October 16, 2023 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Rangers winning Game 1 of the ALCS against the Astros, the Buffalo Bills barely surviving the lowly New York Giants on SNF, MLB Playoff Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's a brand spank in new week
of the Ben Mahler Show podcast recorded overnight so you
have fresh audio content in the morning and a reminder
if you missed any of the Fifth Hour podcast over
the weekend. A baseball legend happened to randomly sit down
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near me and dining on some spaghetti and I've never
told that story before. You can hear that story on
the Fifth Hour podcast over the weekend, and some other
tales that have not been told before. But here on
the beginning of the Ben Maler Show podcast, we'll talk
about the Alcs, the Rangers getting the jump on the
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cheating ass holes, and also NFL Sunday Night Football the
Giants and the Buffalo Bills, and we'll talk about that
game as well. We'll start with the baseball Texas gets
game one of the Alcs. How did you react to
the Rangers winning that first and did the Buffalo Bills
get away with grabbing the jersey at the end of
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Giants tight end Darren Waller. Also, what is your opinion
of Josh Allen's performance for the Bills shut out for
the first three quarters and does this Sunday Night game
make Daniel Jones look even worse as the Giants quarterback.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.
It is make way for our number one, the lone Ranger.
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Well there's only been one, and we like the way
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as we will mingle together intertwine the two big events
that took place on a Sunday night, and you know it,
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those were I assume right, dueling banjos. To try to
get our attention in prime time, you had here we
go Buffalo the Sunday Night, massive, massive favorite, biggest favorite
of the year, the Buffalo Bills over the lowly New
York Giants. Opportunity for Buffalo to go out and get
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a cakewalk against the really just pathetic franchise, the New
York Giants. And then you had going head to head
Game one of the American League Championship Series on Fox.
Good versus Evil in the den of inequity, the pit
of cheaters, Houston, Texas where they like their trash cans,
buzzers and whistled, and the cross state rival Rangers. And
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that's the matchup there. So I don't know which one
you watched. I was watching both. I had big TV,
a little TV, big TV, little TV is what I did.
So we're gonna start, actually, for the purposes of this,
we're gonna start with baseball. Why why not? All right? So,
Jordan Montgomery a pitcher that was picked up from the
rag tag Saint Louis baseball team. Jordan Montgomery just pitched
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for the Yankees. Also, he pitched five hit ball over
six and a third innings and a number nine hitter
for the Rangers. The Honus Tavares hit a home run
and that was the big bop in a low scoring game.
Texas wins two nothing over the Cheaters, and so the
good guys are now three wins away from going to
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the World Series and exterminating the blight of baseball in Houston.
So let us discuss the question, how did you react
to the Rangers getting game one getting the jump on
the Cheaters in the American League Championship Series. So I've
got contraband mother and the Pepsi challenge, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make ketchup and mustard, which is what we can
put all over the crow. The Cheaters are going to
be eating by the time the ALCS comes to an end. So,
first of all, this was a picture perfect performance by
the Rangers and they have been perfecto in the postseason
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so far as they have navigated their way through the
playoffs without a single mark against so far in the
postseason with Jordan Montgermy do your job, do your job,
and Montgomery did his job. Bruce Bochie mixing and matching
the bullpen, coming in the maestro from his days in
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the Bay with the Giants, back when the Giants were
trying to win World Series. Now they're just the virtual
signaling out there with the Giants. But the Giants Bruce
Bochie three relievers. They got it done, and the Rangers
now have home field advantage in the American League Championship Series.
For the moment, the winner of Game one of a
seven game playoff series. I love the stats was a
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stat for everything. You can shove it up your keyster
win sixty four percent of the time. Okay, but that
was a surgical performance. Word I would use is surgical
surgical performance by the Texas baseball team. You're great pitching
a couple of big hits. Now on the other side,
the better story in the cheaters locker room. So who
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gets the biggest chunk of the blame trash can for
the a holes? That's the question. So right away we
start with instant pop karma. Instant pop karma. Justin Verlander,
who's as dirty as anyone else on that team. He
was there in twenty seventeen, he was there while they
were cheating. He was benefiting from that on the mound.
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He's back in the den of an eck withy Verlander.
How great was it to see him not get it done?
He got out pitched by Jordan Montgomery. Ah, you loser, Furlander,
What an embarrassment. Jordan Montgomery was better than Verliner, ruler
who pitched a good game.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well he needed to be better. It's the playoffs. You
gotta outpitch the guy you're going against, and the guy
he went against out pitched him.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Jordan e f and Montgomery got the best of Verlander
in this game. But wait, there's more. So good Jose Albouve.
That's right, Jose Albouve had a brain fart. It was
a little brain fart because you have a big brain,
so it was a little brain fart. But in the
eighth and the Astros had a man on base with
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Alex Bregman up, bottom of the eighth, trailing by two runs.
So the tying run is at the plate. The tying
run is at the plate for the cheaters, they got
a shot to go right back in the game. Bregman
hits a ball to left center field in Houston there
and the Rangers outuler Evan Carter makes an amazing catch,
an amazing catch there to retire Bregman. But wait a minute,
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he threw the ball to first in an attempt to
catch Altuve on a double plan. Now, Altuve made it
back ahead of the throw from Carter, but an eagle
eyed skipper Bruce Bochie realizing, wait a minute, we have
technology now and I'm not a techno fobe, and Bruce
Bochie said, hold on, time out challenge. They went to
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the replay challenge Boachie did and it was determined that
Jose al Bouve that little cheater that he forgot to
touch the second base bag. How great is that on
his way back to first? Oh yeah it was again.
It was a small mistake, got a little feet, little
baby feet, little toddler feet, but he forgot to hit
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second base on the way back to first, and that's out.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You're out.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
See you later, goodbye, Get out of here. You're stiff
and your stupid cheater a my Rangers. Good job by
my new team. I just became a Ranger fan last week.
It's kind of cool. I'm liking it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And my takeaway from that is Altuve needs contraband, right,
I mean, the little guy without the Contra band. He
don't know what to do. He's so dumb when it
comes to playing baseball. Al Bouve, he don't know get
that man a buzzer, get him a trash can, get
him a whistle, get him something. Help the little fella out.
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He's helpless.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He don't even know how to touch second base, going back,
get him on you know a TV.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
We have this thing called an IFB, so you know,
just basically get an earpiece.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Maybe he needed one of those, right, and then the
umpire or or somebody with the astros.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
We know that they like to cheat. Somebody for the
a holes could have told hey, a little al toovey,
you might want to touch second on your way back
to first, your moron.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Ah, that's been great, Oh so good. It is so
good to see them lose. I am going to enjoy
every one of these Razor wins, all four of them,
to eliminate these losers. Now turning the page on that,
we also had a Sunday Night NFL game, We shift
now to Sunday Night football Buffalo, the biggest favorite of
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the twenty twenty three season, which means the Giants the
largest underdog and a Tyrod Taylor and the Giants. That's right,
Danny Dimes, he unable to play his art. Sakwan Barkley
came back for the Giants. Buffalo needed a pair of
fourth quarter touchdowns to rally, and then they needed a
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goal line stand to beat the lowly Giants. Are the
Buffalo Bills not a total fraud? Is there anyone left
in this country that doesn't think the Buffalo Bills are fraud?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Seriously? You're you're at home Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You've got a backup quarterback for the Giants and you
need a defensive stanza at the end to beat that team.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Are you joking me? What an embarrassment? And not only
that if you looked at the repe but if you
were watching the end of this game, did the Bills
get away with grabbing a jersey on the Giants tight
end Darren Waller? And yes, Toron Johnson of the Bills
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grabbed the hole in the laundry? The officials, who had
already called one penalty on Buffalo at the end of
the game, that there's an untime play. Then Waller was
grabbed by the Bills. I believe it was the Bill's
safety there, but they didn't want to call another one, right,
and so the officials swallowed the whistle, even though clearly
the Buffalo defender was cheating and grabbing the Jersey and
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they didn't want to have a second untimed down. All right,
So what is your opinion, by the way of Josh
Allen's performance for the Bills. Well, my opinion, he was frazzled.
He was absolutely frazzled.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Here.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
He lolly gagged around for three quarters. And I know
the quarterback Defender club is out there.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It's all his fault, the receiver's fault, of Scar's fault,
the coaching.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's always somebody else's fault. But to me, it's indefensible
what I saw. You're supposed to be the franchise quarterback.
And mother knows best. What did mom tell you when
you're a kid. Don't play with your vegetables, don't play
with your food? And he did not take the mother
advice there, because Josh Allen was futsing around with his vegetables.
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He had the PE's on the plate there, he had
some string beans and it was just bad. It was bad,
like what are you doing? The Giants, by any measurement,
are a terrible football team. In fact, the defense twenty
seventh in the NFL in total defense, and the Buffalo
Bills could not even get three hundred yards against the
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team giving up three hundred and seventy eight yards on average.
But wait, there's more. The New York Football Giants defensively
twenty ninth in scoring defense, allowing thirty plus points per game.
And in this game, the mighty Buffalo Bills, the big
bad Buffalo Bills. Oh my god, Kansas City so scared
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of Buffalo. Fourteen points and they got all of them
in the fourth courter. Fourteen points. That's it. Fourteen points,
all right? Final thought? So does this Sunday night game?
Does this Sunday night game make Daniel Jones look even
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worse for the Giants? And I'm nodding my head.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yes, if you were watching what I was watching, if
you were listening to what I was listening to, there's
no other conclusion one can come to.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And the hypothesis is simple here. Daniel Jones is a stiff.
The guy's an absolute stiff, and this game exposed him
even further. Now. I know the Buffalo Bills had a
few guys out defensively, had three key players that were injured,
but that aside. Right, this is an absolute indictment, an
indictment of Danny Dimes. Tyrod Taylor is a middling journeyman
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vagabond quarterback who's played all over the NFL because he's
not that good on his very top day as an
NFL quarterback. Tyrod Taylor is a middling quarterback. Okay, Midland. However,
if you do the Pepsi challenge side by side and
compare Tyrod Taylor and Daniel Jones, you know who you're
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gonna pick. It ain't gonna be Vanilla Vick. I'll tell
you that right now, because you'd much rather have that
version of the Giants office. Now, keep in mind, Big
Blue was not good. They were still not good, right,
but here's the thing. They looked like a professional football
team on offense. Not a great one, not a great one,
But it looked like a professional football team on offense.
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I would rather have Tyrod Taylor. After a game the
Giants went oer for five in the red zone, oh
for three in goal to go situations, and did not
get a touchdown. I would still rather have Taylor. And
here's why. All right, they had the same beat up
offensive line, right, it was even worse patchwork offensive line.
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Did Tyrod Taylor look like he was drowning out there
unable to do anything? No? So wait, a minute. Did
they all of a sudden fix the offensive No, they
didn't fix the offensive line. It's that Daniel Jones is
a turd. He can't play the guys that stick, and
you morons with the New York Giants, you gave him
an extension and he sucks, and you know everyone knows it.
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Tyrod Taylor goes out there with the same crappy players
around him as Daniel Jones and look like a competent player. Right.
He wasn't running around for his life. Oh my god.
And the Giants were over fifty percent on third down
ten of nineteen. They outgained the Buffalo Bills by twenty yards,
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had twenty first downs. Even with nine penalties for the Giants,
they were still matching Buffalo. They're hanging around. And I
will guarantee you if Daniel Jones the start of this game,
Buffalo wins by forty points. Buffalo wins that game by
forty f in points. All right, see Ben Mahler show.
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Speaker 1 (17:01):
We used to have this guy named Chris and Houston.
He's a sellout though. He went to the dreaded day
Shift and he he's a fan of cheaters. He likes
the a holes in Houston. He says, good win by
the South Oklahoma Rangers will see you tomorrow. Really took
that ass whooping personally, he says, I'm not worried though,
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because the Ben Malor curse is real and the curse
of Benbino long ago ended. The Clippers made the Final four.
The Dodgers won the world's hardest World Series of all time,
by the way, during a global pandemic. Dodgers won. That
also go down the list year of accomplishments to the
LA RAMS Super Bowl champions. So there is no more
curse of the Beanbino. That's an outdated take by Chris
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in Houston. The real curse here is when you use
buzzers and whistles and all that, because for the rest
of time, no one will take the cheating a holes
seriously and it drives these people insane. You should see
the email that I get from our list in Houston.
They just cannot deal with this reality. But that's the
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way it is. I didn't make the rules you got
that's the problem you crossed over. That's on you. I
didn't tell you to do that. You did it, and
you got caught and you didn't get punished. And so
the karma, the karmatic effect is in play here. Now.
Bill's Monster rits in and he I think he was
at the game Sunday night, but he's got the full outfit. Man,
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he's like deep inside Bill's mafy, like he's a high
ranking brigadier general in Bill's maffy. He says, the Bills
pulled out a squeaker. They will be better. They will
beat the Patriots by forty five points next week, says
the Bills Monster. Well shouldn't they beaten the Giants by
forty five points? Aren't the Giants and the Patriots about
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the same level of talent? JD in Boston is listening
to his son the sports up there in Boston to
Fox Sports Radio. He says, Ben, don't you mean the cheating? Yeah, Stroze,
Well yeah, I think I said that. I think I
got to that. Rory writes that. He says another great
Mallard monologue as usual. Who looks worse Daniel Jones or
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Deshaun Watson with how great their backups played, And you
wonder why these franchises are trust why I'm going to
push back on the Cleve Cleveland one without a quarterback.
So let's not sit here and praise mister Walker, who
was no good. But that's just that shows you how
inept the forty nine ers were. And it's like a
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vampire seeing the light the sunlight there watching brock Party
without Christian McCaffery when he went down for injury in
that game after eleven carries, and you look at Deebo
Samuel and we'll talk more about that later, but man,
the forty nine ers, brock Party, that's I know, I'm
not here to take a victory bow and all that,
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but that that looked like a system quarterback without the system, right,
without the players around him. Brock Party, you got to
do it on your own. You got to make things
happened there without players around you. And he averaged about
four and a half yards per pass against the Cleveland runs.
But PJ. Walker, that's not he was no good.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
He was.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
He sucked the Browns were given that. Give me listen,
they played good defense. Fine, congratulations, but that was more
of a gift from the the forty nine. Is very
kind of them to be so generous and to give
that that game there, and it also helped. The kicker
for the forty nine ers missed a kick at the
end there that also help. But the Niners didn't deserve
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to win that game, and they didn't end up winning
that game at the end. Let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome,
Hold on Andrea, Iowa. Sam's on Iowa Time. He's got
to pot you up there. Hello, Hello, Andre.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Hello Ben, It's good to be It's good to be
with you. Early in the morning. I've been joined Benny
Versus the Penny and you know you're tuning in coming in.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, I appreciate that. Very nice of you to watch
the TV show. They're very kind of you. I appreciate
every weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday on regional cable television
Bennie Versus The Penny.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Indeed, we disagreed. We disagreed a week back. You know
you were on the Vikings. You know what I mean.
And I had to push back on that a little bit,
you know, with case and it turned out to be
a shootout, you know what I mean. And Denver, even
though they got Brian Flora, is not really known for
their defense and they weren't able to hold up. Again, well, you're.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Talking about Minnesota with Brian Floores and the defense there
at the end. But if I recall, in that game,
there was a call, it a Kelsey call that went
in favor of Kansas City at the end of that game.
That really hurt the Vikings at the end. But that's fine.
Those things happen. The NFL has got their interest here
and they are an entertainment league, and Travis Kelsey is
a very important for entertainment.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Apparently, I'm told indeed entertainment. You got to make sure
that you wissuage the Taylor Swift crowd. And of course
it's a big difference between Minnesota and Denver. We met
up my hole take this, so thanks for that correction
forward in the present here, Ben, we had a couple
of shockers here that a couple folks were on in
terms of Cleveland. You didn't hear some people talk to
me about it. I couldn't. I couldn't commit. I couldn't
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back to Cleveland Browns against the powerful San Francisco forty
nine ers. If people were saying that, you know that
the defense, you know, being on the road, that kind
of a slumping, you know, type of a game, coming
up a big win, and then you kind of underperformed.
So I gotta tip my hat to Cleveland. Notable losses
with Chubb and then Deshaun Watson, the Cleebey quarterback. Whoy
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support it in terms of you know something?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I didn't support it, but I just said, now you
supported him.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
You supported him. Don't don't try to walk back from that.
You supported him here. I don't know that he wants
to play. I think he might just sit out like
the rest of the season. Because he was medically cleared
three weeks ago. He sat out that game, they had
the bye week. Now he's missed another game. Is it
conceivable he just wants to get massages Deshaun Watson and
not play football. Is that possible.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I don't know what he was. I don't know what
he wants to do, Ben, but maybe he wants to
go back to Clemson back when he had his mojo
in it, and.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
He was producing.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oh he was beloved that They didn't know what a
creepster he was at Clemson, but they loved him. He
was the golden child there at Clemson. And then we
all fall apart.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
He's not representing himself well in the ASD North. But
just quickly in conclusion, I'm here in the Commonwealth and uh,
you know, it's it's beyond all hand on deck, the
guard has changed, the Emperor has no clothes, and it's
just an absolute free fall. But what I've been saying
with other people, a lot of people saying, listen, all right,
it's on the face backs. We got to start this
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tank for real job and get in the Caleb Williams
Drake may sweepstakes. You've got a lot of good quarterbacks
coming in this.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
No, no, no, no, what are you doing? You a loser?
Why would you want to be a loser intentionally trying
to lose? I cannot. I cannot support tanking. I will
never support tanking. It makes me want to puke. The
idea of tanking is disgusting, despicable and horrible. Okay, why
would you want to do that? Why would you support that?
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Makes me? Especially considering look at all of these young
quarterbacks and how most of them do not live up
to the hype. And you want to go down that
road yet again. You want to go back down that
road yet again. Ask the Carolina Panthers they traded with
the Bears to get the next prodigy out of Alabama.
How's Bryce Young doing right now for the Carolina That's.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Not about the quarterback themself. You have to get the
right coach. Trevor Lawrence was going away.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's always the it's always something, it's always something else.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Better to get the court. But I'm just saying in
New England it's over. They never mind we're not winning
it even when we try to win. Ben, But that's
the point, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Well, but well, what is the I don't understand, Like,
why why do the Patriots keep putting mac Jones out there?
The guys incompetent. You can't sign him to an extension.
He's going to be gone at the end of the year.
Why not to see if one of these other quarterbacks
has anything? And even if they don't, I'd rather see
somebody else. I'd rather see Will Greer play quarterback or
Bailey Zappi. Mac Jones ain't it okay? The guy sucks?
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Just MIDI, you made a bad pick. Mac Jones isn't
the guy. The guy's a loser, and just get rid
of it. Put him on the bench, put somebody else
out there.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Zero pushback for that, Ben. What did Bill Belichick do?
The guys off of his rocker? He got rid of
he barey's that be's how he's not the freaking roster.
He wouldn't bring in a backup quarterback. It's over. So
Mac is garbage. Beyond that, Bill Belichick is just out
of his mind. It's time of tank and gopher tail.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Now, all right, bad take by you. I mean I
hate to end the call like that. That's a bad
take by you. So the Patriots are one and five.
There are one, two, three, four, what five? One and
five teams and the Patriots. The way the draft, if
you're one of these tank people, I hate you. But
the way it works is it goes by strength of schedule,
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and the Patriots would would have the six pick. The
Chicago Bears their pick would be number two. Carolina has
the number one. Pictures they're owing six. So for whatever that's.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
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Speaker 1 (26:37):
So a musical assist. Yeah, these NFL teams do the
darness thing. So the Minnesota Vikings improved to two and four,
which is not good, but it's better than one in five,
and they got to win over the Chicago Bears, and
the Bears losing their starting quarterback Mister Fields to injury
during that game. Now, after the Minnesota football team got
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the win, quarterback Kirk Cousins had a rather bizarre way
of explaining what was responsible helped Minnesota get the win.
We will tell you what he said here in a moment.
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prepared to take the field there at Soldier Field, Chicago,
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and that because of that, because of that, that made
made the difference. That was it right there? He said,
they got quite a catalog. Cousins added, he said, we
started with higher this week. We didn't want to overstep
our bounds. So just one higher next week, maybe we
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can see what we where we go from there, he said.
Now the Texas Rangers have been writing the Creed the
bandwagon there. Cousins actually didn't mention Kirk Cousins the Rangers.
He credited them with the helping fuel the Vikings. He
took that from the Texas Rangers all of a sudden,
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very random like creed of all the things that pop
up on the sporting radar. That that's very bizarre to me,
it's very bizarre. But he you know, random bands from
back in the day, and here we are here, we
are there, and it doesn't matter you're cool or not cool.
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It's whatever floats your book. I'm sure that's why the
Vikings won the game. It had nothing to do with
the absolute total incompetence of the Chicago Bears. It was
a Creed song. That is why the Vikings won the
game and the Bears lost. It did not have anything
to do with the fact that the Chicago Bears are
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a terrible football team and have a very little talent
on both sides of the ball right, nothing to do
with it. And even with that, the Vikings did nothing
in the second half of this game. They only played
a half. Maybe they should have put some Creed music
on at a halftime that would have helped them out
the Chicago Bears, who had Fields leave with an injury
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and had the backup come in and play more than Fields,
and they still ended up out gaining the Minnesota Vikings
by fifty five yards. They had six more first downs
the Vikings won again. They were two of thirteen on
third down horrific, horrific, horrific, horrific. Anyway, it is the
Ben Malachow. We'll take some more of these calls coming
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up here momentarily. We also have the MLB. I'm excited
with two games on Monday, so we will have the
MLB Divisional not Divisional. This is the league Championship Series.
Pick them, the MLB League Championship Series. Pick them. But
here's the who am I game? The Philadelphia Eagles A. J.
Brown now has four straight games with one hundred and
(30:15):
twenty five or more receiving yards. Blank is the only
player with more since nineteen seventy. Going back over fifty years, again, AJ.
Brown of Philly, he's got four straight games with one
hundred and twenty five or more receiving yards. Blank is
the only player with more since nineteen seventy. And to
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fill in the blank on that to who am I game?
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
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Coming up a little bit later. We'll have just a
few minutes away the MLB League Championship Series. Pick him.
Look forward to that time now for the who am I? Game?
The Eagles A J. Brown and the loss on a
big day for AJ and he now has four straight
games with one hundred and twenty five or more receiving yards.
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I am the only player with more since nineteen seventy's
over fifty years ago. Who am I? That the question?
What's the answer? Chris and the Moin going with Jeff
Goldbloom is his answer? Uh page down here, page natasy,
Does anyone know the answer? On act Matt the Warrior Raider,
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former a's fan is going with Vince Papolia as his answer.
We have George Carlin from Cowboy Killer see page down.
Dana got it right, obviously cheating Don Beebie from eke
In Roseville, Minnesota. Alf the Alien Opiner says the newest
mobile Mallard billboard in Massachusetts. Well that's good. At the
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top of that's not so good, Alf, But the bottom
of that very very nice. Kenny Stabler from Willie the Mess.
Who else do we have? Page down the Buzzer pat
him down tomorrow in Texas? That's from Fergcat Fred Bolitnikoff.
Guests by Wally in Florida, Flipper Anderson from GM mange
in Chicago, DeVante Adams guest by the Art of Sports Talk,
(32:49):
Chris Carter from Late Night Drug Tester. Who else we have?
Base City Tony says Tie Texas ranger Joe Ferguson and
former Buffalo Bill Joe Ferguson. The answer there a Lynn Swan,
Eddie's Wet Dream. Guests by Supermarket Steve. It's his answer, Callaghan,
Tim and Michigan went Willie Anderson better known as Flipper
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as well. Who else? Bob Trumpy from Rob in Minnesota.
The answer is tank for Caleb Williams from Benito the Cowboy.
Fan's here you Feme in Chicago to a shot at
Andre Eddie. Do you have an answer?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Oh? Yes, it's former Washington Redskins tight end. Clint Didtier?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Clint Didtier? Is it Clint Didtier? Is that the correct answer?
That's not the correct answer. The correct answer the man
known as a transformer from the Detroit Lions Hall of
Famer Calvin Johnson, who had five straight games like that
back in twenty twelve. Let's say, hell on to helmet man.
Who is next? Hello helmet morning. There is hello helmet
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man like that.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
You know, I'm trying of the sails worse than so much, fellos.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Sleep.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Helmet man. We're on the air. Helmet man. Oh god, yeah,
I think he's having a private cover like he's making
some business deals here, has no idea that he's on
the air. They might be selling something right now. He's
a salesman.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
No, it's just what goes on at home man listening.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
He called in so he knew he was going to
be on something what goes on at home on the
live air on Well, he will have no idea that
he's on the live air right now. He will not
know that this is happening at all here. All right,
we'll put him back on. Well that one very well.
I thought that was that was nice speaking of going, well,
the Miami Dolphins putting up all kinds of points. Did
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you see though, the octogenarian wattle. The octogenarian wattle as
Stephen Ross, who's in his eighties, I believe he's eighty
three years old, and he attempted to do the wattle
penguin dance. Well, the Jalen what But Jalen Wattle is
the that's his. He he's taken over that dance for
(35:02):
the dolphins. So he's, uh, he does the wattle when
he when he's something good happens with the dolphins. When
he does something good, he scores a touchdown, he does
the wattle, and then you go a wattle wattle, I
can wattle to see. It's like a penguin.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You got a.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Wattle like that.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
That's what I just said.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
But it's the wattle dance because he's j well, no, no, no,
Jalen Wattle has has taken over that and then the
dolphin owner tried to do that. But I think that
wattle dance is good for like old people because you
don't really have to move that much, just side by side.
So I think that's I think that's pretty good. All right,
here we go time. Now four the m LB League
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Championship Series. Pick him two games so we can do it.
Go ahead, Coop, I guess you're going first, so you'll
you'll lose. Well, you need to win just to time.
Hurry off with Zach Wheeler. That is a terrible pick.
Nathan Evaldi of My Texas Rangers. Sam, Bryce Harper, all right, Eddie,
(36:05):
back to back, Eddie, where are the Dodgers at Hi?
Hurry up, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Let's go with Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
One more by Harper.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
That Gallen all right, Eddie, odonads Garcia is keeping.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Throwing people out. Sam from Bee Valdes, I'll take Cory
Seger My Rangers, Kopolo, I'll take Nick Castellanos.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
One more.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Hurry up, Nathaniel Lowe, Marcus Simeon, Dory Seger, I'm all Rangers, Tory.
I picked cor
Hello and welcome. It's a brand spank in new week
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the beginning of the Ben Maler Show podcast, we'll talk
about the Alcs, the Rangers getting the jump on the
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cheating ass holes, and also NFL Sunday Night Football the
Giants and the Buffalo Bills, and we'll talk about that
game as well. We'll start with the baseball Texas gets
game one of the Alcs. How did you react to
the Rangers winning that first and did the Buffalo Bills
get away with grabbing the jersey at the end of
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Giants tight end Darren Waller. Also, what is your opinion
of Josh Allen's performance for the Bills shut out for
the first three quarters and does this Sunday Night game
make Daniel Jones look even worse as the Giants quarterback.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.
It is make way for our number one, the lone Ranger.
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as we will mingle together intertwine the two big events
that took place on a Sunday night, and you know it,
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those were I assume right, dueling banjos. To try to
get our attention in prime time, you had here we
go Buffalo the Sunday Night, massive, massive favorite, biggest favorite
of the year, the Buffalo Bills over the lowly New
York Giants. Opportunity for Buffalo to go out and get
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a cakewalk against the really just pathetic franchise, the New
York Giants. And then you had going head to head
Game one of the American League Championship Series on Fox.
Good versus Evil in the den of inequity, the pit
of cheaters, Houston, Texas where they like their trash cans,
buzzers and whistled, and the cross state rival Rangers. And
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that's the matchup there. So I don't know which one
you watched. I was watching both. I had big TV,
a little TV, big TV, little TV is what I did.
So we're gonna start, actually, for the purposes of this,
we're gonna start with baseball. Why why not? All right? So,
Jordan Montgomery a pitcher that was picked up from the
rag tag Saint Louis baseball team. Jordan Montgomery just pitched
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for the Yankees. Also, he pitched five hit ball over
six and a third innings and a number nine hitter
for the Rangers. The Honus Tavares hit a home run
and that was the big bop in a low scoring game.
Texas wins two nothing over the Cheaters, and so the
good guys are now three wins away from going to
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the World Series and exterminating the blight of baseball in Houston.
So let us discuss the question, how did you react
to the Rangers getting game one getting the jump on
the Cheaters in the American League Championship Series. So I've
got contraband mother and the Pepsi challenge, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make ketchup and mustard, which is what we can
put all over the crow. The Cheaters are going to
be eating by the time the ALCS comes to an end. So,
first of all, this was a picture perfect performance by
the Rangers and they have been perfecto in the postseason
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so far as they have navigated their way through the
playoffs without a single mark against so far in the
postseason with Jordan Montgermy do your job, do your job,
and Montgomery did his job. Bruce Bochie mixing and matching
the bullpen, coming in the maestro from his days in
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the Bay with the Giants, back when the Giants were
trying to win World Series. Now they're just the virtual
signaling out there with the Giants. But the Giants Bruce
Bochie three relievers. They got it done, and the Rangers
now have home field advantage in the American League Championship Series.
For the moment, the winner of Game one of a
seven game playoff series. I love the stats was a
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stat for everything. You can shove it up your keyster
win sixty four percent of the time. Okay, but that
was a surgical performance. Word I would use is surgical
surgical performance by the Texas baseball team. You're great pitching
a couple of big hits. Now on the other side,
the better story in the cheaters locker room. So who
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gets the biggest chunk of the blame trash can for
the a holes? That's the question. So right away we
start with instant pop karma. Instant pop karma. Justin Verlander,
who's as dirty as anyone else on that team. He
was there in twenty seventeen, he was there while they
were cheating. He was benefiting from that on the mound.
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He's back in the den of an eck withy Verlander.
How great was it to see him not get it done?
He got out pitched by Jordan Montgomery. Ah, you loser, Furlander,
What an embarrassment. Jordan Montgomery was better than Verliner, ruler
who pitched a good game.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Well he needed to be better. It's the playoffs. You
gotta outpitch the guy you're going against, and the guy
he went against out pitched him.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Jordan e f and Montgomery got the best of Verlander
in this game. But wait, there's more. So good Jose Albouve.
That's right, Jose Albouve had a brain fart. It was
a little brain fart because you have a big brain,
so it was a little brain fart. But in the
eighth and the Astros had a man on base with
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Alex Bregman up, bottom of the eighth, trailing by two runs.
So the tying run is at the plate. The tying
run is at the plate for the cheaters, they got
a shot to go right back in the game. Bregman
hits a ball to left center field in Houston there
and the Rangers outuler Evan Carter makes an amazing catch,
an amazing catch there to retire Bregman. But wait a minute,
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he threw the ball to first in an attempt to
catch Altuve on a double plan. Now, Altuve made it
back ahead of the throw from Carter, but an eagle
eyed skipper Bruce Bochie realizing, wait a minute, we have
technology now and I'm not a techno fobe, and Bruce
Bochie said, hold on, time out challenge. They went to
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the replay challenge Boachie did and it was determined that
Jose al Bouve that little cheater that he forgot to
touch the second base bag. How great is that on
his way back to first? Oh yeah it was again.
It was a small mistake, got a little feet, little
baby feet, little toddler feet, but he forgot to hit
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second base on the way back to first, and that's out.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You're out.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
See you later, goodbye, Get out of here. You're stiff
and your stupid cheater a my Rangers. Good job by
my new team. I just became a Ranger fan last week.
It's kind of cool. I'm liking it.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And my takeaway from that is Altuve needs contraband, right,
I mean, the little guy without the Contra band. He
don't know what to do. He's so dumb when it
comes to playing baseball. Al Bouve, he don't know get
that man a buzzer, get him a trash can, get
him a whistle, get him something. Help the little fella out.
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He's helpless.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He don't even know how to touch second base, going back,
get him on you know a TV.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
We have this thing called an IFB, so you know,
just basically get an earpiece.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Maybe he needed one of those, right, and then the
umpire or or somebody with the astros.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
We know that they like to cheat. Somebody for the
a holes could have told hey, a little al toovey,
you might want to touch second on your way back
to first, your moron.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Ah, that's been great, Oh so good. It is so
good to see them lose. I am going to enjoy
every one of these Razor wins, all four of them,
to eliminate these losers. Now turning the page on that,
we also had a Sunday Night NFL game, We shift
now to Sunday Night football Buffalo, the biggest favorite of
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the twenty twenty three season, which means the Giants the
largest underdog and a Tyrod Taylor and the Giants. That's right,
Danny Dimes, he unable to play his art. Sakwan Barkley
came back for the Giants. Buffalo needed a pair of
fourth quarter touchdowns to rally, and then they needed a
(09:51):
goal line stand to beat the lowly Giants. Are the
Buffalo Bills not a total fraud? Is there anyone left
in this country that doesn't think the Buffalo Bills are fraud?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Seriously? You're you're at home Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You've got a backup quarterback for the Giants and you
need a defensive stanza at the end to beat that team.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Are you joking me? What an embarrassment? And not only
that if you looked at the repe but if you
were watching the end of this game, did the Bills
get away with grabbing a jersey on the Giants tight
end Darren Waller? And yes, Toron Johnson of the Bills
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grabbed the hole in the laundry? The officials, who had
already called one penalty on Buffalo at the end of
the game, that there's an untime play. Then Waller was
grabbed by the Bills. I believe it was the Bill's
safety there, but they didn't want to call another one, right,
and so the officials swallowed the whistle, even though clearly
the Buffalo defender was cheating and grabbing the Jersey and
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they didn't want to have a second untimed down. All right,
So what is your opinion, by the way of Josh
Allen's performance for the Bills. Well, my opinion, he was frazzled.
He was absolutely frazzled.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Here.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
He lolly gagged around for three quarters. And I know
the quarterback Defender club is out there.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It's all his fault, the receiver's fault, of Scar's fault,
the coaching.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's always somebody else's fault. But to me, it's indefensible
what I saw. You're supposed to be the franchise quarterback.
And mother knows best. What did mom tell you when
you're a kid. Don't play with your vegetables, don't play
with your food? And he did not take the mother
advice there, because Josh Allen was futsing around with his vegetables.
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He had the PE's on the plate there, he had
some string beans and it was just bad. It was bad,
like what are you doing? The Giants, by any measurement,
are a terrible football team. In fact, the defense twenty
seventh in the NFL in total defense, and the Buffalo
Bills could not even get three hundred yards against the
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team giving up three hundred and seventy eight yards on average.
But wait, there's more. The New York Football Giants defensively
twenty ninth in scoring defense, allowing thirty plus points per game.
And in this game, the mighty Buffalo Bills, the big
bad Buffalo Bills. Oh my god, Kansas City so scared
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of Buffalo. Fourteen points and they got all of them
in the fourth courter. Fourteen points. That's it. Fourteen points,
all right? Final thought? So does this Sunday night game?
Does this Sunday night game make Daniel Jones look even
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worse for the Giants? And I'm nodding my head.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yes, if you were watching what I was watching, if
you were listening to what I was listening to, there's
no other conclusion one can come to.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And the hypothesis is simple here. Daniel Jones is a stiff.
The guy's an absolute stiff, and this game exposed him
even further. Now. I know the Buffalo Bills had a
few guys out defensively, had three key players that were injured,
but that aside. Right, this is an absolute indictment, an
indictment of Danny Dimes. Tyrod Taylor is a middling journeyman
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vagabond quarterback who's played all over the NFL because he's
not that good on his very top day as an
NFL quarterback. Tyrod Taylor is a middling quarterback. Okay, Midland. However,
if you do the Pepsi challenge side by side and
compare Tyrod Taylor and Daniel Jones, you know who you're
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gonna pick. It ain't gonna be Vanilla Vick. I'll tell
you that right now, because you'd much rather have that
version of the Giants office. Now, keep in mind, Big
Blue was not good. They were still not good, right,
but here's the thing. They looked like a professional football
team on offense. Not a great one, not a great one,
But it looked like a professional football team on offense.
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I would rather have Tyrod Taylor. After a game the
Giants went oer for five in the red zone, oh
for three in goal to go situations, and did not
get a touchdown. I would still rather have Taylor. And
here's why. All right, they had the same beat up
offensive line, right, it was even worse patchwork offensive line.
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Did Tyrod Taylor look like he was drowning out there
unable to do anything? No? So wait, a minute. Did
they all of a sudden fix the offensive No, they
didn't fix the offensive line. It's that Daniel Jones is
a turd. He can't play the guys that stick, and
you morons with the New York Giants, you gave him
an extension and he sucks, and you know everyone knows it.
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Tyrod Taylor goes out there with the same crappy players
around him as Daniel Jones and look like a competent player. Right.
He wasn't running around for his life. Oh my god.
And the Giants were over fifty percent on third down
ten of nineteen. They outgained the Buffalo Bills by twenty yards,
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had twenty first downs. Even with nine penalties for the Giants,
they were still matching Buffalo. They're hanging around. And I
will guarantee you if Daniel Jones the start of this game,
Buffalo wins by forty points. Buffalo wins that game by
forty f in points. All right, see Ben Mahler show.
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Speaker 1 (17:01):
We used to have this guy named Chris and Houston.
He's a sellout though. He went to the dreaded day
Shift and he he's a fan of cheaters. He likes
the a holes in Houston. He says, good win by
the South Oklahoma Rangers will see you tomorrow. Really took
that ass whooping personally, he says, I'm not worried though,
(17:21):
because the Ben Malor curse is real and the curse
of Benbino long ago ended. The Clippers made the Final four.
The Dodgers won the world's hardest World Series of all time,
by the way, during a global pandemic. Dodgers won. That
also go down the list year of accomplishments to the
LA RAMS Super Bowl champions. So there is no more
curse of the Beanbino. That's an outdated take by Chris
(17:42):
in Houston. The real curse here is when you use
buzzers and whistles and all that, because for the rest
of time, no one will take the cheating a holes
seriously and it drives these people insane. You should see
the email that I get from our list in Houston.
They just cannot deal with this reality. But that's the
(18:03):
way it is. I didn't make the rules you got
that's the problem you crossed over. That's on you. I
didn't tell you to do that. You did it, and
you got caught and you didn't get punished. And so
the karma, the karmatic effect is in play here. Now.
Bill's Monster rits in and he I think he was
at the game Sunday night, but he's got the full outfit. Man,
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he's like deep inside Bill's mafy, like he's a high
ranking brigadier general in Bill's maffy. He says, the Bills
pulled out a squeaker. They will be better. They will
beat the Patriots by forty five points next week, says
the Bills Monster. Well shouldn't they beaten the Giants by
forty five points? Aren't the Giants and the Patriots about
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the same level of talent? JD in Boston is listening
to his son the sports up there in Boston to
Fox Sports Radio. He says, Ben, don't you mean the cheating? Yeah, Stroze,
Well yeah, I think I said that. I think I
got to that. Rory writes that. He says another great
Mallard monologue as usual. Who looks worse Daniel Jones or
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Deshaun Watson with how great their backups played, And you
wonder why these franchises are trust why I'm going to
push back on the Cleve Cleveland one without a quarterback.
So let's not sit here and praise mister Walker, who
was no good. But that's just that shows you how
inept the forty nine ers were. And it's like a
(19:32):
vampire seeing the light the sunlight there watching brock Party
without Christian McCaffery when he went down for injury in
that game after eleven carries, and you look at Deebo
Samuel and we'll talk more about that later, but man,
the forty nine ers, brock Party, that's I know, I'm
not here to take a victory bow and all that,
(19:53):
but that that looked like a system quarterback without the system, right,
without the players around him. Brock Party, you got to
do it on your own. You got to make things
happened there without players around you. And he averaged about
four and a half yards per pass against the Cleveland runs.
But PJ. Walker, that's not he was no good.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
He was.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
He sucked the Browns were given that. Give me listen,
they played good defense. Fine, congratulations, but that was more
of a gift from the the forty nine. Is very
kind of them to be so generous and to give
that that game there, and it also helped. The kicker
for the forty nine ers missed a kick at the
end there that also help. But the Niners didn't deserve
(20:33):
to win that game, and they didn't end up winning
that game at the end. Let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome,
Hold on Andrea, Iowa. Sam's on Iowa Time. He's got
to pot you up there. Hello, Hello, Andre.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Hello Ben, It's good to be It's good to be
with you. Early in the morning. I've been joined Benny
Versus the Penny and you know you're tuning in coming in.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, I appreciate that. Very nice of you to watch
the TV show. They're very kind of you. I appreciate
every weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday on regional cable television
Bennie Versus The Penny.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Indeed, we disagreed. We disagreed a week back. You know
you were on the Vikings. You know what I mean.
And I had to push back on that a little bit,
you know, with case and it turned out to be
a shootout, you know what I mean. And Denver, even
though they got Brian Flora, is not really known for
their defense and they weren't able to hold up. Again, well, you're.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Talking about Minnesota with Brian Floores and the defense there
at the end. But if I recall, in that game,
there was a call, it a Kelsey call that went
in favor of Kansas City at the end of that game.
That really hurt the Vikings at the end. But that's fine.
Those things happen. The NFL has got their interest here
and they are an entertainment league, and Travis Kelsey is
a very important for entertainment.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Apparently, I'm told indeed entertainment. You got to make sure
that you wissuage the Taylor Swift crowd. And of course
it's a big difference between Minnesota and Denver. We met
up my hole take this, so thanks for that correction
forward in the present here, Ben, we had a couple
of shockers here that a couple folks were on in
terms of Cleveland. You didn't hear some people talk to
me about it. I couldn't. I couldn't commit. I couldn't
(22:10):
back to Cleveland Browns against the powerful San Francisco forty
nine ers. If people were saying that, you know that
the defense, you know, being on the road, that kind
of a slumping, you know, type of a game, coming
up a big win, and then you kind of underperformed.
So I gotta tip my hat to Cleveland. Notable losses
with Chubb and then Deshaun Watson, the Cleebey quarterback. Whoy
(22:30):
support it in terms of you know something?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I didn't support it, but I just said, now you
supported him.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
You supported him. Don't don't try to walk back from that.
You supported him here. I don't know that he wants
to play. I think he might just sit out like
the rest of the season. Because he was medically cleared
three weeks ago. He sat out that game, they had
the bye week. Now he's missed another game. Is it
conceivable he just wants to get massages Deshaun Watson and
not play football. Is that possible.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I don't know what he was. I don't know what
he wants to do, Ben, but maybe he wants to
go back to Clemson back when he had his mojo
in it, and.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
He was producing.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oh he was beloved that They didn't know what a
creepster he was at Clemson, but they loved him. He
was the golden child there at Clemson. And then we
all fall apart.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
He's not representing himself well in the ASD North. But
just quickly in conclusion, I'm here in the Commonwealth and uh,
you know, it's it's beyond all hand on deck, the
guard has changed, the Emperor has no clothes, and it's
just an absolute free fall. But what I've been saying
with other people, a lot of people saying, listen, all right,
it's on the face backs. We got to start this
(23:31):
tank for real job and get in the Caleb Williams
Drake may sweepstakes. You've got a lot of good quarterbacks
coming in this.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
No, no, no, no, what are you doing? You a loser?
Why would you want to be a loser intentionally trying
to lose? I cannot. I cannot support tanking. I will
never support tanking. It makes me want to puke. The
idea of tanking is disgusting, despicable and horrible. Okay, why
would you want to do that? Why would you support that?
(23:58):
Makes me? Especially considering look at all of these young
quarterbacks and how most of them do not live up
to the hype. And you want to go down that
road yet again. You want to go back down that
road yet again. Ask the Carolina Panthers they traded with
the Bears to get the next prodigy out of Alabama.
How's Bryce Young doing right now for the Carolina That's.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Not about the quarterback themself. You have to get the
right coach. Trevor Lawrence was going away.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's always the it's always something, it's always something else.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Better to get the court. But I'm just saying in
New England it's over. They never mind we're not winning
it even when we try to win. Ben, But that's
the point, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Well, but well, what is the I don't understand, Like,
why why do the Patriots keep putting mac Jones out there?
The guys incompetent. You can't sign him to an extension.
He's going to be gone at the end of the year.
Why not to see if one of these other quarterbacks
has anything? And even if they don't, I'd rather see
somebody else. I'd rather see Will Greer play quarterback or
Bailey Zappi. Mac Jones ain't it okay? The guy sucks?
(24:59):
Just MIDI, you made a bad pick. Mac Jones isn't
the guy. The guy's a loser, and just get rid
of it. Put him on the bench, put somebody else
out there.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Zero pushback for that, Ben. What did Bill Belichick do?
The guys off of his rocker? He got rid of
he barey's that be's how he's not the freaking roster.
He wouldn't bring in a backup quarterback. It's over. So
Mac is garbage. Beyond that, Bill Belichick is just out
of his mind. It's time of tank and gopher tail.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Now, all right, bad take by you. I mean I
hate to end the call like that. That's a bad
take by you. So the Patriots are one and five.
There are one, two, three, four, what five? One and
five teams and the Patriots. The way the draft, if
you're one of these tank people, I hate you. But
the way it works is it goes by strength of schedule,
(25:47):
and the Patriots would would have the six pick. The
Chicago Bears their pick would be number two. Carolina has
the number one. Pictures they're owing six. So for whatever that's.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
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Speaker 1 (26:37):
So a musical assist. Yeah, these NFL teams do the
darness thing. So the Minnesota Vikings improved to two and four,
which is not good, but it's better than one in five,
and they got to win over the Chicago Bears, and
the Bears losing their starting quarterback Mister Fields to injury
during that game. Now, after the Minnesota football team got
(27:00):
the win, quarterback Kirk Cousins had a rather bizarre way
of explaining what was responsible helped Minnesota get the win.
We will tell you what he said here in a moment.
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Progressive dot com. So Kirk Cousins revealing that the Creed
nineteen ninety nine hit higher was what got the Vikings
prepared to take the field there at Soldier Field, Chicago,
(27:44):
and that because of that, because of that, that made
made the difference. That was it right there? He said,
they got quite a catalog. Cousins added, he said, we
started with higher this week. We didn't want to overstep
our bounds. So just one higher next week, maybe we
(28:05):
can see what we where we go from there, he said.
Now the Texas Rangers have been writing the Creed the
bandwagon there. Cousins actually didn't mention Kirk Cousins the Rangers.
He credited them with the helping fuel the Vikings. He
took that from the Texas Rangers all of a sudden,
(28:29):
very random like creed of all the things that pop
up on the sporting radar. That that's very bizarre to me,
it's very bizarre. But he you know, random bands from
back in the day, and here we are here, we
are there, and it doesn't matter you're cool or not cool.
(28:49):
It's whatever floats your book. I'm sure that's why the
Vikings won the game. It had nothing to do with
the absolute total incompetence of the Chicago Bears. It was
a Creed song. That is why the Vikings won the
game and the Bears lost. It did not have anything
to do with the fact that the Chicago Bears are
(29:09):
a terrible football team and have a very little talent
on both sides of the ball right, nothing to do
with it. And even with that, the Vikings did nothing
in the second half of this game. They only played
a half. Maybe they should have put some Creed music
on at a halftime that would have helped them out
the Chicago Bears, who had Fields leave with an injury
(29:32):
and had the backup come in and play more than Fields,
and they still ended up out gaining the Minnesota Vikings
by fifty five yards. They had six more first downs
the Vikings won again. They were two of thirteen on
third down horrific, horrific, horrific, horrific. Anyway, it is the
Ben Malachow. We'll take some more of these calls coming
(29:53):
up here momentarily. We also have the MLB. I'm excited
with two games on Monday, so we will have the
MLB Divisional not Divisional. This is the league Championship Series.
Pick them, the MLB League Championship Series. Pick them. But
here's the who am I game? The Philadelphia Eagles A. J.
Brown now has four straight games with one hundred and
(30:15):
twenty five or more receiving yards. Blank is the only
player with more since nineteen seventy. Going back over fifty years, again, AJ.
Brown of Philly, he's got four straight games with one
hundred and twenty five or more receiving yards. Blank is
the only player with more since nineteen seventy. And to
(30:39):
fill in the blank on that to who am I game?
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
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Speaker 1 (31:20):
Coming up a little bit later. We'll have just a
few minutes away the MLB League Championship Series. Pick him.
Look forward to that time now for the who am I? Game?
The Eagles A J. Brown and the loss on a
big day for AJ and he now has four straight
games with one hundred and twenty five or more receiving yards.
(31:42):
I am the only player with more since nineteen seventy's
over fifty years ago. Who am I? That the question?
What's the answer? Chris and the Moin going with Jeff
Goldbloom is his answer? Uh page down here, page natasy,
Does anyone know the answer? On act Matt the Warrior Raider,
(32:03):
former a's fan is going with Vince Papolia as his answer.
We have George Carlin from Cowboy Killer see page down.
Dana got it right, obviously cheating Don Beebie from eke
In Roseville, Minnesota. Alf the Alien Opiner says the newest
mobile Mallard billboard in Massachusetts. Well that's good. At the
(32:25):
top of that's not so good, Alf, But the bottom
of that very very nice. Kenny Stabler from Willie the Mess.
Who else do we have? Page down the Buzzer pat
him down tomorrow in Texas? That's from Fergcat Fred Bolitnikoff.
Guests by Wally in Florida, Flipper Anderson from GM mange
in Chicago, DeVante Adams guest by the Art of Sports Talk,
(32:49):
Chris Carter from Late Night Drug Tester. Who else we have?
Base City Tony says Tie Texas ranger Joe Ferguson and
former Buffalo Bill Joe Ferguson. The answer there a Lynn Swan,
Eddie's Wet Dream. Guests by Supermarket Steve. It's his answer, Callaghan,
Tim and Michigan went Willie Anderson better known as Flipper
(33:11):
as well. Who else? Bob Trumpy from Rob in Minnesota.
The answer is tank for Caleb Williams from Benito the Cowboy.
Fan's here you Feme in Chicago to a shot at
Andre Eddie. Do you have an answer?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Oh? Yes, it's former Washington Redskins tight end. Clint Didtier?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Clint Didtier? Is it Clint Didtier? Is that the correct answer?
That's not the correct answer. The correct answer the man
known as a transformer from the Detroit Lions Hall of
Famer Calvin Johnson, who had five straight games like that
back in twenty twelve. Let's say, hell on to helmet man.
Who is next? Hello helmet morning. There is hello helmet
(33:53):
man like that.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
You know, I'm trying of the sails worse than so much, fellos.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
Sleep.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Helmet man. We're on the air. Helmet man. Oh god, yeah,
I think he's having a private cover like he's making
some business deals here, has no idea that he's on
the air. They might be selling something right now. He's
a salesman.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
No, it's just what goes on at home man listening.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
He called in so he knew he was going to
be on something what goes on at home on the
live air on Well, he will have no idea that
he's on the live air right now. He will not
know that this is happening at all here. All right,
we'll put him back on. Well that one very well.
I thought that was that was nice speaking of going, well,
the Miami Dolphins putting up all kinds of points. Did
(34:40):
you see though, the octogenarian wattle. The octogenarian wattle as
Stephen Ross, who's in his eighties, I believe he's eighty
three years old, and he attempted to do the wattle
penguin dance. Well, the Jalen what But Jalen Wattle is
the that's his. He he's taken over that dance for
(35:02):
the dolphins. So he's, uh, he does the wattle when
he when he's something good happens with the dolphins. When
he does something good, he scores a touchdown, he does
the wattle, and then you go a wattle wattle, I
can wattle to see. It's like a penguin.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You got a.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Wattle like that.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
That's what I just said.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
But it's the wattle dance because he's j well, no, no, no,
Jalen Wattle has has taken over that and then the
dolphin owner tried to do that. But I think that
wattle dance is good for like old people because you
don't really have to move that much, just side by side.
So I think that's I think that's pretty good. All right,
here we go time. Now four the m LB League
(35:42):
Championship Series. Pick him two games so we can do it.
Go ahead, Coop, I guess you're going first, so you'll
you'll lose. Well, you need to win just to time.
Hurry off with Zach Wheeler. That is a terrible pick.
Nathan Evaldi of My Texas Rangers. Sam, Bryce Harper, all right, Eddie,
(36:05):
back to back, Eddie, where are the Dodgers at Hi?
Hurry up, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Let's go with Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
One more by Harper.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
That Gallen all right, Eddie, odonads Garcia is keeping.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Throwing people out. Sam from Bee Valdes, I'll take Cory
Seger My Rangers, Kopolo, I'll take Nick Castellanos.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
One more.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Hurry up, Nathaniel Lowe, Marcus Simeon, Dory Seger, I'm all Rangers, Tory.
I picked cor
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