October 24, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Philadelphia Phillies blowing Game 6 at home to the Diamondbacks and who deserves the blame, if the Dbacks have the edge in Game 7, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two. Here we go
the Phillies trying to get their mojo back and go
to the World Series. As they took on the Diamondbacks
in Game six of the NLCS at the Decibel City
in Philadelphia and it was all Arizona. No contest in
this game, So there will be a game seven. Who
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gets to wear the bell of shame for the fighting Phils? Also,
how do you dissect the NLCS after six games? And
do the Diamondbacks have an edge in game seven? We'll
give you answers to all those questions and talk about
a whole bunch of other nonsense as well. Right now here,
it is our number two. Everyone all dressed up, ready
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to have a coronation, a welcoming in shepherding into the
Fall Classic, and then they played the game. Well come
in the beginning of another hour or of the Ben
Mahler Show. We are in the air everywhere like workmates,
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the coast, border to border and beyond on the bast
and brashley powerful microphones of fsre amminating live from the
blanket as we are your sporty safety blanket hanging out
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here all night long. We talked in a previous hour
about the American League Championship Series, which came to an
end a Dallas Garcia and the Texas Rangers have cashed
in their chips. They are going to the Fall Classic
now the game that was earlier, and that's our headline.
Just across the Walt Whitman Bridge there across the Delaware River,
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Game six of the National League Championship Series, the Philadelphia
Phillies hosting the Diamondbacks, and with a win, seemed like
a FATA compleat. Just show up, make sure you're there
on time, your uniform looks good, and you will advance
to the World Series for the second consecutive year. Alas
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that didn't happen. If you didn't watch the game, maybe
not surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise. Tommy fam and Lordis Guriel
Junior hit back to back in belly to belly home
runs early in the game. Meryl Kelly, who sounds like
you should be a golfer or a bowler. Meryl Kelly
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struck out eight and Arizona Doz indeed force the final
moment of the league Championship Series, the ultimate game of
Game seven, and that'll be played later on Tuesday, but
Monday goes to Arizona. So let us discuss the question
who gets to wear the bell of shame, not the
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liberty bell, the bell of shame for the fighting phil
So I've got tort law, HeLa monster, and freebies and
we'll put all of these things together and we are
going to make a rotting cheese steak, which is about
what the Phillies played, like a rotting cheese steak. So
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there's yeah, I mean it was bad and it's just
that the flies, the maggots were all over the It
was really bad, all right, So number one, so we'll
start with this. There's plenty of shame, plenty of blame
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to go around, Yeah, shame. In fact, the Phillies locker room,
when you pass out the shame bell, it sounded like
garden chimes. There was a lot of that noise, the
chiming sound there, because that was that was it. I mean,
multiple shame bells were ringing at the same time. We
start on the mound where Aaron Nola Aaron Nola, Yeah,
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as in no good, not on this night. Now he
had been lights out in the playoffs for the Fight
and Phils a three and zero record and the era
of under one. In October, we were told this was
a money grab situation, that Aaron Nola was playing the
cash in his chips in free agency and get that
big money. And then this is just his postseason that
he was going to put it all together, and he
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had put it all together, and that's that, okay, uh,
And then they had to play the game. And this
is a reminder that stat's tell you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. Which is very upsetting is
those of us that like to wager on games and
look at the numbers. It's very very upsetting. So all
of those numbers and all the storylines about Aaron Nola
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did not particularly help him in Game six, as Nolan
was caught. Aaron Nola was caught in the principal's office.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
He was called into the principal's office. He was guilty
of violating torte law. Now what is tort law? The
famous Flyers coach across the facility there at Philadelphia, John Tortorella,
who said we sucked at a time we cannot suck
and in this case, Aaron Nola and the Phillies sucked
from head to toe, waist deep in thick mud. Aaron
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Nola on the mound now just simply not good enough,
unable to rise to the challenge. When you when you
start pointing the finger around the room, other than Aaron Nola,
you can look around at the big boppers. Well, they
weren't big boppers. In this game. The Phillies had only
one extra base hit. They were one of seven with
runners in scoring position. I didn't play Major League Baseball.
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I just do it overnight show. But I'm told that's
not good. Now. Secondly, how do you dissect the NLCS.
We're six games in, we have one final chapter left
in the book. We've read most of the book. We
have one chapter left in the buck all right, how
do we read?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So far? At this point, the Philadelphia Phillies have absolutely
botched this, and I have little confidence that they're going
to not completely batch this in a game seven. Now
that our old nemesis tight took his syndrome is involved.
Now I would rather see the Phillies and the Rangers
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in the World Series. I would like to see that.
But I assumed the position that Philadelphia would show up
and they would just overwhelm like the Great Molasses Flood,
they would overwhelm the Arizona Diamondbacks in this game, and
they totally aft it up. And now they can still
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get the mulligan. They can still get the mulligan. Here Philadelphia,
they're playing with their food. They're futzing around with their vegetables,
and the parents are like, gotta eat your vegetables. Now
they're playing around with their vegetables after choking the snakes.
They absolutely That's what I was saying to me. They
choked the snake in game number one. In game two,
and then the Phillies went out to Arizona. They thought, way,
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I'm retired. I mean Arizona, I'm hanging out. It's one
hundred degrees every day, and they slipped into vacation mode
and they did not have the same bite as they
had in Philadelphia when they went to Phoenix. And that
now has opened the door. And we would be remiss
if we did not mention the HeLa monster in the room.
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The reason the Phillies are juggling juggling fire here is
because Craig Kimbrel sucks at his job. Period stopped. There's
nothing else to be said here, as Kimberrel picked up
a capital L for loser in games three and four
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in Arizona. In Arizona, you can talk about all the
things that they have, They play with great, right, they're pesky,
they like to chip away and all that, and all
of that may be true. But if Craig Kimbrel does
not blow, we are not facing a Game seven. We're
not having this conversation. Also like to point out that
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I had some conversations my old buddy Roberto about this,
and we were reminiscing about Craig Kimbrel with the Dodgers
when he would throw loogi's on the mound and futs around,
and it's good to know that he hasn't changed at all,
even though he has changed his laundry. So you also
have the Meryl moment in game six. Merrill Kelly, who
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was meticulous on the mound, did not see that one
coming as he absolutely shattered the invincibility of the Phillies
home field advans. We tried to point out, this is
not exactly the Metrodome in nineteen eighty seven. It's a
nice home field, it's a cool place. And all that
the fans are into it. But I did see a
bunch of fans leaving early when this game was ov
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e R in the game on Monday night, they were
heading to the exits. They're trying to get a jump
on the traffic there in Philadelphia. And so people love
to blame the Dodger fans and said, oh hey, wait early.
People do it everywhere every single effing stadium. If a
game is a blowout, you're gonna leave early. And Philadelphia
Philly fans they were like, we're out of here. And
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so so much for the myth of the Citizens Bank
Park and the most invincible home field that hadn't lost
the Phillies on their home field, the Madhouse. They were
calling it Decibel City until it wasn't. And the place
has been rocking. It does look like a fun place.
I've been to Citizens Bank Park in the past and
it's a cool ballpark to bandbox. But we can lower
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that Decibel City down a couple of notches here. Tory Lavello.
He got lucky though, because he pulled Merrill Kelly after
Kelly had retired Kyle Schwarber, Trey Turner, and Bryce Harper
in order in the fifth Inny. But the analytics. Screw
the analytics. Another reason we should all be pulling for
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the Phillies. Now, Merril Kelly had thrown ninety pitches but
had just gotten out the meat and potatoes of the
Philadelphia Phillies lineup and striking him out, and he was agitated.
He was enraged. Uh Merrill Kelly. He wanted to stay
in the game, and Arizona then they were able to
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get him out of the game. He was complaining about
it and caught on camera. But Arizona then juggled four
relief pitchers and they got away with it. And good
luck do that again in game seven. Everyone's got to
have a good day. Nobody can have an off day.
One guy poops his pants and everyone else sees it. Right,
what bright white pants, even though you're wearing grays, you
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know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Final point, So now our attention turns to the last
dance of the National League Championship Series, the final act.
The curtain will come down on the NLCS. Do the
Diamondbacks have an edge heading into seven? So based on
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the numbers, you'd say, well, Philadelphia is still the better
team and all that. Here's the problem. It's gummy. It's gummy. Now,
if you gave me a bunch of money and said
you can bet on whoever you want, I would still
be more comfortable betting on the Phillies because they're the
better team. But the reason it's gummy. On one hand,
you've got the fact there is no such thing as momentum.
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So I'm not sitting here telling you Arizona's got all
the momentum. I'm not saying that at all. The fact
that the Snakes won Game six will have no carryover
effect at all in Game seven, so that doesn't matter. However,
on the other hand, Arizona does have a competitive edge.
We always look for these things in baseball. We saw
it with the A Holes, right the a Holes felt
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the pressure in Game seven. They were at home, they
were the better team, they were favored, they had the
better pitcher, and they went out there and they just
had vomit all over their chin, a chinny chin. And
you look at this setup and it's setting up a
similar way. Now we hope we're wrong here, but the
competitive advantage goes to Arizona because Tory Lavello's Diamondbacks. If
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you look at this they're playing with freebies. And anytime
you go to the casino and you play with freebies,
you don't worry when you lose. You're playing with free money.
It's house money, and that's what Arizona's playing with. They
were not supposed to be in the playoffs. They certainly
weren't supposed to get this far in the playoffs. So
not that you're ever totally loosey goosey, because it's a
chance to go to the World Series, but side by side,
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if you did the Pepsi Challenge. The immense pressure is
on Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies as they could
not beat the a Holes last year in the World Series.
Well now they don't have to worry about playing the
cheaters because the cheaters have been exterminated by the Texas Rangers.
So now if you win, you get to play the Rangers,
and the Phillies would have I believe I think they
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would have home field advantage. I think in the in
the World Series, but it doesn't matter. I mean, at
this point, the road team, and that's the American the
road team better off Texas better off on the road anyway.
So you've got home cooking Philadelphia, all that more talented team.
You'll get the pitching matchup Ranger Suarez. How about the
Phillies needing a ranger to play the Rangers. Ranger Suarez
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on the mound, and he'll get the pill for Thompson
and the Phillies against Brandon fought Brandon. Fuck. This guy
who looks terrible has got weird like too many f's
in like one F too many in his name is
like a weird F after a P. You don't see.
You don't see P and F together like that very often.
And he's on the mind. He pitched great his last
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time out. Does he have another good start in him?
Or does that glass slipper turn into a crappy shoe developing.
We'll find out on a Tuesday night. I will be watching,
I will be checking. I know you're concerned about my
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Ahead, rolling on all night, a lister of four to
oh one. I forget her name, but she says, hey, Ben,
spewing hatred towards the Astros has gone too far. You
have to You have failed to explain the baseball scandal
that hit all teams steroids. How many home runs did
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Manny have that changed the outcome? At the elite level?
Everyone cheats, not like the Astros. And that's a bad
take by you. That's a shame and walk out with
your head down. It's a bad job by you. Okay,
that's the worst take of the night, worse than Eddie's take.
Leading with the freaking Monday night game when a team
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wins a pennant supermarket Steve right Sin says, I agree
with Eddie. He's completely wrong there. He should not start
with the Monday night football game. The ALCS is the
story that is absolutely correct. Good job by you, Supermarket Steve,
you get it. Fargo Pete writes in says, hey, Ben,
thanks for the great Mallard monologue explained perfectly how Era's
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own has grabbed all the momentum. No, there is no
such thing as momentum, Fargo Pete. As I said in
the monologue, let's say hello to a man who loves chicken,
Poppy in San Diego, the man that had his own
bit on five hundred radio stations and then botched it
because of his own ego. Hello Poppy, Hey man, clean up.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
I'm gonna say about sucking egos. Let's put that a
sad fan and let's bring back the chicken.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Na, na the chicken. The chicken is already had been
served for dinner. We've already had the chicken for dinner.
To chicken dinner, Winter winter chicken dinner. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
People actually people want to you're it back?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
No, No, nobody, nobody wants. I did not get a
single email from a listener. I get feedback all the
time for listeners. Not a single man, woman, or child
emailed me he said we need picking with the chicken bag.
I did get a guy that emailed me that said
he was offering his own chicken to pick a game
against Abigail the chicken, so we could have chick it
on chicken.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yes, I could tell the chicken wants to come back,
We're ready, let's do it this Thursday.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And people want We're not. We don't have that. They
want nobody nobody wants that. The only person that says
they want that is a troll. Nobody else wants that.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Well, well, let me tell you something. If you look
at the analytics, they don't lie. And uh, last Thursday,
when with that ticking with the chicken at this third.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Well, if you listen, if you think, let me ask
you but poppy, Poppy, let me ask you some if
you think that that is the way to go. You
do you really think that the way to get on
my good side is to say analytics analytics claim that
you should do poppy versus the picking with the chicken.
Come on, are you? Are you not listening. You're not
listening to the show at all.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Hey, of course not listen to show, bet mam. But
let me just tell you what one of my mentors says,
Let her rest in peace.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
She told me this.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Hey, if you ever want something in that poppy, you
gotta be proactive. And that's what we're doing here.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Well, we gave you, We gave you what you wanted,
and you you stole it and did it on your own.
That's fine. You should just do it on your own platform, poppy,
do it on your little YouTube channel with your three
people that you it.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I even have a great idea about picking with the chicken.
We can have a rubber chicken make some noise. Bean
maller like a rubber chicken, make some noise for the
picking with the chicken. We can make this, I think
greater and bigger.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
It could be big.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Wait wait, wait, so you think that adding a plastic
chicken wouldn't make the bit better?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I think.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Because I've given you way too much here, time let's
bring it. No, thank you go away just begging. I mean,
he had the bit. I would have kept the bit
all season the bit. I would have done the bit
the entire season with Abigail and chicken from the farm
in Michigan. We would have had Abigail with chicken versus
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Poppy in San Diego picking with the chicken. And then
he had to go blow it chicken and rub oh
to the bunk he took in and oh your mind. Okay, bye,
Let's say hello to Kevin, who's hanging out in the
Sunshine State. Hello Kevin, welcome, Hey event.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
It's great to hear your voice. And then X oh man,
what a monologue. That's the greatest theme of monologue has
been come to great fruition and joint jubilation tonight. Yes,
the cheating astros and their buzzers in the cans, all
the crap you know, running down their legs and the
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poop and the yeah. So what I must say though,
the I'll take your worn out tires that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Oh yes, tire rack dot com if you need tires,
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Speaker 7 (21:10):
Sounds like a winner, now, I will I will see
your worn out tires and give you all those wheels,
those tires that are all flat. And you see a
car running down the street and it canny barely move.
That's that's what the Houston Astros are now. And by
the way, you know, have you ever seen a Russell
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Crowbar and The Gradiator one of my all time favorite movies,
and he looks at the crowd after blowing everybody away,
and he says, have you not been entertained? That's that's
what I think the Rangers were saying today.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
At the time.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You're not at the time. I would like to address
something here because I'm reading a lot of things about
how this is the end of the ah stro's run,
and I am not convinssed. They are cockroaches, all right,
so I do not. I am not convinced this is
the end of the a holes. I am concerned they
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will be back at least one more year. There so oh.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Yeah, I think they're bed bugs, like big bugs.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Thing.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Yeah, thank you one last thing, Ben, thank you for
mentioning you know, I'm raised there. My dear their son
in heaven was enjoying the fact that the Phillies, well,
at least so far there, they've been punished a little bit.
But yeah, I appreciate you mentioning what is so true,
and that very few people in the media, and you're
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one of them will mention the.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Truth that it's right.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
No, the Euston have not won a World now.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
We have not had a World champions It's the Atlanta
Braves in twenty twenty one. Nobody with ethics counts twenty
twenty two. It's a fraudulent season. Uh, no justice, no peace.
Say it with me now, Kevin, No justice, no peace,
no justice. No No, you didn't you just you just
said the no part justice. No you canna put the
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no try to get three two. We'll edit this in
post production. No justice, no peace.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
We have a really good time. We should on Broadway, Kevin,
me and you the room, the room time, all right.
Another fiddler on the roof reference by you, Kevin, look
at you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
All right, I'm gonna hang up on you now, Okay,
all right, bye, go away, all right, thank you.
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Speaker 4 (24:13):
Game seven in Philadelphia Tuesday, first ever Game seven for
the Phillies. They've only been around since eighteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You keep bringing this up at how fascinating?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Is fascinating?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But again, they didn't make the playoffs for a ton
of years.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
It doesn't matter, It does matter, been around forever, matter
they do.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
It has been a horrible franchise of the Philadelphia Are
they losing this team? In baseball history of the Phillies,
Remember they weren't they the first team to lose ten
thousand games the Philadelphia Phillies, Like, seriously, maybe even if
they also if you if you suck every year, is
it shocking they don't seven years?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The Phillies don't suck every year? They do it?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
You so an education thirty two postseason games in their history,
no game sevens?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That does well, there are some there are some rounds. Also,
now they're the five game first round, so you wouldn't
go seven games and a first first round match.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Even with everything you've said that's factual, that's still crazy
to me that the Philadelphia Phillies have never been in
a game seven before.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So the Phillies went, let's let's go back and look here.
So I'll go back. No no, no, no no no, I want
to go back here, Eddie. So the Philly are going
to put sock in your mouth.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So the Phillies started in eighteen eighty three. Okay, I
just said that. From eighteen eighty three to nineteen seventy five,
the Phillies made the playoffs. Let's see one, two, two
times in almost one hundred years, and you think it's
shocking they didn't have a seven game series. How many
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posts from they played in that time, Eddie. From eighteen
eighty three to nineteen seventy five, the start of the
nineteen seventy five season, the Phillies played a total of
five all right, let's see nine postseason games total in
that time. That's almost one hundred years.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
Ay, but since nineteen eighty they have two World Series championships,
so yes, you might end winning the losing.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And they had not made the playoffs. From the year
twenty twelve to twenty twenty one, they didn't make the
playoffs prior to that. You want to you want to
play that game. From nineteen eighty four to twenty oh
six they made the playoffs once in that period of time.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That was with the Dounebacks have played in a game
seven in their history.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
How long they've been around, Not very.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Long since the late but the Phillies never played in one.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And that doesn't fascinate you.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Not in the least. I have no interestew zero interest.
I don't know what else to's say again, one hundred
years of baseball almost from eighteen eighty three to nineteen
seventy sri. Let's say the streets and the Philadelphia Phillies
made the postseason twice in almost one hundred years. And
you do you think you just you can't grasp how
bad the Phillies are. Their skanout straight.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
The franchise is, I can, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
The Phillies have lost two thousand They've lost over two
thousand games over eleven.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Thousand franchise and they've played in plenty of Game seven's.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
How many Game sevens of the Pirates plays at least
two in the world season. That funny they've been around
since the eighteen That doesn't seem like a lot of
zero the bill, Ma, you get so hung up on zero?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Who the hell's a thank you? But most most people.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Do, No, nobody does. People are ripping you on on
X here there, I'm sure that's not true. It is
absolutely true. Let's go, we'll go to the phones here.
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progressive dot com. Artes is in Milwaukee. He's making the
meat loaf.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Hello, artes Man, how you doing today?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Arts? If I was any better, I'd be a Philly,
but not a Philadelphia Philly because that franchise is blown
for a long time. And Eddie apparently doesn't realize that
because he keeps going up with his stupid stat But anyway,
what's on your mind? Artest?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Well, first of all, I enjoyed the mono loud. You
were right about one thing as far as I mean.
Did you actually pick Arizona?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No, I'm betting on the Phillies. I hope I'm wrong.
I would like to see the Phillies win. I just see,
I have seen too many of these baseball teams get
tight Touka syndrome and uh. And the Phillies have. They
have all the pressure they're supposed to win. The Phillies
are the better team, and they have fuddled away. I
want to say a different word, I can't say it,
but they've mess They've messed around here and now the
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Diamondbacks have a shot.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
They got to shut well. I'm here to tell you
that you might be wrong, man. The only reason why.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Well, what am I wrong about?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Uh? I don't. I don't think Philly's going to win
the marrow? Why not because like, oh, for the last
five years, whoever went to the World Series and beat
the Brewers and it was Philly last year?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, the last five years. I mean it's not that's
only five years. You think this is going to go
on for the rest of time here, even even.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Your daughters will beat the Brewers and then went to
the World Series for the last five years.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So you know that are you?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Are you hanging your meat loaf tray on that? Is
that what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I actually know that. It's just what's been happening. Like
I'm looking at the statistics. That's just what's been happening.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
But that tells me, That tells you what has happened,
not what's going down.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
But it's going to happen again. But uh, anyway, I'm
not making me look today today, especially with ribs.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Ribs, I Sam you want ribs. Artes is the king
of Milwaukee soul food. He's up all night making the food.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Nobody beats my ribs, man, nobody, nobody.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I think that I've heard that's phrase used before for
another product. But now arts what it's the secret? Now
you put those in a smoker, like, how do you
cook the ribs? You're you're making them all night. You
put the rub on them, like, what's.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
The movie here?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
The secret is to make sure that they're super tender
and falling off the bone.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Yeah, so so like you don't even really need the bone.
You could just take the meat, pull it off the bone,
throw the bone away. It just sucked the meat up
in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You know, how do you get to that point? Do
you put in?
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Like, No, it's kind of a secret. I can't really
tell you, but I'll give it to you Like this.
You got to kind of boil them first too, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The secret step that people don't realize the boiling. Okay,
all right.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Dumping that meat up just a little bit, just a
little bit, and then you throw it on the grill
later after you softened the meat up and get it
nice and right and and grilly and grilly.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
There you go, You ready to go? All right? Well,
I'll tell you making me hungry, man, I appreciate I'm
in the middle of a fast right now. But I'll
have to next time I'm in Milwaukee, I'll have to
stop by your Finest.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
This is free for all free.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
If you say it's free, it's you know, it's got
my attention. You know I'm a cheap I'm a cheap man,
all right, Artest, Thank you, buddy, be safe our buddy
Artest making.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
The ribs, ribs for your pleasure. That's a different product
now I'm talking about ribs. Give the bone to your
dog too.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
They like it.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, you like that part where you like suck it
off the bone.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
You like that.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
Yes, sucking the meat up into your mouth.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Felt very masculine, very I felt like extra testosterone. Yeah,
like it was. Really it's very impressive.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
So Bartolo Cologne retired, the Mets brought him back. They
had a Bartolo Colonne Day in New York and the
Roe Ton picture.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Bartolo Cologne was among the players drafted by the Dubai
Baseball United League. Say what, h yeah, there's a startup.
I guess they got so much of our oil money
there in the Middle East they got to start a
baseball league. And so the first ever Baseball United Draft
and among the players drafted here include D. D. Gregorius,
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Pablo Sandoval, Bartolo Cologne, and Robinson Canoe, don't you know.
And there are photos of some of these guys holding
up the jerseys at photo shoots. So it makes you
wonder how much did the find people from Dubai pay
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these guys, because I'm going out on a limb here
that Robinson Canoe, don't you know, would not have gone
out to this photo shoot unless he had a nice
deposit into his four oh one K and all that.
So there you go, all right, I'm sure that'll be
unbelievable Baseball the Dubai United to Baseball League. I won't
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know how much they're spending on that.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
No idea.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It is the Ben Malor Show. We are moments away
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But right now, time for the Insta tribute the Rangers
a dollars Garcia becoming the first player to have multiple
home runs in a game seven since me again, the
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Rangers of Dallas, Garcia becoming the first player to have
multiple home runs in a game seven since blank. That
is the ins dot trivia. The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next meat's very tasty. It is Artezas. Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (34:23):
Now for the instad trivia and here it is the
Rangers Zadalas Garcia having a big end of the ALCS.
He was named the most valuable player. He's the first
player to have multiple home runs in a game seven
since blank. That is the question. What is the answer,
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And let's see does anyone know the answer? Cowboy Killer
says it has to be Nestor the molester Cortes. Who
else do we have? The Texas Rangers Skipper Teddy ball
game from Bay City, Tony Trot Nixon from Bean boot
Maker Bob that's his answer. Fergcat says, that's a trick question.
Ben No Dallas Garcia, he was the first. Who else
(35:06):
you have? Late Night Drug Tester says you are Drake
who is thirty seven today? Alf the Alien Opiner says
Mickey Mouse before he took a ride on the Vomit Comet.
That is the correct answer. Well, that's good photo, Mickey.
Who else you have? Kerb Puckett at the Metrodome from
the Art of Sports Talk, Bill Moose Scourin from Eke
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in Roseville, Minnesota. Shane in the Morning going with the
late great former LA Clipper Kevin Duckworth. What a legend
he was back in the day. Ken Caminet, who's also dead?
From Double O Mexican in San Diego. The answer from
Mark and Santa Monica said rocket ismail is the way
to go. Gary Carter from the Palm Desert Rat. Who
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else do we have? Benito said his side piece is
the correct answer. Mark Grays from Sean in Portland, Johnny Bench,
Johnny Bench from Wally in Florida. You gotta have a fall, guys,
says Artes in Milwaukee. Is the correct answer? Rory says,
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anyone who played for the Philadelphia Phillies. Steve the misplaced,
San Diegan's going with Kent Herbeck as his answer. George
Brett from Johnny Q. Jackie Gleason. There's a relevant name
from Willie the Mess And anyway, do you have an answer?
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Enough of these dopey I do.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
It's another one of my cousins, Domoso Garcia, Domash back in.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
The old days nineteen eighties Blue Jays? Is that correct?
That is, unfortunately not correct?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Eddy.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
The correct answer none other than the man who played
for the Yankees and the Red Sox, Johnny Damon in
the four American League Championship Series. Johnny Damon is the answer.
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Oh, this is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Here we go to follow.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
On Sunday, both TJ. Watt and Miles Garrett had big
days and both players are having big seasons so far, Ben,
which of these AFC North foes do you think has
the best chance of winning Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
So the first criteria. You look at the record, and
these teams have the identical record. They're both four and two,
So you throw that out and then you're like, well,
who's actually won the award? That would be TJ. Watt.
So I would say that gives a lean to Miles Garrett.
They don't like to give it to the same person.
I know TJ. Wat did't win last year, but a
couple of years ago he won. Miles Garrett. He's got
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the problem though, his reputation from when he went four
with Forrest Hammer against the Steelers with a helmet. But
you asked me the question, so side by side, I
will give the edge to Miles Garrett over TJ. Watt.
After the first seven weeks of the NFL season, next.
Speaker 8 (37:59):
So Broncos safe se Kareem Jackson had already been fined
four times this season for unnecessary roughness and now he
got a suspension handed down to him after his second
ejection of the season this past Sunday. He was suspended
for four games. Ben, do you think too harsh? Not
harsh enough? Where are you at on this?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Well, considering that every game is like ten games, that's
essentially a forty game suspension. If he was a baseball player,
it would be a forty game suspension. And I assume
that's going to be appealed and they'll they'll chop that
down to less than four games. But yeah, I mean,
clearly this guy's a person of interest for the NFL
in the league office. All Right, there we go, Coop
(38:37):
Mallard to a third degree. How did we do? Failed
this position? I failed? I wont answers, No, But those
are really good answers there. I mean, they were in
depth answers. They were right there, like Artes ribs right
off the bone meet off the bone, you know,
Hello and welcome. It's our number two. Here we go
the Phillies trying to get their mojo back and go
to the World Series. As they took on the Diamondbacks
in Game six of the NLCS at the Decibel City
in Philadelphia and it was all Arizona. No contest in
this game, So there will be a game seven. Who
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gets to wear the bell of shame for the fighting Phils? Also,
how do you dissect the NLCS after six games? And
do the Diamondbacks have an edge in game seven? We'll
give you answers to all those questions and talk about
a whole bunch of other nonsense as well. Right now here,
it is our number two. Everyone all dressed up, ready
(00:47):
to have a coronation, a welcoming in shepherding into the
Fall Classic, and then they played the game. Well come
in the beginning of another hour or of the Ben
Mahler Show. We are in the air everywhere like workmates,
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as we reside in the nebulous realm of thought, coast
the coast, border to border and beyond on the bast
and brashley powerful microphones of fsre amminating live from the
blanket as we are your sporty safety blanket hanging out
(01:28):
here all night long. We talked in a previous hour
about the American League Championship Series, which came to an
end a Dallas Garcia and the Texas Rangers have cashed
in their chips. They are going to the Fall Classic
now the game that was earlier, and that's our headline.
Just across the Walt Whitman Bridge there across the Delaware River,
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Game six of the National League Championship Series, the Philadelphia
Phillies hosting the Diamondbacks, and with a win, seemed like
a FATA compleat. Just show up, make sure you're there
on time, your uniform looks good, and you will advance
to the World Series for the second consecutive year. Alas
(02:13):
that didn't happen. If you didn't watch the game, maybe
not surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise. Tommy fam and Lordis Guriel
Junior hit back to back in belly to belly home
runs early in the game. Meryl Kelly, who sounds like
you should be a golfer or a bowler. Meryl Kelly
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struck out eight and Arizona Doz indeed force the final
moment of the league Championship Series, the ultimate game of
Game seven, and that'll be played later on Tuesday, but
Monday goes to Arizona. So let us discuss the question
who gets to wear the bell of shame, not the
(02:56):
liberty bell, the bell of shame for the fighting phil
So I've got tort law, HeLa monster, and freebies and
we'll put all of these things together and we are
going to make a rotting cheese steak, which is about
what the Phillies played, like a rotting cheese steak. So
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there's yeah, I mean it was bad and it's just
that the flies, the maggots were all over the It
was really bad, all right, So number one, so we'll
start with this. There's plenty of shame, plenty of blame
(03:40):
to go around, Yeah, shame. In fact, the Phillies locker room,
when you pass out the shame bell, it sounded like
garden chimes. There was a lot of that noise, the
chiming sound there, because that was that was it. I mean,
multiple shame bells were ringing at the same time. We
start on the mound where Aaron Nola Aaron Nola, Yeah,
(04:08):
as in no good, not on this night. Now he
had been lights out in the playoffs for the Fight
and Phils a three and zero record and the era
of under one. In October, we were told this was
a money grab situation, that Aaron Nola was playing the
cash in his chips in free agency and get that
big money. And then this is just his postseason that
he was going to put it all together, and he
(04:28):
had put it all together, and that's that, okay, uh,
And then they had to play the game. And this
is a reminder that stat's tell you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. Which is very upsetting is
those of us that like to wager on games and
look at the numbers. It's very very upsetting. So all
of those numbers and all the storylines about Aaron Nola
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did not particularly help him in Game six, as Nolan
was caught. Aaron Nola was caught in the principal's office.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
He was called into the principal's office. He was guilty
of violating torte law. Now what is tort law? The
famous Flyers coach across the facility there at Philadelphia, John Tortorella,
who said we sucked at a time we cannot suck
and in this case, Aaron Nola and the Phillies sucked
from head to toe, waist deep in thick mud. Aaron
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Nola on the mound now just simply not good enough,
unable to rise to the challenge. When you when you
start pointing the finger around the room, other than Aaron Nola,
you can look around at the big boppers. Well, they
weren't big boppers. In this game. The Phillies had only
one extra base hit. They were one of seven with
runners in scoring position. I didn't play Major League Baseball.
(05:42):
I just do it overnight show. But I'm told that's
not good. Now. Secondly, how do you dissect the NLCS.
We're six games in, we have one final chapter left
in the book. We've read most of the book. We
have one chapter left in the buck all right, how
do we read?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So far? At this point, the Philadelphia Phillies have absolutely
botched this, and I have little confidence that they're going
to not completely batch this in a game seven. Now
that our old nemesis tight took his syndrome is involved.
Now I would rather see the Phillies and the Rangers
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in the World Series. I would like to see that.
But I assumed the position that Philadelphia would show up
and they would just overwhelm like the Great Molasses Flood,
they would overwhelm the Arizona Diamondbacks in this game, and
they totally aft it up. And now they can still
(06:42):
get the mulligan. They can still get the mulligan. Here Philadelphia,
they're playing with their food. They're futzing around with their vegetables,
and the parents are like, gotta eat your vegetables. Now
they're playing around with their vegetables after choking the snakes.
They absolutely That's what I was saying to me. They
choked the snake in game number one. In game two,
and then the Phillies went out to Arizona. They thought, way,
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I'm retired. I mean Arizona, I'm hanging out. It's one
hundred degrees every day, and they slipped into vacation mode
and they did not have the same bite as they
had in Philadelphia when they went to Phoenix. And that
now has opened the door. And we would be remiss
if we did not mention the HeLa monster in the room.
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The reason the Phillies are juggling juggling fire here is
because Craig Kimbrel sucks at his job. Period stopped. There's
nothing else to be said here, as Kimberrel picked up
a capital L for loser in games three and four
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in Arizona. In Arizona, you can talk about all the
things that they have, They play with great, right, they're pesky,
they like to chip away and all that, and all
of that may be true. But if Craig Kimbrel does
not blow, we are not facing a Game seven. We're
not having this conversation. Also like to point out that
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I had some conversations my old buddy Roberto about this,
and we were reminiscing about Craig Kimbrel with the Dodgers
when he would throw loogi's on the mound and futs around,
and it's good to know that he hasn't changed at all,
even though he has changed his laundry. So you also
have the Meryl moment in game six. Merrill Kelly, who
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was meticulous on the mound, did not see that one
coming as he absolutely shattered the invincibility of the Phillies
home field advans. We tried to point out, this is
not exactly the Metrodome in nineteen eighty seven. It's a
nice home field, it's a cool place. And all that
the fans are into it. But I did see a
bunch of fans leaving early when this game was ov
(08:54):
e R in the game on Monday night, they were
heading to the exits. They're trying to get a jump
on the traffic there in Philadelphia. And so people love
to blame the Dodger fans and said, oh hey, wait early.
People do it everywhere every single effing stadium. If a
game is a blowout, you're gonna leave early. And Philadelphia
Philly fans they were like, we're out of here. And
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so so much for the myth of the Citizens Bank
Park and the most invincible home field that hadn't lost
the Phillies on their home field, the Madhouse. They were
calling it Decibel City until it wasn't. And the place
has been rocking. It does look like a fun place.
I've been to Citizens Bank Park in the past and
it's a cool ballpark to bandbox. But we can lower
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that Decibel City down a couple of notches here. Tory Lavello.
He got lucky though, because he pulled Merrill Kelly after
Kelly had retired Kyle Schwarber, Trey Turner, and Bryce Harper
in order in the fifth Inny. But the analytics. Screw
the analytics. Another reason we should all be pulling for
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the Phillies. Now, Merril Kelly had thrown ninety pitches but
had just gotten out the meat and potatoes of the
Philadelphia Phillies lineup and striking him out, and he was agitated.
He was enraged. Uh Merrill Kelly. He wanted to stay
in the game, and Arizona then they were able to
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get him out of the game. He was complaining about
it and caught on camera. But Arizona then juggled four
relief pitchers and they got away with it. And good
luck do that again in game seven. Everyone's got to
have a good day. Nobody can have an off day.
One guy poops his pants and everyone else sees it. Right,
what bright white pants, even though you're wearing grays, you
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know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Final point, So now our attention turns to the last
dance of the National League Championship Series, the final act.
The curtain will come down on the NLCS. Do the
Diamondbacks have an edge heading into seven? So based on
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the numbers, you'd say, well, Philadelphia is still the better
team and all that. Here's the problem. It's gummy. It's gummy. Now,
if you gave me a bunch of money and said
you can bet on whoever you want, I would still
be more comfortable betting on the Phillies because they're the
better team. But the reason it's gummy. On one hand,
you've got the fact there is no such thing as momentum.
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So I'm not sitting here telling you Arizona's got all
the momentum. I'm not saying that at all. The fact
that the Snakes won Game six will have no carryover
effect at all in Game seven, so that doesn't matter. However,
on the other hand, Arizona does have a competitive edge.
We always look for these things in baseball. We saw
it with the A Holes, right the a Holes felt
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the pressure in Game seven. They were at home, they
were the better team, they were favored, they had the
better pitcher, and they went out there and they just
had vomit all over their chin, a chinny chin. And
you look at this setup and it's setting up a
similar way. Now we hope we're wrong here, but the
competitive advantage goes to Arizona because Tory Lavello's Diamondbacks. If
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you look at this they're playing with freebies. And anytime
you go to the casino and you play with freebies,
you don't worry when you lose. You're playing with free money.
It's house money, and that's what Arizona's playing with. They
were not supposed to be in the playoffs. They certainly
weren't supposed to get this far in the playoffs. So
not that you're ever totally loosey goosey, because it's a
chance to go to the World Series, but side by side,
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if you did the Pepsi Challenge. The immense pressure is
on Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies as they could
not beat the a Holes last year in the World Series.
Well now they don't have to worry about playing the
cheaters because the cheaters have been exterminated by the Texas Rangers.
So now if you win, you get to play the Rangers,
and the Phillies would have I believe I think they
(12:53):
would have home field advantage. I think in the in
the World Series, but it doesn't matter. I mean, at
this point, the road team, and that's the American the
road team better off Texas better off on the road anyway.
So you've got home cooking Philadelphia, all that more talented team.
You'll get the pitching matchup Ranger Suarez. How about the
Phillies needing a ranger to play the Rangers. Ranger Suarez
(13:15):
on the mound, and he'll get the pill for Thompson
and the Phillies against Brandon fought Brandon. Fuck. This guy
who looks terrible has got weird like too many f's
in like one F too many in his name is
like a weird F after a P. You don't see.
You don't see P and F together like that very often.
And he's on the mind. He pitched great his last
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time out. Does he have another good start in him?
Or does that glass slipper turn into a crappy shoe developing.
We'll find out on a Tuesday night. I will be watching,
I will be checking. I know you're concerned about my
viewing habits. And the baseball game will be on the
big TV, not the start of the NBA season. The
baseball will be on the big TV, not the not
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our old buddy Bartolo. We'll get to that and we
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Ahead, rolling on all night, a lister of four to
oh one. I forget her name, but she says, hey, Ben,
spewing hatred towards the Astros has gone too far. You
have to You have failed to explain the baseball scandal
that hit all teams steroids. How many home runs did
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Manny have that changed the outcome? At the elite level?
Everyone cheats, not like the Astros. And that's a bad
take by you. That's a shame and walk out with
your head down. It's a bad job by you. Okay,
that's the worst take of the night, worse than Eddie's take.
Leading with the freaking Monday night game when a team
(16:39):
wins a pennant supermarket Steve right Sin says, I agree
with Eddie. He's completely wrong there. He should not start
with the Monday night football game. The ALCS is the
story that is absolutely correct. Good job by you, Supermarket Steve,
you get it. Fargo Pete writes in says, hey, Ben,
thanks for the great Mallard monologue explained perfectly how Era's
(17:00):
own has grabbed all the momentum. No, there is no
such thing as momentum, Fargo Pete. As I said in
the monologue, let's say hello to a man who loves chicken,
Poppy in San Diego, the man that had his own
bit on five hundred radio stations and then botched it
because of his own ego. Hello Poppy, Hey man, clean up.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
I'm gonna say about sucking egos. Let's put that a
sad fan and let's bring back the chicken.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Na, na the chicken. The chicken is already had been
served for dinner. We've already had the chicken for dinner.
To chicken dinner, Winter winter chicken dinner. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
People actually people want to you're it back?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
No, No, nobody, nobody wants. I did not get a
single email from a listener. I get feedback all the
time for listeners. Not a single man, woman, or child
emailed me he said we need picking with the chicken bag.
I did get a guy that emailed me that said
he was offering his own chicken to pick a game
against Abigail the chicken, so we could have chick it
on chicken.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yes, I could tell the chicken wants to come back,
We're ready, let's do it this Thursday.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And people want We're not. We don't have that. They
want nobody nobody wants that. The only person that says
they want that is a troll. Nobody else wants that.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Well, well, let me tell you something. If you look
at the analytics, they don't lie. And uh, last Thursday,
when with that ticking with the chicken at this third.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Well, if you listen, if you think, let me ask
you but poppy, Poppy, let me ask you some if
you think that that is the way to go. You
do you really think that the way to get on
my good side is to say analytics analytics claim that
you should do poppy versus the picking with the chicken.
Come on, are you? Are you not listening. You're not
listening to the show at all.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Hey, of course not listen to show, bet mam. But
let me just tell you what one of my mentors says,
Let her rest in peace.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
She told me this.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Hey, if you ever want something in that poppy, you
gotta be proactive. And that's what we're doing here.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Well, we gave you, We gave you what you wanted,
and you you stole it and did it on your own.
That's fine. You should just do it on your own platform, poppy,
do it on your little YouTube channel with your three
people that you it.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I even have a great idea about picking with the chicken.
We can have a rubber chicken make some noise. Bean
maller like a rubber chicken, make some noise for the
picking with the chicken. We can make this, I think
greater and bigger.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
It could be big.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Wait wait, wait, so you think that adding a plastic
chicken wouldn't make the bit better?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I think.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Because I've given you way too much here, time let's
bring it. No, thank you go away just begging. I mean,
he had the bit. I would have kept the bit
all season the bit. I would have done the bit
the entire season with Abigail and chicken from the farm
in Michigan. We would have had Abigail with chicken versus
(19:54):
Poppy in San Diego picking with the chicken. And then
he had to go blow it chicken and rub oh
to the bunk he took in and oh your mind. Okay, bye,
Let's say hello to Kevin, who's hanging out in the
Sunshine State. Hello Kevin, welcome, Hey event.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
It's great to hear your voice. And then X oh man,
what a monologue. That's the greatest theme of monologue has
been come to great fruition and joint jubilation tonight. Yes,
the cheating astros and their buzzers in the cans, all
the crap you know, running down their legs and the
(20:34):
poop and the yeah. So what I must say though,
the I'll take your worn out tires that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Oh yes, tire rack dot com if you need tires,
tire rack dot com. By the way, Kevin, do you
have your tickets to the Breeders' Cup yet? You don't?
Oh my god, you know we're in the final stretch
to get tickets to horse racing's biggest moment of the year,
the world's best are headed to Santa Anita for the Breeders'
Cup World Championships that's coming up on November third and fourth.
(21:06):
The countdown begins.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Get tickets today at Breeders Cup dot Com.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Sounds like a winner, now, I will I will see
your worn out tires and give you all those wheels,
those tires that are all flat. And you see a
car running down the street and it canny barely move.
That's that's what the Houston Astros are now. And by
the way, you know, have you ever seen a Russell
(21:32):
Crowbar and The Gradiator one of my all time favorite movies,
and he looks at the crowd after blowing everybody away,
and he says, have you not been entertained? That's that's
what I think the Rangers were saying today.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
At the time.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You're not at the time. I would like to address
something here because I'm reading a lot of things about
how this is the end of the ah stro's run,
and I am not convinssed. They are cockroaches, all right,
so I do not. I am not convinced this is
the end of the a holes. I am concerned they
(22:09):
will be back at least one more year. There so oh.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Yeah, I think they're bed bugs, like big bugs.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Thing.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Yeah, thank you one last thing, Ben, thank you for
mentioning you know, I'm raised there. My dear their son
in heaven was enjoying the fact that the Phillies, well,
at least so far there, they've been punished a little bit.
But yeah, I appreciate you mentioning what is so true,
and that very few people in the media, and you're
(22:38):
one of them will mention the.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Truth that it's right.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
No, the Euston have not won a World now.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
We have not had a World champions It's the Atlanta
Braves in twenty twenty one. Nobody with ethics counts twenty
twenty two. It's a fraudulent season. Uh, no justice, no peace.
Say it with me now, Kevin, No justice, no peace,
no justice. No No, you didn't you just you just
said the no part justice. No you canna put the
(23:07):
no try to get three two. We'll edit this in
post production. No justice, no peace.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
We have a really good time. We should on Broadway, Kevin,
me and you the room, the room time, all right.
Another fiddler on the roof reference by you, Kevin, look
at you.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
All right, I'm gonna hang up on you now, Okay,
all right, bye, go away, all right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
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Speaker 4 (24:13):
Game seven in Philadelphia Tuesday, first ever Game seven for
the Phillies. They've only been around since eighteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You keep bringing this up at how fascinating?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Is fascinating?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But again, they didn't make the playoffs for a ton
of years.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
It doesn't matter, It does matter, been around forever, matter
they do.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
It has been a horrible franchise of the Philadelphia Are
they losing this team? In baseball history of the Phillies,
Remember they weren't they the first team to lose ten
thousand games the Philadelphia Phillies, Like, seriously, maybe even if
they also if you if you suck every year, is
it shocking they don't seven years?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
The Phillies don't suck every year? They do it?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
You so an education thirty two postseason games in their history,
no game sevens?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That does well, there are some there are some rounds. Also,
now they're the five game first round, so you wouldn't
go seven games and a first first round match.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Even with everything you've said that's factual, that's still crazy
to me that the Philadelphia Phillies have never been in
a game seven before.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So the Phillies went, let's let's go back and look here.
So I'll go back. No no, no, no no no, I want
to go back here, Eddie. So the Philly are going
to put sock in your mouth.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
So the Phillies started in eighteen eighty three. Okay, I
just said that. From eighteen eighty three to nineteen seventy five,
the Phillies made the playoffs. Let's see one, two, two
times in almost one hundred years, and you think it's
shocking they didn't have a seven game series. How many
(25:47):
posts from they played in that time, Eddie. From eighteen
eighty three to nineteen seventy five, the start of the
nineteen seventy five season, the Phillies played a total of
five all right, let's see nine postseason games total in
that time. That's almost one hundred years.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
Ay, but since nineteen eighty they have two World Series championships,
so yes, you might end winning the losing.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And they had not made the playoffs. From the year
twenty twelve to twenty twenty one, they didn't make the
playoffs prior to that. You want to you want to
play that game. From nineteen eighty four to twenty oh
six they made the playoffs once in that period of time.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
That was with the Dounebacks have played in a game
seven in their history.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
How long they've been around, Not very.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Long since the late but the Phillies never played in one.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And that doesn't fascinate you.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Not in the least. I have no interestew zero interest.
I don't know what else to's say again, one hundred
years of baseball almost from eighteen eighty three to nineteen
seventy sri. Let's say the streets and the Philadelphia Phillies
made the postseason twice in almost one hundred years. And
you do you think you just you can't grasp how
bad the Phillies are. Their skanout straight.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
The franchise is, I can, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
The Phillies have lost two thousand They've lost over two
thousand games over eleven.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Thousand franchise and they've played in plenty of Game seven's.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
How many Game sevens of the Pirates plays at least
two in the world season. That funny they've been around
since the eighteen That doesn't seem like a lot of
zero the bill, Ma, you get so hung up on zero?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Who the hell's a thank you? But most most people.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Do, No, nobody does. People are ripping you on on
X here there, I'm sure that's not true. It is
absolutely true. Let's go, we'll go to the phones here.
By the way, it is the Benett Mathers Show. You're
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progressive dot com. Artes is in Milwaukee. He's making the
meat loaf.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Hello, artes Man, how you doing today?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Arts? If I was any better, I'd be a Philly,
but not a Philadelphia Philly because that franchise is blown
for a long time. And Eddie apparently doesn't realize that
because he keeps going up with his stupid stat But anyway,
what's on your mind? Artest?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Well, first of all, I enjoyed the mono loud. You
were right about one thing as far as I mean.
Did you actually pick Arizona?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No, I'm betting on the Phillies. I hope I'm wrong.
I would like to see the Phillies win. I just see,
I have seen too many of these baseball teams get
tight Touka syndrome and uh. And the Phillies have. They
have all the pressure they're supposed to win. The Phillies
are the better team, and they have fuddled away. I
want to say a different word, I can't say it,
but they've mess They've messed around here and now the
(28:42):
Diamondbacks have a shot.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
They got to shut well. I'm here to tell you
that you might be wrong, man. The only reason why.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Well, what am I wrong about?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
Uh? I don't. I don't think Philly's going to win
the marrow? Why not because like, oh, for the last
five years, whoever went to the World Series and beat
the Brewers and it was Philly last year?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah, the last five years. I mean it's not that's
only five years. You think this is going to go
on for the rest of time here, even even.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Your daughters will beat the Brewers and then went to
the World Series for the last five years.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So you know that are you?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Are you hanging your meat loaf tray on that? Is
that what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I actually know that. It's just what's been happening. Like
I'm looking at the statistics. That's just what's been happening.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
But that tells me, That tells you what has happened,
not what's going down.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
But it's going to happen again. But uh, anyway, I'm
not making me look today today, especially with ribs.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Ribs, I Sam you want ribs. Artes is the king
of Milwaukee soul food. He's up all night making the food.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Nobody beats my ribs, man, nobody, nobody.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I think that I've heard that's phrase used before for
another product. But now arts what it's the secret? Now
you put those in a smoker, like, how do you
cook the ribs? You're you're making them all night. You
put the rub on them, like, what's.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
The movie here?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
The secret is to make sure that they're super tender
and falling off the bone.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Yeah, so so like you don't even really need the bone.
You could just take the meat, pull it off the bone,
throw the bone away. It just sucked the meat up
in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You know, how do you get to that point? Do
you put in?
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Like, No, it's kind of a secret. I can't really
tell you, but I'll give it to you Like this.
You got to kind of boil them first too, you know.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The secret step that people don't realize the boiling. Okay,
all right.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Dumping that meat up just a little bit, just a
little bit, and then you throw it on the grill
later after you softened the meat up and get it
nice and right and and grilly and grilly.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
There you go, You ready to go? All right? Well,
I'll tell you making me hungry, man, I appreciate I'm
in the middle of a fast right now. But I'll
have to next time I'm in Milwaukee, I'll have to
stop by your Finest.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
This is free for all free.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
If you say it's free, it's you know, it's got
my attention. You know I'm a cheap I'm a cheap man,
all right, Artest, Thank you, buddy, be safe our buddy
Artest making.
Speaker 10 (31:19):
The ribs, ribs for your pleasure. That's a different product
now I'm talking about ribs. Give the bone to your
dog too.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
They like it.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, you like that part where you like suck it
off the bone.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
You like that.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
Yes, sucking the meat up into your mouth.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Felt very masculine, very I felt like extra testosterone. Yeah,
like it was. Really it's very impressive.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
So Bartolo Cologne retired, the Mets brought him back. They
had a Bartolo Colonne Day in New York and the
Roe Ton picture.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Bartolo Cologne was among the players drafted by the Dubai
Baseball United League. Say what, h yeah, there's a startup.
I guess they got so much of our oil money
there in the Middle East they got to start a
baseball league. And so the first ever Baseball United Draft
and among the players drafted here include D. D. Gregorius,
(32:17):
Pablo Sandoval, Bartolo Cologne, and Robinson Canoe, don't you know.
And there are photos of some of these guys holding
up the jerseys at photo shoots. So it makes you
wonder how much did the find people from Dubai pay
(32:37):
these guys, because I'm going out on a limb here
that Robinson Canoe, don't you know, would not have gone
out to this photo shoot unless he had a nice
deposit into his four oh one K and all that.
So there you go, all right, I'm sure that'll be
unbelievable Baseball the Dubai United to Baseball League. I won't
(33:02):
know how much they're spending on that.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
No idea.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It is the Ben Malor Show. We are moments away
from an unbelievable edition of Mallard of the third Degree.
But right now, time for the Insta tribute the Rangers
a dollars Garcia becoming the first player to have multiple
home runs in a game seven since me again, the
(33:26):
Rangers of Dallas, Garcia becoming the first player to have
multiple home runs in a game seven since blank. That
is the ins dot trivia. The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next meat's very tasty. It is Artezas. Yeah.
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Speaker 1 (34:23):
Now for the instad trivia and here it is the
Rangers Zadalas Garcia having a big end of the ALCS.
He was named the most valuable player. He's the first
player to have multiple home runs in a game seven
since blank. That is the question. What is the answer,
(34:44):
And let's see does anyone know the answer? Cowboy Killer
says it has to be Nestor the molester Cortes. Who
else do we have? The Texas Rangers Skipper Teddy ball
game from Bay City, Tony Trot Nixon from Bean boot
Maker Bob that's his answer. Fergcat says, that's a trick question.
Ben No Dallas Garcia, he was the first. Who else
(35:06):
you have? Late Night Drug Tester says you are Drake
who is thirty seven today? Alf the Alien Opiner says
Mickey Mouse before he took a ride on the Vomit Comet.
That is the correct answer. Well, that's good photo, Mickey.
Who else you have? Kerb Puckett at the Metrodome from
the Art of Sports Talk, Bill Moose Scourin from Eke
(35:28):
in Roseville, Minnesota. Shane in the Morning going with the
late great former LA Clipper Kevin Duckworth. What a legend
he was back in the day. Ken Caminet, who's also dead?
From Double O Mexican in San Diego. The answer from
Mark and Santa Monica said rocket ismail is the way
to go. Gary Carter from the Palm Desert Rat. Who
(35:49):
else do we have? Benito said his side piece is
the correct answer. Mark Grays from Sean in Portland, Johnny Bench,
Johnny Bench from Wally in Florida. You gotta have a fall, guys,
says Artes in Milwaukee. Is the correct answer? Rory says,
(36:10):
anyone who played for the Philadelphia Phillies. Steve the misplaced,
San Diegan's going with Kent Herbeck as his answer. George
Brett from Johnny Q. Jackie Gleason. There's a relevant name
from Willie the Mess And anyway, do you have an answer?
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Enough of these dopey I do.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
It's another one of my cousins, Domoso Garcia, Domash back in.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
The old days nineteen eighties Blue Jays? Is that correct?
That is, unfortunately not correct?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Eddy.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
The correct answer none other than the man who played
for the Yankees and the Red Sox, Johnny Damon in
the four American League Championship Series. Johnny Damon is the answer.
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Oh, this is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Here we go to follow.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
On Sunday, both TJ. Watt and Miles Garrett had big
days and both players are having big seasons so far, Ben,
which of these AFC North foes do you think has
the best chance of winning Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
So the first criteria. You look at the record, and
these teams have the identical record. They're both four and two,
So you throw that out and then you're like, well,
who's actually won the award? That would be TJ. Watt.
So I would say that gives a lean to Miles Garrett.
They don't like to give it to the same person.
I know TJ. Wat did't win last year, but a
couple of years ago he won. Miles Garrett. He's got
(37:40):
the problem though, his reputation from when he went four
with Forrest Hammer against the Steelers with a helmet. But
you asked me the question, so side by side, I
will give the edge to Miles Garrett over TJ. Watt.
After the first seven weeks of the NFL season, next.
Speaker 8 (37:59):
So Broncos safe se Kareem Jackson had already been fined
four times this season for unnecessary roughness and now he
got a suspension handed down to him after his second
ejection of the season this past Sunday. He was suspended
for four games. Ben, do you think too harsh? Not
harsh enough? Where are you at on this?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Well, considering that every game is like ten games, that's
essentially a forty game suspension. If he was a baseball player,
it would be a forty game suspension. And I assume
that's going to be appealed and they'll they'll chop that
down to less than four games. But yeah, I mean,
clearly this guy's a person of interest for the NFL
in the league office. All Right, there we go, Coop
(38:37):
Mallard to a third degree. How did we do? Failed
this position? I failed? I wont answers, No, But those
are really good answers there. I mean, they were in
depth answers. They were right there, like Artes ribs right
off the bone meet off the bone, you know,
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