October 23, 2023 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Texas Rangers forcing a Game 7 against the Houston Astros in the ALCS, how much confidence he has in the Rangers to win the series, MLB Playoff Pick'em, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Well, come in, it is our number one.
You already knew that of the Ben Malorch Show. We
kick off a new week talking bays balls. We head
into a Monday and there will be a game seven.
Who doesn't like a Game seven? That's great? Winner take
hall between the Rangers and the cheating assholes. So what
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stood out in Game six between the Rangers and the
a holes? And how confident are you that the Texas
baseball team will get it done heading into game seven?
And since the jose alboove Malard monologue from last week
went viral over the weekend, what have we learned about
the Asstros fan base? Some revelations I've learned over the weekend.
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We'll give you that and a whole lot more right
now here. It is our number one. Not dead yet. No,
what a day is on the horizon here on a Monday,
We're heading into it. Wel come in the beginning of
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get to the football in a minute. Our though, coming
from baseball. I was told by the fans of the
a Holes that the American League Championship Series was going
to end on Sunday and the Golden Boy, Jose Alboovy
was gonna lead the a Holes into the World Series. Well,
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then they had to play the game. So we start
out in the Den of Inequity, the pit of curiosities
if you're a cheat, Houston, Texas, the immoral hotbed of hardball.
And that was the setup for Game six of the
American League Championship Series. Going into the game, the bad
guys were up three to two over the good guys. Now,
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I don't know if you watched it or not. Maybe
you were doing something else you were not wid I
don't know what you wanted had going on don't worry, though,
we got your back. Been here for hours. This is
down the hall at the TV. I was watching the
game at the football on one TV. I had the
baseball on the other TV. Eh anyway, Nathan Evalde not
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particularly memorable during the regular season, but in the postseason
very memorable, as he remains perfect this postseason. Mitch Garver
hit a homer. Jonah Hine also Ajheim also home run,
and then the ninth inning a Dallas Garcia blew the
roof off of this game with a grand Salami, get
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out the rye bred and Mayo. Yeah, Graham slam there
nine to two, ninety two. Good guys beat bad guys.
So that's a great thing. We were happy about that.
In Game six of the American League Championship Series, of
Aldi also got to win back. In Game two. He
gave up five hits, a couple of runs six and
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the third innings before he got the hook there, so
four to zero and an e are of two point
four to two in his postseason career. The decisive Game
seven will be just hours away here on a Monday.
We've got double barrel action, which means the MLB pick them,
we'll return I'm you're excited about that. But we have
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the Rangers and the Astros. That's the late game. The
Phillies will try to punch their ticket to the World Series.
They'll try to eliminate the Snakes, and then'll be the
first game of the twin bill on the card. So
let us discuss. We'll start with the game that we
just witnessed, those of us through Washington end that long
before we came on the air here. So what stood out?
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What stood out? Here's the question, what stood out in
game six between the Rangers and the Astros. So I've
got Trucking, Stock Report, and bubble Boy, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a dunce cap, which is what I think
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instead of the Astros logo, they should put it just
a dunce thing on there for the people who are
die hards poor, Are they delusional? Completely out of their man?
More on that in a minute, but we'll start with this.
Things that stand out from game six. Frambourg Valdez sucks.
That stands out. I'm happy he does. I'm happy he
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does the starting pitcher for the Astros. As he went
out there for the cheats and yeah, but you hate
to see it unless you don't hate to see it.
As he gave up. He was given an early lead
and then gave it all back there he gagged it away.
Valdez charged with five hits, three runs, six strikeouts. Felt
like he pitched worse than that ends up Owen three
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at this point with an ERA of nine. Now, I
never played major league baseball, but if you're Owen three
in the postseason with an ERA of nine, I don't
think you're doing your job. But what do I know
all right now? Perseverance. That's the other thing for Texas.
Perseverance paying off here the cheaters, as we mentioned, they
jumped out to a one nothing lead. Bad guy said
the lead Jordan Alvarez with a Ribbi single in the
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first inning. Did Texas have a pity party? No, they
did not have a pity party. No they did not.
Mitch Garver came right back in the top of the
second inning. He had a danger to tie the game,
and Texas just kept on trucking, something they didn't do
in their own ballpark. But they have the road field
advantage playing in Houston. Everyone wants to play in Houston,
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but this is how little the Astros think of their
fan base, even they don't like playing there. I don't
blame them. The animals that are in the crowd, I
don't blame them at all. But Texas, you talk about
the mix and the match. Here. The Ranger hitters tenacious
in this game of all the keeping the a one two,
one thousand holes, batters at arms length, and in boxing
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they call it the one two. The old one to
two punch is what they call it in boxing. And
all of this sets up what will be we hope
a memorable Game seven. Certainly the good guys win and
they beat the bad guys. That'd be a wonderful thing.
We'd all be happy about that. Now. Page two here,
how confident? How confident are you in the Rangers going
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in to Game seven in the den of inequity in Houston.
So the Malord scale of confidence one to five. Malard
scale of confidence. One means not confident at all. Five
means very very very confident. So Malards scale of confidence
for Game seven for the Texas baseball team, I am
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at a three. I can't go higher than the three.
I want to be at four, but I'm out of three.
I don't want to go any higher than three. So
I'm out of three on the Mallard scale of three. Yeah,
now they explain my my logic behind the Malard scale
of confidence at three. The reason I can't go any
higher than three is because Bruce Bouchrie is tossing out
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the rotting carcass of Mac Schurzer that he will be
on the mound for the Texas baseball team against Christian Javier,
a huge matchup for the Cheats, as Javier is four
and oh this postseason with four starts under his belt
in the era of under one and a half and
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he's only given up three earned runs and twenty three
innings of work for the Cheaters, while matd Max has
been very quietly working as the proprietor of the Heartbreak Hotel.
And we gave these numbers the other day and they
certainly apply here, mad Max. Last three playoff stars, Dodgers, Mets,
and Rangers have been barf bag esque in those last
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three starts. As era is close to ten, he's zero
and two. He's given up fourteen earned runs in thirteen
innings a pitching. So you've got one guy who's given
up three earned runs at twenty three and a third
innings this postseason. Then you got Scherzer fourteen earned runs
over the last thirteen innings. Now, the reason I'm not
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going lower than three is because I'm Benny Bright's and
Bruce Bochie is not gonna sit there and watch Max
Sures that go out there and drop a deuce right
on the mound, and the first sign of trouble, you
pull his old fat ass off the mound. You take
Serres are out of there. And I believe in Bochie.
But the other thing here is you've got to check
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the stock report. You've got to check the stock work,
as Dick Stockton. That's the stock Dick Stockton taught me.
Stat's tell you what has happened. They don't tell you
what's going to happen. And we know there's no such
thing as momentum. It's not like I'm gonna sit here
and say, well, the Rangers have all the momentum. By
that logic, the series should be over. Well, it should
have been over first in favor of the Rangers because
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they won the first two. As I pointed out, you
can read my book, the book Momentum for idiots. There
is no momentum in sports. It doesn't exist. Bull crap.
Dumb people use that to explain the outcome of sporting events. Anyway, Listen,
we're pulling for Texas. I'm on this ranger bandwagon, this
magic carpet ride, and we look forward to them eliminating,
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terminating the cocker roaches that are the Houston A one
one thousand, two, one thousand and three, one thousand holes.
All right, now, last part of this Mallard monologue, headline
in the bleachers, Headline in the bleachers. We had a
viral video over the weekend. None of you saw it
or not, maybe not the Mallard monologue we did towards
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the end of last week, questioning the integrity, the ethics,
there are none for the aestrous this thing. Whatent bananas
in the matrix? Now I'm not a guy who spends
a lot of time in the matrix, but it did
very well. Needless to say, the boys who work in
the FSR social media wing here very happy. They were smiling.
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They had a cheshire cat smile from ear to ear
at how many people wanted to see that Mallard monologue.
Chi Ching, Chiching, Chiching, Chiching, Chiching our rants about the
little Pip Squeak Jose Alboo. Yeah, and the cheat is
very popular. I think we did almost half a million
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views in a few days there, so I think that's
pretty good. I think that's pretty good. I think it
was like four fifty or something like that somewhere around here. Anyway,
the question here is what have we learned? What have
we learned about the Astros fan base based on what
we've seen over the last forty eight seventy two hours.
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So I'll start first. There's a lot of cavemen. There's
a lot of knuckle draggers in the Astros fan base,
Neanderthals in the fan base. I've noticed that it seems
like a higher percentage. I've had these runnings over the
years with different fan bases. They just seem dumber in Houston.
I don't know why that is. I'm not sure. Maybe
something in the drinking water there. I haven't quite figured
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it out. But the vermin, these vermin seemingly are convinced
that this is great if you want to know how
to twist them. My Now, we learned in twenty twenty
with the whole the mass thing that didn't work in
the vaccine, So we learned that you can brainwash people.
It's pretty easy. People are easily manipulated. And the Astros
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fan base, boy, are they dumb? My god, are they.
I'm amazed these people can even figure out how to
get on a social media platform. They're that dumb. I mean,
this is like the dumbest of the dumb. So these
people will try to explain to me that Josel too
of it. You shouldn't be mean to him because he's
a nice guy. Wasn't Ted Bundy a nice guy? I heard?
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I read that he was a nice guy, so we
should give him pass. Maybe I don't know. I never
met Ted. I saw he was very charming. I read books,
very charming. People liked him. Nice guy. Uh. My other
takeaway is, how how what's the word I'm looking for here?
How gullible the Astro fan bases. There were people convinced
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that on an entire roster that was cheating twenty seventeen,
that Altuve didn't they they're convinced. They sent me some
story an Astro season ticket holder put together. Oh it's
so good. These people are morons. They live amongst us.
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They're stupid. Yeah, so I'm kidding. So here's the Altuve,
according to these idiots, is bubble boy. We'll call him
bubble boy, right, he was in a bubble on a
roster where everyone was cheating with whistles and buzzers and
trash cans, and that little guy in the boy in
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the bubble, the bubble boy Altuve. No, he didn't do that, ah,
you dummies. He won the MVB. He was the key
of Jates. He was the kyaut Jates. And I believe
in the philosophy. I learned this from protests over the years.
No justice, no peace, and since baseball didn't have the
balls to punish our tub and Bregman in the franchise
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the proper way that everything they do is Sully, everything
they do is Sully everything, It's all Sully. These meattheads,
these absolute meatheads, who are suffering from the Roses here
the most uneducated fan base in the big leagues. Congratulations
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and our Matra again, simple, no justice, no peace. There
was no justice for Altuve or Bregman or any these
other scumbags that are around Major League Baseball at cheated
and they should have all been banned for life. The
Astros should have been suspended from any postseason play for
a decade minimum. None of that happened. None of that happened,
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and so fine. There is a skid mark on the
resume of Rob Manford. There is a stain, a stank
on everyone associated with even the fan base there in Houston,
all of it, all of it. They're all frauds. All right.
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big story brewing, and the fighting fills. They're on the
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in the postseason. We'll get to that and we will
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Speaker 1 (16:24):
Cat rights and he says, take off your critical, ficking cat, Ben,
forget the stats. Just have blind faith. Max Schurzer. We'll
put these cheating dogs down for good. Yeah, we hope. So,
Robin writes, this is great monologue. I needed that after
listening to the Dodger announcer Joe Davis fawn over the
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Altuve Astros all day. Yeah. I gotta be careful here, Robin.
But I have noticed among Major League Baseball broadcasters there's
a certain how do I phrase it here, there's a
like a talking points memo to try to clean up,
do damage control, run interference for the cheat Altuve, And
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it just it blows my mind. And I understand people
are dumb there's a lot of sports fans, a lot
of their morons, and they buy into this crap. But
it's just open your eyes, open your eyes. I mean,
this guy is dirty. He is so every time I
see him, I want to puke in my mouth. It's disgusting.
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G Man's writes in from Chicago. He says, solid monologue,
it's amazing, amazing that altouve Is Love doesn't recognize that
half of his post season hits, post heason home runs
rather are cheat homers, cheat dingers. Schuzer, on the other hand,
is going to take down the Rangers and allow the
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Astros an opportunity to win a fake trophy. F Man
fra all so, he says. Jason in Kansas City says
ten out of ten on the opening mouthd monologue. I'm
glad your opening monologue was about the Astros game instead
of some nerd boy Mike McDaniel's overrated Dolphins savants going
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down on a blaze of glory to the Eagles. That's
from Jason says. If Freddie writes this is great monologue,
I believe the Texas Rangers, the good guys, will win
and defeat the evil, cheating a holes. We hope. So
we certainly hope. So let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to Todd, who's in Portland. Hello Todd,
Welcome here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Hello Ben, thanks for having me back on. I misbehaved
two weeks ago and I got cut off because I misbehaved.
So I'm gonna be on my best behavior.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We washed out your mouth with soap and water, so
you're back.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah, I pay you. Yeah, I feel like you did so.
I for one thing I want to say, I agree
with you on al Tuve a hundred percent. When I
see him even hitting, whenever I see him on TV,
I just want to pew. I just just want to
just va.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Hee's so dirty. And I don't care what Joe Davis
says on television. The guy's dirty, Altuve. He's doddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy,
Dondy dirty.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Okay, here's my one point that I have. It wasn't
twenty seventeen. I can't remember if it was the Alds,
the Alcs or the New York or the World Series.
But he had a walk off home run and in
that video when he's rounding, Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
That was the American. That's American. League Championship Series is
twenty seventeen against the Yankees. He had a buzzer on.
He knew what they wouldn't let the Yeah, but don't
bring that up because the a hole fans don't want
to hear that, because that's the truth. He had a
buzzer on. He had everyone has their shirt ripped off.
The guy had a buzzer and they made they made
up some lie about a tattoo, and these idiots believe it.
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They're so stupid.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
That's just ridiculous. You can even read his lips saying,
don't tear off my.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Shirit exactly, you'll rip the button. Oh my god. Of course,
the funny thing about this is Rob ever didn't care.
Even if he had ripped the shirt off and had
more wires than you know, the phone company, it wouldn't
have mattered, right Manford where said, oh, you know, I
don't know. That was just his Halloween costume or something.
He is an early Halloween.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Costume watching that he's guiding, got his guidances with blinders on.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Oh it's embarrassing. Absolutely all right, thank you, I go
hanging up here, so go away. All right. Hey, by
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the Phillies have made a tactical decision. He finally realized
that Craig Kimbrel blows. And we are told that Rob Thompson,
the manager there in Philadelphi, has decided if it's a
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close game, they call them high leverage situations, Craig Kimbrel
will be chained to the Phillies bullpen. They will not
be using him. I don't think literally trained metaphorically chained
to the Phillies bullpen. And I did get a kick
the other night when Craig Kimball came in and dropped
a poop right there on the mound. I text Roberto,
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who used to work here, and because we reminisced about
Craig Kimbrel blowing games with the Dodgers, so we were
fascinated that he is still pitching in a on a
team that's a playoff team, and we were not surprised,
needless to say that he went out there and just
gagged popt tight took his syndrome and so he did
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blow us. Say, but the last two opportunities he came
in in pressure situations were not particularly good. And a
shake up in the coaching ranks. And we told you
there was drama, drama Orama and San Diego, the GM
and the manager hated each other. So they had a
meeting at the end of the year and they smoked
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the peace pipe and we said, I don't know about that.
I don't know about that. Well, the other shoe is
about to drop. There are multiple reports bouncing around the
echo chamber that say that San Diego Padres manager Bob
Melvin has been granted permission to interview for the Higantes,
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that he will be able to interview for the San
Francisco Giants managerial job. Bob Melvin managed the athletics for
a number of years. I'm just and he still got
a home in the Bay area and that will allow
him to escape a toxic situation. And it appears that
Padres are going to pick a j peller. The GM
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will be the guy that they go with, and Bob
Melvin's got the fact that this story got out. My
horse like sense tells me that that story doesn't get
out unless Bob Melvin's going to the Giants, because it's
embarrassing for the Padres. If Bob Melvin goes and interviews
for the Giants job and doesn't get the Giants job,
that makes them look bad. The guy's not good enough
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to manage the Giants. But he's the Padres manager. And
it just seems like a couple of teas have to
be crossed, and I's dotted for Bob Melvin to leave
the Padres and go to the He Got, which is
a team that has a much worse talent wise roster.
But I guess you'll be able to get along with
the gm more allegedly.
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on Sparty tonight. Ben. He's still depressed after getting blown
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out forty nine nothing by the Wolverines. Sorry about that, Sparty.
It's a tough day for you. And you showed Hitler
on the scoreboard right at Michigan State. How about that?
Michigan State showed Hitler out there? Excuse me, that's bold. Yeah,
they put Hitler on the scoreboard at Michigan State. I
did not see that. You did not see that. No,
what happened via We're doing a pregame trivia and they
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put eight off Hitler's photo on the scoreboard in East Lansing. Yeah,
that's pretty impressive. He's running the scoreboard. They were in
a Rowe is angry bill running the scoreboard there. This
is not pub night trivia where everybody's had a couple
of beers.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Yeah, and if you say eight Alf Hitler, like that's
a different setting.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know. This is like, oh, it's pre game. And
maybe I thought nobody was paying as well, but somebody
didn't take a photo. And yeah, but I say, that's
the best idea I read. I read some information justin
and Cincinnati was all fired up about this. That's his story.
He loves that story. But I read that they they
ripped off somebody in Michigan state. And man, maybe I'm
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wrong with this, but from what I understand, they ripped
off a YouTube trivia channel and didn't really vet it
and they just put it on the scoreboard before the
game and they just happened to show it like Adolf
Hitler run there. You know, you win some you lose them, yeah, some,
you lose some mikes. What the hell? Oh man, what
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a what a wacky, wacky, wacky world it is? Oh
my my, oh my, all right's call the phones now.
The number one Texas Ranger insider and this guy's authentic.
He's not one of these bandwagon Ranger fans that have
the tags on their jerseys and their hats and all that,
and they were the powder Blue. Now this guy goes back,
He goes back to the old days at that dump
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of a ballpark that used to play playing like three
stadiums ago Ed in Arlington, Hello, Ed, Hey Ben boy.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
I think my favorite moment, one of my favorite moments
anyway from the game tonight was Al two Bay's error
at uh in the in the in the top of
the Knights there that set the stage for Garcia's Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Well it was it was a small error, because everything
involving Al two of Aay is a small, small air.
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Well, it couldn't have happened to a better guy. It
couldn't have.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Come on, Ed, we need the Rangers to win the
game tonight. And what can I do? Do I need
to buy a voodoo doll? What do I have to do?
I need the Rangers to win this game on Monday night?
What do we have to do here?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'm concerned about Schrezer. He's gonna go out there and
puke on the mound. I know it. I just hope
that Boach you'll take him out after like a third
of an inning. If he doesn't have it, not leave
him out there.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Well, I think he's gonna be on an off the
short leash. They got another number of other options behind
him to pick up the slack. And of course they
don't have the promise that that churcher has. But is
this have to cross your fingers and hope that they
get the job done. Dane Dunning has pitched well in
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a number of tense situations over the season. They've got
a guy that HAINI, you know, pitched an inning tonight
and top of the ninth was flawless, So I think
they may it made this come down to being a
bullpen game. If if Shirt can't give him four or
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five solid innings tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
He's not gonna I'm not gonna give him four or five.
And I've seen this guy. Saw it with the Dodgers.
I saw it with the Mets. I saw his first
start with the Racers. The guy bows all of a
sudden in big game. Now, he was fine for the
Nationals years ago, but he's an old guy now, he's
an old guy. Shirts, Well, he was.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
An old guy earlier the season when he tossed the
number of gem I wouldn't off.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I hope I'm wrong head. I want to be wrong
on this one. I want to be wrong. I need
to be wrong. I want Shirley to pitch seven innings
of one run ball. That's I would love to be wrong.
I want to be wrong.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Well, that might be asking a bit much, but I
wouldn't write him off because, uh the start the other
night where he blew uh that that was really basically
a rehab start. If there are any.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Play off you can't have a rehab started to play.
And this guy a Valdi, that guy's got the biggest
balls in baseball of Aaldi man. This guy's a great
playoff pitcher, the Volti's amazing.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Well, look you got to you still got the Montgomery
who pitched Saturday night, who's along with Valdi are their
two best starters?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
All right, and.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Be a scheduled bullpen session.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
For all right? Put him out there. I like Montgomery.
Put him out there. I'm okay with Montgomery. I like him.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Well, he just went Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I don't care. All hands on decad it's to eliminate
the cheaters and get to the World Series. You'll figure
it out. Throw everyone out there. You'll figure it out
when you get to the World Series. How about that.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Cross the fingers and hope that they can get four
or five innings.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
And Ed, how about a nice four run first inning
for the Rangers. How about that put a four spot
up in the first end of that'd be pretty.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Good, right, that can't hurt?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, all right, I'll be watching. I'll be thinking of
you because I know you're my Ranger guy. All right, buddy,
I'll be there, all right, thank you, all right, go away,
all right, friend? Ed in Arlington, it is the Ben
Mahler Show. So we have two games, so we can
do the MLB pick them, playoff pick them. I gotta
think this is it, right, I mean, this is this
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is the final time we will have two games. This
is it because there's no mathematical wave unless they play
a doubleheader in the World Series. This is it. So anyway,
I will have the MLB pick them. Here's the let's
get to the who am I? Game? In honor of
the aforementioned starter for Texas, the Texas Rangers starter Nathan
Evaldi became the third pitcher in MLB history to pick
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up a win in eight of his first ten career
postseason starts. He joins El Duque, Orlando Hernandez, and me
again Rangers Nathan Valde, becoming the third pitcher in Big
League history to pick up a win in eight of
his first ten career postseason starts. He joins Orlando Hernandez,
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a Yankee legend, and me, Who am I the answer?
We'll get to it, We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (31:44):
We have the final MLB playoff Pick them. It's impossible
to do it. After today. Got two games on a Monday,
five o'clock Eastern, two o'clock in the West, the Fighting
Phills and the Arizona Diamondbacks and Game six, and then
on Fox at eight o'clock Eastern in the Dan of Inequity,
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the Texas Rangers, America's team taking on the cheaters from Houston.
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And here is the who am I game? The Rangers
Nathan Valdi becoming the third pitcher in baseball history to
pick up a win in eight of his first ten
career postseason starts. He joins Orlando Hernandez and me, who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Cowboy killers? As it has to be Tiger Woods, Justin
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and Cincinnati going with Fernando Vealnezuela. I don't remember Fernando
looking like that when I saw him the other day.
Who else? We have a mister nice guy going with
John Lowenstein. His answer, Ben lollypop ephis Mallard now Mallard
prop guy. That is the most dominant pitch in baseball.
Bay City Tony, says El Presidente one beren Gere from
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Bay City, Tony. The answer is the Yellow Power Ranger,
guessed by Mark in Santa Monica, alf the Alien Opiner
going John Olerude, Wow, look at that. Not we're in
a batting him. But who else do we have? Mike Fetters,
former Dodger nut job, Mike Feeders, who is, by the way,
coach Mack there in Montana, coach of the Sheepherders. Mike
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Fetters the bullpen coach? Or is he? I think he's
the bullpen coach of the Diamonbacks. I don't think he's
the pitching coach. I think he's a bullpen He's a coach.
I know that for the Diamondbacks. Callaghan tam in Michigan
going with Jimmy Key is his answer. Ace in Ottawa
was carpet bombing me with Ronald McDonald, Bill Cosby a
bunch of others. Just Josh in Cincinnati says any covid Garcia. Yeah,
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that might have to be his new nickname. Who else
do we have? Page down can't read that. Clarence Hill
Junior guest by Benito the cowboy fan Louis Tian Cigar
from g Manji in Chicago, Victor Wembanyama from Shane in
Des Moines, Todd in Portland's Altuve inspired vomit was guessed
by voodoo.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
All right, Iowa, Sam, do you have an answer? Iowa, Sam,
it would be Hector Fajardo. That's my answer. All right,
that's wrong, Oh is it?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That's not that's not right. The correct answer is Boomer
David Wells. David Wells is the answer. Let's get to it.
David Wells, el Duque and Nathan Evaldi one eight of
their first ten career postseason starts. All Right, we're gonna
pick a pitcher, A two hitters. Here we go. I'll
go first, Aaron Noah, Here we go, Families, here we go.
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All right, who's that Kevin.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
MLB?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Pick him? Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Not paying any attention? Yes, dollars Garcia. He was on
his phone yet again. All Right, These kids today can't
get him even pay attention when they're working in a
radio station. Go ahead, Coop, who you got, Coop? I'm
gonna go Max Schurzer, all right, Sam, Max, Sure, Wow,
that's a terrib pict I'll go for the whoever's starting
for the hurry on dim one more after that. Merril Kelly,
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all right, cool, Kyle Schwarmer, all right, Uh, Kevin Alex Bragman,
all right, I'll take Nick Castellanos and uh give me Jonaheim.
Jonaheim back to you, Kevin.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Do you already pick Corey Seeger?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yes, I picked. Thanks for listening. Dang it, boy, here
we go. This is where we go off the rails
right here. Kevin has no ideas, all right, go ahead, next, Coop,
Bryce Harper, all right. Last one was J T Railmo,
I'm too straight. I am on time either buying the
cloth for the about the clock. I beat the clock
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on time
Here we go. Well, come in, it is our number one.
You already knew that of the Ben Malorch Show. We
kick off a new week talking bays balls. We head
into a Monday and there will be a game seven.
Who doesn't like a Game seven? That's great? Winner take
hall between the Rangers and the cheating assholes. So what
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stood out in Game six between the Rangers and the
a holes? And how confident are you that the Texas
baseball team will get it done heading into game seven?
And since the jose alboove Malard monologue from last week
went viral over the weekend, what have we learned about
the Asstros fan base? Some revelations I've learned over the weekend.
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We'll give you that and a whole lot more right
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We're heading into it. Wel come in the beginning of
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get to the football in a minute. Our though, coming
from baseball. I was told by the fans of the
a Holes that the American League Championship Series was going
to end on Sunday and the Golden Boy, Jose Alboovy
was gonna lead the a Holes into the World Series. Well,
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then they had to play the game. So we start
out in the Den of Inequity, the pit of curiosities
if you're a cheat, Houston, Texas, the immoral hotbed of hardball.
And that was the setup for Game six of the
American League Championship Series. Going into the game, the bad
guys were up three to two over the good guys. Now,
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I don't know if you watched it or not. Maybe
you were doing something else you were not wid I
don't know what you wanted had going on don't worry, though,
we got your back. Been here for hours. This is
down the hall at the TV. I was watching the
game at the football on one TV. I had the
baseball on the other TV. Eh anyway, Nathan Evalde not
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particularly memorable during the regular season, but in the postseason
very memorable, as he remains perfect this postseason. Mitch Garver
hit a homer. Jonah Hine also Ajheim also home run,
and then the ninth inning a Dallas Garcia blew the
roof off of this game with a grand Salami, get
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out the rye bred and Mayo. Yeah, Graham slam there
nine to two, ninety two. Good guys beat bad guys.
So that's a great thing. We were happy about that.
In Game six of the American League Championship Series, of
Aldi also got to win back. In Game two. He
gave up five hits, a couple of runs six and
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the third innings before he got the hook there, so
four to zero and an e are of two point
four to two in his postseason career. The decisive Game
seven will be just hours away here on a Monday.
We've got double barrel action, which means the MLB pick them,
we'll return I'm you're excited about that. But we have
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the Rangers and the Astros. That's the late game. The
Phillies will try to punch their ticket to the World Series.
They'll try to eliminate the Snakes, and then'll be the
first game of the twin bill on the card. So
let us discuss. We'll start with the game that we
just witnessed, those of us through Washington end that long
before we came on the air here. So what stood out?
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What stood out? Here's the question, what stood out in
game six between the Rangers and the Astros. So I've
got Trucking, Stock Report, and bubble Boy, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a dunce cap, which is what I think
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instead of the Astros logo, they should put it just
a dunce thing on there for the people who are
die hards poor, Are they delusional? Completely out of their man?
More on that in a minute, but we'll start with this.
Things that stand out from game six. Frambourg Valdez sucks.
That stands out. I'm happy he does. I'm happy he
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does the starting pitcher for the Astros. As he went
out there for the cheats and yeah, but you hate
to see it unless you don't hate to see it.
As he gave up. He was given an early lead
and then gave it all back there he gagged it away.
Valdez charged with five hits, three runs, six strikeouts. Felt
like he pitched worse than that ends up Owen three
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at this point with an ERA of nine. Now, I
never played major league baseball, but if you're Owen three
in the postseason with an ERA of nine, I don't
think you're doing your job. But what do I know
all right now? Perseverance. That's the other thing for Texas.
Perseverance paying off here the cheaters, as we mentioned, they
jumped out to a one nothing lead. Bad guy said
the lead Jordan Alvarez with a Ribbi single in the
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first inning. Did Texas have a pity party? No, they
did not have a pity party. No they did not.
Mitch Garver came right back in the top of the
second inning. He had a danger to tie the game,
and Texas just kept on trucking, something they didn't do
in their own ballpark. But they have the road field
advantage playing in Houston. Everyone wants to play in Houston,
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but this is how little the Astros think of their
fan base, even they don't like playing there. I don't
blame them. The animals that are in the crowd, I
don't blame them at all. But Texas, you talk about
the mix and the match. Here. The Ranger hitters tenacious
in this game of all the keeping the a one two,
one thousand holes, batters at arms length, and in boxing
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they call it the one two. The old one to
two punch is what they call it in boxing. And
all of this sets up what will be we hope
a memorable Game seven. Certainly the good guys win and
they beat the bad guys. That'd be a wonderful thing.
We'd all be happy about that. Now. Page two here,
how confident? How confident are you in the Rangers going
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in to Game seven in the den of inequity in Houston.
So the Malord scale of confidence one to five. Malard
scale of confidence. One means not confident at all. Five
means very very very confident. So Malards scale of confidence
for Game seven for the Texas baseball team, I am
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at a three. I can't go higher than the three.
I want to be at four, but I'm out of three.
I don't want to go any higher than three. So
I'm out of three on the Mallard scale of three. Yeah,
now they explain my my logic behind the Malard scale
of confidence at three. The reason I can't go any
higher than three is because Bruce Bouchrie is tossing out
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the rotting carcass of Mac Schurzer that he will be
on the mound for the Texas baseball team against Christian Javier,
a huge matchup for the Cheats, as Javier is four
and oh this postseason with four starts under his belt
in the era of under one and a half and
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he's only given up three earned runs and twenty three
innings of work for the Cheaters, while matd Max has
been very quietly working as the proprietor of the Heartbreak Hotel.
And we gave these numbers the other day and they
certainly apply here, mad Max. Last three playoff stars, Dodgers, Mets,
and Rangers have been barf bag esque in those last
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three starts. As era is close to ten, he's zero
and two. He's given up fourteen earned runs in thirteen
innings a pitching. So you've got one guy who's given
up three earned runs at twenty three and a third
innings this postseason. Then you got Scherzer fourteen earned runs
over the last thirteen innings. Now, the reason I'm not
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going lower than three is because I'm Benny Bright's and
Bruce Bochie is not gonna sit there and watch Max
Sures that go out there and drop a deuce right
on the mound, and the first sign of trouble, you
pull his old fat ass off the mound. You take
Serres are out of there. And I believe in Bochie.
But the other thing here is you've got to check
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the stock report. You've got to check the stock work,
as Dick Stockton. That's the stock Dick Stockton taught me.
Stat's tell you what has happened. They don't tell you
what's going to happen. And we know there's no such
thing as momentum. It's not like I'm gonna sit here
and say, well, the Rangers have all the momentum. By
that logic, the series should be over. Well, it should
have been over first in favor of the Rangers because
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they won the first two. As I pointed out, you
can read my book, the book Momentum for idiots. There
is no momentum in sports. It doesn't exist. Bull crap.
Dumb people use that to explain the outcome of sporting events. Anyway, Listen,
we're pulling for Texas. I'm on this ranger bandwagon, this
magic carpet ride, and we look forward to them eliminating,
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terminating the cocker roaches that are the Houston A one
one thousand, two, one thousand and three, one thousand holes.
All right, now, last part of this Mallard monologue, headline
in the bleachers, Headline in the bleachers. We had a
viral video over the weekend. None of you saw it
or not, maybe not the Mallard monologue we did towards
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the end of last week, questioning the integrity, the ethics,
there are none for the aestrous this thing. Whatent bananas
in the matrix? Now I'm not a guy who spends
a lot of time in the matrix, but it did
very well. Needless to say, the boys who work in
the FSR social media wing here very happy. They were smiling.
(10:43):
They had a cheshire cat smile from ear to ear
at how many people wanted to see that Mallard monologue.
Chi Ching, Chiching, Chiching, Chiching, Chiching our rants about the
little Pip Squeak Jose Alboo. Yeah, and the cheat is
very popular. I think we did almost half a million
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views in a few days there, so I think that's
pretty good. I think that's pretty good. I think it
was like four fifty or something like that somewhere around here. Anyway,
the question here is what have we learned? What have
we learned about the Astros fan base based on what
we've seen over the last forty eight seventy two hours.
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So I'll start first. There's a lot of cavemen. There's
a lot of knuckle draggers in the Astros fan base,
Neanderthals in the fan base. I've noticed that it seems
like a higher percentage. I've had these runnings over the
years with different fan bases. They just seem dumber in Houston.
I don't know why that is. I'm not sure. Maybe
something in the drinking water there. I haven't quite figured
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it out. But the vermin, these vermin seemingly are convinced
that this is great if you want to know how
to twist them. My Now, we learned in twenty twenty
with the whole the mass thing that didn't work in
the vaccine, So we learned that you can brainwash people.
It's pretty easy. People are easily manipulated. And the Astros
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fan base, boy, are they dumb? My god, are they.
I'm amazed these people can even figure out how to
get on a social media platform. They're that dumb. I mean,
this is like the dumbest of the dumb. So these
people will try to explain to me that Josel too
of it. You shouldn't be mean to him because he's
a nice guy. Wasn't Ted Bundy a nice guy? I heard?
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I read that he was a nice guy, so we
should give him pass. Maybe I don't know. I never
met Ted. I saw he was very charming. I read books,
very charming. People liked him. Nice guy. Uh. My other
takeaway is, how how what's the word I'm looking for here?
How gullible the Astro fan bases. There were people convinced
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that on an entire roster that was cheating twenty seventeen,
that Altuve didn't they they're convinced. They sent me some
story an Astro season ticket holder put together. Oh it's
so good. These people are morons. They live amongst us.
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They're stupid. Yeah, so I'm kidding. So here's the Altuve,
according to these idiots, is bubble boy. We'll call him
bubble boy, right, he was in a bubble on a
roster where everyone was cheating with whistles and buzzers and
trash cans, and that little guy in the boy in
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the bubble, the bubble boy Altuve. No, he didn't do that, ah,
you dummies. He won the MVB. He was the key
of Jates. He was the kyaut Jates. And I believe
in the philosophy. I learned this from protests over the years.
No justice, no peace, and since baseball didn't have the
balls to punish our tub and Bregman in the franchise
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the proper way that everything they do is Sully, everything
they do is Sully everything, It's all Sully. These meattheads,
these absolute meatheads, who are suffering from the Roses here
the most uneducated fan base in the big leagues. Congratulations
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and our Matra again, simple, no justice, no peace. There
was no justice for Altuve or Bregman or any these
other scumbags that are around Major League Baseball at cheated
and they should have all been banned for life. The
Astros should have been suspended from any postseason play for
a decade minimum. None of that happened. None of that happened,
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and so fine. There is a skid mark on the
resume of Rob Manford. There is a stain, a stank
on everyone associated with even the fan base there in Houston,
all of it, all of it. They're all frauds. All right.
(15:07):
It's Ben Maler Show on Fox. If you would like
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because you can't figure out the number anyway. A major
shakeup in the works in baseball, involving the coaching ranks,
(15:36):
big story brewing, and the fighting fills. They're on the
brink of trying to go to the World Series. They've
made a decision on someone who has impeded their road
in the postseason. We'll get to that and we will
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Speaker 1 (16:24):
Cat rights and he says, take off your critical, ficking cat, Ben,
forget the stats. Just have blind faith. Max Schurzer. We'll
put these cheating dogs down for good. Yeah, we hope. So,
Robin writes, this is great monologue. I needed that after
listening to the Dodger announcer Joe Davis fawn over the
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Altuve Astros all day. Yeah. I gotta be careful here, Robin.
But I have noticed among Major League Baseball broadcasters there's
a certain how do I phrase it here, there's a
like a talking points memo to try to clean up,
do damage control, run interference for the cheat Altuve, And
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it just it blows my mind. And I understand people
are dumb there's a lot of sports fans, a lot
of their morons, and they buy into this crap. But
it's just open your eyes, open your eyes. I mean,
this guy is dirty. He is so every time I
see him, I want to puke in my mouth. It's disgusting.
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G Man's writes in from Chicago. He says, solid monologue,
it's amazing, amazing that altouve Is Love doesn't recognize that
half of his post season hits, post heason home runs
rather are cheat homers, cheat dingers. Schuzer, on the other hand,
is going to take down the Rangers and allow the
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Astros an opportunity to win a fake trophy. F Man
fra all so, he says. Jason in Kansas City says
ten out of ten on the opening mouthd monologue. I'm
glad your opening monologue was about the Astros game instead
of some nerd boy Mike McDaniel's overrated Dolphins savants going
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down on a blaze of glory to the Eagles. That's
from Jason says. If Freddie writes this is great monologue,
I believe the Texas Rangers, the good guys, will win
and defeat the evil, cheating a holes. We hope. So
we certainly hope. So let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to Todd, who's in Portland. Hello Todd,
Welcome here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Hello Ben, thanks for having me back on. I misbehaved
two weeks ago and I got cut off because I misbehaved.
So I'm gonna be on my best behavior.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
We washed out your mouth with soap and water, so
you're back.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Yeah, I pay you. Yeah, I feel like you did so.
I for one thing I want to say, I agree
with you on al Tuve a hundred percent. When I
see him even hitting, whenever I see him on TV,
I just want to pew. I just just want to
just va.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Hee's so dirty. And I don't care what Joe Davis
says on television. The guy's dirty, Altuve. He's doddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy,
Dondy dirty.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Okay, here's my one point that I have. It wasn't
twenty seventeen. I can't remember if it was the Alds,
the Alcs or the New York or the World Series.
But he had a walk off home run and in
that video when he's rounding, Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
That was the American. That's American. League Championship Series is
twenty seventeen against the Yankees. He had a buzzer on.
He knew what they wouldn't let the Yeah, but don't
bring that up because the a hole fans don't want
to hear that, because that's the truth. He had a
buzzer on. He had everyone has their shirt ripped off.
The guy had a buzzer and they made they made
up some lie about a tattoo, and these idiots believe it.
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They're so stupid.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
That's just ridiculous. You can even read his lips saying,
don't tear off my.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Shirit exactly, you'll rip the button. Oh my god. Of course,
the funny thing about this is Rob ever didn't care.
Even if he had ripped the shirt off and had
more wires than you know, the phone company, it wouldn't
have mattered, right Manford where said, oh, you know, I
don't know. That was just his Halloween costume or something.
He is an early Halloween.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Costume watching that he's guiding, got his guidances with blinders on.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Oh it's embarrassing. Absolutely all right, thank you, I go
hanging up here, so go away. All right. Hey, by
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the Phillies have made a tactical decision. He finally realized
that Craig Kimbrel blows. And we are told that Rob Thompson,
the manager there in Philadelphi, has decided if it's a
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close game, they call them high leverage situations, Craig Kimbrel
will be chained to the Phillies bullpen. They will not
be using him. I don't think literally trained metaphorically chained
to the Phillies bullpen. And I did get a kick
the other night when Craig Kimball came in and dropped
a poop right there on the mound. I text Roberto,
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who used to work here, and because we reminisced about
Craig Kimbrel blowing games with the Dodgers, so we were
fascinated that he is still pitching in a on a
team that's a playoff team, and we were not surprised,
needless to say that he went out there and just
gagged popt tight took his syndrome and so he did
(21:48):
blow us. Say, but the last two opportunities he came
in in pressure situations were not particularly good. And a
shake up in the coaching ranks. And we told you
there was drama, drama Orama and San Diego, the GM
and the manager hated each other. So they had a
meeting at the end of the year and they smoked
(22:09):
the peace pipe and we said, I don't know about that.
I don't know about that. Well, the other shoe is
about to drop. There are multiple reports bouncing around the
echo chamber that say that San Diego Padres manager Bob
Melvin has been granted permission to interview for the Higantes,
(22:32):
that he will be able to interview for the San
Francisco Giants managerial job. Bob Melvin managed the athletics for
a number of years. I'm just and he still got
a home in the Bay area and that will allow
him to escape a toxic situation. And it appears that
Padres are going to pick a j peller. The GM
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will be the guy that they go with, and Bob
Melvin's got the fact that this story got out. My
horse like sense tells me that that story doesn't get
out unless Bob Melvin's going to the Giants, because it's
embarrassing for the Padres. If Bob Melvin goes and interviews
for the Giants job and doesn't get the Giants job,
that makes them look bad. The guy's not good enough
(23:15):
to manage the Giants. But he's the Padres manager. And
it just seems like a couple of teas have to
be crossed, and I's dotted for Bob Melvin to leave
the Padres and go to the He Got, which is
a team that has a much worse talent wise roster.
But I guess you'll be able to get along with
the gm more allegedly.
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Speaker 1 (24:12):
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on Sparty tonight. Ben. He's still depressed after getting blown
(24:35):
out forty nine nothing by the Wolverines. Sorry about that, Sparty.
It's a tough day for you. And you showed Hitler
on the scoreboard right at Michigan State. How about that?
Michigan State showed Hitler out there? Excuse me, that's bold. Yeah,
they put Hitler on the scoreboard at Michigan State. I
did not see that. You did not see that. No,
what happened via We're doing a pregame trivia and they
(24:56):
put eight off Hitler's photo on the scoreboard in East Lansing. Yeah,
that's pretty impressive. He's running the scoreboard. They were in
a Rowe is angry bill running the scoreboard there. This
is not pub night trivia where everybody's had a couple
of beers.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Yeah, and if you say eight Alf Hitler, like that's
a different setting.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know. This is like, oh, it's pre game. And
maybe I thought nobody was paying as well, but somebody
didn't take a photo. And yeah, but I say, that's
the best idea I read. I read some information justin
and Cincinnati was all fired up about this. That's his story.
He loves that story. But I read that they they
ripped off somebody in Michigan state. And man, maybe I'm
(25:35):
wrong with this, but from what I understand, they ripped
off a YouTube trivia channel and didn't really vet it
and they just put it on the scoreboard before the
game and they just happened to show it like Adolf
Hitler run there. You know, you win some you lose them, yeah, some,
you lose some mikes. What the hell? Oh man, what
(25:56):
a what a wacky, wacky, wacky world it is? Oh
my my, oh my, all right's call the phones now.
The number one Texas Ranger insider and this guy's authentic.
He's not one of these bandwagon Ranger fans that have
the tags on their jerseys and their hats and all that,
and they were the powder Blue. Now this guy goes back,
He goes back to the old days at that dump
(26:18):
of a ballpark that used to play playing like three
stadiums ago Ed in Arlington, Hello, Ed, Hey Ben boy.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
I think my favorite moment, one of my favorite moments
anyway from the game tonight was Al two Bay's error
at uh in the in the in the top of
the Knights there that set the stage for Garcia's Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Well it was it was a small error, because everything
involving Al two of Aay is a small, small air.
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Well, it couldn't have happened to a better guy. It
couldn't have.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Come on, Ed, we need the Rangers to win the
game tonight. And what can I do? Do I need
to buy a voodoo doll? What do I have to do?
I need the Rangers to win this game on Monday night?
What do we have to do here?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'm concerned about Schrezer. He's gonna go out there and
puke on the mound. I know it. I just hope
that Boach you'll take him out after like a third
of an inning. If he doesn't have it, not leave
him out there.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Well, I think he's gonna be on an off the
short leash. They got another number of other options behind
him to pick up the slack. And of course they
don't have the promise that that churcher has. But is
this have to cross your fingers and hope that they
get the job done. Dane Dunning has pitched well in
(27:46):
a number of tense situations over the season. They've got
a guy that HAINI, you know, pitched an inning tonight
and top of the ninth was flawless, So I think
they may it made this come down to being a
bullpen game. If if Shirt can't give him four or
(28:06):
five solid innings tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
He's not gonna I'm not gonna give him four or five.
And I've seen this guy. Saw it with the Dodgers.
I saw it with the Mets. I saw his first
start with the Racers. The guy bows all of a
sudden in big game. Now, he was fine for the
Nationals years ago, but he's an old guy now, he's
an old guy. Shirts, Well, he was.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
An old guy earlier the season when he tossed the
number of gem I wouldn't off.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I hope I'm wrong head. I want to be wrong
on this one. I want to be wrong. I need
to be wrong. I want Shirley to pitch seven innings
of one run ball. That's I would love to be wrong.
I want to be wrong.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Well, that might be asking a bit much, but I
wouldn't write him off because, uh the start the other
night where he blew uh that that was really basically
a rehab start. If there are any.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Play off you can't have a rehab started to play.
And this guy a Valdi, that guy's got the biggest
balls in baseball of Aaldi man. This guy's a great
playoff pitcher, the Volti's amazing.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Well, look you got to you still got the Montgomery
who pitched Saturday night, who's along with Valdi are their
two best starters?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
All right, and.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Be a scheduled bullpen session.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
For all right? Put him out there. I like Montgomery.
Put him out there. I'm okay with Montgomery. I like him.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Well, he just went Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I don't care. All hands on decad it's to eliminate
the cheaters and get to the World Series. You'll figure
it out. Throw everyone out there. You'll figure it out
when you get to the World Series. How about that.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Cross the fingers and hope that they can get four
or five innings.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
And Ed, how about a nice four run first inning
for the Rangers. How about that put a four spot
up in the first end of that'd be pretty.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Good, right, that can't hurt?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, all right, I'll be watching. I'll be thinking of
you because I know you're my Ranger guy. All right, buddy,
I'll be there, all right, thank you, all right, go away,
all right, friend? Ed in Arlington, it is the Ben
Mahler Show. So we have two games, so we can
do the MLB pick them, playoff pick them. I gotta
think this is it, right, I mean, this is this
(30:20):
is the final time we will have two games. This
is it because there's no mathematical wave unless they play
a doubleheader in the World Series. This is it. So anyway,
I will have the MLB pick them. Here's the let's
get to the who am I? Game? In honor of
the aforementioned starter for Texas, the Texas Rangers starter Nathan
Evaldi became the third pitcher in MLB history to pick
(30:44):
up a win in eight of his first ten career
postseason starts. He joins El Duque, Orlando Hernandez, and me
again Rangers Nathan Valde, becoming the third pitcher in Big
League history to pick up a win in eight of
his first ten career postseason starts. He joins Orlando Hernandez,
(31:07):
a Yankee legend, and me, Who am I the answer?
We'll get to it, We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (31:44):
We have the final MLB playoff Pick them. It's impossible
to do it. After today. Got two games on a Monday,
five o'clock Eastern, two o'clock in the West, the Fighting
Phills and the Arizona Diamondbacks and Game six, and then
on Fox at eight o'clock Eastern in the Dan of Inequity,
(32:09):
the Texas Rangers, America's team taking on the cheaters from Houston.
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And here is the who am I game? The Rangers
Nathan Valdi becoming the third pitcher in baseball history to
pick up a win in eight of his first ten
career postseason starts. He joins Orlando Hernandez and me, who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Cowboy killers? As it has to be Tiger Woods, Justin
(32:50):
and Cincinnati going with Fernando Vealnezuela. I don't remember Fernando
looking like that when I saw him the other day.
Who else? We have a mister nice guy going with
John Lowenstein. His answer, Ben lollypop ephis Mallard now Mallard
prop guy. That is the most dominant pitch in baseball.
Bay City Tony, says El Presidente one beren Gere from
(33:13):
Bay City, Tony. The answer is the Yellow Power Ranger,
guessed by Mark in Santa Monica, alf the Alien Opiner
going John Olerude, Wow, look at that. Not we're in
a batting him. But who else do we have? Mike Fetters,
former Dodger nut job, Mike Feeders, who is, by the way,
coach Mack there in Montana, coach of the Sheepherders. Mike
(33:35):
Fetters the bullpen coach? Or is he? I think he's
the bullpen coach of the Diamonbacks. I don't think he's
the pitching coach. I think he's a bullpen He's a coach.
I know that for the Diamondbacks. Callaghan tam in Michigan
going with Jimmy Key is his answer. Ace in Ottawa
was carpet bombing me with Ronald McDonald, Bill Cosby a
bunch of others. Just Josh in Cincinnati says any covid Garcia. Yeah,
(34:01):
that might have to be his new nickname. Who else
do we have? Page down can't read that. Clarence Hill
Junior guest by Benito the cowboy fan Louis Tian Cigar
from g Manji in Chicago, Victor Wembanyama from Shane in
Des Moines, Todd in Portland's Altuve inspired vomit was guessed
by voodoo.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
All right, Iowa, Sam, do you have an answer? Iowa, Sam,
it would be Hector Fajardo. That's my answer. All right,
that's wrong, Oh is it?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
That's not that's not right. The correct answer is Boomer
David Wells. David Wells is the answer. Let's get to it.
David Wells, el Duque and Nathan Evaldi one eight of
their first ten career postseason starts. All Right, we're gonna
pick a pitcher, A two hitters. Here we go. I'll
go first, Aaron Noah, Here we go, Families, here we go.
(34:58):
All right, who's that Kevin.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
MLB?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Pick him? Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Not paying any attention? Yes, dollars Garcia. He was on
his phone yet again. All Right, These kids today can't
get him even pay attention when they're working in a
radio station. Go ahead, Coop, who you got, Coop? I'm
gonna go Max Schurzer, all right, Sam, Max, Sure, Wow,
that's a terrib pict I'll go for the whoever's starting
for the hurry on dim one more after that. Merril Kelly,
(35:30):
all right, cool, Kyle Schwarmer, all right, Uh, Kevin Alex Bragman,
all right, I'll take Nick Castellanos and uh give me Jonaheim.
Jonaheim back to you, Kevin.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Do you already pick Corey Seeger?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yes, I picked. Thanks for listening. Dang it, boy, here
we go. This is where we go off the rails
right here. Kevin has no ideas, all right, go ahead, next, Coop,
Bryce Harper, all right. Last one was J T Railmo,
I'm too straight. I am on time either buying the
cloth for the about the clock. I beat the clock
(36:09):
on time
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