October 6, 2023 • 40 mins
Are you completely sold on the Atlanta Braves as the overwhelming favorites? What is Pete Alonso saying by hiring Scott Boras? Do you buy the Red Sox wooing Shohei Ohtani? Maller to the Third and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
So we carry on and're.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Not gonna rehash the Chicago Bears and they're vaporizing of
the Washington football team. That was a rat kill, unexpected
rat kill situation. But our lead this hour comes from baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
This was the part of the show where we're going
to break down the dramatic third day of the Wildcard
round and how amazing it was, the game changing managerial decision,
the walk off home run to send the team into
the divisional series.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And then we looked at.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The schedule and there was bumpkis no one, no one
out there playing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So we're still here.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We're playing, we're ready to rock, and our lead does
come from the diamond. As ballparks were silent on Thursday,
but thanks to the sweeps of the wildcard round, we
gotta wait till tomorrow. Tomorrow, it's another day, Saturday, that's
when the baseball will resume, and we are we're down
to the Grade eight, the Elite eight, however you want
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to say it, in the baseball playoffs. Now the curtain
goes up on the divisional round and there is one
clear favorite, and you know who that is, and I
know who that is, but maybe the person in the
back of the room does not know.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
They might not know. They're not like us.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So we are told that the Atlanta Braves are the
odds on favorite to win the World Series entering the postseason,
as they begin on Saturday against the Phillies. The gambling
market believes in their old mascot chief Knokahoma as the
favorite to win the baseball Championship. Here with Ronald o'cuno
(02:32):
Junior and Olsen and all the big stars there, they
have an electric team. They had the top record during
the regular season, and now guess what they are.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The favorites on the gambling market. So let us discuss
the question.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And we'll keep it simple because it's just it's just talk.
We're just talking, all right. Are you completely sold on
the Atlanta Braves as the overwhelming favorite to rise up
below the Mason Dixon line and win the championship?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So I am shaking my head no.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And if you can see me, you're a stoker, okay,
but I am shaking my head no. Now my observations,
I've got environmental factors, coupon code, and pigs in a blanket,
and we'll combine all of these things together, and money
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is no object.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We'll have a night on the town. Money is no object.
So number W. So some people are getting carried away here.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I've seen it. This Braves team. They are perfect ten
greatest Braves team of all time. People are going fast
and loose with the rhetoric about the Atlanta Braves, and
they're good.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The Braves are good, right, they are absolutely good.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'm not here to knock them off their pedestal, but
I I am here to tell you that they are
not invincible. There are soft spots in the Atlanta Braves.
And I'm gonna give you several things to file away
the blueprint, if you will, of why the Atlanta Braves
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are not going to win the World Series. I'm gonna
I'm gonna walk you through this. I'll hold your hand
and I'll walk you through this. U because I've got
I've got a big tongue and i like to talk.
So here's the deal, all right, And these are all
bullet points for the Atlanta Braves why they will not
win the World Series. Atlanta has the toughest road to
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the championship of any team in baseball.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Too or false? That is true. That is true.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The Phillies are on a burner. The Phillies are loaded.
They've got sluggers here, there, and everywhere. They've got some
decent starting pitching. They've got the star power to match
the Braves. Should Atlanta get past the Phillies, more likely
than yea, they are going.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
To have the big Blue.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Wrecking Crew Dodger Baseball on deck. So you gotta get
through Philly. You gotta get through the Dodgers, and then,
like the Orioles or the Rangers, that are going to
win the American League. Anybody but the A Holes. Remember that,
anybody but the A holes in Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So we are pulling for anyone but the A Holes.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But whoever wins is gonna be a decent team other
than Houston in the World Series if you.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Were to get there. So that's three layers of adversity.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And then as far as just the baseball stuff, Atlanta's
biggest flaws are bullpen and defense. They had decision. Everyone's
got decisions to make. The Braves decided we want to
go with the big boppers. We are not teeny boppers.
We like big boppers, and so they picked a power
over defense, and they don't have a smooth defensive team.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
There are players. The one that really stands out here
to keep.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
An on as you watch the Braves in the playoffs
this year is Ozzie Albi's, who is below average. He's
a second baseman. Matt Olsen is also not a great
defensive first base. Me even kind of hide him at first base,
but I don't know how much you can hide him
because the ball seems to fly there every time there's
a ball hit on the ground. Well, he was catching
the ball at first base he can do, but fielding
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the position not that great. And even a guy like
Ronald Cooner Junior, while he's got the bazooka for an arm,
not a tremendous defensive player. So, and there's a few
other issues. So essentially, what the Braves need to do
is they need to go on eBay and buy a
VHS tape of Tom Amanski's instructural videos on how to
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play defense. And we've seen plenty of teams over the
years that have had their battleship sunk because they're poor
defensively defensive boners. In the postseason, most games are close.
Most games are close here. You're not going to plow
through the playoffs. And at some point in the close
game eighth inning, got a couple runners on two out,
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you kick the ball and that allows a couple runs
to score.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That's it. You're done, right, So the defense is probably
now the bullpens.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Nobody else is talking about the Braves bullpen, and I
don't really know why. It doesn't make a lot of sense, Atlanta.
You don't look at the overall numbers of the Braves bullpen.
What have you done for me lately? The atl the
Braves bullpen ranked twenty ninth in.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The big leagues.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Over the last month of the season, they had a
collective era the Atlanta bullpen of five point four. That
was the Braves er out of the bullpen. Now, he said, well,
there's some guys heard, they got guys back, and this,
that and the other thing. Make all kinds of justifications
for that number. But there's only thirty teams, and the
Braves had the twenty ninth ranked bullpen. And I never
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played in the midjor leagues and I just hosted an
overnight show. But I don't think that's a recipe for
long term success, considering that starting pitchers are a certain
type of flower, the bus willow flower, and they don't
go more than five innings. So the other bugaboo for
the Atlanta Braves as we chop down the Braves environmental factors.
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Just the nature of the beast. And trust me on
this one. I know what I'm talking about because the
Dodgers of the last few years, at several points they've
had the top team in baseball.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But it's baseball. The nature of the beast. In baseball,
it's a weak link sport.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That means the quality of the second rate minor players
on your roster more important.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Than any other sport. It just is right. It's more
important than basketball.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Certainly, star power does sell tickets, but it doesn't guarantee anything. Otherwise,
the Angels with Mike Trout and Otani would have had.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Back to back World Series titles, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But baseball, by its nature, right, by its nature, it
spreads around opportunities to everybody. You get a chance, you
get a chance, you get a chance, and so the
guys to move the needle don't necessarily get an opportunity to.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Move the needle.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right, Page two here, staying with baseball, but going
away from the playoffs, we go to Queens with free
agency one year away. Peter Alonzo, the slugger of the Metropolitans,
has gone out and hired who Scott Boris, the man
who is the gold standard for representation if you're a
professional baseball player. Now, what is Peter Alonso saying by
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hiring Scott Boris.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
As his agent?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What he It's not so much what he's saying. His
actions are to draw a battle line. A line has
been drawn in the dirt, and that's what's happening. Tensions
have been ratcheted up. What Peter Alonso is saying with
his actions are it's this, no coupon code will apply,
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No coupon code will apply. Alonzo is not going to
give the Mets a hometown discount.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
No should.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You should never give a big market team a hometown discount.
I don't you should give anyone at hometown discount.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
But that's just me.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Basically, there's plenty of money in professional sports now. The
Polar Bear Peter Lonzo. He also must be willing. If
you sign with Boris, you gotta be willing to relocate.
You have to be willing to go to the transfer
portal and you go on the whole Bow Express down
the Dusky Winnemuckle Road. Willing to play for anybody, whether
that's the Angels, the Giants, the Red Sox, or a
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mystery team, whatever team, You'll be on a knife's edge.
Whatever team offers you the most money, you just gotta
go full throttle.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's it. You go to that team. That's the rule.
That's the rule.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And then if nobody wants you because you're injured, you
just go back to the Minnesota Twins. Shout out Carlos
Koreah all right, final point, let's head to the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We're talking bass ball.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Some chatter. We love chatter. It drives the conversation on
sports radio. So some chatter here around baseball that show,
hey oh, Toddy and the Red Sox are being linked
together by the baseball pundit community, that the Red Sox
and Otani connect the dots. One executive telling the New
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York Post that he believes there is real interest from
Boston in Otani. It had been assumed until Atani got hurt,
that he was gonna go to the Dodgers. Some say
maybe he'll go back to the Angels because he is injured.
But do you buy Here's the question, do you buy
the Red Sox wooing woo Joe Heyotoni. So I'll go
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first here and the answer is yes, yes. Now there
is a difference, there's a split here between wooing and signing.
But keep in mind Otani just made a business deal
with New Balance. Now why does that matter? Why does
that matter? I'll tell you because and actually I worked
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one of the radio stations I did some work for
when I was in Boston a couple of years ago.
Their studio was right down the Street from the headquarters
of New Balance. They are a Boston based company, so
Otani now you play anywhere you want. But Otani has
agreed to a business relationship with New Balance, so the
Boston market's obviously a big deal for them. That courtship,
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though over cocktails and pigs in the blanket or a blake,
would be a symbiotic situation. We mutually beneficial because my
boots on the ground in Boston tell me that the
last play Socks at Finway lost the juice. That Finway
was like a morgue at the end of last season.
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There was no life, no passion, none of that. In
the second half of the season, empty seats and apathy
and Red Sox brass. You can cultivate buzz even if
it's fake buzz and goodwill by playing foot seat with
Otani and for show, hey, he would benefits kind of
obvious because you want to have a bidding war.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Let's say the Dodgers want o'time. We think they do.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Let's say the Dodgers offer him a big contract, and
then the Red Sox say.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
What about us?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
And it's like inca terror and dueling pianos here and
that will inflate the value of O tony.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You see how that works. You can just fiddle around
and get more money. Yeah, all right, it is the
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Speaker 1 (16:55):
But let's see raider freak rights.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Since this great monologue, Benjamin, only you should have been
nodding your head yes for.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The Braves World Series champs. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't know about that, mister Luciana Wrights in seven
point eight out of ten on the Mallard monologue. Who
do you think is going to get swept in the
divisional round which kicks off, of course on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Well, I don't think anyone's gonna be swept. How about that?
That's my hot take.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Even the Twins and people now the defaults always the Twins.
It's got to be the Twins.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm not saying that I'm not the one.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
The one that you would think would would be most
likely for me would be the Diamondbacks. They won eighty
four games during the regular season. The Dodgers have pretty
much treated them like a punching bag.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Over the years.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But the Dodgers are slopping together their pitching staff. So
it's hard for me to imagine the Dodgers the way
they're playing, the style of play that they're using in
the playoffs. They can win bunch of but they're not
gonna sweep anybody, because everyone's got to be perfect. The
starting pitcher for the Dodgers, they're doing the old Tampa
Bay thing, Andrew Friedman. The old GM in Tampa has
taken the model of the Rays officially to the Dodgers,
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where it's eighteen batters at the most for the start.
You could be pitching a perfect game, a perfect game
and strike everyone out and they take you out. Of course,
if you strike everyone out, you throw too many pitches,
so they'd already have taken you out by then.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
But that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But the two that I'm looking for, I actoually be at
the Dodger Diamondbacks series.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
The first first couple of games.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
But I'm looking forward to checking out the Orioles and
see if they can avoid the choke after winning one
hundred plus games. And the Rangers and then the Phillies,
the Phillies in the Atlanta Braves. That's it. I mean,
those are two big ones and of course, to make
sure that the twins eliminate the a holes, which and
people have been sending me. I've been gett a couple
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of messages. Well, you can't really pull for the twins
because they got Carlos Correa and he's a cheating ahole,
which is true. And I don't like Correy at all,
and I would it would really be a shit if
he somehow had a minor injury that knocked him out
of the playoffs. But I will tell you for the
greater good, the astro brand Al Touve, who is in
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the dictionary for cheater. You know, if you call somebody
an Altuve, you're calling them a cheater. And Bregman with his.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But I can't say.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He's just got a very annoying look to him, very swarmy, annoying.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Look, Bregman. Anyway, what else do we have?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Page down here, page down fer catch is on my
big board. It has the Dodgers, is the World Series favorites.
But the only thing that really matters this postseason are
these four words. Anybody but the Astros. We can have
three vacated championships in six years.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, well, listen as you said, and you play this.
If the astros are given that hunk of metal, it
doesn't count as long as they have al two bragman
on the roster and a culture of cheating. Real baseball
people don't acknowledge it. They don't.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
They're a fraud. And because the Commissioner of Baseball, Rob
Manford is spineless and wouldn't punish the players. I have
not watched this Frontline documentary. Some of you have been
saying I need to watch it, and I guess Fay Vincent,
the old commissioner of Baseball, who's a very old man,
now very old man, but fay Vincent was like, hey,
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I would have thrown them all out of baseball.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's what a real commissioner does. That's what a real
boss does, not a stooge like Rob Mainford. That's it.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Alf the alien old piner says, great monologue. I just
ordered my Otani jersey.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Shane of the Moines says, Ben, are you allowed to
claim Fergcat as a dependent on your taxes? As we
can't survive without you or he can't survive without You're
just curious. You don't need to be jealous. Okay, you
do not need to be jealous. Pedro writes in on
the Bears game, he said, his next five games, we'll
speak volumes as the Weatherfields is the guy best believe
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he's been hearing the tank for Caleb Williams talk. He said,
hold my bear, he's tied for the league lead and
touchdown passes. Almost got his neck broken on a sack
where his head was slammed into the turf.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
What about the flag that's from Pedrian.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, when you peek ahead and when you look at
the Chicago Bears and their schedule, he said, well, we
know that Fields apparently can do okay against some really
crappy teams like the Broncos and the team that used
to be called the Redskins. But when do the Bears
play another good team? And they played Kansas City a
couple of years ago. That's a good team and that
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did not go well. That was a debacle, a absolute debacle.
And so next week in Week six, you've got the
Vikings and that you know that's not that's an average team.
Like then the Raiders, that's another bad team. So he
should play pretty well against the Raiders. The Chargers, who
I don't know what to make of the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Are they good? Are they bad?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
They've got a good offense, their defense doesn't impress me,
and their coaches of moron, But that's that's a Nike game.
Is that an I think that's a Sunday Sunday NI game?
Oh boy, I ad you will be taking that night
off Chargers and Bears. So that's that's what's ahead in
the near future the next three games, and then the
Saints suck and the Panthers suck, so you should do well.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Against those teams.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And it's really I'm looking ahead. There's only the Chargers
and the Lions you have to play in the division.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
That's really it. Like as far as teams that are considered.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Either good or above average, everyone else not Brown Sock, Cardinals, No,
they try, but they're not that good.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Green Bay, No, Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
That's that's what's ahead for Doug Bears. Well, this kind
of relates. This kind of relates. The Chicago Bears social
media team thought they would have some fun and they say,
you know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
We're gonna have a good time here.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, team's not playing. This is going before the game
on Thursday night. Before the game on Thursday night, all right,
so very slow start, zero and four record coming into
that game. Bears finally won, they won by twenty congratulations.
So ahead of the game, the social media department for
the Chicago Bears tried to kind of lighten things up
a little bit, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Have some fun. Why not, It's just football, that's it.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So they they had a post asking fans to give
the team a boy band name based on a photo
of five players. Okay, five because that's a boy band.
You know, five players and the boy band. That's kind
of how that works. And so what do you what
do you think happened when the Bears posted this on
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on social media?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, it was comedy goal.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It was like when we do lame jokes and people
send the jokes into Bed Malves show at gmail dot
com and they're all Lizzo or weed Man jokes. Now, Uh,
some of my favorites, and I know Eddie's a big
boy band fan, but some of my favorites, Eddie, these
are actual names Bears fans gave for the Chicago Bears
post there for boy bands. Uh, this one was I
think this one was my favorite.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Out of Sink. Out of Sink was the name there.
I thought that that's pretty good. Yeah, zero direction, Eddie,
is that that's pretty funny?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, that's not bad. The Jackson Ohen five or oh
and four?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
You know not?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
No, not as good? Earth Wind and Fire, Matt Eberflus.
You like that one.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
It's okay. The first two were gonna be tough to top.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, No, wins on the block? Is that the anything
for you?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
No?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
All right?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Ninety eight losses? Is that?
Speaker 8 (24:57):
No?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Started strong? Now we're face.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Boys to Meh, that's pretty good. That's pretty good, right.
How about this one?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
The the Jonas others, No, that's funny, Eddie, come on,
that's I always Sam?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Is that not funny? The Jonas others? Yeah? Is that
that's not bad? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
I don't like me and Me and Shavers debating whether
the Jonas Brothers are a boy band. I'd say that
they're not. I think the boy bands has been like
five random guys, four random guys just put together Jonas.
They are actually brothers.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
They play.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You can say that, but when the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend. So the legend or the
Jonas Brothers are a boy band? How about this one?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The Hacks and five. I like, I like I like
this one. Good got idea.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
These are all responses to the Chicago Bears social media
team posting to ask for a boy band name.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
For their photo. They sent out, Uh, I like this
one new kids who can't block? I like that? Ah good,
that's good. That's solid right.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Who knew the people had such creativity there in Chicago.
All right, that ends our boy band talking unless you
would like to continue at it if you have any
of the boy band thoughts. Yeah, that's good though out
of sink to sink the name of the Bears, the
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boy band there for the Bears and zero direction. That
is outstanding. So an NFL star apparently did not have
enough sucky. We'll get to that, but right now, let's
get you cut on everything going on in the overnight
and we head over to the Merman.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
A man who violated city ordinance by walking into a fountain.
Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Well, you know there's no criminal prosecution here.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
That is true, Sodom and gomors. It's the Old West California.
You can get any crime you want.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Let go, Yeah, good time.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Week five in the NFL getting underway with Thursday Night
Football and the Bears snapped their franchise record fourteen game
losing skid with a forty to twenty road win over
the Commanders. Justin Fields quarterback for Chicago, two hundred and
eighty two yards passing, four touchdowns, no interceptions. Wide receiver
DJ Moore his main target with two hundred and thirty
yards receiving and three touchdown reception. Chicago got off to
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a good start, had a seventeen to zering lead, let
at the half twenty seven to three in route to
their first win of the season. Now one in four,
Washington drops the two and three. More Bears news and
sad news. Legendary linebacker Dick Buckets passing away at the
age of eighty, Regarded as perhaps the greatest middle linebacker
in league history, two time Defensive Player of the Year,
five time All Pro, member of the league's one hundredth
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anniversary team, and a member of the Pro and College
Football Halls of Fame. Born in Chicago, went to the
University of Illinois, and of course, longtime Chicago Bear Bill Soeinbecker.
Von Miller will be making the trip to London with
the team and could be making his season debut sun
early against the Jacksonville Jaguars Pittsburgh Dowers quarterback Kenny Pickett
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was a full participant in practice despite that bone bruise
in his knee. He apparently is on track to start
against the Ravens in that always entertaining AFC North clash
coming up on Sunday. Z that's a different game, but
it is a.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Big rivalry West Virginia.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No they call it. They hijacked that name any No
shame on them.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Then that's all.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I hate it. All you want, that's what they've called.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
I do hate it. Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo remains in
the concussion protocol but did practice Thursday and could be
ready to go Monday against the Packers. And in Baseball News,
New York Best GM Billy Eppler resigning amid a baseball
investigation into his use of the so called phantom injury
list practice is putting players on the il with fake injuries.
Eppler was hired in twenty twenty one, and too bad
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the Coop the Loop is not here to get his
thoughts on this, but apparently a recently dismissed manager is
interested in a vacant job that would be Buck Showalter
of the New York Mets. According to reports, he like
to maybe manage down there in Orange County, put that
a on his hat, and be the next skipper of
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the Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Now when you.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, when you're in the managing game there, Eddie, Yeah, yeah,
you gotta you gotta stay in the game. Buck's sixty
seven years old, so he realizes if you don't get
the Angel job, he ain't getting another job. It's either
the Angel job or no job. So he's like, I'll
go to Annah. I'm I'll take Artie Marino's money. I'll
hang out about Cleveland. He couldn't go to Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No, I don't think. I don't think he's got a
shot for that job. They're gonna hire some analytical nerd
in Cleveland. But anti backyard brawl for the Raven. I
don't like that name.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah, it's been taken. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I can repurpose it. Yeah, no, it happens.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
How many miles?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
It's like a couple hundred miles from Pittsburgh to Baltimore, right,
he's like two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Miles or something like that. Anyway, it is the Ben
Malor Show.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
As we continue on through the overnight hours, as we
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And dog, let's go to Let's go to our man
in Arkansas and his name is Sir scratch Off, but
he goes by a different name now. He wants to
be called the wild eyed Southern Boy or something like that. Hello,
whatever your name is, Yes, Dag gummit it, Dag Gummitt,
(30:53):
you're on the air.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Dag Gummitt, go that dime bit.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
You common search scratch ob, I give you that nag.
You're welcome to a buddy.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
All right, I'm very sorry.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
I'm gotta tell you something else. The burn cat he
got slive coming out of his mouth. Man beer, marriage
is boy. That's all I gotta say about.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That you don't need to be jealous. Where have you
been now? We've not talked to you in some time.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Here, Ben, I'm gonna tell you something, honest to God,
try to get into this station anymore. It's hard. You
can't get your phone answered, you can't get on hold,
you can't when you get on hold, you can't get
off a hold.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But I appreciate that. Well, it is true.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I've heard Coop he scans the internet. He doesn't usually
even answer the calls that I have seen it. How
many I've picked up the phone so many times. It's
fascinating to me. But yeah, we'd like to encourage him.
But maybe maybe we kiss back from vacation will actually do.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
More of that.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Let me let me get let me get over here, being,
let me get over your.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I'm here, okay, I thought you left. I thought you
took off.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
I had to post on the show. It's real faulty tonight. Well,
we had a bad recks the.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You know, you know how thick that fog is. Yeah,
so it's like it's like lentil lentil soup. It's that thick.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I try to get up p wall, go outside the road.
I couldn't see my feet, that's how bad it is. Well,
we had a bad wreck yesterday. Man, we had a
fifteen car pile up. People died.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Man.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
They was burning off the fields, boarder cutting this cotton.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now, yeah, let me ask you. If it's so foggy,
why why do you have to drive? It's not safe
to drive in that kind of fog.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Dude, I'm gonna take something oh nine, I was out
here for eighteen hours and usually take me to eleven
and twelve. The ice is so bad and we were
driving this stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I mean, well, I know, but like what you have
to do it no matter what, the driving must continue.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I was if it's not safe, isn't that a liability
issue for whoever's having you drive?
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Yes, sir, but coming come in February. If I know,
I'll probably make it. I'm rolling on a four year
of what do you call it? Safe driving? I mean,
I really take my time, and I'll bet don't chink.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You're gonna chinx yourself now is what you're going to do?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Anyway? Ohio, Sam, y'all ever burn that whet stields up there?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
What's that?
Speaker 8 (33:10):
Y'all?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Ever?
Speaker 7 (33:10):
Burn that wheat stields up at Ohio, this is the.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Songs for you. I can't I burn what now?
Speaker 7 (33:17):
You ever burned in field after you beat that cough
up there?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah? Yeah, sometimes subscribe prescribe burns.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
Yeah, that's what called that rest. The other day, boy,
they burned the fields and they had a wreck pile
up his awful man, he's crazy, all right, all right?
But anyway, being so, what we're gonna do about the Rams?
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Now?
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Can we put off the four and oh that equals
got going? Can we do any good with them? I
mean I was proud what they did the other day,
you know.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah, No, the Rams. The Rams are better than they
thought they would be. They found a couple of players,
big one, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Seven or eight over, and I did. I think it's
gonna be okay, man, I picked the balls. Ain't over.
We're already at four and one. I mean, I'm doing
pretty good. I'm gonna cost up the right now. Orioles
is gonna win the World Series?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
What are you sucking up the sports with Coleman? What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (34:09):
No?
Speaker 7 (34:09):
I just I've just been watching one of our pictures
that we got sent over there, and they've been doing
good this year, and this ain't the year if you
remember now, this ain't the year for the Braves Oriols.
Is gonna play this game this year, and I won't
take something right now. You boys got to be against
them in nineteen and sixty six, and I live in California.
The Dodgers got beat by the Orange in nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Little that is not relevant to today though. I don't
know if you know this. It doesn't matter. I gotta go, Dad, Gumma,
thank you.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
Come back to see me?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well, have you invite me? I'll come here.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I thought we were doing Arkansas Mallard meet and greet.
I know Eddie was very excited about eating some grits
in Arkansas. Yeah, that'll bend your mind. Let's say hello
to Mark the full name Guy. Hello, Mark the full
name Guy.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
Hello, Dan Mallard, don't Ben Muller. What do you think
of these lousy Thursday night games?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I think they are great content when you have four
hours of talk radio to fill on a Thursday or
a Friday. That's what I think. There you go, what
do you want me to say?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I mean, the NFL, it's a big deal, these island
games on Thursday and Sunday night Monday night. These are
a big deal and they get all the attention, and
the Thursday games usually aren't that good. This was a
terrible game, but at least they're trying well, some teams are.
The Washington team didn't try.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
But yeah, do you suppose Amazon is being given bad
matchups intentionally or they're getting scraps right now from the NFL.
It looks like they're just getting scraps from the NFL, then, Miller, Yeah,
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the schedule.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Is the schedule is not well.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
But the schedules made in advance, and you kind of know,
you know, some of these teams were supposed to be,
Like the Jets were supposed to be good.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
They're they're not, although they could still beat the Broncos
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I'll give my pick on Benny versus the Penny, which
I know you're a big fan of Benny versus the
Penny mark the full.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Name you do pull.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
I'm more of a fan of the Penny.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I knew that. I knew that.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
All right, I gotta go or else I will not
have any time for Mallard of the third degree, and
you know Shay demands a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
So here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Here we go and you'd answer this, how are you
want on x at Ben Maller with five receptions on Sunday,
Dad Gummant, I hope for scratched off, still listening with
five receptions on Sunday, the Rams wide receiver Poka Nakua
will become the third player ever with at least five
receptions in each of his first five career games.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
He would join Ceedee Lamb of the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
He did it a couple of years ago, and blank,
that's the inst tributa the answer next.
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Speaker 2 (37:40):
It's Ben Malor and here is the Insterta Tributa with
five receptions this weekend. Should it happen, Rams wide receiver
Puka Nakua will become just the third player ever to
have at least five receptions in each of his first
five career games. He would join ceedee, lamb and blank
and you gotta fill in the blank on that. Let's see,
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does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Here will go.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Page down, page down. Pat Sajak guess by the Cowboy Killer.
That's his answer, Clark Kent from Raider Free, Willie Galt
from Beam boot Maker, Bob Justin and Cincinnati's a fraud,
said everyone, including Bengal fan Bryan Tito Landrum from mister
nice Guy.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's a good name.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Henry Ellard Ram legend of the eighties from Art of
Sports Talk, Riff Raff, Milkman, Mike and Colorado. Dick Whittaker
of Tony BA City Tony or Dick Witcher.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Do you have an answer? Eddie? It's not Webster Slaughter.
Guess by the k C car Holler.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
No, that's not a good guess. I'm gonna go with
former forty nine er legend Arnez Battle.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Is it art?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Good name?
Speaker 10 (38:50):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Not a good answer, that's wrong. Here's a good answer.
Terry Glenn. Remember what Parcels called Terry Glenn.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Yeah, he had a be pronoun for Terry.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Yeah, all right, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, Grilled, Here we go.
Speaker 10 (39:12):
Shay Lebron, James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Devin Booker,
Joel Embiid. These are just a couple of the names
that I've showed interest in playing in the next Olympics
for Team USA. If everything goes right and the best
of the best come out of the NBA to play
for Team USA, does this team have a chance of
eclipsing the Dream Team?
Speaker 9 (39:29):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
All right, So the short answer is no. The long
answer is no way.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Like, those are all good names and great players and
all that, but the the original Dream Team.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
What made it so special? It was the original dream Team.
It had never happened before.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
We've seen these things before, and it's kind of embarrassing
that America has to turn to these huge names to
win international basketball.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Where have you gone, Red, White and Blue next?
Speaker 10 (39:54):
Jonathan Taylor is finally back at practice and working out
as a false participant with the Colts. If you were
DraftKings that wanted to set a line on the over
and under on snaps Taylor logs this Sunday against the
Tennessee Titans, what would you set it out?
Speaker 2 (40:05):
All?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Right, So I don't even know who he's gonna play.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I'll set the line at ten uh, and I'll talk
more about Taylor because I think he's got a new
strategy to try to get traded.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
But I'll set the number of ten next.
Speaker 10 (40:14):
The top three biggest payrolls in the MLB all got
eliminated from the playoffs before the postseason even began. The
Dodgers were even able to put together one hundred wins,
and they had twenty eight percent decrease in payroll since
last season. With that being said, are these big name,
big price players even worth it anymore? Or should more
teams be playing money?
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Because yeah, there's winning, and then there's winning.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
At the box office and getting you got any You
gotta get star players to get TV ratings and create buzz.
He doesn't guarantee you're gonna win, but it creates interest
with the casuals that watch these sports events.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
That's the key. All Right, real quick, how do we
do Shay? You pass on the air, you're growing up.
Check you've got it on the air.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
I passed.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
That is a win for me.
Preparing to do the tomahawk chop. Well.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Come in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Malor Show.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We are in the air everywhere.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Shoulder to shoulder as we avoid the Jumoke's coast coast border,
the border.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And beyond on the vast.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And unreasonably powerful microphones of FSR amminating live from the mound,
dispewing audio curveballs all night long.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Under the cover of darkness.
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
So we carry on and're.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Not gonna rehash the Chicago Bears and they're vaporizing of
the Washington football team. That was a rat kill, unexpected
rat kill situation. But our lead this hour comes from baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
This was the part of the show where we're going
to break down the dramatic third day of the Wildcard
round and how amazing it was, the game changing managerial decision,
the walk off home run to send the team into
the divisional series.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And then we looked at.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The schedule and there was bumpkis no one, no one
out there playing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So we're still here.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
We're playing, we're ready to rock, and our lead does
come from the diamond. As ballparks were silent on Thursday,
but thanks to the sweeps of the wildcard round, we
gotta wait till tomorrow. Tomorrow, it's another day, Saturday, that's
when the baseball will resume, and we are we're down
to the Grade eight, the Elite eight, however you want
(01:56):
to say it, in the baseball playoffs. Now the curtain
goes up on the divisional round and there is one
clear favorite, and you know who that is, and I
know who that is, but maybe the person in the
back of the room does not know.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
They might not know. They're not like us.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So we are told that the Atlanta Braves are the
odds on favorite to win the World Series entering the postseason,
as they begin on Saturday against the Phillies. The gambling
market believes in their old mascot chief Knokahoma as the
favorite to win the baseball Championship. Here with Ronald o'cuno
(02:32):
Junior and Olsen and all the big stars there, they
have an electric team. They had the top record during
the regular season, and now guess what they are.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The favorites on the gambling market. So let us discuss
the question.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And we'll keep it simple because it's just it's just talk.
We're just talking, all right. Are you completely sold on
the Atlanta Braves as the overwhelming favorite to rise up
below the Mason Dixon line and win the championship?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So I am shaking my head no.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And if you can see me, you're a stoker, okay,
but I am shaking my head no. Now my observations,
I've got environmental factors, coupon code, and pigs in a blanket,
and we'll combine all of these things together, and money
(03:28):
is no object.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We'll have a night on the town. Money is no object.
So number W. So some people are getting carried away here.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I've seen it. This Braves team. They are perfect ten
greatest Braves team of all time. People are going fast
and loose with the rhetoric about the Atlanta Braves, and
they're good.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The Braves are good, right, they are absolutely good.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'm not here to knock them off their pedestal, but
I I am here to tell you that they are
not invincible. There are soft spots in the Atlanta Braves.
And I'm gonna give you several things to file away
the blueprint, if you will, of why the Atlanta Braves
(04:18):
are not going to win the World Series. I'm gonna
I'm gonna walk you through this. I'll hold your hand
and I'll walk you through this. U because I've got
I've got a big tongue and i like to talk.
So here's the deal, all right, And these are all
bullet points for the Atlanta Braves why they will not
win the World Series. Atlanta has the toughest road to
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the championship of any team in baseball.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Too or false? That is true. That is true.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The Phillies are on a burner. The Phillies are loaded.
They've got sluggers here, there, and everywhere. They've got some
decent starting pitching. They've got the star power to match
the Braves. Should Atlanta get past the Phillies, more likely
than yea, they are going.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
To have the big Blue.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Wrecking Crew Dodger Baseball on deck. So you gotta get
through Philly. You gotta get through the Dodgers, and then,
like the Orioles or the Rangers, that are going to
win the American League. Anybody but the A Holes. Remember that,
anybody but the A holes in Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So we are pulling for anyone but the A Holes.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But whoever wins is gonna be a decent team other
than Houston in the World Series if you.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Were to get there. So that's three layers of adversity.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And then as far as just the baseball stuff, Atlanta's
biggest flaws are bullpen and defense. They had decision. Everyone's
got decisions to make. The Braves decided we want to
go with the big boppers. We are not teeny boppers.
We like big boppers, and so they picked a power
over defense, and they don't have a smooth defensive team.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
There are players. The one that really stands out here
to keep.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
An on as you watch the Braves in the playoffs
this year is Ozzie Albi's, who is below average. He's
a second baseman. Matt Olsen is also not a great
defensive first base. Me even kind of hide him at first base,
but I don't know how much you can hide him
because the ball seems to fly there every time there's
a ball hit on the ground. Well, he was catching
the ball at first base he can do, but fielding
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the position not that great. And even a guy like
Ronald Cooner Junior, while he's got the bazooka for an arm,
not a tremendous defensive player. So, and there's a few
other issues. So essentially, what the Braves need to do
is they need to go on eBay and buy a
VHS tape of Tom Amanski's instructural videos on how to
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play defense. And we've seen plenty of teams over the
years that have had their battleship sunk because they're poor
defensively defensive boners. In the postseason, most games are close.
Most games are close here. You're not going to plow
through the playoffs. And at some point in the close
game eighth inning, got a couple runners on two out,
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you kick the ball and that allows a couple runs
to score.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That's it. You're done, right, So the defense is probably
now the bullpens.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Nobody else is talking about the Braves bullpen, and I
don't really know why. It doesn't make a lot of sense, Atlanta.
You don't look at the overall numbers of the Braves bullpen.
What have you done for me lately? The atl the
Braves bullpen ranked twenty ninth in.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The big leagues.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Over the last month of the season, they had a
collective era the Atlanta bullpen of five point four. That
was the Braves er out of the bullpen. Now, he said, well,
there's some guys heard, they got guys back, and this,
that and the other thing. Make all kinds of justifications
for that number. But there's only thirty teams, and the
Braves had the twenty ninth ranked bullpen. And I never
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played in the midjor leagues and I just hosted an
overnight show. But I don't think that's a recipe for
long term success, considering that starting pitchers are a certain
type of flower, the bus willow flower, and they don't
go more than five innings. So the other bugaboo for
the Atlanta Braves as we chop down the Braves environmental factors.
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Just the nature of the beast. And trust me on
this one. I know what I'm talking about because the
Dodgers of the last few years, at several points they've
had the top team in baseball.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But it's baseball. The nature of the beast. In baseball,
it's a weak link sport.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That means the quality of the second rate minor players
on your roster more important.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Than any other sport. It just is right. It's more
important than basketball.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Certainly, star power does sell tickets, but it doesn't guarantee anything. Otherwise,
the Angels with Mike Trout and Otani would have had.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Back to back World Series titles, but they don't.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
But baseball, by its nature, right, by its nature, it
spreads around opportunities to everybody. You get a chance, you
get a chance, you get a chance, and so the
guys to move the needle don't necessarily get an opportunity to.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Move the needle.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right, Page two here, staying with baseball, but going
away from the playoffs, we go to Queens with free
agency one year away. Peter Alonzo, the slugger of the Metropolitans,
has gone out and hired who Scott Boris, the man
who is the gold standard for representation if you're a
professional baseball player. Now, what is Peter Alonso saying by
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hiring Scott Boris.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
As his agent?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What he It's not so much what he's saying. His
actions are to draw a battle line. A line has
been drawn in the dirt, and that's what's happening. Tensions
have been ratcheted up. What Peter Alonso is saying with
his actions are it's this, no coupon code will apply,
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No coupon code will apply. Alonzo is not going to
give the Mets a hometown discount.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
No should.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You should never give a big market team a hometown discount.
I don't you should give anyone at hometown discount.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
But that's just me.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Basically, there's plenty of money in professional sports now. The
Polar Bear Peter Lonzo. He also must be willing. If
you sign with Boris, you gotta be willing to relocate.
You have to be willing to go to the transfer
portal and you go on the whole Bow Express down
the Dusky Winnemuckle Road. Willing to play for anybody, whether
that's the Angels, the Giants, the Red Sox, or a
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mystery team, whatever team, You'll be on a knife's edge.
Whatever team offers you the most money, you just gotta
go full throttle.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's it. You go to that team. That's the rule.
That's the rule.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And then if nobody wants you because you're injured, you
just go back to the Minnesota Twins. Shout out Carlos
Koreah all right, final point, let's head to the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We're talking bass ball.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Some chatter. We love chatter. It drives the conversation on
sports radio. So some chatter here around baseball that show,
hey oh, Toddy and the Red Sox are being linked
together by the baseball pundit community, that the Red Sox
and Otani connect the dots. One executive telling the New
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York Post that he believes there is real interest from
Boston in Otani. It had been assumed until Atani got hurt,
that he was gonna go to the Dodgers. Some say
maybe he'll go back to the Angels because he is injured.
But do you buy Here's the question, do you buy
the Red Sox wooing woo Joe Heyotoni. So I'll go
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first here and the answer is yes, yes. Now there
is a difference, there's a split here between wooing and signing.
But keep in mind Otani just made a business deal
with New Balance. Now why does that matter? Why does
that matter? I'll tell you because and actually I worked
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one of the radio stations I did some work for
when I was in Boston a couple of years ago.
Their studio was right down the Street from the headquarters
of New Balance. They are a Boston based company, so
Otani now you play anywhere you want. But Otani has
agreed to a business relationship with New Balance, so the
Boston market's obviously a big deal for them. That courtship,
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though over cocktails and pigs in the blanket or a blake,
would be a symbiotic situation. We mutually beneficial because my
boots on the ground in Boston tell me that the
last play Socks at Finway lost the juice. That Finway
was like a morgue at the end of last season.
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There was no life, no passion, none of that. In
the second half of the season, empty seats and apathy
and Red Sox brass. You can cultivate buzz even if
it's fake buzz and goodwill by playing foot seat with
Otani and for show, hey, he would benefits kind of
obvious because you want to have a bidding war.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Let's say the Dodgers want o'time. We think they do.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Let's say the Dodgers offer him a big contract, and
then the Red Sox say.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
What about us?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
And it's like inca terror and dueling pianos here and
that will inflate the value of O tony.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You see how that works. You can just fiddle around
and get more money. Yeah, all right, it is the
Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
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hot boy band talk, so that is on the agenda
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and an NFL star. Let's just say he did not
have enough saki. Okay, he did not have enough sake.
Get to that and we will do it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
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I can't wait for this, Joe.
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We're going to dive into what goes on in the
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I don't think she likes the special sauce.
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Speaker 1 (16:29):
Later this hour, Mallard of the third Degree coming your way.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Little hot baseball talk before you there at the top
and next hour we'll have the malar Riddle of the
Day and also Big Ben's lame jokes of the Week.
All that coming your way throughout the night. We thank
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Speaker 1 (16:55):
But let's see raider freak rights.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Since this great monologue, Benjamin, only you should have been
nodding your head yes for.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The Braves World Series champs. I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't know about that, mister Luciana Wrights in seven
point eight out of ten on the Mallard monologue. Who
do you think is going to get swept in the
divisional round which kicks off, of course on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Well, I don't think anyone's gonna be swept. How about that?
That's my hot take.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Even the Twins and people now the defaults always the Twins.
It's got to be the Twins.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm not saying that I'm not the one.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
The one that you would think would would be most
likely for me would be the Diamondbacks. They won eighty
four games during the regular season. The Dodgers have pretty
much treated them like a punching bag.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Over the years.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But the Dodgers are slopping together their pitching staff. So
it's hard for me to imagine the Dodgers the way
they're playing, the style of play that they're using in
the playoffs. They can win bunch of but they're not
gonna sweep anybody, because everyone's got to be perfect. The
starting pitcher for the Dodgers, they're doing the old Tampa
Bay thing, Andrew Friedman. The old GM in Tampa has
taken the model of the Rays officially to the Dodgers,
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where it's eighteen batters at the most for the start.
You could be pitching a perfect game, a perfect game
and strike everyone out and they take you out. Of course,
if you strike everyone out, you throw too many pitches,
so they'd already have taken you out by then.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
But that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But the two that I'm looking for, I actoually be at
the Dodger Diamondbacks series.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
The first first couple of games.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
But I'm looking forward to checking out the Orioles and
see if they can avoid the choke after winning one
hundred plus games. And the Rangers and then the Phillies,
the Phillies in the Atlanta Braves. That's it. I mean,
those are two big ones and of course, to make
sure that the twins eliminate the a holes, which and
people have been sending me. I've been gett a couple
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of messages. Well, you can't really pull for the twins
because they got Carlos Correa and he's a cheating ahole,
which is true. And I don't like Correy at all,
and I would it would really be a shit if
he somehow had a minor injury that knocked him out
of the playoffs. But I will tell you for the
greater good, the astro brand Al Touve, who is in
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the dictionary for cheater. You know, if you call somebody
an Altuve, you're calling them a cheater. And Bregman with his.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But I can't say.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He's just got a very annoying look to him, very swarmy, annoying.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Look, Bregman. Anyway, what else do we have?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Page down here, page down fer catch is on my
big board. It has the Dodgers, is the World Series favorites.
But the only thing that really matters this postseason are
these four words. Anybody but the Astros. We can have
three vacated championships in six years.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, well, listen as you said, and you play this.
If the astros are given that hunk of metal, it
doesn't count as long as they have al two bragman
on the roster and a culture of cheating. Real baseball
people don't acknowledge it. They don't.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
They're a fraud. And because the Commissioner of Baseball, Rob
Manford is spineless and wouldn't punish the players. I have
not watched this Frontline documentary. Some of you have been
saying I need to watch it, and I guess Fay Vincent,
the old commissioner of Baseball, who's a very old man,
now very old man, but fay Vincent was like, hey,
(20:27):
I would have thrown them all out of baseball.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's what a real commissioner does. That's what a real
boss does, not a stooge like Rob Mainford. That's it.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Alf the alien old piner says, great monologue. I just
ordered my Otani jersey.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Shane of the Moines says, Ben, are you allowed to
claim Fergcat as a dependent on your taxes? As we
can't survive without you or he can't survive without You're
just curious. You don't need to be jealous. Okay, you
do not need to be jealous. Pedro writes in on
the Bears game, he said, his next five games, we'll
speak volumes as the Weatherfields is the guy best believe
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he's been hearing the tank for Caleb Williams talk. He said,
hold my bear, he's tied for the league lead and
touchdown passes. Almost got his neck broken on a sack
where his head was slammed into the turf.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
What about the flag that's from Pedrian.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, when you peek ahead and when you look at
the Chicago Bears and their schedule, he said, well, we
know that Fields apparently can do okay against some really
crappy teams like the Broncos and the team that used
to be called the Redskins. But when do the Bears
play another good team? And they played Kansas City a
couple of years ago. That's a good team and that
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did not go well. That was a debacle, a absolute debacle.
And so next week in Week six, you've got the
Vikings and that you know that's not that's an average team.
Like then the Raiders, that's another bad team. So he
should play pretty well against the Raiders. The Chargers, who
I don't know what to make of the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Are they good? Are they bad?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
They've got a good offense, their defense doesn't impress me,
and their coaches of moron, But that's that's a Nike game.
Is that an I think that's a Sunday Sunday NI game?
Oh boy, I ad you will be taking that night
off Chargers and Bears. So that's that's what's ahead in
the near future the next three games, and then the
Saints suck and the Panthers suck, so you should do well.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Against those teams.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And it's really I'm looking ahead. There's only the Chargers
and the Lions you have to play in the division.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
That's really it. Like as far as teams that are considered.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Either good or above average, everyone else not Brown Sock, Cardinals, No,
they try, but they're not that good.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Green Bay, No, Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
That's that's what's ahead for Doug Bears. Well, this kind
of relates. This kind of relates. The Chicago Bears social
media team thought they would have some fun and they say,
you know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
We're gonna have a good time here.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, team's not playing. This is going before the game
on Thursday night. Before the game on Thursday night, all right,
so very slow start, zero and four record coming into
that game. Bears finally won, they won by twenty congratulations.
So ahead of the game, the social media department for
the Chicago Bears tried to kind of lighten things up
a little bit, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Have some fun. Why not, It's just football, that's it.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So they they had a post asking fans to give
the team a boy band name based on a photo
of five players. Okay, five because that's a boy band.
You know, five players and the boy band. That's kind
of how that works. And so what do you what
do you think happened when the Bears posted this on
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on social media?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, it was comedy goal.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It was like when we do lame jokes and people
send the jokes into Bed Malves show at gmail dot
com and they're all Lizzo or weed Man jokes. Now, Uh,
some of my favorites, and I know Eddie's a big
boy band fan, but some of my favorites, Eddie, these
are actual names Bears fans gave for the Chicago Bears
post there for boy bands. Uh, this one was I
think this one was my favorite.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Out of Sink. Out of Sink was the name there.
I thought that that's pretty good. Yeah, zero direction, Eddie,
is that that's pretty funny?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, that's not bad. The Jackson Ohen five or oh
and four?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
You know not?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
No, not as good? Earth Wind and Fire, Matt Eberflus.
You like that one.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
It's okay. The first two were gonna be tough to top.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, No, wins on the block? Is that the anything
for you?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
No?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
All right?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Ninety eight losses? Is that?
Speaker 8 (24:57):
No?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Started strong? Now we're face.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Boys to Meh, that's pretty good. That's pretty good, right.
How about this one?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
The the Jonas others, No, that's funny, Eddie, come on,
that's I always Sam?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Is that not funny? The Jonas others? Yeah? Is that
that's not bad? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
I don't like me and Me and Shavers debating whether
the Jonas Brothers are a boy band. I'd say that
they're not. I think the boy bands has been like
five random guys, four random guys just put together Jonas.
They are actually brothers.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
They play.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You can say that, but when the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend. So the legend or the
Jonas Brothers are a boy band? How about this one?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The Hacks and five. I like, I like I like
this one. Good got idea.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
These are all responses to the Chicago Bears social media
team posting to ask for a boy band name.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
For their photo. They sent out, Uh, I like this
one new kids who can't block? I like that? Ah good,
that's good. That's solid right.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Who knew the people had such creativity there in Chicago.
All right, that ends our boy band talking unless you
would like to continue at it if you have any
of the boy band thoughts. Yeah, that's good though out
of sink to sink the name of the Bears, the
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boy band there for the Bears and zero direction. That
is outstanding. So an NFL star apparently did not have
enough sucky. We'll get to that, but right now, let's
get you cut on everything going on in the overnight
and we head over to the Merman.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
A man who violated city ordinance by walking into a fountain.
Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Well, you know there's no criminal prosecution here.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
That is true, Sodom and gomors. It's the Old West California.
You can get any crime you want.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Let go, Yeah, good time.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Week five in the NFL getting underway with Thursday Night
Football and the Bears snapped their franchise record fourteen game
losing skid with a forty to twenty road win over
the Commanders. Justin Fields quarterback for Chicago, two hundred and
eighty two yards passing, four touchdowns, no interceptions. Wide receiver
DJ Moore his main target with two hundred and thirty
yards receiving and three touchdown reception. Chicago got off to
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a good start, had a seventeen to zering lead, let
at the half twenty seven to three in route to
their first win of the season. Now one in four,
Washington drops the two and three. More Bears news and
sad news. Legendary linebacker Dick Buckets passing away at the
age of eighty, Regarded as perhaps the greatest middle linebacker
in league history, two time Defensive Player of the Year,
five time All Pro, member of the league's one hundredth
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anniversary team, and a member of the Pro and College
Football Halls of Fame. Born in Chicago, went to the
University of Illinois, and of course, longtime Chicago Bear Bill Soeinbecker.
Von Miller will be making the trip to London with
the team and could be making his season debut sun
early against the Jacksonville Jaguars Pittsburgh Dowers quarterback Kenny Pickett
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was a full participant in practice despite that bone bruise
in his knee. He apparently is on track to start
against the Ravens in that always entertaining AFC North clash
coming up on Sunday. Z that's a different game, but
it is a.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Big rivalry West Virginia.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No they call it. They hijacked that name any No
shame on them.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Then that's all.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I hate it. All you want, that's what they've called.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
I do hate it. Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo remains in
the concussion protocol but did practice Thursday and could be
ready to go Monday against the Packers. And in Baseball News,
New York Best GM Billy Eppler resigning amid a baseball
investigation into his use of the so called phantom injury
list practice is putting players on the il with fake injuries.
Eppler was hired in twenty twenty one, and too bad
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the Coop the Loop is not here to get his
thoughts on this, but apparently a recently dismissed manager is
interested in a vacant job that would be Buck Showalter
of the New York Mets. According to reports, he like
to maybe manage down there in Orange County, put that
a on his hat, and be the next skipper of
(29:13):
the Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Now when you.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, when you're in the managing game there, Eddie, Yeah, yeah,
you gotta you gotta stay in the game. Buck's sixty
seven years old, so he realizes if you don't get
the Angel job, he ain't getting another job. It's either
the Angel job or no job. So he's like, I'll
go to Annah. I'm I'll take Artie Marino's money. I'll
hang out about Cleveland. He couldn't go to Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No, I don't think. I don't think he's got a
shot for that job. They're gonna hire some analytical nerd
in Cleveland. But anti backyard brawl for the Raven. I
don't like that name.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah, it's been taken. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I can repurpose it. Yeah, no, it happens.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
How many miles?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
It's like a couple hundred miles from Pittsburgh to Baltimore, right,
he's like two hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Miles or something like that. Anyway, it is the Ben
Malor Show.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
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in Arkansas and his name is Sir scratch Off, but
he goes by a different name now. He wants to
be called the wild eyed Southern Boy or something like that. Hello,
whatever your name is, Yes, Dag gummit it, Dag Gummitt,
(30:53):
you're on the air.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Dag Gummitt, go that dime bit.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
You common search scratch ob, I give you that nag.
You're welcome to a buddy.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
All right, I'm very sorry.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
I'm gotta tell you something else. The burn cat he
got slive coming out of his mouth. Man beer, marriage
is boy. That's all I gotta say about.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That you don't need to be jealous. Where have you
been now? We've not talked to you in some time.
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Here, Ben, I'm gonna tell you something, honest to God,
try to get into this station anymore. It's hard. You
can't get your phone answered, you can't get on hold,
you can't when you get on hold, you can't get
off a hold.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But I appreciate that. Well, it is true.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I've heard Coop he scans the internet. He doesn't usually
even answer the calls that I have seen it. How
many I've picked up the phone so many times. It's
fascinating to me. But yeah, we'd like to encourage him.
But maybe maybe we kiss back from vacation will actually do.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
More of that.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
Let me let me get let me get over here, being,
let me get over your.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
I'm here, okay, I thought you left. I thought you
took off.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
I had to post on the show. It's real faulty tonight. Well,
we had a bad recks the.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
You know, you know how thick that fog is. Yeah,
so it's like it's like lentil lentil soup. It's that thick.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I try to get up p wall, go outside the road.
I couldn't see my feet, that's how bad it is. Well,
we had a bad wreck yesterday. Man, we had a
fifteen car pile up. People died.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Man.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
They was burning off the fields, boarder cutting this cotton.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now, yeah, let me ask you. If it's so foggy,
why why do you have to drive? It's not safe
to drive in that kind of fog.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Dude, I'm gonna take something oh nine, I was out
here for eighteen hours and usually take me to eleven
and twelve. The ice is so bad and we were
driving this stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I mean, well, I know, but like what you have
to do it no matter what, the driving must continue.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I was if it's not safe, isn't that a liability
issue for whoever's having you drive?
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Yes, sir, but coming come in February. If I know,
I'll probably make it. I'm rolling on a four year
of what do you call it? Safe driving? I mean,
I really take my time, and I'll bet don't chink.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You're gonna chinx yourself now is what you're going to do?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Anyway? Ohio, Sam, y'all ever burn that whet stields up there?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
What's that?
Speaker 8 (33:10):
Y'all?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Ever?
Speaker 7 (33:10):
Burn that wheat stields up at Ohio, this is the.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Songs for you. I can't I burn what now?
Speaker 7 (33:17):
You ever burned in field after you beat that cough
up there?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah? Yeah, sometimes subscribe prescribe burns.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
Yeah, that's what called that rest. The other day, boy,
they burned the fields and they had a wreck pile
up his awful man, he's crazy, all right, all right?
But anyway, being so, what we're gonna do about the Rams?
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Now?
Speaker 7 (33:35):
Can we put off the four and oh that equals
got going? Can we do any good with them? I
mean I was proud what they did the other day,
you know.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah, No, the Rams. The Rams are better than they
thought they would be. They found a couple of players,
big one, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Seven or eight over, and I did. I think it's
gonna be okay, man, I picked the balls. Ain't over.
We're already at four and one. I mean, I'm doing
pretty good. I'm gonna cost up the right now. Orioles
is gonna win the World Series?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
What are you sucking up the sports with Coleman? What's
wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (34:09):
No?
Speaker 7 (34:09):
I just I've just been watching one of our pictures
that we got sent over there, and they've been doing
good this year, and this ain't the year if you
remember now, this ain't the year for the Braves Oriols.
Is gonna play this game this year, and I won't
take something right now. You boys got to be against
them in nineteen and sixty six, and I live in California.
The Dodgers got beat by the Orange in nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Little that is not relevant to today though. I don't
know if you know this. It doesn't matter. I gotta go, Dad, Gumma,
thank you.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
Come back to see me?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well, have you invite me? I'll come here.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I thought we were doing Arkansas Mallard meet and greet.
I know Eddie was very excited about eating some grits
in Arkansas. Yeah, that'll bend your mind. Let's say hello
to Mark the full name Guy. Hello, Mark the full
name Guy.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
Hello, Dan Mallard, don't Ben Muller. What do you think
of these lousy Thursday night games?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I think they are great content when you have four
hours of talk radio to fill on a Thursday or
a Friday. That's what I think. There you go, what
do you want me to say?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I mean, the NFL, it's a big deal, these island
games on Thursday and Sunday night Monday night. These are
a big deal and they get all the attention, and
the Thursday games usually aren't that good. This was a
terrible game, but at least they're trying well, some teams are.
The Washington team didn't try.
Speaker 8 (35:36):
But yeah, do you suppose Amazon is being given bad
matchups intentionally or they're getting scraps right now from the NFL.
It looks like they're just getting scraps from the NFL, then, Miller, Yeah,
(35:57):
the schedule.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Is the schedule is not well.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
But the schedules made in advance, and you kind of know,
you know, some of these teams were supposed to be,
Like the Jets were supposed to be good.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
They're they're not, although they could still beat the Broncos
this weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I'll give my pick on Benny versus the Penny, which
I know you're a big fan of Benny versus the
Penny mark the full.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Name you do pull.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
I'm more of a fan of the Penny.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I knew that. I knew that.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
All right, I gotta go or else I will not
have any time for Mallard of the third degree, and
you know Shay demands a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
So here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Here we go and you'd answer this, how are you
want on x at Ben Maller with five receptions on Sunday,
Dad Gummant, I hope for scratched off, still listening with
five receptions on Sunday, the Rams wide receiver Poka Nakua
will become the third player ever with at least five
receptions in each of his first five career games.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
He would join Ceedee Lamb of the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
He did it a couple of years ago, and blank,
that's the inst tributa the answer next.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
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(37:35):
don't understand why you listen and a lie from the
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Speaker 2 (37:40):
It's Ben Malor and here is the Insterta Tributa with
five receptions this weekend. Should it happen, Rams wide receiver
Puka Nakua will become just the third player ever to
have at least five receptions in each of his first
five career games. He would join ceedee, lamb and blank
and you gotta fill in the blank on that. Let's see,
(38:04):
does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Here will go.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Page down, page down. Pat Sajak guess by the Cowboy Killer.
That's his answer, Clark Kent from Raider Free, Willie Galt
from Beam boot Maker, Bob Justin and Cincinnati's a fraud,
said everyone, including Bengal fan Bryan Tito Landrum from mister
nice Guy.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's a good name.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Henry Ellard Ram legend of the eighties from Art of
Sports Talk, Riff Raff, Milkman, Mike and Colorado. Dick Whittaker
of Tony BA City Tony or Dick Witcher.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Do you have an answer? Eddie? It's not Webster Slaughter.
Guess by the k C car Holler.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
No, that's not a good guess. I'm gonna go with
former forty nine er legend Arnez Battle.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Is it art?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Good name?
Speaker 10 (38:50):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Not a good answer, that's wrong. Here's a good answer.
Terry Glenn. Remember what Parcels called Terry Glenn.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Yeah, he had a be pronoun for Terry.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Yeah, all right, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, Grilled, Here we go.
Speaker 10 (39:12):
Shay Lebron, James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Devin Booker,
Joel Embiid. These are just a couple of the names
that I've showed interest in playing in the next Olympics
for Team USA. If everything goes right and the best
of the best come out of the NBA to play
for Team USA, does this team have a chance of
eclipsing the Dream Team?
Speaker 9 (39:29):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
All right, So the short answer is no. The long
answer is no way.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Like, those are all good names and great players and
all that, but the the original Dream Team.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
What made it so special? It was the original dream Team.
It had never happened before.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
We've seen these things before, and it's kind of embarrassing
that America has to turn to these huge names to
win international basketball.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Where have you gone, Red, White and Blue next?
Speaker 10 (39:54):
Jonathan Taylor is finally back at practice and working out
as a false participant with the Colts. If you were
DraftKings that wanted to set a line on the over
and under on snaps Taylor logs this Sunday against the
Tennessee Titans, what would you set it out?
Speaker 2 (40:05):
All?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Right, So I don't even know who he's gonna play.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I'll set the line at ten uh, and I'll talk
more about Taylor because I think he's got a new
strategy to try to get traded.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
But I'll set the number of ten next.
Speaker 10 (40:14):
The top three biggest payrolls in the MLB all got
eliminated from the playoffs before the postseason even began. The
Dodgers were even able to put together one hundred wins,
and they had twenty eight percent decrease in payroll since
last season. With that being said, are these big name,
big price players even worth it anymore? Or should more
teams be playing money?
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Because yeah, there's winning, and then there's winning.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
At the box office and getting you got any You
gotta get star players to get TV ratings and create buzz.
He doesn't guarantee you're gonna win, but it creates interest
with the casuals that watch these sports events.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
That's the key. All Right, real quick, how do we
do Shay? You pass on the air, you're growing up.
Check you've got it on the air.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
I passed.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
That is a win for me.
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