Hour 1 - Dodgers Disaster

Ben Maller talks about the Los Angeles Dodgers falling 0-2 to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS, who gets the blame for the Phillies letting the Braves even up the series, MLB Playoff Pick'em, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one of
the Ben Malshow podcast. We record this overnight, you know
the drill, so you have a fresh podcast that was
recorded while you were sleeping, and we talk about all
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the time that we get done with the podcast, and

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then podcast goes up. We talk about all the big
stories overnight. So if you've been with the show a
long time, you know there's a tradition in the month
of October that we do Malard monologues after Dodger playoff losses,
and so that tradition has continued. And who gets the
biggest hunk of the Dodger bacon wrapped hot dog of
blame after the latest playoff meltdown? What chance do you

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give the Dodgers to come back against Arizona down two
games to none to the d Backs. Also the Phillies
and Braves, Oh where's the shame bell? Who gets to
wear it for the fight? And Phills that they blow
a blew big lead in Georgia going down to the brains.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.
It is our number one. It is a staple of

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October's sports talk radio playoff game played Dodger's Meltdown, and
I come in here like a screaming banshee on the radio.
Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben
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So we're doing something right here. We're on the right
side of the grass. So our lead this hour coming
from baseball. Baseball's been very very good to me. Actually

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not really, you know, but hey, the one thing about
this show. People think that, oh man, my life is
ruined if the Dodgers get a limited But 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. I don't get anything

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out of it. But here listen, NL side of the
bracket Talking Baseball saw a classic comeback by Austin Riley
and the Atlanta Braves as they stormed 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

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in a little bit, but we start in La La Land.
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.

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The Diamondbacks have already played a few extra games, and
someone named lordis 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

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five series two games to bupkis and they can eliminate
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?

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Who gets the biggest chunk? So I've got delta flight,
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. So number who Yeah, by

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the way, the Dodgers are looking for their number who.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Win.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
They don't have that yet. So we thought about going
to the archive. 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

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past decade or so of Dodger baseball. But my complaints
have rung hollow. 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 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

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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 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

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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 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

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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,
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

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Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona. You remember that a
few months ago it was a bio hazard issue. Yeah,
that's Dodger baseball. Here in the startingation. Bobby Miller, who's
actually pretty good. I like this guy. 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

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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 thitting. After Clayton Kershaw
gave up six runs in Game one of this series.
Dodgers starters actually lowered their eer to forty point five

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in the National League Divisional Series. Man, I wish I
could curse, but I'm told I cannot curse. So if
that seems bad, it certainly seems bad to me. But
I don't know. I just do the 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,

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you know, self inflicted wounds. They 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 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?

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What are the chances the Dodgers come back in this series?
Not over yet? All right, certainly it's bleak, But I'm
going to eat Benny Brightside to a point here, because
I don't believe in momentum. I think momentums bull crap,
and we saw that in the Phillies Braves game. You know,
Phillies had all the momentum until the Braves came back

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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 set the odds on this at plus
two point fifty, which implies about twenty eight percent chance
that the Dodgers could come back. They've been outscored fifteen
to four, by the way, in the first two games
if you're keeping track, and a lot of this will

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come down to the attitude. Obviously, performance, Ultimately, performance is
the most it's important thing, But attitude. This a sour puss.
Look the Dodgers here in Arizona. They're far from unbeatable.
Are they a scrappy team?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Do they have flaws? Absolutely they have flaws. 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

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just rotating them through. But this 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

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realize what the flaws. So what is the flaw? Everyone
in that organization, all among the players, is expected to
do the bare minimum. Es actually 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 with how I was raised as

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a sports fan that in certain 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.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
With the Dodge.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Jesus do the bare minimum. Oh, you can't throw more
than fifty five pitches or sixty pitchers. Your arm might
fall off, God forbid. 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. And it's like if the Dodgers were

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asked to run a marathon, so you got to run
the Boston Marathon. They say, Okay, we're gonna get twenty
six point two 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 marithon, So instead we're gonna run twenty six different people.
We're gonna have a relay race, is what we're gonna do.

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And you watch you mark my words. If the Dodgers
do end up finishing this and losing to the Diamondbacks,
you're 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 gotta change that.
They've got to do something so the better teams don't

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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. 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

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to hear it now. Final point. Let's head to Atlanta
NLDS Game number two, and the Atlanta Braves held hintless
into the sixth inning in Georgia, out in the suburbs,
out in the Styson outside Atlanta. There and a five
to four unexpected. Unlike the Dodgers that lay there and

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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 runs there
Travis Darnault and Austin Riley, and Atlanta gets the victory
in Game two, so that series is tied up at
one win apiece, the game ending in nutso fashion as

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Bryce Harper was on first, Nick Castellanos a high rat
to deep right center field, only to 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

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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 Ozzy 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 again, good night.

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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 this 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

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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 Lacuno Junior to
score from second base. Had that air not been made
in a parallel dimension, we can play the ifs, butts,
candy and nuts game. But Austin Riley's home run would

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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 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.

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It's not roulette. It's like Russian roulette. Not just roulette,
it's Russian roulette with the bullpen. And he got away
with it. In game one, we had that dope from Florida,
Angry Bill called up to see keep changing pitchers. That's great, Okay, Well,
in this game they actually got a great start from
Zack 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,

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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 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

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they did have the lead, but they didn't actually bury
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It's Ben Malor Ryan Wright.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
So he says, could you imagine Tommy Lsords meltdown after
these couple of games to the Diamondbacks if he was
managing the Hey Yeah, it's so funny. I got a lecture.
I was actually at the Dodger game a few hours
ago and one of Dave Roberts Odie's in the media
was like, it's not Dave roberts fault. You go to

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go easily on Dave, you know that names. It was ridiculous, Eddie,
it was so stupid. I will protect the guilty.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Aide, but like him in that spot, I really did.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, And it's like, Okay, it's fine, but you know,
we're a little numb to Dave Roberts. We've heard all
the bull crap over there. We've heard all the bull craft,
all the excuses, and the thing that kills me is
actually the kershaw thing because they bragged, those a holes
with the Dodgers. They bragged for like a couple of
months that you know, we're gonna just we're gonna baby

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kershaw him every Saturday, he's gonna pitch, and we're gonna
get him ready exactly what he needs to do for
the playoffs. And then he goes out there and you
could literally see the diarrhea through his baseball pants as
he was on the mountain. See it was dripping down
his pants as he was on the much gooey and

(17:58):
brown and was just fascinating to watch that amazing. And
I hear some people say, oh, I hope that's not
his last start. I said, why, that's the perfect ending
to Clayton Kershaw's career. I can't think of a better
way for Kershaw to walk off the mound for the
final time. If there's the dichotomy between Kershaw and the

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regular season and Clayton Kershaw in the postseason, it's a
night and day situation. That's the perfect way for that.
Dan Chipping the Ques writes and he says, hey, plus
of the mount of the monologue, and he says, unless
something unforeseen happens, I am going to the dreaded day shift.
It's been real thanks for everything. So is that permanent, Chip,

(18:42):
you'll never come back to the night shift? That, well,
we're gonna lose you forever. And does that mean you
cannot download the podcast and support the podcast? Is that
what that means? Also?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Well, he can, but will he?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
I don't think he will. And a lot of these
guys they get there, they get their jolly's Eddy, their
jolly good fast, hello, jolly goodfellow. They're jolly goodfellows because
they like to partake in the show, they like to
have their name read on the show, but they don't
actually listen to the show just for enjoyment. So I
think we're done with him. Nick and Wisconsin says, good
to listen live again after a a wakey week. He says,

(19:17):
I feel bad for those kids on Roberto's bus tomorrow. Yeah,
Roberto is not going to put up with any spitballs
or anything on that bus. He is just going to
bring down the hammer. He is a man bring sgulations, Dick. Yeah,
that's what he's gonna say to every kid when they
get on the bus. A G man in Chicago says,
great monologue.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Ben.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
I'm not a Doyer fan, but watching Dave Roberts all
these years walking out to the manag during the playoffs
and failing even makes me angry. Is Roberts an ai bot? Well,
he's as close to the Manchurian candidate as you can get.
And that's the the Dave Roberts defenders there. Their argument

(19:58):
is he's just following the script, which you know, I
don't be too dramatic here, but I was trying to
explain to that one of my friends who was telling
me that. I was like, isn't that that's the Nurnberg defense?
Is it not right? That's the Nurnberg defense. I believe
I'm just following orders. Yeah, I don't think that worked, right,
That doesn't work. I don't think that if that worked

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for the prison guards at the camps there in Germany
did not work. A Nick in a New Hampshire right say.
He says, the Dodgers think the World Series ends with
making the postseason. Maybe those guys think that they're that's
where the extra bucks stop. Yeah, well, you get paid
mostly for the regular season. The playoffs you get a

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old bonus. But these guys make so much money they
don't really need it. Double A Mexican in San Diegos
is nine point one on the mouth of the monologue.
Why do these teams keep babying these pitchers when they
still get hurt? It's like load management in the NBA.
News flash, it doesn't work well when you hire the
geniuses that have all the answers, all the data. This

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is the great thing too, about teams like the Diamondbacks,
and I have nothing. Diamondbacks are like the most neutral team.
You can't really hate the Diamondbacks. They don't have any
star players. In fact, I actually like the fact if
Arizona does win. A guy I used to work with
in radio, Derek Hall, was an LA radio guy. He
was actually worked for the Dodgers. He's the CEO of
the Diamondbacks. And I've known Derek for a long time,

(21:22):
so it'd be great for him. He's been in Arizona
a long time and there's been a lot of bad
baseball teams there in Arizona, so it'd be kind of cool.
But all the analytics would tell you, well, Arizona, they
don't have it. I don't have this, that and the
other thing, and yet they end up winning because stats
tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
Chuck says, been with all the years Stan cast and

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has been with the Braves and Dodgers, how many World
Series titles has he witnessed? That that would be I
believe too. I believe two would be the number. But
that the Dodgers love it. And it's from a business
stand boy, forget actually trying to win, but from a
business standpoint, the Dodgers are rolling in money. They're absolutely
rolling in money. So you can charge seventeen dollars for

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a cheese steak. Same, I'm sure a personal pizza there.
And you know, seven dollars for a pretzel, which is
what a hunk of dough, which is about thirty cents
of dough, a little bit of salt on top, mean
you can charge seven bucks for that. My favorite was
I was walking through the concessions at Dodge them they
charged to twenty five for a cup of cheese, nacho cheese,
to twenty five for a cup of cheese. How do

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you it's not even real cheese. No, it's not even
real cheese. There was no No cheese was harmed.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
It's water powder, yeah, mixed together. Yeah, exactly, cheese food,
as they say, I would like to let there's no
milk in there. I want to let the unwashed though
that Roberto did text me. Uh, he texted me during
the game as the implosion was happening. Bunch of bums
was what one of the messages that he signed.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
And uh, and then he took a shot at Dave
Roberts as well, so and some of the effects. Oh
that was the other After game one, you know, we
were debating what Dave Roberts was going to say, and
something along the lines of it's okay, we'll figure it out.
Was I think we we determined that would be the
Dave Roberts line of thinking there and that one, but

(23:14):
just wonderful. Late Night Drug Tester says, great start to
the show. I hope your Dodgers can avoid the upset. Also,
I'm sure Eddie had a great Canadian Thanksgiving yesterday and
plenty of poutine stuff turkey. Yes, Eddie did celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving.
He wore the Canadian tuxedo, which is I really liked

(23:35):
the Canadian tuxedo. It's a good look, and you know,
there's a lot of things. No way I think about it,
I kind of like Canada in some ways. I love
I don't like salad, but I like the Canadian salad.
I like that I could wear a Canadian tuxedo. So
there's something.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Am I bad for being the hockey fan that I am?
And I have no idea what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
You don't know what a Canadian tuxedo is.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I don't think, so maybe if you tell me what
it is, I'll know.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I think I knows what a Canadian I do know
what it is. You know where it is. Oh yeah,
it's a it's a jean jacket in jeans. It's all denim.
It's all denim, head to toe Canadian duxedo. Do you
know what a Canadian salad is? No, that's poutine, that's Canadian.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
I do know what that is.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Yeah, yeah, but that's what you know. They call it
the Canadian sun. In fact, I enjoyed that. Yeah, yeah,
that's my favorite salad. Ferd Cat right, since the Dodgers
are going to collapse every year until they get their
their nerdy analytical heads out of their books and party
like the d Backs and Padres do jocks beat nerds
every time? From fer Cat? But isn't isn't for Cat?

Speaker 3 (24:39):
A nerd?

Speaker 5 (24:40):
I thought he was a nerd. I don't know anyway,
a nerd Ben. You know what the Dodgers need to do.
They need to just scoop back to Brooklyn. They just
squeak by into the playoffs. They need to stop winning
the division. Have a little hunger, a little withdrawal, a
little famine, and that I'll spark the stomach.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Or maybe they could just you know, live up to expectations.
How about that? Is that? How about Mookie Betts actually
play like he does in the regular season. About that
is that too much?

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Win the division and then it's just like same old,
same old, winning one hundred games and then you.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
See, I don't even buy that. That's such a cop out.
It's such a cop as. Oh it's harder because you'll
won all those games. They need to reverse course. It's
it's just they need to. They're not going to reverse course.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
The toilet needs to, uh flush in the opposite direction.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
So you have to go below the equator. Yeah, that's
where the toilet flushes the other direction, below the equator.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
They need to They need to have some hard times
squeak into the playoffs and then uh, you know, I
don't know, scrap a little bit like the Phillies did
last year.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
But they'll sign Otani or someone this offseason. Then they'll
have forty five fifty thousand every single game at Diges
Stadium next year, and they'll win around one hundred games,
and they'll win the National League West, and then the
same thing will happen again, and then there'll be a
new round of excuses and there you go. It's like
groundhog Day around here.

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Ry writes Sin. He says, another great monologue. As usual
as a Packer fan, I'm glad you didn't start the
show with that so called football game for Monday night.
I thank you and good luck to the Dodgers, don't wry.
Our two will be dedicated to Jordan Love and the
Green Bay Packers Freddie Wright. Sin says, the Dodgers know
if you want another World Series, you have to win

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playoff games. No, no, they don't. They don't know that.
What else do we have? Page down here, Milkoman, Mike
and Coloradles is great first hour monologue about the Dodgers
sticking up a place the Dodgers performance rivals Poppies picks.
What's Poppy going to say when he loses to a

(27:17):
to a piece of poultry? Picking with the Chicken? Can't
wait for that? What a great pit. I think we
could turn that into a TV show too, Picking with
the Chicken. I think that's got to Benny Versus. That
could be a spin off of Benny Versus the Penny.
I'll tell the people over at NBC. I'll say, listen,
we got a spin off for you. Maybe we can
do that during the summer. We could pick random baseball games.

(27:40):
Picking with the Chicken. I think that's gonna work, and
we can we can get like Chick fil as the
sponsor raising canes, or KFC get a big Chicken Shack
as the sponsor a.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Lot of raising canes over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Ben, you beyond not bad? All right? Pretty good?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Right after our head banging session there, and.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
You have to brag about going to a concert. I
heard it was rad.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
It was very rad, very rad.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
I saw articles how rad it was.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
It was so rad. I like dying right now, but
it's still. It was great. It was great.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, you want to you want to leave early because yesterday,
yesterday Sparty, Oh my god, this guy. Yeah, the first hour,
didn't I guess I always say claimed, I think I
was Sam was covering for Sparti, but he couldn't couldn't
get on the air at the beginning I did. That
was pretty bad.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
I'm used to this flow now with Eddie and knowing
when he turned his mic on off. So there was
a little bit of a rhythm issue with Kevin. What
do you call him Sparti?

Speaker 1 (28:39):
By the way, what is it? Well, because no, no, no, no, no, no,
no spark. He earned the nickname because there was a
there was, unfortunately, a shooting on the Michigan State campus
that had nothing to do with sports. He led with
it the entire night. Oh and had no business being
on our air, and he did it the entire night.
So he earned the nickname Sparty. We also called him

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we call him williamsport Uh for a similar reason. He
led reporting on twelve year old hitting home runs in
Pennsylvania when there was other sports news that was like,
that's something you're throw in at the end of an update,
not the lead. So he's yeah, he's he's on he's
on fire. There s party.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
He really is.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
He's amazing.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Absolutely.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Oh, Kevin's a good guy. But you weren't having any
of it last night.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
But that was.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
A backhanded Keviny's a good guy.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
That's interesting. You know, what are you gonna do all right?
Is the Ben Malors Show. Let's go to Hayes, who's
in Minnesota. Hello Hayes in the Twin Cities.

Speaker 7 (29:44):
Hey Ben, I'm very excited to be on your show again.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Well, I'm excited too, because I cannot wait. Last time
you talked to us, you were telling us you were
just going to give away money.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, what happened with that?

Speaker 5 (29:55):
And I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
I'm excited about that. I am, I admit it. Listeners
are excited, We're all excited.

Speaker 7 (30:02):
Yes, yes, I'm very excited. It's been two months since I.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Called sir, and we still remember two months and still
remember the call. Because I'm looking at this big stack
of bills, I'm like, well, I don't need to worry
that much because Hayes is going to take care of me.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
Hey man, I met a woman on discord. I told
her I make one hundred a little bit, I tick
over one hundred thousand. She told me she wants to
marry me within a year and a half children and
start family.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
So well, wait, I thought that's a really bad idea. Now, now, Hayes,
didn't didn't you tell us that? You know, you can
do whatever you want. But I remember in a previous
phone call, I think you were told us you were
playing for the other team. Hayes, Are you switching teams?

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Now?

Speaker 7 (30:44):
You know, I don't know whatever cats in my attention,
So you're your equal opportunity.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yes, you're a multi tool player, shall we?

Speaker 7 (30:56):
Hey man? The reason why I'm excited to call it
that because you know, there's a lot of excitement here
in Minnesota about the Twins, and I don't know much
about baseball, so I was hoping maybe you can tell
me what I'm still having hard time figuring out. Is
you know, in the NBA there's first of four, whoever wins.

(31:17):
But baseball is it first of three games, whoever wins.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Or yeah yeah, So baseball they like to make you
use your mind. So in the first wild card round
it's best of three. Then it goes to best of five,
which is what the Twins are in now against the
a Holes. And remember, everyone on the Twins is good
except Carlos career. You need to boog Carlos care. Everyone
else we like on the Twins, except right because he's

(31:44):
evil because he played for the cheaters. But everyone else
is cool on the Twins, so we like them. And
then if the Twins win, we hope they do. It's
best of seven in the Alcs, and then and god
forbid they get to the World Series, it would be
best of seven.

Speaker 7 (31:58):
They're also Oh man, sounds excited. See you already helped
me out tonight. I'm much smarter thanks to Ben Ben.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
How's how's business? Everything good there, Hayes, how's the business.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
In the world?

Speaker 7 (32:11):
Everything is okay? Man?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
You know where's your German friend? Is not German? Where
is she?

Speaker 7 (32:20):
To be honest, I don't want to, you know, create
a hottile work environment, so I don't usually talk to
her as much as possible. I avoid it the Germans.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
But you had her like on the show. You had
her call into the show.

Speaker 7 (32:36):
You know, you know, I told her, Hey, I'm kind
of like a celebrity on this TV show, so maybe
you should listen to me one night and you.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Know next night you want We are Eddie, We are TV,
except we don't have the pictures. We're just like TV.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
We just.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
All right, well listen, heyes, you're a fascinating man, and
good luck if you want us to you know, kind
of go through the the screening process. So this woman
you claim wants to marry you and have a family
with you, we are more than happy to make sure
she's okay. We can put her on the air and
interviewer if you want, and we'll do that.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
Hey, man, I appreciate you. I want to say thank you.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
All right, all right, thank you. I gotta go. All right,
there he goes Hayes. That was the least creepy phone
call from Hayes we've ever had. This is a big
month for Hayes. Things that go bump in the night.
We're not that far away from Halloween. Spoof spooky, seeing

(33:37):
a spooky. There were a couple of anomalies after the
Braves had that double play to beat the Phillies at
Truest Park in the Suburbs of Georgia, suburbs of Atlanta
outside downtown Atlanta. There in the sticks and one reports
at the ground literally was shaking as the Braves game

(34:00):
ended around nine to sixteen or so, Eastern time, and
a couple of measuring locations picked up something around the
same time a few minutes later and right near Truest Park,
so the fans were shaking the grounds. It is the
Ben Malers Show. Time now for the who Am I? Game?

(34:21):
The Dolphins. Devon A. Chan is the third player in
NFL history with at least one hundred rushing yards and
a rushing touchdown in three of his first four career games.
He joins Pro Football Hall of Famer the Danian Tomlinson
and me. Who Am I? The answer next?

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Speaker 4 (34:49):
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Speaker 1 (35:10):
Why did you drop?

Speaker 2 (35:11):
I know? Why did I do that?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
I was like what heh Well, Eddie did say that
he's not He's only half here. He's not really he
wishes he was not here. He just does not want
to be here.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
That's a little strong. I didn't say I didn't want
to be here.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
I just you'd rather would rather be somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
I wouldn't mind if I was sleeping right now, I
will say that I will see that.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
He's just doing the intro from yesterday.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Let's just let's just forget that happened.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Okay, let's just do that over.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Can we fix that?

Speaker 1 (35:39):
At least at least he did an intro, unlike Sparti,
who didn't even do that. At the first hour of
the show.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
He had trouble finding some of the U the introductory.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
God forbid you ad lib, God forbid you, just let it.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
He just did it the right way the first time.
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(36:13):
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Speaker 1 (36:14):
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Dolphin running back Devon A. Chan is the third player
in NFL history with at least one hundred rushing yards

(36:35):
and a rushing touchdown in three of his first four games.
He joins Pro Football Hall of Famer Ladinian Tomlinson and me,
who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Because Eddie took about half an hour, We don't have
time to read a lot of silly answers, So blame Eddie.
It's his fault. Bronco Negersky guests by the Cowboy Killer
clubber Lang from Beam boot Maker, Bob Ben Jarvis greenelvit

(36:58):
Ellis from alf the alien O Piner who will never
go to the dreaded day shift. Mister nice guy, says
Bruce Bochie is the answer. Darryl Moose Johnston guested by
the Sawman, Skip Hicks from Callaghan Tim in Michigan. Henry
Ruggs the third from Nick in New Hampshire. Eddie, do
you have an answer?

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Former Cleveland Browns legend Peyton hillis no.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
This is a great name.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Beatty Feathers beat Feathers from nineteen thirty four.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Who I don't know. That's that's my second game, Yeah, Beatty.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Here we go MLB A divisional round Pickham same you're
going first, quick night, Sonny, Eddie, I don't know. All right,
I'll take Nathan eval the Coke back to back. Take
Christian Xavier one more and Nathaniel Lowe. All right, I'll
take Corey Seeger, Eddie Sam one more, Anthony Santanders all right,

(37:53):
I'll take Marcus Simeon Coke. We got it in. I
don't think you're gonna win, Eddie. I don't know. Maybe
you will win, but it Pass has a big day.
If I tried not to win it Pass does well