November 15, 2023 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the Buffalo Bills firing their offensive coordinator in Ken Dorsey, Giancarlo Stanton's agent responding to Brian Cashman, Maller to the Third Degree, the Iowa Minute w/ Iowa Sam, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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in Western New York. They were licking their wounds the
day after a lost to lowly Denver on Monday night,
and the Buffalo football team decided to crank up the
firing squad and you're gone, get out of here, see
you later. Bye bye. Enough if you didn't hear about
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this for some reason, maybe you've been out of the loop.
But whatever the case, the Buffalo Bills fire the embattled
offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey, that news coming down early in
the day on Tuesday. They named quarterbacks coach Joe Brady
as the interim offensive coordinator, So a lateral move there.
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Dorsey had been the quarterbacks coach. He was promoted with
much fanfare after Brian Dabele went to New York. Table
has been exposed as a froud this year with the Giants.
But the Dorsey was named the new offensive guru. That
didn't last very long. And now Buffalo turning to who
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Joe Brady? Who does have some experience, not good experience
as an offensive coordinator in the NFVL. He was a
member of a faithful coaching staff in Carolina Matt Rules
Panthers coaching staff in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.
So let us discuss the question, how do you interpret
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the Bills whacking Ken Dorsey as the offensive coordinator. So
I've got the complete idiot's guide, Rotten Apple and Blues Brothers,
and we will combine all of these things together and
don't blink or you'll miss it. So a as has
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been well known through the history of humanity, actions speak
louder than words. So the action tells you that Josh
Allen is the coach killer. Josh Allen is responsible for
Ken Dorsey losing his job. His piss poor play is
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why the Bills decided to do this. They can't get
rid of a player. They gave him the contact, he's
there forever quarterback, So they had to get rid of
the coach and Bill's mafia convinced that Josh Allen can
do no wrong. Every fumble and every interception, every bonehead
play by Josh Allen, none of it is his fault.
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There's no out ability by Josh Allen. And yet again
the Buffalo Bills continue to insulate Josh Allen with his
terrible decision making. How is that Ken Dorsey's fault that
Josh Allen can't hand the football off without dropping? Now,
I'm not saying Dorsey is a good offensive coordinator, but seriously,
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now he's getting blamed for all that. It's like it's like,
all of a sudden, Alan the last couple of years
has taken stupid pills and that's Dorsey's fault. So but
buffalo of you. If you take a couple steps back
and you look out at the Serengetti with the Buffalo rome,
you see that the Bills are following a forever guidebook,
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The Complete Idiots Guide to Bad Football, The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Losing Football. Last week, they hold a player's
only meeting with much fanfare. They go out and ride
the vomit comment, turning the ball over and over and
over and over again. Then they come back and fire
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Ken Dorsey in a human sacrifice. We all know you
gotta have a fall. Gotta have a fall, guy. All
of this is an effort to salvage their quarterback and
at the same time pacify the broken hearted Bill's MAFI.
Now the next move. If you've read The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Losing Football, you know the next move is
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a full nuclear meltdown by wide receivers to Fawn Dicks.
I didn't sign up for this I don't understand. It's
not fair. I should be playing on a good team.
We're not a good team. Now that already started a
little bit with his brother Trevon Diggs of the Cowboys
starting the fire to get him out of Buffalo. Now
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following that, you have head coach Sean McDermott, who will
be escorted out of the building in a timely manner,
and they're just gonna keep recycling coaches until Josh Allen
either figures it out, has to come to Jesus moment
or or his contract runs out and they bring in
some other Jamoke to play quarterback. But the idea that
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Joe Brady, the new offensive coordinator, is some kind of
messiah based on what he has done would nothing there
leads you to believe at the pro level, this guy's
gonna get it done. He failed epically in Carolina with
much fanfare. He was brought into Carolina as a guru there.
He was fired mid season, and under Joe Brady, the
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Panthers of twenty twenty two had the fourth worst EPA
per play. That's a nerd staff, but it was the
fourth worst out of thirty two teams. All Right, moving on,
headline from the Transaction Wire. The writers made a roster move.
They claimed former pat now expat Jack Jones off waivers. Now,
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normally this would not raise to the level of high
crimes and misdemeanors, but was the there's some funny business
going on with this particular raider move to acquire the
now ex pat, the defensive back Jack Jones. So I'm
not in my head, Yes, I'm not in my head.
Yes there was some funny business with his Does a
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dog have fleece?
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Like?
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This? Is not your standard waiver wire pickup? Is it
also true that Jack Jones worked over the Patriots using
a crowbar to escape and slide into the silver and
black bingo. Now, a source with a very deep rollodex
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and intense knowledge and also loose lifts tells me that
Jack Jones has been sulking for some time. He saw
an off ramp away from the Patriots. You'd think the
guy would be in great news. He got'd be in
a great mood because he's like a cat with nine lives.
How many people can say they brought loaded guns to
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airport security and got dinged with it and nothing happened.
Jack joneskin he brought loaded weapons, two of them the
Logan Airport in Boston and nothing happened. That's it. He
has second chance. But he's been at loggerheads with the
defensive back Mike Pellegrino in New England and he didn't
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like him. It was not into the whole rigid Bill
Belichick approach, and so he was able to play the system.
From what we're hearing here, the rotten Apple gets what
rotten Apple wants in this story. Now why the Raiders.
This is when things really picked up once Antonio Peers
became the interim coach. This is a deep state tinfoil
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hat conspiracy. But once Antonio Peers was promoted to the
interim coach, it was go time. It was green light
go and the plan was hatched up. Until then, that
was not the plan. Now that doesn't mean the player
wasn't happy, But once the move was made, all of
a sudden, Jack Jones had a cheshire cat smile. The
reason he had to play for the Raiders is because
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Antonio Pierce coached Jack Jones at high school at Long Beach,
Poley High and SoCal and at Arizona State was on
the Herm Edwards coaching staff, so they've got a very
tight bond. And the rumor has it that Antonio Piers
was able to get Jack Jones out of a whole
lot of trouble earlier on in his football career, and
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so now Jack Jones is with the Raiders. Now moving
on last word here headline Pittsburgh, PA, where the Steelers
have a winning record. They are three games above five hundred,
which is stunning considering they're not good, but the record is.
Mike Tomlin is aware that things need to improve here,
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especially the quarterback Kenny Pickett not picking it up, and
Tomlin said as much. He admitted that Kenny Pickett he
needs to do more if the Steelers are going to
make a deep playoff run. It makes sense, right, So
Tomlin's admission about Kenny Pickett needing to improve is he capable?
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Is Kenny Pickett capable? So after a minutes long review,
I am shaking my head. No, now you can't see me,
and if you can see me, you're spying and you're
a creeper. But the answer is no. Now, we have
zero evidence that this Drabbroni has a second gear. We
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know he can drive in the slow lane. We know
that But if I look at Pickett and how would
you describe him as a quarterback, He's a basic bitch quarterback.
That's who he is, right, He's an ordinary quarterback of
little consequence. And Steeler fans, most of the steel Fans'
ideal with know this. They're aware of this. Some are
in denial. But he's been the lord of mediocrity. And
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if Pittsburgh needs Kenny Picket to turn on the after
burners and go room room, they're doom doomed. Mike Tomlin,
Steelers are getting a Blues Brothers classic rubber biscuit at quarterback.
That's a wish sandwich, the kind of sandwich where you
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have two pieces of bread and you wish you had
some meat. There's no meat there, where's the beef? Cann
He Pickett by the numbers, And he's played over a
year now well into another season, year plus, and he
has one more game with a passer rating above one
hundred than you. He has one more game than you
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have with two passing touchdowns. He also has nine games
with no passing touchdowns, five games with a passer rating
below seventy. Now I didn't play in the NFL, but
I do know those numbers suck. I know that right.
Maybe he will rise from the day and pushed the
shovels away and turn into something. But based on what
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he has done, there's a lot to complain about. It's
not going so well. It's not going so well, and
you can be in denial and say, well, it's this
guy's fault. It's Matt Canada's faults. That's what they did
in Buffalo Buffalo. They blamed the offensive coordinator. Eventually the
offensive coordinator got fired, and we'll see how that turns out.
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I don't think it's gonna make much of a different
difference at all. But that's where we are.
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of saucers. I say, that's great. People disagreeing with each other.
That's what makes the world of sports talk radio go round.
And so we have that. If you didn't see it,
perhaps not the dumpster fire that is Yankee baseball. Jean
Carlo Stanton formerly known I know Mon, he was Mike Stanton,
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but John Carlos Stanton. He's playing for the Yankees. Not well,
by the way, not well for the Yankees. The ship
is a sinking. The ship be sinking, and gihen Carlo
Stanton's agent decided to punch back against Brian Cashman in
the war of words. The war of words, offering a
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warning shot to any free agent who is considering even
remotely joining the Bronx Bombers. It's like, hey, far clear
of the Yankees. Now, before we tell you what the
agent said, here's Brian Cashman. If you didn't see it.
Brian Cashman said that the injury plagued John Carlos Stanton
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is quote going to wind up getting hurt more likely
than not, because it seems to be part of his game.
Close quote. That was a quote that Cashman gave to
a baseball scribe at a brick and mortar building a
hotel before everyone was puking at the GM meetings. So
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one day after that comment went public and was published,
the agent for Gian Carlo Stanton, the guy named Joel Wolf.
Who the hell knows who that is. We only know
one agent in baseball and it ain't Joel Wolf. So
this guy responded in a prepared statement behind a paywall
to the Athletic. Of course, why would you give this
out outside a paywall? He said the following, and this
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is what we call the money quote. I think it's
a good reminder for all free agents, for all free
agents considering signing in New York, both foreign and domestic,
that to play for that team, you've got to be
made of teflon, both mentally and physically, because you can
never let your guard down even in the off season.
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Boo hoo. Now that last part I added on. That
last part was my creativeness. I added that on. But
in my head that's what Joel Wolf the agent said.
Boo hoo hoo. That's what it sounded, all right, So
let us discuss which is a pretty good back and
forth year. You've got sluggers on Carlos Stanton's agent and
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Brian Cashman on different sides of the aisle. Whose side
are you leaning towards? So, as you know, I'm the judge,
moderator and the Vegas linemaker, and I'm leaning heavily towards
Brian Cashman on this one. This is a rare w
for Brian Cashman. And you know I've taken plenty of
shots at the Yankee GM over the years. My observations.
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You've got foot locker Jack and the beanstock and clerical
and we're gonna combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some stale popcorn, which is
what the Yankees were serving up last season, stale popcorn.
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So number.
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We are on the side of Cashman, as I said,
and this is a tough and up butter cup. But
you're not supposed to say that you're the GM of
the Yankees. Yeah, okay, we get that. Joel Wolf is
also paid to represent John Carlos Stanton, and if he
wasn't playing for the Yankees, he'd be driving a mister
Softy truck in selling ice cream soft serve. And so
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I get the agent putting a firewall up around the
guy regardless Brian Cashman a rare w and calling it
the way it is now, is that the thing you're
supposed to do. No, that's what makes it unique, that's
what makes it stand out like a sore thumb, that
this is not the normal way you handle these things.
But it's true. He didn't lie. He actually told the truth.
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And that is how backwards our little sporting world is
that Brian Cashman says the truth the Yankee GM about
one of his players, and you get guffaws all over
the place. Oh, I can't believe it. Did you hear
what Brian Cashman's Oh my god, he spoke the truth.
This guy's a softy, as they say at foot locker.
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If the shoe fits, wear it. And Gian Carlos Stanton
is an enigma. You are what your resume says you are.
He has missed at least twenty games in each of
the past five seasons because of various injuries, most of
them lower body injuries. He missed sixty one games last season.
When he did play, he was below the Mendoza line,
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and a remarkable thirty three point four percent of all
of his at bats resulted in him going back to
the dugout by striking out thirty three percent of the time.
If that countered as a hit, he'd have a three
thirty batting average, but a thirty three percent of the time.
Oh swing baa sawing barra woof yeah, woof woof woof
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woof yeah. And the Yankees would like to trade him
now John Carlo's got a no trade clause, so it
is more likely than not that this was strategic by
Brian Cashman trying to ruffle the feathers of Gean Carlos
So he's uncomfortable, so he would approve a trade to
some other woebegone team elsewhere around the major leagues. And
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the agent also giving a subtle ultimatum, a subtle ultimatum
to the Yankees that you better zip okay or you're
not going to be able to get Yamamoto. He's the
next Japanese star. Yocean Obu Yamato is his name. He's
a right handed pitcher from Japan, and he's won their
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Cy Young Award a bunch of times. He is the
top available free agent pitcher this offseason. Many connecting the
dots between Yamamoto and the Yankees, and the agent's like, hey,
by the way, that price tag's gonna cost you a
little more. Yep, yep, you've got the appetite for this guy.
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You got pale more yeap, all right. Pitch two headline.
San Diego wanted to give a few minutes of a
tip of the microphone to a guy named Peter Seidler.
Peter Sideler, you might not know who that is. He
was the owner of the San Diego Padres. He's no
longer the owner of the Padres because he's dead. He
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died at a premature age. He was only sixty three
years old. We're not sure exactly what caused him his demise.
He did have cancer a couple of times, and so
we're not sure if that's what had caused him to
exit the planet, but we know that he had been
sick for some time. There was a medical procedure back
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in September, and I'd heard from various people that this
was a possibility, that it was not going well, that
this was an outcome that unfortunately could have happened, and
it did happen. So for now, majority ownership of the
Padres will remain with the Seidler family moving forward. And
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what will you remember about Peter Seidler as Podrey on it?
Normally you just say nothing, nothing, but as someone that
got their start in radio in San Diego, and when
I worked, it's the local radio in San Diego. When
I started, they had a fire sale and I would
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go to games at the old Jack Murphy Stadium by
the cheapest ticket and it was Tony Gwynn and seven
other Dwarfs that they literally had a guy named Bip
that played for the team. But that's what they had.
They had that as the team. They're terrible, dreadful, and
that happened a lot in the history of the Potters.
But my memory of Peter Sidler, he is San Diego's
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version of Jack and the Beanstalk. It's like a fairy tale.
It's folklore. It's generations from now, two or three generations
from now, which is forty sixty years from now or more.
They'll tell stories about those magic beans that Peter Sidler brought,
that he traded the family cow for a handful of
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magic beans, and he grew just grew into this massive,
towering beanstock of a team that reached into the baseball
heavens and the Padres found themselves. They were all the
way up there fee five fou fum. They were on
a level playing field with the Dodgers, the Yankees, the
Mets and the Red Sox and the big money teams
in baseball. That is unheard of, Sleepy San Diego. There's
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no fan base. You've got Dodger fans to the north,
You've got the desert to the west, you've got Mexico
to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
So there's just no there's no fan base, that's all.
There was always the argument, you can never spend any money.
Peter Sidler said, you know what, I'm gonna put that
team in the high rent district. And that's exactly what
this guy did. Big cohones from Peter Sidler. He showed
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people it could be done. He spent money like a
guy who had some kind of premonition that his time
was limited and he couldn't take it with him, and
he was burning big bucks on free agents. Many of
them broke his heart. The Padres did get to the
National League Championship Series a couple of years ago, but
for the most part, the big money players have underachieved.
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The biggest contract given out to a guy that is
a steroid chief for tatise. So but Peter Sidler, I
mean the guy and I you know, listen, I'm not
a Pottery fan. Obviously, you know I like the Dodgers
if you listen to the show. But a major tip
of the cap to the the late owner of the
Pottery s all right. Final point headline free agency vill
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where show hey Otani was among seven players who said no, no, no,
I will not play for a measly twenty million dollars.
You imagine the anxiety of turning down twenty million dollars.
That's what he did. Oh Tani did it, so did
every other free agent that was given the option of
playing under the qualifying offer twenty point three million dollars,
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and so he and all these other players will main
free agents. They can get more money elsewhere. So where
does show Hey Otani go after rejecting the Angels qualifying offer.
He's the biggest name out there, and he goes to
the highest bidder. That's kind of obvious, but this was
a clerical move. You don't take twenty million dollars if
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you get three hundred or four hundred million dollars or
even one hundred and fifty million dollars. That Otani's said
to be over three hundred million, depending on how long
the contract is, probably over four hundred million. The big
issue is the shoulder engine. I was communicating via text
with some people around baseball, and the word is that
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it's it's really dependent on how long he wants the contract,
because he's not gonna be able to pitch at least
for the first year of the contract. But the other
factor here, and there's a lot of variables to this,
is the amount of money Otani's going to bring in
via from Asia. In terms of advertising, it's an insane
amount of money that likely right there will pay for
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the bulk of the contract year to year, assuming he
continues his popularity, but he expects things to ratchet up
the Otani sweepstakes. The normal cadence is right after Thanksgiving,
Black Friday until Christmas. In that and there'll be a
lot of clickbait to try to get some of my
balls and clout online, and a lot of it will
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be bull crap, and then eventually he'll sign with somebody.
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Here we are.
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Smeller to the third degree. This is one thing that
gets grailled.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
I think Perryman's with the Raiders or with the Texans.
Now I stand corrected, Yes, anyway, uh, Ben. The Philadelphia
Eagles sit alone at the top of the NFL, but
there are actually four teams at the bottom, all with
eight losses. Ben, who was your pick to come away
with the number one pick in the draft?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
The Chicago Bears. Why? Because of Bryce Young? The Bears
have Carolina's pick. He can't play. The kid can't play,
he sucks, he's dreadful, and so Carolina should be the
number one team. If not Carolina, I would put the
Patriots as number two. Belichick's lost the locker room. They
don't have a quarterback, they don't have any electric talent.
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It's only gonna get worse in New England before it
gets better, So I put them number two. Next.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Davante Adams had nothing but praise for aid and O'Connell
after the Raiders win against the Jets, saying he's as
cool as the other side of the pillow.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh that's Stuart Scott's lineback in the old Sports Center game.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Yes, Ben, is O'Connell cool enough to get the Raiders
to the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Well, he's not battle tested. You don't get a little
star near your name beating the Jets and the Giants
and Aidan O'Connell. He's actually played worse than Kenny Pickett
the last couple of weeks. He's gonna have to play
much better. I have my doubts. I don't believe in
Aidan O'Connell.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Next, the Dodgers are reportedly monitoring the trademarket for both Byett. Yes, Ben,
do you think the Blue Jays wouldn't deal beashett?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I believe he's coming up on a new like a
free agent country. I think he's got five years of
service time, so seven years is the magic numbers. So
Toronto they're gonna trae him. They gotta trade him now,
and he's a heck of a ballplayer as a two
time All Star. I'd love to have him on the Dodgers.
Make it happen. How'd we don't cope?
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You pass?
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That's so?
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Iowa like you give a damn Now? Presenting the most
up to date happenings from Iowa's four Division one teams,
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Iowa sair.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
So good to have Eddie back for those additional sound
effects there.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Lacking last week? Is that what you're saying? Iowa Sam
at the Greatest thirty six minutes in radio was short, shorthanded.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Eddie puts a little extra manure on top of this
nice IO a minute, and you know what it was.
It was definitely lacking.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So it's a shot a party. I understand completely.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I don't. I don't know if he was listening.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I did.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I did enjoy my IO a minute last week. I
thought it was pretty good. But uh, definitely good to
have any back toe. He's just playing whatever. Sometimes when
he's here, he does not listen. No, but he's just
randomly hitting livestock sound effects to uh, you know, help
enhance the IO a minute.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
At some point, Uh, yes, monkeys, monkeys on my farm
at some other monkeys in Iowa. I don't know, maybe
in like a petting zoo. I don't know, like or
you know, like uh Joe exotic, you know that kind
of thing that was in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
But I understand.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Yeah, Ben, at some point we won't start the IO
a minute with a harvest report. But that point is
not now, because the harvest just keeps going and going.
Why is it taking so long?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What It's like a battery commercial, keeps going and going
and going and going quickly quickly. Yes.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Well, according to my research, this year's harvest is actually
ahead of schedule, ten days ahead of schedule to be exact.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Did you check the Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I have a special website that I go to that
is very handy.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
It's gets me. People from Iowa are allowed at that website.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
How many people are allowed?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
No, I said, only people from Iowa can have.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Yes, yes, I have to enter special credentials, log in
a double double factor authentication, something like that. But we
are approaching the finish line of that harvest, and the
soybean harvest is nearly complete according to my detailed notes,
and about ninety four percent of the state's corn harvest
is in the bin. In the bin Ben bin.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Mallard, the bin that's a farming term.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
In the bin bnin mallar, the Ben maller. I don't
know what that means, who bin mallor. But Ben, can
you guess approximately how much six percent of the remaining
corn crop is in terms of acres?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I'm gonna say that, say like, I'm gonna say, uh,
eight hundred acres more more more, more, way more. Ben
can keep going, I don't know, eight thousand acres more
more really, Oh, this is a good get Ben. One
more guests a right, and I'll reveal eighty thousand acres.
(32:21):
Final answer.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
You're going in the right direction there, But it's seven
hundred and fifty thousand acres six percent of the corn remaining.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Americans eat a lot of corn.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Well, a lot of that goes to uh, you know, animals,
they eat the corn that fattens them up and then
we eat those animals.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's called the circle of life.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Circle of Uh yes, cash crops uh no pork belly
prices today because we know how that ended. I stumbled,
and Eddie, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
You didn't hear this.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
But I stumbled into a livestock auction last week. And
now I got filthy animals living in my apartment and
I haven't told my landlord yet. I'm in some trouble.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It was a dark moment in the history of the
Iowa Minute.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
But I do have a lot of fresh eggs, too
many to count, all right, pressing on scores, scores, scores, galores, scores.
Benador's Drake, Drake and bake baby now seven and oh
in the Pioneer League. Oh, Coop just walked in the
room here. He was trying to skip out on the
Island minute.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Didn't realize he walked out of the room. I had
no idea. Yes, he went to ghost. I didn't even
see him.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
He wanted to go away from this Iowa Minute. But
he's back to here the most.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Go away and walk over to burbank and walk back. Yes,
you still have time. That's the beauty of the Iowa Minute.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Four hours of walking. That's how long it takes. Drake
is now seven and oh in the Pioneer League. It's
the power and the magic of the Iowa minute. I
think in all Iowa minute power and magic is ever
so gratefully brought to you by.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Up to the minute grain prices always.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Drake Edge is not Lutheran, not Episcopalian, not Southern Baptists,
but Presbyterian sixteen to fourteen. Up next, closing out the
season at Butler, the Bulldogs are Rocks i'lid seven to three,
and this game will be played at the Bud and
Jackie Seleek Bowl, Right.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Cool, Jackie Celek Tom Selick's mom.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Butt and Jackie, but and Jackie sound like some callers
of yours. They would call in for a game, you know,
like a jack the judge. Oh my god, that's how
that sounds about, right button Jackie Selex sounds like a
nice couple. And they got a football stadium named after them,
all right, Northern Iowa. Shame, shame, shame. Ben Panthers got
mauled and eaten by the Bears of Missouri State thirty
(34:31):
five to sixteen. And this isn't the this isn't a
particularly good Missouri State team. The Bears moved up to
just three and four in the Missouri Valley Football Conference
after the win. Up next for Northern Iowa, closing the
season out at home against number nine North Dakota State.
The buys and.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Godspeed with that. Watch out for that. That's a tough one.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Iowa State made a trip to Provo, Utah to take
on BYU, and despite their lovely lovely home fans showering
the visiting cycling fans with the gifts of food, Iowa
State took no prisoners.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Second down and goal from the four yard line of BYU.
Rock Obeck from the shotgun and he will head it
off to Sanders up the middle, touchdown Hiowa State.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
John Walters from Learfield forty five to thirteen Cyclones. We
now go live to Shane in Des Moines. I love
it as indeed, up next, big different. What's that sounded
a little different?
Speaker 6 (35:30):
He did?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
He did?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
He's not a little voice a little lower there. Big showdown,
big showdown, a night game. They'll pack the jack as
Number seven Texas comes to Aimes this weekend. Texas currently
atop the Big twelve Longhorns. More than a touchdown favorite
in that game. All right, finally, Ben, we closed with
now number sixteen Island.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
We stayed another ten minutes here, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Well, we actually have just one more minute. I better
hurry up.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
You're saying we have a hard network out.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
We might just to end this IO a minute and
I had, you know, other stuff planned. But for the
first time all season, Iowa eclipsed four hundred yards of
total offense.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Wow, big day.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Iowa shuts out Rutgers twenty two to nothing. And here's
a little taste of that victory.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Pie. He'll end the gun. Here we go one setback.
That's Patterson. He's gonna get the call, left to right,
move fighting for the goal line.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Is he over?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yes, touched down, touch down.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Iowa, Gary Dolphin from Learfield. And a bit of trivia
for you, Ben Hawkey running back Jazz Patterson on the score. There,
can you guess how many siblings he has? Nine more
more more.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Come well, I believe in you more well one more
guest sixteen final answer, fifteen siblings.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
He's a member of sixteen kids. Oh my sixteen children
in the Hawkeyes. Hope to wrap up the Pristie just
Big ten West Family Hobby is a vision title with Illinois.
That's a big family, big family there in Iowa.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Be sure to catch Liva Dish. So the Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and word is password, you idiot? Password the word Game
of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
No where we go every weekend about this time we
play password the word game all the Stars. That's welcome
me and our contestants. We have listener Phase in Sweet Home, Chicago. Hello, Phase,
Welcome cal sir. It's been a while. Phase, it's been
a while, all right, it's been a long time, sir.
(37:37):
Where you've been hiding. Phase, You've been hiding out.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
There, and I've been over here delivering oreos.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh, I like you're doing God's work. Doesn't like oreo?
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I know you're like them triple stuff, but sorry, it
only comes double stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I know I got to add extra extra filling there. Yeah,
but you're you're making people smile. You're doing God's work. Phase.
Hold on a second. We have Chris in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Hello, Chris, Hey Ben, what's shrinking?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Rudy Go Bear. Rudy Go Bear is shaking because Draymond
Green had him hog tiede uh. But anyway, all right, Chris,
we're gonna have you play. Are you driving to work
right now? Chris? Yes, no, I'm actually working. Oh very nice. Sorry,
so you're working too. And then Phase drives and delivers
(38:29):
stuff all over Chicago. So we got some hard working
guys ready to go. Face. Who do you want to
partner up with? Face? You can play with me, Ben Eddie,
you can play with the Man, the Myth, the Legend,
Iowa Sam or Cooper Loop. Uh, let's go with Coop.
That's a bad choice, Chris and Minnesota. Who do you
like to partner up with?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, Ben, I think I will thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
That's a good choice. You want to win, You're in
it to win it. You have a great lexicon. Yes,
you have a great vocabulary, Chris? Is that correct? I believe? So, okay,
let's play the game right now? Here we go?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
We'll play the game Phase you got on the air. First,
we have a list of words one to ten. Please
pick a number. There is a word associated with each
number and we're looking for Obviously, you have to test
your vocabulary. Hey, that's my line. You can't take my line?
What all right?
Speaker 7 (39:24):
The the hint that I'm going to give you is
often often yes, often.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
For but.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Since when stop it? Yeah? Let's go all right, Chris peganumber, Chris, alright,
calm down face. What did you say?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Chris?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Phase was rudely talking. No decorum by him? He said five?
All right, very good, alright, the the word is number five.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Hmmm, you can go hold I say, hold on, I said, Kitty,
Let's go with sponge. Play it again, more sponge. Terrible clue.
That's a great clue.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Rag No, all right, go ahead, all right, Phase, you
heard Ben's clue.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
No, leave me out of this. My clue is terrible.
And he said my clue was terrible. He said it sucked.
I'm gonna go with don't mention mine. I'm gonna go
with xfoliate. Oh you know your audience, know your audience exfoliate? Yes,
who doesn't know the audience? Know the listeners?
Speaker 6 (41:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
No, all right, I said, I said sponge earlier, how
about rub? Sponge and rub? How about that?
Speaker 5 (41:12):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
That's a great job I gave cool.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I just reminded him of my clothes.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Coop.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
He got it right. Good job by him. Right back
in the game. We're right back in the game, all right.
Picking number, Please pick a number. Hurry up, quickly, face,
hurry up, number two, number number two.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Hurry up, all right, hurry up with navigate.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
What I could give the wrong clue? He doesn't, he doesn't.
He does not.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Tickets for me.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
The word was mute, and we're gonna mute Coop. We're
muting him right now.
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Where the buffalo no longer roam Well come in the
beginning of another edition of the Ben Malers Show.
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our lead this hour, coming from the other shoe dropping
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in Western New York. They were licking their wounds the
day after a lost to lowly Denver on Monday night,
and the Buffalo football team decided to crank up the
firing squad and you're gone, get out of here, see
you later. Bye bye. Enough if you didn't hear about
(01:52):
this for some reason, maybe you've been out of the loop.
But whatever the case, the Buffalo Bills fire the embattled
offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey, that news coming down early in
the day on Tuesday. They named quarterbacks coach Joe Brady
as the interim offensive coordinator, So a lateral move there.
(02:15):
Dorsey had been the quarterbacks coach. He was promoted with
much fanfare after Brian Dabele went to New York. Table
has been exposed as a froud this year with the Giants.
But the Dorsey was named the new offensive guru. That
didn't last very long. And now Buffalo turning to who
(02:36):
Joe Brady? Who does have some experience, not good experience
as an offensive coordinator in the NFVL. He was a
member of a faithful coaching staff in Carolina Matt Rules
Panthers coaching staff in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.
So let us discuss the question, how do you interpret
(02:57):
the Bills whacking Ken Dorsey as the offensive coordinator. So
I've got the complete idiot's guide, Rotten Apple and Blues Brothers,
and we will combine all of these things together and
don't blink or you'll miss it. So a as has
(03:18):
been well known through the history of humanity, actions speak
louder than words. So the action tells you that Josh
Allen is the coach killer. Josh Allen is responsible for
Ken Dorsey losing his job. His piss poor play is
(03:38):
why the Bills decided to do this. They can't get
rid of a player. They gave him the contact, he's
there forever quarterback, So they had to get rid of
the coach and Bill's mafia convinced that Josh Allen can
do no wrong. Every fumble and every interception, every bonehead
play by Josh Allen, none of it is his fault.
(03:59):
There's no out ability by Josh Allen. And yet again
the Buffalo Bills continue to insulate Josh Allen with his
terrible decision making. How is that Ken Dorsey's fault that
Josh Allen can't hand the football off without dropping? Now,
I'm not saying Dorsey is a good offensive coordinator, but seriously,
(04:19):
now he's getting blamed for all that. It's like it's like,
all of a sudden, Alan the last couple of years
has taken stupid pills and that's Dorsey's fault. So but
buffalo of you. If you take a couple steps back
and you look out at the Serengetti with the Buffalo rome,
you see that the Bills are following a forever guidebook,
(04:42):
The Complete Idiots Guide to Bad Football, The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Losing Football. Last week, they hold a player's
only meeting with much fanfare. They go out and ride
the vomit comment, turning the ball over and over and
over and over again. Then they come back and fire
(05:03):
Ken Dorsey in a human sacrifice. We all know you
gotta have a fall. Gotta have a fall, guy. All
of this is an effort to salvage their quarterback and
at the same time pacify the broken hearted Bill's MAFI.
Now the next move. If you've read The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Losing Football, you know the next move is
(05:25):
a full nuclear meltdown by wide receivers to Fawn Dicks.
I didn't sign up for this I don't understand. It's
not fair. I should be playing on a good team.
We're not a good team. Now that already started a
little bit with his brother Trevon Diggs of the Cowboys
starting the fire to get him out of Buffalo. Now
(05:47):
following that, you have head coach Sean McDermott, who will
be escorted out of the building in a timely manner,
and they're just gonna keep recycling coaches until Josh Allen
either figures it out, has to come to Jesus moment
or or his contract runs out and they bring in
some other Jamoke to play quarterback. But the idea that
(06:08):
Joe Brady, the new offensive coordinator, is some kind of
messiah based on what he has done would nothing there
leads you to believe at the pro level, this guy's
gonna get it done. He failed epically in Carolina with
much fanfare. He was brought into Carolina as a guru there.
He was fired mid season, and under Joe Brady, the
(06:32):
Panthers of twenty twenty two had the fourth worst EPA
per play. That's a nerd staff, but it was the
fourth worst out of thirty two teams. All Right, moving on,
headline from the Transaction Wire. The writers made a roster move.
They claimed former pat now expat Jack Jones off waivers. Now,
(06:54):
normally this would not raise to the level of high
crimes and misdemeanors, but was the there's some funny business
going on with this particular raider move to acquire the
now ex pat, the defensive back Jack Jones. So I'm
not in my head, Yes, I'm not in my head.
Yes there was some funny business with his Does a
(07:15):
dog have fleece?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
This? Is not your standard waiver wire pickup? Is it
also true that Jack Jones worked over the Patriots using
a crowbar to escape and slide into the silver and
black bingo. Now, a source with a very deep rollodex
(07:37):
and intense knowledge and also loose lifts tells me that
Jack Jones has been sulking for some time. He saw
an off ramp away from the Patriots. You'd think the
guy would be in great news. He got'd be in
a great mood because he's like a cat with nine lives.
How many people can say they brought loaded guns to
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airport security and got dinged with it and nothing happened.
Jack joneskin he brought loaded weapons, two of them the
Logan Airport in Boston and nothing happened. That's it. He
has second chance. But he's been at loggerheads with the
defensive back Mike Pellegrino in New England and he didn't
(08:18):
like him. It was not into the whole rigid Bill
Belichick approach, and so he was able to play the system.
From what we're hearing here, the rotten Apple gets what
rotten Apple wants in this story. Now why the Raiders.
This is when things really picked up once Antonio Peers
became the interim coach. This is a deep state tinfoil
(08:42):
hat conspiracy. But once Antonio Peers was promoted to the
interim coach, it was go time. It was green light
go and the plan was hatched up. Until then, that
was not the plan. Now that doesn't mean the player
wasn't happy, But once the move was made, all of
a sudden, Jack Jones had a cheshire cat smile. The
reason he had to play for the Raiders is because
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Antonio Pierce coached Jack Jones at high school at Long Beach,
Poley High and SoCal and at Arizona State was on
the Herm Edwards coaching staff, so they've got a very
tight bond. And the rumor has it that Antonio Piers
was able to get Jack Jones out of a whole
lot of trouble earlier on in his football career, and
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so now Jack Jones is with the Raiders. Now moving
on last word here headline Pittsburgh, PA, where the Steelers
have a winning record. They are three games above five hundred,
which is stunning considering they're not good, but the record is.
Mike Tomlin is aware that things need to improve here,
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especially the quarterback Kenny Pickett not picking it up, and
Tomlin said as much. He admitted that Kenny Pickett he
needs to do more if the Steelers are going to
make a deep playoff run. It makes sense, right, So
Tomlin's admission about Kenny Pickett needing to improve is he capable?
(10:13):
Is Kenny Pickett capable? So after a minutes long review,
I am shaking my head. No, now you can't see me,
and if you can see me, you're spying and you're
a creeper. But the answer is no. Now, we have
zero evidence that this Drabbroni has a second gear. We
(10:35):
know he can drive in the slow lane. We know
that But if I look at Pickett and how would
you describe him as a quarterback, He's a basic bitch quarterback.
That's who he is, right, He's an ordinary quarterback of
little consequence. And Steeler fans, most of the steel Fans'
ideal with know this. They're aware of this. Some are
in denial. But he's been the lord of mediocrity. And
(10:58):
if Pittsburgh needs Kenny Picket to turn on the after
burners and go room room, they're doom doomed. Mike Tomlin,
Steelers are getting a Blues Brothers classic rubber biscuit at quarterback.
That's a wish sandwich, the kind of sandwich where you
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have two pieces of bread and you wish you had
some meat. There's no meat there, where's the beef? Cann
He Pickett by the numbers, And he's played over a
year now well into another season, year plus, and he
has one more game with a passer rating above one
hundred than you. He has one more game than you
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have with two passing touchdowns. He also has nine games
with no passing touchdowns, five games with a passer rating
below seventy. Now I didn't play in the NFL, but
I do know those numbers suck. I know that right.
Maybe he will rise from the day and pushed the
shovels away and turn into something. But based on what
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he has done, there's a lot to complain about. It's
not going so well. It's not going so well, and
you can be in denial and say, well, it's this
guy's fault. It's Matt Canada's faults. That's what they did
in Buffalo Buffalo. They blamed the offensive coordinator. Eventually the
offensive coordinator got fired, and we'll see how that turns out.
(12:26):
I don't think it's gonna make much of a different
difference at all. But that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
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Raymond Green, Rudy Goberting. I didn't think it was that. Yeah,
that's fine. It wasn't Malice in the Palace two point zero,
so it doesn't rise to that level. But our lead
this hour is from Hardball. I love bad blood. When
I see bad blood, my eyeballs light up the size
(14:07):
of saucers. I say, that's great. People disagreeing with each other.
That's what makes the world of sports talk radio go round.
And so we have that. If you didn't see it,
perhaps not the dumpster fire that is Yankee baseball. Jean
Carlo Stanton formerly known I know Mon, he was Mike Stanton,
(14:28):
but John Carlos Stanton. He's playing for the Yankees. Not well,
by the way, not well for the Yankees. The ship
is a sinking. The ship be sinking, and gihen Carlo
Stanton's agent decided to punch back against Brian Cashman in
the war of words. The war of words, offering a
(14:50):
warning shot to any free agent who is considering even
remotely joining the Bronx Bombers. It's like, hey, far clear
of the Yankees. Now, before we tell you what the
agent said, here's Brian Cashman. If you didn't see it.
Brian Cashman said that the injury plagued John Carlos Stanton
(15:12):
is quote going to wind up getting hurt more likely
than not, because it seems to be part of his game.
Close quote. That was a quote that Cashman gave to
a baseball scribe at a brick and mortar building a
hotel before everyone was puking at the GM meetings. So
(15:35):
one day after that comment went public and was published,
the agent for Gian Carlo Stanton, the guy named Joel Wolf.
Who the hell knows who that is. We only know
one agent in baseball and it ain't Joel Wolf. So
this guy responded in a prepared statement behind a paywall
to the Athletic. Of course, why would you give this
out outside a paywall? He said the following, and this
(15:58):
is what we call the money quote. I think it's
a good reminder for all free agents, for all free
agents considering signing in New York, both foreign and domestic,
that to play for that team, you've got to be
made of teflon, both mentally and physically, because you can
never let your guard down even in the off season.
(16:21):
Boo hoo. Now that last part I added on. That
last part was my creativeness. I added that on. But
in my head that's what Joel Wolf the agent said.
Boo hoo hoo. That's what it sounded, all right, So
let us discuss which is a pretty good back and
forth year. You've got sluggers on Carlos Stanton's agent and
(16:44):
Brian Cashman on different sides of the aisle. Whose side
are you leaning towards? So, as you know, I'm the judge,
moderator and the Vegas linemaker, and I'm leaning heavily towards
Brian Cashman on this one. This is a rare w
for Brian Cashman. And you know I've taken plenty of
shots at the Yankee GM over the years. My observations.
(17:07):
You've got foot locker Jack and the beanstock and clerical
and we're gonna combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some stale popcorn, which is
what the Yankees were serving up last season, stale popcorn.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
So number.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
We are on the side of Cashman, as I said,
and this is a tough and up butter cup. But
you're not supposed to say that you're the GM of
the Yankees. Yeah, okay, we get that. Joel Wolf is
also paid to represent John Carlos Stanton, and if he
wasn't playing for the Yankees, he'd be driving a mister
Softy truck in selling ice cream soft serve. And so
(17:58):
I get the agent putting a firewall up around the
guy regardless Brian Cashman a rare w and calling it
the way it is now, is that the thing you're
supposed to do. No, that's what makes it unique, that's
what makes it stand out like a sore thumb, that
this is not the normal way you handle these things.
But it's true. He didn't lie. He actually told the truth.
(18:22):
And that is how backwards our little sporting world is
that Brian Cashman says the truth the Yankee GM about
one of his players, and you get guffaws all over
the place. Oh, I can't believe it. Did you hear
what Brian Cashman's Oh my god, he spoke the truth.
This guy's a softy, as they say at foot locker.
(18:43):
If the shoe fits, wear it. And Gian Carlos Stanton
is an enigma. You are what your resume says you are.
He has missed at least twenty games in each of
the past five seasons because of various injuries, most of
them lower body injuries. He missed sixty one games last season.
When he did play, he was below the Mendoza line,
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and a remarkable thirty three point four percent of all
of his at bats resulted in him going back to
the dugout by striking out thirty three percent of the time.
If that countered as a hit, he'd have a three
thirty batting average, but a thirty three percent of the time.
Oh swing baa sawing barra woof yeah, woof woof woof
(19:28):
woof yeah. And the Yankees would like to trade him
now John Carlo's got a no trade clause, so it
is more likely than not that this was strategic by
Brian Cashman trying to ruffle the feathers of Gean Carlos
So he's uncomfortable, so he would approve a trade to
some other woebegone team elsewhere around the major leagues. And
(19:52):
the agent also giving a subtle ultimatum, a subtle ultimatum
to the Yankees that you better zip okay or you're
not going to be able to get Yamamoto. He's the
next Japanese star. Yocean Obu Yamato is his name. He's
a right handed pitcher from Japan, and he's won their
(20:13):
Cy Young Award a bunch of times. He is the
top available free agent pitcher this offseason. Many connecting the
dots between Yamamoto and the Yankees, and the agent's like, hey,
by the way, that price tag's gonna cost you a
little more. Yep, yep, you've got the appetite for this guy.
(20:35):
You got pale more yeap, all right. Pitch two headline.
San Diego wanted to give a few minutes of a
tip of the microphone to a guy named Peter Seidler.
Peter Sideler, you might not know who that is. He
was the owner of the San Diego Padres. He's no
longer the owner of the Padres because he's dead. He
(20:55):
died at a premature age. He was only sixty three
years old. We're not sure exactly what caused him his demise.
He did have cancer a couple of times, and so
we're not sure if that's what had caused him to
exit the planet, but we know that he had been
sick for some time. There was a medical procedure back
(21:17):
in September, and I'd heard from various people that this
was a possibility, that it was not going well, that
this was an outcome that unfortunately could have happened, and
it did happen. So for now, majority ownership of the
Padres will remain with the Seidler family moving forward. And
(21:38):
what will you remember about Peter Seidler as Podrey on it?
Normally you just say nothing, nothing, but as someone that
got their start in radio in San Diego, and when
I worked, it's the local radio in San Diego. When
I started, they had a fire sale and I would
(21:58):
go to games at the old Jack Murphy Stadium by
the cheapest ticket and it was Tony Gwynn and seven
other Dwarfs that they literally had a guy named Bip
that played for the team. But that's what they had.
They had that as the team. They're terrible, dreadful, and
that happened a lot in the history of the Potters.
But my memory of Peter Sidler, he is San Diego's
(22:20):
version of Jack and the Beanstalk. It's like a fairy tale.
It's folklore. It's generations from now, two or three generations
from now, which is forty sixty years from now or more.
They'll tell stories about those magic beans that Peter Sidler brought,
that he traded the family cow for a handful of
(22:41):
magic beans, and he grew just grew into this massive,
towering beanstock of a team that reached into the baseball
heavens and the Padres found themselves. They were all the
way up there fee five fou fum. They were on
a level playing field with the Dodgers, the Yankees, the
Mets and the Red Sox and the big money teams
in baseball. That is unheard of, Sleepy San Diego. There's
(23:06):
no fan base. You've got Dodger fans to the north,
You've got the desert to the west, you've got Mexico
to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
So there's just no there's no fan base, that's all.
There was always the argument, you can never spend any money.
Peter Sidler said, you know what, I'm gonna put that
team in the high rent district. And that's exactly what
this guy did. Big cohones from Peter Sidler. He showed
(23:30):
people it could be done. He spent money like a
guy who had some kind of premonition that his time
was limited and he couldn't take it with him, and
he was burning big bucks on free agents. Many of
them broke his heart. The Padres did get to the
National League Championship Series a couple of years ago, but
for the most part, the big money players have underachieved.
(23:51):
The biggest contract given out to a guy that is
a steroid chief for tatise. So but Peter Sidler, I
mean the guy and I you know, listen, I'm not
a Pottery fan. Obviously, you know I like the Dodgers
if you listen to the show. But a major tip
of the cap to the the late owner of the
Pottery s all right. Final point headline free agency vill
(24:14):
where show hey Otani was among seven players who said no, no, no,
I will not play for a measly twenty million dollars.
You imagine the anxiety of turning down twenty million dollars.
That's what he did. Oh Tani did it, so did
every other free agent that was given the option of
playing under the qualifying offer twenty point three million dollars,
(24:39):
and so he and all these other players will main
free agents. They can get more money elsewhere. So where
does show Hey Otani go after rejecting the Angels qualifying offer.
He's the biggest name out there, and he goes to
the highest bidder. That's kind of obvious, but this was
a clerical move. You don't take twenty million dollars if
(25:02):
you get three hundred or four hundred million dollars or
even one hundred and fifty million dollars. That Otani's said
to be over three hundred million, depending on how long
the contract is, probably over four hundred million. The big
issue is the shoulder engine. I was communicating via text
with some people around baseball, and the word is that
(25:23):
it's it's really dependent on how long he wants the contract,
because he's not gonna be able to pitch at least
for the first year of the contract. But the other
factor here, and there's a lot of variables to this,
is the amount of money Otani's going to bring in
via from Asia. In terms of advertising, it's an insane
amount of money that likely right there will pay for
(25:44):
the bulk of the contract year to year, assuming he
continues his popularity, but he expects things to ratchet up
the Otani sweepstakes. The normal cadence is right after Thanksgiving,
Black Friday until Christmas. In that and there'll be a
lot of clickbait to try to get some of my
balls and clout online, and a lot of it will
(26:07):
be bull crap, and then eventually he'll sign with somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
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me best as a tied end for the New York Giants.
You may also know me for my story of overcoming
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And you may know my friend and co host Donnie
(26:40):
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(27:01):
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Speaker 1 (27:15):
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Smeller to the third degree. This is one thing that
gets grailled.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
I think Perryman's with the Raiders or with the Texans.
Now I stand corrected, Yes, anyway, uh, Ben. The Philadelphia
Eagles sit alone at the top of the NFL, but
there are actually four teams at the bottom, all with
eight losses. Ben, who was your pick to come away
with the number one pick in the draft?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
The Chicago Bears. Why? Because of Bryce Young? The Bears
have Carolina's pick. He can't play. The kid can't play,
he sucks, he's dreadful, and so Carolina should be the
number one team. If not Carolina, I would put the
Patriots as number two. Belichick's lost the locker room. They
don't have a quarterback, they don't have any electric talent.
(28:07):
It's only gonna get worse in New England before it
gets better, So I put them number two. Next.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Davante Adams had nothing but praise for aid and O'Connell
after the Raiders win against the Jets, saying he's as
cool as the other side of the pillow.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Oh that's Stuart Scott's lineback in the old Sports Center game.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Yes, Ben, is O'Connell cool enough to get the Raiders
to the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Well, he's not battle tested. You don't get a little
star near your name beating the Jets and the Giants
and Aidan O'Connell. He's actually played worse than Kenny Pickett
the last couple of weeks. He's gonna have to play
much better. I have my doubts. I don't believe in
Aidan O'Connell.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Next, the Dodgers are reportedly monitoring the trademarket for both Byett. Yes, Ben,
do you think the Blue Jays wouldn't deal beashett?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I believe he's coming up on a new like a
free agent country. I think he's got five years of
service time, so seven years is the magic numbers. So
Toronto they're gonna trae him. They gotta trade him now,
and he's a heck of a ballplayer as a two
time All Star. I'd love to have him on the Dodgers.
Make it happen. How'd we don't cope?
Speaker 5 (29:08):
You pass?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
That's so?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Speaker 1 (29:31):
Hey to heaven?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Iowa like you give a damn Now? Presenting the most
up to date happenings from Iowa's four Division one teams,
ladies and gentlemen, cowsand pinks. It's the Iowa Minute. Here's
Iowa sair.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
So good to have Eddie back for those additional sound
effects there.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Lacking last week? Is that what you're saying? Iowa Sam
at the Greatest thirty six minutes in radio was short, shorthanded.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Eddie puts a little extra manure on top of this
nice IO a minute, and you know what it was.
It was definitely lacking.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So it's a shot a party. I understand completely.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
I don't. I don't know if he was listening.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I did.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I did enjoy my IO a minute last week. I
thought it was pretty good. But uh, definitely good to
have any back toe. He's just playing whatever. Sometimes when
he's here, he does not listen. No, but he's just
randomly hitting livestock sound effects to uh, you know, help
enhance the IO a minute.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
At some point, Uh, yes, monkeys, monkeys on my farm
at some other monkeys in Iowa. I don't know, maybe
in like a petting zoo. I don't know, like or
you know, like uh Joe exotic, you know that kind
of thing that was in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
But I understand.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Yeah, Ben, at some point we won't start the IO
a minute with a harvest report. But that point is
not now, because the harvest just keeps going and going.
Why is it taking so long?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What It's like a battery commercial, keeps going and going
and going and going quickly quickly. Yes.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Well, according to my research, this year's harvest is actually
ahead of schedule, ten days ahead of schedule to be exact.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Did you check the Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I have a special website that I go to that
is very handy.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
It's gets me. People from Iowa are allowed at that website.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
How many people are allowed?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
No, I said, only people from Iowa can have.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Yes, yes, I have to enter special credentials, log in
a double double factor authentication, something like that. But we
are approaching the finish line of that harvest, and the
soybean harvest is nearly complete according to my detailed notes,
and about ninety four percent of the state's corn harvest
is in the bin. In the bin Ben bin.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Mallard, the bin that's a farming term.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
In the bin bnin mallar, the Ben maller. I don't
know what that means, who bin mallor. But Ben, can
you guess approximately how much six percent of the remaining
corn crop is in terms of acres?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I'm gonna say that, say like, I'm gonna say, uh,
eight hundred acres more more more, more, way more. Ben
can keep going, I don't know, eight thousand acres more
more really, Oh, this is a good get Ben. One
more guests a right, and I'll reveal eighty thousand acres.
(32:21):
Final answer.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
You're going in the right direction there, But it's seven
hundred and fifty thousand acres six percent of the corn remaining.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Americans eat a lot of corn.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Well, a lot of that goes to uh, you know, animals,
they eat the corn that fattens them up and then
we eat those animals.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's called the circle of life.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Circle of Uh yes, cash crops uh no pork belly
prices today because we know how that ended. I stumbled,
and Eddie, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
You didn't hear this.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
But I stumbled into a livestock auction last week. And
now I got filthy animals living in my apartment and
I haven't told my landlord yet. I'm in some trouble.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
It was a dark moment in the history of the
Iowa Minute.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
But I do have a lot of fresh eggs, too
many to count, all right, pressing on scores, scores, scores, galores, scores.
Benador's Drake, Drake and bake baby now seven and oh
in the Pioneer League. Oh, Coop just walked in the
room here. He was trying to skip out on the
Island minute.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Didn't realize he walked out of the room. I had
no idea. Yes, he went to ghost. I didn't even
see him.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
He wanted to go away from this Iowa Minute. But
he's back to here the most.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Go away and walk over to burbank and walk back. Yes,
you still have time. That's the beauty of the Iowa Minute.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Four hours of walking. That's how long it takes. Drake
is now seven and oh in the Pioneer League. It's
the power and the magic of the Iowa minute. I
think in all Iowa minute power and magic is ever
so gratefully brought to you by.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Up to the minute grain prices always.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Drake Edge is not Lutheran, not Episcopalian, not Southern Baptists,
but Presbyterian sixteen to fourteen. Up next, closing out the
season at Butler, the Bulldogs are Rocks i'lid seven to three,
and this game will be played at the Bud and
Jackie Seleek Bowl, Right.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Cool, Jackie Celek Tom Selick's mom.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Butt and Jackie, but and Jackie sound like some callers
of yours. They would call in for a game, you know,
like a jack the judge. Oh my god, that's how
that sounds about, right button Jackie Selex sounds like a
nice couple. And they got a football stadium named after them,
all right, Northern Iowa. Shame, shame, shame. Ben Panthers got
mauled and eaten by the Bears of Missouri State thirty
(34:31):
five to sixteen. And this isn't the this isn't a
particularly good Missouri State team. The Bears moved up to
just three and four in the Missouri Valley Football Conference
after the win. Up next for Northern Iowa, closing the
season out at home against number nine North Dakota State.
The buys and.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Godspeed with that. Watch out for that. That's a tough one.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Iowa State made a trip to Provo, Utah to take
on BYU, and despite their lovely lovely home fans showering
the visiting cycling fans with the gifts of food, Iowa
State took no prisoners.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Second down and goal from the four yard line of BYU.
Rock Obeck from the shotgun and he will head it
off to Sanders up the middle, touchdown Hiowa State.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
John Walters from Learfield forty five to thirteen Cyclones. We
now go live to Shane in Des Moines. I love
it as indeed, up next, big different. What's that sounded
a little different?
Speaker 6 (35:30):
He did?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
He did?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
He's not a little voice a little lower there. Big showdown,
big showdown, a night game. They'll pack the jack as
Number seven Texas comes to Aimes this weekend. Texas currently
atop the Big twelve Longhorns. More than a touchdown favorite
in that game. All right, finally, Ben, we closed with
now number sixteen Island.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
We stayed another ten minutes here, what are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Well, we actually have just one more minute. I better
hurry up.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
You're saying we have a hard network out.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
We might just to end this IO a minute and
I had, you know, other stuff planned. But for the
first time all season, Iowa eclipsed four hundred yards of
total offense.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Wow, big day.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Iowa shuts out Rutgers twenty two to nothing. And here's
a little taste of that victory.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Pie. He'll end the gun. Here we go one setback.
That's Patterson. He's gonna get the call, left to right,
move fighting for the goal line.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Is he over?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yes, touched down, touch down.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Iowa, Gary Dolphin from Learfield. And a bit of trivia
for you, Ben Hawkey running back Jazz Patterson on the score. There,
can you guess how many siblings he has? Nine more
more more.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Come well, I believe in you more well one more
guest sixteen final answer, fifteen siblings.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
He's a member of sixteen kids. Oh my sixteen children
in the Hawkeyes. Hope to wrap up the Pristie just
Big ten West Family Hobby is a vision title with Illinois.
That's a big family, big family there in Iowa.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Be sure to catch Liva Dish. So the Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and word is password, you idiot? Password the word Game
of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
No where we go every weekend about this time we
play password the word game all the Stars. That's welcome
me and our contestants. We have listener Phase in Sweet Home, Chicago. Hello, Phase,
Welcome cal sir. It's been a while. Phase, it's been
a while, all right, it's been a long time, sir.
(37:37):
Where you've been hiding. Phase, You've been hiding out.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
There, and I've been over here delivering oreos.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh, I like you're doing God's work. Doesn't like oreo?
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I know you're like them triple stuff, but sorry, it
only comes double stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I know I got to add extra extra filling there. Yeah,
but you're you're making people smile. You're doing God's work. Phase.
Hold on a second. We have Chris in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Hello, Chris, Hey Ben, what's shrinking?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Rudy Go Bear. Rudy Go Bear is shaking because Draymond
Green had him hog tiede uh. But anyway, all right, Chris,
we're gonna have you play. Are you driving to work
right now? Chris? Yes, no, I'm actually working. Oh very nice. Sorry,
so you're working too. And then Phase drives and delivers
(38:29):
stuff all over Chicago. So we got some hard working
guys ready to go. Face. Who do you want to
partner up with? Face? You can play with me, Ben Eddie,
you can play with the Man, the Myth, the Legend,
Iowa Sam or Cooper Loop. Uh, let's go with Coop.
That's a bad choice, Chris and Minnesota. Who do you
like to partner up with?
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Chris?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, Ben, I think I will thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
That's a good choice. You want to win, You're in
it to win it. You have a great lexicon. Yes,
you have a great vocabulary, Chris? Is that correct? I believe? So, okay,
let's play the game right now? Here we go?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
We'll play the game Phase you got on the air. First,
we have a list of words one to ten. Please
pick a number. There is a word associated with each
number and we're looking for Obviously, you have to test
your vocabulary. Hey, that's my line. You can't take my line?
What all right?
Speaker 7 (39:24):
The the hint that I'm going to give you is
often often yes, often.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
For but.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Since when stop it? Yeah? Let's go all right, Chris peganumber, Chris, alright,
calm down face. What did you say?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Chris?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Phase was rudely talking. No decorum by him? He said five?
All right, very good, alright, the the word is number five.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Hmmm, you can go hold I say, hold on, I said, Kitty,
Let's go with sponge. Play it again, more sponge. Terrible clue.
That's a great clue.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Rag No, all right, go ahead, all right, Phase, you
heard Ben's clue.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
No, leave me out of this. My clue is terrible.
And he said my clue was terrible. He said it sucked.
I'm gonna go with don't mention mine. I'm gonna go
with xfoliate. Oh you know your audience, know your audience exfoliate? Yes,
who doesn't know the audience? Know the listeners?
Speaker 6 (41:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
No, all right, I said, I said sponge earlier, how
about rub? Sponge and rub? How about that?
Speaker 5 (41:12):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
That's a great job I gave cool.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I just reminded him of my clothes.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Coop.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
He got it right. Good job by him. Right back
in the game. We're right back in the game, all right.
Picking number, Please pick a number. Hurry up, quickly, face,
hurry up, number two, number number two.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Hurry up, all right, hurry up with navigate.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
What I could give the wrong clue? He doesn't, he doesn't.
He does not.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Tickets for me.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
The word was mute, and we're gonna mute Coop. We're
muting him right now.
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