October 11, 2023 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about potential changes to the MLB playoff format after the Orioles get eliminated by the Rangers, the Twins fans failing to rattle the Astros pitchers, MLB Playoff Pick'em, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome. Here we go. It is the Ben
Malers Shops. She already do that our one of the
podcast talking bass ball. Unfortunately, there wasn't much drama at
all in the cheating ass holes. I can say that
it's a podcast and the Twins game and the Orioles
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and the Rangers, so we can talk about some of
the storylines around the games. Will Major League Baseball revisit
its playoff format after the one hundred and one win
Orioles have vanished from the playoffs after three games? Also,
was there a deeper meaning to Derek jeters praise of
Bruce Bochie on the Fox broadcast? And what is the
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lesson for Minnesota Twins fans in order to properly rattle
pitchers going forward? Talk about all that and more right
now here it is make way for our number one.
It's why we watched the game, right the thrill of victory,
the agony of defeat. But what if there is no
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Now in my head the cartoon bubble over my head.
I was like, Oh, this is gonna be great. I
got up early to watch both games. I'm like, there's
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gonna be a lot of great things to break down here.
We can slice and die them, and man, it's gonna
make for great talk radio, great sports talk radio. Cannot wait.
And then I watched the game. It was the American
League side of the playoff bracket. It was on Fox.
You better have watched Double Barrel Action. The meaning stot
the Twins playing host to the guys from the Den
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of Inequity, the cheaters from Houston and the Baltimore Orioles
and the Texas Rangers. And now we're gonna start in Arlington.
And I don't know if you actually checked these games
out or not. Maybe you missed it, but you trust me,
you didn't miss anything. There was no drama now drama
at all. The old Texas two step lopsided combined score
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sixteen to two. The combined final the Rangers polack the
Orioles seven to one. They become the first team to
punch their ticket to the Final four of Major League Baseball. Congratulations,
they did not cut down the nets Texas. They will
play either the cheating a Holes or the Twins in
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the American League Championship Series. It looks now like for
now it'll be an all Texas affair, as Houston sucker
punched Minnesota nine to one in the first leg of
the doubleheader. Unpunished Cheaters now have a two to one
lead in the best of five set. I'm sure that
makes the boys at Major League Baseball very happy. They
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don't seem to have a problem with that franchise. The
better story is in the losing locker room. So we're
gonna start with the one, one hundred and one win
Baltimore Baseball team, who have now been eliminated head to
can't Coon boys. Your season is over. That's it. Three
games and you're done. So let us discuss the question
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which everyone's been chatting about the last couple of days.
Will Major League Baseball revisit its playoff format after the
Orioles have vanished so quickly after such a magical season
in Maryland. So my thoughts on this, I've got Joe Rogan,
vinyl record, and the Great Gatsby and we will combine
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all of these things together and we are going to
prepare for sports radio battle. That's what we're preparing for.
So a it is going to take more than just
the Orioles exiting stage left now, this being our Wednesday show.
If tonight the Dodgers go flat line against the d Backs,
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and by all accounts that's where this is headed, then
that'll crank up the noise a couple of decibel points.
If the Dodgers do go flat line and the Braves
are no lock to beat the Phillies, the Braves are
pretty morbid for the first six innings of that game
against Philadelphia, and it wasn't until Trey Turner opened the
door with his defensive mis that allowed the Atlanta Braves
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to come back. But major League Baseball, if that happens,
if the Dodgers are limited, or the Breads or both
in the divisional round, Baseball is going to have a
blue ribbon panel. I can see it now. I am
a distant relative of Nostre Dami's friend of Nostradenis. I
can see it right now. Major League Baseball is cann
put one of these hokey blue ribbon panels together, and
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they're gonna say, wait a minute, wait a minute. We
have to do something for these hundred win teams, and
we can't have them pull the Houdini. So what can
be done? I'm glad you asked. I would now like
to activate the Malor think tank. Now, very rarely do
we activate the Malor think tank. It has to be
extreme for us to activate the malor of think tank.
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I am activating the Malard think tank. If you have
a problem, you have to come up with a solution
to the problem, and who better than the Malar think tank.
So I've got proposals. I've got two proposals for you now.
The first one, get rid of the bye just get
rid of the buy bye bye bye bye bye. Just
like that, bye bye bye. All right, everyone plays. You
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just do it like the other sports. Number one seed
plays the number six seed, number two seed plays the
number five, etc. Etc. Et cetera. Now the other plan
is more unorthodox. Okay, I'm gonna run this by. I'm
gonna make my elevator pitch. You keep the bye but
you get rid of the time off. Let me explain how. Okay,
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very complicated. It's scientifical. See, keep the bye round in
place for the teams, meaning they get in advance to
the divisional round. The teams that win there have the
top two records, have the great record. So what you
do is you crank up the disadvantage to the wild
card teams. This is where the plot thickens. You go
Joe Rogan, old school fear factor. You give the wild
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card teams a triple header, meaning the season ends on
a Sunday. The wild card teams have one day off
on Monday. They then play on Tuesday, one day three games. Now,
it could be only two games, all right, but up
to three games. Whoever wins the first game, if they
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win the second, there's no need for a third game.
He's making an all day situation. So if the team
that wins the first game loses the second game, we
have a third game, and then whichever team wins two
out of three then has to come right back. They
get on a plane and they fly to their next city,
and then they start the division around the following day.
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Is there pitching staff going to be in tatters? Yes?
Does it matter? Who gives a crap? That's what you do,
all right. And if Rob Manford uses this, he owes
me money. Okay, he owes me money. So that the
top teams would then, under this scenario only have Monday
and Tuesday off. They'd have two days and boom, right
back at it on a Wednesday. So I don't want
to hear any bitching about, oh, we have so much time,
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because I will guarantee you when the Dodgers eliminated and
the way they're going, they're gonna be eliminated, you're gonna
hear it was not fair, it's not right. We gotta
do something, you know, Shut up? Okay, I don't want
to hear it all right now, turning the page, let's
go to Texas. At the end of the Rangers elimination
of Baltimore, I was paying very close attention because I
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was I was trying to wake up. I had fallen asleep.
The game was so boring. But on the Fox broadcast
they gave a tongue back to Bruce Bouchie. Bruce Bochi
did not have to take a shower after that game.
They licked him from head to toe. It was lick lick, slapper, slabber.
You would have thought that Boachie hit two home runs
in that game and pitched seven solid innings. It was
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a ringing testimonial to Bochie, and I like Bochie, but
I got a little uncomfortable. It was cringeworthy. It was
appreciation and glorification about you. But there's something that Derek
Teter said that stood out. And Jeter almost says nothing
that's interesting. Is very bad at television, very boring, But
people like him because he was, you know, capitate, but
he's man. Is he bad at that? But anyway, Jeter
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in this chapter said something that caught my attention by
something he didn't say. Now I am paraphrasing, because again
I was trying to wake up while I was sleeping.
But as I remember it, Jeter said, when talking about Bochie,
it starts with an organization trusting a manager to do
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their job, or why even hire a guy or the
guy right, And so that stood out to me and
the question here, was there a deeper meaning to Derek
Jeter's praise of Bruce Bochie. And you can't see me,
but I'm nodding my head. Yes, it was subtle. It
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was about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the back
of your head. Right. Jeter gave Bruce Bochie a shoulder
rub like he used to give Joe Tory back in
the day. And I get it. Bruce Bochie compared to
just about every other manager left now that Terry Francone
is out of the game, Bruce Bochi is a vinyl
record in the age of streaming music. And that was
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shrapnel at the Yankees. But not just the Yankees. It
was shrapnel with the Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays
and all these other teams. And what I took away
from that that Jeter, by praising Bochie the way he did,
was implying that Brian Cashman in New York Andrew Friedman
in LA should do better, that they're just hiring these
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sock puppets, and these managers don't do anything other than
follow the three ring binder. Now, am I reading too
much into this? Absolutely not. It's hard to argue with
that line of thinking. It is the epitome of frustrating
and it works during the regular season, it doesn't seem
to work all that often in the postseason. Now, the
last word here in Minnesota, the Twins they got lost
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out in the Wilders. I think they must have gone
fishing on Lake Minnetonka. They didn't make it to the
ballpark in time. What a terrible well god man, I
thought I was watching the Dodgers. Maybe Dave Roberts was
managing the Twins the way they played in this game.
Maybe Kershaw came into the pitch instead of Sonny Gray,
but they didn't show up against the cheaters from Houston.
And I thought the fans actually put a better effort
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in than the players. How embarrassing is that if you're
a Twins player, your fans did a better job than you.
The fans attempted to rattle the a hole starting pitcher
Christian Xavier by counting down the pitch clock because he
milks the clock, and they were doing that in the
game three there that was lopsided and a spoiler alert.
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Now it didn't work. Okay, it didn't work. In fact,
Javier said he used it in his favor. He said
he told the the media after a nine to one
clock cleaning of the Minnesota baseball team. He said, at
that point, I stopped paying attention to the clock because
they were counting, and I just paid attention to the catcher.
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So what's the lesson for the Twins fans going forward
in future playoff games? To rattle the opposing picture? So
it's kind of simple here. It's not that hard. You
need to make the necessary adjustments from one fan to
another side. I'd like to help out my brothers and
sisters in Minnesota to find people there who came out.
We had a great turnout the Mallard meet and greet
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there at the Mermaid. Earlier this year, I got a
speeding ticket on my way to the Mermaid. That was
my souvenir from the Twin Cities. One of your fine
police officers there gave me a speeding ticket. Anyway, here's
my advice, and I spent I spent several minutes coming
up with this. Okay, you have to embrace the great Gatsby,
right The significance of the broken Clock and the Great Gatsby.
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If you read it, if you saw the movie, you
know what I'm talking about. You must change the cadence.
So in the future, in order to throw off the
picture's rhythm, you give the countdown, but you give the
wrong countdown. You push the clock ahead. Right. It's like
we're in radio, and ever since Janet Jackson showed her
boobies years ago, we have long delay because of Janet
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Jackson's boobs many years ago, and so we have a
big guy. So what you're hearing right now, we actually
said about two days ago. And we just are able
to do that because we don't want anyone say a
naughty word. So anyway to throw the pictures rhythm off,
you have to give the wrong countdown. It's very hard
to get people to do that because they're probably looking
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at the clock. But in order to cause turbulence at
future Twins playoff games, you must. If the clock's at fifteen,
say it's at eleven, go eleven ten, nine, and you'll
be four seconds ahead of the actual clock. And you
can screw it up. You can screw the picture up,
or you can go vice versa and go along on that,
But either way it works. Seven Malors Show on Fox.
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no idea about that. So if you listen to this
show on a regular basis, and Boyder, we hope you do.
You know, there's certain certain things that we love that
we throw into the conversation. We call them classic evergreen
comments from people in sports like John Tortorella. We sucked
at a time we cannot suck. If you want to
crown them, crown them the late Dennis Green playoffs couldn't do.
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Diddley po Jim Moore, Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association member.
And there's another clip that we are about to add.
There's another clip that we are going to add to
the archive that is a great clip that will stand
the test of time, and you're gonna hear it, and
you're gonna hear it next.
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Speaker 1 (15:18):
You're here a big night. I know you. You know
it's it's probably uncomfortable for you to be here because
you weren't supposed to be here.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
But for you happy to be Oh well of cour O.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Very kind Steve. But it's it's a special night on
the show. Why is this night different than all of
the night?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Good question.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
The Iowa Minute will be coming off three yes, Yes,
the greatest forty five minutes in radio. The Iowa Minute.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
We're gonna get the update on how overpaid Matt Campbell is,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Come on, now, I want the pork Belly report. I
want the pork Belly Report now to say, you're a
baseball guy. You watch it, you're a baseball guy. So
I have had I've got a plan. I just said
in my monologue there to save because all these teams.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
You know, completely impractical. But I did hear it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
No, no, it's not in practical No, no it's not.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Networks are involved.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It doesn't matter. In the NBA has No, it doesn't matter.
The NBA has the number one seed, play the number
eight seed. It's a mismatch every year, right, everybody don't
play the three games. Who cares? That's fine. But I
think the plan I really like is the triple header.
Wouldn't that be wouldn't that be a great.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Day for me as a fan? It would be great.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, just do it. Listen and then nobody can complain.
And you know, when your division have one of the
top two records, and then you don't have to worry
about it. How about that?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You know they tried with this whole Okay, then you
have to play all road games. In the wild card
and that hasn't even worked. So what now you have
to play with one arm behind your back. They got
to think of something else because what they currently have,
what they intended with, what they currently have is not working.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, but Ben, I just want to I just want
to clarify, make sure I understand what you were pitching. Yeah, yeah,
you want to get you want to get rid of
the the Baye.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Well, no, I I know what's going to happen. The
Dodgers will inevitably lose, either they lose tonight or tomorrow,
and then every Dodger lapped dog, every Dodger apolicy will
be like because they heard the week off, that's what
they So I want to eliminate that in the future.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Okay, So you so you only want to get rid
of it to eliminate the whining. You're not you're not
implying that they think.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
No, there's no such thing as momentum. I think it's ridiculous.
These teams can't perform, and it's an embarrassment to every
the Orioles, it's gonna it's gonna be an embarrassment to
the Dodgers. It's a joke. It's an it's a great thing.
You got time off, you can set you're pitching however
you want. Everyone's rested, your bullpen's fresh, way to go.
And instead all we get is belly aching and complaining
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and grumbling. It's so annoying. I hate it.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And for Atlanta, they were a couple of innings away
from similar embarrassment. They just got to say season on Monday.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, and you know, to say you're Philadelphia is a
there's a bunch of animals that go to those games.
It's at the Madhouse and it's going to be insane.
I don't think the fans play that much, but that's
one place Atlanta or Philadelphia rather where they could rattle,
rattle some of those braves guys that don't handle the criticians.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
And Dodger history. Bert Houghton was most definitely rattled in
a playoff at Philadelphia and lost.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, Tommy the Sword of the he got rattled by
the mascot the fanatic. I heard. I heard the sort
of tell that story one time about what you heard
the behind the sceneson sort of tell the story about
how he You.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Know, this is one of the great clips. When they
used to have the Saturday mel Allen Baseball Show.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
This Weekend Baseball there you go, yeah, yeah, twib notes No,
but the sort of. And I over heard heard this
when he was managing team years ago, and he it
said that he's from Pennsylvania, He's from Allentown and he
always had a ton of friends and family at the game,
and he felt like the fanatic had just crawled the
line right. It was embarrassing him, and so he went
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out there.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I think he had a doll that was fat like Tommy.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, it was like a doll, ye yeah. And Tommy,
as you know, had a pretty fiery firecracker temper and it.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Was quite large at the time, let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah. Yeah, And he went out to give the fanatic
a piece of his mind and.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Ripped the doll away and threw it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That is the top mascot the FANATICA just a little
bit ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Of although I wish the San Diego Chicken was still around.
He'd be battling the It's not.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The famous chicken, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That's correct. Well, originally it was the cap GB Chicken
because those were the call letters of the FM rock
station that he was the original mascot for. He wasn't
the Padres mascot. Originally, he just happened to go to
all the games. And then they had can you believe this?
A Russian touring hockey team come play a game in
San Diego and they looked and they saw a chicken
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with kg B on its chest. That was like the
secret police.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's a good store. I'd not heard that, but I.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Had to explain that radio station thing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That's yeah, that's back in the radio those days, to
Saga radio stations at goofy promos and the wild over
the top things.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
And then he got an account, as most mask dog
mascots eventually do, got in a contract dispute with the
radio station and they said, we can have anybody in
that costume, except it was, Hope, so highly publicized, like
on the local news. Everybody knew. So this other guy
inside the chicken suit goes to a Padre game and
gets booed mercilessly and couldn't finish the night.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Well, and then the chicken would go around For a
few years in like the eighties, the chicken would go
around to like every ballpark.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Oh yeah, minor league appearance is everything.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, yeah, do you remember the Yankees. I love mascots.
The Yankees had a mascot kidding, yeah, the nineteen maybe
I think it was in the nineteen seventies. It was
called Dandy was the mascot.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And I got it doodled. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, you can look it up if you google Dandy
Yankee mascot. It's pretty funny. It was made by the
same people that made the Fanatic. But those those curmudgeons
in New York did not like the mascot.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh, of course he's not a little orange mustache. I
see the photo.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
That's the Yankees. You can't have a mascot when the Yanks.
The funny thing about it, like the Dodgers are kind
of the same way. They're very provincial. But the Dodgers
actually have they have mascots, but they don't call them mascots.
They call them like performance So I forget what they
term they used, but they have like mascots.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Is that because they're so close to Disneyland, they're they're
cast members.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Do you remember the Crab in San Francisco that much?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, that was that was pretty pretty bad.
That was Candlestick. They don't have that anymore. Right, it
was just actually have a mascot the same, but then
not that they have like a is it a seal
really mascot? Now, yeah, I think I think so. Remember
when the Angels you were you were there next to
me in Anaheim in the nineties, they brought bear mascots out.
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Remember that they had bears.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I did not remember.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You don't come on, you were you were there with me.
They had bears. They brought bears U because.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I mean, until you bring it up, No, I do
not remember that at all.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
They had They had bear mascots. It was it was
very you know, you're the angels, wouldn't you have like
some kind of deity or something like that, But no,
you have a bear. It's very very Now the Saints
have a good mascot.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Their mascotop and clutch the angel bear mascots.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, so they had a male and female like U.
C l A is the rare college that has the
Bruin Joe Brewin and Josephine an actual male and female mascot.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Well, Disney has Mickey and Minnie Mouse. You know, You've
got Donald and Daisy Duck. You know, it's very important
to have the.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
His and hers except in Philly.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah. Well uh, and then you got Gritty, who's like
the breakout new mask Philip, Sure, yeah, yeah, good mascot
town Philadelphia, good food town.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Good well from your description in the stands as well.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, oh it's a wild place, wild place, Rory writes,
Sin says, another great monologue, as usual. I love both
of your ideas to improve baseball's playoffs, but there is
no way the Union will go with either one. Another
way to eliminate the bias, to add add about six
more expansion teams and expand the playoffs to sixteen teams.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Just make it sixty four. Have a march madness, Yeah,
they will at some point pretty soon. The Rockies can
lose one hundred and still get in.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
There's no reason to limit it, right, They could have
as many teams as they want. They just put a
limit on it so the value of the teams goes up.
But they wanted to.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
It's already gotten to the point where, you know, for
those of us who actually follow the regular season, we
get to the point, especially when it looked like these
three hundred win teams were going to be swept. What
was the regular season for exactly why are we here
just for seeding?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And it's like, it's the difference about you compare Like,
I don't like the NBA regular season anymore. I've turned
on that because the guys don't seem like they want
to play the star players. And so I'm like, why should.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I bother and say a Clipper fan, you're.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Exactly Kawhi Leonard. You know, be careful what you wish for.
I was very excited for Kawhi Leonard, and now he
sucked the joy out of the NBA for me. Yes,
I still like the playoffs, but I watch a few
regular season games, but it's really just really low on
the years.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You didn't tape the preseason game they had tonight watch
it after the show. Nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
No, I didn't even know they were playing. I had
no interest in that at all.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
By the way, you are reminding me that I have
not given you my on air congratulations yet for.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Oh say that, No, I'll say, that's a tease. That's
a there tease. The Sega's going to congratulate me. Unbelievable, amazing.
All right, we'll get to the amazing audio as well,
that I think is going to be and I'm very
rarely wrong about these things. Is going to become a
quote that we use when we talked talk about a
team getting a big win. But right now, let's get
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you caught up on everything going on and a man
who knows it all. And I would like you to
teach classes, Steve on how to do what you do.
You're that good. I would like you to teach classes.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
And actually, are you where Rob Parker has taught classes
for Germany?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yes, no, I know that, but I want you to teach.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Have you been a guest speaker at said class?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
No, he's never invited me, but I have been invited
to Liberty University. I did speak at Liberty University. Steve
what's his name, Steve Stillwell? Remember still Well? Sure, yeah,
he's a professor at Liberty University.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yes, his name is not Steve de Seger.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I know all those Steves are the same.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You know that's correct. I did not realize congratulated it
either until he text me and ask me if so,
did you do it by zoom?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, unfortunately they don't have a budget to fly me
to Virginia to speak, So I did. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Well, they're known for their online kind of like because
it was a Pacific on the west coast, So I
guess they are.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Can I jump in here for a seconds?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
No, I'm sorry to bust it on Steve's update here,
but if we're talking about the Liberty flame, is it
flames or flame flames? Flame flames plural flames? They are
still undefeated. They beat Jacksonville State thirty one thirteen today
six and oh six and oh thirty one thirteen. Trivia question,
where was that game played? Well, we're not asking me,
(26:19):
are you I am? I would yessuh, Well, I'm looking
at it was Florida.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
That's what you would think. Apparently Jacksonville State is in Alabama.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Oh okay, I actually did not know that. We've all
learned something tonight, but there is a Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
They said there'd be no geography.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
I was a geography major. I failed.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well, you know all Iowa geography, you know where all
the cornfields are in Sigurnine, and you know exactly.
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can go now, I guess.
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there's a new bid on the show now as you know,
I for some reason, I got a TV show this year,
Benny Versus the Pen. We used to do that on
the radio, so now it's on TV.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
That's how popular it is.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So it's cool.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
That was my congratulations. By the way, I'm paying off
the teesh because as soon as you mentioned you're a
Clipper fan yet again, can I mention that among the
regional television networks in that scene all over the country
if people don't realize that at this point, Benny Versus
the Penny with our friend Looney as well, he plays
a very minor role. It's really Ben's show.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Well, he's trying to take more airtime every week.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
How is that different than when he was in Honestly, anyway,
I was going to say congratulations, and it is appearing
on the Lakers channel in Los Angeles, which couldn't be
more appropriate for a guy who is such a large
Laker fan and a lifetime Laker fan such as you know.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I might have to revisit that. At least the cable
channel for the Lakers I think is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yes it is, and it's doing much better than say
the Angels channel or some of the Padres channel. You know,
there's been some tough times in the past year for
some of the regionals.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, it is not. Not going on television is a
tough you know, you got to adapt, like radio had
to adapt, the podcasting, TV, music, streaming. It's, you know,
the the device you listen to, whether it's old school
radio or streaming. TV's got to deal with that too,
and streaming is a big thing. So anyway, let's get
to the sound So the Atlanta Braves came back. They
(29:25):
were on life support and it was a miraculous comeback.
Prayers were answered. Braves came back beat the Phillies. So
it's one to one going back to Philly and that
game will be played later on Wednesday, and the Braves
relief pitcher aj Minter was asked about the Bullpins performance
(29:46):
to keep the game where it was and to help
out the Atlanta offense to allow them an opportunity to
come back in the game. But the beginning of this
sound bite, you'll hear the question and then the answer.
The beginning part of the SoundBite, it's three words that
I I believe, we will, we will steal, and we
will use this when describing future teams coming back. Let's
(30:06):
go to the audio tape, take a list with Max,
just having them go through a ton of pitches. What
the bullpen was able to do not to keep this
game in it? What can you say about yourself and
the way the guys came out.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
I mean, all that was was just heart and nuts.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I mean that's all it was. Right there. That's it.
Stop stop, stop stop, that's it that right there. Did
you hear what he said? He said, all that was
heart and nuts. That's it, heart and nuts. That's all.
Play it again, Sam, play it again, just heart nuts?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah, quaint literally played again Sam.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah. So hey, let me tell you now, from now on,
when a team wins the game, they're not supposed to
heart and nuts. That's it right there.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Both teams played hard. Man.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
That sounds like if you were at nuts dot com,
that could be a slogan, right, heart and nuts. That
could be your slogan. Advertising.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
The marketing possibilities are endless.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I can see mister peanut knocking on the door right now.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah. Now, our friends that work at grocery stores, and
we have a lot of listeners live Steve that are
stalking the shelves at.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Growth Sure Baking Bread who knows.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And so they point out.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Your audience is I'm not on here enough to say this,
but I need to congratulate because your audience is built
of real people.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
That's not actually the case with every show.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
No, no, no, some of those daytime shows. You know,
I have doctors and lawyers, and we have the people
that actually put bread on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And then there's the worst kind of shows that sound
like they could have been taped that morning. You have
a real show and it's a live show.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Oh, you're very kind here, Steve.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'm at a news desk. We deal with facts.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yes, you're in the facts business. A ferd Cat says,
this Steve guy is great, he says, then he rips
somebody else who I I'd love to read that, but
probably not not going to read that. Super Marcus. Steve says,
we're talking mascots land. I never heard mister Mett's name.
And the Angels were the California Angels. I'm in the nineties,
(32:02):
he says, So the Bears were California. It's still a reach.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
It's still back when the periwinkle uniforms.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
No, that was before. This is actually before the Perry
Winkel they had, they were.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
The uniforms Darren, Tim Salmon.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
No, it was even before that.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Didn't they get mascots right when Disney got them?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
No, this was actually well, actually, you know what, you
might be right, maybe right before Disney. Yeah, maybe Disney
had bought the team and then they rebranded it a
couple of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Because they didn't win the World Series till Disney.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah, and they have never won it.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Since, yeah, or before or said you're right, yeah, they
have not.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
They need to.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Bring back Scoop and Clutch, their bear mascots. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, well, I'm sure they're available. They're probably in a
closet somewhere at the Big AA digging the.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
And I believe Mike Osha is still available.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Yeah, bring back Mike Sosha.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, he didn't want he's golfing every day. You think
he wants to come back there. They should hire Gary DiSarcina.
That should that should be also available.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah, yeah, Dino Evil.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
They could hire Chuck Finley's pitching coach. They could bring
him back.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Kirk mccaskell.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Kirk mccaskell, Yeah, why not.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Tim Salmon's around the team all the time. Yeah, one
of the nicest guys. You know, David Eckstein maybe the
nicest Angel I've ever met. As you like I years ago,
we would have to go in locker rooms and win
or lose, try and talk to people, at least half
of whom did not want to talk to you. David
Eckstein was the greatest. Didn't matter if they won or lost.
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Nicest guy, would always give you the time of day.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Kind of the antithesis of the late Tony Phillips.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Who also on that team. Yeah, exactly. Actually, the highlight
of Tony Phillips's reign as an Angel's infielder was the
day that he wasn't there, let's say, for a game,
and the general manager assembled the media and proceeded to
pass out a statement about why he wasn't there. Yes,
he was. He had attended a local motive Hell.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, Sleezebag Hotel in Anaheim, and uh, you know he
wanted to rock out, but a different kind of rock.
And the funniest part of that about that Bill Bavasi,
the gym in the Angel He calls me the hands
out of press release and then we needed audio, so
the radio we had a meeting. We're like, well, we can't.
What are we supposed to do? We need audio of
(34:22):
him saying.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Our friend Jeff actually asked the GM can you read
the statement?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
And what did he say?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
No? Does that mean because he can't read? Or is
he just so embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
From this player this story as much as ponsible.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All Right, it is the Ben Malor Show. We're gonna
have the MLB wild card pick or the divisional round
pick him. That might be the last one we do,
because I don't know that we'll be able to do
that anymore after after tonight. Here's the who am I?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Arizona's Corbin Carrol as reach based safely twelve times in
his first four career postseason games. That's actually tied for
the third most in a player's first four career postseason games,
behind only Frank Thomas and me. Who am I? The answer?
We'll get to it. We will do it next. I mean,
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all that was was just heart nuts, man, That's all.
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and dining pleasure. The who Mi Game? Why do we do?
The WHOMI game? Why not? And here it is. Corbyn
Carroll is his name and baseball is his game. Corbyn
Carroll has reached base safely twelve times in his first
four career postseason games. That's tied for the third most
(36:34):
in the player's first four career postseason games, behind only
Frank Thomas and me. Who am I? That is the question?
And what is the answer. Let's see does anyone know
the answer? Will go to the magic X machine. X
marks the spot to see if anybody knows the answer
(36:58):
will go page down here, page down and Stubby clap.
The cardinal legend was was guessed by Chip and the cues.
Chips leaving the show, Steve, he's going to the dreaded
day shift. Yeah, he's going to We're losing him to
the day sh Isn't that not? That's not right? Right
to go to the day shift?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
That's day shift hasn't gotten you yet?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No, no, it's not. What else do we have I
see page down here? Anything else? We have the MLB
pick him, by the way, coming up here for these
and by.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
That you mean any of the Wednesday playoff games.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Who's going to do that? That would be correct?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Okay, So no Orioles game. Just for the record, No,
we don't.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Don't. You don't want to let these guys know. Maybe
they'll pick some players. Mark to share a guess by
Ikean Rosevio, Minnesota, Mister Met from Beam boot Maker, Bob
Yankees Legend, Roy White from The Midnight Walker in Syracuse,
Dante Boschett of the Blake Street Bombers from The Sawman,
Hugh we Brooks of the Expos from The Late Night
Drug Esther Texas Ranger Phenom bump Willis from Bay City, Tony.
(38:04):
That's his answer, Page down Sean Figgins Yes by Fergcat,
Big Angel fan Steve. Do you happen to have an answer? Steve?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I have an answer. I don't believe it's correct with
old time Yankee Bobby Richardson.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Bobby richards fine, answer, that is incorrect. This guy known
as a Seattle Mariner legend, one of the great designated
hitters of all time, Edgar Martinez. Just Martinez fifteen times
on bass safely in his first four career postseason games.
Time now for the MLB Pickham somehow Coop rigged the voting,
so he's going first, go ahead, Coop, Chop.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Chop, And we are now tied. And if this is
the last one, this is this is for all the marvels.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
You're going down. You're losing. God.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I'm gonna go with the Ashro's pitcher whose name I
can't pronounced, jose Kitty.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I will take Aaron Nolan, the Philly Sam.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
I will take Steve help me out with us, Brandon
p Fat hoot. Well, there's no pictures left. I'll go
with Ryan and the Twins. There's nobody left, all right,
undecided player, Steve position play.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Oh well, then that's great, You're done. Alvarez.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Alright, Sam, I will take Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Alright, I've seen the Dodgers. I'm gonna take Corbyn, Carroll Coop.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
I will take Bryce Harper and Ronald Couna Jr.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
He can't field, so he better be able to hit.
Trey Turner. I'll take Trey Turner.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Sam, I'm gonna take Max Munci.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Oh Max, have you seen the Dodger games here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
For walks?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Does he have to win one?
Speaker 5 (39:40):
I know we've had enough sweeps in this during this
baseball where they're playing no only only points for a hit.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Steve, Yeah, all right, last one, Steve de Sega the
final pick by Jose Braive. Now he's due for a
bad game there because he played well.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
So is Carol.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
No, no, no, Carol's good though. He's like, you're in
one out, Lance Lynn led the Majors still have a double.
He'll have a couple of dudes.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
It's the Dodgers killed Brandon Fat yeah, well fat p
fat Yeah
Hello, and welcome. Here we go. It is the Ben
Malers Shops. She already do that our one of the
podcast talking bass ball. Unfortunately, there wasn't much drama at
all in the cheating ass holes. I can say that
it's a podcast and the Twins game and the Orioles
(00:20):
and the Rangers, so we can talk about some of
the storylines around the games. Will Major League Baseball revisit
its playoff format after the one hundred and one win
Orioles have vanished from the playoffs after three games? Also,
was there a deeper meaning to Derek jeters praise of
Bruce Bochie on the Fox broadcast? And what is the
(00:44):
lesson for Minnesota Twins fans in order to properly rattle
pitchers going forward? Talk about all that and more right
now here it is make way for our number one.
It's why we watched the game, right the thrill of victory,
the agony of defeat. But what if there is no
(01:05):
agony of defeat because the games are over in the
first three innings. Wel come in the beginning of another
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Now in my head the cartoon bubble over my head.
I was like, Oh, this is gonna be great. I
got up early to watch both games. I'm like, there's
(02:09):
gonna be a lot of great things to break down here.
We can slice and die them, and man, it's gonna
make for great talk radio, great sports talk radio. Cannot wait.
And then I watched the game. It was the American
League side of the playoff bracket. It was on Fox.
You better have watched Double Barrel Action. The meaning stot
the Twins playing host to the guys from the Den
(02:31):
of Inequity, the cheaters from Houston and the Baltimore Orioles
and the Texas Rangers. And now we're gonna start in Arlington.
And I don't know if you actually checked these games
out or not. Maybe you missed it, but you trust me,
you didn't miss anything. There was no drama now drama
at all. The old Texas two step lopsided combined score
(02:54):
sixteen to two. The combined final the Rangers polack the
Orioles seven to one. They become the first team to
punch their ticket to the Final four of Major League Baseball. Congratulations,
they did not cut down the nets Texas. They will
play either the cheating a Holes or the Twins in
(03:15):
the American League Championship Series. It looks now like for
now it'll be an all Texas affair, as Houston sucker
punched Minnesota nine to one in the first leg of
the doubleheader. Unpunished Cheaters now have a two to one
lead in the best of five set. I'm sure that
makes the boys at Major League Baseball very happy. They
(03:35):
don't seem to have a problem with that franchise. The
better story is in the losing locker room. So we're
gonna start with the one, one hundred and one win
Baltimore Baseball team, who have now been eliminated head to
can't Coon boys. Your season is over. That's it. Three
games and you're done. So let us discuss the question
(03:57):
which everyone's been chatting about the last couple of days.
Will Major League Baseball revisit its playoff format after the
Orioles have vanished so quickly after such a magical season
in Maryland. So my thoughts on this, I've got Joe Rogan,
vinyl record, and the Great Gatsby and we will combine
(04:19):
all of these things together and we are going to
prepare for sports radio battle. That's what we're preparing for.
So a it is going to take more than just
the Orioles exiting stage left now, this being our Wednesday show.
If tonight the Dodgers go flat line against the d Backs,
(04:40):
and by all accounts that's where this is headed, then
that'll crank up the noise a couple of decibel points.
If the Dodgers do go flat line and the Braves
are no lock to beat the Phillies, the Braves are
pretty morbid for the first six innings of that game
against Philadelphia, and it wasn't until Trey Turner opened the
door with his defensive mis that allowed the Atlanta Braves
(05:02):
to come back. But major League Baseball, if that happens,
if the Dodgers are limited, or the Breads or both
in the divisional round, Baseball is going to have a
blue ribbon panel. I can see it now. I am
a distant relative of Nostre Dami's friend of Nostradenis. I
can see it right now. Major League Baseball is cann
put one of these hokey blue ribbon panels together, and
(05:23):
they're gonna say, wait a minute, wait a minute. We
have to do something for these hundred win teams, and
we can't have them pull the Houdini. So what can
be done? I'm glad you asked. I would now like
to activate the Malor think tank. Now, very rarely do
we activate the Malor think tank. It has to be
extreme for us to activate the malor of think tank.
(05:43):
I am activating the Malard think tank. If you have
a problem, you have to come up with a solution
to the problem, and who better than the Malar think tank.
So I've got proposals. I've got two proposals for you now.
The first one, get rid of the bye just get
rid of the buy bye bye bye bye bye. Just
like that, bye bye bye. All right, everyone plays. You
(06:06):
just do it like the other sports. Number one seed
plays the number six seed, number two seed plays the
number five, etc. Etc. Et cetera. Now the other plan
is more unorthodox. Okay, I'm gonna run this by. I'm
gonna make my elevator pitch. You keep the bye but
you get rid of the time off. Let me explain how. Okay,
(06:27):
very complicated. It's scientifical. See, keep the bye round in
place for the teams, meaning they get in advance to
the divisional round. The teams that win there have the
top two records, have the great record. So what you
do is you crank up the disadvantage to the wild
card teams. This is where the plot thickens. You go
Joe Rogan, old school fear factor. You give the wild
(06:51):
card teams a triple header, meaning the season ends on
a Sunday. The wild card teams have one day off
on Monday. They then play on Tuesday, one day three games. Now,
it could be only two games, all right, but up
to three games. Whoever wins the first game, if they
(07:13):
win the second, there's no need for a third game.
He's making an all day situation. So if the team
that wins the first game loses the second game, we
have a third game, and then whichever team wins two
out of three then has to come right back. They
get on a plane and they fly to their next city,
and then they start the division around the following day.
(07:34):
Is there pitching staff going to be in tatters? Yes?
Does it matter? Who gives a crap? That's what you do,
all right. And if Rob Manford uses this, he owes
me money. Okay, he owes me money. So that the
top teams would then, under this scenario only have Monday
and Tuesday off. They'd have two days and boom, right
back at it on a Wednesday. So I don't want
to hear any bitching about, oh, we have so much time,
(07:57):
because I will guarantee you when the Dodgers eliminated and
the way they're going, they're gonna be eliminated, you're gonna
hear it was not fair, it's not right. We gotta
do something, you know, Shut up? Okay, I don't want
to hear it all right now, turning the page, let's
go to Texas. At the end of the Rangers elimination
of Baltimore, I was paying very close attention because I
(08:19):
was I was trying to wake up. I had fallen asleep.
The game was so boring. But on the Fox broadcast
they gave a tongue back to Bruce Bouchie. Bruce Bochi
did not have to take a shower after that game.
They licked him from head to toe. It was lick lick, slapper, slabber.
You would have thought that Boachie hit two home runs
in that game and pitched seven solid innings. It was
(08:41):
a ringing testimonial to Bochie, and I like Bochie, but
I got a little uncomfortable. It was cringeworthy. It was
appreciation and glorification about you. But there's something that Derek
Teter said that stood out. And Jeter almost says nothing
that's interesting. Is very bad at television, very boring, But
people like him because he was, you know, capitate, but
he's man. Is he bad at that? But anyway, Jeter
(09:02):
in this chapter said something that caught my attention by
something he didn't say. Now I am paraphrasing, because again
I was trying to wake up while I was sleeping.
But as I remember it, Jeter said, when talking about Bochie,
it starts with an organization trusting a manager to do
(09:22):
their job, or why even hire a guy or the
guy right, And so that stood out to me and
the question here, was there a deeper meaning to Derek
Jeter's praise of Bruce Bochie. And you can't see me,
but I'm nodding my head. Yes, it was subtle. It
(09:45):
was about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the back
of your head. Right. Jeter gave Bruce Bochie a shoulder
rub like he used to give Joe Tory back in
the day. And I get it. Bruce Bochie compared to
just about every other manager left now that Terry Francone
is out of the game, Bruce Bochi is a vinyl
record in the age of streaming music. And that was
(10:08):
shrapnel at the Yankees. But not just the Yankees. It
was shrapnel with the Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays
and all these other teams. And what I took away
from that that Jeter, by praising Bochie the way he did,
was implying that Brian Cashman in New York Andrew Friedman
in LA should do better, that they're just hiring these
(10:28):
sock puppets, and these managers don't do anything other than
follow the three ring binder. Now, am I reading too
much into this? Absolutely not. It's hard to argue with
that line of thinking. It is the epitome of frustrating
and it works during the regular season, it doesn't seem
to work all that often in the postseason. Now, the
last word here in Minnesota, the Twins they got lost
(10:53):
out in the Wilders. I think they must have gone
fishing on Lake Minnetonka. They didn't make it to the
ballpark in time. What a terrible well god man, I
thought I was watching the Dodgers. Maybe Dave Roberts was
managing the Twins the way they played in this game.
Maybe Kershaw came into the pitch instead of Sonny Gray,
but they didn't show up against the cheaters from Houston.
And I thought the fans actually put a better effort
(11:15):
in than the players. How embarrassing is that if you're
a Twins player, your fans did a better job than you.
The fans attempted to rattle the a hole starting pitcher
Christian Xavier by counting down the pitch clock because he
milks the clock, and they were doing that in the
game three there that was lopsided and a spoiler alert.
(11:36):
Now it didn't work. Okay, it didn't work. In fact,
Javier said he used it in his favor. He said
he told the the media after a nine to one
clock cleaning of the Minnesota baseball team. He said, at
that point, I stopped paying attention to the clock because
they were counting, and I just paid attention to the catcher.
(11:56):
So what's the lesson for the Twins fans going forward
in future playoff games? To rattle the opposing picture? So
it's kind of simple here. It's not that hard. You
need to make the necessary adjustments from one fan to
another side. I'd like to help out my brothers and
sisters in Minnesota to find people there who came out.
We had a great turnout the Mallard meet and greet
(12:18):
there at the Mermaid. Earlier this year, I got a
speeding ticket on my way to the Mermaid. That was
my souvenir from the Twin Cities. One of your fine
police officers there gave me a speeding ticket. Anyway, here's
my advice, and I spent I spent several minutes coming
up with this. Okay, you have to embrace the great Gatsby,
right The significance of the broken Clock and the Great Gatsby.
(12:41):
If you read it, if you saw the movie, you
know what I'm talking about. You must change the cadence.
So in the future, in order to throw off the
picture's rhythm, you give the countdown, but you give the
wrong countdown. You push the clock ahead. Right. It's like
we're in radio, and ever since Janet Jackson showed her
boobies years ago, we have long delay because of Janet
(13:02):
Jackson's boobs many years ago, and so we have a
big guy. So what you're hearing right now, we actually
said about two days ago. And we just are able
to do that because we don't want anyone say a
naughty word. So anyway to throw the pictures rhythm off,
you have to give the wrong countdown. It's very hard
to get people to do that because they're probably looking
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at the clock. But in order to cause turbulence at
future Twins playoff games, you must. If the clock's at fifteen,
say it's at eleven, go eleven ten, nine, and you'll
be four seconds ahead of the actual clock. And you
can screw it up. You can screw the picture up,
or you can go vice versa and go along on that,
But either way it works. Seven Malors Show on Fox.
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You know, there's certain certain things that we love that
we throw into the conversation. We call them classic evergreen
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Speaker 1 (15:18):
You're here a big night. I know you. You know
it's it's probably uncomfortable for you to be here because
you weren't supposed to be here.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
But for you happy to be Oh well of cour O.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Very kind Steve. But it's it's a special night on
the show. Why is this night different than all of
the night?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Good question.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
The Iowa Minute will be coming off three yes, Yes,
the greatest forty five minutes in radio. The Iowa Minute.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
We're gonna get the update on how overpaid Matt Campbell is,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Come on, now, I want the pork Belly report. I
want the pork Belly Report now to say, you're a
baseball guy. You watch it, you're a baseball guy. So
I have had I've got a plan. I just said
in my monologue there to save because all these teams.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
You know, completely impractical. But I did hear it.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
No, no, it's not in practical No, no it's not.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Networks are involved.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
It doesn't matter. In the NBA has No, it doesn't matter.
The NBA has the number one seed, play the number
eight seed. It's a mismatch every year, right, everybody don't
play the three games. Who cares? That's fine. But I
think the plan I really like is the triple header.
Wouldn't that be wouldn't that be a great.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Day for me as a fan? It would be great.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yes, just do it. Listen and then nobody can complain.
And you know, when your division have one of the
top two records, and then you don't have to worry
about it. How about that?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You know they tried with this whole Okay, then you
have to play all road games. In the wild card
and that hasn't even worked. So what now you have
to play with one arm behind your back. They got
to think of something else because what they currently have,
what they intended with, what they currently have is not working.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, but Ben, I just want to I just want
to clarify, make sure I understand what you were pitching. Yeah, yeah,
you want to get you want to get rid of
the the Baye.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Well, no, I I know what's going to happen. The
Dodgers will inevitably lose, either they lose tonight or tomorrow,
and then every Dodger lapped dog, every Dodger apolicy will
be like because they heard the week off, that's what
they So I want to eliminate that in the future.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Okay, So you so you only want to get rid
of it to eliminate the whining. You're not you're not
implying that they think.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
No, there's no such thing as momentum. I think it's ridiculous.
These teams can't perform, and it's an embarrassment to every
the Orioles, it's gonna it's gonna be an embarrassment to
the Dodgers. It's a joke. It's an it's a great thing.
You got time off, you can set you're pitching however
you want. Everyone's rested, your bullpen's fresh, way to go.
And instead all we get is belly aching and complaining
(17:51):
and grumbling. It's so annoying. I hate it.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
And for Atlanta, they were a couple of innings away
from similar embarrassment. They just got to say season on Monday.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, and you know, to say you're Philadelphia is a
there's a bunch of animals that go to those games.
It's at the Madhouse and it's going to be insane.
I don't think the fans play that much, but that's
one place Atlanta or Philadelphia rather where they could rattle,
rattle some of those braves guys that don't handle the criticians.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
And Dodger history. Bert Houghton was most definitely rattled in
a playoff at Philadelphia and lost.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, Tommy the Sword of the he got rattled by
the mascot the fanatic. I heard. I heard the sort
of tell that story one time about what you heard
the behind the sceneson sort of tell the story about
how he You.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Know, this is one of the great clips. When they
used to have the Saturday mel Allen Baseball Show.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
This Weekend Baseball there you go, yeah, yeah, twib notes No,
but the sort of. And I over heard heard this
when he was managing team years ago, and he it
said that he's from Pennsylvania, He's from Allentown and he
always had a ton of friends and family at the game,
and he felt like the fanatic had just crawled the
line right. It was embarrassing him, and so he went
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out there.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I think he had a doll that was fat like Tommy.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, it was like a doll, ye yeah. And Tommy,
as you know, had a pretty fiery firecracker temper and it.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Was quite large at the time, let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah. Yeah, And he went out to give the fanatic
a piece of his mind and.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Ripped the doll away and threw it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That is the top mascot the FANATICA just a little
bit ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Of although I wish the San Diego Chicken was still around.
He'd be battling the It's not.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The famous chicken, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That's correct. Well, originally it was the cap GB Chicken
because those were the call letters of the FM rock
station that he was the original mascot for. He wasn't
the Padres mascot. Originally, he just happened to go to
all the games. And then they had can you believe this?
A Russian touring hockey team come play a game in
San Diego and they looked and they saw a chicken
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with kg B on its chest. That was like the
secret police.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
It's a good store. I'd not heard that, but I.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Had to explain that radio station thing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That's yeah, that's back in the radio those days, to
Saga radio stations at goofy promos and the wild over
the top things.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
And then he got an account, as most mask dog
mascots eventually do, got in a contract dispute with the
radio station and they said, we can have anybody in
that costume, except it was, Hope, so highly publicized, like
on the local news. Everybody knew. So this other guy
inside the chicken suit goes to a Padre game and
gets booed mercilessly and couldn't finish the night.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Well, and then the chicken would go around For a
few years in like the eighties, the chicken would go
around to like every ballpark.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Oh yeah, minor league appearance is everything.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, yeah, do you remember the Yankees. I love mascots.
The Yankees had a mascot kidding, yeah, the nineteen maybe
I think it was in the nineteen seventies. It was
called Dandy was the mascot.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
And I got it doodled. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, you can look it up if you google Dandy
Yankee mascot. It's pretty funny. It was made by the
same people that made the Fanatic. But those those curmudgeons
in New York did not like the mascot.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh, of course he's not a little orange mustache. I
see the photo.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
That's the Yankees. You can't have a mascot when the Yanks.
The funny thing about it, like the Dodgers are kind
of the same way. They're very provincial. But the Dodgers
actually have they have mascots, but they don't call them mascots.
They call them like performance So I forget what they
term they used, but they have like mascots.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Is that because they're so close to Disneyland, they're they're
cast members.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Do you remember the Crab in San Francisco that much?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, that was that was pretty pretty bad.
That was Candlestick. They don't have that anymore. Right, it
was just actually have a mascot the same, but then
not that they have like a is it a seal
really mascot? Now, yeah, I think I think so. Remember
when the Angels you were you were there next to
me in Anaheim in the nineties, they brought bear mascots out.
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Remember that they had bears.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I did not remember.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You don't come on, you were you were there with me.
They had bears. They brought bears U because.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I mean, until you bring it up, No, I do
not remember that at all.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
They had They had bear mascots. It was it was
very you know, you're the angels, wouldn't you have like
some kind of deity or something like that, But no,
you have a bear. It's very very Now the Saints
have a good mascot.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Their mascotop and clutch the angel bear mascots.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, so they had a male and female like U.
C l A is the rare college that has the
Bruin Joe Brewin and Josephine an actual male and female mascot.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Well, Disney has Mickey and Minnie Mouse. You know, You've
got Donald and Daisy Duck. You know, it's very important
to have the.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
His and hers except in Philly.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah. Well uh, and then you got Gritty, who's like
the breakout new mask Philip, Sure, yeah, yeah, good mascot
town Philadelphia, good food town.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Good well from your description in the stands as well.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, oh it's a wild place, wild place, Rory writes,
Sin says, another great monologue, as usual. I love both
of your ideas to improve baseball's playoffs, but there is
no way the Union will go with either one. Another
way to eliminate the bias, to add add about six
more expansion teams and expand the playoffs to sixteen teams.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Just make it sixty four. Have a march madness, Yeah,
they will at some point pretty soon. The Rockies can
lose one hundred and still get in.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
There's no reason to limit it, right, They could have
as many teams as they want. They just put a
limit on it so the value of the teams goes up.
But they wanted to.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
It's already gotten to the point where, you know, for
those of us who actually follow the regular season, we
get to the point, especially when it looked like these
three hundred win teams were going to be swept. What
was the regular season for exactly why are we here
just for seeding?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And it's like, it's the difference about you compare Like,
I don't like the NBA regular season anymore. I've turned
on that because the guys don't seem like they want
to play the star players. And so I'm like, why should.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I bother and say a Clipper fan, you're.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Exactly Kawhi Leonard. You know, be careful what you wish for.
I was very excited for Kawhi Leonard, and now he
sucked the joy out of the NBA for me. Yes,
I still like the playoffs, but I watch a few
regular season games, but it's really just really low on
the years.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You didn't tape the preseason game they had tonight watch
it after the show. Nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
No, I didn't even know they were playing. I had
no interest in that at all.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
By the way, you are reminding me that I have
not given you my on air congratulations yet for.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Oh say that, No, I'll say, that's a tease. That's
a there tease. The Sega's going to congratulate me. Unbelievable, amazing.
All right, we'll get to the amazing audio as well,
that I think is going to be and I'm very
rarely wrong about these things. Is going to become a
quote that we use when we talked talk about a
team getting a big win. But right now, let's get
(25:03):
you caught up on everything going on and a man
who knows it all. And I would like you to
teach classes, Steve on how to do what you do.
You're that good. I would like you to teach classes.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
And actually, are you where Rob Parker has taught classes
for Germany?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yes, no, I know that, but I want you to teach.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Have you been a guest speaker at said class?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
No, he's never invited me, but I have been invited
to Liberty University. I did speak at Liberty University. Steve
what's his name, Steve Stillwell? Remember still Well? Sure, yeah,
he's a professor at Liberty University.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yes, his name is not Steve de Seger.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I know all those Steves are the same.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
You know that's correct. I did not realize congratulated it
either until he text me and ask me if so,
did you do it by zoom?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, unfortunately they don't have a budget to fly me
to Virginia to speak, So I did. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Well, they're known for their online kind of like because
it was a Pacific on the west coast, So I
guess they are.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Can I jump in here for a seconds?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
No, I'm sorry to bust it on Steve's update here,
but if we're talking about the Liberty flame, is it
flames or flame flames? Flame flames plural flames? They are
still undefeated. They beat Jacksonville State thirty one thirteen today
six and oh six and oh thirty one thirteen. Trivia question,
where was that game played? Well, we're not asking me,
(26:19):
are you I am? I would yessuh, Well, I'm looking
at it was Florida.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
That's what you would think. Apparently Jacksonville State is in Alabama.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Oh okay, I actually did not know that. We've all
learned something tonight, but there is a Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
They said there'd be no geography.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
I was a geography major. I failed.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Well, you know all Iowa geography, you know where all
the cornfields are in Sigurnine, and you know exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Well, if you promise to partake of our sponsors, you
can go now, I guess.
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(27:48):
a chicken supporter, much like myself. Maybe you can hire
the original chicken or picking with the chicken. Yeah, Tosaga,
there's a new bid on the show now as you know,
I for some reason, I got a TV show this year,
Benny Versus the Pen. We used to do that on
the radio, so now it's on TV.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
That's how popular it is.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
So it's cool.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
That was my congratulations. By the way, I'm paying off
the teesh because as soon as you mentioned you're a
Clipper fan yet again, can I mention that among the
regional television networks in that scene all over the country
if people don't realize that at this point, Benny Versus
the Penny with our friend Looney as well, he plays
a very minor role. It's really Ben's show.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Well, he's trying to take more airtime every week.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
How is that different than when he was in Honestly, anyway,
I was going to say congratulations, and it is appearing
on the Lakers channel in Los Angeles, which couldn't be
more appropriate for a guy who is such a large
Laker fan and a lifetime Laker fan such as you know.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I might have to revisit that. At least the cable
channel for the Lakers I think is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yes it is, and it's doing much better than say
the Angels channel or some of the Padres channel. You know,
there's been some tough times in the past year for
some of the regionals.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, it is not. Not going on television is a
tough you know, you got to adapt, like radio had
to adapt, the podcasting, TV, music, streaming. It's, you know,
the the device you listen to, whether it's old school
radio or streaming. TV's got to deal with that too,
and streaming is a big thing. So anyway, let's get
to the sound So the Atlanta Braves came back. They
(29:25):
were on life support and it was a miraculous comeback.
Prayers were answered. Braves came back beat the Phillies. So
it's one to one going back to Philly and that
game will be played later on Wednesday, and the Braves
relief pitcher aj Minter was asked about the Bullpins performance
(29:46):
to keep the game where it was and to help
out the Atlanta offense to allow them an opportunity to
come back in the game. But the beginning of this
sound bite, you'll hear the question and then the answer.
The beginning part of the SoundBite, it's three words that
I I believe, we will, we will steal, and we
will use this when describing future teams coming back. Let's
(30:06):
go to the audio tape, take a list with Max,
just having them go through a ton of pitches. What
the bullpen was able to do not to keep this
game in it? What can you say about yourself and
the way the guys came out.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
I mean, all that was was just heart and nuts.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I mean that's all it was. Right there. That's it.
Stop stop, stop stop, that's it that right there. Did
you hear what he said? He said, all that was
heart and nuts. That's it, heart and nuts. That's all.
Play it again, Sam, play it again, just heart nuts?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah, quaint literally played again Sam.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah. So hey, let me tell you now, from now on,
when a team wins the game, they're not supposed to
heart and nuts. That's it right there.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Both teams played hard. Man.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
That sounds like if you were at nuts dot com,
that could be a slogan, right, heart and nuts. That
could be your slogan. Advertising.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
The marketing possibilities are endless.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I can see mister peanut knocking on the door right now.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah. Now, our friends that work at grocery stores, and
we have a lot of listeners live Steve that are
stalking the shelves at.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Growth Sure Baking Bread who knows.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And so they point out.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Your audience is I'm not on here enough to say this,
but I need to congratulate because your audience is built
of real people.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
That's not actually the case with every show.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
No, no, no, some of those daytime shows. You know,
I have doctors and lawyers, and we have the people
that actually put bread on the shelf.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And then there's the worst kind of shows that sound
like they could have been taped that morning. You have
a real show and it's a live show.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Oh, you're very kind here, Steve.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'm at a news desk. We deal with facts.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yes, you're in the facts business. A ferd Cat says,
this Steve guy is great, he says, then he rips
somebody else who I I'd love to read that, but
probably not not going to read that. Super Marcus. Steve says,
we're talking mascots land. I never heard mister Mett's name.
And the Angels were the California Angels. I'm in the nineties,
(32:02):
he says, So the Bears were California. It's still a reach.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
It's still back when the periwinkle uniforms.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
No, that was before. This is actually before the Perry
Winkel they had, they were.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
The uniforms Darren, Tim Salmon.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
No, it was even before that.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Didn't they get mascots right when Disney got them?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
No, this was actually well, actually, you know what, you
might be right, maybe right before Disney. Yeah, maybe Disney
had bought the team and then they rebranded it a
couple of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Because they didn't win the World Series till Disney.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah, and they have never won it.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Since, yeah, or before or said you're right, yeah, they
have not.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
They need to.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Bring back Scoop and Clutch, their bear mascots. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Yeah, well, I'm sure they're available. They're probably in a
closet somewhere at the Big AA digging the.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
And I believe Mike Osha is still available.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Yeah, bring back Mike Sosha.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, he didn't want he's golfing every day. You think
he wants to come back there. They should hire Gary DiSarcina.
That should that should be also available.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah, yeah, Dino Evil.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
They could hire Chuck Finley's pitching coach. They could bring
him back.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Kirk mccaskell.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Kirk mccaskell, Yeah, why not.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Tim Salmon's around the team all the time. Yeah, one
of the nicest guys. You know, David Eckstein maybe the
nicest Angel I've ever met. As you like I years ago,
we would have to go in locker rooms and win
or lose, try and talk to people, at least half
of whom did not want to talk to you. David
Eckstein was the greatest. Didn't matter if they won or lost.
(33:31):
Nicest guy, would always give you the time of day.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Kind of the antithesis of the late Tony Phillips.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Who also on that team. Yeah, exactly. Actually, the highlight
of Tony Phillips's reign as an Angel's infielder was the
day that he wasn't there, let's say, for a game,
and the general manager assembled the media and proceeded to
pass out a statement about why he wasn't there. Yes,
he was. He had attended a local motive Hell.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, Sleezebag Hotel in Anaheim, and uh, you know he
wanted to rock out, but a different kind of rock.
And the funniest part of that about that Bill Bavasi,
the gym in the Angel He calls me the hands
out of press release and then we needed audio, so
the radio we had a meeting. We're like, well, we can't.
What are we supposed to do? We need audio of
(34:22):
him saying.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Our friend Jeff actually asked the GM can you read
the statement?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
And what did he say?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
No? Does that mean because he can't read? Or is
he just so embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
From this player this story as much as ponsible.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All Right, it is the Ben Malor Show. We're gonna
have the MLB wild card pick or the divisional round
pick him. That might be the last one we do,
because I don't know that we'll be able to do
that anymore after after tonight. Here's the who am I?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Arizona's Corbin Carrol as reach based safely twelve times in
his first four career postseason games. That's actually tied for
the third most in a player's first four career postseason games,
behind only Frank Thomas and me. Who am I? The answer?
We'll get to it. We will do it next. I mean,
(35:18):
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(36:13):
and dining pleasure. The who Mi Game? Why do we do?
The WHOMI game? Why not? And here it is. Corbyn
Carroll is his name and baseball is his game. Corbyn
Carroll has reached base safely twelve times in his first
four career postseason games. That's tied for the third most
(36:34):
in the player's first four career postseason games, behind only
Frank Thomas and me. Who am I? That is the question?
And what is the answer. Let's see does anyone know
the answer? Will go to the magic X machine. X
marks the spot to see if anybody knows the answer
(36:58):
will go page down here, page down and Stubby clap.
The cardinal legend was was guessed by Chip and the cues.
Chips leaving the show, Steve, he's going to the dreaded
day shift. Yeah, he's going to We're losing him to
the day sh Isn't that not? That's not right? Right
to go to the day shift?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
That's day shift hasn't gotten you yet?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No, no, it's not. What else do we have I
see page down here? Anything else? We have the MLB
pick him, by the way, coming up here for these
and by.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
That you mean any of the Wednesday playoff games.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Who's going to do that? That would be correct?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Okay, So no Orioles game. Just for the record, No,
we don't.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Don't. You don't want to let these guys know. Maybe
they'll pick some players. Mark to share a guess by
Ikean Rosevio, Minnesota, Mister Met from Beam boot Maker, Bob
Yankees Legend, Roy White from The Midnight Walker in Syracuse,
Dante Boschett of the Blake Street Bombers from The Sawman,
Hugh we Brooks of the Expos from The Late Night
Drug Esther Texas Ranger Phenom bump Willis from Bay City, Tony.
(38:04):
That's his answer, Page down Sean Figgins Yes by Fergcat,
Big Angel fan Steve. Do you happen to have an answer? Steve?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I have an answer. I don't believe it's correct with
old time Yankee Bobby Richardson.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Bobby richards fine, answer, that is incorrect. This guy known
as a Seattle Mariner legend, one of the great designated
hitters of all time, Edgar Martinez. Just Martinez fifteen times
on bass safely in his first four career postseason games.
Time now for the MLB Pickham somehow Coop rigged the voting,
so he's going first, go ahead, Coop, Chop.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Chop, And we are now tied. And if this is
the last one, this is this is for all the marvels.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
You're going down. You're losing. God.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I'm gonna go with the Ashro's pitcher whose name I
can't pronounced, jose Kitty.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I will take Aaron Nolan, the Philly Sam.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
I will take Steve help me out with us, Brandon
p Fat hoot. Well, there's no pictures left. I'll go
with Ryan and the Twins. There's nobody left, all right,
undecided player, Steve position play.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Oh well, then that's great, You're done. Alvarez.
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Alright, Sam, I will take Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Alright, I've seen the Dodgers. I'm gonna take Corbyn, Carroll Coop.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
I will take Bryce Harper and Ronald Couna Jr.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
He can't field, so he better be able to hit.
Trey Turner. I'll take Trey Turner.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Sam, I'm gonna take Max Munci.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Oh Max, have you seen the Dodger games here? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
For walks?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Does he have to win one?
Speaker 5 (39:40):
I know we've had enough sweeps in this during this
baseball where they're playing no only only points for a hit.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Steve, Yeah, all right, last one, Steve de Sega the
final pick by Jose Braive. Now he's due for a
bad game there because he played well.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
So is Carol.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
No, no, no, Carol's good though. He's like, you're in
one out, Lance Lynn led the Majors still have a double.
He'll have a couple of dudes.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
It's the Dodgers killed Brandon Fat yeah, well fat p
fat Yeah
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