September 3, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the temperature in the room for FSU coach Mike Norvell, if this is the beginning of something big for Bill O'Brien at Boston College, Florida coach Billy Napier calling out fans, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one of the
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in our number one, what is the temperature in the
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room for Seminoles coach Mike Norvel after Florida State goes
down and losing their game, and what even close against
Boston College? Also, is this the beginning of something big
for BC coach Bill O'Brien, the old NFL head coach?
And where do you file coach Billy Napier calling out
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Florida fans the guys in their basement in rural Florida
this after the Gators lost by twenty four points to Miami.
We'll discuss all that and more right now in our
number one. The flame goes out for the Seminoles.
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Our lead this hour, though, we go to Chestnut Hill,
not exactly a hotbed of college football over the years,
but that was the showcase game on Labor Day, made
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for prime time unless you have direct TV, and then
you were skarude. You had to go to those Russian
websites to watch the game. But island life in the
Commonwealth as number ten Florida State looking for redemption after
going across the land across the sea to play their
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opener and taking it on the chin, trying to bounce
back after that season opening loss to the Georgia Tech squad,
and then they took on an unranked Boston College team.
Look at this game, is say, okay, Florida State, They're
not gonna lose two games in a row. Boston College,
come on, did you watch? Perhaps not, perhaps you didn't watch,
but don't worry. We watched so you would not have
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to in a game that looked like an intrasquad scrimmage
based on the similar uniform colors. It was very bizarre.
I know Florida State was wearing their dark unifors, but
they have the same colors anyway. Treshawn Ward, who you
don't know? Boston College Trashaun Ward one hundred and thirty
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eight yards of offense, including a thirteen yard touchdown reception.
He was a Florida State Semino. He played there for
several years. Now he's a transfer in the portal and
playing for Boston College, who man handled number ten Florida
State twenty eight to thirteen. The final Ward had seventy
seven yards on the ground. He added sixty one yards
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receiving to get to that total of one hundred and
thirty eight yards. The better story though, in the losing
locker room, that is where the Seminoles head coach Mike
Norvel said he was quote sick sick at how the
season started. He also apologized to the Seminole fans. Whether
they accept that apology or not, stay tuned developing hot
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dot dot dot. He then apologized to everybody associated with
the program, talking about how disappointing, extremely disappointing the start
to the season is. He said, in all phases, we
just weren't good. Close quote. So let us discuss what
is the temperature in the room for the Seminoles head
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coach Mike Norvel. So I've got bingo card, treasure map,
and gillette and we will combine all of these things
together and we'll put the puzzle pieces into play. So
a if you get out the supersonic thermometer and take
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the temperature in tallahassee the Seminal football program, which is
known for planting the flame the flaming arrow on the field,
whether they are luke warm at this point? Did they
bring back Willie Taggart? And nobody let us know as
the coach is that what happened here? My goodness? Who goofed?
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I've got to know? Watching the inept Florida State football team,
Mike Novel, he supposedly had the ship turned around They've
gotten off some bad starts with Novell as the coach,
but the assumption was, oh, they were over the hump
now that things were heading the right direction. It is
unbecoming of the Seminoles the way that they played Florida
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State as a program, eyeing bigger and better things. They
would like to leave the ACC and join the Southeastern Conference.
But to start the year losing to the rambling wreck
of Georgia Tech and then Boston College back to back
and belly to belly, that is a masculating for the
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Florida State football program. Now, I did see an underlying
condition and we're allowed to talk college football now because
the NFL hasn't started Thursday. That will end and we'll
move back to the NFL. But watching this game, if
you look at the FSU bingo card, there was a
blank spot under center, a player that coming out of
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high school was ranked ahead of C. J. Stroud. Dj
Uile was out to lunch in this game. And he
has been so far a pedestrian performer for the Seminoles,
highly rated, highly decorated, and the results are just not there.
Now on the other side, is this the beginning of
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something big for Bill O'Brien, he's been around the block
a few times, right, Bill O'Brien, the head coach at
Boston College. So you say it's a stepping stone game, Okay.
BC was methodically running the foot, bought down the throats
of the Seminoles defense, right up the middle, right up
the gut there. The Eagles had two hundred and sixty
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three yards rushing. And the thing is they weren't just
running past Seminal defense. They were going right up the gut.
There's really nothing in the middle of the Florida State defense.
And everyone was watching. Now, Bill O'Brien grizzled coach mister
Average in the NFL with the Texans back in the day.
But he has coached at the highest levels in college
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in the NFL, Penning State back in the day. So
for him, Boston College the BC gig. It's not that
he's gonna make Boston College some kind of Northeastern juggernaut.
That's not it. But on that stage, in that environment,
for BC, you set it up right as a treasure
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map and you can go back down the yellow brick
road and get one more shot, one more chance. In
the NFL. All right, Now, the last word here and
we'll see we have this sound. But Billy Napier, I
want to go back to this, the Florida coach, Billy Napier,
who really is in a world of hurt at this point. Here,
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the Gators head coach, feeling the walls cave in around him,
despite a seven year, fifty one million dollar contract that
he signed back in twenty twenty one when he left Louisiana.
So billiy Napier has decided to go where you're not
supposed to go. He has insulted the customers, he has
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taken a shot of the customers. Now let's go to
the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We got to go to work on the football part,
you know. And I think we've got to get more.
We've got to become a more consistent team, and we
have to execute better. And if we can focus on
those things and not necessarily what some guy in his
basement saying, and you know, rural central Florida on social media,
then we got a chance to get better. Right.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So, are there a lot of basements in rural central Florida?
And I feel like that's our demographic. I feel like
our demographic is guys in there. If there is such
a thing as basements in rural central Florida. That's right
in our wheelhouse, like that is, that's our core demographic.
So you're attacking the base of the Malad militia, the
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Florida wing of the Malad militia. Bad job by you.
So where do you file what you just heard? The
head coach Billy Napier calling out the Florida fans from
their basement in rural central Florida. This coming after the
Gators lost by let me check my notes here twenty
four points to in state rival Miami. So Napier, he's
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breaking the mold here, he's breaking the mold. The mold
is old school gellet commercial campaign from back in the day.
Never let them see a sweat. Billy Napier, the head
coach of the Florida Gators, wants you to know that
he's got swamp ass right now in more ways than one. Right,
there's a lot of bo. There's a lot of sweat
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in the private region, the nether region there for Billy Napier,
extreme bo and good luck. This is usually the beginning
of the end in my experience, based on previous results.
Here the Gators with Billy Napier have played nine games
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against rivals, they've won one. They're one in eight against
their rivals. They've played thirteen games against ranked opponents. They're
two and eleven against ranked opponents. But wait, there's more.
So they're nine and four against unranked teams. So it
seems passable until you realize that four of those wins
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are against the non Power four teams, So against the
power teams, five and four unranked opponents. I can go
on and on go on, but you get the point.
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to be part of the program. As that was an
island game, everyone watching Boston College in their win over
Florida State because there was nothing else on unless you
have direct TV, and then you couldn't watch it at
all unless you did something illegal and immoral, and you
should not do and go to those Russian websites, which
would be wrong and inappropriate. Shame on you if you did.
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Straight ahead No, a grass roots movement inspired by an
island game, A grassroots movement. What is that grassroots movement about?
We'll explain, we'll get to that, and we will do
it next.
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is yours as we are beginning here. Exciting news. The
Blade Master has let me know that if I get
my ass to Columbus for the Ohio Malor Meet and Greet,
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that he will dress up like he sent a photo
here of him. Wow, that is like a nineteen eighties
wrestler type outfit there, and getting an eight and a
half size Columbus clippers hat, well, it's very kind of you.
I don't know that I need the eight and a half.
Eight would be fine. I don't have eight and a
half is a little too big. I don't know that
I need that. And Jacoby's locked in. He's let us know.
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Matthew Warrior Raider Tom Brady rose Fan is locked in.
He thinks he's figured out the schedule of a caller
that he doesn't like. But I believe he's wrong on that.
I think his analysis is incorrect. We will examine that
g manage in Chicago, right since says I love the
monologue and enjoy the near empty FSU Stadium, FSU and
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Florida go down, Miami is still standing the you. I
don't believe there are basements in Florida housing. Yeah, some
relatives that live in Florida. I don't call them having basements.
I think that's a thing. Don't have big sinkholes in
Florida and the ground's not like that stable. They don't.
They don't have the basements there, So I think that's plus.
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You're you're taking shots at rural Florida. How dare you?
How dare you do that? Late night drug tester says
FSU losing to the bottom of the ACC is making
that SEC invite for them to join. They could use
another homecoming opponent other than Vanderbilt, he points out. Now
Rob in Vegas is wait a second, you're telling me
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that mister Butch and Bill O'Brien is the head coach
at Boston College. Mind blown. Billy O'Brien's a cockroach, man.
This guy always got a job, Bill O'Brien. It always
finds a gig somewhere. Somebody's got to hire Bill O'Brien.
Have we done a wellness check on Jed who fled?
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Is everything okay with Jed? No? Oh? Man, Jed he's
been in the hospital. Oh he has been.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Yes, No, that's not fun.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's not good. Is it a planned event or is
this unplanned? I believe it is unplanned. But he sent
me a picture and he's like smiling in it, so
it can't be that bad. Okay, Well, speaking of that,
I did want to we don't do shout outs as
you know, this is not a morning Zoos show, so
I can't do a shout out to Jed hu Fled.
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I can also not do any kind of shout out
to Callagan Tim in Michigan. But Calligan Tim has been
a loyal minion of this show over the years. He's
going through a very tough time right now, but I uh,
you know, I send some good karma to Calligan Tim
and his family, and they're really going through it, really
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going through it. But we do appreciate the loyalty that
they have shown us over there. You actually met Calligan
Tim Eddie right in at a King's game or something
like that.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
He's originally from southern California. Came out for a Kings
game this past season, frankly because I probably thought it
was the last time he could travel and and something
like that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So yeah, I was, well, we were gonna have him
in studio and gold to make it. Unfortunately, but we
send our thoughts our positive vibrations to his family. Yes, absolutely,
Art Puffin, we go from Calligan Tim to Art Puffins.
Art Puffin says, Bobby Bowden is rolling over in his grave.
The zero to two start is unprecedented for seminal football.
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Not really, not in this era of seminal football. He says,
the ACC sucks. I love Bobby Biden. When I was
on local radio, Bobby Bowden used to come on from
time to time when it's doing local radio. And there
was a famous story at the time. There was a picture.
Nobody knows the story anymore because it's a long time ago.
There's a picture for the Atlanta Braves named John Rocker
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in the nineties, and I think it was late nineties,
might have been the early two thousand. I think it
was late nineties, though, and John Rocker had done this
interview with Sports Illustrated, which was a big thing at
that time. Nobody reads it anymore, but it used to
be a big thing. And Rocker had said these things which,
like I thought, he probably thought were off the record,
but got written. And it was like ripping the subway
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line in New York, the seven train that would go
out to at that time Queen Queen's where the Mets
played at Chase Stadium, and and I got rid. It
was a big deal. And the day that that story
came out, we had Bobby Bowden on. I was doing
local ridium. Bobby we We asked Bobby his reaction, and
he started chucking, chuckling in the southern drawl, and it
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was the funniest It was the funniest reaction. Just priceless,
absolutely priceless. Prop Guy writes in says brilliant and seminole
seminole monologue. Now that FSU is zero and two, is
the team aiming for the Cheese It Bowl? If the
school was in California, would there be a call to
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remove Chief Osceola the mascot there? Maybe they need Poppy
to pick against them all season to turn things around
a fine point. Indeed, speaking of that, there is a
grassroots movement. You knew this was coming. It was inevitable.
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The Seminos off to the own two start, and they're
already whispers that high level Florida State boosters are snooping
around Boulder, Colorado. And what would it take? What would
it take for Dion Sanders to say bye bye to
the Buffaloes and his back.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
His kid leaving school?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well, that doesn't that's not going to stop because he
doesn't he have another kid that's still going to be
in school or they both leaving.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Yeah, transfer, That's.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
What I'm saying. It doesn't. Man, they can. Florida State
can pay the kids, and they can Dion. So it's
it's now I read I don't know if it's true.
I read it on the internet, So it might not
be true that Mike Norvell's buyout is only six million dollars,
which seems like a lot of If I got six
million dollars, my god, I would I would figure out
happy days. But yeah, in college football, you can find
six million dollars under a rock that some booster planted
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there in a suitcase back in like nineteen eighty nine.
You can find six million dollars. But would Dion go down?
That isn't this one of those things that you mean,
course he would go seems inevitable that Dion will end
up coaching in the near future Florida State, just like
when Jim Harball was coaching at the NFL level with
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the forty nine ers. You figure at some point he's
going to coach Michigan. But then when he went to Michigan,
you're like, well, he's gonna go back to the NFL.
The back and forth and all that. So according to
the Interweb, the world Wide Web, which is never wrong,
six million dollars buyout for Mike Norvel, you get the Rasmataz,
you get all the panache of Dion Sanders and all that.
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And is that gonna happen next year? Is that? Is that?
It is? One of his kids is definitely going to
the NFL. Probably both of them will go to the NFL.
And then does Dion want to go back and live
the television life and wear make up and make a
lot of money and give takes on television. It's a
it's a great life, so wonderful existence. Stay tuned, developing
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hot dot dot dot will keep an eye on it.
And college football is sports radio in the nineties, because
sports radio in the nineties was anytime a team loses,
fire the coach. And it's not quite at that level.
But in college football this weekend, you got Florida State losing,
fire the coach. You got Brian Kelly at LSU fire
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Brian Kelly. People you screaming and shouting that Billy Napier
at Florida fire his ass. Dabbos Sweeney at Clemson they lost.
They got schnockered in the second half, got well, really,
flum it's not schnockered. A close game at halftime against
Georgia for Clemson, they got run off the field in
the second half. People like, well, we got to find
a way to come up with sixty million dollars for
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Dabbo Sweeney to walk away that Well, it depends how
the stock market goes for some of those those big shots.
All it takes is the right hedge fund person to
come up with the cash. Like you're a you're a
high profile. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
That's a lot of money for anyone.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You're a high profile booster at Florida at Fresno State
now Florida Fresno State. Yea, So Fresno State called up
said hey, we need to pay for a buyout. You said,
you cut them a check right away because you're a
powerful alumnus of Fresno State. You and Aaron Judge very powerful. Similar. Yeah,
you get the same letters in the mail.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Right, Well, possibly I do get those.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You get the same form letters in the mail. See
Saddleback knows not to send me any any letters in
the mail because I'm not sending them a dollar, not
a dollar. They're not going a dollar in my money,
not a dollar. So they don't even bother. They don't
even bother buggy.
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Speaker 7 (23:03):
It's now time for our nightly segment. Did the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Lose You can put it on the ball.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Yes, they certainly did to the Orioles thirteen to three Chicago.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Now that is losing. That is losing with some flair.
They scored the first two as My Friends Sports with
Coleman was at this game, they scored the first two
runs and then gave up eleven uncontested runs after that.
So that's that's solid. That is losing with ras mataz
is what that is?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Thirty one and one oh eight. Now the record eleven
straight losses, four and thirty eight since the All Star break.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And I will have some fun facts on the White Sox.
Call brym McCarley.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Twelve more losses to tie, thirteen more losses to break
the nineteen sixty two Mets record for most losses in
a season. They've got twenty three games left to go.
They might not even make this dramatic. They may just
completely blow that record away. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The modern record is going down, down, down, down, down,
down down. So there's an old saying wives tales that
would you say, it's just an old. When I was
a kid, I heard from like Tommy Lasorder, but I
think every manager said the same thing that it's like,
you win fifty four, you lose fifty four. It's what
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you do with the other fifty four. You win sixty,
you lose sixty. It's what you do with the other
forty two. Some combination of that. But one of the
theories is if you every team starts out fifty four
and fifty four, there are fifty four other games that
will decide how your season goes. That's what you do
with the other fifty four. The Chicago White Sox will
now have to win every game the rest of the
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season to get the fifty four wins ero chance that yes,
every game, and the Chicago White Sox are now four
and forty one their last forty five games. That is
the worst record over a forty five game span since
then nineteen sixteen Philadelphia Athletics. Isn't that a fun fact?
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That's a fun fan Not fun for them, but it's
fun for us. You name one person on the nineteen
sixteen Philadelphia athletics. There should be one that of course,
that's the one. Connie Mack managed the team forever. Connie Mack.
He couldn't lose the job. He kept the job. They
won thirty six games that year, thirty six one hundred
and seventeen and one Connie Mac. They finished at the
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very bottom of the American League standings, and he kept
his job. And see anyone else on that team. Amos
Strunk was on that team, of course, Amos Drunk. Who
else do we have? Let's see, there's there's some names
here that I've I recognize, but we don't really want to.
Bullet do you have at Joe Bush? Do you have
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that's a good off offended his name? Bullet? Oh my god,
bullet Joe Bush? What's that racist?
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Did you have any more fun facts of the White Sux.
I saw something that was let's see. I do you
see the Chris Flexen thing.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
H don't use it.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Don't use that, okay't use it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Let's see here, Well, what else do I here's another
fun fact in the White Sox. So they're fun fact.
Thank you. The American League Central as a division is
thirty eight games under five hundred, but the American League Central.
They have five teams. Four of the teams are over
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five hundred, but as a division, they're collectively thirty eight
games under five hundred. Now that's impressive. That is that's
Chicago White Sox baseball. You talk about polishing turds. Steve
Stone and the broadcasters for the White Sox the personification
of polishing turds. My goodness.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Can you imagine if Ken Hawk Harrelson was still on
the call for these games? Oh man, he.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Would be silence when the White Sox were losing. With
Hawk Harrelson's the broadcast. When they were winning, he was
dancing and celebrating, and we did put it up all yeah,
And when they were losing, it was miserable. It was
so bad. I was so upset. Now Travis has written
in he says coach Prime is not going to be
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the coach at Florida State. But let the national media
people start those rumors. Well, if Travis has said it,
it's not going to happen. Super Marcus Steve says, Clemson
fans have some serious balls. They weren't even a school
I had ever heard of before twenty oh five, and
they had a decade of dominance under one coach, and
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all of a sudden they want to get rid of
him because he hasn't won a championship in seven years. Well,
let me see your balls, sir. I'd like to see
that's not exactly true, Supermarcus Steve is a little deeper
than that. He's in the Internet world, still using a
typewriter in the modern way. Dabbos Sweeney's in the back
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of the room typing things up on the bed, which
some people say that's the better way to go to
use the typewriter. We use the analogy in a previous
episode that in the Internet world he's using America Online
dial up Internet instead of high speed Wi Fi. Does
not want to use the transfer portal. So yeah, let's
go to the phones. We'll say hello to Andre who's
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in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre and his dog Willis.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Who we heard from Willis yesterday.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Big moment in the show history. Yes, that was huge
that that.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Was a huge moment in terms of the show history.
That I'm glad we'll let him in. You know, he
was out, hehe shown, but we'll let him in. He's up. So,
but I don't know if we're going to get any
I don't if we're gonna get anythactics from Willis. But listen, Ben,
we got to get right to the basics here in
terms of what we saw from BC beating Florida State.
This is big time here in the Northeast. As you've noted,
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BC has been a doormat in the ACC a lot
of people. There's a lot of anger frankly, that they
left the Big East years ago like a thief in
the night kind of how like the cults, you know,
scuttled scurried out of indianapols to go to become the Ravens.
But the fact of the matter, not the idea that
we're going to be some national power, but how about
some pride and some you know, honor, and some respect
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and some of the fact that let's take a trip
back in time.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
All right, are you saying put some respect on my name?
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
I'm saying, how about put a little bit of a
you know that you're not a door mat and you're
you're actually a competitive game, and we can actually start
to keep some of these recruits in Northeast and build
the program up. Let's go back to then, and then
it's thirty years since VC beat Notre Dame when they
were number one team in the nation. You know, the
battle of the Catholic schools. You know. The point is,
like Boston College wasn't always an afterthought when it came
(29:42):
to football. Now they should have never went to the
a SEC. Should have stayed in the big eet where
they can continue to grow. But beyond the the sky falling,
you know, for the florist state seminoles and the idea,
even though it's a great narrative, great storyline, but it's
not going to happen in terms of them going you know,
bringing in Deep Dion, that's a whole other like being
in the loser's lock. I just want to tip my
hat to Bill O'Brien, like this is it's a big
(30:03):
deal that they got.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
This win, and well it is unless they go out
and lose to this weekend who they play du Kine
or something that if they lose to them, then you know,
that's it a great equal I don't think.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
For in fact, what John Harp John Harbor is gonna
do for the charges they get the hardballs comp.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Jim Harbor, that's the other heart. John's the guy that's
the good guy in Baltimore, and then Jim's the guy
with the khaki pants in LA. All those harbor laws
are the same.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
I get. I get him confused that the type of
enthusiasm I feel and the type of potential that Bill
O'Brien has for for Boston College, are they gonna win
a national championship? No? But they could win eight nine
games seven eight. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Listen, I'm not here. I'm not here to reign on
your parade, So enjoy it and don't be upset though,
when Bill O'Brien ends up running back to an NFL job,
If if he actually does make Boston College somewhat relevant,
he'll bounce back to the NFL. He'll get an NFL
gig somewhere and that'll be that. But for a couple
of years, yes, year next, you can be hanging out.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
There and the Eagles will get in some bowl games
in the process, and hopefully the AD is already working
to find the coach after him, the bridge. You know
that he can be the bridge that this program can
act like they actually belong in the Atlantic Coast Conference
and stop embarrassing themselves across all the sports. So for
myself and Willis. Willis is hanging out here. You're not
gonna get a bark, but he's behaving him.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So let me think now, now, Andre, when do you
have to go back to work? Andre? It's Labor Day.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
We're back. I'm glad you got me in early.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
We're back in the mixte at the night Labor day.
So I'm going right to bed and uh, you know,
a little bit later bed, you know, early to rise,
and I'm looking forward to getting back in the year.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's dedication. You're going to changing your sleep schedule. I
just dedicated. I thank you, Andre. Get to bed Is,
Andre and his dog Willi is there. Ferg Dougs has
been Do not knock typewriters. I am using one right
now to type this tweet. Very Boso, the district attorney,
says this did not age well. From April of twenty
(32:06):
twenty four, Mike Norvel, the number five rated top coach
in college football. Well, you can go through lists like
I don't do this radio, as Terry and England knows
and the p Ones the core base of the show.
I do not mess around with it.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Do not do it.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Do not do it unless see Jason, but list you
can always pick apart. Jason writes in and says, hey, Ben,
that the fact about the White Sox still though the
Seattle Mariners are worse than the White Sox well in
terms of winning a championship. Sure, Masso Mickey teasing us
(32:45):
with food porn as he's enjoying a nice snack. It
looks like a dozen delicious chocolate chip cookies, which looked
just say. I was telling Brie and Lorraina that I
am avoiding baking cookies until after the football season, so
I put the baking on hold here as do you
(33:06):
realize how long that is been? Yes, it's I know
the exact date of my last show on the Peacock
Ad thing there, and that's in late February. Yeah, late February. Wow,
you're gonna make me have to bake? Do I look
like a baker to eat?
Speaker 8 (33:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You don't. You are not.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
No, you are not.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I'm Benny Benny Crocker and you're not. Definitely not, definitely not. Yeah, well,
coople eat it. You just throw some random stuff in
there and then you know, oh you'll eat it. You
better lie and tell me they're delicious. Of course, everyone
says that people say my baking's good and it sucks.
So yeah. Anyway, here's the who am I?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Thanks to Eddie for not spoiling this. The White Sox
they suffered their twentieth consecutive loss in a game started
by Chris Flexen. Now that's set the Big League record
for most consecutive losses and the pictures it starts that
was held by me. I held the previous record. Who
(34:10):
am I? That is the question the answer. We'll get
to it and we will do it next.
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It's Ben Maller. And here's the who am I? Gamy
White Sox who have the first, second, and third longest
losing streaks of this season. They on all of them
and some of their twentieth straight loss in a game
started by pitcher Chris Flexen that set the big League
mark for most consecutive losses in the pitcher starts that
(35:12):
was held previously by me. Who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? And let's see does
anyone know the answer? Terry in England going with Yankee icon,
Billy Martin, Liz Taylor from the k C car Haller,
Madison Bumgardner tossed out by Rob in Minnesota. Spocks Weed says,
(35:35):
a dog named Ben is the answer, Big Lou, He's
on number two. Going with Desmond Watson, the four hundred
and forty nine pound Florida Gator player. Wow, that's a
that's a big big man. Sean springs from Shane in
Des Moines. Who else do we have? Page down? Gary Coleman?
(35:57):
Did I say that? From? Malard prop guy? Matthew Warrior Raider,
Tom Brady Rose fan cheated so that does not count.
William van Landingham. There's a good name from I forty
Ian Pete Vukovich of the Braves, as you Brewers, Brewers
Bay City, Tony Bay City, Tony Jenny Finch, who is
forty four today? Guess by the Late Night drug tester
(36:18):
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, going with Cy Young Pee Weee
Hornbuckle from Milkman, Mike in Colorado? Who else do we have?
Page down? Buck Nancy O'Neill. That's Satchel Page's buddy from
og Art Puffin. He's added the og to his name,
mister nice guy going with Minnesota Gopher's legend Dave Winfield
(36:40):
as his answer. Jerry Springer from The Cowboy Killer. Who
else do we have? Page down? The Iceman Guessed by
ferg Dog DDP Diamond Dallas Page from Rob in Vegas.
I met him years years ago. I was doing a
bit with Rodman Wrestling event. Who else we we have?
(37:00):
Adrian the Pokey pokey pokey guy going with Michael Jackson
is his answer? And who's your daddy? Says Bartolo Colon,
What say you, Addie? Quickly? Please?
Speaker 7 (37:09):
Lumber Metsen comes Pitcher Anthony Young.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Anthony Young? Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (37:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Roz Chris Capolano of the Brewers. Although here's the thing
that's a bogus record. Let me tell you why it's
a bogus record, because Chris Capajana was oh to thirteen
in twenty three appearances nineteen starts from May of twenty
oh seven to June of twenty ten, but he missed
(37:36):
the twenty eight season and O nine because of Tommy
John surgery. So Chris Flexen did it all this season.
So uh, that is much more impressive what he has done.
So he is the king of all losers, Chris Flexen. Now,
speaking of losers to political political football, somebody in Philadelphia
(37:58):
put up at least one, I think there were more
multiple signs. The signs were deemed to the Eagles endorsing
Kamala Harris for president. They had a picture like a
drawing of her and then an Eagle's helmet, Except the
Eagles did not put the ads up. They wouldn't do that,
(38:19):
even though they probably do a support her. They didn't
do that. And so the Eagles were trying to take
down all of the counterfeit ads around Philadelphia saying that
she was the official presidential candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles.
But here's the thing, like that story popped up in
the morning, and it took the Eagles most of the
day to respond. From what I understand, so by the
(38:41):
time that happened, the damage is done. So how soon
before somebody comes out with a Trump poster and he's
going to be wearing a Dallas Cowboy helmet or something
like that, say the official candidate of the Cowboys or whoever,
and just go down down the list. But yeah, that
was the big political football story there, and it looked
(39:02):
like they somebody they didn't put those up, like somebody
paid for those. I was soon. I think they paid
for them. It's not like this put them up randomly
around town. Somebody actually paid for the adge to go up.
That's wild.
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one of the
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in our number one, what is the temperature in the
(00:24):
room for Seminoles coach Mike Norvel after Florida State goes
down and losing their game, and what even close against
Boston College? Also, is this the beginning of something big
for BC coach Bill O'Brien, the old NFL head coach?
And where do you file coach Billy Napier calling out
(00:46):
Florida fans the guys in their basement in rural Florida
this after the Gators lost by twenty four points to Miami.
We'll discuss all that and more right now in our
number one. The flame goes out for the Seminoles.
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Our lead this hour, though, we go to Chestnut Hill,
not exactly a hotbed of college football over the years,
but that was the showcase game on Labor Day, made
(02:28):
for prime time unless you have direct TV, and then
you were skarude. You had to go to those Russian
websites to watch the game. But island life in the
Commonwealth as number ten Florida State looking for redemption after
going across the land across the sea to play their
(02:49):
opener and taking it on the chin, trying to bounce
back after that season opening loss to the Georgia Tech squad,
and then they took on an unranked Boston College team.
Look at this game, is say, okay, Florida State, They're
not gonna lose two games in a row. Boston College,
come on, did you watch? Perhaps not, perhaps you didn't watch,
but don't worry. We watched so you would not have
(03:12):
to in a game that looked like an intrasquad scrimmage
based on the similar uniform colors. It was very bizarre.
I know Florida State was wearing their dark unifors, but
they have the same colors anyway. Treshawn Ward, who you
don't know? Boston College Trashaun Ward one hundred and thirty
(03:32):
eight yards of offense, including a thirteen yard touchdown reception.
He was a Florida State Semino. He played there for
several years. Now he's a transfer in the portal and
playing for Boston College, who man handled number ten Florida
State twenty eight to thirteen. The final Ward had seventy
seven yards on the ground. He added sixty one yards
(03:55):
receiving to get to that total of one hundred and
thirty eight yards. The better story though, in the losing
locker room, that is where the Seminoles head coach Mike
Norvel said he was quote sick sick at how the
season started. He also apologized to the Seminole fans. Whether
they accept that apology or not, stay tuned developing hot
(04:19):
dot dot dot. He then apologized to everybody associated with
the program, talking about how disappointing, extremely disappointing the start
to the season is. He said, in all phases, we
just weren't good. Close quote. So let us discuss what
is the temperature in the room for the Seminoles head
(04:39):
coach Mike Norvel. So I've got bingo card, treasure map,
and gillette and we will combine all of these things
together and we'll put the puzzle pieces into play. So
a if you get out the supersonic thermometer and take
(05:00):
the temperature in tallahassee the Seminal football program, which is
known for planting the flame the flaming arrow on the field,
whether they are luke warm at this point? Did they
bring back Willie Taggart? And nobody let us know as
the coach is that what happened here? My goodness? Who goofed?
(05:21):
I've got to know? Watching the inept Florida State football team,
Mike Novel, he supposedly had the ship turned around They've
gotten off some bad starts with Novell as the coach,
but the assumption was, oh, they were over the hump
now that things were heading the right direction. It is
unbecoming of the Seminoles the way that they played Florida
(05:42):
State as a program, eyeing bigger and better things. They
would like to leave the ACC and join the Southeastern Conference.
But to start the year losing to the rambling wreck
of Georgia Tech and then Boston College back to back
and belly to belly, that is a masculating for the
(06:02):
Florida State football program. Now, I did see an underlying
condition and we're allowed to talk college football now because
the NFL hasn't started Thursday. That will end and we'll
move back to the NFL. But watching this game, if
you look at the FSU bingo card, there was a
blank spot under center, a player that coming out of
(06:23):
high school was ranked ahead of C. J. Stroud. Dj
Uile was out to lunch in this game. And he
has been so far a pedestrian performer for the Seminoles,
highly rated, highly decorated, and the results are just not there.
Now on the other side, is this the beginning of
(06:44):
something big for Bill O'Brien, he's been around the block
a few times, right, Bill O'Brien, the head coach at
Boston College. So you say it's a stepping stone game, Okay.
BC was methodically running the foot, bought down the throats
of the Seminoles defense, right up the middle, right up
the gut there. The Eagles had two hundred and sixty
(07:08):
three yards rushing. And the thing is they weren't just
running past Seminal defense. They were going right up the gut.
There's really nothing in the middle of the Florida State defense.
And everyone was watching. Now, Bill O'Brien grizzled coach mister
Average in the NFL with the Texans back in the day.
But he has coached at the highest levels in college
(07:30):
in the NFL, Penning State back in the day. So
for him, Boston College the BC gig. It's not that
he's gonna make Boston College some kind of Northeastern juggernaut.
That's not it. But on that stage, in that environment,
for BC, you set it up right as a treasure
(07:52):
map and you can go back down the yellow brick
road and get one more shot, one more chance. In
the NFL. All right, Now, the last word here and
we'll see we have this sound. But Billy Napier, I
want to go back to this, the Florida coach, Billy Napier,
who really is in a world of hurt at this point. Here,
(08:13):
the Gators head coach, feeling the walls cave in around him,
despite a seven year, fifty one million dollar contract that
he signed back in twenty twenty one when he left Louisiana.
So billiy Napier has decided to go where you're not
supposed to go. He has insulted the customers, he has
(08:38):
taken a shot of the customers. Now let's go to
the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We got to go to work on the football part,
you know. And I think we've got to get more.
We've got to become a more consistent team, and we
have to execute better. And if we can focus on
those things and not necessarily what some guy in his
basement saying, and you know, rural central Florida on social media,
then we got a chance to get better. Right.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So, are there a lot of basements in rural central Florida?
And I feel like that's our demographic. I feel like
our demographic is guys in there. If there is such
a thing as basements in rural central Florida. That's right
in our wheelhouse, like that is, that's our core demographic.
So you're attacking the base of the Malad militia, the
(09:26):
Florida wing of the Malad militia. Bad job by you.
So where do you file what you just heard? The
head coach Billy Napier calling out the Florida fans from
their basement in rural central Florida. This coming after the
Gators lost by let me check my notes here twenty
four points to in state rival Miami. So Napier, he's
(09:51):
breaking the mold here, he's breaking the mold. The mold
is old school gellet commercial campaign from back in the day.
Never let them see a sweat. Billy Napier, the head
coach of the Florida Gators, wants you to know that
he's got swamp ass right now in more ways than one. Right,
there's a lot of bo. There's a lot of sweat
(10:12):
in the private region, the nether region there for Billy Napier,
extreme bo and good luck. This is usually the beginning
of the end in my experience, based on previous results.
Here the Gators with Billy Napier have played nine games
(10:33):
against rivals, they've won one. They're one in eight against
their rivals. They've played thirteen games against ranked opponents. They're
two and eleven against ranked opponents. But wait, there's more.
So they're nine and four against unranked teams. So it
seems passable until you realize that four of those wins
(10:53):
are against the non Power four teams, So against the
power teams, five and four unranked opponents. I can go
on and on go on, but you get the point.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like
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to be part of the program. As that was an
island game, everyone watching Boston College in their win over
Florida State because there was nothing else on unless you
have direct TV, and then you couldn't watch it at
all unless you did something illegal and immoral, and you
should not do and go to those Russian websites, which
would be wrong and inappropriate. Shame on you if you did.
(11:58):
Straight ahead No, a grass roots movement inspired by an
island game, A grassroots movement. What is that grassroots movement about?
We'll explain, we'll get to that, and we will do
it next.
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is yours as we are beginning here. Exciting news. The
Blade Master has let me know that if I get
my ass to Columbus for the Ohio Malor Meet and Greet,
(14:02):
that he will dress up like he sent a photo
here of him. Wow, that is like a nineteen eighties
wrestler type outfit there, and getting an eight and a
half size Columbus clippers hat, well, it's very kind of you.
I don't know that I need the eight and a half.
Eight would be fine. I don't have eight and a
half is a little too big. I don't know that
I need that. And Jacoby's locked in. He's let us know.
(14:26):
Matthew Warrior Raider Tom Brady rose Fan is locked in.
He thinks he's figured out the schedule of a caller
that he doesn't like. But I believe he's wrong on that.
I think his analysis is incorrect. We will examine that
g manage in Chicago, right since says I love the
monologue and enjoy the near empty FSU Stadium, FSU and
(14:48):
Florida go down, Miami is still standing the you. I
don't believe there are basements in Florida housing. Yeah, some
relatives that live in Florida. I don't call them having basements.
I think that's a thing. Don't have big sinkholes in
Florida and the ground's not like that stable. They don't.
They don't have the basements there, So I think that's plus.
(15:10):
You're you're taking shots at rural Florida. How dare you?
How dare you do that? Late night drug tester says
FSU losing to the bottom of the ACC is making
that SEC invite for them to join. They could use
another homecoming opponent other than Vanderbilt, he points out. Now
Rob in Vegas is wait a second, you're telling me
(15:33):
that mister Butch and Bill O'Brien is the head coach
at Boston College. Mind blown. Billy O'Brien's a cockroach, man.
This guy always got a job, Bill O'Brien. It always
finds a gig somewhere. Somebody's got to hire Bill O'Brien.
Have we done a wellness check on Jed who fled?
(15:54):
Is everything okay with Jed? No? Oh? Man, Jed he's
been in the hospital. Oh he has been.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Yes, No, that's not fun.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It's not good. Is it a planned event or is
this unplanned? I believe it is unplanned. But he sent
me a picture and he's like smiling in it, so
it can't be that bad. Okay, Well, speaking of that,
I did want to we don't do shout outs as
you know, this is not a morning Zoos show, so
I can't do a shout out to Jed hu Fled.
(16:27):
I can also not do any kind of shout out
to Callagan Tim in Michigan. But Calligan Tim has been
a loyal minion of this show over the years. He's
going through a very tough time right now, but I uh,
you know, I send some good karma to Calligan Tim
and his family, and they're really going through it, really
(16:48):
going through it. But we do appreciate the loyalty that
they have shown us over there. You actually met Calligan
Tim Eddie right in at a King's game or something
like that.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
He's originally from southern California. Came out for a Kings
game this past season, frankly because I probably thought it
was the last time he could travel and and something
like that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So yeah, I was, well, we were gonna have him
in studio and gold to make it. Unfortunately, but we
send our thoughts our positive vibrations to his family. Yes, absolutely,
Art Puffin, we go from Calligan Tim to Art Puffins.
Art Puffin says, Bobby Bowden is rolling over in his grave.
The zero to two start is unprecedented for seminal football.
(17:36):
Not really, not in this era of seminal football. He says,
the ACC sucks. I love Bobby Biden. When I was
on local radio, Bobby Bowden used to come on from
time to time when it's doing local radio. And there
was a famous story at the time. There was a picture.
Nobody knows the story anymore because it's a long time ago.
There's a picture for the Atlanta Braves named John Rocker
(17:57):
in the nineties, and I think it was late nineties,
might have been the early two thousand. I think it
was late nineties, though, and John Rocker had done this
interview with Sports Illustrated, which was a big thing at
that time. Nobody reads it anymore, but it used to
be a big thing. And Rocker had said these things which,
like I thought, he probably thought were off the record,
but got written. And it was like ripping the subway
(18:20):
line in New York, the seven train that would go
out to at that time Queen Queen's where the Mets
played at Chase Stadium, and and I got rid. It
was a big deal. And the day that that story
came out, we had Bobby Bowden on. I was doing
local ridium. Bobby we We asked Bobby his reaction, and
he started chucking, chuckling in the southern drawl, and it
(18:40):
was the funniest It was the funniest reaction. Just priceless,
absolutely priceless. Prop Guy writes in says brilliant and seminole
seminole monologue. Now that FSU is zero and two, is
the team aiming for the Cheese It Bowl? If the
school was in California, would there be a call to
(19:02):
remove Chief Osceola the mascot there? Maybe they need Poppy
to pick against them all season to turn things around
a fine point. Indeed, speaking of that, there is a
grassroots movement. You knew this was coming. It was inevitable.
(19:23):
The Seminos off to the own two start, and they're
already whispers that high level Florida State boosters are snooping
around Boulder, Colorado. And what would it take? What would
it take for Dion Sanders to say bye bye to
the Buffaloes and his back.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
His kid leaving school?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Well, that doesn't that's not going to stop because he
doesn't he have another kid that's still going to be
in school or they both leaving.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Yeah, transfer, That's.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
What I'm saying. It doesn't. Man, they can. Florida State
can pay the kids, and they can Dion. So it's
it's now I read I don't know if it's true.
I read it on the internet, So it might not
be true that Mike Norvell's buyout is only six million dollars,
which seems like a lot of If I got six
million dollars, my god, I would I would figure out
happy days. But yeah, in college football, you can find
six million dollars under a rock that some booster planted
(20:17):
there in a suitcase back in like nineteen eighty nine.
You can find six million dollars. But would Dion go down?
That isn't this one of those things that you mean,
course he would go seems inevitable that Dion will end
up coaching in the near future Florida State, just like
when Jim Harball was coaching at the NFL level with
(20:38):
the forty nine ers. You figure at some point he's
going to coach Michigan. But then when he went to Michigan,
you're like, well, he's gonna go back to the NFL.
The back and forth and all that. So according to
the Interweb, the world Wide Web, which is never wrong,
six million dollars buyout for Mike Norvel, you get the Rasmataz,
you get all the panache of Dion Sanders and all that.
(21:01):
And is that gonna happen next year? Is that? Is that?
It is? One of his kids is definitely going to
the NFL. Probably both of them will go to the NFL.
And then does Dion want to go back and live
the television life and wear make up and make a
lot of money and give takes on television. It's a
it's a great life, so wonderful existence. Stay tuned, developing
(21:22):
hot dot dot dot will keep an eye on it.
And college football is sports radio in the nineties, because
sports radio in the nineties was anytime a team loses,
fire the coach. And it's not quite at that level.
But in college football this weekend, you got Florida State losing,
fire the coach. You got Brian Kelly at LSU fire
(21:43):
Brian Kelly. People you screaming and shouting that Billy Napier
at Florida fire his ass. Dabbos Sweeney at Clemson they lost.
They got schnockered in the second half, got well, really,
flum it's not schnockered. A close game at halftime against
Georgia for Clemson, they got run off the field in
the second half. People like, well, we got to find
a way to come up with sixty million dollars for
(22:05):
Dabbo Sweeney to walk away that Well, it depends how
the stock market goes for some of those those big shots.
All it takes is the right hedge fund person to
come up with the cash. Like you're a you're a
high profile. That's a lot of money.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
That's a lot of money for anyone.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You're a high profile booster at Florida at Fresno State
now Florida Fresno State. Yea, So Fresno State called up
said hey, we need to pay for a buyout. You said,
you cut them a check right away because you're a
powerful alumnus of Fresno State. You and Aaron Judge very powerful. Similar. Yeah,
you get the same letters in the mail.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Right, Well, possibly I do get those.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You get the same form letters in the mail. See
Saddleback knows not to send me any any letters in
the mail because I'm not sending them a dollar, not
a dollar. They're not going a dollar in my money,
not a dollar. So they don't even bother. They don't
even bother buggy.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
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Speaker 7 (23:03):
It's now time for our nightly segment. Did the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Lose You can put it on the ball.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Yes, they certainly did to the Orioles thirteen to three Chicago.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Now that is losing. That is losing with some flair.
They scored the first two as My Friends Sports with
Coleman was at this game, they scored the first two
runs and then gave up eleven uncontested runs after that.
So that's that's solid. That is losing with ras mataz
is what that is?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Thirty one and one oh eight. Now the record eleven
straight losses, four and thirty eight since the All Star break.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And I will have some fun facts on the White Sox.
Call brym McCarley.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Twelve more losses to tie, thirteen more losses to break
the nineteen sixty two Mets record for most losses in
a season. They've got twenty three games left to go.
They might not even make this dramatic. They may just
completely blow that record away. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The modern record is going down, down, down, down, down,
down down. So there's an old saying wives tales that
would you say, it's just an old. When I was
a kid, I heard from like Tommy Lasorder, but I
think every manager said the same thing that it's like,
you win fifty four, you lose fifty four. It's what
(24:18):
you do with the other fifty four. You win sixty,
you lose sixty. It's what you do with the other
forty two. Some combination of that. But one of the
theories is if you every team starts out fifty four
and fifty four, there are fifty four other games that
will decide how your season goes. That's what you do
with the other fifty four. The Chicago White Sox will
now have to win every game the rest of the
(24:39):
season to get the fifty four wins ero chance that yes,
every game, and the Chicago White Sox are now four
and forty one their last forty five games. That is
the worst record over a forty five game span since
then nineteen sixteen Philadelphia Athletics. Isn't that a fun fact?
(25:04):
That's a fun fan Not fun for them, but it's
fun for us. You name one person on the nineteen
sixteen Philadelphia athletics. There should be one that of course,
that's the one. Connie Mack managed the team forever. Connie Mack.
He couldn't lose the job. He kept the job. They
won thirty six games that year, thirty six one hundred
and seventeen and one Connie Mac. They finished at the
(25:25):
very bottom of the American League standings, and he kept
his job. And see anyone else on that team. Amos
Strunk was on that team, of course, Amos Drunk. Who
else do we have? Let's see, there's there's some names
here that I've I recognize, but we don't really want to.
Bullet do you have at Joe Bush? Do you have
(25:45):
that's a good off offended his name? Bullet? Oh my god,
bullet Joe Bush? What's that racist?
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Did you have any more fun facts of the White Sux.
I saw something that was let's see. I do you
see the Chris Flexen thing.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
H don't use it.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Don't use that, okay't use it.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Let's see here, Well, what else do I here's another
fun fact in the White Sox. So they're fun fact.
Thank you. The American League Central as a division is
thirty eight games under five hundred, but the American League Central.
They have five teams. Four of the teams are over
(26:21):
five hundred, but as a division, they're collectively thirty eight
games under five hundred. Now that's impressive. That is that's
Chicago White Sox baseball. You talk about polishing turds. Steve
Stone and the broadcasters for the White Sox the personification
of polishing turds. My goodness.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Can you imagine if Ken Hawk Harrelson was still on
the call for these games? Oh man, he.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Would be silence when the White Sox were losing. With
Hawk Harrelson's the broadcast. When they were winning, he was
dancing and celebrating, and we did put it up all yeah,
And when they were losing, it was miserable. It was
so bad. I was so upset. Now Travis has written
in he says coach Prime is not going to be
(27:10):
the coach at Florida State. But let the national media
people start those rumors. Well, if Travis has said it,
it's not going to happen. Super Marcus Steve says, Clemson
fans have some serious balls. They weren't even a school
I had ever heard of before twenty oh five, and
they had a decade of dominance under one coach, and
(27:31):
all of a sudden they want to get rid of
him because he hasn't won a championship in seven years. Well,
let me see your balls, sir. I'd like to see
that's not exactly true, Supermarcus Steve is a little deeper
than that. He's in the Internet world, still using a
typewriter in the modern way. Dabbos Sweeney's in the back
(27:52):
of the room typing things up on the bed, which
some people say that's the better way to go to
use the typewriter. We use the analogy in a previous
episode that in the Internet world he's using America Online
dial up Internet instead of high speed Wi Fi. Does
not want to use the transfer portal. So yeah, let's
go to the phones. We'll say hello to Andre who's
(28:14):
in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre and his dog Willis.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
Who we heard from Willis yesterday.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Big moment in the show history. Yes, that was huge
that that.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Was a huge moment in terms of the show history.
That I'm glad we'll let him in. You know, he
was out, hehe shown, but we'll let him in. He's up. So,
but I don't know if we're going to get any
I don't if we're gonna get anythactics from Willis. But listen, Ben,
we got to get right to the basics here in
terms of what we saw from BC beating Florida State.
This is big time here in the Northeast. As you've noted,
(28:47):
BC has been a doormat in the ACC a lot
of people. There's a lot of anger frankly, that they
left the Big East years ago like a thief in
the night kind of how like the cults, you know,
scuttled scurried out of indianapols to go to become the Ravens.
But the fact of the matter, not the idea that
we're going to be some national power, but how about
some pride and some you know, honor, and some respect
(29:10):
and some of the fact that let's take a trip
back in time.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
All right, are you saying put some respect on my name?
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
I'm saying, how about put a little bit of a
you know that you're not a door mat and you're
you're actually a competitive game, and we can actually start
to keep some of these recruits in Northeast and build
the program up. Let's go back to then, and then
it's thirty years since VC beat Notre Dame when they
were number one team in the nation. You know, the
battle of the Catholic schools. You know. The point is,
like Boston College wasn't always an afterthought when it came
(29:42):
to football. Now they should have never went to the
a SEC. Should have stayed in the big eet where
they can continue to grow. But beyond the the sky falling,
you know, for the florist state seminoles and the idea,
even though it's a great narrative, great storyline, but it's
not going to happen in terms of them going you know,
bringing in Deep Dion, that's a whole other like being
in the loser's lock. I just want to tip my
hat to Bill O'Brien, like this is it's a big
(30:03):
deal that they got.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
This win, and well it is unless they go out
and lose to this weekend who they play du Kine
or something that if they lose to them, then you know,
that's it a great equal I don't think.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
For in fact, what John Harp John Harbor is gonna
do for the charges they get the hardballs comp.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Jim Harbor, that's the other heart. John's the guy that's
the good guy in Baltimore, and then Jim's the guy
with the khaki pants in LA. All those harbor laws
are the same.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
I get. I get him confused that the type of
enthusiasm I feel and the type of potential that Bill
O'Brien has for for Boston College, are they gonna win
a national championship? No? But they could win eight nine
games seven eight. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Listen, I'm not here. I'm not here to reign on
your parade, So enjoy it and don't be upset though,
when Bill O'Brien ends up running back to an NFL job,
If if he actually does make Boston College somewhat relevant,
he'll bounce back to the NFL. He'll get an NFL
gig somewhere and that'll be that. But for a couple
of years, yes, year next, you can be hanging out.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
There and the Eagles will get in some bowl games
in the process, and hopefully the AD is already working
to find the coach after him, the bridge. You know
that he can be the bridge that this program can
act like they actually belong in the Atlantic Coast Conference
and stop embarrassing themselves across all the sports. So for
myself and Willis. Willis is hanging out here. You're not
gonna get a bark, but he's behaving him.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So let me think now, now, Andre, when do you
have to go back to work? Andre? It's Labor Day.
Speaker 8 (31:35):
We're back. I'm glad you got me in early.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
We're back in the mixte at the night Labor day.
So I'm going right to bed and uh, you know,
a little bit later bed, you know, early to rise,
and I'm looking forward to getting back in the year.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's dedication. You're going to changing your sleep schedule. I
just dedicated. I thank you, Andre. Get to bed Is,
Andre and his dog Willi is there. Ferg Dougs has
been Do not knock typewriters. I am using one right
now to type this tweet. Very Boso, the district attorney,
says this did not age well. From April of twenty
(32:06):
twenty four, Mike Norvel, the number five rated top coach
in college football. Well, you can go through lists like
I don't do this radio, as Terry and England knows
and the p Ones the core base of the show.
I do not mess around with it.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Do not do it.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Do not do it unless see Jason, but list you
can always pick apart. Jason writes in and says, hey, Ben,
that the fact about the White Sox still though the
Seattle Mariners are worse than the White Sox well in
terms of winning a championship. Sure, Masso Mickey teasing us
(32:45):
with food porn as he's enjoying a nice snack. It
looks like a dozen delicious chocolate chip cookies, which looked
just say. I was telling Brie and Lorraina that I
am avoiding baking cookies until after the football season, so
I put the baking on hold here as do you
(33:06):
realize how long that is been? Yes, it's I know
the exact date of my last show on the Peacock
Ad thing there, and that's in late February. Yeah, late February. Wow,
you're gonna make me have to bake? Do I look
like a baker to eat?
Speaker 8 (33:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You don't. You are not.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
No, you are not.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I'm Benny Benny Crocker and you're not. Definitely not, definitely not. Yeah, well,
coople eat it. You just throw some random stuff in
there and then you know, oh you'll eat it. You
better lie and tell me they're delicious. Of course, everyone
says that people say my baking's good and it sucks.
So yeah. Anyway, here's the who am I?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Thanks to Eddie for not spoiling this. The White Sox
they suffered their twentieth consecutive loss in a game started
by Chris Flexen. Now that's set the Big League record
for most consecutive losses and the pictures it starts that
was held by me. I held the previous record. Who
(34:10):
am I? That is the question the answer. We'll get
to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
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Speaker 1 (34:51):
It's Ben Maller. And here's the who am I? Gamy
White Sox who have the first, second, and third longest
losing streaks of this season. They on all of them
and some of their twentieth straight loss in a game
started by pitcher Chris Flexen that set the big League
mark for most consecutive losses in the pitcher starts that
(35:12):
was held previously by me. Who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? And let's see does
anyone know the answer? Terry in England going with Yankee icon,
Billy Martin, Liz Taylor from the k C car Haller,
Madison Bumgardner tossed out by Rob in Minnesota. Spocks Weed says,
(35:35):
a dog named Ben is the answer, Big Lou, He's
on number two. Going with Desmond Watson, the four hundred
and forty nine pound Florida Gator player. Wow, that's a
that's a big big man. Sean springs from Shane in
Des Moines. Who else do we have? Page down? Gary Coleman?
(35:57):
Did I say that? From? Malard prop guy? Matthew Warrior Raider,
Tom Brady Rose fan cheated so that does not count.
William van Landingham. There's a good name from I forty
Ian Pete Vukovich of the Braves, as you Brewers, Brewers
Bay City, Tony Bay City, Tony Jenny Finch, who is
forty four today? Guess by the Late Night drug tester
(36:18):
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, going with Cy Young Pee Weee
Hornbuckle from Milkman, Mike in Colorado? Who else do we have?
Page down? Buck Nancy O'Neill. That's Satchel Page's buddy from
og Art Puffin. He's added the og to his name,
mister nice guy going with Minnesota Gopher's legend Dave Winfield
(36:40):
as his answer. Jerry Springer from The Cowboy Killer. Who
else do we have? Page down? The Iceman Guessed by
ferg Dog DDP Diamond Dallas Page from Rob in Vegas.
I met him years years ago. I was doing a
bit with Rodman Wrestling event. Who else we we have?
(37:00):
Adrian the Pokey pokey pokey guy going with Michael Jackson
is his answer? And who's your daddy? Says Bartolo Colon,
What say you, Addie? Quickly? Please?
Speaker 7 (37:09):
Lumber Metsen comes Pitcher Anthony Young.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Anthony Young? Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (37:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Roz Chris Capolano of the Brewers. Although here's the thing
that's a bogus record. Let me tell you why it's
a bogus record, because Chris Capajana was oh to thirteen
in twenty three appearances nineteen starts from May of twenty
oh seven to June of twenty ten, but he missed
(37:36):
the twenty eight season and O nine because of Tommy
John surgery. So Chris Flexen did it all this season.
So uh, that is much more impressive what he has done.
So he is the king of all losers, Chris Flexen. Now,
speaking of losers to political political football, somebody in Philadelphia
(37:58):
put up at least one, I think there were more
multiple signs. The signs were deemed to the Eagles endorsing
Kamala Harris for president. They had a picture like a
drawing of her and then an Eagle's helmet, Except the
Eagles did not put the ads up. They wouldn't do that,
(38:19):
even though they probably do a support her. They didn't
do that. And so the Eagles were trying to take
down all of the counterfeit ads around Philadelphia saying that
she was the official presidential candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles.
But here's the thing, like that story popped up in
the morning, and it took the Eagles most of the
day to respond. From what I understand, so by the
(38:41):
time that happened, the damage is done. So how soon
before somebody comes out with a Trump poster and he's
going to be wearing a Dallas Cowboy helmet or something
like that, say the official candidate of the Cowboys or whoever,
and just go down down the list. But yeah, that
was the big political football story there, and it looked
(39:02):
like they somebody they didn't put those up, like somebody
paid for those. I was soon. I think they paid
for them. It's not like this put them up randomly
around town. Somebody actually paid for the adge to go up.
That's wild.
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