October 10, 2023 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about the Dodgers losing yet again to the Diamondbacks in the NLDS, Jordan Love and the Packers losing to the Raiders on MNF, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Paul Simon Edition, and more!
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game played Dodger's Meltdown and I come in here like
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And we're here another day on the right side of
the grass. So we're doing something right here. We're on
the right side of the grass. So our lead this
hour coming from baseball. Base ball's been very very good
to me. Actually not really, you know, but hey, the
one thing about the show people think that, oh man,
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my life is ruined if the Dodgers get a limited Well, A,
I'm used to it, and B I got to do
the show. Whether the Dodgers in the playoffs or not,
it doesn't really matter. Like I it's not like I
get extra extra money if the Dodgers win.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I don't get anything out of it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
But here listen, NL side of the Bracket Talking Baseball
saw a classic comeback by Austin Riley and the Atlanta
Braves as they storm back to take down the Phillies
and even up that series at one one. But the
nightcap is where we are going to start. We'll talk
about the Phillies game and the Braves game in a
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little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But we start in La La Land.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
The Dodgers trying to do the same as the Diamondbacks,
and I am a bad poker player, as I've already
let the cat out of the bat back. If you
didn't see the game, you were not watching. Zach Gallon
allowed a couple of runs over five and a third innings,
and he gets the second win of this postseason. The
Diamondbacks have already played a few extra games, and someone
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named lords Guriel Junior. I'm not sure who that is,
but apparently he's a baseball player hit a home run
and had an RBI single in a three run first thing.
He had a home run later in the game and
Arizona they jumped out to a three to nothing lead
they never trailed. The Diamondbacks now lead the best of
five series two games to bupkis, and they can eliminate
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the Dodgers when they play their first home game of
the postseason. That'll be on Wednesday night back in the
Valley of the Sun. So let us discuss the question
who gets the biggest hunk of the Dodgers bacon rap
blame dog. That's right, the Dodgers bacon rap blame dog
who gets the biggest chunk. So I've got delta flight,
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fatal flaw, and Russian roulette, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a pathetic performance, which is what the Dodgers have mastered
in October baseball, pathetic performances.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So number who.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, by the way, the Dodgers are looking for their
number W win.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
They don't have that yet. So we thought about going
to the archive.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I was debating whether or not to go to the
archives here at Fox Sports Radio and dust off an
old cassette tape of a previous rant about Dave Roberts
micro managing, and I liked him in that spot and
one of the classic hits from the past decade or
so of Dodger baseball. But my complaints have rung hollow.
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I complain here and they do the same crap every year.
So what's the point. They don't care what I say,
and they don't don't care what you say. They do
whatever they want, and that's how they can charge seventeen
dollars for a personal pizza at Dodger Stadium because a
lot of people show up and they can do whatever
the hell they want. And so this is in many
ways a rerun, a doppel ganger, if you will. But
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you have an offense for the Dodgers that needs a
blue pill. They go limp in the playoffs seemingly every year,
big star players. If only Mookie Betts focused as much
on bowling as he does hitting in October, boy, the
Dodgers would be going to share. But I think Mookie's
gonna dominate the bowling alleys in Nashville, probably in a
couple of days, maybe by Thursday. He'll be bowling somewhere
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in Nashville, but he will not be playing for the
Dodgers in the postseason. So now you can add the
starting pitching. We knew the Dodgers didn't have much starting
pitching going in. You thought, well, isn't the whole setup
of sports people outperforming expectations, right, That's a big part
of athletic competition that you're not expected to do much,
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but you prove the haters wrong. Hear that a lot.
Rarely do the Dodgers do that. They don't prove the
haters wrong. So the Dodgers that perform. Remember that famous
Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona. Remember that a few
months ago. It was a bio hazard issue. Yeah, that's
that's Dodger baseball. Here in the starting rotation, Bobby Miller,
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who's actually pretty good.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I like this guy.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Bobby Miller's got the cool blue glove and had a
nice season for the Dodgers. And well, this guy's got
a little something to him. This guy's not gonna be
like these other turds. He'll go out there, he'll pitch
a good game. He'll pitch a solid game. He didn't
know any better. So he goes out there and three runs.
He gave up three runs in the very first sting.
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After Clayton Kershaw gave up six runs in Game one
of this series. Dodgers starters actually lowered their EER to
forty point five in the National League Divisional Series. I
wish I could curse, but I'm told I cannot curse.
So if that seems bad, and it certainly seems bad
to me, but I don't know, I just do the
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overnight show. Maybe that's not that bad. Maybe that's good. Maybe,
in a parallel to mention, giving up an average of
forty and a half runs by your starting pitchers a
good thing. It's you know, self inflicted wounds. They don't hit.
They they've been playing uphill, which doesn't seem like a
great strategy. We're always coming from behind. So two games
in and life comes at you fast. It's only a
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best of five series. And that's where we are now,
page two here, What chance? What chance do the Dodgers
have to come back? What are the chances that Dodgers
come back in? This Series's not over yet? All right,
certainly is bleak. But I'm not to even Benny Brightside
to a point here because I don't believe in momentum.
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I think momentums bull crap, and we saw that in
the Phillies Braves game.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You know, Phillies hit all the momentum.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Until the Braves came back and won the game. I
don't think Arizona has all the momentum. They've played better
in a couple of games. So I'm gonna send the
Ods on this at plus two point fifty, which implies
about twenty eight percent chance that the Dodgers could come back.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
They've been outscored fifteen to four.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
By the way, in the first two games if you're
keeping track, and a lot of this will come down
to the attitude Obviously performance, Ultimately, performance is the most
important thing, but attitude this sour puss. Look the Dodgers
here in Arizona. They're far from unbeatable. Are they a
scrappy team?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Sure? Do they have flaws? Absolutely, they have flaws.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
However, the Dodgers have been unable to exploit them, and
they're living up to the very popular dish they serve
at Dodger Stadium, the Dodger Dog. As this team has
played like Dodger Dogs. And it was kind of cool
to see Dave Roberts being serenaded with booze as he
micro managed another game there as pulling out relief pitchers
right and left and just rotating them. True, but this
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is the point. I've had conversations with people I know
that work with the Dodgers, and they don't care what
I think. But I'll tell you, maybe you care. I
believe the Dodgers as they have the smartest people in
the room, and they love to tell you they have
the smartest people in the room, the Dodgers. But there
is an organizational flaw and I've noticed it over the years.
They're so smart they don't realize with the flaws. So
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what is the flaw. Everyone in that organization, all among
the players, is expected to do the bare minimum, especially
having a conversation on the hallways here and when I
was walking in the studio with Harrimon and Smith who
were in here earlier, and I was explaining, this is
my main problem, and maybe it's a problem of how
I was raised as a sports fan that in certain
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situations like playoff games, you outperform, you go the extra mile,
as the tagline goes, go the extra mile. But that's
not what happens with the Dodgers. You just do the
bare minimum. Oh, you can't throw more than fifty five
pitches or sixty pitches. Your arm might fall off, God forbid.
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And the ironic thing is they protect all these pictures.
They still all need Tommy John surgery. So it's very
odd and nobody seems to stop and say, well, maybe
this isn't actually working what we're doing here. Maybe that's
the problem. It's like if the Dodgers were asked to
run a marathon. So you're gonna run the Boston Marathon.
They say, Okay, we're gonna get twenty six point two
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runners every mile. We'll have a different runner come in
We're not gonna run all twenty six point two because
we'll be fatigued at the end of the marathon. So
instead we're gonna run twenty six different people. We're gonna
have a relay race, is what we're gonna do. And
you watch you mark my words. If the Dodgers do
end up finishing this and losing to the Diamondbacks, you're
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gonna hear a rally, rallying cry saying, well, it's because
we won one hundred games and we're being punished because
we had a week off, and Baseball's got to change that.
They they've got to do something so the better teams
don't have games off or days off rather before they play.
And you're gonna hear all that, every excuse in the book,
and they'll they'll blame this, that thing, and the other thing.
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The Dodgers, even with all of the starting pitchers that
are either out with Tommy John or beating up women allegedly,
or god knows what else, they still had enough to
beat Arizona. And they're not right now. So I don't
want to hear it. Okay, talk to the hand. I
don't want to hear it now. Final point let's head
to Atlanta NLDS game number two, and the Atlanta Braves
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held hintless into the sixth inning in Georgia, out in
the suburbs, out in the styckson outside Atlanta there and
a five to four unexpected Unlike the Dodgers that lay
there and played dead and don't wake up, the Atlanta
Braves actually, to their credit, woke up in this game,
just in the nick of time. A couple of home
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runs there, Travis Darnault and Austin Riley, and Atlanta gets
the victory in game two, so that series is tied
up at one win a piece, the game ending in
nutso fashion. As Bryce Harper was on first, Nick Castellanos
a high drat to deep right center field, only to
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be robbed by a leaping catch by Michael Harris the second.
Then Harper he had already gone past second, so he's
got a backtrack. He's running around. He's got to run back,
and then the Braves are desperately try He's desperately trying
to run back. The Braves are desperately trying to get
him out, and Harris miss misses the cutoff man Ozzie
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Alby's the second baseman. But then Austin Riley actually backing
up the play and he get he gets it, throws
it quickly to double off Bryce Harper. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night. That's the game. The crowd goes wild,
and just like that, the series is tied up at
one win a piece. So who wears the shame bell?
Who wears the shame bell for the fighting phills in
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the game. And so I'm gonna start with the next Dodger,
Trey Turner. I've seen this before with Trey Turner. He's
an exciting player. He also has a butcher knife for
a glove, and in this game, he had two defensive
miscues in the game. Number two the fielding era of
the Big one in the sixth inning that allowed Ronald
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Lacuna Junior to score from second base. Had that error
not been made in a parallel dimension, we can play
the ifs, butts, candy and nuts game. But Austin Riley's
home run would have only tied the game, not given
the Braves the lead five to four. Also, we're playing
the the blame bell, where we're sharing the shame bell
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for the there it is a shame that's actually sound
of the shame bell. Rob Thompson, that fine Canadian lad
Rob Thompson, who, like every other team playing the I
call it bullpen rule. It's not roulette. It's like Russian roulette.
Not just roulette, it's Russian roulette with the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And he got away with it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
In game one on we had that dope from Florida,
Angry Bill called up too. So you keep turning pitchers,
that's great, okay, Well in this game they actually got
a great start from Zach Wheeler. Then they had to
bring in relief pitchers who they'd already faced the Braves
the last game. And the more relief pitchers you bring in,
the law of averages, the more relief pitchers you bring in,
the higher the chance somebody's gonna go out there and
lay it egg. And in this game, Jeff Hoffman, who
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had been very good for the Phillies, but not this time,
he sucked at a time you cannot suck. And the
Phillies also stopped putting runs across. There were two of
eight with runners in the scoring position, and they left
eleven men on base. They could have absolutely buried Max Freed,
and they did have the lead, but they didn't actually
bury Max freed at the end.
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away from the baseball, but if you're you want to
rant and rave about the Dodgers demise and the Atlanta
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Braves come back over the Phillies. We're more than welcome
to do that. We welcome you with open arms. But
our lead this hour coming from Lost Wages. Offense optional
offense optional. Monday Night football, the Packers brought their shareholders
to town for a date with Raiders Joe Buck and
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Troy Aikman in the house. Didn't you watch well? I
watched with half an eye. I was watching the baseball.
I'm not gonna lie to you, but I did have
this game on and it was on the background. And
what I saw, if you didn't see it, Jimmy Garoppolo
wasn't very good.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
He was.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I had a little over two hundred yards passing, had
a touchdown through his NFL leading seventh interception for the Raiders.
But that was enough compliments of the generosity of the
team from Wisconsin as Las Vegas ends up getting a
seventeen thirteen victory. Green Bay was given an opportunity to
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win the game by Josh McDaniels and the kicker for
the Raiders, mister Carr who Daniel Carlson who botched a
field goal was a long field goal, but a fifty
two yard field goal in the fourth quarter. More on
that coming up in a bit. But that's not bare lee.
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The Raiders are two and three. They gained less than
two hundred and eighty yards. The Packers got two hundred
eighty five yards. They're two and three, So both teams
have the identical record coming out of the Monday Night game,
Las Vegas ending an eight game skid against the Packers.
The last time the franchise beat Green Bay prior to
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Monday Night was in nineteen eighty seven when they were
called the Los Angeles Raiders.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It's a fair amount of time ago.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Why we love losers. I love losers, and so.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
We're gonna go to the loser side. That's where the
drama is. When you win, everyone kisses your ass and
everything's wonderful. It's rainbows and lollipops. But when you lose,
it's finger pointing, it's calling names to other people. It's
that kind of stuff. So the question on this Raider
Packer Monday Night game, let's start with the quarterback, because
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that's really this season for the Green Bay Packers in
a nutshell? Can we all agree on that? Does anyone disagree?
Anyone in the electorate disagree? This season is all about
figuring out what the hell you have at quarterback?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
So after five weeks, five.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Weeks of the NFL regular season, how does the report
card for Packer quarterback Jordan Love read after five weeks?
So on the Malor report card, the only report card
that matters in this timeslot on Fox Sports Radio, the
Malor report Card. I have given Jordan Love the D minus.
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I give them the date Love gets the D minus
is what he does. Yes, I've got Donald Trump magic
eight ball and white polyester tracksuit, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a bowl of chili. Why that would have been
more entertaining than watching the Packers and Raiders on offense.
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A nice bowl of chili, not even eating the chili,
just looking at the chili would have been better.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
So we'll begin here.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
A Jordan Love is not your typical first year starting quarterback,
and so you have to in the grading process. You know,
as an educator, I've spoken to at least one university.
I've ventured into academia. And here's the thing when you're
when you're grading Jordan Love, it's not your normal first
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year starting quarterback. Like if you look at the Carolina Panthers,
they got the latest hot shot from Alabama and he
has not played NFL football Bryce Young until this so
he's playing and he's terrible.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
He's absolute horrible.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's different in green Bay because Love has been spoon fed,
spoon fed those cheese curds NFL life. He was not
fed to the lions and bears and vikings. No, not
at all, not by a long shot. Green Bay was
very methodical. They had Aaron Rodgers. And so when you
look at Jordan Love, he was living the life of
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the old Donald Trump TV show, The Apprentice, right he
was the Apprentice.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
He was hanging out waiting around. La la la la
la la la la la la.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
That's anybody sounded like a lot of people don't know that,
but that's what Jordan Love sounded like.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
La la la la la la la la la Da
na na na da.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
He was twiddling his thumbs waiting for the opportunity. Well,
now the opportunity is here, and the expectation has to
be higher. The expectation has to be higher than the production.
Love gets the D minus on the Mallet report card
because he's not even getting better. He's getting worse. As
the season has gone on, his performance has gotten progressively worse.
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And it's not like the competition has gotten progressively better.
For the Green Bay Packers and their opponents here versus Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
If you look at the.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Report, Geard in the Chicago game didn't do great in
the first half, second half dominated. Fine, we'll get him
a good grade on that. The Bears were terrible. The
Atlanta game for the Packers, Jordan Love had three touchdowns
and no interceptions. So you say, get great game, wonderful game,
but you.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Saw the game.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
He did not perform well in the fourth quarter and
he was responsible for not making plays down the stretch.
Oh wise, the Packers beat the Falcons, It's not like
Atlanta's a great team. So then against the Lions, that
was just the no show. That was absenteeism in the
first half. We all saw that, those of us that
have the Amazon with al Michaels and friends. And so
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he then also the game before the Lions game, the
New Orleans game, he's stunk for three quarters and then
there was a helter skelter comeback for the Packers and
Jordan Love and so he played well for a quarter
and they won the game. Congratulations, But even that, there
was some other factors that played into it. Now against
a mediocre Raider team, a team that really was challenged
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to create turnovers. I think they only had one leave
coming into this game. And Jordan Love went out there
and he was the mayor of Barf City. He was
the mayor of Barf City, mayn And against a mediocre
Raider defense, he had a real clunker. Three interceptions, the
one he just it was like he's playing catch with
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the Raider linebacker over the middle. No touchdown passes against
a very vanilla Raider defense.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
So now after.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Five games, if you go look at the tailor of
the tape, tail tape for mister Love. If you look
at five games, Jordan Love, eight touchdowns, six interceptions, He's
completing less than sixty percent of his passes. I didn't
play quarterback in the NFL, but I'm told that's not good.
Averaging less than seven yards per attempt barily over six
and a half, that's also not good. And a quarterback
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rating of seventy seven point two, which I think sucks
in all fifty states and not just the forty eight
continental states. That also stinks in Alaska and Hawaii. So
considering and when you combine everything together and you crunch
the numbers, considering all of the time invested in developing
Jordan Love and having him ready. And I love those
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people that say, well, every rookie quarterback needs to sit
for two years because they'll all be like Patrick Mahomes. Well,
sometimes you get Jordan Love. Sometimes you get Jordan Love. Okay,
he ain't good. Let's just say it right now. He's
not good. And you never know he might never become good,
but right now he's not good. First impression. You only
get one chance to do that. You're not that guy, pal,
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trust me, you're not that guy. And struggling against lousy competition.
Now page two, here are there any positives for the
Green Bay football team?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Here?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
As we advance through the season. Now past week five,
Packers coming up on a bye week. So let's ask
the Magic eight Ball, Almighty Omni present, all powerful Magic
eight ball. Are there positives for the Green Bay Packers
after five games? Magic gate ball says, outlook not so good.
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That's what the magic gate ball says. Listen, the Packers
are settling in to what will likely be a rather
long stretch of unremarkable football.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Is call like it is here.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Matt Lafleur looks like he knows the end is near.
He just has this dazed and confused, like sad look
on his face the coach in Green Bay when he
should be wanting to roll up his sleeves right now
and outscheme the other teams, right because you're gonna have
to outscheme the other teams because you don't have great talent.
But nothing is going to come into that Green Bay
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locker room that bedazzles you in terms of talent. There's
nothing astonishing around the corner. They've got a bunch of
worker ants on that team and that's what they have.
And there's no light at the end of the tunnel there.
You're not gonna get a hot shot free agent coming
to Green Bay unless God tells them to go to
Green Bay shout out the Minister of Defense back in
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the day.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
But outside of that, forget about it. You're not gonna
get a trade.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
The Packers don't operate that way because they'd have to
trade draft picks and they don't do that. So what
you see is what you get, all right. They'll lie
low and they'll take it slow and studying. That's how
they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Approach all right.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Final point, does this win launch the Raiders in the
right direction. They beat their Green Bay Packers at home
in the three game losing streak. So I will be
Benny Bright said on this with a catch, So I
am nodding my head, yes that this does propel the Raiders.
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But before you get too excited, do not confuse the
victory as a sign that the Raiders actually a good team.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
But they're gonna be what we call a faux good
team for the next month. Okay, here's why. Uh before
we tell you why this this game right here, the
Monday night game was the epitome of a Jimmy g special.
If if you could sum up what is Jimmy Garoppolo's career,
like this is it. It's go out, don't play that well,
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but you win the game anyway. That's Garoppolo, Like that's
how that's how he's done it. You don't have the
sexiest stat line, you don't really make that many big plays.
It's a bumpy ride, but you win anyway. Your offense
doesn't have any real tempo, but you find.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
A way, you persevere.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That's Garoppolo and get out the Gotti jewelry, the white
polyester track suit. I don't care if you want to
bring out the overhead projector you can do that as well,
because Al Davis would have loved the guy like Garoppolo
because what was his tagline? Just win baby, right, and
Garoppolo just wins baby. Now to the point why this,
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there's optimism even though the Raiders are gonna be a
faux contender. They're not a real good team. They're a
faux good team. And here's why. So they're two and three.
I've done some malor math on this. The arrow is
pointing up. Here's why not because the Raiders are good,
because they're they're the light of the gods of the schedule.
The scheduling gods is shining down on the Raiders. Okay,
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so the Raiders are two and three. Here's what they
have upcoming. They've got the Patriots in Vegas. The Patriots
might just forfeit that game and save money on gas
the way they're playing right now, not even trying cutlass.
The Chicago Bears in Chicago. You don't think the Bears
are good. They're not the Lions. Now, the Lions are
a good team. Okay, Fine, that's in Detroit. Maybe you
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lose that game. Then you've got the Giants and Jets,
both New York teams back to back. We know they stink,
so of the next five games, four of them are winnable.
So if the Raiders take make care of business, they
will end up using my computer like brain. Six and
four will be the Raiders record after ten games. And
(28:09):
then you go flying into a wood chipper because yeah,
then you have to play the Dolphins and the good teams.
But the next five games for the Raiders are right
there for the take.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
It's like a.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Nice thick orange you know, it's just got the juice
ready to squeeze it the juice comes up.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
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Speaker 3 (29:04):
It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
K Loop Jannis and Tenna Kumpo said that there is
no competition with Damian Lillard on who will have the
bomb war in Bucks games?
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Ben, do you believe him?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
No? I don't believe him at all.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
It's a brand new relationship and you've got Dame Lillard,
who's the alpha Janis, who's always had the ball at
the end of the game for the Milwaukee Bucks. Now
it's gonna take a while to sort this out, and unfortunately,
no one will be watching the NBA and by the
time they start watching, they'll sort it out. But Dame
Lizard's gonna be the guy. Why would you trade for
Dame Lord unless you're gonna use him at the end
(29:47):
of the game. He's the perfect guy end of game situations,
and Giannis has shown that he's not quite that guy
a lot of the night, A lot of nights he's
a terrible foul shooter.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Next, the Clippers reported they want to get a deal
done for seventy six ers guard James Harden sooner rather
than later, but they don't want to increase their offer.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Ben, how does this standoff end.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So the ball on this one's in Harden's court, right,
It depends how big a hemorrhoid he's going to be
in Philadelphia, how much trouble he causes them, And at
some point the Sixers are gonna blink and they'll trade him.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
But I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
The you know, the Clippers are gung ho, like the
front office is gung ho to get hard. I think
this is coming from Paul George and Westbrook and the
guys on the team, which is troubling that they're they're
building the team that way.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That doesn't usually end that well.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Next, Warriors owner Joe lacub is said to be very
interested in buying the Athletics if the baseball team decides
to sell Ben.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Is there anything to the story.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Well, all it is right now is Joe lakeb getting
brownie points in the Bay Area saying I'm rich, I
can buy the team if I want, But the team's
not for sale.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Now what should happen.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
If you're gonna move a franchise, you should put it
for sale and then if somebody wants to buy it,
they have to stay in the city they're in. But
at this point, there's nothing to the story. We do
come pass that you get putting on the board.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I want the guy.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I want the guy I was Sam.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I want the game.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
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Speaker 1 (31:22):
We're gonna have Malard's Mountain of Money? Should we just
introduce the guys? I don't play the imaging Jed who
fled wants to play?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Jed, Wow, I don't even think you're red for football.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
You just started talking about having pad on.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
He hurt you. I heard pads a lot, a lot
of knee pad talk. All right, who do you want
to partner Who do you want to partner that with?
Jed's a regular on the show. He lives in the
swamp lands, the floord. Who do you want to partner
up with? You don't you don't give any rug burn
on my knees.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
They don't have any I'm gonna go. I'm gonna I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
I was just pitching.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Good Okay, thank you, thanks you for not picking me.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Scott in Kentucky, Scott, you're gonna play the game. Who
do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Scott? Let me get Eddie? All right, very good, Hold
on a sec. What do they you want to do?
The categories? Cooper, you just want to get to the game.
What do you want to do? Coops?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Thinking about that? Yeah, sure, all right. This is the
Paul Simon edition of Mallards Mount of Money.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Oh how old is he?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
He turns eighty two years old? Week, Yes, it is
very old, Paul. The categories are the Sound of Silence,
Missus Robinson, the Boxer, and my Little Town h jed
you were on first?
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Which category would like?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
What I never did?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Whether I have company or not?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Down the South?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Okay? Okay, yeah, very nice or whatever? Scott pick a category?
Scott quickly, please no clute. He wasn't listening to anything
you said.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
Missus Robinson the Boxer or my little.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Town Missus Robinson. All right, Missus Robins, very naughty with
Missus Robinson. There you are.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
We will press on. We're gonna have Mallard's amount of Money.
We'll get to that in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
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Now Malor's mountain of money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
And we get to the game. Right now.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
We have Jed, who fled, who is going to team
up with Coop? And Scott in Kentucky teamed up with
Eddie and I believe Jed is.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Going first with Cooper loop. Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
The Sound of Silence is the one that you guys picked.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Are you ready? Jed? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
The Paul Simon Edition The Sound of Silence. These athletes
let their play do their talking for them. We'll put
forty five seconds on the clock. We need the first
and last name. Iowa. Sam's on Iowa time, so he
doesn't have the clock ready? Okay, are you ready Iowa Sam? Yes, okay,
here we go on your way.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Go mister load management for the Clippers, Yes, uh.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Megatron Calvin Jonathan, the best receiver.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
In Arizona Cardinals history. Yes, this guy's knee just exploded
for the Browns.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Uh the running back?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Next up? Okay, this guy uh sucks for the Yankees.
He's got initials in his first name. All right, basketball
player with the nickname Skywalker man So Hot, so Hot,
wide receiver for the Broncos. Number eighty in the.
Speaker 9 (34:43):
Man Too Late, Rod Stewart, Yeah, you look great, man.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
That was embarrassing. This job didn't get that DJ lem.
He won a batting title for the Yankees and the Rockies.
I believe David Thompson and Rod Smith. Okay, only sixty points.
That's a score to beat.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Eddie.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You are mister missus. Robinson was Scott in Kentucky. These
athletes like older women. Hey, hey, hey, all right, forty
five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
You're on your way and go.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
Current quarterback of the Broncos. He's married to Siarra current
quarterback of the Jets, replacing Aaron Rodgers at a b YU. Yes,
a former Heat star. He's married to Gabrielle Union, best
player for the Miami Heat huh oh Yes, former Spurs
guard from France. He was married to Eva Longoria. Yes,
(35:48):
this guy was a Hall of fame or he's the
son of a Hall of fame tight end from the
San Diego Chargers, same name. Uh, he played for the Browns.
He's in prison now. No, no, he's in prison now for.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
For likes exposed himself raping old women too.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, alright, the son of bulls legend and goat.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Uh all right, the lead, but.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Had a great maybe one hundred that was Sam one
hundred points. You did not get Kellen Kellen Winslow junior
and so Eddie as the lead.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That means coop you go again?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
You want boxer or my my little my little town.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Okay, my little town. These athletes all are from small towns.
Forty five seconds on the clock, You're on your way.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Go.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
The mailman for the Jazz.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Uh. Former Cowboys quarterback, he's an announcer, not Troy Aikman. Uh.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
The other one, the more recent quarterback, Oh all right,
slugger for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
He came from the Cubs.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Yes, current head coach of the Texans.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You bad guy.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Maybe I don't know next.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Uh the man for the Cardinals.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
Wonder No, no, the the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
His nickname was the Man, the Man white version.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
Oh my, wow, you mean I'm old enough.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
When Jed was good at this, I know what happened
to him?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Why do you put me on there? They am?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I still in the lead?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I think you are really well, well you have thirty,
all right, go ahead, Eddie, just finish it up.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Let's let's what do I need? Forty? You need?
Speaker 9 (37:42):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (37:43):
You need like twenty?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
All right?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
The all time strikeout team for the Texas Rangers. Lots
of no hitters, Scott. There you go, There you go?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Are you got the way? Congratulations Eddie? You want to
win there? Yeah, that's an.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Embarrassment to all wrong addicts in Florida. Bad job by you, Jed,
Shame on you. He used to be great at this game.
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Took he took stupid pills, the wrong bottle, the stupid pills,
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And we're here another day on the right side of
the grass. So we're doing something right here. We're on
the right side of the grass. So our lead this
hour coming from baseball. Base ball's been very very good
to me. Actually not really, you know, but hey, the
one thing about the show people think that, oh man,
(02:09):
my life is ruined if the Dodgers get a limited Well, A,
I'm used to it, and B I got to do
the show. Whether the Dodgers in the playoffs or not,
it doesn't really matter. Like I it's not like I
get extra extra money if the Dodgers win.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I don't get anything out of it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
But here listen, NL side of the Bracket Talking Baseball
saw a classic comeback by Austin Riley and the Atlanta
Braves as they storm back to take down the Phillies
and even up that series at one one. But the
nightcap is where we are going to start. We'll talk
about the Phillies game and the Braves game in a
(02:46):
little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But we start in La La Land.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
The Dodgers trying to do the same as the Diamondbacks,
and I am a bad poker player, as I've already
let the cat out of the bat back. If you
didn't see the game, you were not watching. Zach Gallon
allowed a couple of runs over five and a third innings,
and he gets the second win of this postseason. The
Diamondbacks have already played a few extra games, and someone
(03:12):
named lords Guriel Junior. I'm not sure who that is,
but apparently he's a baseball player hit a home run
and had an RBI single in a three run first thing.
He had a home run later in the game and
Arizona they jumped out to a three to nothing lead
they never trailed. The Diamondbacks now lead the best of
five series two games to bupkis, and they can eliminate
(03:34):
the Dodgers when they play their first home game of
the postseason. That'll be on Wednesday night back in the
Valley of the Sun. So let us discuss the question
who gets the biggest hunk of the Dodgers bacon rap
blame dog. That's right, the Dodgers bacon rap blame dog
who gets the biggest chunk. So I've got delta flight,
(03:57):
fatal flaw, and Russian roulette, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a pathetic performance, which is what the Dodgers have mastered
in October baseball, pathetic performances.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So number who.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, by the way, the Dodgers are looking for their
number W win.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
They don't have that yet. So we thought about going
to the archive.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I was debating whether or not to go to the
archives here at Fox Sports Radio and dust off an
old cassette tape of a previous rant about Dave Roberts
micro managing, and I liked him in that spot and
one of the classic hits from the past decade or
so of Dodger baseball. But my complaints have rung hollow.
(04:53):
I complain here and they do the same crap every year.
So what's the point. They don't care what I say,
and they don't don't care what you say. They do
whatever they want, and that's how they can charge seventeen
dollars for a personal pizza at Dodger Stadium because a
lot of people show up and they can do whatever
the hell they want. And so this is in many
ways a rerun, a doppel ganger, if you will. But
(05:19):
you have an offense for the Dodgers that needs a
blue pill. They go limp in the playoffs seemingly every year,
big star players. If only Mookie Betts focused as much
on bowling as he does hitting in October, boy, the
Dodgers would be going to share. But I think Mookie's
gonna dominate the bowling alleys in Nashville, probably in a
couple of days, maybe by Thursday. He'll be bowling somewhere
(05:42):
in Nashville, but he will not be playing for the
Dodgers in the postseason. So now you can add the
starting pitching. We knew the Dodgers didn't have much starting
pitching going in. You thought, well, isn't the whole setup
of sports people outperforming expectations, right, That's a big part
of athletic competition that you're not expected to do much,
(06:02):
but you prove the haters wrong. Hear that a lot.
Rarely do the Dodgers do that. They don't prove the
haters wrong. So the Dodgers that perform. Remember that famous
Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona. Remember that a few
months ago. It was a bio hazard issue. Yeah, that's
that's Dodger baseball. Here in the starting rotation, Bobby Miller,
(06:25):
who's actually pretty good.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I like this guy.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Bobby Miller's got the cool blue glove and had a
nice season for the Dodgers. And well, this guy's got
a little something to him. This guy's not gonna be
like these other turds. He'll go out there, he'll pitch
a good game. He'll pitch a solid game. He didn't
know any better. So he goes out there and three runs.
He gave up three runs in the very first sting.
(06:47):
After Clayton Kershaw gave up six runs in Game one
of this series. Dodgers starters actually lowered their EER to
forty point five in the National League Divisional Series. I
wish I could curse, but I'm told I cannot curse.
So if that seems bad, and it certainly seems bad
to me, but I don't know, I just do the
(07:08):
overnight show. Maybe that's not that bad. Maybe that's good. Maybe,
in a parallel to mention, giving up an average of
forty and a half runs by your starting pitchers a
good thing. It's you know, self inflicted wounds. They don't hit.
They they've been playing uphill, which doesn't seem like a
great strategy. We're always coming from behind. So two games
in and life comes at you fast. It's only a
(07:29):
best of five series. And that's where we are now,
page two here, What chance? What chance do the Dodgers
have to come back? What are the chances that Dodgers
come back in? This Series's not over yet? All right,
certainly is bleak. But I'm not to even Benny Brightside
to a point here because I don't believe in momentum.
(07:50):
I think momentums bull crap, and we saw that in
the Phillies Braves game.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You know, Phillies hit all the momentum.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Until the Braves came back and won the game. I
don't think Arizona has all the momentum. They've played better
in a couple of games. So I'm gonna send the
Ods on this at plus two point fifty, which implies
about twenty eight percent chance that the Dodgers could come back.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
They've been outscored fifteen to four.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
By the way, in the first two games if you're
keeping track, and a lot of this will come down
to the attitude Obviously performance, Ultimately, performance is the most
important thing, but attitude this sour puss. Look the Dodgers
here in Arizona. They're far from unbeatable. Are they a
scrappy team?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Sure? Do they have flaws? Absolutely, they have flaws.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
However, the Dodgers have been unable to exploit them, and
they're living up to the very popular dish they serve
at Dodger Stadium, the Dodger Dog. As this team has
played like Dodger Dogs. And it was kind of cool
to see Dave Roberts being serenaded with booze as he
micro managed another game there as pulling out relief pitchers
right and left and just rotating them. True, but this
(09:01):
is the point. I've had conversations with people I know
that work with the Dodgers, and they don't care what
I think. But I'll tell you, maybe you care. I
believe the Dodgers as they have the smartest people in
the room, and they love to tell you they have
the smartest people in the room, the Dodgers. But there
is an organizational flaw and I've noticed it over the years.
They're so smart they don't realize with the flaws. So
(09:21):
what is the flaw. Everyone in that organization, all among
the players, is expected to do the bare minimum, especially
having a conversation on the hallways here and when I
was walking in the studio with Harrimon and Smith who
were in here earlier, and I was explaining, this is
my main problem, and maybe it's a problem of how
I was raised as a sports fan that in certain
(09:44):
situations like playoff games, you outperform, you go the extra mile,
as the tagline goes, go the extra mile. But that's
not what happens with the Dodgers. You just do the
bare minimum. Oh, you can't throw more than fifty five
pitches or sixty pitches. Your arm might fall off, God forbid.
(10:04):
And the ironic thing is they protect all these pictures.
They still all need Tommy John surgery. So it's very
odd and nobody seems to stop and say, well, maybe
this isn't actually working what we're doing here. Maybe that's
the problem. It's like if the Dodgers were asked to
run a marathon. So you're gonna run the Boston Marathon.
They say, Okay, we're gonna get twenty six point two
(10:26):
runners every mile. We'll have a different runner come in
We're not gonna run all twenty six point two because
we'll be fatigued at the end of the marathon. So
instead we're gonna run twenty six different people. We're gonna
have a relay race, is what we're gonna do. And
you watch you mark my words. If the Dodgers do
end up finishing this and losing to the Diamondbacks, you're
(10:48):
gonna hear a rally, rallying cry saying, well, it's because
we won one hundred games and we're being punished because
we had a week off, and Baseball's got to change that.
They they've got to do something so the better teams
don't have games off or days off rather before they play.
And you're gonna hear all that, every excuse in the book,
and they'll they'll blame this, that thing, and the other thing.
(11:09):
The Dodgers, even with all of the starting pitchers that
are either out with Tommy John or beating up women allegedly,
or god knows what else, they still had enough to
beat Arizona. And they're not right now. So I don't
want to hear it. Okay, talk to the hand. I
don't want to hear it now. Final point let's head
to Atlanta NLDS game number two, and the Atlanta Braves
(11:31):
held hintless into the sixth inning in Georgia, out in
the suburbs, out in the styckson outside Atlanta there and
a five to four unexpected Unlike the Dodgers that lay
there and played dead and don't wake up, the Atlanta
Braves actually, to their credit, woke up in this game,
just in the nick of time. A couple of home
(11:53):
runs there, Travis Darnault and Austin Riley, and Atlanta gets
the victory in game two, so that series is tied
up at one win a piece, the game ending in
nutso fashion. As Bryce Harper was on first, Nick Castellanos
a high drat to deep right center field, only to
(12:15):
be robbed by a leaping catch by Michael Harris the second.
Then Harper he had already gone past second, so he's
got a backtrack. He's running around. He's got to run back,
and then the Braves are desperately try He's desperately trying
to run back. The Braves are desperately trying to get
him out, and Harris miss misses the cutoff man Ozzie
(12:35):
Alby's the second baseman. But then Austin Riley actually backing
up the play and he get he gets it, throws
it quickly to double off Bryce Harper. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night. That's the game. The crowd goes wild,
and just like that, the series is tied up at
one win a piece. So who wears the shame bell?
Who wears the shame bell for the fighting phills in
(12:59):
the game. And so I'm gonna start with the next Dodger,
Trey Turner. I've seen this before with Trey Turner. He's
an exciting player. He also has a butcher knife for
a glove, and in this game, he had two defensive
miscues in the game. Number two the fielding era of
the Big one in the sixth inning that allowed Ronald
(13:19):
Lacuna Junior to score from second base. Had that error
not been made in a parallel dimension, we can play
the ifs, butts, candy and nuts game. But Austin Riley's
home run would have only tied the game, not given
the Braves the lead five to four. Also, we're playing
the the blame bell, where we're sharing the shame bell
(13:41):
for the there it is a shame that's actually sound
of the shame bell. Rob Thompson, that fine Canadian lad
Rob Thompson, who, like every other team playing the I
call it bullpen rule. It's not roulette. It's like Russian roulette.
Not just roulette, it's Russian roulette with the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And he got away with it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
In game one on we had that dope from Florida,
Angry Bill called up too. So you keep turning pitchers,
that's great, okay, Well in this game they actually got
a great start from Zach Wheeler. Then they had to
bring in relief pitchers who they'd already faced the Braves
the last game. And the more relief pitchers you bring in,
the law of averages, the more relief pitchers you bring in,
the higher the chance somebody's gonna go out there and
lay it egg. And in this game, Jeff Hoffman, who
(14:22):
had been very good for the Phillies, but not this time,
he sucked at a time you cannot suck. And the
Phillies also stopped putting runs across. There were two of
eight with runners in the scoring position, and they left
eleven men on base. They could have absolutely buried Max Freed,
and they did have the lead, but they didn't actually
bury Max freed at the end.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
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(15:51):
Braves come back over the Phillies. We're more than welcome
to do that. We welcome you with open arms. But
our lead this hour coming from Lost Wages. Offense optional
offense optional. Monday Night football, the Packers brought their shareholders
to town for a date with Raiders Joe Buck and
(16:12):
Troy Aikman in the house. Didn't you watch well? I
watched with half an eye. I was watching the baseball.
I'm not gonna lie to you, but I did have
this game on and it was on the background. And
what I saw, if you didn't see it, Jimmy Garoppolo
wasn't very good.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
He was.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I had a little over two hundred yards passing, had
a touchdown through his NFL leading seventh interception for the Raiders.
But that was enough compliments of the generosity of the
team from Wisconsin as Las Vegas ends up getting a
seventeen thirteen victory. Green Bay was given an opportunity to
(16:53):
win the game by Josh McDaniels and the kicker for
the Raiders, mister Carr who Daniel Carlson who botched a
field goal was a long field goal, but a fifty
two yard field goal in the fourth quarter. More on
that coming up in a bit. But that's not bare lee.
(17:14):
The Raiders are two and three. They gained less than
two hundred and eighty yards. The Packers got two hundred
eighty five yards. They're two and three, So both teams
have the identical record coming out of the Monday Night game,
Las Vegas ending an eight game skid against the Packers.
The last time the franchise beat Green Bay prior to
(17:35):
Monday Night was in nineteen eighty seven when they were
called the Los Angeles Raiders.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It's a fair amount of time ago.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Why we love losers. I love losers, and so.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
We're gonna go to the loser side. That's where the
drama is. When you win, everyone kisses your ass and
everything's wonderful. It's rainbows and lollipops. But when you lose,
it's finger pointing, it's calling names to other people. It's
that kind of stuff. So the question on this Raider
Packer Monday Night game, let's start with the quarterback, because
(18:14):
that's really this season for the Green Bay Packers in
a nutshell? Can we all agree on that? Does anyone disagree?
Anyone in the electorate disagree? This season is all about
figuring out what the hell you have at quarterback?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
So after five weeks, five.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Weeks of the NFL regular season, how does the report
card for Packer quarterback Jordan Love read after five weeks?
So on the Malor report card, the only report card
that matters in this timeslot on Fox Sports Radio, the
Malor report Card. I have given Jordan Love the D minus.
(18:56):
I give them the date Love gets the D minus
is what he does. Yes, I've got Donald Trump magic
eight ball and white polyester tracksuit, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a bowl of chili. Why that would have been
more entertaining than watching the Packers and Raiders on offense.
(19:18):
A nice bowl of chili, not even eating the chili,
just looking at the chili would have been better.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
So we'll begin here.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
A Jordan Love is not your typical first year starting quarterback,
and so you have to in the grading process. You know,
as an educator, I've spoken to at least one university.
I've ventured into academia. And here's the thing when you're
when you're grading Jordan Love, it's not your normal first
(19:49):
year starting quarterback. Like if you look at the Carolina Panthers,
they got the latest hot shot from Alabama and he
has not played NFL football Bryce Young until this so
he's playing and he's terrible.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
He's absolute horrible.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's different in green Bay because Love has been spoon fed,
spoon fed those cheese curds NFL life. He was not
fed to the lions and bears and vikings. No, not
at all, not by a long shot. Green Bay was
very methodical. They had Aaron Rodgers. And so when you
look at Jordan Love, he was living the life of
(20:25):
the old Donald Trump TV show, The Apprentice, right he
was the Apprentice.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
He was hanging out waiting around. La la la la
la la la la la la.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
That's anybody sounded like a lot of people don't know that,
but that's what Jordan Love sounded like.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
La la la la la la la la la Da
na na na da.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
He was twiddling his thumbs waiting for the opportunity. Well,
now the opportunity is here, and the expectation has to
be higher. The expectation has to be higher than the production.
Love gets the D minus on the Mallet report card
because he's not even getting better. He's getting worse. As
the season has gone on, his performance has gotten progressively worse.
(21:05):
And it's not like the competition has gotten progressively better.
For the Green Bay Packers and their opponents here versus Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
If you look at the.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Report, Geard in the Chicago game didn't do great in
the first half, second half dominated. Fine, we'll get him
a good grade on that. The Bears were terrible. The
Atlanta game for the Packers, Jordan Love had three touchdowns
and no interceptions. So you say, get great game, wonderful game,
but you.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Saw the game.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
He did not perform well in the fourth quarter and
he was responsible for not making plays down the stretch.
Oh wise, the Packers beat the Falcons, It's not like
Atlanta's a great team. So then against the Lions, that
was just the no show. That was absenteeism in the
first half. We all saw that, those of us that
have the Amazon with al Michaels and friends. And so
(21:53):
he then also the game before the Lions game, the
New Orleans game, he's stunk for three quarters and then
there was a helter skelter comeback for the Packers and
Jordan Love and so he played well for a quarter
and they won the game. Congratulations, But even that, there
was some other factors that played into it. Now against
a mediocre Raider team, a team that really was challenged
(22:16):
to create turnovers. I think they only had one leave
coming into this game. And Jordan Love went out there
and he was the mayor of Barf City. He was
the mayor of Barf City, mayn And against a mediocre
Raider defense, he had a real clunker. Three interceptions, the
one he just it was like he's playing catch with
(22:36):
the Raider linebacker over the middle. No touchdown passes against
a very vanilla Raider defense.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
So now after.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Five games, if you go look at the tailor of
the tape, tail tape for mister Love. If you look
at five games, Jordan Love, eight touchdowns, six interceptions, He's
completing less than sixty percent of his passes. I didn't
play quarterback in the NFL, but I'm told that's not good.
Averaging less than seven yards per attempt barily over six
and a half, that's also not good. And a quarterback
(23:07):
rating of seventy seven point two, which I think sucks
in all fifty states and not just the forty eight
continental states. That also stinks in Alaska and Hawaii. So
considering and when you combine everything together and you crunch
the numbers, considering all of the time invested in developing
Jordan Love and having him ready. And I love those
(23:30):
people that say, well, every rookie quarterback needs to sit
for two years because they'll all be like Patrick Mahomes. Well,
sometimes you get Jordan Love. Sometimes you get Jordan Love. Okay,
he ain't good. Let's just say it right now. He's
not good. And you never know he might never become good,
but right now he's not good. First impression. You only
get one chance to do that. You're not that guy, pal,
(23:51):
trust me, you're not that guy. And struggling against lousy competition.
Now page two, here are there any positives for the
Green Bay football team?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Here?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
As we advance through the season. Now past week five,
Packers coming up on a bye week. So let's ask
the Magic eight Ball, Almighty Omni present, all powerful Magic
eight ball. Are there positives for the Green Bay Packers
after five games? Magic gate ball says, outlook not so good.
(24:23):
That's what the magic gate ball says. Listen, the Packers
are settling in to what will likely be a rather
long stretch of unremarkable football.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Is call like it is here.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Matt Lafleur looks like he knows the end is near.
He just has this dazed and confused, like sad look
on his face the coach in Green Bay when he
should be wanting to roll up his sleeves right now
and outscheme the other teams, right because you're gonna have
to outscheme the other teams because you don't have great talent.
But nothing is going to come into that Green Bay
(24:56):
locker room that bedazzles you in terms of talent. There's
nothing astonishing around the corner. They've got a bunch of
worker ants on that team and that's what they have.
And there's no light at the end of the tunnel there.
You're not gonna get a hot shot free agent coming
to Green Bay unless God tells them to go to
Green Bay shout out the Minister of Defense back in
(25:17):
the day.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
But outside of that, forget about it. You're not gonna
get a trade.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
The Packers don't operate that way because they'd have to
trade draft picks and they don't do that. So what
you see is what you get, all right. They'll lie
low and they'll take it slow and studying. That's how
they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Approach all right.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Final point, does this win launch the Raiders in the
right direction. They beat their Green Bay Packers at home
in the three game losing streak. So I will be
Benny Bright said on this with a catch, So I
am nodding my head, yes that this does propel the Raiders.
(25:54):
But before you get too excited, do not confuse the
victory as a sign that the Raiders actually a good team.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
But they're gonna be what we call a faux good
team for the next month. Okay, here's why. Uh before
we tell you why this this game right here, the
Monday night game was the epitome of a Jimmy g special.
If if you could sum up what is Jimmy Garoppolo's career,
like this is it. It's go out, don't play that well,
(26:24):
but you win the game anyway. That's Garoppolo, Like that's
how that's how he's done it. You don't have the
sexiest stat line, you don't really make that many big plays.
It's a bumpy ride, but you win anyway. Your offense
doesn't have any real tempo, but you find.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
A way, you persevere.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That's Garoppolo and get out the Gotti jewelry, the white
polyester track suit. I don't care if you want to
bring out the overhead projector you can do that as well,
because Al Davis would have loved the guy like Garoppolo
because what was his tagline? Just win baby, right, and
Garoppolo just wins baby. Now to the point why this,
(27:03):
there's optimism even though the Raiders are gonna be a
faux contender. They're not a real good team. They're a
faux good team. And here's why. So they're two and three.
I've done some malor math on this. The arrow is
pointing up. Here's why not because the Raiders are good,
because they're they're the light of the gods of the schedule.
The scheduling gods is shining down on the Raiders. Okay,
(27:26):
so the Raiders are two and three. Here's what they
have upcoming. They've got the Patriots in Vegas. The Patriots
might just forfeit that game and save money on gas
the way they're playing right now, not even trying cutlass.
The Chicago Bears in Chicago. You don't think the Bears
are good. They're not the Lions. Now, the Lions are
a good team. Okay, Fine, that's in Detroit. Maybe you
(27:49):
lose that game. Then you've got the Giants and Jets,
both New York teams back to back. We know they stink,
so of the next five games, four of them are winnable.
So if the Raiders take make care of business, they
will end up using my computer like brain. Six and
four will be the Raiders record after ten games. And
(28:09):
then you go flying into a wood chipper because yeah,
then you have to play the Dolphins and the good teams.
But the next five games for the Raiders are right
there for the take.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
It's like a.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Nice thick orange you know, it's just got the juice
ready to squeeze it the juice comes up.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
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Speaker 5 (28:35):
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We usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's
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(28:57):
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Speaker 3 (29:04):
It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
K Loop Jannis and Tenna Kumpo said that there is
no competition with Damian Lillard on who will have the
bomb war in Bucks games?
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Ben, do you believe him?
Speaker 3 (29:23):
No? I don't believe him at all.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
It's a brand new relationship and you've got Dame Lillard,
who's the alpha Janis, who's always had the ball at
the end of the game for the Milwaukee Bucks. Now
it's gonna take a while to sort this out, and unfortunately,
no one will be watching the NBA and by the
time they start watching, they'll sort it out. But Dame
Lizard's gonna be the guy. Why would you trade for
Dame Lord unless you're gonna use him at the end
(29:47):
of the game. He's the perfect guy end of game situations,
and Giannis has shown that he's not quite that guy
a lot of the night, A lot of nights he's
a terrible foul shooter.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Next, the Clippers reported they want to get a deal
done for seventy six ers guard James Harden sooner rather
than later, but they don't want to increase their offer.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Ben, how does this standoff end.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So the ball on this one's in Harden's court, right,
It depends how big a hemorrhoid he's going to be
in Philadelphia, how much trouble he causes them, And at
some point the Sixers are gonna blink and they'll trade him.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
But I don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
The you know, the Clippers are gung ho, like the
front office is gung ho to get hard. I think
this is coming from Paul George and Westbrook and the
guys on the team, which is troubling that they're they're
building the team that way.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That doesn't usually end that well.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Next, Warriors owner Joe lacub is said to be very
interested in buying the Athletics if the baseball team decides
to sell Ben.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Is there anything to the story.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Well, all it is right now is Joe lakeb getting
brownie points in the Bay Area saying I'm rich, I
can buy the team if I want, But the team's
not for sale.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Now what should happen.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
If you're gonna move a franchise, you should put it
for sale and then if somebody wants to buy it,
they have to stay in the city they're in. But
at this point, there's nothing to the story. We do
come pass that you get putting on the board.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I want the guy.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I want the guy I was Sam.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I want the game.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
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Speaker 1 (31:22):
We're gonna have Malard's Mountain of Money? Should we just
introduce the guys? I don't play the imaging Jed who
fled wants to play?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Jed, Wow, I don't even think you're red for football.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
You just started talking about having pad on.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
He hurt you. I heard pads a lot, a lot
of knee pad talk. All right, who do you want
to partner Who do you want to partner that with?
Jed's a regular on the show. He lives in the
swamp lands, the floord. Who do you want to partner
up with? You don't you don't give any rug burn
on my knees.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
They don't have any I'm gonna go. I'm gonna I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
I was just pitching.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Good Okay, thank you, thanks you for not picking me.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Scott in Kentucky, Scott, you're gonna play the game. Who
do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Scott? Let me get Eddie? All right, very good, Hold
on a sec. What do they you want to do?
The categories? Cooper, you just want to get to the game.
What do you want to do? Coops?
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Thinking about that? Yeah, sure, all right. This is the
Paul Simon edition of Mallards Mount of Money.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Oh how old is he?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
He turns eighty two years old? Week, Yes, it is
very old, Paul. The categories are the Sound of Silence,
Missus Robinson, the Boxer, and my Little Town h jed
you were on first?
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Which category would like?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
What I never did?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Whether I have company or not?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Down the South?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Okay? Okay, yeah, very nice or whatever? Scott pick a category?
Scott quickly, please no clute. He wasn't listening to anything
you said.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
Missus Robinson the Boxer or my little.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Town Missus Robinson. All right, Missus Robins, very naughty with
Missus Robinson. There you are.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
We will press on. We're gonna have Mallard's amount of Money.
We'll get to that in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Be sure to catch it. Five editions of the Ben
Mallor Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Now Malor's mountain of money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
And we get to the game. Right now.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
We have Jed, who fled, who is going to team
up with Coop? And Scott in Kentucky teamed up with
Eddie and I believe Jed is.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Going first with Cooper loop. Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (33:32):
The Sound of Silence is the one that you guys picked.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Are you ready? Jed? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
The Paul Simon Edition The Sound of Silence. These athletes
let their play do their talking for them. We'll put
forty five seconds on the clock. We need the first
and last name. Iowa. Sam's on Iowa time, so he
doesn't have the clock ready? Okay, are you ready Iowa Sam? Yes, okay,
here we go on your way.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Go mister load management for the Clippers, Yes, uh.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Megatron Calvin Jonathan, the best receiver.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
In Arizona Cardinals history. Yes, this guy's knee just exploded
for the Browns.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Uh the running back?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Next up? Okay, this guy uh sucks for the Yankees.
He's got initials in his first name. All right, basketball
player with the nickname Skywalker man So Hot, so Hot,
wide receiver for the Broncos. Number eighty in the.
Speaker 9 (34:43):
Man Too Late, Rod Stewart, Yeah, you look great, man.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
That was embarrassing. This job didn't get that DJ lem.
He won a batting title for the Yankees and the Rockies.
I believe David Thompson and Rod Smith. Okay, only sixty points.
That's a score to beat.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Eddie.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You are mister missus. Robinson was Scott in Kentucky. These
athletes like older women. Hey, hey, hey, all right, forty
five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
You're on your way and go.
Speaker 8 (35:25):
Current quarterback of the Broncos. He's married to Siarra current
quarterback of the Jets, replacing Aaron Rodgers at a b YU. Yes,
a former Heat star. He's married to Gabrielle Union, best
player for the Miami Heat huh oh Yes, former Spurs
guard from France. He was married to Eva Longoria. Yes,
(35:48):
this guy was a Hall of fame or he's the
son of a Hall of fame tight end from the
San Diego Chargers, same name. Uh, he played for the Browns.
He's in prison now. No, no, he's in prison now for.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
For likes exposed himself raping old women too.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, alright, the son of bulls legend and goat.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Uh all right, the lead, but.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Had a great maybe one hundred that was Sam one
hundred points. You did not get Kellen Kellen Winslow junior
and so Eddie as the lead.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That means coop you go again?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
You want boxer or my my little my little town.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Okay, my little town. These athletes all are from small towns.
Forty five seconds on the clock, You're on your way.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Go.
Speaker 7 (36:36):
The mailman for the Jazz.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Uh. Former Cowboys quarterback, he's an announcer, not Troy Aikman. Uh.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
The other one, the more recent quarterback, Oh all right,
slugger for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
He came from the Cubs.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Yes, current head coach of the Texans.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You bad guy.
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Maybe I don't know next.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Uh the man for the Cardinals.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
Wonder No, no, the the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
His nickname was the Man, the Man white version.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
Oh my, wow, you mean I'm old enough.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
When Jed was good at this, I know what happened
to him?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Why do you put me on there? They am?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I still in the lead?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I think you are really well, well you have thirty,
all right, go ahead, Eddie, just finish it up.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Let's let's what do I need? Forty? You need?
Speaker 9 (37:42):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (37:43):
You need like twenty?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
All right?
Speaker 8 (37:45):
The all time strikeout team for the Texas Rangers. Lots
of no hitters, Scott. There you go, There you go?
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Are you got the way? Congratulations Eddie? You want to
win there? Yeah, that's an.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Embarrassment to all wrong addicts in Florida. Bad job by you, Jed,
Shame on you. He used to be great at this game.
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Took he took stupid pills, the wrong bottle, the stupid pills,
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