October 17, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Astros falling 0-2 to the Texas Rangers in the ALCS, who is to blame for Monday night's loss, advice for Bruce Bochy as the Rangers head home, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two, ready
to go. It's the American League Championship Series, Game two
from the den of inequity, deep in the heart of Texas,
the A Hole and the Rangers going at it. So
who gets to wear the Astros blame and shame bell
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for their latest defeat. They never tasted the lead in
Games one or Game two of the American League Championship Series. Also,
how much trouble are the Astros in after losing both
games at home? And any advice to Bruce Bochie's Rangers
as they head back to Arlington with two games in
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their back pocket. We'll talk about all that and more
right now here. It is our number two, another step
to glory. Well come in the beginning up another hour
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and our lead this hour coming from baseball the postseason.
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We'll get back to the Monday night game. A win
for the Chargers is the for the Cowboys against the
Chargers as the Chargers self destructed. Chargers had the ball
a chance to go down at least tie the game,
and they slipped on the banana peel at the end.
But our lead this hour coming from the baseball postseason
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where Jonah Him hit a dinger and the Range scored
four runs in the first inning to hold off the
ass one one thousand and two, one thousand holes five
to four the final, as Texas takes a two to
nothing lead best of seven American League Championship Series, both
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wins coming in the Den of Inequity, the pit of Cheaters,
the dungeon of doom, as Texas goes across their state
and gets those wins. Nathan Valdi six more solid innings
of pitching for Texas and he gets the win for
Bruce Bochie's squad, a gaggle of relievers came in. But
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the Texas baseball team improving to seven and zero in
the postseason. Not exactly the nineteen twenty seven Yankees, but hey,
the nineteen twenty seven Yankees did not win seven postseason games,
so six and zero on the road very impressive. Nevertheless,
the better story is in the losing locker room. So
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that is where we go talking about losers. So as
we discuss the question who gets to wear the Astros
blame and shame Bell for their latest blunder in the
baseball postseason. So I've got billiards, haul orkinman and bed
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and breakfast, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a nice tropical vacation.
Two more losses and the cheaters will be exterminated from
the baseball playoffs. And how sweet will it be? How
sweet will it be? Hum baby?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So number wa? I did number wa?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
See? I told you there's gremlins. Man, the equipment's acting up.
Hate when that happens, all right, So there is plenty
of shame to go around, and we're in the shame business.
We like shaming, We like pointing out the frailties. It's
one of the great things about sport. You have clear
cut winners and losers. There's no gray area here. It's
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pretty obvious. And you start, when you're doing the blame
and shame bell for the a holes, you start on
the bump on the hill right there, bumpity bump as Framber.
Valdez went out there and decided, you know, to be
the Duke of Puke, So why don't I go out there,
I'll be the Duke of Puke. And he was the
Duke of Puke. Now my opinion, my opinion, what do
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you think? My opinion is this guy went out there
and he pooped his pants right there on television, in
the middle of a ballpark, his own ballpark, and it
was amazing to watch. Now. I'd seen Valdez in the
past have some big playoff performances for the cheaters. He
went two and two thirds innings, allowed seven hits, five runs,
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four earned. Really they should all be earned runs because
it was his throwing error that helped that unearned run score.
Putting the Astros in the billiards hall. What does that mean?
Why were the Astros in the billiards hall while they
were behind the eight ball at the Billiards Hall there
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and we are like McDonald's. We are loving it. We
are aming it now while the Rangers find themselves in
the driver's seed up to oh with home cooking still
to come. Yum yum, yum yum yum, love that home cooking.
We can also send Jose al boovey. We can send
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Jose al Boube to the haberdashery and he can pick
up his dunce cap at the haberdasherie. The little supposed
spark plug, that spark plug malfunction, the thing majig didn't
do what it was supposed to do. The series from
Hell continues for the convicted but unpunished cheater, the disgrace
of baseball, who will never set foot in Cooperstown. If
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Cooperstown has any integrity, Jose al two, he will be
barred from walking into Cooperstown, New York, to the Baseball
Hall of Fame. I went oh for five, oh for
five at the plate, and with your Don Albarez playing
like a love child of Barry Bonds and Big Poppy
Altuve fa to do his job as the leadoff guy. Now,
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this follows up the base running blunder al Twuve's Boner
from Game one where he failed to touch second base,
rounding back with that being the tying run at the
plate there and he failed to do it. Unreal, unreal.
He had to go to replay. He was thrown out.
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Now page two here, when you take a couple of
steps back, and you've got Dusty Baker on one side,
Bochie on the other. But we'll focus on Dusty who
took over the cheating job there in Houston and deep
in the heart of Texas, deep in the heart, do
they have any heart there? I know the Rangers have heart.
I know that the a holes don't because there are
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a bunch of cheating scoundrels. The franchise that has employed
Altuve and Bregmant and anyone connected with them, anyone who
supports them is dirty. They're dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty dirty.
But how much trouble? How much trouble are the astros
Ian after losing both games at home in the ALCS
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to their rival the Rangers. So on the Malord scale
of concern one to ten, with ten being turn at
the last, the parties over seven point five. I'm at
a seven point five for the ass one one thousand
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and two one thousand holes seven point five. Now while
they are whimpering, while they are blubbering off to the
side right now, No over confidence, No over confidence for sure.
The cheaters. Here's my problem. They are cocker roaches, all right,
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They're rats. They're rats and cockroaches. That's what's on that
tame rats and cockroaches. You know how how hard it
is to kill rats and cocker roaches. You know how
hard it is. You need the orcanman to come in
there and kill those buggers. And to catch a pest,
you gotta think like a pest. I remember seeing the commercial,
so most immortal, immortal beings, because they're evil, they can
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be killed. You think maybe garlic sunshine, You'll think, you
think vampires, garlic sunshine, something like that. But the most
immoral franchise in American sport that has been insulated and
propped up, put on a pedestal by the very sport
that has encouraged and endorsed what they have done. And
so the only way you can look at this is
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that when their backs are against the wall, the Astros,
what are they gonna do. They're gonna go to what
they did in the past. The leaders of that franchise
or Altuve and Bregman. They are so dirty they're toxic. Okay,
if they spit on you, you're going to die. That
is how much bacteria those two have. HiT's they have
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al two and Bregman as the leaders of that clubhouse.
Who's to say that they wouldn't go back to their
roots as cheeta chitta cheetahs. Why not? Hey check them
for the buzzers. Why not watch out for the whistles.
Whistle whistle whistle? Right, hey, hey, maybe they'll they'll go
back to the buzzers. Pat him down for the buzzers?
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Why not? You name it? Rob Manford will not punish
Houston players. He likes the a holes. I don't know
why he lives in that New York bubble out there
on Long Island and does that whole thing. But Rob
Manford has proven to be a spineless, gutless face of
baseball and he will do nothing. So if you know
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you can cheat and the people that run the sport
do not care if you cheat, you will not be suspended,
you will not be fine, you will not be punished
in any way. You will have baseball media sucked your toes.
Then why would you do that. Of course you would
sor I can't say they won't. They've done it before.
All right, final point, let's go now to Tuesday. Tuesday,
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that's an off day. Today's an off day, ALCS. So
Game three is actually on Wednesdays, so we're gonna move
to Wednesday here, Game three, ALCS. Any advice Do you
have any advice to Bruce Bochie's Rangers as they head
home as they go back to their own ballpark for
Game three up to oh best of seven ALCS. So
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the answer is yes, we absolutely have some advice, and
the advice is don't budge an inch. That's the advice here.
You must continue to play with desperation. The way the
Rangers have player has been great. They've been very crisp,
surgical with the way they have performed here performing an operation.
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But you have to continue to scratch and claw and
do not get back home and all all of a sudden, oh,
you know, we're feeling pretty good about ourselves. We're up
to oh and flex a little bit. Starts smelling yourself,
and because you're not gonna like what you smell, you're
not gonna like what you spell. And the reason I'm
only at a seven point five on the Malard scale
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of concern for the Astros. Why is that? I'll tell
you why. Two words. Max Schurezer. Max Schurser. Those words
should scare any real baseball fan as he is a
guy that will let you down. Hasn't pitched in over
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a month. Max Schurzer's shoulder problems. I don't trust the guy.
I don't trust him, and maybe you do, and he
can go out there and pitch eight shutout innings. I
wouldn't count on it, uh, because that guy Shurser the
last couple of years has been a shister, a charlatan,
a con artist, and Mac shurs has been running his
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own bed and breakfast the last few years, break hotel
for Max Ers. There's always something with his cat, and
he always has somebody to blame. It's never his fault,
it's always someone else's fault. And nevertheless he goes out
to the mound and starts leaking oil. Next thing you know,
you run through your bullpen and the Rangers who are
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on a burner right now, right they're doing the boogie woogie,
they're having a fine time. And all it takes is
Max Uers are going out there and delivering a barf bag.
An uber eats barf bag right there on the mound,
and all those good vibrations change and one bad halfening
if you give up four runs in the first something
along those lines. So while I am very happy that
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the Rangers have won both games, my new adopted team,
my team, the Rangers in the American League. The Phillies
are my Nation League team, and the Rangers of my
American League team, And so I'm happy with the outcome
right now. But you've got to spike. You must spike
the a holes. Remember they are vermin, the yah stros are.
They are vermin. You must go to the depths of
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be working. But some random, nondescript Major League Baseball player
who did not leave a mark on the field as
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a player has become an instant folk hero in retirement
for the words that he gave on his way out
of professional baseball. What did he do? We'll get to
that and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (16:25):
Is it time for jose Al Bouba to retire? There
the cheating astro oh for five in Game two of
the American League Championship Series. So he must have had
a good game in Game one, right on that Sunday
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Game one against the Rangers while we were all watching football.
Well he went oh for three. Now my computer like
brain tells me he is oh for eight in the
American League Championship Series and that sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks, suck,
suck suck, And how great is it? How glorious is it? Boy?
Is that wonderful? Just absolutely wonderful to watch this cheating
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scoundrel go down, Just Josh and Cincinnati says, going through
the Cheaters Handbook guide to see they have an updated
yet you all, you know Altuve has a cheating problem
when he gets caught banging strange trash cans in the neighborhood. Yeah,
well none of that, just Josh, And this is unconfirmed,
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but there are rumors on the internet that when the
Astros stay at hotels Altuve, they have to keep his
room away. You know how they near the elevators. They
have sometimes trash cans near the elevators. They have to
keep Altuve away from the the elevator trash cans because
sometimes he'll walk, he'll sleep walk and start banging on
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the trash cans, and then he'll say fastball and then
and he'll try to hit it. And it's like a
big it's like a big problem, and nobody likes to
talk about it. Milkman Mike and Colorado says, great ALCS monologue,
I can't help but think that Major League Baseball will
somehow get Angel Hernandez and umpiring the rest of the
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games to help the Astros out. Late night truck tester says,
with the Royals eliminated in February, this is the only
countdown that gets me excited for the Major League Baseball Playoffs.
Two to go. F al Tuve now Alf the Alien
Opiner formerly known as the aio Piner, says, warn out
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tires can be a danger to me, my passengers and
other drivers. He says, I still haven't heard an announcement
on the third winner of the tire Rack sweepstakes from
the summer. Can you hook a brother up? Yeah, Coop,
just get that guy some tires. Coop, just make sure
Alf gets all right. No, Coop shaking his head, Okay,
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he says, that's not that's not gonna happen. Yeah, I
don't remember doing copy. They didn't give any copy on
who the third winner was. It is odd. I don't
ever remember reading the copy. Maybe they had the copy,
but I never got the copy. So yeah, all just
go to the phones and delayed reaction. But I believe
he's here now, is that cowboy Dan? I think I
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think it is. Hello, Cowboy Dan, Cowboy what's that? Cowboy Dan?
There was a sound effect playing what's that?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
How about those cowboys?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Why'd you wait an hour to call in? What's up
with it?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I fell asleep?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You fell asleep? Yeah, Cowboy Dan, I fell asleep. Can't
fall asleep, Cowboy Dan, Well you're so excited, so worked
up into a lather from the cowboys performance there in
the fourth quarter that.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I fell asleep. Yeah, it's it's the morning here.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, so what I understand when you want a cookie?
It's an overnight show. That's what we're on here. But
Cowboy Dan, I want you to know the morning. Well,
I know we all have problems. My god, let me
get my violin out. We'll play a little tiny violin
for you here. They kind of it's a sob story.
I was at the game. I know you're very concerned
about that. Cowboy Dan. I wasn't impressed with your cowboys.
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They gotta tell you it was not impressed. No, I
was impressed. The Chargers have the thirty first ranked defense
in the NFL. You only scored twenty points. That's not
very good.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
But they wont.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But it's it's not impressive.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
It's not a white.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I wasn't impressed. I didn't like the the the white
helmets and that whole thing. Those they look good either. Well,
you want to go back to sleep, cowboy Dan, I mean,
what do I come on?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Are you doing? Probably should?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You? Probably should? You're half asleeper, half asleep right now?
All right, go to bed. I'm hanging up on you.
Go away, go to bed. Let's say a lot to
Mark the full name guy if he's awake.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
He was, well, hell, there he is.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
There, he is Mark the full name Guy, Medford, Oregon. Hello,
Mark the full name Guy.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Hello, Ben. You know I wanted to get on your
case about by what you were. You weren't criticizing me
about my take on Bouchie some years ago. You know,
when I criticized Bouchie, he deserved the criticism. It was
around twenty sixteen, and he was still managing that pitching staff.
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It was no longer the same pitching staff he had
in twenty Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, now you're trying to listen, there's no takebacks on
the take. You gave a bad take. It happens you
gave a you gave a terrible take, and it's a bad.
It's a bad job by you, Mark. No, Mike takes
a great take. No, no, my takes a wonderful take. Well,
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take a breath. We need Bouchie to win the World
Series because maybe some of the these aristocrats and on
these other baseball teams listen to me, Some of these
aristocrats will say, hey, how about we don't just all
go only analytics and have robots like Dave Roberts or
or Aaron Boone managing our teams, and we can get
somebody that will actually make a decision.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Okay, I'll give you that. Okay, However, I will say
this about that. You know your Dodgers are not in
the postseason, so you're not well.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Not not not anymore, They're not in the postseason. No,
I'm a Ranger fan. I became a Ranger fan last week. Bozo.
I'm a Ranger fan. Go Rangers, Go. I love the Rangers.
I am a Dodger fan. And whoever is playing the
a holes, that is the way I work.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I gotta know one for you. You know you're talking
about a certain a dree who's over eight. I wanted
to remind you that Lookie Betts was oh for twelve yes.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Mookie again, that's that's you know what you're doing. Hey, hey, dummy,
you're doing what about ism? We were talking about the
American League Championship Series, you moron. We're not talking about
Mookie Betts. We're talking about Albuve, the cheater who wasn't
punished and should never go to the Baseball Hall of
Fame ever, never in the Hall of Fame. If you're
not gonna put Barry Bonds in the Hall of Fame
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and and all of Yoursosa and all those guys, you
can't put Al Tuve in the Hall of Fame. What
about MOOKI about Mookie Bets. Hey, Mark, you were on
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the air last night. You don't know this, but you
were snoring prolifically. You were there, no eddy of my lying, No, no,
you were unbelievable. You were like hollering James level story.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Oh well that's good, Dan, then I'm famous now like
hollering James.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I don't I don't know that I would aspire to
be hollering Jim. No, No, I met James, a nice man.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Aspire to be a Dodger fan, either.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Give it, give it a break. Listen, I'm not the
guy that called the Giants postgame show for years and
Bruce Bochie, the greatest manager of the history of the
San Francisco Giants. I'm not that guy. You're that guy, Pal,
you're that guy. That's right, that's what I got. Go away.
I'm done with you, all right, our friend. A good
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shouting match, there, a good little sparring, bobbing and weaving
with Mark the full name guy. It is the Ben
Mahler Show. We'll continue on with more of these amazing calls.
We also have Mallard of the third degree coming up
in a little bit. Helkman Mike and Colorado says, here's
Cowboy Dan watching the Cowboys steal a loss away from
the Chargers and leave with aw and uh yeah, I
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wonder if he stayed up for the end of the game.
It sounds like he might have fallen asleep and he
just slept right through the first hour of the show, Wild, Wild,
and Crazy.
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Speaker 4 (25:55):
More quarterback injury news, Colts owner Jim Ursa saying that
Anthony Ridgers, to the fourth overall picking this year's draft,
probably gonna miss the rest of the season due to
a shoulder injury that could require surgery. Meanwhile, Browns quarterbacks
Sean Watson shoulder day to day team says they'll know
more as the week progressing.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, he was already medically cleared three weeks ago and
hasn't played, so it doesn't matter if his day to
day he don't want to play it.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It'll be Indianapolis hosting Cleveland this coming Sunday.
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As we talk all things baseball this hour, and we
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got carried away a little football sidebar. But the American
League Championship Series, good guys are up to nothing over
the bad guys in the American League. And we'll talk
later on about the National League. Is the fight in Phills?
Take Game one of the NLCS. A barrage a convoy
of home runs for Philadelphia, and they still needed to
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get some outs there. Late the Diamondbacks quietly snuck back
within striking distance, but in the end Philadelphia gets the win.
So in your how do I scup this? In the
scope of average? In the scope of average baseball players,
a pitcher by the name of Trevor May would be
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on that list. Now. Trevor May has pitched for nine
seasons in the major leagues, mostly for the Minnesota Twins.
Mostly for the Minnesota Twins, and he has been very unmemorable.
He is a right handed pitcher who has done nothing
of note in his entire career yet I believe he
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is fully vested in the Major League Baseball pension Print Plan,
which means he's set for life. But Trevor May is
just a guy that's on a roster, filling out a
pitching staff. Nothing spectacular. I think he's had a couple
of good years, but for the most part, he's just
been a guy that comes in out of the bullpen
and you don't really pay any attention. He pitches in
the sixth or the seventh inning and that's it and
you move on. Well, Trevor May did something as he
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announced his retirement. He pitched this last season for the
Oakland Athletics, and he did something on his way out
that is much more memorable than anything that he ever
did on the hill pitching in the big leagues. Trevor
May retiring from baseball on Monday and his final team,
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the Oakland Athletics. On his way out exiting from the
Major League Baseball ranks, he left a retirement announcement and
he had a message, and the message was for the
owner of the Oakland baseball team. It was as follows,
sell the team, dude, take mommy and Daddy's money somewhere else.
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He wrote to John Fisher, the man that didn't earn
a buck, he inherited the family jewels. He said, if
you're going to be a greedy f I can't say
that word own it. There's nothing weaker than being afraid
of cameras, Trevor May stated. He went on to say,
that's one thing I really struggled with this year. He continued,
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it is just eviscerating that guy. You shouldn't have any
power because you haven't earned any of it. The now
former Oakland Athletic pitcher said, reality is you got handed
everything you have and now you're too soft to take
any responsibility for anything that you're doing. He said, you're
putting hundreds, if not thousands of people out of work
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who have worked somewhere for decades. You haven't acknowledged that
at all. Be better. And there was more, but that's
the gist of it. That is the pitcher, now former
pitcher for the Oakland Athletics, Trevor Obviously, he's if you've
been in the closet somewhere down by the river and
not paying attention. The athletics have have an anounced they
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are moving to Vegas. They have to get everything approved
and stadium has to be built. But they're gonna leave Oakland.
They've been in Oakland for over fifty years. Fifty five years,
I believe is the Athletics rain in the Bay Area
and they're preparing to get the Mayflower moving vans and
relocate to Sin City. And so Trevor May likely will
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never work for the Athletics franchise as long as John
Fisher owns the team, but'll probably get some free beer
A's bars. Are there any A's bars left in the
Bay Area? I don't know, but if there are, he'll
he'll find a way to get get a couple. Let's
go to Let's go to Daniel who's in Dallas. We're
gonna Mallard of the thirty wee coming up. Hello, Daniel, Welcome,
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what's up, Ben Mallard? Daniel. If I was any better,
I'd be an a hole, but not Houston a hole
because they're down too old.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Oh no, My brother is one of those guys, and
I have plenty of decent arguments with him throughout this week.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But you're on the right side of history.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Yeah, well, I hope so. But I will say I
do have a disagreement for you.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
I think the.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Two words that are gonna mess up the Rangers is
not Max Schurzer. I've seen Max Pisch quite a few
times this year, and I've only seen one blow up,
seen quite a few good outings. But the one guy
that constantly steps up on the mound and disappoints me
as a Rangers fan every day of the week is
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a rawdest happening. Cannot stand that man. He got all
that power. Oh yeah, he can throw quite a bit
of heat, but he's got no control over it, and
he's gonna give up a single home run. He's gonna
I promise.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
You're not gonna get me to push back. Chapman has
been very inconsistent, which is a nice way of saying
he looks like he's washed, and so yeah, I'm not
gonna push back. But the anticipation that Max Sures was
gonna walk out on the mound and going to be
the Mac Sures that he had been years ago. He
killed the Dodgers at the end, he killed the Mets
in that playoff start last year, and he'll do the
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same thing for the Rangers. I'm telling you it's gonna happen.
Maybe maybe not, maybe not maybe.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
We're gonna have to see on Wednesday, aren't we.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Well, even if it doesn't happen on Wednesday, it'll happen
the next time he pitches. I'm telling you, this guy's
gonna break your heart. Max Sures is gonna break your heart.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I mean, come on, Ben Mallers the Rangers. Then I've
had my heartbroken plenty of time.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Oh it's gonna happen again. Be ready, be prepared, do
what you have to do. You know, do you go
through the usual steps of morning, You know what you
have to do as a Ranger fan. But that you're
like the you're like the third Ranger fans called the show.
We have like Eden Arlington and one other person. So
you're number three. So congratulations, Daniel hey Man seven.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
And oh there's something to talk about down here.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, Hey, it's Gona And if it's the Rangers and
the Phillies and both those that would be great. That'd
be a good.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
World Philadelphia matchup.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, yeah, that'd be a good match for baseball. I mean,
it's for baseball hardos. Like it's not. There's no rivalry
between the Phillies and the Rangers. But as you said,
Philadelphia and the Dallas area.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Obviously, you know I live in Dallas. I'm a Cowboys
fan too. I don't love for Philly.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Here he all right, all right, thank you, Daniel. There
you go, a little hot ranger talk. We're gonna have
mallor to the third degree. Here's the Insta trivia. Lions
quarterback Jared Goff has seventeen career games with at least
three hundred and fifty passing yards. That is tied with
Blank for the fourth most such games by a player
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in his first eight career seasons in NFL history. That
is the Insta Trivia the answer. Next.
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Speaker 1 (34:33):
Here's the in. They can't say, don't need to know
Lion Tho, No, they don't. Lions No, Yes, Lions No. Ryons.
Quarterback Jared Goff has seventeen career games with at least
three hundred and fifty passing yards going back to his
days with the Rams. He's tied with Blank for the
fourth most such games by a player in his first
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eight career seasons in NFL history. That is the instant trivia.
What is the answer? The seed is anyone? No the
answer and principal Belding from Cowboy Killer that's his answer,
M and M. Who is fifty one today? From Late
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Let's see here page down. Scott Bao from sewn in
the Valley of the Sun. Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Yes, it's from Vikings legend Dante cole Pepper.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Is it Dante Culpepper? Is that I guess correct? I
did see Lee from Phoenix. We haven't heard from Lee
in a while. The big Cardinal fan, he wrote in
the correct answer is Ann Rue Luck and Drew Luck
is the answer. Only Patrick Mahomes, Dan Marino and Matthew
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Stafford have more than Jared Goff three hundred and fifty
yard passing games. Here we go, it's Mallard. How about
that to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
This is one big gets great all right.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
The Granmliners have attack. Mccoop has moved to the other room.
So here is the Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
Reports are swirling that two starting quarterbacks could be losing
their job. One insider hinted that the Broncos could be
moving on from Russell Wilson, while the Falcons could be
through with the Desmond Ritter experiment. Ben who gets bench first?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
So I'm gonna go with Russ on this one, that
he's the first, because I look at the body language
of Sean Payton and he would like to send Russell
Wilson on a slow boat to North Korea the way
he talks to Russell Wilson. So I'm gonna go that.
And you've got Jared Stidham, who sucks, but you could
play him for a couple of games. Desmond Ritters terrible.
(37:16):
The Falcons though, he's always been a placeholder. They know
he sucks. They thought maybe he'd get better, and they
have Taylor Heineke. I'd rather have an actual Heineken than
Taylor Heineke is my quarterback. Next.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Major League Baseball has joined the NBA in that both
leagues have now interviewed a woman for a head coach
or managerial position. The San Francisco Giants interviewed their assistant
coach Alysten knackin for their skipper job. Ben which league
will put a woman at the helm first?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
So I'm gonna go NBA. I thought it was gonna
be Becky Hammond in San Antonio, but Greg Popovich wants
to die in the huddle coaching the Spurs, so it's
not going to happen there. But I'm gonna go NBA.
Baseball players don't listen to people unless they play baseball.
Next quickly, coop.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
During yesterday's monologue, he said that Brock Purty could kiss
any MVP chances goodbye? But do you think that performance
from from Purty actually helps Christian McCaffrey's case.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
McCaffrey had no chance of winning because he was a
running back, and Party has no chance to win because
he's a system quarterback. It's gonna be one of the
usual suspects. How did we don't come out? You failed
Christian McCaffrey for MVP shop, Get out of here. I'm
gonna punch you, Matty.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
You lose good.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I gotta punch you, Betty.
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two, ready
to go. It's the American League Championship Series, Game two
from the den of inequity, deep in the heart of Texas,
the A Hole and the Rangers going at it. So
who gets to wear the Astros blame and shame bell
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for their latest defeat. They never tasted the lead in
Games one or Game two of the American League Championship Series. Also,
how much trouble are the Astros in after losing both
games at home? And any advice to Bruce Bochie's Rangers
as they head back to Arlington with two games in
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their back pocket. We'll talk about all that and more
right now here. It is our number two, another step
to glory. Well come in the beginning up another hour
of the Ben Mathers Show. We are in the a everywhere,
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We'll get back to the Monday night game. A win
for the Chargers is the for the Cowboys against the
Chargers as the Chargers self destructed. Chargers had the ball
a chance to go down at least tie the game,
and they slipped on the banana peel at the end.
But our lead this hour coming from the baseball postseason
(02:14):
where Jonah Him hit a dinger and the Range scored
four runs in the first inning to hold off the
ass one one thousand and two, one thousand holes five
to four the final, as Texas takes a two to
nothing lead best of seven American League Championship Series, both
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wins coming in the Den of Inequity, the pit of Cheaters,
the dungeon of doom, as Texas goes across their state
and gets those wins. Nathan Valdi six more solid innings
of pitching for Texas and he gets the win for
Bruce Bochie's squad, a gaggle of relievers came in. But
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the Texas baseball team improving to seven and zero in
the postseason. Not exactly the nineteen twenty seven Yankees, but hey,
the nineteen twenty seven Yankees did not win seven postseason games,
so six and zero on the road very impressive. Nevertheless,
the better story is in the losing locker room. So
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that is where we go talking about losers. So as
we discuss the question who gets to wear the Astros
blame and shame Bell for their latest blunder in the
baseball postseason. So I've got billiards, haul orkinman and bed
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and breakfast, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a nice tropical vacation.
Two more losses and the cheaters will be exterminated from
the baseball playoffs. And how sweet will it be? How
sweet will it be? Hum baby?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So number wa? I did number wa?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
See? I told you there's gremlins. Man, the equipment's acting up.
Hate when that happens, all right, So there is plenty
of shame to go around, and we're in the shame business.
We like shaming, We like pointing out the frailties. It's
one of the great things about sport. You have clear
cut winners and losers. There's no gray area here. It's
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pretty obvious. And you start, when you're doing the blame
and shame bell for the a holes, you start on
the bump on the hill right there, bumpity bump as Framber.
Valdez went out there and decided, you know, to be
the Duke of Puke, So why don't I go out there,
I'll be the Duke of Puke. And he was the
Duke of Puke. Now my opinion, my opinion, what do
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you think? My opinion is this guy went out there
and he pooped his pants right there on television, in
the middle of a ballpark, his own ballpark, and it
was amazing to watch. Now. I'd seen Valdez in the
past have some big playoff performances for the cheaters. He
went two and two thirds innings, allowed seven hits, five runs,
(05:28):
four earned. Really they should all be earned runs because
it was his throwing error that helped that unearned run score.
Putting the Astros in the billiards hall. What does that mean?
Why were the Astros in the billiards hall while they
were behind the eight ball at the Billiards Hall there
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and we are like McDonald's. We are loving it. We
are aming it now while the Rangers find themselves in
the driver's seed up to oh with home cooking still
to come. Yum yum, yum yum yum, love that home cooking.
We can also send Jose al boovey. We can send
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Jose al Boube to the haberdashery and he can pick
up his dunce cap at the haberdasherie. The little supposed
spark plug, that spark plug malfunction, the thing majig didn't
do what it was supposed to do. The series from
Hell continues for the convicted but unpunished cheater, the disgrace
of baseball, who will never set foot in Cooperstown. If
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Cooperstown has any integrity, Jose al two, he will be
barred from walking into Cooperstown, New York, to the Baseball
Hall of Fame. I went oh for five, oh for
five at the plate, and with your Don Albarez playing
like a love child of Barry Bonds and Big Poppy
Altuve fa to do his job as the leadoff guy. Now,
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this follows up the base running blunder al Twuve's Boner
from Game one where he failed to touch second base,
rounding back with that being the tying run at the
plate there and he failed to do it. Unreal, unreal.
He had to go to replay. He was thrown out.
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Now page two here, when you take a couple of
steps back, and you've got Dusty Baker on one side,
Bochie on the other. But we'll focus on Dusty who
took over the cheating job there in Houston and deep
in the heart of Texas, deep in the heart, do
they have any heart there? I know the Rangers have heart.
I know that the a holes don't because there are
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a bunch of cheating scoundrels. The franchise that has employed
Altuve and Bregmant and anyone connected with them, anyone who
supports them is dirty. They're dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty dirty.
But how much trouble? How much trouble are the astros
Ian after losing both games at home in the ALCS
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to their rival the Rangers. So on the Malord scale
of concern one to ten, with ten being turn at
the last, the parties over seven point five. I'm at
a seven point five for the ass one one thousand
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and two one thousand holes seven point five. Now while
they are whimpering, while they are blubbering off to the
side right now, No over confidence, No over confidence for sure.
The cheaters. Here's my problem. They are cocker roaches, all right,
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They're rats. They're rats and cockroaches. That's what's on that
tame rats and cockroaches. You know how how hard it
is to kill rats and cocker roaches. You know how
hard it is. You need the orcanman to come in
there and kill those buggers. And to catch a pest,
you gotta think like a pest. I remember seeing the commercial,
so most immortal, immortal beings, because they're evil, they can
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be killed. You think maybe garlic sunshine, You'll think, you
think vampires, garlic sunshine, something like that. But the most
immoral franchise in American sport that has been insulated and
propped up, put on a pedestal by the very sport
that has encouraged and endorsed what they have done. And
so the only way you can look at this is
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that when their backs are against the wall, the Astros,
what are they gonna do. They're gonna go to what
they did in the past. The leaders of that franchise
or Altuve and Bregman. They are so dirty they're toxic. Okay,
if they spit on you, you're going to die. That
is how much bacteria those two have. HiT's they have
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al two and Bregman as the leaders of that clubhouse.
Who's to say that they wouldn't go back to their
roots as cheeta chitta cheetahs. Why not? Hey check them
for the buzzers. Why not watch out for the whistles.
Whistle whistle whistle? Right, hey, hey, maybe they'll they'll go
back to the buzzers. Pat him down for the buzzers?
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Why not? You name it? Rob Manford will not punish
Houston players. He likes the a holes. I don't know
why he lives in that New York bubble out there
on Long Island and does that whole thing. But Rob
Manford has proven to be a spineless, gutless face of
baseball and he will do nothing. So if you know
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you can cheat and the people that run the sport
do not care if you cheat, you will not be suspended,
you will not be fine, you will not be punished
in any way. You will have baseball media sucked your toes.
Then why would you do that. Of course you would
sor I can't say they won't. They've done it before.
All right, final point, let's go now to Tuesday. Tuesday,
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that's an off day. Today's an off day, ALCS. So
Game three is actually on Wednesdays, so we're gonna move
to Wednesday here, Game three, ALCS. Any advice Do you
have any advice to Bruce Bochie's Rangers as they head
home as they go back to their own ballpark for
Game three up to oh best of seven ALCS. So
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the answer is yes, we absolutely have some advice, and
the advice is don't budge an inch. That's the advice here.
You must continue to play with desperation. The way the
Rangers have player has been great. They've been very crisp,
surgical with the way they have performed here performing an operation.
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But you have to continue to scratch and claw and
do not get back home and all all of a sudden, oh,
you know, we're feeling pretty good about ourselves. We're up
to oh and flex a little bit. Starts smelling yourself,
and because you're not gonna like what you smell, you're
not gonna like what you spell. And the reason I'm
only at a seven point five on the Malard scale
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of concern for the Astros. Why is that? I'll tell
you why. Two words. Max Schurezer. Max Schurser. Those words
should scare any real baseball fan as he is a
guy that will let you down. Hasn't pitched in over
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a month. Max Schurzer's shoulder problems. I don't trust the guy.
I don't trust him, and maybe you do, and he
can go out there and pitch eight shutout innings. I
wouldn't count on it, uh, because that guy Shurser the
last couple of years has been a shister, a charlatan,
a con artist, and Mac shurs has been running his
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own bed and breakfast the last few years, break hotel
for Max Ers. There's always something with his cat, and
he always has somebody to blame. It's never his fault,
it's always someone else's fault. And nevertheless he goes out
to the mound and starts leaking oil. Next thing you know,
you run through your bullpen and the Rangers who are
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on a burner right now, right they're doing the boogie woogie,
they're having a fine time. And all it takes is
Max Uers are going out there and delivering a barf bag.
An uber eats barf bag right there on the mound,
and all those good vibrations change and one bad halfening
if you give up four runs in the first something
along those lines. So while I am very happy that
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the Rangers have won both games, my new adopted team,
my team, the Rangers in the American League. The Phillies
are my Nation League team, and the Rangers of my
American League team, And so I'm happy with the outcome
right now. But you've got to spike. You must spike
the a holes. Remember they are vermin, the yah stros are.
They are vermin. You must go to the depths of
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the sewer to beat them. It is the Ben Malors Show.
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many ways to announce you are no longer going to
be working. But some random, nondescript Major League Baseball player
who did not leave a mark on the field as
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a player has become an instant folk hero in retirement
for the words that he gave on his way out
of professional baseball. What did he do? We'll get to
that and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (16:25):
Is it time for jose Al Bouba to retire? There
the cheating astro oh for five in Game two of
the American League Championship Series. So he must have had
a good game in Game one, right on that Sunday
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Game one against the Rangers while we were all watching football.
Well he went oh for three. Now my computer like
brain tells me he is oh for eight in the
American League Championship Series and that sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks, suck,
suck suck, And how great is it? How glorious is it? Boy?
Is that wonderful? Just absolutely wonderful to watch this cheating
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scoundrel go down, Just Josh and Cincinnati says, going through
the Cheaters Handbook guide to see they have an updated
yet you all, you know Altuve has a cheating problem
when he gets caught banging strange trash cans in the neighborhood. Yeah,
well none of that, just Josh, And this is unconfirmed,
(17:30):
but there are rumors on the internet that when the
Astros stay at hotels Altuve, they have to keep his
room away. You know how they near the elevators. They
have sometimes trash cans near the elevators. They have to
keep Altuve away from the the elevator trash cans because
sometimes he'll walk, he'll sleep walk and start banging on
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the trash cans, and then he'll say fastball and then
and he'll try to hit it. And it's like a
big it's like a big problem, and nobody likes to
talk about it. Milkman Mike and Colorado says, great ALCS monologue,
I can't help but think that Major League Baseball will
somehow get Angel Hernandez and umpiring the rest of the
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games to help the Astros out. Late night truck tester says,
with the Royals eliminated in February, this is the only
countdown that gets me excited for the Major League Baseball Playoffs.
Two to go. F al Tuve now Alf the Alien
Opiner formerly known as the aio Piner, says, warn out
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tires can be a danger to me, my passengers and
other drivers. He says, I still haven't heard an announcement
on the third winner of the tire Rack sweepstakes from
the summer. Can you hook a brother up? Yeah, Coop,
just get that guy some tires. Coop, just make sure
Alf gets all right. No, Coop shaking his head, Okay,
(18:53):
he says, that's not that's not gonna happen. Yeah, I
don't remember doing copy. They didn't give any copy on
who the third winner was. It is odd. I don't
ever remember reading the copy. Maybe they had the copy,
but I never got the copy. So yeah, all just
go to the phones and delayed reaction. But I believe
he's here now, is that cowboy Dan? I think I
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think it is. Hello, Cowboy Dan, Cowboy what's that? Cowboy Dan?
There was a sound effect playing what's that?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
How about those cowboys?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Why'd you wait an hour to call in? What's up
with it?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I fell asleep?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You fell asleep? Yeah, Cowboy Dan, I fell asleep. Can't
fall asleep, Cowboy Dan, Well you're so excited, so worked
up into a lather from the cowboys performance there in
the fourth quarter that.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I fell asleep. Yeah, it's it's the morning here.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, so what I understand when you want a cookie?
It's an overnight show. That's what we're on here. But
Cowboy Dan, I want you to know the morning. Well,
I know we all have problems. My god, let me
get my violin out. We'll play a little tiny violin
for you here. They kind of it's a sob story.
I was at the game. I know you're very concerned
about that. Cowboy Dan. I wasn't impressed with your cowboys.
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They gotta tell you it was not impressed. No, I
was impressed. The Chargers have the thirty first ranked defense
in the NFL. You only scored twenty points. That's not
very good.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
But they wont.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But it's it's not impressive.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
It's not a white.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I wasn't impressed. I didn't like the the the white
helmets and that whole thing. Those they look good either. Well,
you want to go back to sleep, cowboy Dan, I mean,
what do I come on?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Are you doing? Probably should?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You? Probably should? You're half asleeper, half asleep right now?
All right, go to bed. I'm hanging up on you.
Go away, go to bed. Let's say a lot to
Mark the full name guy if he's awake.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
He was, well, hell, there he is.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
There, he is Mark the full name Guy, Medford, Oregon. Hello,
Mark the full name Guy.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Hello, Ben. You know I wanted to get on your
case about by what you were. You weren't criticizing me
about my take on Bouchie some years ago. You know,
when I criticized Bouchie, he deserved the criticism. It was
around twenty sixteen, and he was still managing that pitching staff.
(21:31):
It was no longer the same pitching staff he had
in twenty Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, now you're trying to listen, there's no takebacks on
the take. You gave a bad take. It happens you
gave a you gave a terrible take, and it's a bad.
It's a bad job by you, Mark. No, Mike takes
a great take. No, no, my takes a wonderful take. Well,
(21:55):
take a breath. We need Bouchie to win the World
Series because maybe some of the these aristocrats and on
these other baseball teams listen to me, Some of these
aristocrats will say, hey, how about we don't just all
go only analytics and have robots like Dave Roberts or
or Aaron Boone managing our teams, and we can get
somebody that will actually make a decision.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Okay, I'll give you that. Okay, However, I will say
this about that. You know your Dodgers are not in
the postseason, so you're not well.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Not not not anymore, They're not in the postseason. No,
I'm a Ranger fan. I became a Ranger fan last week. Bozo.
I'm a Ranger fan. Go Rangers, Go. I love the Rangers.
I am a Dodger fan. And whoever is playing the
a holes, that is the way I work.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I gotta know one for you. You know you're talking
about a certain a dree who's over eight. I wanted
to remind you that Lookie Betts was oh for twelve yes.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Mookie again, that's that's you know what you're doing. Hey, hey, dummy,
you're doing what about ism? We were talking about the
American League Championship Series, you moron. We're not talking about
Mookie Betts. We're talking about Albuve, the cheater who wasn't
punished and should never go to the Baseball Hall of
Fame ever, never in the Hall of Fame. If you're
not gonna put Barry Bonds in the Hall of Fame
(23:34):
and and all of Yoursosa and all those guys, you
can't put Al Tuve in the Hall of Fame. What
about MOOKI about Mookie Bets. Hey, Mark, you were on
(23:55):
the air last night. You don't know this, but you
were snoring prolifically. You were there, no eddy of my lying, No, no,
you were unbelievable. You were like hollering James level story.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Oh well that's good, Dan, then I'm famous now like
hollering James.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I don't I don't know that I would aspire to
be hollering Jim. No, No, I met James, a nice man.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Aspire to be a Dodger fan, either.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Give it, give it a break. Listen, I'm not the
guy that called the Giants postgame show for years and
Bruce Bochie, the greatest manager of the history of the
San Francisco Giants. I'm not that guy. You're that guy, Pal,
you're that guy. That's right, that's what I got. Go away.
I'm done with you, all right, our friend. A good
(24:47):
shouting match, there, a good little sparring, bobbing and weaving
with Mark the full name guy. It is the Ben
Mahler Show. We'll continue on with more of these amazing calls.
We also have Mallard of the third degree coming up
in a little bit. Helkman Mike and Colorado says, here's
Cowboy Dan watching the Cowboys steal a loss away from
the Chargers and leave with aw and uh yeah, I
(25:09):
wonder if he stayed up for the end of the game.
It sounds like he might have fallen asleep and he
just slept right through the first hour of the show, Wild, Wild,
and Crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
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Speaker 7 (25:24):
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(25:45):
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Speaker 4 (25:55):
More quarterback injury news, Colts owner Jim Ursa saying that
Anthony Ridgers, to the fourth overall picking this year's draft,
probably gonna miss the rest of the season due to
a shoulder injury that could require surgery. Meanwhile, Browns quarterbacks
Sean Watson shoulder day to day team says they'll know
more as the week progressing.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, he was already medically cleared three weeks ago and
hasn't played, so it doesn't matter if his day to
day he don't want to play it.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It'll be Indianapolis hosting Cleveland this coming Sunday.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
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As we talk all things baseball this hour, and we
(26:45):
got carried away a little football sidebar. But the American
League Championship Series, good guys are up to nothing over
the bad guys in the American League. And we'll talk
later on about the National League. Is the fight in Phills?
Take Game one of the NLCS. A barrage a convoy
of home runs for Philadelphia, and they still needed to
(27:07):
get some outs there. Late the Diamondbacks quietly snuck back
within striking distance, but in the end Philadelphia gets the win.
So in your how do I scup this? In the
scope of average? In the scope of average baseball players,
a pitcher by the name of Trevor May would be
(27:28):
on that list. Now. Trevor May has pitched for nine
seasons in the major leagues, mostly for the Minnesota Twins.
Mostly for the Minnesota Twins, and he has been very unmemorable.
He is a right handed pitcher who has done nothing
of note in his entire career yet I believe he
(27:49):
is fully vested in the Major League Baseball pension Print Plan,
which means he's set for life. But Trevor May is
just a guy that's on a roster, filling out a
pitching staff. Nothing spectacular. I think he's had a couple
of good years, but for the most part, he's just
been a guy that comes in out of the bullpen
and you don't really pay any attention. He pitches in
the sixth or the seventh inning and that's it and
you move on. Well, Trevor May did something as he
(28:13):
announced his retirement. He pitched this last season for the
Oakland Athletics, and he did something on his way out
that is much more memorable than anything that he ever
did on the hill pitching in the big leagues. Trevor
May retiring from baseball on Monday and his final team,
(28:34):
the Oakland Athletics. On his way out exiting from the
Major League Baseball ranks, he left a retirement announcement and
he had a message, and the message was for the
owner of the Oakland baseball team. It was as follows,
sell the team, dude, take mommy and Daddy's money somewhere else.
(28:59):
He wrote to John Fisher, the man that didn't earn
a buck, he inherited the family jewels. He said, if
you're going to be a greedy f I can't say
that word own it. There's nothing weaker than being afraid
of cameras, Trevor May stated. He went on to say,
that's one thing I really struggled with this year. He continued,
(29:22):
it is just eviscerating that guy. You shouldn't have any
power because you haven't earned any of it. The now
former Oakland Athletic pitcher said, reality is you got handed
everything you have and now you're too soft to take
any responsibility for anything that you're doing. He said, you're
putting hundreds, if not thousands of people out of work
(29:45):
who have worked somewhere for decades. You haven't acknowledged that
at all. Be better. And there was more, but that's
the gist of it. That is the pitcher, now former
pitcher for the Oakland Athletics, Trevor Obviously, he's if you've
been in the closet somewhere down by the river and
not paying attention. The athletics have have an anounced they
(30:07):
are moving to Vegas. They have to get everything approved
and stadium has to be built. But they're gonna leave Oakland.
They've been in Oakland for over fifty years. Fifty five years,
I believe is the Athletics rain in the Bay Area
and they're preparing to get the Mayflower moving vans and
relocate to Sin City. And so Trevor May likely will
(30:33):
never work for the Athletics franchise as long as John
Fisher owns the team, but'll probably get some free beer
A's bars. Are there any A's bars left in the
Bay Area? I don't know, but if there are, he'll
he'll find a way to get get a couple. Let's
go to Let's go to Daniel who's in Dallas. We're
gonna Mallard of the thirty wee coming up. Hello, Daniel, Welcome,
(30:54):
what's up, Ben Mallard? Daniel. If I was any better,
I'd be an a hole, but not Houston a hole
because they're down too old.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Oh no, My brother is one of those guys, and
I have plenty of decent arguments with him throughout this week.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But you're on the right side of history.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Yeah, well, I hope so. But I will say I
do have a disagreement for you.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
I think the.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Two words that are gonna mess up the Rangers is
not Max Schurzer. I've seen Max Pisch quite a few
times this year, and I've only seen one blow up,
seen quite a few good outings. But the one guy
that constantly steps up on the mound and disappoints me
as a Rangers fan every day of the week is
(31:39):
a rawdest happening. Cannot stand that man. He got all
that power. Oh yeah, he can throw quite a bit
of heat, but he's got no control over it, and
he's gonna give up a single home run. He's gonna
I promise.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
You're not gonna get me to push back. Chapman has
been very inconsistent, which is a nice way of saying
he looks like he's washed, and so yeah, I'm not
gonna push back. But the anticipation that Max Sures was
gonna walk out on the mound and going to be
the Mac Sures that he had been years ago. He
killed the Dodgers at the end, he killed the Mets
in that playoff start last year, and he'll do the
(32:17):
same thing for the Rangers. I'm telling you it's gonna happen.
Maybe maybe not, maybe not maybe.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
We're gonna have to see on Wednesday, aren't we.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Well, even if it doesn't happen on Wednesday, it'll happen
the next time he pitches. I'm telling you, this guy's
gonna break your heart. Max Sures is gonna break your heart.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I mean, come on, Ben Mallers the Rangers. Then I've
had my heartbroken plenty of time.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Oh it's gonna happen again. Be ready, be prepared, do
what you have to do. You know, do you go
through the usual steps of morning, You know what you
have to do as a Ranger fan. But that you're
like the you're like the third Ranger fans called the show.
We have like Eden Arlington and one other person. So
you're number three. So congratulations, Daniel hey Man seven.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
And oh there's something to talk about down here.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, Hey, it's Gona And if it's the Rangers and
the Phillies and both those that would be great. That'd
be a good.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
World Philadelphia matchup.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, yeah, that'd be a good match for baseball. I mean,
it's for baseball hardos. Like it's not. There's no rivalry
between the Phillies and the Rangers. But as you said,
Philadelphia and the Dallas area.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Obviously, you know I live in Dallas. I'm a Cowboys
fan too. I don't love for Philly.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Here he all right, all right, thank you, Daniel. There
you go, a little hot ranger talk. We're gonna have
mallor to the third degree. Here's the Insta trivia. Lions
quarterback Jared Goff has seventeen career games with at least
three hundred and fifty passing yards. That is tied with
Blank for the fourth most such games by a player
(33:44):
in his first eight career seasons in NFL history. That
is the Insta Trivia the answer. Next.
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Speaker 1 (34:33):
Here's the in. They can't say, don't need to know
Lion Tho, No, they don't. Lions No, Yes, Lions No. Ryons.
Quarterback Jared Goff has seventeen career games with at least
three hundred and fifty passing yards going back to his
days with the Rams. He's tied with Blank for the
fourth most such games by a player in his first
(34:53):
eight career seasons in NFL history. That is the instant trivia.
What is the answer? The seed is anyone? No the
answer and principal Belding from Cowboy Killer that's his answer,
M and M. Who is fifty one today? From Late
Night Drug Tester Walter Cronkite And that's the way it
was from Milkman Mike in Colorado the Paid Actors at
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(35:41):
Pat Verbeque from Shane n. Des Moines. Eric Kramer, former
Fox Sports radio contributor from Double Ow, Mexican in San Diego.
Let's see here page down. Scott Bao from sewn in
the Valley of the Sun. Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Yes, it's from Vikings legend Dante cole Pepper.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Is it Dante Culpepper? Is that I guess correct? I
did see Lee from Phoenix. We haven't heard from Lee
in a while. The big Cardinal fan, he wrote in
the correct answer is Ann Rue Luck and Drew Luck
is the answer. Only Patrick Mahomes, Dan Marino and Matthew
(36:22):
Stafford have more than Jared Goff three hundred and fifty
yard passing games. Here we go, it's Mallard. How about
that to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
This is one big gets great all right.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
The Granmliners have attack. Mccoop has moved to the other room.
So here is the Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
Reports are swirling that two starting quarterbacks could be losing
their job. One insider hinted that the Broncos could be
moving on from Russell Wilson, while the Falcons could be
through with the Desmond Ritter experiment. Ben who gets bench first?
Speaker 6 (36:54):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
So I'm gonna go with Russ on this one, that
he's the first, because I look at the body language
of Sean Payton and he would like to send Russell
Wilson on a slow boat to North Korea the way
he talks to Russell Wilson. So I'm gonna go that.
And you've got Jared Stidham, who sucks, but you could
play him for a couple of games. Desmond Ritters terrible.
(37:16):
The Falcons though, he's always been a placeholder. They know
he sucks. They thought maybe he'd get better, and they
have Taylor Heineke. I'd rather have an actual Heineken than
Taylor Heineke is my quarterback. Next.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Major League Baseball has joined the NBA in that both
leagues have now interviewed a woman for a head coach
or managerial position. The San Francisco Giants interviewed their assistant
coach Alysten knackin for their skipper job. Ben which league
will put a woman at the helm first?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
So I'm gonna go NBA. I thought it was gonna
be Becky Hammond in San Antonio, but Greg Popovich wants
to die in the huddle coaching the Spurs, so it's
not going to happen there. But I'm gonna go NBA.
Baseball players don't listen to people unless they play baseball.
Next quickly, coop.
Speaker 8 (38:00):
During yesterday's monologue, he said that Brock Purty could kiss
any MVP chances goodbye? But do you think that performance
from from Purty actually helps Christian McCaffrey's case.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
McCaffrey had no chance of winning because he was a
running back, and Party has no chance to win because
he's a system quarterback. It's gonna be one of the
usual suspects. How did we don't come out? You failed
Christian McCaffrey for MVP shop, Get out of here. I'm
gonna punch you, Matty.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
You lose good.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I gotta punch you, Betty.
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