October 31, 2023 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about the Arizona Diamondbacks losing Game 3 of the World Series, James Harden getting traded to the Clippers, the Lions taking down the Raiders on MNF, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: John Candy Edition, and more!
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shoot me and our lead this hour we begin the
festivities here with what well that would be none other
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than the World FN Series, which continued. Now this is
a invitation only according to the ratings. Now, we don't
do television here. This is radio, so I don't need
to worry about television ratings. But the World Series going
on on Monday night head to head with Monday Night football,
and you'll be happy to that. I had the World
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Series on the big TV and I had the football
on the small TV. And that is where our lead is.
The World Series. Valley of the Sun Game three Rangers
and Diamondbacks tied one one. It was on Fox. We
needed you to watch because no one else was, and
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perhaps you didn't watch it you were watching the football.
I had both going on. And in the baseball game,
Corey Seeger gets it done yet again. Corey Seger wallap
a two ron dinger, and he also made a key
defense to play mister smooth Corey Seger there as he
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helped turn a double play in the eighth inning of
a close game. But the combination of mangled Max Max Schurzer,
John Gray, and a couple of relief pitchers of Raldas
Chapman's a roller coaster ride. He sucks. They keep putting
them out there though. But in the end, the ten
Texas baseball team beat the Arizona baseball team three to one,
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and so that means the Texas Rangers are up two
games to one in the World Series. They're two wins
away from taking the title. So let us discuss the
question who gets to wear the blame cactus for the
Diamondbacks as they go down on their home field in
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the downtown Phoenix area. So I've got Karma, Larry David,
and pharmacy Grade, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make a haunted mansion,
is what we're going to make, because there are some
goblins and ghosts to haunt the Diamondbacks after this game.
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But the first thing here, a it's the big fundamental,
the big fundamental for Arizona, specifically Christian Walker, who well
you probably don't know his name because he sucks at
baseball right now, but he was the story early in
this game, as you talk about from saint to center
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right now, he's a center for Arizona. Scoreless game, all right,
take you back to the bottom of the second inning,
game scoreless Arizona royally screwed up early in this game.
What happened, well, Walker ran through the stop sign and
at third base, third base coach says stop, stop, stop,
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and he missed it. He missed us sign and he
kept running. Now, the only way this works out is
if you score. Spoiler alert, this guy didn't score. He
was thrown out at the play perfect throw by a
dollars Garcia of the Rangers. Good afternoon, good evening, and
good night. Now the d Backs did not score. And
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considering that Christian Walker is not even hitting his weight
right now, what a boso? What an absolute bozo? This
guy is? Uh? And and so the other thing here.
And I have a theory that I would like to
share that this was karma in play car. But now
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I believe in the fan code of conduct that a
good fan does not stand there and blindly cheer like
a lemming incompetence. That's a bad fan that does that.
A good fan holds players accountable. The Phoenix fan a
bad fan. They gave this guy, Christian Walker a standing ovation,
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way to go, you blow, thank you so much, you suck,
We love you. And how did he reward them by
running through the third base coach and being thrown out.
He was batting oh ninety seven, oh ninety seven, which
is an interstate somewhere, but not a batting average to
three for thirty one. At one point he was one
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in this day. But the big boner being thrown out
at home plate. It ain't little league. I know the
Arizona fan doesn't get a lot of winning there, but
it's not little league. Okay, the guy sucks, hold him accountable,
you don't cheer him, and you deserved him being thrown
out at home plate. You absolutely deserve that. You did. Now,
Arizona still could have scored in that inning. They did not,
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but the early offense putting the Rangers into a situation
where they get the tight took his syndrome, the pressure cooker,
if you will, and in that allf is Now. Also,
while we're playing the blame game here, we're passing out
the blame cacti. You can say that the pitcher for Arizona,
Brandon fought, did not he did not have enough fought
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in him. Now, the broadcasters would lead you to believe
this guy was the lights out, but he wasn't good enough.
And there's always been a thing old baseball people will
tell you if you're going head to head with another
picture and you got to match him. In this case,
it was multiple pictures, but Brandon Fought did not match
Max Scherzer and mister Gray that came in out of
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the bulb. So literally and figuratively, your job is to
keep the other team at bay until your team scores
a run. He gave up three runs. That's a crooked number.
So we're not going to give you a gold star
near your name for doing that. Now, page two here,
what is the mood for Bruce Bochie's Rangers at this point?
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Some injuries. We'll get to that coming up in a
little bit here, But the story of stories here all right.
By the way, I've just been rudely interrupted in this
mallet monologue for some bad news I'd like to pass along.
We actually have legitimate breaking news. Now. Rarely do we
get breaking news in the overna. I'll get back to
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the monologue in a second, but let's strike up the
band here.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
All right, it is efficient. We've got a trade in
the NBA. We are told that the Philadelphia seventy six
ers have traded James Harden. He is out of Philadelphia.
James Harden is going to the Clippers. He's going to
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the Clippers. Yeah, why couldn't this happen during Why couldn't
this happen during Colin Cowherd show. Why does this have
to happen during during the overnight show? You know why,
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's bad news. That's why only bad news happens overnight. Right,
somebody dies in the middle of the night, James Harden,
which is good news for all the restauranteurs in downtown
Los Angeles. James is from southern California, and I guess
he's gonna have to get in shape now that he's
going to the Clippers. The news coming out within the
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last last ten minutes. So if only the Clippers could
get the Hot Tough Time Machine go back five years,
they would win the championship. They might not lose a
game with Kawhi Paul George, James Harden, Russell Westbrook. That's
a dream team from twenty eighteen or twenty seventeen, but
it's twenty twenty three. More on that coming up later.
(09:21):
But James Harden, we have learned now has been traded
from the Sixers to the Clippers. So that ends the
drama in Philly, and now the drama goes to the Clippers.
You know how it always starts with Harden a quick
take and we'll get back to the baseball monologue. So
the way this works for Harden, He'll show up smiling, happy,
go lucky, and on his way out, he will bring
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a blow torch and torch the Clipper franchise on his
way out. That's what he does everywhere he goes. He's
great regular season player and yet another guy that will
vanish in the postseason, another guy that can stand next
to Kawhi Leondard gets It's hurt, Paul George disappears, Westbrook
can't make a three point shot, and Harden, who will
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have a game where he scores thirty five points, then
the very next game will go out and score four
and he basically quit on the Sixers. It's hard for
me to get excited about this. I am a Clipper apologist,
but it's hard for me to get excited. I hope
I'm wrong. I hope Harden goes out there and balls
out with the clips and does wonderful. But I'm not
holding my breath. All right, now back to the baseball conversation.
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So we were talking about the mood for Bruce Bochie's Rangers
and where they're at right now. Up two games to one.
Lot of doom and gloom for the Rangers because of
the fact that Eddie's mike was up and shouldn't have been.
But the issue here I was Sam was off yously.
So it's just his first day back, so there'll be
a lot of mistakes. But anyway, get to the point please.
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So the point of this is that the media is like, oh,
this is terrible. The Rangers won, but they're in some
trouble here because of the injuries. I say, no, all
things considered, I will channel my inner Larry David that
for the Rangers right now, things are pretty pretty pretty
dy good for the Texas Rangers. They charge they got
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absolutely char boiling game two. More proof there's no such
thing as momentum. Texas also has road field advantage. The
Rangers are nine and all on the road and means
they must hate their wives, girlfriends and kids. They're nine
and h on the road in the postseason. That sounds impressive.
That is a new Baseball record for road wins in
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a postseason. Of course, they keep adding road games, so
the records can change. But Bruce Bochie, he's got to
have a cheshire cat smile thinking of the fifty shades
of John Gray that he tossed out. They're big marbles,
big marbles. He picked up the slack there. Gray retired
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the first eight Arizona batters he faced out of the Rangers' bullpen,
and it would have been a perfect nine nine had
Marcus Simeon not dropped. What a big league infielder should
catch as a liner, And we mentioned Corey Seeger captain clutch.
He's got the clutch gene. Can he loan some of
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that to Mookie Betts who's lost it? Or Freddie Freeman
or some of those guys with the Dodgers who forgot
how to hit in the playoffs? Can Corey give them
some of that? Because he's everything the Dodgers aren't right now,
meaning that he actually has balls in the playoffs, unlike
some of these other guys. Now, all right, last word here,
So talking about the World Series and where do things
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go from here in the World Series? Where do things
go from here in the World Series? So now we wait,
But We don't wait very long because there's another game
coming up on Halloween night. But we wait for the
medical report on que as advertised, Max Scherzer. Mad Max
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left his start with tightness in his back. He's got
a bad back. Humpty dumpty fell off the wall yet again, shocking,
and he was in line to start a possible game seven.
Now this series is not gonna go. It should not
go seven games. The Rangers are clearly better than the Diamondbacks,
and they should exterminate the Diamondbacks before game seven. But
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if it does go to game seven, it's easy peasy
for Bruce Bochi the chess move here, you simply go
with John Gray. That's the guy. Give him the ball
in game seven. The bigger underlying condition is a Dallas
Garcia who grabbed his oblique. Oh my anching old blake,
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and he flew out in the seventh inning. He went
to the clubhouse there did not come back. I have
not seen anything. I'll keep an eye on it. If
there's anything that happens here overnight about a Dollas Garcia.
But if he was a football player, he'd say he's
a gladiator. He'll be back out there, no problem. But
he's a baseball player. It's a problem. It's not that easy.
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This is a freaking World Series.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
My advice, No one ever listens to my advice in baseball.
My advice is pharmacy grade ibuprofen, and then if that
doesn't work, just rub some dirt on it, and if
that doesn't work, throw some mud on top of it.
The sky is falling, hyperventilating baseball media. The Rangers are
doomed without a Dallas Garcianos. If he doesn't play in
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the next couple of games of the World Series, then
you just get somebody else out there and the next
man up do your job. I'll be Benny Brightside on this,
unlike the James Harden trade. But those are the two
stories we are juggling right now. If you would like
to be part of this, you can join us here.
The lines are open. But again, World Series two to
one in favor of the Texas Rangers, and James Harden
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is out of Philadelphia, future Hall of Famer going to
the People's team. Everyone wants to be a Clipper. Yeah,
James Harden gets to go play for the People's team.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
Honolulu Blue How do you do well? Come in the
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way tied buying. Shoot, we're gonna talk some football. We
will tell you that a trade was broken overnight. We
very rarely get the gift of anything substantial happening when
we're on the radio, other than planes crashing, people dying,
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wars happening, things like that. But we actually had a trade.
James Harden has exited the Philadelphia seventy six ers and
he has done it yet again. What James Harden wants,
James Harden gets Dad Gummet. So James Harden going to
the people's team. He's going to La La Land and
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he'll be joining the Clippers in a transaction that we
will break down as we go through the overnight. But
multiple players spare parts from the Clippers going to Philadelphia
draft pick swaps PJ Tucker. Why is PJ Tucker part
of the trade. I have no idea, but PJ Tucker
part of that trade. He's going to the Clips with
James Harden and Nicholas Patoum, Markus Morris, Robert Covington, guys
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like that going back to Philadelphia. So a lot more
time to shake that up and break that down. But
our lead headline this hour coming from Motown, the curtain
closing on Week eight of the NFL season. Now, I
had Big TV, Little TV. Big TV ad the World Series,
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Little TV. I had the football game and you know
who played Little Jimmy Garoppolo. That's who played Little Garoppolo
and the Raiders paying a visit to wrangle with the Lions. Now,
if you were not watching, because you actually have a
life and you don't watch every single sporting event. I
get it. Well, Uh, the Lions wore just ugly uniforms.
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I don't know who designed those, but they're just absolutely terrible.
I say fashion faux plaw Paul. But unfortunately for the Lions,
they did not play like they looked. It was a
god awful helmet. But a rookie he's our running back
and he's a good one. Jamir Gibbs rumbling and stumbling
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and bumbling for a season high one hundred and fifty
two yards on the ground there and a touchdown. And
Jared Goff he did have the brain fart, he had
the intercession with golf, two hundred seventy two yards passing
and a score. Detroit roaring back just like that, and
they get the win after getting absolutely embarrassed against the
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Ravens last week. And so they get to victory twenty
six to fourteen, which means if you bet the Lions
and laid the points, you won the bet. But it
wasn't easy. The Lions improved as six and tell they
won their last four prime time games. I'm old enough
to remember when people would say, why do we put
the Lions on Thanksgiving every year? I know that's not
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a primetime game, but it's considered it's an island game,
so it's a showcase game. So lines are six and two,
the Raiders the better story in the losing locker room,
the Raiders are three and five, and it's so bad
for the Raiders. How bad is it? It's so bad
for the Raiders. My friends who wear the Raider logo
with pride because they have machismo, right it just reeks
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of testosterone, the Raider logo, and it's so humiliating right now,
they're embarrassed. They're embarrassed by what the Raiders are doing.
So why don't we start with that? Now, there was
one moment that stood out that we are going to
discuss here. At the beginning of this Mallard monologue, a
frustrated DeVante Adams spotted taking his helmet and throwing it
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down on the sideline. He was angry, he was having
none of this there slamming the helmet down on the
fourth quarter as the Silver and Black go down to defeat.
So let us discuss the question, what is the temperature
in Raider locker room around Davante adams locker, What is
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the temperature? I'm curious, what do you think you did?
All right, So I've got Smoky the Bear, China and Sephora,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a trip to the ballet,
which is what James Harden will be doing a lot
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of when he heads out to LA But this is
a football monologue, and so again the question what's the temperature?
And the raider locker room around the locker of Davante Adams,
so number W. Davante Adams has been very open and
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honest via his actions, not so much as words, but
some of them are his words. The temperature right now
for Davante Adams is at the boiling point. It is
at the boiling point. The body language speaks vognars. But
it's not just the body language. Every man, woman and
child who has paid any attention to this storyline knows
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that a snarky comment here, a well placed no comment there,
a helmet slam in the back, questioning the culture of
winning in the front, all of that combined together, and
we don't need to, but we can bring in Smokey
the Bear. And it was Smoky the Bear when I
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was a little kid who reminded us that only you
can prevent forest fires, and where there's smoke, there's fire,
and there is absolutely an inferno going on around Davonte
Adams right now. At this point, Adams, he keeps chirping
away at the at the Raider facility. Now we actually
have some postgame sound from Devonte Adams here, and let's
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listen to the audio. This is the SoundBite I think
it is from Devonte Adams here. You'll hear Davante asked
about the helmet slap, and let's let's listen to what
Davante had to say.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Honestly, I don't know what to say at this moment,
I truly don't. I wish I had the words to,
you know, to say something that's not going to get
blown up in the media and taking out of context.
So I'm gonna just I truly, I just don't know
what are you feeling right now? Can you elaborate on
anything going through your mind? Frustration? But I mean that's
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that kind of goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Dante.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I know you said that you know you have confidence
whenever you're out there and offense's ability, but has it
become hard to maintain that you know the.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Results are what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
No, it's not hard to maintain the confidence in our offense.
It's just hard to curb your frustration when you can't
put it together when you know you shared it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So the initial part of that is the money sound
by these I don't want to comment. Then he commented
on it. A no comment as is as good as
a butcher knife to the heart. When you say no comment,
you were admitting what I'm going to say is going
to resonate around the building and around the NFL because
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what I'm gonna say is not nice. So instead I'm
not gonna sit. So essentially by not commenting, initially, Devonte
Adams was delivering a body blow to mister McDaniels and
the Raider coaching stuff. That's the only way you can
take it. And he's he's going shawshank redemption here. He's
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chipping away at the side of the Raider facility there
and he's trying trying to get outside those walls and
go somewhere else. And today it happens to be Halloween
trick or treat. We know DeVonta Adams would like a
trade is what he wants, not a trick or a treat.
He wants a trade somewhere else. The deadline is at
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four o'clock Eastern time, one o'clock in the West. And
if you are a team in need of a wide receiver,
better be on the phone right now with the Raiders.
Let's make a deal. Let's make a deal, Let's make
something happen. Gotta trade him, right got the Raiders are
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They are years away from even being a competitive team.
Did you see that game on Monday night? That is drek.
That is not a professional football team's performance. Nice. Yeah,
So come hell or high water, whether it happens now
or whether it happens after the season. Devonte Adams wants
off the pirate ship and he would like to go
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somewhere else, these treacherous waters with the Raiders. And I
get it. He took the money, he got paid, and
now he's watching the Raiders sulk away, sulk away, and
it's just now page do here you have the embattled
head coach, Josh McDaniels, and Josh McDaniels right now he
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has a hot tushy. Yes he's on the hot seat.
Although Mark Davis is very cheap the Raid own, a
real owner would have fired Josh McDaniels immediately after that
game would have said, thank you very much, we're good.
You suck at your job, Get out of here. The
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offensive wizard of those Patriot teams. What a what a joke?
That is, huh Vegas in this game against the Lions defense,
which has been up and down one hundred and fifty
seven yards of offense for the Raiders. That's it, less
than one hundred and sixty yards of offense. Twelve first downs.
They went one of nine the Raiders did on third down.
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That's a eleven percent success rate. Only ran forty five
offensive plays. I can go on and on. I got
all kinds of numbers. I can shove numbers down your
throat if you want. And now the catch is leaving
the door open to changing things up at quarterback. That's
Josh McDaniels leaving the door open. I don't know if
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we have that sound by here, but Josh McDaniels after
the game was noncommittal on Jimmy Garoppolo continuing on as
the Raiders starting quarterback. Take I listen to this, so.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I know you're only eight games in, you still got
nine left, But at this point in the season when
the offense hasn't taken off.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Do you have to look at everything?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Do you stay the course?
Speaker 6 (26:15):
We should, Hondo, Honestly, we should. I mean, it's not
productive enough, you know, whether it doesn't matter a pick
a winner, you know what I mean. Honestly, we have
to be able to produce more points in order to
win games in this league, and right now we're not
doing that. And so that's obviously my responsibility. And we'll
take a look at everything we're doing, everybody that's doing it,
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you know, and try to figure out if there's a
better way that's what we can do. There's still nine
games to go, you know, so we have a lot
of football left. We have played stretches of good football,
but you know, certainly not consistently enough. I'm not going
to talk about that right now.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Noah, See, that's a dagger, he said. I'm not going
He didn't give a vote of commence that glo. How
about this Garoppolo traded to day right, Jimmy Garoppolo to
the Vikings. Break it right now, Garoppolo out of Vegas,
goes to Minnesota. How about Garoppolo for Mac Jones? Send
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Garoppolo to the Patriots. Who says no? Who says no
to that? Wow? All right, so I think you know
where this Jimmy Garoppolo story is going. At this particular point,
we're at the chapter in the book where everyone is
finger pointing because Josh McDaniels had this glowing reputation as
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an offensive savant. Can flush that down the toilet. That's
gone yet again. He was a fraud when he left
the Patriots the first time and went to the Saint
Louis Rams and the Denver Broncos, he was a joke.
Then went back to the Patriots, he was boy. Wonder
now he leaves the Patriots and he's a nincome poop
yet again, a nincome poop. So the the thing to
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do here is, if you're you're thinking of benching Garoppolo,
trade him, trade his ass, send him to the Vikings,
get a fifth round draft pick or something who cares,
don't matter, and get rid of Garoppolo. And right now,
Josh McDaniels, whether it's trading Garoppolo to the Patriots or
the Vikings or a mystery team, Josh McDaniels as a
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head coach in the NFL, is on a slow boat
to China. At this point, it is terrible right he
will be coaching in China if this does not turn
around rapidly. Here for the Raiders, and the jury is
in on McDaniels, he is a fake, a phony, and
a fraud. As an offensive savant, he has one of
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the top receivers in football and his roster check he
had the leading rusher in the NFL last year. Check,
he had his hand picked quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. Check. And
the Raiders are a bottom five offensive team in every measurement,
every single measurement. How's that scheme working out for you,
mister McDaniels. Now, final point, we go to the winners
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locker room the Honolulu Blue. Have the Lions with this
victory now fixed all of their problems? And survey says no,
they have not. They have not done that. Now I'm
shaking my head. No, they have not fixed all the problems.
But here, the victory obviously was necessary because you had
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that terrible performance in Baltimore last week. You get that
bad taste, that ginger vitis out of your mouth a
little bit. But here's the problem. You can't get too
worked up because this is what we call a Sephorah victory.
It's makeup. It's putting makeup all over the situation. Because
Dan Campbell Motor City, Dan the head coach of the Lions.
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You know, the Lions have the talent to go very
far in the playoffs in the NFC. Make a whole
lot of noise, but this was not the type of
performance where you look at and say that's a team
that's going to go on a run of the postseason
and all that, because they use the makeup to cover
up the fact that they had five trips in the
red zone only one successful trip to the red zone
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in terms of pay dirt getting a touchdown. This game
should have been forty eight to seven, and the fact
that the Raiders still had the opportunity to win the
game in the second half and the fourth quarter is
an indictment of the Detroit football team. And the Raiders
are JV squad. They're an embarrassment. They're an absolute disgrace.
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The Raiders and the Lions could have, should have, would have,
but didn't blow the doors off the Raiders.
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But here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
We never have enough time to get to everything we
want to get.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
To, and that's why we have a brand new podcast
called over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun
in our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
time for.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, you blubber list me.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Well, you know what it's called over promise. You should
be good at it because you've been over promising women
for years.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Well, it's a Covino and Rich after show and we
want you to be a part of it. We're gonna
be talking sports, of course, but we're also gonna talk
life and relationships. And if Rich and I are arguing
about something or we didn't have enough time, it will
continue on our after show called over Promised.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
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sure you check out over Promise and also Uncensored, by
the way, so maybe we'll go at it even a
little harder. It's gonna be the best after show podcast
of all time.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
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it on YouTube, but definitely join us. Listen over promised
with Cavino and Rich on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts
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Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's mallard.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
To the third degree, this is one Big gets.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Grilled and the coop dwop.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
After the Saints win over the Colts on Sunday, there
was one analysts that said New Orleans has the highest
ceiling of any team in the NFC South.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Are they right? Well, I don't know who that analyst is,
but that analyst is a moron. Okay, no one in
that division is any good. Atlanta is no good. The
Saints don't have a quarterback. What is your ceiling? When
Derek Carr poops his pants against every halfway decent opponent,
their defense is over. I know, I mean there was
the seiling eight or nine wins. Atlanta is about the
(32:28):
same type of team. They don't have a quarterback. You
go down in that division. It's all mediocre.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Next, after destroying the Oklahoma City Thunder by over thirty points,
Nikola Jokic had some advice for the thunder star rookie
Chet Holmgren. He said that Holmgren needs to be a
little fatter. Yeah, Ben, do you think Holmgren could be
a star if he just gained some weight.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Well, it's not that simple. But he's like a twig
right now. It looks like a video game glitch, like
on your TV when you watch him play. He's so thin.
I think he's gonna break in half if a player
picks him up. He's that thin to take him to
the buffet. I like it. Fatten up, fatom up. Nicole
Jokins was a fat ass when he came to the
NBA and he worked himself in shit. But yeah, he's
(33:09):
way too skinny to take be taken seriously. He's good,
but he can be really good if he fattens up next.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Michigan has reportedly pulled their contract extension offer for Jim
Harbaugh in the wake of this sign stealing scandal.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Ben, where do you think this story goes to the NFL? Baby,
Jim Harbaugh's gonna exit in the middle of the night
with the Mayflower movie mans and he will be coaching
the Indianapolis Colts or the Chicago Bears next season. How
did we do passes it? That is a way you
can put it on the bar? What take it to
the bank. Take it to the bank.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live. Now, who Nailer's Mountain of Money?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Oh, that's a lot of much.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, let's play the game right now. We say hello
to Baker Keith, who is hanging out with us and
he is in Utah. Hello to Baker Keith. What's going on? Keith?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Man?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
What are you making? Keith?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
All right now?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I'm doing bagels?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh god me, I'm an everything bagel guy. But I'm
not gonna turn down the pretty well what do you
What kind of bagels are you making right now? I
guess it doesn't matter. It's like a generica. Are you
making like an egg bagel? Right now? What are you making?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah? Egg on the list.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
There's a bunch of them, whole variety, blueberry raising.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
You know the smuff.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I got you? All right well? Making me hungry. Hold
on a sec. You're gonna play our game. By the way,
who do you want to partner up with Keith. You're
on the air. First, you can play with me, Ben, Eddie, Iowa, Sam,
who's in a Halloween costume? Or Coop Loop.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I'm gonna go with you this time. Dan.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's a smart choice, Baker. Keith, you made a you
made a good decision. Hold on and we have let's
see here aenie meenie miney mo. Let's say hello to John,
who's in South Carolina. Hello, John, Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 7 (35:18):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Welcome in John. You're gonna play mallards? Amount of money?
How exciting is that?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
It's awesome?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I want to I want one of those Otiago cheese bagels.
Oh yeah, he'll get right on that. Who do you
want to partner? Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Amy?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Meanie?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Money? You?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Oh? I can play with I get to play with you. Hell,
it's been done before. All right, I think you've got
to pick Eddie? Uh I always Sam or Cool I'll
picked all right boy. The sound of disappointment And I
don't blame you. I don't blame you. The sound of disappointment. Okay,
(35:58):
what are the categories here? All right, gentlemen, this is
Malard's Mountain of Money John Candy edition. He would have
been seventy three years old today. Fittingly, John Candy born
on Halloween. The categories and that's why we played Little
Shop Offores. He was also do in that.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
But the categories are the Blues Brothers, Stripes, JFK, and
Rookie of the Year. Baker Keith, you were on first,
which category would you like?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Let's go with Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Rookie of the Year, alright, and John, do you want
Blues Brothers stripes or JFK.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Let's go with stripes alright, stripes?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Alright, So Baker, Keith and Ben, you guys will be
up first. Your category is Rookie of the Year. Remember
you need to say the first and last name of
the athlete in order to get points. These athletes all
won Rookie of the Year. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Begin all right.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
He's a pitcher and and outfield for the Angels. Yes,
a quarterback for the Carolina Panthers. He finished his career
with the New England Patriots.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Uh went to Auburn, won a Heisman at Auburn quarterback. No,
all right, a star with the Lakers, teamed up with
Kobe Bryant. After Shack left, they traded for this guy.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
All Right, catcher for the San Francisco Giants. There's a
rule named after him. He got injured at home plate
in the game against the Marlins. They named a rule
after him. Do you even watch sports? I mean seriously, like,
are you just making.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
You guys are very tall. You got ten points you missed.
Cam Newton was the Auburn Heisman winner.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Knows who he is?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Gasol Gasol was the center with the Lakers, and Buster
Posey was the catcher for the Giants even bother last.
So we're gonna move over to John and Eddie. John
a good, good choice. With Eddie, you're probably gonna win this.
(38:12):
Oh yeah, because those those are terrible, terrible clues. Yes,
your left your category. John is stripes. These athletes all
served in the military. Forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
A Hall of Fame. Pitcher seven no hitters the Express.
He beat up Robin font it Uh. He was the
admiral for the San Antonio Spurs, played at Navy Cowboys
quarterback won the Heis Minute Navy. They called him the
Dodger old school baseball legend. The say hey kid, New
(38:47):
York Giants, San Francisco Giants outfielder, Oh my, uh bad
clues Eddie Yeah, Pirates legendary outfielder was killed in a
plane crash delivering earthquake. Yes, old school Yankees catcher not
over till it's over, it's getting early. Lates number eight,
(39:08):
Uh settle lot no, no, no, set a lot of
crazy things.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
No, that was That was Yogi Berra similar to third Buds.
And I did not get Willie Mays.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah, Willie Mays was the other one that you missed.
But you have one hundred and twenty points. That music
is really annoying, Sam, that's my IOWA bed music here
yeah music. Yeah, Well, Keith get more than ten points?
Round one hundred and twenty points are John and Eddie?
Going back to Keith and Ben Keith? Do you want
the Blues Brothers or JFK yesk JFK alright. These athletes
(39:48):
are known by their initials forty five seconds on the
clock begin all right.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Catcher for the Phillies. They were knocked out of the
the NLCS this year. Starting catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
gave oops, I'll try that again, all right? How about
quarterback back in the nineteen fifties for the forty nine ers,
nineteen sixties for the for the Giants, we thought he
was dead when he actually did die. We're an old
(40:15):
sounding last name. No the uh his his.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Airness end Dame Michael Gordon.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yes, the answer for the Sixers.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
As Alan Robber, I mean Alan, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
You got that one right, all right one there you
go at these have got more than ten points. It
was it's JT Real Muto the RJ.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
You know it was close. And then y A Tittle
was the quarterback that you missed there.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
John, Congratulations for Halloween, we got a special.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
We got time here at have to score. Yeah, it
really not. Look at the clip.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Plenty of time, John, your category. The Blues Brothers co
wrote the question these athletes the only these athletes were
raised Catholic. Forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 9 (41:16):
The Mamba for the Lakers killed in the plane crash
or a helicopter crash. The Sultan of Swat for the
Yankees old school fat home run hitter. The Sultan of
Swat jazz legend teamed up with Karl Malone, NBA assist leader. Yeah,
(41:38):
current kicker for the Ravens out of Texas. He never
misses the law. Go ahead, Yes, old school Yankee shortstop.
They called him the Scooter, now that's all right. Super
Bowl winning quarterback for the Dolphins. He wore glasses. His
son Brian played in the NFL. Yes, yes, uh, the
(42:00):
scot Remember the Scooter. Phil Razina's out of good job, John,
you gonna go great ticket.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
I get that in great job. I hope you're better
at baking bagels than you are answering slash as everyone's
gonna be poisoned eating those bagels good wine. That was
some terrible game show play right there,
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shoot me and our lead this hour we begin the
festivities here with what well that would be none other
(01:39):
than the World FN Series, which continued. Now this is
a invitation only according to the ratings. Now, we don't
do television here. This is radio, so I don't need
to worry about television ratings. But the World Series going
on on Monday night head to head with Monday Night football,
and you'll be happy to that. I had the World
(02:00):
Series on the big TV and I had the football
on the small TV. And that is where our lead is.
The World Series. Valley of the Sun Game three Rangers
and Diamondbacks tied one one. It was on Fox. We
needed you to watch because no one else was, and
(02:21):
perhaps you didn't watch it you were watching the football.
I had both going on. And in the baseball game,
Corey Seeger gets it done yet again. Corey Seger wallap
a two ron dinger, and he also made a key
defense to play mister smooth Corey Seger there as he
(02:41):
helped turn a double play in the eighth inning of
a close game. But the combination of mangled Max Max Schurzer,
John Gray, and a couple of relief pitchers of Raldas
Chapman's a roller coaster ride. He sucks. They keep putting
them out there though. But in the end, the ten
Texas baseball team beat the Arizona baseball team three to one,
(03:04):
and so that means the Texas Rangers are up two
games to one in the World Series. They're two wins
away from taking the title. So let us discuss the
question who gets to wear the blame cactus for the
Diamondbacks as they go down on their home field in
(03:27):
the downtown Phoenix area. So I've got Karma, Larry David,
and pharmacy Grade, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make a haunted mansion,
is what we're going to make, because there are some
goblins and ghosts to haunt the Diamondbacks after this game.
(03:50):
But the first thing here, a it's the big fundamental,
the big fundamental for Arizona, specifically Christian Walker, who well
you probably don't know his name because he sucks at
baseball right now, but he was the story early in
this game, as you talk about from saint to center
(04:10):
right now, he's a center for Arizona. Scoreless game, all right,
take you back to the bottom of the second inning,
game scoreless Arizona royally screwed up early in this game.
What happened, well, Walker ran through the stop sign and
at third base, third base coach says stop, stop, stop,
(04:32):
and he missed it. He missed us sign and he
kept running. Now, the only way this works out is
if you score. Spoiler alert, this guy didn't score. He
was thrown out at the play perfect throw by a
dollars Garcia of the Rangers. Good afternoon, good evening, and
good night. Now the d Backs did not score. And
(04:55):
considering that Christian Walker is not even hitting his weight
right now, what a boso? What an absolute bozo? This
guy is? Uh? And and so the other thing here.
And I have a theory that I would like to
share that this was karma in play car. But now
(05:15):
I believe in the fan code of conduct that a
good fan does not stand there and blindly cheer like
a lemming incompetence. That's a bad fan that does that.
A good fan holds players accountable. The Phoenix fan a
bad fan. They gave this guy, Christian Walker a standing ovation,
(05:39):
way to go, you blow, thank you so much, you suck,
We love you. And how did he reward them by
running through the third base coach and being thrown out.
He was batting oh ninety seven, oh ninety seven, which
is an interstate somewhere, but not a batting average to
three for thirty one. At one point he was one
(06:00):
in this day. But the big boner being thrown out
at home plate. It ain't little league. I know the
Arizona fan doesn't get a lot of winning there, but
it's not little league. Okay, the guy sucks, hold him accountable,
you don't cheer him, and you deserved him being thrown
out at home plate. You absolutely deserve that. You did. Now,
Arizona still could have scored in that inning. They did not,
(06:23):
but the early offense putting the Rangers into a situation
where they get the tight took his syndrome, the pressure cooker,
if you will, and in that allf is Now. Also,
while we're playing the blame game here, we're passing out
the blame cacti. You can say that the pitcher for Arizona,
Brandon fought, did not he did not have enough fought
(06:46):
in him. Now, the broadcasters would lead you to believe
this guy was the lights out, but he wasn't good enough.
And there's always been a thing old baseball people will
tell you if you're going head to head with another
picture and you got to match him. In this case,
it was multiple pictures, but Brandon Fought did not match
Max Scherzer and mister Gray that came in out of
(07:10):
the bulb. So literally and figuratively, your job is to
keep the other team at bay until your team scores
a run. He gave up three runs. That's a crooked number.
So we're not going to give you a gold star
near your name for doing that. Now, page two here,
what is the mood for Bruce Bochie's Rangers at this point?
(07:34):
Some injuries. We'll get to that coming up in a
little bit here, But the story of stories here all right.
By the way, I've just been rudely interrupted in this
mallet monologue for some bad news I'd like to pass along.
We actually have legitimate breaking news. Now. Rarely do we
get breaking news in the overna. I'll get back to
(07:55):
the monologue in a second, but let's strike up the
band here.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
All right, it is efficient. We've got a trade in
the NBA. We are told that the Philadelphia seventy six
ers have traded James Harden. He is out of Philadelphia.
James Harden is going to the Clippers. He's going to
(08:25):
the Clippers. Yeah, why couldn't this happen during Why couldn't
this happen during Colin Cowherd show. Why does this have
to happen during during the overnight show? You know why,
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's bad news. That's why only bad news happens overnight. Right,
somebody dies in the middle of the night, James Harden,
which is good news for all the restauranteurs in downtown
Los Angeles. James is from southern California, and I guess
he's gonna have to get in shape now that he's
going to the Clippers. The news coming out within the
(08:59):
last last ten minutes. So if only the Clippers could
get the Hot Tough Time Machine go back five years,
they would win the championship. They might not lose a
game with Kawhi Paul George, James Harden, Russell Westbrook. That's
a dream team from twenty eighteen or twenty seventeen, but
it's twenty twenty three. More on that coming up later.
(09:21):
But James Harden, we have learned now has been traded
from the Sixers to the Clippers. So that ends the
drama in Philly, and now the drama goes to the Clippers.
You know how it always starts with Harden a quick
take and we'll get back to the baseball monologue. So
the way this works for Harden, He'll show up smiling, happy,
go lucky, and on his way out, he will bring
(09:44):
a blow torch and torch the Clipper franchise on his
way out. That's what he does everywhere he goes. He's
great regular season player and yet another guy that will
vanish in the postseason, another guy that can stand next
to Kawhi Leondard gets It's hurt, Paul George disappears, Westbrook
can't make a three point shot, and Harden, who will
(10:05):
have a game where he scores thirty five points, then
the very next game will go out and score four
and he basically quit on the Sixers. It's hard for
me to get excited about this. I am a Clipper apologist,
but it's hard for me to get excited. I hope
I'm wrong. I hope Harden goes out there and balls
out with the clips and does wonderful. But I'm not
holding my breath. All right, now back to the baseball conversation.
(10:27):
So we were talking about the mood for Bruce Bochie's Rangers
and where they're at right now. Up two games to one.
Lot of doom and gloom for the Rangers because of
the fact that Eddie's mike was up and shouldn't have been.
But the issue here I was Sam was off yously.
So it's just his first day back, so there'll be
a lot of mistakes. But anyway, get to the point please.
(10:48):
So the point of this is that the media is like, oh,
this is terrible. The Rangers won, but they're in some
trouble here because of the injuries. I say, no, all
things considered, I will channel my inner Larry David that
for the Rangers right now, things are pretty pretty pretty
dy good for the Texas Rangers. They charge they got
(11:11):
absolutely char boiling game two. More proof there's no such
thing as momentum. Texas also has road field advantage. The
Rangers are nine and all on the road and means
they must hate their wives, girlfriends and kids. They're nine
and h on the road in the postseason. That sounds impressive.
That is a new Baseball record for road wins in
(11:33):
a postseason. Of course, they keep adding road games, so
the records can change. But Bruce Bochie, he's got to
have a cheshire cat smile thinking of the fifty shades
of John Gray that he tossed out. They're big marbles,
big marbles. He picked up the slack there. Gray retired
(11:53):
the first eight Arizona batters he faced out of the Rangers' bullpen,
and it would have been a perfect nine nine had
Marcus Simeon not dropped. What a big league infielder should
catch as a liner, And we mentioned Corey Seeger captain clutch.
He's got the clutch gene. Can he loan some of
(12:14):
that to Mookie Betts who's lost it? Or Freddie Freeman
or some of those guys with the Dodgers who forgot
how to hit in the playoffs? Can Corey give them
some of that? Because he's everything the Dodgers aren't right now,
meaning that he actually has balls in the playoffs, unlike
some of these other guys. Now, all right, last word here,
So talking about the World Series and where do things
(12:37):
go from here in the World Series? Where do things
go from here in the World Series? So now we wait,
But We don't wait very long because there's another game
coming up on Halloween night. But we wait for the
medical report on que as advertised, Max Scherzer. Mad Max
(12:58):
left his start with tightness in his back. He's got
a bad back. Humpty dumpty fell off the wall yet again, shocking,
and he was in line to start a possible game seven.
Now this series is not gonna go. It should not
go seven games. The Rangers are clearly better than the Diamondbacks,
and they should exterminate the Diamondbacks before game seven. But
(13:21):
if it does go to game seven, it's easy peasy
for Bruce Bochi the chess move here, you simply go
with John Gray. That's the guy. Give him the ball
in game seven. The bigger underlying condition is a Dallas
Garcia who grabbed his oblique. Oh my anching old blake,
(13:42):
and he flew out in the seventh inning. He went
to the clubhouse there did not come back. I have
not seen anything. I'll keep an eye on it. If
there's anything that happens here overnight about a Dollas Garcia.
But if he was a football player, he'd say he's
a gladiator. He'll be back out there, no problem. But
he's a baseball player. It's a problem. It's not that easy.
(14:02):
This is a freaking World Series.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
My advice, No one ever listens to my advice in baseball.
My advice is pharmacy grade ibuprofen, and then if that
doesn't work, just rub some dirt on it, and if
that doesn't work, throw some mud on top of it.
The sky is falling, hyperventilating baseball media. The Rangers are
doomed without a Dallas Garcianos. If he doesn't play in
(14:25):
the next couple of games of the World Series, then
you just get somebody else out there and the next
man up do your job. I'll be Benny Brightside on this,
unlike the James Harden trade. But those are the two
stories we are juggling right now. If you would like
to be part of this, you can join us here.
The lines are open. But again, World Series two to
one in favor of the Texas Rangers, and James Harden
(14:48):
is out of Philadelphia, future Hall of Famer going to
the People's team. Everyone wants to be a Clipper. Yeah,
James Harden gets to go play for the People's team.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The Clippers be sure to catch live editions of The
Bet Malor Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app The.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Honolulu Blue How do you do well? Come in the
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way tied buying. Shoot, we're gonna talk some football. We
will tell you that a trade was broken overnight. We
very rarely get the gift of anything substantial happening when
we're on the radio, other than planes crashing, people dying,
(16:17):
wars happening, things like that. But we actually had a trade.
James Harden has exited the Philadelphia seventy six ers and
he has done it yet again. What James Harden wants,
James Harden gets Dad Gummet. So James Harden going to
the people's team. He's going to La La Land and
(16:37):
he'll be joining the Clippers in a transaction that we
will break down as we go through the overnight. But
multiple players spare parts from the Clippers going to Philadelphia
draft pick swaps PJ Tucker. Why is PJ Tucker part
of the trade. I have no idea, but PJ Tucker
part of that trade. He's going to the Clips with
James Harden and Nicholas Patoum, Markus Morris, Robert Covington, guys
(17:02):
like that going back to Philadelphia. So a lot more
time to shake that up and break that down. But
our lead headline this hour coming from Motown, the curtain
closing on Week eight of the NFL season. Now, I
had Big TV, Little TV. Big TV ad the World Series,
(17:22):
Little TV. I had the football game and you know
who played Little Jimmy Garoppolo. That's who played Little Garoppolo
and the Raiders paying a visit to wrangle with the Lions. Now,
if you were not watching, because you actually have a
life and you don't watch every single sporting event. I
get it. Well, Uh, the Lions wore just ugly uniforms.
(17:47):
I don't know who designed those, but they're just absolutely terrible.
I say fashion faux plaw Paul. But unfortunately for the Lions,
they did not play like they looked. It was a
god awful helmet. But a rookie he's our running back
and he's a good one. Jamir Gibbs rumbling and stumbling
(18:10):
and bumbling for a season high one hundred and fifty
two yards on the ground there and a touchdown. And
Jared Goff he did have the brain fart, he had
the intercession with golf, two hundred seventy two yards passing
and a score. Detroit roaring back just like that, and
they get the win after getting absolutely embarrassed against the
(18:34):
Ravens last week. And so they get to victory twenty
six to fourteen, which means if you bet the Lions
and laid the points, you won the bet. But it
wasn't easy. The Lions improved as six and tell they
won their last four prime time games. I'm old enough
to remember when people would say, why do we put
the Lions on Thanksgiving every year? I know that's not
(18:55):
a primetime game, but it's considered it's an island game,
so it's a showcase game. So lines are six and two,
the Raiders the better story in the losing locker room,
the Raiders are three and five, and it's so bad
for the Raiders. How bad is it? It's so bad
for the Raiders. My friends who wear the Raider logo
with pride because they have machismo, right it just reeks
(19:19):
of testosterone, the Raider logo, and it's so humiliating right now,
they're embarrassed. They're embarrassed by what the Raiders are doing.
So why don't we start with that? Now, there was
one moment that stood out that we are going to
discuss here. At the beginning of this Mallard monologue, a
frustrated DeVante Adams spotted taking his helmet and throwing it
(19:43):
down on the sideline. He was angry, he was having
none of this there slamming the helmet down on the
fourth quarter as the Silver and Black go down to defeat.
So let us discuss the question, what is the temperature
in Raider locker room around Davante adams locker, What is
(20:03):
the temperature? I'm curious, what do you think you did?
All right, So I've got Smoky the Bear, China and Sephora,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a trip to the ballet,
which is what James Harden will be doing a lot
(20:24):
of when he heads out to LA But this is
a football monologue, and so again the question what's the temperature?
And the raider locker room around the locker of Davante Adams,
so number W. Davante Adams has been very open and
(20:46):
honest via his actions, not so much as words, but
some of them are his words. The temperature right now
for Davante Adams is at the boiling point. It is
at the boiling point. The body language speaks vognars. But
it's not just the body language. Every man, woman and
child who has paid any attention to this storyline knows
(21:10):
that a snarky comment here, a well placed no comment there,
a helmet slam in the back, questioning the culture of
winning in the front, all of that combined together, and
we don't need to, but we can bring in Smokey
the Bear. And it was Smoky the Bear when I
(21:31):
was a little kid who reminded us that only you
can prevent forest fires, and where there's smoke, there's fire,
and there is absolutely an inferno going on around Davonte
Adams right now. At this point, Adams, he keeps chirping
away at the at the Raider facility. Now we actually
have some postgame sound from Devonte Adams here, and let's
(21:54):
listen to the audio. This is the SoundBite I think
it is from Devonte Adams here. You'll hear Davante asked
about the helmet slap, and let's let's listen to what
Davante had to say.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Honestly, I don't know what to say at this moment,
I truly don't. I wish I had the words to,
you know, to say something that's not going to get
blown up in the media and taking out of context.
So I'm gonna just I truly, I just don't know
what are you feeling right now? Can you elaborate on
anything going through your mind? Frustration? But I mean that's
(22:27):
that kind of goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Dante.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
I know you said that you know you have confidence
whenever you're out there and offense's ability, but has it
become hard to maintain that you know the.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Results are what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
No, it's not hard to maintain the confidence in our offense.
It's just hard to curb your frustration when you can't
put it together when you know you shared it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So the initial part of that is the money sound
by these I don't want to comment. Then he commented
on it. A no comment as is as good as
a butcher knife to the heart. When you say no comment,
you were admitting what I'm going to say is going
to resonate around the building and around the NFL because
(23:08):
what I'm gonna say is not nice. So instead I'm
not gonna sit. So essentially by not commenting, initially, Devonte
Adams was delivering a body blow to mister McDaniels and
the Raider coaching stuff. That's the only way you can
take it. And he's he's going shawshank redemption here. He's
(23:28):
chipping away at the side of the Raider facility there
and he's trying trying to get outside those walls and
go somewhere else. And today it happens to be Halloween
trick or treat. We know DeVonta Adams would like a
trade is what he wants, not a trick or a treat.
He wants a trade somewhere else. The deadline is at
(23:50):
four o'clock Eastern time, one o'clock in the West. And
if you are a team in need of a wide receiver,
better be on the phone right now with the Raiders.
Let's make a deal. Let's make a deal, Let's make
something happen. Gotta trade him, right got the Raiders are
(24:11):
They are years away from even being a competitive team.
Did you see that game on Monday night? That is drek.
That is not a professional football team's performance. Nice. Yeah,
So come hell or high water, whether it happens now
or whether it happens after the season. Devonte Adams wants
off the pirate ship and he would like to go
(24:33):
somewhere else, these treacherous waters with the Raiders. And I
get it. He took the money, he got paid, and
now he's watching the Raiders sulk away, sulk away, and
it's just now page do here you have the embattled
head coach, Josh McDaniels, and Josh McDaniels right now he
(24:53):
has a hot tushy. Yes he's on the hot seat.
Although Mark Davis is very cheap the Raid own, a
real owner would have fired Josh McDaniels immediately after that
game would have said, thank you very much, we're good.
You suck at your job, Get out of here. The
(25:14):
offensive wizard of those Patriot teams. What a what a joke?
That is, huh Vegas in this game against the Lions defense,
which has been up and down one hundred and fifty
seven yards of offense for the Raiders. That's it, less
than one hundred and sixty yards of offense. Twelve first downs.
They went one of nine the Raiders did on third down.
(25:34):
That's a eleven percent success rate. Only ran forty five
offensive plays. I can go on and on. I got
all kinds of numbers. I can shove numbers down your
throat if you want. And now the catch is leaving
the door open to changing things up at quarterback. That's
Josh McDaniels leaving the door open. I don't know if
(25:56):
we have that sound by here, but Josh McDaniels after
the game was noncommittal on Jimmy Garoppolo continuing on as
the Raiders starting quarterback. Take I listen to this, so.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I know you're only eight games in, you still got
nine left, But at this point in the season when
the offense hasn't taken off.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Do you have to look at everything?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Do you stay the course?
Speaker 6 (26:15):
We should, Hondo, Honestly, we should. I mean, it's not
productive enough, you know, whether it doesn't matter a pick
a winner, you know what I mean. Honestly, we have
to be able to produce more points in order to
win games in this league, and right now we're not
doing that. And so that's obviously my responsibility. And we'll
take a look at everything we're doing, everybody that's doing it,
(26:36):
you know, and try to figure out if there's a
better way that's what we can do. There's still nine
games to go, you know, so we have a lot
of football left. We have played stretches of good football,
but you know, certainly not consistently enough. I'm not going
to talk about that right now.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Noah, See, that's a dagger, he said. I'm not going
He didn't give a vote of commence that glo. How
about this Garoppolo traded to day right, Jimmy Garoppolo to
the Vikings. Break it right now, Garoppolo out of Vegas,
goes to Minnesota. How about Garoppolo for Mac Jones? Send
(27:11):
Garoppolo to the Patriots. Who says no? Who says no
to that? Wow? All right, so I think you know
where this Jimmy Garoppolo story is going. At this particular point,
we're at the chapter in the book where everyone is
finger pointing because Josh McDaniels had this glowing reputation as
(27:32):
an offensive savant. Can flush that down the toilet. That's
gone yet again. He was a fraud when he left
the Patriots the first time and went to the Saint
Louis Rams and the Denver Broncos, he was a joke.
Then went back to the Patriots, he was boy. Wonder
now he leaves the Patriots and he's a nincome poop
yet again, a nincome poop. So the the thing to
(27:54):
do here is, if you're you're thinking of benching Garoppolo,
trade him, trade his ass, send him to the Vikings,
get a fifth round draft pick or something who cares,
don't matter, and get rid of Garoppolo. And right now,
Josh McDaniels, whether it's trading Garoppolo to the Patriots or
the Vikings or a mystery team, Josh McDaniels as a
(28:17):
head coach in the NFL, is on a slow boat
to China. At this point, it is terrible right he
will be coaching in China if this does not turn
around rapidly. Here for the Raiders, and the jury is
in on McDaniels, he is a fake, a phony, and
a fraud. As an offensive savant, he has one of
(28:39):
the top receivers in football and his roster check he
had the leading rusher in the NFL last year. Check,
he had his hand picked quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. Check. And
the Raiders are a bottom five offensive team in every measurement,
every single measurement. How's that scheme working out for you,
mister McDaniels. Now, final point, we go to the winners
(29:01):
locker room the Honolulu Blue. Have the Lions with this
victory now fixed all of their problems? And survey says no,
they have not. They have not done that. Now I'm
shaking my head. No, they have not fixed all the problems.
But here, the victory obviously was necessary because you had
(29:24):
that terrible performance in Baltimore last week. You get that
bad taste, that ginger vitis out of your mouth a
little bit. But here's the problem. You can't get too
worked up because this is what we call a Sephorah victory.
It's makeup. It's putting makeup all over the situation. Because
Dan Campbell Motor City, Dan the head coach of the Lions.
(29:46):
You know, the Lions have the talent to go very
far in the playoffs in the NFC. Make a whole
lot of noise, but this was not the type of
performance where you look at and say that's a team
that's going to go on a run of the postseason
and all that, because they use the makeup to cover
up the fact that they had five trips in the
red zone only one successful trip to the red zone
(30:07):
in terms of pay dirt getting a touchdown. This game
should have been forty eight to seven, and the fact
that the Raiders still had the opportunity to win the
game in the second half and the fourth quarter is
an indictment of the Detroit football team. And the Raiders
are JV squad. They're an embarrassment. They're an absolute disgrace.
(30:28):
The Raiders and the Lions could have, should have, would have,
but didn't blow the doors off the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
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called over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun
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Speaker 1 (31:03):
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Speaker 5 (31:05):
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be good at it because you've been over promising women
for years.
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want you to be a part of it. We're gonna
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Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's mallard.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
To the third degree, this is one Big gets.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Grilled and the coop dwop.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
After the Saints win over the Colts on Sunday, there
was one analysts that said New Orleans has the highest
ceiling of any team in the NFC South.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Are they right? Well, I don't know who that analyst is,
but that analyst is a moron. Okay, no one in
that division is any good. Atlanta is no good. The
Saints don't have a quarterback. What is your ceiling? When
Derek Carr poops his pants against every halfway decent opponent,
their defense is over. I know, I mean there was
the seiling eight or nine wins. Atlanta is about the
(32:28):
same type of team. They don't have a quarterback. You
go down in that division. It's all mediocre.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Next, after destroying the Oklahoma City Thunder by over thirty points,
Nikola Jokic had some advice for the thunder star rookie
Chet Holmgren. He said that Holmgren needs to be a
little fatter. Yeah, Ben, do you think Holmgren could be
a star if he just gained some weight.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Well, it's not that simple. But he's like a twig
right now. It looks like a video game glitch, like
on your TV when you watch him play. He's so thin.
I think he's gonna break in half if a player
picks him up. He's that thin to take him to
the buffet. I like it. Fatten up, fatom up. Nicole
Jokins was a fat ass when he came to the
NBA and he worked himself in shit. But yeah, he's
(33:09):
way too skinny to take be taken seriously. He's good,
but he can be really good if he fattens up next.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Michigan has reportedly pulled their contract extension offer for Jim
Harbaugh in the wake of this sign stealing scandal.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Ben, where do you think this story goes to the NFL? Baby,
Jim Harbaugh's gonna exit in the middle of the night
with the Mayflower movie mans and he will be coaching
the Indianapolis Colts or the Chicago Bears next season. How
did we do passes it? That is a way you
can put it on the bar? What take it to
the bank. Take it to the bank.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
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listen live. Now, who Nailer's Mountain of Money?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Oh, that's a lot of much.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, let's play the game right now. We say hello
to Baker Keith, who is hanging out with us and
he is in Utah. Hello to Baker Keith. What's going on? Keith?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
How you doing today?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Man?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
What are you making? Keith?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
All right now?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I'm doing bagels?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Oh god me, I'm an everything bagel guy. But I'm
not gonna turn down the pretty well what do you
What kind of bagels are you making right now? I
guess it doesn't matter. It's like a generica. Are you
making like an egg bagel? Right now? What are you making?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah? Egg on the list.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
There's a bunch of them, whole variety, blueberry raising.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
You know the smuff.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I got you? All right well? Making me hungry. Hold
on a sec. You're gonna play our game. By the way,
who do you want to partner up with Keith. You're
on the air. First, you can play with me, Ben, Eddie, Iowa, Sam,
who's in a Halloween costume? Or Coop Loop.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I'm gonna go with you this time. Dan.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's a smart choice, Baker. Keith, you made a you
made a good decision. Hold on and we have let's
see here aenie meenie miney mo. Let's say hello to John,
who's in South Carolina. Hello, John, Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 7 (35:18):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Welcome in John. You're gonna play mallards? Amount of money?
How exciting is that?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
It's awesome?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I want to I want one of those Otiago cheese bagels.
Oh yeah, he'll get right on that. Who do you
want to partner? Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 8 (35:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Amy?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Meanie?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Money? You?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Oh? I can play with I get to play with you. Hell,
it's been done before. All right, I think you've got
to pick Eddie? Uh I always Sam or Cool I'll
picked all right boy. The sound of disappointment And I
don't blame you. I don't blame you. The sound of disappointment. Okay,
(35:58):
what are the categories here? All right, gentlemen, this is
Malard's Mountain of Money John Candy edition. He would have
been seventy three years old today. Fittingly, John Candy born
on Halloween. The categories and that's why we played Little
Shop Offores. He was also do in that.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
But the categories are the Blues Brothers, Stripes, JFK, and
Rookie of the Year. Baker Keith, you were on first,
which category would you like?
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Let's go with Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Rookie of the Year, alright, and John, do you want
Blues Brothers stripes or JFK.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Let's go with stripes alright, stripes?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Alright, So Baker, Keith and Ben, you guys will be
up first. Your category is Rookie of the Year. Remember
you need to say the first and last name of
the athlete in order to get points. These athletes all
won Rookie of the Year. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Begin all right.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
He's a pitcher and and outfield for the Angels. Yes,
a quarterback for the Carolina Panthers. He finished his career
with the New England Patriots.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Uh went to Auburn, won a Heisman at Auburn quarterback. No,
all right, a star with the Lakers, teamed up with
Kobe Bryant. After Shack left, they traded for this guy.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
All Right, catcher for the San Francisco Giants. There's a
rule named after him. He got injured at home plate
in the game against the Marlins. They named a rule
after him. Do you even watch sports? I mean seriously, like,
are you just making.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
You guys are very tall. You got ten points you missed.
Cam Newton was the Auburn Heisman winner.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Knows who he is?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Gasol Gasol was the center with the Lakers, and Buster
Posey was the catcher for the Giants even bother last.
So we're gonna move over to John and Eddie. John
a good, good choice. With Eddie, you're probably gonna win this.
(38:12):
Oh yeah, because those those are terrible, terrible clues. Yes,
your left your category. John is stripes. These athletes all
served in the military. Forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
A Hall of Fame. Pitcher seven no hitters the Express.
He beat up Robin font it Uh. He was the
admiral for the San Antonio Spurs, played at Navy Cowboys
quarterback won the Heis Minute Navy. They called him the
Dodger old school baseball legend. The say hey kid, New
(38:47):
York Giants, San Francisco Giants outfielder, Oh my, uh bad
clues Eddie Yeah, Pirates legendary outfielder was killed in a
plane crash delivering earthquake. Yes, old school Yankees catcher not
over till it's over, it's getting early. Lates number eight,
(39:08):
Uh settle lot no, no, no, set a lot of
crazy things.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
No, that was That was Yogi Berra similar to third Buds.
And I did not get Willie Mays.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah, Willie Mays was the other one that you missed.
But you have one hundred and twenty points. That music
is really annoying, Sam, that's my IOWA bed music here
yeah music. Yeah, Well, Keith get more than ten points?
Round one hundred and twenty points are John and Eddie?
Going back to Keith and Ben Keith? Do you want
the Blues Brothers or JFK yesk JFK alright. These athletes
(39:48):
are known by their initials forty five seconds on the
clock begin all right.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Catcher for the Phillies. They were knocked out of the
the NLCS this year. Starting catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
gave oops, I'll try that again, all right? How about
quarterback back in the nineteen fifties for the forty nine ers,
nineteen sixties for the for the Giants, we thought he
was dead when he actually did die. We're an old
(40:15):
sounding last name. No the uh his his.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Airness end Dame Michael Gordon.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yes, the answer for the Sixers.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
As Alan Robber, I mean Alan, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
You got that one right, all right one there you
go at these have got more than ten points. It
was it's JT Real Muto the RJ.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
You know it was close. And then y A Tittle
was the quarterback that you missed there.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
John, Congratulations for Halloween, we got a special.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
We got time here at have to score. Yeah, it
really not. Look at the clip.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Plenty of time, John, your category. The Blues Brothers co
wrote the question these athletes the only these athletes were
raised Catholic. Forty five seconds begin.
Speaker 9 (41:16):
The Mamba for the Lakers killed in the plane crash
or a helicopter crash. The Sultan of Swat for the
Yankees old school fat home run hitter. The Sultan of
Swat jazz legend teamed up with Karl Malone, NBA assist leader. Yeah,
(41:38):
current kicker for the Ravens out of Texas. He never
misses the law. Go ahead, Yes, old school Yankee shortstop.
They called him the Scooter, now that's all right. Super
Bowl winning quarterback for the Dolphins. He wore glasses. His
son Brian played in the NFL. Yes, yes, uh, the
(42:00):
scot Remember the Scooter. Phil Razina's out of good job, John,
you gonna go great ticket.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
I get that in great job. I hope you're better
at baking bagels than you are answering slash as everyone's
gonna be poisoned eating those bagels good wine. That was
some terrible game show play right there,
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