I love Pete. Where has he been my
whole life? It's from from Robin Well. Pete and Pittsburgh's
been hiding out in Pennsylvania and he has worked at
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a adult establishment. I don't know if he still works
at the Ballet and I don't know if he works
there or not. But back in the day he famous.
It was one of Howard Stearn's callers when Stern was good.
It was one of Stern's regular callers, and famously the
great Pete and Pittsburgh story when I got whacked by
the company in nine, Pete and Pittsburgh called up complaining
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on the Stern Show and dropped my name. Of course,
Howard Stern had no idea who I was, but he
dropped my name on the show to complain, to voice
his displeasure with the move, and the company realizing what
a great mistake they made. Six months and twenty six
days later, after that faithful decision, they decided to hire
me back. They said, you know what, let's go back then,
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go back to mallor one more time. Hey, Chip and
the Ques writes in regarding the story we gave you
about the Podreis owner Peter Seidler. New York Post has
a big story about Peter Sidler being a bully in
his other business outside of baseball. A Chip says Peter
Sidler is a well known tight wad. Rumor has it
he's so cheap he locks up all the paper clips
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at night before going home. Yeah, well, he can't be
as cheap as the old red Zoner from a million
years ago. Marg shot, I can't be that cheap, right,
I mean, that's next level cheap. She would repackage donuts
and leftover donuts. I mean the story is on her
legendary from back in the back in the day. Anyway,
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I'm not playing unless I get mine.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's a Blake Snell story. Blake Snell infamous on this
show for his ridiculous comments during the global pandemic. The
meatthead pitcher for the San Diego Padres. Padres are going
nowhere this year. One of the great underachieving teams in
baseball over the last generation. Considering the player payroll third
in baseball, Padres will not qualify for the playoffs, But
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Blake Snell loves him fish tacos, He loves San Diego,
and he wants to stay with the Padres. There's one problem.
The Padres have not opened negotiations on a new contract
and Blake Snell heading towards free agency but would like
to get a contract extension. He is going to be
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the number one, number one and the pitcher available on
the mark, which means the teams that need pitching, like
the Red Sox and the Meds and others will be
bitting on the pitcher from the Padres there by the
name of Blake Snell. I would like to see him
go to New York. He will be eaten alive by
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the New York market. That would be wonderful for me.
Blake Snell just glorious to watch him pitch there in
New York and be torn apart. He's thirty years old,
which means he's got a couple of years left where
he can be an effective starting pitcher and then after
that the slow decline. But here's another guy you look at.
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Blake Snell, much like Cody Beounzen, is not as pronounced
as Bellinger. Where Bellinger was just horrific and now has
been terrific for the Cubs this year, but the last
couple of years, Blake Snell kind of just a guy
not that good and now here is a free agent
year and he's got an ERA of two and a half,
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and he's been one of the more effective starting pitchers
in baseball. He's talked about being a cy young candidate,
even though the Podrays are not not a playoff team,
not going to be close to a playoff team by
the time it's all done ton Now for the Insta trivia.
Here we go. Blank lead lead touchdowns in twenty plus
airyard catches in twenty twenty two. Again, blank lead all
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tight ends in twenty plus airyard catches in twenty twenty two.
That is the Insta Trivia. The answer and Mallard of
the third degree, we'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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It's Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And here is the Insta trivia blank led all tight
ends in twenty plus air yard catches in twenty twenty two.
That is the question. What is the answer? As the
new NFL season kicks off on Thursday with the Chiefs
Favorite at Home Orange and Blue Blood, Brett's going with
Dan Snyder Doctor Octopus from Asher Doctor Doom guested by Fergcat.
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Who else do we have? Larry Boa from mister nice Guy, TJ.
Hockinson of EKE in Roseville, Minnesota. Doug Williams tossed out
by Shane of Des Moines. Who else do we have?
Page Down, Crazy Legs Hirsch from Mark in Santa Monica,
Kellen Winslow from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan, Kyle Pitts
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from Robbie the Falcon fan, Joan River There's quite the
name from Johnny Q. Who else do we have? Rulan
Jones guessed by Tony that's his answer, General Booty from
Ryan lou Holtz guest by Sean in Portland to Eddie,
do you have an answer.
Speaker 7 (38:15):
Eddie, Yes, it's a former Oakland Raider tight end the
ghost to Dave Casper.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Dave Casper will fine answer. You're incorrect, Eddie. It is
a former Raider though, Darren Waller. Darren Waller now playing
for the New York Football Giants, and he missed eight
games last season, but he still had the most twenty
plus air yard catches. Here we go, it's smeller. How
about that?
Speaker 9 (38:40):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets
grilled and we say hello to Shae. It's Club Shay.
Who's in for the Kooper Loop?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Hey Ben?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
How are we doing? Shay? You sound full of energy
and excitement. You're glad to be here. I can tell. Oh,
it's it's Labor Day week? Are you kidding me? It's
my favorite holiday every exactly. So what do we have
on the third degree?
Speaker 10 (39:03):
So chout out of Michigan indicates the Lions had a
quote good dialogue unquote on contract extensions for Jared Goff?
Does he stay with Detroit long term?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
All right? So I would be surprised if something gets
done before the season opener, which is obviously a few
days away. The ball is in Jared Goff's court. The
Lions did leak this, which indicates they are in negotiations,
so they could be an announcement before the kickoff. But
if I'm the Lions, I wait a little bit. There's
not gonna be a bitting war for Jared Goff. I
want to see if he can do what he did
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last year again before I pay him. That's if I'm
the Lions. If I'm Jared Goff, I take the money
right now. He's got two years left on his contract.
It's not urgent for the Lions or for him, But
sign the contract if you're golf before the Lions get
onto you and they realize that this is probably not
the move to make next.
Speaker 10 (39:52):
Some news out of Vegas. NFL teams reportedly keeping an
eye out on the Raiders for potential fire cell bet.
How do you see is playing out in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
So the Raiders are one of those teams that are
teetering on the brink of the abyss. They're stuck in
no man's land, not as talented as the Chiefs are
Chargers in the AFC West, So they're fighting with the
Broncos to avoid the seller in the division. And you
look around. Secondly, Josh McDaniels is still trying to get
his guys and air quotes on the roster, which means
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a slow start from Vegas and that will trigger the
panic alarm bells in the Raider facility. Raiders open up
with the Broncos, Bills on the road, Steelers at home,
and the Chargers, so they're looking at one in three
or zero to four. The turning point game is against
the Broncos. They lose that game here to begin the year,
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and then they play at Buffalo. That's a loss to
the Steelers. That's a loss. They're ow and three and
then all bets are off.
Speaker 10 (40:50):
Next the Angels are said to still be over the
luxury the luxury tax threshold, despite recent release of six players.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
What do you make of this? Yeah, so this is interesting. Now,
I understand they did just get over that. They put
catcher Max Stassy on the injured list and he's gonna
miss the rest of the year, so they're under that.
But those trades were supposed to clear the way. It's
a classic economic blunder by the bean counters for the Angels,
and the reason to get rid of all those guys
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to get under the luxury attack and they still had
to get rid of another player to get under the number.
It makes no sense. It's an embarrassment. The Angels did
the right thing by going for it, and then they've
screwed it up since then. How did we do up
quick Way? Quick Way?
Speaker 3 (41:34):
I won?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I told me I won.
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Hello and welcome, it's our Bert. Hour two is ready
to go talking baseball and now that it's all over,
what did we learn from the Atlanta Braves taking three
of four from the Dodgers in that National League showdown series? Also,
is this Mac Schurzer injury story something or nothing for
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the Texas Rangers? And how are things looking for Cody Bellinger,
Cago Cub Slugger as he gets closer to free agency.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.
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lead this hour, coming from the National League, the very
top of the National League, the upper crust, as the
Dodgers and Braves wrapped up the weekend throwdown in Los Angeles,
closing it out showdown top of the National League. It's
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fair to say if the Atlanta Braves are going to
have the top record in the National League, and should
they end up in the NLCS, they will end up
as having home field advantage. We determined that based on
what we've seen over the last four days. I don't
know if you watched it or not. Bobby Miller tossing seven
(02:45):
dominant innings against a brave lineup that is not exactly
full of holes there and Los Angeles picking up a
three to one win and they avoid a sweep at
the hands of Atlanta. The Braves end up taking three
of four. One of those games went to extra innings.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The first game was a high scoring matchup, the Brave
barely holding off the Dodgers, but they did win three
or four.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So let us discuss the question what did we learn?
What did we learn from the Braves and Dodgers matchup
in Los Angeles. My observations, We've got the fifty to
fifty raffle ticket, French army, and redistricting, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
(03:35):
to make the Babaganoche. We're gonna make the Babaganoons. Now,
nuber wha. The big takeaway the thing that I learned
Braves Dodgers, it is validation. This series was confirmation, is
what it was. The Dodgers and Braves are the top
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two dogs in the National League. Everyone else a pretender.
There is a wide gap between the top of the
field and everybody else in Atlanta had better pitching, although
they gave up their share of runs in this series.
They had better pitching than La in this matchup over
the weekend. But when they played down the line, and
(04:18):
they should play, they need to play down the line
if they can weather the storm early on in the playoffs. Here,
if you look at this matchup, it is a toss
up situation the Braves. If you look at that Atlanta team,
they won an extra inning game on Saturday, the shootout
on Thursday. They lose the game on Sunday. The forecast,
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the long term forecast, calls for these teams to duke
it out in October. And it is like a fifty
to fifty raffle ticket of a matchup. It could go
anyway any direction. Dodgers. Now important to node, the Dodgers
did not pitch their top starting pitcher, Clayton Kershaw this series.
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He's starting the game on Tuesday. Dodgers have the day off.
Why any team in baseball is the day off on
Labor days beyond me. But the Dodgers have the day off,
and so they'll play the Marlins on Tuesday in Miami,
and Kershaw is gonna start that game. The Dodgers also
possibly will get a break. Walker Buehler, who's been gone
with Tommy John surgery, had his first minor league appearance
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as he works his way back into the big league rotation.
The question is will the Dodgers toss him out there
in a high leverage situation in the playoffs. I say,
why not? But they are known to protect their pitchers,
and so they have to figure out whether or not
Bueller's gonna be able to go and if he could
be a difference maker in the postseason. But the Dodgers
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figure to be a different team in a month from now,
as will the Atlanta Braves. And the great thing about
the postseason, as we have learned over the years, it
does not matter. You can have the greatest regular season team.
Dodgers had the greatest regular season team in baseball last year,
and they went out and they puked, They took a
ride on the vomit comment. And the only thing that
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stands out in October the great thing about it is
who can overcome tight took a syndrome and who can
get it done in the moment. In the moment, that's
what matters most. Now turn to the page. Interesting story,
not exactly warm and fuzzy out of Arlington, as we
talked baseball here to begin this hour number two, we
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go to Arlington where over the weekend, Rangers starter Max Schurzer,
the big pickup from the Metropolitans. Left his start after
six innings and eighty eight pitches. He claimed he had
tightness in his forearm, alarm bells going off. He told
reporters after the game. Was mostly a precautionary decision, he said, Schurzer,
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claiming that it was. He was at his limit, he said,
said the shoulder and his arm were good, but he
won to avoid putting undue pressure on himself and putting
himself in a dangerous position. So let's discuss the question.
Is this mac Schuerzer leaving of a start early with
an injury something or nothing? So the arrow on this
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one is pointing towards something. It is a harbinger of
things to come. And I saw this first hand several
years back when Schurzer was pitching for the Dodgers. They
acquired him from the Washington Nationals for that natitude, and
the Dodgers needed Max Schurzer to start against the Atlanta
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Braves in the twenty twenty one postseason. They needed them
to start Game six. He said, I can't do it
all my aching arm, I cannot do it. And he said, well,
maybe I'll pitch in Game seven. Where there was no
Game seven because they didn't win Game six, and Sureser
then blamed the Dodgers and mac Schurzer. Since he left
the Nationals, he is an honorary member of the French Army.
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He goes into retreat mode late in the season. In
the fund zone. He is the Drama o Rama Ride,
but he has a tendency to check out. He has
a tendency to check out. Big game. You need sures
Of to step up. You need him to go out
there and pitch with perseverance, show determination, you finish the start,
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put the team on his back. All those hokey cliches
hammer away. And he's often the one in the training
room with a bag of ice on his shoulder, ready
to toss in the sponge. We saw it with the Dodgers.
He got lit up with the Mets in the postseason.
Now he's with the Rangers and he's up to his
old Shenanigans yet again. And my advice to my friends
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in Arlington, the Rangers simply cannot depend on Mad Max
to step up to the challenge in late season games
in both the regular season and the postseason. Hasn't been
that guy, Pal. He hadn't been that guy for a
number of years, all right, final point, So a lot
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of wild guessing going on. We're not even done with
the regular season. People already looking ahead to the Hot
Stove League, and some people putting their scuba gear on
and going down to the bottom of the free agency ocean.
In the middle of all of that is an outfielder
for the Chicago Cubs who can play first base, Cody Bellinger,
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who is likely to cash in. He's had a big
return to glory season in Chicago. Now we are told
to expect a biding war. The latest report says, a
bitting war between the Yankees, Giants, and Padres for Cody
Bellinger unless he runs into some kind of roadblock. And
we're making it right now. Bob Nightingale tells us that
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Cody Bellinger is seeking a deal worth more than two
hundred million dollars. Fine and dandy. I'm sure that there
are many players that would like two hundred million dollar contracts.
I know some gas backs that would like two undred
million dollar contracts. So the question on this one, how
are things looking for Cody Bellinger in free agency at
(10:15):
this point? Based on this latest reporting. So we are
at the part of the Bellinger story where we're in
the redistricting phase, meaning that super agent Scott Boris, who
already took a shot at the Dodgers, implied that it
was their fault that Bellinger stunk for two years. Scott
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Boris has a lot of friends who are baseball writers,
and it makes sense if you were a baseball writer,
you do want to be friendly with Scott Boris because
he knows everything. He's the most powerful man in baseball,
and so Boris right now is using his sock puppets
in the baseball media to readdistrict the maps, his preferred
destinations for Cody Belcher. He's got it all planned out.
(10:59):
It's all wishful thinking. It would be malpractice for anyone
to give Cody Bellinger two hundred million dollars based on
one good season. He's been great. I'm gonna say, sit
here behind these microphones and say that Bellinger has not
been wonderful in the bubble of playing at Wrigley Field
for the Cubs. He's been great, But how do you
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know for sure that this is not a mirage? And
are you gonna pay what could be a one off?
Because Bellinger was completely overmatched by big league pitching in
both twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two look like
he should be selling insurance rather than playing professional baseball.
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And now everyone's supposed to just zip their lips up
right now because Belger's had a big season in twenty
twenty three. But yet he was waist deep in quicksand
utter garbage, so much so that the Dodgers said good
by to a guy that was an MVP for their team.
They said, we're not gonna even offer you a contract.
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You're that useless. Get out of here. And so he
goes to Chicago. He plays well. Now Bellinger's going to
get a contract. But if I'm in charge, I'm not
paying Code Belger two hundred million dollars? Are you kidding me?
But all it takes is one sucker, And Scott Boris
knows better than just about anybody in the world. There's
always a sucker out there. There's always some owner who's
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horny to make the big free agent signing that's willing
to overpay. Lately, that's that owner's been in San Diego.
That's been the way it's gone. But I would pay
Ballenger for three years, I'd pay him seventy five million.
That seems like it's trump change in modern baseball. But
I would not go two hundred million dollars. But it's
not my money, so keep your eyes peeled. But I
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do like the fact that they're already planting Scott Borris
and his agency leaking information to certain baseball writers, in
this case Bob Nightingale, to try to redistrict and plan
out the bidding war for Cody Bellinger. It is the
Ben Malord Show. If you would like to comment on
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it will be all about the NFL. We'll be rehashing
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(13:31):
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those that dominate and all in between. But for now,
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college football. We started the show about an hour ago.
We ranted and raved about Dion Sanders and his debut
Brian Kelly at LSU as they got cooked by Florida State.
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Speaker 1 (15:35):
Maller started out talking to baseball Dodgers and Braves played
over the weekend as we wind down the baseball season
the month of September, the playoffs right around the corner
here and supermarket Steve writes, and he also wants to
yap about something we mentioned with Cody Bellinger, the seed
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being planted on where Bellinger is going to end up
in free the agency Scott Boris making sure to plant
a story about that, and super Marcus Steve says Cody
Bellinger was ruined by the shift.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
If the shift was still around, he would be batting
one fifty with thirty or so.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Dingers. We according to Scott Boris, the super agent there
for Major League Baseball and it happens to be Cody
Bellinger's right hand man. There. He said, no, it's because
the Dodgers forced Bellinger to play while he was hurt.
And then I did like the fact we mentioned this
last week at the end of the week, how Scott
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Boris then had to clarify what he was saying. You
had to clarify what he was saying in order to
not piss off the Dodgers, because that's one team. If
you're Scott Boris, you can take shots at the Oakland
A's or the Royals because they're not going to sign
any of your clients. It doesn't matter. They're not a
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team that you deal with. There are thirty Major League
Baseball teams, but realistically the teams that bid on Scott Boris' clients,
there's probably about a dozen, if that many. About a
dozen got the Red Sox and the Yankees, the Mets
in theory, those teams, the Dodgers, You've got the Cubs
occasionally not now, the Texas Rangers, the Padres, the Phillies,
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the Atlanta Braves in theory would be on that list,
and a few other teams. And that's how it goes.
I wait for my board to be reset. A big
league owner under attack for bully ball. What is this
all about, you say?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Dateline San Diego explosive story over the weekend involving the
pod Squad Padres.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Have been spending a lot of money, a lot of money.
They one of the big ticket teams. Just had them
on that list of teams that Scott Boris negotiates with.
But the guy that owns the Padres, the feel good
owner who's spending all kinds of money on the Podre
roster there has been accused of being a business bully.
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Peter Seidler is his name, you know. He's the grandson
of Walter O'Malley the Bums when they moved from Brooklyn
to Los Angeles in nineteen fifty eight. He's been owning
the Podres since twenty twenty, been spending tons of money.
But Peter Sider called out big story in The New
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York Post over the weekend, saying that the Podres owner
owns a company that, according to the allegations, has been
playing dirty with mom and pop businesses and it's all
about franchising of martial arts. Say what, let me explain here.
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So there was a lawsuit filed and the company that
Peter Siler, one of the companies that Peter Siler runs,
ended up overtaking this massive mixed martial arts franchise business.
There's this big group and they oversee your neighborhood mixed
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martial arts operation, right. And so there's a lawsuit filed
in federal court last year alleging that these people that
were part of this martial arts outfit, the mom and
pop businesses, were tricked into becoming operators after being given
false promises, including the amount of profit they were going
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to make from the karate studio and the amount of
hours they were going to have to use to operate them.
And it goes into great detail here that they were
given the old bait and switch. They signed up and
then it's like, oh, you'll make a lot of money,
but you have to work a certain amount of money
a certain amount of hours. And these people thought they
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wouldn't have to work that hard. Surprise, surprise. Yeah. And
so the lawsuit is claiming that the guy that owns
the padres that's been spending all this money, has this
amazing reputation. People in San Diego love this guy's the
greatest owner in the history of San Diego Sports, Peter Sidler.
But he is when he's not running the Podres. Penny Pincher,
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Penny Pincher, Peter Sidler, and they have the third biggest
payroll in baseball, the San Diego Padres. Xander Bogarts, who
can't even figure out how to run the bases since
he left the Red Sox, is on that list, Manny Machado.
They paid the steroid guy big money to tease. He's
got the big money. And the Padres have not only
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been a baseball team, they've been abject failures this season.
But we'll see what happens with this lawsuit. And the
owner of the team, they're the Padres again being called
out that he's apparently been trying to silence these these
these people here and it's his equity as a Seidler
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Equity Partners group, and these these hedge fund operators, these
are the people, man, These are the people that stir
the product. Yeah, all right, let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Pete in Pittsburgh. It must
be a holiday if Peter's calling in, Hello.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Pete and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
Happy Labor Day. Ben do you hear me?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
No, I can't hear you.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Okay, Happy Labor Day, America. We're making a comeback. Don't
worry about these past couple of years. It's going to
get better. We're gonna make it. Donald Trump is coming back.
America is going to come back. We love this country,
we love freedom, we love Peter.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Pete, you've always been kind of against labor though, Pete,
you've always been up against labor.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I have not labored much in my life.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I've known you for a long time, and you've never
been like the kind of guy that's out the.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Labor very much. Either you're on the radio, well that
is true. Wait a minute, dumb laugh track in the background.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
You do not like the laugh track with the laugh track? No,
you're being distracted, Pete, your professional radio caller.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
I think we got rid of Roberto. The call screen
was really nice to make.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Really, he must not know you.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Sha another guy, the guy with the.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I don't know what you're talking about, but here's a
fun fact, Pete, the guy that's screening the calls here,
I bet he was like a toddler when he first
started calling Fox Sports Radio. About that?
Speaker 8 (22:36):
Does America know that you're going to TV.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, I don't think. I don't think America is prepared
for me to be on teen Man.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Listen, you're on the national radio show. If you're in
the market, and you better tell everybody, now.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Peter, are you going to be watching? That's the question.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You can absolutely all right.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
I can't believe. This is the most exciting thing I've heard.
That's why I'm calling you tonight. You're gonna do Benny
Versus a Penny, and it's going to be on TV,
and America loved you. A lot of people follow you
on Twitter. I'm in shock.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
This is amazing. Pet You never thought now. You told
me years ago that I was destined to be just
a failure as an overnight I.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Said that sarcastically. I always knew how talented you are.
Do you hear how great your voice is. I love women,
but you have a really nice voice.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Well, Pete, please, I mean we're like, yeah, I mean, Pete,
you know.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
What I mean. Like, you have a very strong, structured
voice where you could turn on people now turning us
on on the radio. You know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Calm down, Pete, keep your pants on now, Peter, I
feel like you're trying to butter me up now because
I'm doing a TV show, So now you want to
be my friend again because you haven't called in a
long time. And then you see that news and now
now you've you've popped out of the woodwork and you're like, hey,
let me call Maller up because maybe I get a
cameo on the TV show.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
You know, you're a auge celebrity. Let's talk. I called
for one reason tonight, to let America know the Pitts,
Perks Ollers are back. It's been allowed. You know, Big
Ben Roethl's burn here a Hall of Famer. We thank you.
But we have Kenny Pickett. Now we have a Hey Ben,
this is getting cornty right now with all this soundtrack.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I'm not controlling any of the drops here. I have no.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Control over whoever is controlling.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You're getting frustrated.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Now they're playing more drops, Pete because you're being annoyed.
So now they're playing more drops on the show.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
What do you think about the Steelers going to this season?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Well, I like the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Well, Mike tom I would have been a Tomlin guy
because he's always there's a lot. There's a good physicality
with the Pittsburgh Steels, the way they play defense. But
they are a team.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
That's you're you're telling me you're not even following it.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, no, no, I am following you.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
I am even know how good we're going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
They're not gonna be that good.
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Oh, we're not going to be that good. Definitely, you're
not following it. Ben, You're too busy.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No, you're too You're too far into the middle.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
One. You better follow this. You better really be in
depth with what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, I am. It's going to be start debuts on
Friday on television. All right, all right, Pete, hang up
on yourself the material, Jonathan and Delaware says, please, uh gong, Pete,
he's effing horrible, horrible caller who needs a pop filter
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on his said headset and also has been very creepy,
he says, towards women in his community. Well, he does
work at a ballet there, Jonathan in Pittsburgh. From what
I From what I understand, Ferdcat says, with calls like that,
it's easy to see why Eddie is such a big
fan of the legend. Pete and Pittsburgh understandable. I'm not
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playing unless I get mine brawl. We'll get to that story.
A follow up on that story also later the hour,
we have Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I'll do all of it, but.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Right now, let's get you caught up on everything going
on in the old over night.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And we bounced the microphone over to eighty Guarcia, who
will run around with games of note.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
I don't know what that person was talking about. I
love pet and Pittsburgh. What are you talking about, fellow
Steeler fan? We're tight peting.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Third Kat say. He did say you're a big fan
of the legend Pete and Pittsburgh. Yeah, that would not
be you playing those soundbites, because that would be wrong
of you to do that. That would be inappropriate to
try to.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
No, No, I don't have the ability to do that
kind of thing. No, I just read the scorees. I
don't have nothing to highlight. It's nothing, none of it.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They in your lane. Maybe it was park of the
snow dog that was in here and hitting buttons with
his paw.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
I can either confirm nor deny that. Let's start with
some college football. We had a battle of ranked teams
two teams in the top ten. The only battle of
ranked teams from Week one to college football, and was
pretty good game for a half. Second half, though, eight
th ranked Florida State pulls away from fifth ranked LSU
for a forty five to twenty four victory. LSU led
by three at the half, are outscored thirty two to
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seven in the second half. Seminoles quarterback Jordan Travis a
big game three out of forty two yards passing with
five touchdowns, four through the air and one on.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
The ground in the victory.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Eighteenth rank Oregon State had their way at San Jose
State forty two to seventeen. Beavers quarterback dj Ungilile, the
transfer from Clemson, five touchdowns three passing, two rushing in
the victory and big ten. It season opener for both
the Rutgers. In Northwestern the Scarlett Knights with a twenty
four to seven win over the Wildcats. In baseball games
of note, you have the Giants being shut up by
the Padres four nothing, San Francisco dropping three to four
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against San Diego. In that series, the Diamondbacks lose to
the Orioles eight to five. Baltimore still leading the Al
East by two and a half on Tampa. Bay Rays
beat the Guardian six to two. Reds fall hard of
the Cubs fifteen to seven, Chicago, scoring seven times in
the eighth inning e and a half three open four
Chicago three and a half back in Milwaukee the Nlcentral Race.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
The Brewers did lose to the Phillies four to two, and.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
The Marlins drop up a four game series sleep of
the Nationals six ' four. In the finale, Miami now
in a four way tie, but the final wildcards BoNT
in the National League along with San Francisco, Arizona and Cincinnati.
Mariners lose to the Mets six to three. Petawanzo for
New York two homers. He's got forty on the season
one hundred runs driven in as well. Yankees wrap up
a three game sweep in Houston with a six to
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one win over the Astros, while the Rangers edged the
Twins sixty five and oh Dallas Garcia's walk off solo
homer in the ninth, so Texas moves to a tie
with Houston and they're both one game back of Seattle
in that AL West Race. Blue Jays down the Rockies
seven to five. Toronto's a game and a half out
in the AL wildcard race behind both Houston and Texas,
and the Dodgers avoid being swept in a four game
series in La as they get a three.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
To one win over the Braves.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
I know you're very excited to know about the US
men's basketball team losing in the Foebo World Cup to Lithuania.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
All my side the flag, Eddie. I can't believe four
Iyer Steve Kerr immediate.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
Team USA losing to Demonte Sabonis and Jonas Valan Schunis,
who apparently are NBA players, are worth one time. USA
is still advancing though from Sacramento quarterfinals. They've got a
four one record up next day we'll face Italy on Tuesday.
We will all be glued to our television.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I'm told by one of my basketball that the rebounding
is an issue for Team USA because you have to
work hard to get rebounds, and apparently they're not working
that hard. But the story here, Eddie. In college football,
how about this Texas State Eddie, twenty seven and a
half point underdog. Over the weekend they beat Baylor. Oh
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my yeah, and daj.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
Greg Tooey is doing a dance, famous, famous bobcatle Um.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
But the Texas Tech twenty seven at point dogs. They
beat Baylor. The Texas State program brought in fifty one
new scholarship players. The only school that brought in more
was Colorado with Dion Sanders.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
And how much did Texas State get paid to beat Baylor?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Oh, I see you're gonna bring up Fresno State, and
I knew you were going to bring that. I don't
know the amount of money that Texas Estate got paid.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Well, you you mentioned fres State got paid one point
five million to go and beat Purdue.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
But I gotta mentioned that. You mentioned that.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I did mention that. I did.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You just mentioned it. I didn't mention it.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
It's a guy.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
I got to imagine that that they got at least
that much, right from Baylor. Baylor's got more money than Purdue,
you would think.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I don't know. I'll have to look it up. We'll
have to see if we can figure out how much
it's closer to travel though, right don't they have to
cover the travel? Isn't that also part of the deal
because Fresno had to travel to Indiana for that game
with Purdue.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
I don't know if that works as far as the
payment and where it goes and what it's for.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Include some of the travel costs and all that stuff.
I thought it's possible.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
It's possible.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah, did you. I assume you watched every second of it,
every second.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Glorious, glorious victory.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Get a smile from here to year.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
You want to be honest to God.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Truth.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Yeah, it made my whole day. And my wife is smart.
She took advantage. She's like, oh, you're in a really
good mood. Let's do all these honey do lists around
the house. I'm like, you know what, I don't even
Let's do it. Let's do all of that. I don't care.
I'm I'm so happy. We'll do whatever you want to do.
One do yard work. I want to do whatever. Let's
do it.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, smile on your face. Your your Fresno steak.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
You're on.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You have the flag out in front of your house, right,
you state flag? The whole routine though, now your whole,
your whole stick. When Fresno State wins a game, do
they have another money game coming in?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
They do a couple of weeks they'll be at Arizona
State that game.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I think I am going to that game.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You're gonna you're that excited, You're gonna make a little
road trip. You're gonna drive over to Phoenix for the
day there.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Huh I think I am.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah, all right, all right.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I've made that drive a couple of times where I
just drove out for a few hours and then drove back.
You're gonna do that?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Are you gonna spend No, I'll stay. I'll stay and
come back on Sunday, Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Because I know good place is a truck stop out
in the Arizona Desert.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
You can stop there, and I know you know good
truck stops, airport hotels, you know all those.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Of course, a man of the people condolences. Sad news,
Eddie Roade Dog Nick passed away. We found out over
the weekend. Friend of our friend, Moving Man Matten there
in Boston. Road Dog Nick. The demon's got him, so
rest in peace, road Dog Nick. We've we've heard a
lot of stories about road Dog Nick over the years
from Moving Man mad and he'll hopefully be calling in.
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I don't know, he's gonna call in now or sometime
this week, and he'll give us the lowdown. Robin rights
and says, I love Pete. Where has he been my
whole life? It's from from Robin Well. Pete and Pittsburgh's
been hiding out in Pennsylvania and he has worked at
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a adult establishment. I don't know if he still works
at the Ballet and I don't know if he works
there or not. But back in the day he famous.
It was one of Howard Stearn's callers when Stern was good.
It was one of Stern's regular callers, and famously the
great Pete and Pittsburgh story when I got whacked by
the company in nine, Pete and Pittsburgh called up complaining
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on the Stern Show and dropped my name. Of course,
Howard Stern had no idea who I was, but he
dropped my name on the show to complain, to voice
his displeasure with the move, and the company realizing what
a great mistake they made. Six months and twenty six
days later, after that faithful decision, they decided to hire
me back. They said, you know what, let's go back then,
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go back to mallor one more time. Hey, Chip and
the Ques writes in regarding the story we gave you
about the Podreis owner Peter Seidler. New York Post has
a big story about Peter Sidler being a bully in
his other business outside of baseball. A Chip says Peter
Sidler is a well known tight wad. Rumor has it
he's so cheap he locks up all the paper clips
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at night before going home. Yeah, well, he can't be
as cheap as the old red Zoner from a million
years ago. Marg shot, I can't be that cheap, right,
I mean, that's next level cheap. She would repackage donuts
and leftover donuts. I mean the story is on her
legendary from back in the back in the day. Anyway,
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I'm not playing unless I get mine.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's a Blake Snell story. Blake Snell infamous on this
show for his ridiculous comments during the global pandemic. The
meatthead pitcher for the San Diego Padres. Padres are going
nowhere this year. One of the great underachieving teams in
baseball over the last generation. Considering the player payroll third
in baseball, Padres will not qualify for the playoffs, But
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Blake Snell loves him fish tacos, He loves San Diego,
and he wants to stay with the Padres. There's one problem.
The Padres have not opened negotiations on a new contract
and Blake Snell heading towards free agency but would like
to get a contract extension. He is going to be
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the number one, number one and the pitcher available on
the mark, which means the teams that need pitching, like
the Red Sox and the Meds and others will be
bitting on the pitcher from the Padres there by the
name of Blake Snell. I would like to see him
go to New York. He will be eaten alive by
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the New York market. That would be wonderful for me.
Blake Snell just glorious to watch him pitch there in
New York and be torn apart. He's thirty years old,
which means he's got a couple of years left where
he can be an effective starting pitcher and then after
that the slow decline. But here's another guy you look at.
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Blake Snell, much like Cody Beounzen, is not as pronounced
as Bellinger. Where Bellinger was just horrific and now has
been terrific for the Cubs this year, but the last
couple of years, Blake Snell kind of just a guy
not that good and now here is a free agent
year and he's got an ERA of two and a half,
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and he's been one of the more effective starting pitchers
in baseball. He's talked about being a cy young candidate,
even though the Podrays are not not a playoff team,
not going to be close to a playoff team by
the time it's all done ton Now for the Insta trivia.
Here we go. Blank lead lead touchdowns in twenty plus
airyard catches in twenty twenty two. Again, blank lead all
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tight ends in twenty plus airyard catches in twenty twenty two.
That is the Insta Trivia. The answer and Mallard of
the third degree, we'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
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Speaker 4 (37:08):
It's Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And here is the Insta trivia blank led all tight
ends in twenty plus air yard catches in twenty twenty two.
That is the question. What is the answer? As the
new NFL season kicks off on Thursday with the Chiefs
Favorite at Home Orange and Blue Blood, Brett's going with
Dan Snyder Doctor Octopus from Asher Doctor Doom guested by Fergcat.
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Who else do we have? Larry Boa from mister nice Guy, TJ.
Hockinson of EKE in Roseville, Minnesota. Doug Williams tossed out
by Shane of Des Moines. Who else do we have?
Page Down, Crazy Legs Hirsch from Mark in Santa Monica,
Kellen Winslow from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan, Kyle Pitts
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from Robbie the Falcon fan, Joan River There's quite the
name from Johnny Q. Who else do we have? Rulan
Jones guessed by Tony that's his answer, General Booty from
Ryan lou Holtz guest by Sean in Portland to Eddie,
do you have an answer.
Speaker 7 (38:15):
Eddie, Yes, it's a former Oakland Raider tight end the
ghost to Dave Casper.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Dave Casper will fine answer. You're incorrect, Eddie. It is
a former Raider though, Darren Waller. Darren Waller now playing
for the New York Football Giants, and he missed eight
games last season, but he still had the most twenty
plus air yard catches. Here we go, it's smeller. How
about that?
Speaker 9 (38:40):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets
grilled and we say hello to Shae. It's Club Shay.
Who's in for the Kooper Loop?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Hey Ben?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
How are we doing? Shay? You sound full of energy
and excitement. You're glad to be here. I can tell. Oh,
it's it's Labor Day week? Are you kidding me? It's
my favorite holiday every exactly. So what do we have
on the third degree?
Speaker 10 (39:03):
So chout out of Michigan indicates the Lions had a
quote good dialogue unquote on contract extensions for Jared Goff?
Does he stay with Detroit long term?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
All right? So I would be surprised if something gets
done before the season opener, which is obviously a few
days away. The ball is in Jared Goff's court. The
Lions did leak this, which indicates they are in negotiations,
so they could be an announcement before the kickoff. But
if I'm the Lions, I wait a little bit. There's
not gonna be a bitting war for Jared Goff. I
want to see if he can do what he did
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last year again before I pay him. That's if I'm
the Lions. If I'm Jared Goff, I take the money
right now. He's got two years left on his contract.
It's not urgent for the Lions or for him, But
sign the contract if you're golf before the Lions get
onto you and they realize that this is probably not
the move to make next.
Speaker 10 (39:52):
Some news out of Vegas. NFL teams reportedly keeping an
eye out on the Raiders for potential fire cell bet.
How do you see is playing out in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
So the Raiders are one of those teams that are
teetering on the brink of the abyss. They're stuck in
no man's land, not as talented as the Chiefs are
Chargers in the AFC West, So they're fighting with the
Broncos to avoid the seller in the division. And you
look around. Secondly, Josh McDaniels is still trying to get
his guys and air quotes on the roster, which means
(40:24):
a slow start from Vegas and that will trigger the
panic alarm bells in the Raider facility. Raiders open up
with the Broncos, Bills on the road, Steelers at home,
and the Chargers, so they're looking at one in three
or zero to four. The turning point game is against
the Broncos. They lose that game here to begin the year,
(40:45):
and then they play at Buffalo. That's a loss to
the Steelers. That's a loss. They're ow and three and
then all bets are off.
Speaker 10 (40:50):
Next the Angels are said to still be over the
luxury the luxury tax threshold, despite recent release of six players.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
What do you make of this? Yeah, so this is interesting. Now,
I understand they did just get over that. They put
catcher Max Stassy on the injured list and he's gonna
miss the rest of the year, so they're under that.
But those trades were supposed to clear the way. It's
a classic economic blunder by the bean counters for the Angels,
and the reason to get rid of all those guys
(41:19):
to get under the luxury attack and they still had
to get rid of another player to get under the number.
It makes no sense. It's an embarrassment. The Angels did
the right thing by going for it, and then they've
screwed it up since then. How did we do up
quick Way? Quick Way?
Speaker 3 (41:34):
I won?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I told me I won.
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