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September 30, 2024 37 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Chiefs losing Rashee Rice for the season during their win over the Chargers, Jayden Daniels staying hot with a big win over the Cardinals, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number two as we span the globe to
provide you all the NFL news fit to talk about
on a podcast. Here an hour number two. How do
the Chiefs handle that loss of Rashie Rice? They won
the game, but lost Rashi Rice likely for the season. Also,

(00:22):
what are we seeing from Jim Harbaugh's Chargers. We'll talk
about that. The Commanders with a dominating win over Alligator
Arms Kyler Murray and the Cardinals. Describe this performance by
Jaden Daniels in two words. We'll get to that as well.
It's all coming your way right now. It's our number two,

(00:45):
like Plato, the Chiefs against everyone else in the AFC West.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
In the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mathers Show.

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(02:04):
our in depth team coverage spanning the.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Globe to bring you what we saw over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
We start at Sofi Stadium in the hood in Inglewood.
That was the side of the AFC West Brew Haha.
As the dinged up Chargers, they didn't forfeit again. They
stilled to play the game and they were taking on
the big boys, the team in the penthouse of the

(02:32):
AFC West Cans City.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
So, I don't know if you saw this or not.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Maybe you were not watching. It was the big game on CBS.
Patty Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes had two hundred forty five yards
not an amazing statistical day, had a touchdown the Chiefs,
spotting LA ten early points and then rallying from that
ten point deficit, and they come back, and the Chargers
do what the Chargers always seemed to do.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
They find to lose seventeen to ten.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
An NFL game where neither team crossed the twenty point
threshold and Kansas City improves to four and oh for
the first time way back in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Was some kind of pandemic that happened in twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
I barely remember it, but that's the last time the
Chiefs were four and oh and Travis Kelce breaking out
of a season long futile performance streak. As Kelsey had
a season nine seven receptions for eighty nine yards. He
did not did not find the end zone, but has

(03:38):
a new franchise record as he passed fellow tight end
Tony Gonzalez, who now dresses like a really annoying person
you want to punch on television on Amazon. But the
subplot here, the subplot here involves Chiefs wide receiver Raschi
Rice speed racer Rashie.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Rice, as he is down for the count.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Multiple reports here in the overnight indicating a snap crackle
pop situation. He has mutilated his acl a knee injury.
There an interception and the collision with his teammate Patrick Mahomes.
They call that friendly fire. Head coach Andy Reid told

(04:20):
CBS that it is not good, he said during the broadcast.
And reports continue and indicated as a season ending injury
for Rashie Rice. So let us discuss the question. While
not confirmed yet, we'll assume the reporting is somewhat accurate.
The question is, how do the Chiefs handle another big

(04:43):
playmaker leaving stage left Rashie Rice out for the year
would appear. So I've got scorpion, Jim Mora and assessment tracker,
and we will.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Combine all of these.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Things together, and we are going to the Baba Canoche
is what we're gonna make.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
We're gonna make the Baba Canooche.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
So, first of all, off season gains, off season gains
have vanished. Pressed o embra cut that bra see you later,
remember all the time, and we were right there. It
looked amazing. It was really a wonderful addition in the

(05:25):
off season. Now, Roshie Rice was already there. But you
looked at the Chiefs weaponizing at the playmaker position. The
argument was last year they weren't fast enough, they weren't
quick enough. They weren't good enough, so they loaded up.
They got some firepower, they weaponized for Patrick Mahomes. And
now you look around and you think of it like
in the Candy Bar game. The Chiefs when they went

(05:46):
to training camp, the assumption was they would have the
three Musketeers in terms of playmakers at the wide receiver position.
And now they're down to a mister goodbar. And they're
not even sure if that's a good mister goodbar. It
might be expired. You don't know what you have. Do
you have no idea what you have? Sixty six percent

(06:07):
of the speed demon ratio gone. Hollywood Brown not going
to play, not going to play for Kansas City. So
he's out and now fast and furious want to be
star Rashie Rice, who you don't want driving if you're
in Dallas on the highway there. He's out for the year.

(06:30):
So this one is a scorpio sting, is what it is.
The venom is going to linger.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
The good news is that there's still time to address
this and the Chiefs can make a trade. There are
teams that have already fallen out of contention, that have
no realistic path to success that you look at Isa, Well,
there's players that they could get if they're willing to
meet the asking price, and I'm sure that'll be brought up.

(06:59):
We'll talk about that as we go through the week here.
But there's one guy left. It's Xavier Worthy, and who knows,
we don't know whether he's going to be really, really
coold or not.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's got a lot of speed.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
There's been plenty of players that have speed. You and
I have both watched the NFL for years. There's guys
that come in that look like they should be amazing,
but they never end up living up to the stuff
that's written about.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Them on the internet.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
And as long as Patrick Mahomes, though is there, it's.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Like the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's like thinking of it in terms of the Thespian world. Right,
as long as they have the Prince Mahomes, Hamlet can
go on. Right, they have the Prince in Hamlet, they're
good to go on that, And so they're fine. They'll
find a solution. And if they have to play plotting

(07:49):
football like they did last year, they'll play plotting football
like they did last year, which makes it much more difficult.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
But the defense in.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Kansas City is still top shell, top shelf defense, so
they don't have to be that great on offense and
their four and known the offense really hasn't been dominant.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Mahomes hasn't been amazing to begin the year.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
You're not supposed to say that part out loud, though,
you're not supposed to say that part out loud all
right now, the losing locker room, which is usually the
better story here, and that's where we're gonna go right now.
So what are you seeing from Jim Harbaugh's Chargers? What
are you seeing here for Jim Harbus Chargers. So this game,
much like we talked last hour with the Bills, and

(08:33):
they hadn't really done much and this was their first
opportunity on Sunday night football against the Ravens, and they
went out there and laid an egg. Well, a similar
scenario and new identity, new attitude. This was an opportunity
for the Chargers to make an early season statement and
show the NFL, hey, this is a different Charger team.

(08:53):
This is not the same old Chargers that they might
have that little soft blue uniform on.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
But they're gonna go out there and pete and.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Take down Kansas City, and yeah, status quo, status quo
for the balls. It was a measuring stick game and
they did not measure up at all.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Here is Jim Harbaugh pointing out, and well, it's not
about this game. It's about what's up ahead.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
Gotta gotta look at it, how we respond, how we
respond from here, and it'll be you likes starting the
season over again.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
You know, we come back.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
They have a bye week up ahead, and you'd argue they
had a bye week on offense after the first two
times they touched the football in this game. I love
when coaches do that on the Cincinnati like Belichick back
and the Cincinnati well, you just played this game. Well
that's what we do next. How about Justin Herbert who
had a hissy fit. You see this, he threw his helmet.

(09:52):
He chucked his helmet, just threw it down. See you later, goodbye.
Had a hissy fit. Here is a Herbert on what
has to happen now for the Bolts.

Speaker 7 (10:03):
I think there have been plenty of games, whether they're
wins or losses, where they've been close games. You know,
that's the NFL, and so we're ready for that, and
we fell short today. You know, there's plenty of times
where we can turn on the tape and see us
come away with one or go score and we have
to stay patient. Understand that we got the right guys
out there. We didn't execute. It didn't go our way today,
and that's not going to stop us going forward next week,
two weeks, whenever it is.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
You know, that's just the way the NFL is. What
about do you throw in your helmet? No comment on
right anyway.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
So the Chargers, if you look at this, the Bolts
scored ten points. We talked about this earlier. They scored
ten points off a pair of Chiefs turnovers. No one
of them was still a long drive for the Chargers,
but there was a fumble by Carson Steele and a
Mahomes interception is fifth interception of the season. And so
Jim Harbaugh and this Charger offense with Justin Herbert, they

(10:48):
got together, they huddled up. They called it an audible
and they channeled former FSR alumni member and coach of
the New Orleans Saints from many years ago, Jim Mora,
and they decide, we're gonna change our offense here. We're
gonna call the offense we couldn't do Diddley Pooh offensively
and that's what they did. They had eight drives after

(11:09):
the early lead, six punts, a missed field goal, and
a turnover on downs. And as far as the ground
and pound, JK. Dobbins held the thirty two yards that's it,
thirty two yards on fourteen carries. And as far as
the Chargers and that dynamic running offense turn out the

(11:29):
last the parties over. Oh but they didn't have some
offensive lineman. Okay, well they still played the game.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
I checked.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
I actually called the NFL. I said, can you cancel
the game until the Chargers are healthy, because therefore they'll
have a better chance to win. The NFL said, no,
we play the games when they're scheduled. That's why you
have backups. So unfortunately, the excuse I know many Charger
apologists would like to make does not work.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Now.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Final fun to air Arizona to Arizona. That is where
the Washington football team. But this is something that hasn't
happened in my life since they used to be called
the Redskins when they had Joe Gibbs as the coach.
That you want to watch the Washington football team play
the old Redskins?

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Wow? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Quarterback Jaden Daniels and the Commanders pulverizing the Cardinals shredded
Cardinal forty two fourteen. They improved three to one on
the season, and they are in the cat bird seat
right now. You look at teams in the NFC East,
and that team right there from Washington the very top.

(12:35):
So describe the performance by Jaden Daniels in two words,
two words. I've got legendary myth making. He's building the
myth that will make me eventually hate him. This always happens, right,
young player plays well, everyone kisses his ass, and eventually

(12:56):
I go to hate the player. I'm not at that
stage yet. I know this circle of NFL stardom. At
this point, I'm not at the I hate you because
you're too popular stage. I enjoy watching Jaden Daniels play.
I watched a lot of this game. Jadeen Daniels was
not amazing, amazing amazing at two hundred eighty yards at

(13:16):
an accounter for a couple of touchdowns, and the Cardinals
provided minimal resistance as they often do. Daniels did not
did not collapse after that breakout game against the Bengals.
This was a classic letdown spot, short week road game,
against the team nobody gets up for against Alligator Arms, Murray,

(13:39):
the little fella. And yet Washington still went out and
Daniels went out and played at a high level, out
performing the opposition. That's a good sign. That's a good
feather in the cap for Jadeen Daniels and the Commanders.
And as much as people like Colin Cowherd and others
hate Dan Quinn, right now things are going well, going

(14:00):
very well. And when you peek over at the assessment tracker,
very important tool, the assessment tracker. Another game where all
the boxes were checked, All the boxes were checked for Washington,
Jaden Daniels, rounding in the shape and then some and
even the no name rag tag defense of players that

(14:25):
are flotsam and jetsam made some place like that's a
good sign because they don't have anybody on that defense
it's any good And yet they were still making plays.
Shows you how a nept Alligator arms Kyler Murray is
and the Cardinals. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
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Speaker 1 (14:57):
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Speaker 2 (15:01):
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We have Mallard of the third Degree coming up a
little bit later in the hour, Defending your Buddies. We'll
get to that. Defending your buddies also mix in at
some point here we're supposed to get to the last hour,
the Brady Beef.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
We'll go there as well. We'll get to all of it,
and we will.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Do it.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Next.

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Speaker 1 (16:02):
It is a pigskin.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Pauluzah ferg Dog writes, and he says, hey, yeah, the
Chargers lost made a real fool out of Eddie. But
you gotta admit those powdered blue jersey sure are sweet,
aren't they.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Ben?

Speaker 6 (16:18):
I love powdered blue.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's like the best shade of blue. Really, you like that?
You like that charger.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
It's like an electric powder blue, the blue of the
chargers where it's not just powder blue, pops.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
I was gonna say it was a little brighter than
powder if you ask me. But who am I to say? Yeah? Oh,
you're watching the game? You were checking out? No, but
I've seen a lot of flashbacks up here, Ben.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Flash bells, called highlights, called lights, flash backs highlights.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
But that's that's fine.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
You call them what you want. You'll call them wants.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
All right, How did you do? Let me check your
pigs here. I want to sec Let's see you haven't
written down somewhere here you're taking on that dope poppy.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Let's see the rain through my notes here. Doesn't know,
doesn't bet you doesn't remember I don't remember last week? Okay,
all right?

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Hold on the second, you had the Texans minus five
and a half.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I think what was the final score of that game?
They did not cover. Okay, you lost that four point
win for us.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
You had the Colts minus two, all right, they won
that and oh you had the Saints minus two and
a half. They Oh no, no, no, no, no yet, that's
that's that's last week, biscuits. You remember you had you
had the Texans the Steelers they lost, and you had
the Saints plus one but they lost, so you went
one and two, one and two, So it's not that's

(17:40):
not good anyway. Uh, let's see who else do We
have a bunch of other random people sent me messages
late night drug test and says, I know this is
an NFL reaction day, but our nation needs to come
together to support the Detroit Tigers.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
F al tuve late.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Night were tigers?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
No, we're not.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
I can't support the Tigers. Can't do it because here's
the problem. Who's managing the Detroit Tigers. Who's managing the
Detroit Tigers? Who's tigers? He is no winner out of
that too. Now the Tigers foul tube. Hey I'm checking
for the bug. There's no winner here because Tigers. Manager

(18:21):
of the Detroit baseball team was in the dugout in
twenty seventeen. Do you understand I can't support that.

Speaker 8 (18:29):
I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm going to abstain my vote. I'm gonna go.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
You know what, that guy that calls third I'm voting
third party, Eddie voting third party. I'm voting third party.
Is what I'm doing. I can't support an aj Hinch
baseball team. I cannot do it. Cannot do it. Sorry,
so we don't even know we know the American League
matchups Houston and Detroit, the cheating a holes and the

(18:54):
Tigers led by a cheating manager, and the Orioles and
the Royals in the four or five part of the
brat And then when the Yankees are the one seed
the team formerly knows, the Indians is the two seed,
and then the dot.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
How about a dot?

Speaker 2 (19:08):
How embarrassing is it for the Phillies and the Brewers
and these other The Dodgers with no pitching staff ended
up winning the top seed in the National League. How
embarrassing is that for the National League Dodgers the number
one overall seed.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Phillies are the number two seed.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right now, it's Brewers Mets Podres Braves.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
But there's two games today that will determine whether or
not that is actually the case.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Diamondbacks are are think I have like a party with
orange slices and some like maybe some lemonade or something
like that, and some snacks, some crackers, and they can
watch the the doubleheader.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
They're gonna get together.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
It's gotta be how many of those guys on the Diamonbacks,
which the season would just end so they can go
on vacation, and.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's like, ah, I don't want to go to the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Man, it's called the phones. Kyle is in Iowa. Hello, Kyle, Welcome,
Kyle wake.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yay there he is. I hear the man talking.

Speaker 9 (20:09):
Yeah, I'm I'm awake.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Other than congratulations, you're awake. It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Can we get a at a boy, Kyle is awake,
he's a wide awake in Iowa.

Speaker 9 (20:21):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. So I wanted to
say something about your discussion about the Packers and Jordan
Love Okay, uh so he didn't look on and our
defense looked like trash.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
You don't say that.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Would that be why you lost the game? Would that
be why you lost the game.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
No, no, that's not so your defense. Yeah yeah, yeah, no,
that's not lost the game.

Speaker 9 (20:57):
We lost the b game because of our defense, not
because of our offense.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Okay, well, Jordan Love was pretty bad for most of
that game, you would admit, right, yeah.

Speaker 9 (21:11):
I understand, But did you look at like all the
replays of like like how he looked he looked bad
like he was.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
No, I know, but the game was over going to
the fourth quarter, and then he he had a you
know what he had. He had a dak Prescott type performance.
That's a dak Prescott type game where you suck for
three quarters.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
And then throw.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
He had over two hundred yards passing and three touchdowns
in the fourth quarter. That is a Dakota Prescott performance
by Jordan Love.

Speaker 9 (21:43):
Is that a healthy dak versus hurt Jordan Love?

Speaker 1 (21:49):
So is he he was?

Speaker 2 (21:50):
He was hurt for the first three quarters and then
what do they put some pixie dust on him for
the fourth quarter and then he was healthy.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I don't know how that works. I have no idea
how that worked. Uh no, what yeah, what do you get?
What are you getting at here?

Speaker 9 (22:06):
Go ahead next week versus your rams? Oh yeah, A
lot a lot better.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
And uh, I just.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's that's a bold take considering that the Rams decide
they've decided this year they don't want to tackle anybody,
although they actually surprisingly I thought they by their standards,
the Rams actually played better defense against the Bears on Sunday.
They have been so bad defensively. I thought they were
pretty good, but about as well as they can play.

(22:36):
They didn't score enough points against, but they held the
Bear to the two hundred and sixty something yards in
that game, and they didn't come on what your team?
Just Jordan Loves sucked for three quarters. Caleb will was
better than him for three quarters.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
Williams.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Well, listen, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
We'll see the game on Sunday, the Packers and the Rams.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
All right, we'll find again again, yes, yes.

Speaker 9 (23:05):
Again, who's a San Francisco fan. And because it's my
first time calling, I just wanted to get this in.
I plan on calling again because I'm a late night shifter.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
And all right, we'd like to a learn all the
affiliates down the line that this rivening call from Kyle
will continue. We'll have to if you call regularly, Kyle,
we have to come up with a nickname for you.
All right, that's the rule. If you call regularly, we'll
have to come up with a name for you.

Speaker 9 (23:37):
KFC.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (23:39):
His initials are KFC.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Oh do you actually eat at KFC.

Speaker 9 (23:46):
Occasionally?

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Okay? Fried Chicken Kyle? All right, thank you, Kyle.

Speaker 6 (23:51):
There you go, Kentucky Fried Kyle.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
How lucky are we that Kyle has joined the stable
of mal militia.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell the bosses. Yeah, don't need
a check for this show. Yeah, because Kyle called you
and we're in the promised Land. Now we got the
wisdom of Kyle the Packer fan.

Speaker 6 (24:08):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
I wanted to mention this before I forget. So Tom
Brady had his first beef with a player. Yeah, it
felt a little contrived to me, it did, so, he responded.
He was responding to Baker Mayfield. The Baker Mayfield had
claimed that when Brady was playing for the Buccaneers, it

(24:30):
was stressful for the players. But now that Baker Mayfield's there,
it's not stressful, was his his claim. And Brady said,
I'll give you. I'm not give you the whole thing,
but he said, I thought stressful was not having Super
Bowl rings This wasn't daycare. If I was going to
have fun, I was going to Disneyland.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Said, Now, you love Disneyland.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
You go there all the time. Right, you're we You
were wearing a Disney sweater I saw earlier this morning.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
Not a day goes by that she's not wearing Disney something.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
A lot of Disney stuff, A lot of Disney stuff there.
Now do you hear what Baker Mayfield said in response
to Tom Brady's comments.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Let me guess, taken out of context?

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Ding ding ding ding ding.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yes, Baker Mayfield said his Tom Brady comments were taken
out of content.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
But didn't we play the audio?

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah? We centered on a podcast, right, I don't think
how are you? How are you taking that out of context?
It was on a podcast. Is making like, well, we
were playing grab ass, so it doesn't count because you
gotta be kidding me. Just a couple of boys playing
grab ass on a podcast, so that doesn't really count.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
It wasn't serious. Have a good time.

Speaker 8 (25:33):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
In baseball, the regular season, well Monday Sunday was the
final day of the regular season. However, because of the
rained out, games between the Mets and the Braves are
gonna have to play a double header later today and
that will have not.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
A day night doubleheader though, no traditional old school doubleheader.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
You've got the Mets, Braves, and Diamondbacks all tied for
the final two wild card.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Spot, complements of the Hurricane to pass.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
That's right, So Mes Braves doubleheader. If they split, both
teams get in and the Diamondbacks would be out. If
the Mets sweep, they're in, the Diamondbacks are in as well.
And if the Brave sweep, the Diamondbacks will be in.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
The pitching matchup, Eddie, is it? Tyler McGill for the
Mets today and Spencer Schwelling something for the Braves?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Got the matchup? Am I seeing that right here? I
believe I.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Am You've got Yeah, that's exactly gill.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
And who's pitching with the Brave Spencer Schwellin' something, Schwelling
Bach swelling Bach.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Where have you gone? Greg Maddix, Where have you gone?
Dwight Good And where have you got I mean, I
mean anybody?

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Wow, that's the matchup. Yeah, and a win for the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
One of them was it. McGill is four and five
on the season and schwellen Bach is eight and seven.
So these are.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Bullpen games, I would assume. And then undecided versus undecided
In the second game.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
Well, according to what I'm looking at, it's Chris Saale
against Luis Verno.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Oh really, I'm looking at undecided versus undecided.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
But okay, I think that's because if the Braves win,
they will likely not playing me.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, why would you?

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Pitching matters are out for the first two American League
playoff games. Kansas City is going with left hander Cole
Reagan's against mister Burns, Corbyn Burns.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
That is the I've heard of one of them.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah uh.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
And then I like this for Detroit, they're going undecided
versus Framburg Valdez of the cheating.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
A holes not going to be Scoobale.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
I would well, it says undecided here, but maybe they
just haven't announced it yet, so who knows.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Hi. Fun fact, fun fact, fun fact, fun fact, fun fact.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
We all need a little fun in our lives. And
how about this Christian McCaffrey. He's our running back for
the forty nine although he didn't play anymore. He's hurt
right now. But he and his celebrity wife per just
a home in the Hollywoodhills. You see where they bought
their house from Eddie? Do you see this?

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Ah?

Speaker 6 (28:05):
Was it Diddy?

Speaker 1 (28:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Well that would be that would be something Baby Oiled included. No,
they bought their home from actor George Clooney.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
Wow, the cloon Dog.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Actually it's not even in I don't think it's in
the Hollywood Hills. I think it's out near us here
where we do the show.

Speaker 10 (28:21):
He's so handsome.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Who's that Colooney or the other George Clooney? YEA big
fan of his?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Really? Wow? All right, I think that's in the valley though.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
I think that McCaffrey house is out here where we
do the show from just over the hill down from
bell Air in beautiful Shriman Oaks is where we broadcast
from in LA And I think that's in. I think
that's something. It's like Studio City, I believe. But who cares?
Is that a good investment? Fourteen million dollars for a
house that's solid. They tell you that goes up in value.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
I believe in my fourteen million dollar house investment.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Ben, how's that working ox? Yeah, doing very well there?

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I hear is the Ben Malar Show.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
And no one, no one defends their buddies better than
Jim Nantz. So I'm watching this Charger Chiefs game and
Jim Nance and Tony rom are a waxing poetic And
at the end of the broadcast they made sure to
pour a little salt, calling out what they called are
the trolls for saying that Travis Kelcey is washed up.

(29:32):
Jim Nantz and Tony Roma looking out for their buddy
who they hang out with in those production meetings, and yeah,
so I always get a kick out of Jim Nance,
who loves to hang out with these these celebrity ballplayers.
And my favorite Jim Nance story of all time is
when Peyton Manning was using human growth homeown. There was

(29:54):
a documentary called The Dark Side that came out years
ago and it laid everything out, just detailed their everything.
He was using his wife as like a drug mule,
and so it was a big scandal at the time, right,
and the NFL was embarrassed because Peyton was a big story.
They obviously did a great job of killing the story
because Peyton's all over commercials still and he's on that
god forsaken Manning cast. But in the middle of that,

(30:17):
when they had absolute the goods on Peyton Manning right,
all that, Jim Nance gets on CBS and says, it's
a story that's on all levels, a non story. That's
what he said, which could not have been further from
the truth. But because Jim Nance is it's like, you know,
we saw it with you.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Know, we see it in politics.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
It's like during COVID, right, there was like, well, you
know this, people were saying things and they were trying
to debunk it.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
But it was actually true what people were saying. And
but you know, it's like, well, I know this.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Is just a sports story, so people are you don't
really care about it, but it was just an example.
But I still remember, right, Jim Nance, it's a it's
a non story on all levels. But they like they
have the receipts, they have the actual receipts there. But anyways, amusing,
let's say hello to Manuel in Guardina, Hello, Manuel in Guardina.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Benny Blanco in Burbanks also known as Benny Bluke and
Sherman Oaks. How in the hell, are you my man?

Speaker 2 (31:18):
If I was any better, I'd be a Raider, But no,
the Raiders one.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
So you're happy. You're in a good mood there you're
Raiders one.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Hey, you know I'm in a good mood. But you
know there's gonna be some school bus full of kids
hearing our buddy Roberto tell them how Derek Carr still
sucks and how he's glad that we got Gardner Minshew,
so shout out to him. Also wanted to shout out
to the Mallard Militia man for a call of a

(31:47):
Radio Week Last week special shout out to Whoopee Cushion Blair,
who was a I think probably call her of the
week for two reasons. Number two, when Whoopy Cushion Blair
and Mark Sill got into that stupidity squabble, Oh man,
stupidity on it best level. And then also we'll be

(32:07):
Cushing Blair getting bitch smacked by angry Bill repeatedly. That
was classic radio man. So thank you guys, Thank you
Benny and Dodgers will win it all. Bennie, I'm telling
you right now, I'm calling my shot.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Sure about that.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Got Boxie, They got Gyle, they got Gold, they got Gonad,
they got mad Shack.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Now you promised me, Will you promised me? Manuel, You
promised me. Mookie Betts ain't gonna be bowling in Nashville
by the second week of the playoffs. Okay, he's not
going to go out there in about one eight and
Freddie Freeman's going to back two ten and Otani.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
He's not going about a buck fifty for the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
I promise you, because I tell you what, we will
get some people you know out in Nashville to do
a Kingpin on his dad and quote him writing to
that freaking up full return hands first, because Key better
show up this postseason. That's all I got for you.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Bet all right, Bro, there you go, the Great Manuel
in guardena checking in and we are moments. We're gonna
Mallard the third degree, Mallard of the third degree. Time
now for the today is insta tribua. Thanks to some
garbage time football, Jordan Love and Blank are tied for
the active regular season streak with two plus touchdowns among

(33:33):
all quarterbacks. Jordan Love and Blank tied for the active
regular season streak with two plus touchdowns. That is the
trivia the answer we'll get to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
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Speaker 5 (33:55):
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Speaker 6 (34:14):
It's Ben Maller.

Speaker 8 (34:17):
Time.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Now for the Insade Trivia Jordan Love thanks to some
garbage time football for the Packers and Blank are tied
for the active regular season street among all quarterbacks right
now with two plus touchdowns. That is the question. What
is the answer this seed? Does anyone know the answer?
Page down Odie Yes by Cowboy kilby the Undertaker from

(34:43):
Robin Vegas, Matt the Warrior Raider fan, I believe he cheated?
Who else do we have? Brett Farv Yes by King Rory.
Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Joe Costigli owned from Alf
the Alien o'ponnor more on him later A Lacey Chabert,
who's forty two today? Who else do we have? Page down?

(35:04):
Freddie Mercury from Stevie Meatballs, Paige down, Sam I Am Donald, Yes,
by Andy from Lionel Lakes, Alvin Davis from Shanon to Moyes,
Joey Harrington from Robin, Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
What's that? U?

Speaker 6 (35:17):
N A former Lions quarterback Eric Hippole?

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Is it Eric Hipple? Uh No? The correct answer is
Joe Flaco.

Speaker 8 (35:26):
Ever, this is one big fan gets grilled.

Speaker 10 (35:36):
Earlier in the year, Pirates fiend on Paul Skeen's was
the big favorite to win NL Rookie of the Year.
Then he was overtaken by Padre's rookie centerfielder Jackson Merrill.
Now Skens is the favorite again with minus two fifty odds.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Bend to Skens win it.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Uh yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
The real knock against Simmis He didn't have enough innings
to qualify for the National League Era A title, but
he had an ERA of under two, won eleven games
for a Dog Food Pirates team, and the strikeout the
walk ratio was insane. Plus it's the most important pop
culture story in baseball him and his little girlfriend. Why
are they married? Maybe they're married. I don't know any Yes,

(36:13):
that's very important.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Next.

Speaker 10 (36:15):
Kurt Ornerman an appearance on Pat mcfee's podcast last week
when he said that Andy Dalton is a better quarterback
than half of the league right now?

Speaker 6 (36:22):
Is he right? Ben Well?

Speaker 2 (36:23):
I would say most people can't even name half the
quarterbacks in the NFL. I wouldn't say better, then I
would say as good as I would say he's the
best quarterback, Andy Dalton, which means as good as all
the rest.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
How about that? As good as all the rest.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
No one's getting all horny because Andy Dalton's their starting quarterback.
But he didn't suck. But he's not good. He's somewhere
in that middle area. That's where Andy Dalton is.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Next.

Speaker 10 (36:49):
So with a monster trade, that's all Carl Anthony Towns
traded to the new Ys.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Saw this bet big trade in basketball? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (36:56):
Has New York set itself up to go toe to
toe with the Celtics.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
This is a made for TV situation.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Now.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
The problem is Karl Anthony Towns has a soft underbelly,
which is every big game he ever plays in, right,
I mean, he usually sucks in big games and whill
be eating a live in New York. But yeah, I
mean this is the Knicks in terms of quality at
every position in the starting lineup.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
The Knicks are loaded.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
There is no reason they should not have a deep
run in the NBA playoffs in the Eastern Conference outside
of injury. How do we go you pass, run like
bone Nicks, bone Knicks,
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