October 10, 2024 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about the latest in the MLB playoffs with the Dodgers evening their series against the Padres, the Phillies getting eliminated by the Mets, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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Don't bear the lead, mom, Man, Well, we haven't given
the lead yet. It's from Sundayego. Oh yes. On top
of the world one day and at the very bottom
the next. That was the scene for Game four of
the National League Divisional Series. I'm told that the Padre
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fanbase loves birds. They love giving birds out. Well, the Dodgers,
the Dodgers last supper. If they didn't win, that was
be a turnout the liots. The party's over. There has
had a chance to advance to the League Championship Series
now earlier in the day. We'll get to this later,
but the New York Metropolitans punched their ticket as they
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exterminated the fight in Phillies, who didn't have much fight
as it turns out, despite the Moniker. So the Mets
are into the League Championship Series. Padres could have joined them.
Things early on. Looking bleak for the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman
scratched from the lineup with his bum ankle. Dave Roberts
then going with the aforementioned bullpen game. We talked about
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that in a previous episode of the show. So I
didn't even watch it or not not gonna lie. There
wasn't much to watch. One team showed up, one team
didn't show up. The good guys won, the bad guys loss.
That's kind of how it went, right. Mookie Betts another
home run. Nice of Mookie after taking a couple of
years off to return to postseason glory. But Mookie Betts
hit a home run. He had shoe Hail Tani at
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Riby single. The Dodgers. They didn't just win, they vaporized.
They vaporized Dylan season. A gaggle of relievers Dodgers eight
San Diego zippo in Game five of the Divisional series.
So also home runs Will Smith Gavin Lux eachit to
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run homers for the bums who did not play like
bums on this night. So the Dodgers snap a two
game losing streak. Now they return home and it's on
like Donkey Kong Friday Friday, Friday Friday. That's the by
the way, the largest shutout win in Dodger postseason history
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with a bloody bullpen game. How pathetic is that? All right?
So let us discuss now, the better story is in
the loser's locker room, and that would be San Diego's
locker room because they lost, and they lost in epic
fashion ate nothing good evening and good night, the whole thing,
all right, So the question for the esteem panel, can
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you explain what went wrong in this performance for the
Padres or what went wrong? Can you explain what happened there?
So I've got big top cabaret and pot luck dinner,
and we will mix all of these things together and
we will spit out a Mallard monologue is what we're
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going to do. So a they got all the dance moves,
but on this night they forgot. It's like going to
Broadway to see a musical and then they forget how
to dance. That's what the Padres did. They were not
dancing out there. And if my math is correct, that's
now fifteen innings with nothing on the board for the Padres.
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You're gonna hang a star on that one. The Pod
squad fifteen innings of baseball, last fifteen no runch Dodgers
of outscored them twelve to nothing in this stretch, and
it starts at the top. You got Fernando Tatist Junior,
the steroid cheat Manny Machado, and they lead the San
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Diego right and the big Top. If you look under
the big Top for the Podres, it continues to be
filled with unicorns and show ponies. That's what the Podres are, right,
their front runners. This game is a great example of that.
They fell behind. They didn't have any fight. They rolled
over and played dead, because that's what show ponies do,
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That's how they do it, Padres. And there were no
cart wheels, did you see? I didn't see they cart wheels,
any somersault, no belly bumping, none of that was going on.
Padres had nine at bats with runners in scoring position
and made as many hits as you had, and I
had the same number as we had. They had. Now,
Fernando Tetez Junior, the strutton star there, I guess you
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forgot all those chest puffs and the pelvic thrust and
the arragon struts and all that, and then none of
that happened. I didn't see any of that on the field. Now,
in two games, eighteen innings of baseball, the Padres scored
in one inning in their own ballpark. How pathetic is that?
I'd be so embarrassed if I like the Potters, I mean, like,
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oh my god, it's so embarrassing, My god, they passed
out those little yellow towels and they couldn't do anything.
All right, now, page two, Several of you sent me
emails during this game as the game was evolving. So
then you go to change your position though, all right,
so let me address the heal a monster in the room.
All right, since the Dodgers won this game eight to nothing,
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have I changed my position on bullpen games? The answer,
I got two letters for you, N and oh that's
two letters N plus H equals no. I still despise them.
They are the blemish on the baseball landscape. There are others,
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but that is the one we're talking about right now.
And it's not they're not big league, they're not actually
Bush league. You know what they are Cactus League. Back
in the old days when I covered spring training, that's
that's a Cactus League game. You're you're playing a playoff
game like it's a Cactus League game. It's unbecoming. It's
something that should only be done in spring training. And
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you get your work in, you go golfing by the
starting pitcher is you pitch one inning and then by
the bottom of the second you're on the tee. That's
usually how that works. But it's a cabaret. Think of
this like a cabaret. You're at the cabaret and you
want the dinner and the show. Well, the dinner is
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milk toast. That's the dinner, and the show is watching
paint dry. I don't know anyone that thinks that's entertaining.
I've never mete it. Oh I love bring in another reliever.
I'm so horny. Who nobody's like that, right, nobody wants that.
It's insane. But yet this is again the nerd influence
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in sports, and it's like, well the numbers, Oh yeah,
it works great until one of the guys had a
bad breakfast and vomits all over the mound. Then suddenly
it doesn't work anymore. But we'll forget about the days
that happens and remember days like this when it goes
the other way. But I would like to, when I
become the commissioner of Baseball, make starters matter, make them
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great again, and stop all this nerd dogma about bullpen
games and all this. Even though it worked, it doesn't
mean I like it now. You darvish, you darbish, you
darbish is going to pitch with the podres on Friday
in the elimination game, and Dave Roberts from when I
if I saw this directly, he said, to be determined
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and have been assumed the Dodgers were going to start
their three hundred plus million dollars starting pitcher. But apparently
they're not so sure about that. But who has the edge?
You got, you darbish, who's been dominating the Dodges of
late versus I don't know, question mark. So the Dodgers,
I give the edge of the Dodgers because they have
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the better roster. Uh, and the Padre players will end
up inevitably getting into some kind of rubarb with the
Dodger fan base and they'll be distracted and all that.
But now the key denominator here is that Mookie Betts
has started to perform. He hadn't done that for a
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couple of years. And so now that they got Mookie going,
and you put him with Otani at the top, and
you got a little Rasthmataz back in that Dodger lineup.
But Dave Roberts saying to the media following the game
that was played a few hours ago, here the Dodgers
have some options. What are those options? They include another
bullpen game, That's just what I want to see, because
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that'll be the bullpen game that one or two of
the guys goes out there and has die die diarrhea
on the man and then you lose. Yeah, what is
this even up in the air? That tells you if
the Dodgers don't start Yamamoto, that tells you this is
a disastrous deal. They don't trust the guy. You pay
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a guy three hundred and twenty five million, you take
him from Japan, You can't pitch him in an elimination
game in your own ballpark. You don't trust the guy.
You gotta pitch him, and he's got to go out
there and have the big ball, dance out on the
mound and get it done. I hear it. Oh, you
can't pitch him if you're afraid they came up with
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that bull crap. Excuse the other, Well, he was tipping
his pitches my entire life, anytime a pitcher that's got
a big contract or some kind of name value, anytime,
they're never just bad. It's always well it was tipping
those pictures or this, that or the other. Stop all right, now,
the last word here. We do not want to dismiss
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the national League other half of the bracket, as that
has come to an end in the divisional round in Queens,
and you can flush away a team from Philadelphia as
Francisco Lindor blasted a game changing grand salami, and that
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was in the sixth inning as the Mets said bye bye.
They said bye bye to the Phillies four to one.
They win in four games. New York's other baseball team,
the one not as popular as the Yankees, advances now
the League Championship Series where they await the Dodgers or
the Padres. And the Mets were so pathetic this year.
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It doesn't matter who wins, the Mets will be the
road team. It'll start in either La or San Diego
coming up this weekend. But the story, he has a
lot to discuss. But the better story, as always, is
in the losing locker room. So that is where we
are going to begin. Who gets the blame cheese steak?
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Who gets the blame cheese steak for the Phillies being
eliminated from the National League Divisional Series. So this is
not just a cheese steak. This is a potluck dinner,
is what this is. And you got the potato salad
over here. Who nobody wants potato salad? You got that
over there. You got some moldy mac and cheese over there.
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That's what you got. Right. We'll start with the offense.
You've heard a feast or famine. How about famine? Despite
all the aura and all the beards in the bravado
of the Phillies, they batted one eighty six in the
Nation League Divisional Series. Let me repeat that for those
of you in the back of the room. One eighty
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six for the Philadelphia Phillies, who scored two runs before
the sixth inning in the entire series four games, only
two runs prior to the sixth inning. Two runs in
twenty innings of baseball. Now, I didn't play in the
big leagues, but you know I think that sucks. But
I just do an overnight show, so maybe not. J
t Ria Muto was hitless. I don't think that's good.
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In the entire series, you did not have a hit.
Alex bomb was benched because he bombed out there. He
was benched in Game two at thirteen at bats one
for thirteen for the Phillies. How about the six through
nine hitters collectively for the Fight and Phills in this series.
They had fifty two at bats, they had four hits.
That's Highway seventy seven for the Philadelphia Phillies. But the
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biggest cause of defeat of them all the snake bit
bullpen of the Philadelphia Phillies. The gas Cans were out
Philly relieves. I still can't believe the numbers on this.
The Philadelphia bullpen in twelve and two thirds innings allowed
seventeen runs sixteen URN runs for an URN run average
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of eleven point three. In a playoff series eleven point three,
they had thirty eight outs and allowed twenty eight base
runners the Phillies. You know what, that is deplorable. That's
absolutely deplorable. And now Dave Dombrowski, who decided to not
go out fatten up the bullpen when he had the opportunity,
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now he can do some demo on the bullpen, get
rid of some of those guys that aren't performing in
the lineup, and the Phillies we back at it again.
But they were the top team in baseball the first
couple months of the year, but then they faded away
as the season went on.
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be in our lead this hour. From baseball, we talked
about the National League bracket last hour. Now we pivot
over to the American League. The city of Fountains that
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would be Canza City, home with a Ben Malord chicken fingers,
that was the destination for baseball activity. The American League
Divisional Series, Game number three series tied up one to one,
Aaron Judge leading those New York Yankees the Traveling road Show,
and it'll playdate with the Royals, and the winner of
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Game three normally wins this series. That's usually how it goes.
And it was such a big night that our buddy
Marlin's Man was in attendance. Him behind all play, was
actually texting me from the stadium there. He's been on
the down low, but there was Marlin's Man in Kansas City,
hanging out, schmoozing at the game. It was good to
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see him there. It's not the Baseball Playoffs without Marlins Man.
So I don't know if you were watching or not.
Maybe you missed it, you were not engaged. But young Carlo,
young Carlo Stanton, I knew him when he was Mike.
He hit a go ahead home run in the eighth
inning amid a battle of the bullpens, the plague of
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baseball in this game as well, and the Yankees, by
the hair on their chinny chin chin, get past the
Royals three to two on a Wednesday night. Game three
of the American League Divisional Series at Kaufman Stadium goes
the way of the road team, Stanton finished with three hits,
drove in two runs, even stole a base when the
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Royals fell asleep and allowed him to take a lead
about halfway down to second base. So that was his
first stolen base in four years for gian Carlos Stanton.
Now the Yankees turned to their six time All Star pitcher,
Garrett Cole. That'll be on Thursday, Thursday Thursday, which is
just later today, and a chance to get back to
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the American League Championship Series. The bracket has set up
for the Yankees in terms of glamor and rasmtaz and
star power. The Yankees are it in Neither of the
Tigers of Cleveland has it. Now Kansas City does, but
their star has not shown up much in this series
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so far. But the better story is in the losing
locker room. So that is where we are going to
begin the question who is responsible for the Royals stumbling
and bumbling and home they lose by a run. So
I've got app Store, the bag and Warner Brothers, and
we'll combine all of these things together and we are
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going to make a roulette wheel, and we'll just spin
the roulette wheel.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
So num Burn, Now, this series was supposed to be
an elevator ride for Bobby Witt Junior.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
This was supposed to be Bobby wit Junior's celebratory time.
I'll hoot and nanny if you will for the Royals
young star. He was going to take the spotlight away
from the Yankees and elevate his status in baseball for
the casuals who don't watch the regular season very much,
and at the same time become a Bronx bomber villain.
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So far, that storyline has died on the vine. It
has been a dud. Bobby wit Junior through five postseason
games has had twenty two at bats. He's four for
twenty two. That's a one to eighty one batting average,
six strikeouts, and he has no extra base hits. He's
a punching judy hitter in these playoffs. The numbers are
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not good, so Phenom during the regular season and pedestrian
Pete in these playoff games. Now that said, if I
remember correctly, against the Orioles in the wild card round,
two of the hits he had were clutch ribby singles
that help propel Kansas City into this round. But he
has not lived up to the hype against the New
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York Yankees. Now the news is he's still got time, right,
He's still got time. Bobby wit Jr. Has got some
time here to turn things around. In fact, he's holding
the pen, not a bat, but a pen. He's holding
the pen, and he can rewrite the ending of this story.
He can rewrite the whole ending here. And I recommend
a visit to the app store for some bug fixes
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and some performance improvements, because whatever you're doing right now
ain't working. The Yankees are getting you out at a
rapid rate. Now page two, what is the mood? The
mood for the Royals facing elimination, So, honestly, think the
Royal side of things. They're pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep,
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comfortable And here's why you're playing with found money. The
Yankees are supposed to it.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That doesn't mean it's not agonizing if you lose, and
it's not an annoyance if you lose, But the pendulum
of pressure which burst pipes and ruins baseball players is
clearly on the side of the Yankees. You don't want
to lose the next game here on Thursday night. If
the Yankees anything can happen, your pitcher could get hurt
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somebody else on the roster. A key player gets hurt
in an elimination game, you want to avoid that at
all costs. So from that side of things, it's clearly
an advantage for the Royals going to this game Kansas City. Again,
They're supposed to lose here, and I actually like their
chances of forcing a game five. And here's why. It's
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what's in the bag? What's in the bag? Now, it's
a bag filled with a lump of coal, the coal
train and Judgment Day. The big stars for the Yankees
have not been primetime players. They have not Garrett Cole
playoff Garrett Cole. He has gone from ace to middle
of the rotation guy in the postseason. Now, what is
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my evidence as a Yankee in his postseason career, his
playoff eernron average is three point seven to one. So
he's a cy young winner during the regular Season's got
three point seven to one ERA in the postseason. And
then you have the enigma that is Aaron Judge. Another
zero for four, he's one for eleven now the mammoth
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sized slugger one for eleven in this particular series. He
is now a career two oh three hitter barely above
the Mendoza line, and considering the volume of at bats,
he is one of the worst playoff performers in the
history of baseball. Aaron Judge. That's not my opinion, it's
a fact, and so that bodes well for Kansas City. Now,
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final point. We leave Kansas City and we head we say,
in the Midwest, but we head now to the Motor City,
and that is where a team named after a bridge,
the Guardians score. The Street now reached twenty innings. They've
got twenty innings without scoring, as not one, not two,
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not three, not four, not five, but six Detroit Tiger
pitchers combined for the second consecutive three to nothing shut
out win in this series. The Tiger is now looking
to advance to the Late Championship Series for the first time. Says,
way back in twenty thirteen and Detroit they won with
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the thing that I cannot stand. And I said this earlier.
We talked about the Dodgers. They won a bullpen game
eight nothing. It doesn't matter. I don't like these bullpen games, Sam,
I am, I don't. I don't care what you telling me.
We like it. You're just doing your outdated no I
don't like it. It's bad. It's bad for marketing, it's
bad for the business. I don't work for baseball. But
it's bad all the way around. And if you say
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you like it, you're lying because nobody likes it. It's
not entertaining, and it will fail. Mark my, it's going
to end up failing for the Tigers. They'll do this again.
They'll fail a Dodgers who knows. They could do it
on their final game, or it could be their final
game and one of the guys will have have a
bad night and that'll be that. So everyone's got to
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be right. One thing goes. All you need is one guy,
if you have a dominant starting pitcher who's got big balls,
and that's all you need. But to make it through
seven or eight innings or whatever it is. And of
course that's impossible in modern baseball. But where did the
Cleveland Guardians offense go? That's the question here. Where did
the offense go? The better story on the losing locker
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room and so they clearly shot their wad and they did.
In Game one. They won't seven nothing. I remember it
was an early game on Saturday, and I'm flipping around
watching college football, and then I go to the baseball
I'm well, this game's already over, and it was seven
nothing domination situation, and now they've got bupkus since that
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seven nothing situation. Since the opener, the offense has been
a Warner Brothers cartoon pepe le pew. They stink. Okay,
they're terrible. The Bridges aid at bats with runners in
scoring position in Game three, and you know the answer,
they got no hits. Obviously they didn't score. Jose Ramirez,
they're big star, They're three hundred million dollar player, the
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slugger who's so great during the regular season, Jose Ramirez.
He doesn't get a lot of crap because he's not
in a big city, a big market like New York.
But he is now one for nine, Jose Ramirez not
living up to his contract, and Andres him Andez is
one for ten in that Cleveland lineup. So it's like
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a funeral procession that they're leading there, that offense. But
there's still opportunity, there's still time. The series is not
over yet.
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This is one big event gets Grillopo.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Commander's defensive tackle Jonathan Allen made a radio appearance on
Tuesday and spoke on DeShawn Watson, saying he looked like
a player who's had stuff going on above the shoulders
and attributed his poor play to a lack of confidence.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Ben do you think that's what it is? Uh, well,
it's certainly part of it, but it's not the main situation.
He did have his ass kissed when he was at Clemson,
and I remember when in his earliest career with the Texans, people, oh,
Shaun Watson is the greatest thing in the world and
all that, but it goes beyond just the mental stuff.
Like he physically blows as a quarterback. He is the
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right now with the Browns plan every week. Deshaun Watson
is the twenty ninth ranked quarterback in the NFL. Gardner
Minshew just got benched is a better quarterback than Watson.
It's more than just the mental stuff. He's part of it,
but not the only thing.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Next, some are suggesting that with their win over the Seahawks,
the Giants have turned a corner and that stats actually
show the team to be better than expected, better the Giants,
better than we thought.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
No, I'm not ready to say that. They'll lose to
the Bengals this weekend and they'll end off in that
seven win area. And see, are they gonna make the
same mistake of paying Dan gil cholees he's not that good.
He's not the guy pout, He's not the guy. I
say no.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Next, it was announced Tuesday that Bud Black would be
returning to the Rockies on a one year contract. Now,
the Rockies haven't been to the playoffs in seven years.
Why do they keep going back to Black?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Because they have to have a manager major League Baseball. Man,
they're not trying to win, That's what they're telling you.
The front off is that we're not trying to win,
but we like somebody's good with the media. You know,
he's not going to embarrass the franchise. Bud Black, He's
done it for a long time, and so just keep him.
How do we dow he passes? That is a win
you get.
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Speaker 5 (27:38):
All right, we're gonna start with a question from I
forty Ian Hi Ian. He'd likes to know for everyone.
Have you ever had to drop a deuce in the wild?
And do you keep emergency toilet paper and paper towels
in your car just in case you have to?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah? I have. Well, I should say one time I
had my gallbladder out years ago. I've told the story
on my podcast, but I didn't I needed to go.
I couldn't make it home, so I went to a
public bathroom. I did not have toilet paper, and it
was like a crime scene. That was a very tough
situation there. But I do not I should have a
roll of toilet paper in the car. That's a good idea,
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but I normally able to hold that. It's the other thing,
but driving on long road trips, I mean, I've had
to stop in the woods many times to take care
of that. What about you, Eddie? Number one?
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Sure, but number two out in the wild amongst the bushes. No,
I've never done that. No, I've never done that.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Your own squatty were you squat down?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
And No, never done that. Hope to never do it.
I do have napkins in the car, but that's usually first.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Painful too, that would cause other issues. And then napkins
in the car, have you Lorena?
Speaker 7 (28:42):
So I do keep wet wipes in my car at
all times because you're always pre Yeah, you never know
what life is going to bring to you. But the
first time I had to do that, I was actually
very young, and we were driving in Salem and we
were on our way to our hotel and I was like, Mom,
not really again, right, So yeah, it was like I
gotta go real bat. She's like, if you paying my
Carlo and I swear to god. Now she missed the
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exit to the hotel, so we had to get off
on this freeway. I had to pee underneath the freeway
pass and it was so traumatizing.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well that was not the question, but okay, or more
about the other thing, what about you? Cool?
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Yes, one time when I was young, probably like ten
or eleven was when I went fishing with my grandpa
and we were like way out in the woods, and yeah,
it was.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
It was awful, an awful experience. And that's why it's
part of the reason I don't like camping.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Oh traumatized as a kid.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Yeah, I like, I'll go camping if there's a toilet
and an airhouse, an air conditioning, it's.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Not really camping. Like that's exactly all right. What is
next to do we have here? Ferg dog?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Hi, Fergie, you would like to know when is the
last time you rode a city bus?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
How was your experience? Well, it's been years. I lived
in Lincoln Heights here in l A. I used to
take the train, the subway system around l A all
the time and whatnot. I think the last time I
tak a public bus was in New York when I
visited my brother who lives in the city. So and
I didn't like that either. I don't like I like.
I don't mind subways with the I don't like buses
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that much. What about you, Eddie, I don't.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
I would say this probably doesn't count, but I've taken shuttles.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
They drive you into like a stadium or something else.
I think.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
The last time was in the eighties. I was in Hawaii.
I was in Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
That's Hawaii. I didn't count a minute. Why doesn't that
count because it's Hawaii. It's not La with you know.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Yeah, there's a public bus.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
The buses are better in Hawaii. The raina.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
I don't do public transport.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Come on, it's such a div Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
And I don't want to get stabbed.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Not everyone gets stabbed.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Forget fleas.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I was afraid of the subway was next to me.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
I was afraid of the subway when I went to
New York. But actually it was just fine.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Don't go there at night, Eddie. During the day, it's
all right during rush hour. At night, you don't want
to do it. What about you, Cooper loop.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
The last time I wrote a city bus was in Japan. Uh,
I have nice buses.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
It doesn't. It's not a cd L A boss.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
That's not what the question was. The question was what's
the last time you read you were on a city bus.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
That's how you interpreted the question.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
That's literally the question.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Accurate word and tell me who's right, Edie or mout
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
For stupid, uh As far as like a city, like
a local city bus here in La.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I can't even remember. I don't know if I've ever
done it. All right, no bus for cool? What's next year?
It's ask ben your question. Definitely not I would.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
I would ride a bus that Roberto was driving, go
round and round. All right, Late drug tester wants to know,
do you ever buy extended warranties?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
No, they're a scam because that's why they pushed them
so much, because they want you to buy them, and
then they know that fifty percent of people are gonna
lose the paperwork or their website link so they won't
have to do it, and the other fifty percent they
make it such an inconvenience, such a hassle to use it.
You're like, why am I doing so? I don't Eddie one.
Speaker 9 (32:25):
Hundred percent agree with all What would you just say?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
All right, it's a scam, Lorraina.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Yeah, I tried to do it for my three hundred
dollars straightener, and yeah there was like so many stipulations.
Well if you dropped it, it doesn't count, yeh.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my wife bought without me knowing some
warranty on a like a sulfa and so we need
something repared. She called them up. He said, well, you know,
I don't know we need photos at all.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
If you spill the wine on it yourself, well sorry,
we don't have right.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
What about your coop? No unextended warranties?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Although I did buy the like service package with my
car where you like free service for I extended.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
That you actually use it all the time. Well, it's just.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Like you get free oil changes for the first three years,
and I bought the extension to make it five years.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Or what is Well, quickly, what is next year's? Ask? Ben?
Your questions are answered? But King Rory wants to know.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Are you going to try the chicken big Mac.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I'm not eating McDonald's in sometime, but I'm not opposed
to it. I would.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
I would give it a shot. Eddie, this is news
to me. I would absolutely try.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You did not know about the Chicken big Man is
big news? Yeah all over the place. Of course, I
know you don't. Eddie and Eddie World, what about you?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Right off?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
It's a great Eddie World. Yeah, by any by Eddie's World.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Cope, Absolutely, I'm gonna try it right now?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Was it next week? We should get on the air
Chicken Big mac Bo. No chicken was harmed, though.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Let's get over to Eddie right now. That's right. I
don't need to say that all of it. Fuck you.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
It's puncked the world with Heady Garcia.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Puck the imagery.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yeah, and this put the world dedicated to our Frint
calligan Tim.
Speaker 9 (34:12):
We mentioned it. We mentioned it on the show late yesterday.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Yeah, he passed away. I did get an email from
his dad saying they heard the end of the show
and they appreciated it. And he said, we have interesting callers,
which is very true. The NHL season underway, we had Yeah,
we had two teams open up the season overseas, the
Devil's sweeping two games from Andy the comic book guy,
sorry Stabers. Sixteen teams opening up the season. Over the
last two days. What have we seen so far? Well,
(34:43):
defending Stanley Cup champion of Florida Panthers raised their championship.
Banner won their season opener against the Bruins. We saw
the NHL's first regular season game in Utah. Dylan Gunther
Is scoring the first goal in Utah history as the Utah
Hockey Club won their opener. We saw our first female
NHL assistant coach, Jessica Hamble on the bench for the
Seattle Kraken, but Dan Bilsman lost his coaching debut for Seattle.
(35:05):
We had not one, not two, not three, but three
shutouts on the second d of the NHL, including Montreal
Sam Montembeau Flummox seeing the Maple Leafs good or forty
eight state performance horn as Craig Brube lost his coaching
debut in Toronto. We had our first overtime game, Calgary
getting a six to five OHT win, winning it on
(35:26):
a cum. Also thanks to our friend timon Darby for
pointing this out to me. We had the NHL debut
of Ivan Ivan of the Colono.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
Avalanche, the first player that's his porn name ever to
have the same first and last name. I love it Ivan.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
His parents were very creative.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
Nickname is Crazy. Boston Bruins goalie Jeremy.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Swainon Terrible Ivan, the Terrible Crazy, the.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Terrible Jeremy Swayman ended his contract, told out eight year
deal worth sixty six million dollars with the Boston Bruins
will make eight point two five million per season, tying
in for the fourth highest average annual value for a goaltender. Meanwhile,
goalie Ego Shasterkin turning down the New York Rangers eight year,
eighty eight million dollar offer to become the highest bade
goalie in NHL history. The deal would have surpassed the
eight year, eighty four million dollars deal that Kerry Price
(36:14):
at the Canadian signed at twenty seventeen. Schasterk in his
scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent after this season.
Former Veslant Trophy winner and considered by many to be
the top goalie and the NHL Florida Panthers and forward
Carter vor Hagy agree on an eight year contract where
fifty six million dollars. He's been a part of Stanley
Cup winning teams in both Florida and Tampa Bay. Utah
Hockey Club named they are first ever captain in franchise history.
(36:35):
That would be forward Clayton Keller, and the Sandler Kraken
selected Jordan Epley as their captain. That means that for
the first time since the twenty ten to twenty eleven season,
all thirty two NHL teams are playing with a captain
this season. And finally, Los Angeles is going to be
the host of the twenty twenty five NHL Draft. Oh
you go to that, Eddy, I probably will. It's going
to be at the Peacock Theater.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
As that what I'm I don't even know what the Peacock.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
The well, it changes names all the time. It was
the Microsoft.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Across across from skid.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
No, it's not from Crypto dot com arena. This is
gonna be the first to decentralize NHL draft.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
So no GMS or scouts will be there.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
That's stupid. They're so cheap they can't send them out.
They're doing what it's for a show. Yeah, they're doing
what the TV show in.
Speaker 9 (37:22):
The n H and the NBA are doing.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Now it's the players and the families will be there,
but none of the team represents and that is your
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Don't bear the lead, mom, Man, Well, we haven't given
the lead yet. It's from Sundayego. Oh yes. On top
of the world one day and at the very bottom
the next. That was the scene for Game four of
the National League Divisional Series. I'm told that the Padre
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fanbase loves birds. They love giving birds out. Well, the Dodgers,
the Dodgers last supper. If they didn't win, that was
be a turnout the liots. The party's over. There has
had a chance to advance to the League Championship Series
now earlier in the day. We'll get to this later,
but the New York Metropolitans punched their ticket as they
(02:07):
exterminated the fight in Phillies, who didn't have much fight
as it turns out, despite the Moniker. So the Mets
are into the League Championship Series. Padres could have joined them.
Things early on. Looking bleak for the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman
scratched from the lineup with his bum ankle. Dave Roberts
then going with the aforementioned bullpen game. We talked about
(02:28):
that in a previous episode of the show. So I
didn't even watch it or not not gonna lie. There
wasn't much to watch. One team showed up, one team
didn't show up. The good guys won, the bad guys loss.
That's kind of how it went, right. Mookie Betts another
home run. Nice of Mookie after taking a couple of
years off to return to postseason glory. But Mookie Betts
hit a home run. He had shoe Hail Tani at
(02:50):
Riby single. The Dodgers. They didn't just win, they vaporized.
They vaporized Dylan season. A gaggle of relievers Dodgers eight
San Diego zippo in Game five of the Divisional series.
So also home runs Will Smith Gavin Lux eachit to
(03:10):
run homers for the bums who did not play like
bums on this night. So the Dodgers snap a two
game losing streak. Now they return home and it's on
like Donkey Kong Friday Friday, Friday Friday. That's the by
the way, the largest shutout win in Dodger postseason history
(03:32):
with a bloody bullpen game. How pathetic is that? All right?
So let us discuss now, the better story is in
the loser's locker room, and that would be San Diego's
locker room because they lost, and they lost in epic
fashion ate nothing good evening and good night, the whole thing,
all right, So the question for the esteem panel, can
(03:55):
you explain what went wrong in this performance for the
Padres or what went wrong? Can you explain what happened there?
So I've got big top cabaret and pot luck dinner,
and we will mix all of these things together and
we will spit out a Mallard monologue is what we're
(04:16):
going to do. So a they got all the dance moves,
but on this night they forgot. It's like going to
Broadway to see a musical and then they forget how
to dance. That's what the Padres did. They were not
dancing out there. And if my math is correct, that's
now fifteen innings with nothing on the board for the Padres.
(04:38):
You're gonna hang a star on that one. The Pod
squad fifteen innings of baseball, last fifteen no runch Dodgers
of outscored them twelve to nothing in this stretch, and
it starts at the top. You got Fernando Tatist Junior,
the steroid cheat Manny Machado, and they lead the San
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Diego right and the big Top. If you look under
the big Top for the Podres, it continues to be
filled with unicorns and show ponies. That's what the Podres are, right,
their front runners. This game is a great example of that.
They fell behind. They didn't have any fight. They rolled
over and played dead, because that's what show ponies do,
(05:19):
That's how they do it, Padres. And there were no
cart wheels, did you see? I didn't see they cart wheels,
any somersault, no belly bumping, none of that was going on.
Padres had nine at bats with runners in scoring position
and made as many hits as you had, and I
had the same number as we had. They had. Now,
Fernando Tetez Junior, the strutton star there, I guess you
(05:41):
forgot all those chest puffs and the pelvic thrust and
the arragon struts and all that, and then none of
that happened. I didn't see any of that on the field. Now,
in two games, eighteen innings of baseball, the Padres scored
in one inning in their own ballpark. How pathetic is that?
I'd be so embarrassed if I like the Potters, I mean, like,
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oh my god, it's so embarrassing, My god, they passed
out those little yellow towels and they couldn't do anything.
All right, now, page two, Several of you sent me
emails during this game as the game was evolving. So
then you go to change your position though, all right,
so let me address the heal a monster in the room.
All right, since the Dodgers won this game eight to nothing,
(06:26):
have I changed my position on bullpen games? The answer,
I got two letters for you, N and oh that's
two letters N plus H equals no. I still despise them.
They are the blemish on the baseball landscape. There are others,
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but that is the one we're talking about right now.
And it's not they're not big league, they're not actually
Bush league. You know what they are Cactus League. Back
in the old days when I covered spring training, that's
that's a Cactus League game. You're you're playing a playoff
game like it's a Cactus League game. It's unbecoming. It's
something that should only be done in spring training. And
(07:11):
you get your work in, you go golfing by the
starting pitcher is you pitch one inning and then by
the bottom of the second you're on the tee. That's
usually how that works. But it's a cabaret. Think of
this like a cabaret. You're at the cabaret and you
want the dinner and the show. Well, the dinner is
(07:34):
milk toast. That's the dinner, and the show is watching
paint dry. I don't know anyone that thinks that's entertaining.
I've never mete it. Oh I love bring in another reliever.
I'm so horny. Who nobody's like that, right, nobody wants that.
It's insane. But yet this is again the nerd influence
(07:56):
in sports, and it's like, well the numbers, Oh yeah,
it works great until one of the guys had a
bad breakfast and vomits all over the mound. Then suddenly
it doesn't work anymore. But we'll forget about the days
that happens and remember days like this when it goes
the other way. But I would like to, when I
become the commissioner of Baseball, make starters matter, make them
(08:19):
great again, and stop all this nerd dogma about bullpen
games and all this. Even though it worked, it doesn't
mean I like it now. You darvish, you darbish, you
darbish is going to pitch with the podres on Friday
in the elimination game, and Dave Roberts from when I
if I saw this directly, he said, to be determined
(08:42):
and have been assumed the Dodgers were going to start
their three hundred plus million dollars starting pitcher. But apparently
they're not so sure about that. But who has the edge?
You got, you darbish, who's been dominating the Dodges of
late versus I don't know, question mark. So the Dodgers,
I give the edge of the Dodgers because they have
(09:03):
the better roster. Uh, and the Padre players will end
up inevitably getting into some kind of rubarb with the
Dodger fan base and they'll be distracted and all that.
But now the key denominator here is that Mookie Betts
has started to perform. He hadn't done that for a
(09:23):
couple of years. And so now that they got Mookie going,
and you put him with Otani at the top, and
you got a little Rasthmataz back in that Dodger lineup.
But Dave Roberts saying to the media following the game
that was played a few hours ago, here the Dodgers
have some options. What are those options? They include another
bullpen game, That's just what I want to see, because
(09:44):
that'll be the bullpen game that one or two of
the guys goes out there and has die die diarrhea
on the man and then you lose. Yeah, what is
this even up in the air? That tells you if
the Dodgers don't start Yamamoto, that tells you this is
a disastrous deal. They don't trust the guy. You pay
(10:06):
a guy three hundred and twenty five million, you take
him from Japan, You can't pitch him in an elimination
game in your own ballpark. You don't trust the guy.
You gotta pitch him, and he's got to go out
there and have the big ball, dance out on the
mound and get it done. I hear it. Oh, you
can't pitch him if you're afraid they came up with
(10:27):
that bull crap. Excuse the other, Well, he was tipping
his pitches my entire life, anytime a pitcher that's got
a big contract or some kind of name value, anytime,
they're never just bad. It's always well it was tipping
those pictures or this, that or the other. Stop all right, now,
the last word here. We do not want to dismiss
(10:48):
the national League other half of the bracket, as that
has come to an end in the divisional round in Queens,
and you can flush away a team from Philadelphia as
Francisco Lindor blasted a game changing grand salami, and that
(11:09):
was in the sixth inning as the Mets said bye bye.
They said bye bye to the Phillies four to one.
They win in four games. New York's other baseball team,
the one not as popular as the Yankees, advances now
the League Championship Series where they await the Dodgers or
the Padres. And the Mets were so pathetic this year.
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It doesn't matter who wins, the Mets will be the
road team. It'll start in either La or San Diego
coming up this weekend. But the story, he has a
lot to discuss. But the better story, as always, is
in the losing locker room. So that is where we
are going to begin. Who gets the blame cheese steak?
(11:50):
Who gets the blame cheese steak for the Phillies being
eliminated from the National League Divisional Series. So this is
not just a cheese steak. This is a potluck dinner,
is what this is. And you got the potato salad
over here. Who nobody wants potato salad? You got that
over there. You got some moldy mac and cheese over there.
(12:12):
That's what you got. Right. We'll start with the offense.
You've heard a feast or famine. How about famine? Despite
all the aura and all the beards in the bravado
of the Phillies, they batted one eighty six in the
Nation League Divisional Series. Let me repeat that for those
of you in the back of the room. One eighty
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six for the Philadelphia Phillies, who scored two runs before
the sixth inning in the entire series four games, only
two runs prior to the sixth inning. Two runs in
twenty innings of baseball. Now, I didn't play in the
big leagues, but you know I think that sucks. But
I just do an overnight show, so maybe not. J
t Ria Muto was hitless. I don't think that's good.
(12:55):
In the entire series, you did not have a hit.
Alex bomb was benched because he bombed out there. He
was benched in Game two at thirteen at bats one
for thirteen for the Phillies. How about the six through
nine hitters collectively for the Fight and Phills in this series.
They had fifty two at bats, they had four hits.
That's Highway seventy seven for the Philadelphia Phillies. But the
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biggest cause of defeat of them all the snake bit
bullpen of the Philadelphia Phillies. The gas Cans were out
Philly relieves. I still can't believe the numbers on this.
The Philadelphia bullpen in twelve and two thirds innings allowed
seventeen runs sixteen URN runs for an URN run average
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of eleven point three. In a playoff series eleven point three,
they had thirty eight outs and allowed twenty eight base
runners the Phillies. You know what, that is deplorable. That's
absolutely deplorable. And now Dave Dombrowski, who decided to not
go out fatten up the bullpen when he had the opportunity,
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now he can do some demo on the bullpen, get
rid of some of those guys that aren't performing in
the lineup, and the Phillies we back at it again.
But they were the top team in baseball the first
couple months of the year, but then they faded away
as the season went on.
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be in our lead this hour. From baseball, we talked
about the National League bracket last hour. Now we pivot
over to the American League. The city of Fountains that
(15:28):
would be Canza City, home with a Ben Malord chicken fingers,
that was the destination for baseball activity. The American League
Divisional Series, Game number three series tied up one to one,
Aaron Judge leading those New York Yankees the Traveling road Show,
and it'll playdate with the Royals, and the winner of
(15:50):
Game three normally wins this series. That's usually how it goes.
And it was such a big night that our buddy
Marlin's Man was in attendance. Him behind all play, was
actually texting me from the stadium there. He's been on
the down low, but there was Marlin's Man in Kansas City,
hanging out, schmoozing at the game. It was good to
(16:10):
see him there. It's not the Baseball Playoffs without Marlins Man.
So I don't know if you were watching or not.
Maybe you missed it, you were not engaged. But young Carlo,
young Carlo Stanton, I knew him when he was Mike.
He hit a go ahead home run in the eighth
inning amid a battle of the bullpens, the plague of
(16:32):
baseball in this game as well, and the Yankees, by
the hair on their chinny chin chin, get past the
Royals three to two on a Wednesday night. Game three
of the American League Divisional Series at Kaufman Stadium goes
the way of the road team, Stanton finished with three hits,
drove in two runs, even stole a base when the
(16:54):
Royals fell asleep and allowed him to take a lead
about halfway down to second base. So that was his
first stolen base in four years for gian Carlos Stanton.
Now the Yankees turned to their six time All Star pitcher,
Garrett Cole. That'll be on Thursday, Thursday Thursday, which is
just later today, and a chance to get back to
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the American League Championship Series. The bracket has set up
for the Yankees in terms of glamor and rasmtaz and
star power. The Yankees are it in Neither of the
Tigers of Cleveland has it. Now Kansas City does, but
their star has not shown up much in this series
(17:37):
so far. But the better story is in the losing
locker room. So that is where we are going to
begin the question who is responsible for the Royals stumbling
and bumbling and home they lose by a run. So
I've got app Store, the bag and Warner Brothers, and
we'll combine all of these things together and we are
(18:01):
going to make a roulette wheel, and we'll just spin
the roulette wheel.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
So num Burn, Now, this series was supposed to be
an elevator ride for Bobby Witt Junior.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
This was supposed to be Bobby wit Junior's celebratory time.
I'll hoot and nanny if you will for the Royals
young star. He was going to take the spotlight away
from the Yankees and elevate his status in baseball for
the casuals who don't watch the regular season very much,
and at the same time become a Bronx bomber villain.
(18:38):
So far, that storyline has died on the vine. It
has been a dud. Bobby wit Junior through five postseason
games has had twenty two at bats. He's four for
twenty two. That's a one to eighty one batting average,
six strikeouts, and he has no extra base hits. He's
a punching judy hitter in these playoffs. The numbers are
(19:02):
not good, so Phenom during the regular season and pedestrian
Pete in these playoff games. Now that said, if I
remember correctly, against the Orioles in the wild card round,
two of the hits he had were clutch ribby singles
that help propel Kansas City into this round. But he
has not lived up to the hype against the New
(19:23):
York Yankees. Now the news is he's still got time, right,
He's still got time. Bobby wit Jr. Has got some
time here to turn things around. In fact, he's holding
the pen, not a bat, but a pen. He's holding
the pen, and he can rewrite the ending of this story.
He can rewrite the whole ending here. And I recommend
a visit to the app store for some bug fixes
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and some performance improvements, because whatever you're doing right now
ain't working. The Yankees are getting you out at a
rapid rate. Now page two, what is the mood? The
mood for the Royals facing elimination, So, honestly, think the
Royal side of things. They're pretty deep, pretty deep, pretty deep,
(20:06):
comfortable And here's why you're playing with found money. The
Yankees are supposed to it.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That doesn't mean it's not agonizing if you lose, and
it's not an annoyance if you lose, But the pendulum
of pressure which burst pipes and ruins baseball players is
clearly on the side of the Yankees. You don't want
to lose the next game here on Thursday night. If
the Yankees anything can happen, your pitcher could get hurt
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somebody else on the roster. A key player gets hurt
in an elimination game, you want to avoid that at
all costs. So from that side of things, it's clearly
an advantage for the Royals going to this game Kansas City. Again,
They're supposed to lose here, and I actually like their
chances of forcing a game five. And here's why. It's
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what's in the bag? What's in the bag? Now, it's
a bag filled with a lump of coal, the coal
train and Judgment Day. The big stars for the Yankees
have not been primetime players. They have not Garrett Cole
playoff Garrett Cole. He has gone from ace to middle
of the rotation guy in the postseason. Now, what is
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my evidence as a Yankee in his postseason career, his
playoff eernron average is three point seven to one. So
he's a cy young winner during the regular Season's got
three point seven to one ERA in the postseason. And
then you have the enigma that is Aaron Judge. Another
zero for four, he's one for eleven now the mammoth
(21:41):
sized slugger one for eleven in this particular series. He
is now a career two oh three hitter barely above
the Mendoza line, and considering the volume of at bats,
he is one of the worst playoff performers in the
history of baseball. Aaron Judge. That's not my opinion, it's
a fact, and so that bodes well for Kansas City. Now,
(22:03):
final point. We leave Kansas City and we head we say,
in the Midwest, but we head now to the Motor City,
and that is where a team named after a bridge,
the Guardians score. The Street now reached twenty innings. They've
got twenty innings without scoring, as not one, not two,
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not three, not four, not five, but six Detroit Tiger
pitchers combined for the second consecutive three to nothing shut
out win in this series. The Tiger is now looking
to advance to the Late Championship Series for the first time. Says,
way back in twenty thirteen and Detroit they won with
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the thing that I cannot stand. And I said this earlier.
We talked about the Dodgers. They won a bullpen game
eight nothing. It doesn't matter. I don't like these bullpen games, Sam,
I am, I don't. I don't care what you telling me.
We like it. You're just doing your outdated no I
don't like it. It's bad. It's bad for marketing, it's
bad for the business. I don't work for baseball. But
it's bad all the way around. And if you say
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you like it, you're lying because nobody likes it. It's
not entertaining, and it will fail. Mark my, it's going
to end up failing for the Tigers. They'll do this again.
They'll fail a Dodgers who knows. They could do it
on their final game, or it could be their final
game and one of the guys will have have a
bad night and that'll be that. So everyone's got to
(23:27):
be right. One thing goes. All you need is one guy,
if you have a dominant starting pitcher who's got big balls,
and that's all you need. But to make it through
seven or eight innings or whatever it is. And of
course that's impossible in modern baseball. But where did the
Cleveland Guardians offense go? That's the question here. Where did
the offense go? The better story on the losing locker
(23:49):
room and so they clearly shot their wad and they did.
In Game one. They won't seven nothing. I remember it
was an early game on Saturday, and I'm flipping around
watching college football, and then I go to the baseball
I'm well, this game's already over, and it was seven
nothing domination situation, and now they've got bupkus since that
(24:12):
seven nothing situation. Since the opener, the offense has been
a Warner Brothers cartoon pepe le pew. They stink. Okay,
they're terrible. The Bridges aid at bats with runners in
scoring position in Game three, and you know the answer,
they got no hits. Obviously they didn't score. Jose Ramirez,
they're big star, They're three hundred million dollar player, the
(24:35):
slugger who's so great during the regular season, Jose Ramirez.
He doesn't get a lot of crap because he's not
in a big city, a big market like New York.
But he is now one for nine, Jose Ramirez not
living up to his contract, and Andres him Andez is
one for ten in that Cleveland lineup. So it's like
(24:56):
a funeral procession that they're leading there, that offense. But
there's still opportunity, there's still time. The series is not
over yet.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
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Speaker 1 (25:08):
There we are, here, We are to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
This is one big event gets Grillopo.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Commander's defensive tackle Jonathan Allen made a radio appearance on
Tuesday and spoke on DeShawn Watson, saying he looked like
a player who's had stuff going on above the shoulders
and attributed his poor play to a lack of confidence.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Ben do you think that's what it is? Uh, well,
it's certainly part of it, but it's not the main situation.
He did have his ass kissed when he was at Clemson,
and I remember when in his earliest career with the Texans, people, oh,
Shaun Watson is the greatest thing in the world and
all that, but it goes beyond just the mental stuff.
Like he physically blows as a quarterback. He is the
(25:50):
right now with the Browns plan every week. Deshaun Watson
is the twenty ninth ranked quarterback in the NFL. Gardner
Minshew just got benched is a better quarterback than Watson.
It's more than just the mental stuff. He's part of it,
but not the only thing.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Next, some are suggesting that with their win over the Seahawks,
the Giants have turned a corner and that stats actually
show the team to be better than expected, better the Giants,
better than we thought.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
No, I'm not ready to say that. They'll lose to
the Bengals this weekend and they'll end off in that
seven win area. And see, are they gonna make the
same mistake of paying Dan gil cholees he's not that good.
He's not the guy pout, He's not the guy. I
say no.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Next, it was announced Tuesday that Bud Black would be
returning to the Rockies on a one year contract. Now,
the Rockies haven't been to the playoffs in seven years.
Why do they keep going back to Black?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Because they have to have a manager major League Baseball. Man,
they're not trying to win, That's what they're telling you.
The front off is that we're not trying to win,
but we like somebody's good with the media. You know,
he's not going to embarrass the franchise. Bud Black, He's
done it for a long time, and so just keep him.
How do we dow he passes? That is a win
you get.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
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Speaker 1 (27:16):
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and where we go this time now four Ask Ben.
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
Hashtag ask Ben over to the cope for the reading
of the questions.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
All right, we're gonna start with a question from I
forty Ian Hi Ian. He'd likes to know for everyone.
Have you ever had to drop a deuce in the wild?
And do you keep emergency toilet paper and paper towels
in your car just in case you have to?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah? I have. Well, I should say one time I
had my gallbladder out years ago. I've told the story
on my podcast, but I didn't I needed to go.
I couldn't make it home, so I went to a
public bathroom. I did not have toilet paper, and it
was like a crime scene. That was a very tough
situation there. But I do not I should have a
roll of toilet paper in the car. That's a good idea,
(28:11):
but I normally able to hold that. It's the other thing,
but driving on long road trips, I mean, I've had
to stop in the woods many times to take care
of that. What about you, Eddie? Number one?
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Sure, but number two out in the wild amongst the bushes. No,
I've never done that. No, I've never done that.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Your own squatty were you squat down?
Speaker 6 (28:30):
And No, never done that. Hope to never do it.
I do have napkins in the car, but that's usually first.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Painful too, that would cause other issues. And then napkins
in the car, have you Lorena?
Speaker 7 (28:42):
So I do keep wet wipes in my car at
all times because you're always pre Yeah, you never know
what life is going to bring to you. But the
first time I had to do that, I was actually
very young, and we were driving in Salem and we
were on our way to our hotel and I was like, Mom,
not really again, right, So yeah, it was like I
gotta go real bat. She's like, if you paying my
Carlo and I swear to god. Now she missed the
(29:03):
exit to the hotel, so we had to get off
on this freeway. I had to pee underneath the freeway
pass and it was so traumatizing.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well that was not the question, but okay, or more
about the other thing, what about you? Cool?
Speaker 8 (29:15):
Yes, one time when I was young, probably like ten
or eleven was when I went fishing with my grandpa
and we were like way out in the woods, and yeah,
it was.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
It was awful, an awful experience. And that's why it's
part of the reason I don't like camping.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Oh traumatized as a kid.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Yeah, I like, I'll go camping if there's a toilet
and an airhouse, an air conditioning, it's.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Not really camping. Like that's exactly all right. What is
next to do we have here? Ferg dog?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Hi, Fergie, you would like to know when is the
last time you rode a city bus?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
How was your experience? Well, it's been years. I lived
in Lincoln Heights here in l A. I used to
take the train, the subway system around l A all
the time and whatnot. I think the last time I
tak a public bus was in New York when I
visited my brother who lives in the city. So and
I didn't like that either. I don't like I like.
I don't mind subways with the I don't like buses
(30:20):
that much. What about you, Eddie, I don't.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
I would say this probably doesn't count, but I've taken shuttles.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
They drive you into like a stadium or something else.
I think.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
The last time was in the eighties. I was in Hawaii.
I was in Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
That's Hawaii. I didn't count a minute. Why doesn't that
count because it's Hawaii. It's not La with you know.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Yeah, there's a public bus.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
The buses are better in Hawaii. The raina.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
I don't do public transport.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Come on, it's such a div Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
And I don't want to get stabbed.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Not everyone gets stabbed.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Forget fleas.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I was afraid of the subway was next to me.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
I was afraid of the subway when I went to
New York. But actually it was just fine.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Don't go there at night, Eddie. During the day, it's
all right during rush hour. At night, you don't want
to do it. What about you, Cooper loop.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
The last time I wrote a city bus was in Japan. Uh,
I have nice buses.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
It doesn't. It's not a cd L A boss.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
That's not what the question was. The question was what's
the last time you read you were on a city bus.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
That's how you interpreted the question.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
That's literally the question.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Accurate word and tell me who's right, Edie or mout
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
For stupid, uh As far as like a city, like
a local city bus here in La.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I can't even remember. I don't know if I've ever
done it. All right, no bus for cool? What's next year?
It's ask ben your question. Definitely not I would.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
I would ride a bus that Roberto was driving, go
round and round. All right, Late drug tester wants to know,
do you ever buy extended warranties?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
No, they're a scam because that's why they pushed them
so much, because they want you to buy them, and
then they know that fifty percent of people are gonna
lose the paperwork or their website link so they won't
have to do it, and the other fifty percent they
make it such an inconvenience, such a hassle to use it.
You're like, why am I doing so? I don't Eddie one.
Speaker 9 (32:25):
Hundred percent agree with all What would you just say?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
All right, it's a scam, Lorraina.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Yeah, I tried to do it for my three hundred
dollars straightener, and yeah there was like so many stipulations.
Well if you dropped it, it doesn't count, yeh.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my wife bought without me knowing some
warranty on a like a sulfa and so we need
something repared. She called them up. He said, well, you know,
I don't know we need photos at all.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
If you spill the wine on it yourself, well sorry,
we don't have right.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
What about your coop? No unextended warranties?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Although I did buy the like service package with my
car where you like free service for I extended.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
That you actually use it all the time. Well, it's just.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Like you get free oil changes for the first three years,
and I bought the extension to make it five years.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Or what is Well, quickly, what is next year's? Ask? Ben?
Your questions are answered? But King Rory wants to know.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Are you going to try the chicken big Mac.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I'm not eating McDonald's in sometime, but I'm not opposed
to it. I would.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
I would give it a shot. Eddie, this is news
to me. I would absolutely try.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You did not know about the Chicken big Man is
big news? Yeah all over the place. Of course, I
know you don't. Eddie and Eddie World, what about you?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Right off?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
It's a great Eddie World. Yeah, by any by Eddie's World.
Speaker 9 (33:41):
Cope, Absolutely, I'm gonna try it right now?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Was it next week? We should get on the air
Chicken Big mac Bo. No chicken was harmed, though.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Let's get over to Eddie right now. That's right. I
don't need to say that all of it. Fuck you.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
It's puncked the world with Heady Garcia.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Puck the imagery.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yeah, and this put the world dedicated to our Frint
calligan Tim.
Speaker 9 (34:12):
We mentioned it. We mentioned it on the show late yesterday.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Yeah, he passed away. I did get an email from
his dad saying they heard the end of the show
and they appreciated it. And he said, we have interesting callers,
which is very true. The NHL season underway, we had Yeah,
we had two teams open up the season overseas, the
Devil's sweeping two games from Andy the comic book guy,
sorry Stabers. Sixteen teams opening up the season. Over the
last two days. What have we seen so far? Well,
(34:43):
defending Stanley Cup champion of Florida Panthers raised their championship.
Banner won their season opener against the Bruins. We saw
the NHL's first regular season game in Utah. Dylan Gunther
Is scoring the first goal in Utah history as the Utah
Hockey Club won their opener. We saw our first female
NHL assistant coach, Jessica Hamble on the bench for the
Seattle Kraken, but Dan Bilsman lost his coaching debut for Seattle.
(35:05):
We had not one, not two, not three, but three
shutouts on the second d of the NHL, including Montreal
Sam Montembeau Flummox seeing the Maple Leafs good or forty
eight state performance horn as Craig Brube lost his coaching
debut in Toronto. We had our first overtime game, Calgary
getting a six to five OHT win, winning it on
(35:26):
a cum. Also thanks to our friend timon Darby for
pointing this out to me. We had the NHL debut
of Ivan Ivan of the Colono.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
Avalanche, the first player that's his porn name ever to
have the same first and last name. I love it Ivan.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
His parents were very creative.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
Nickname is Crazy. Boston Bruins goalie Jeremy.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Swainon Terrible Ivan, the Terrible Crazy, the.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Terrible Jeremy Swayman ended his contract, told out eight year
deal worth sixty six million dollars with the Boston Bruins
will make eight point two five million per season, tying
in for the fourth highest average annual value for a goaltender. Meanwhile,
goalie Ego Shasterkin turning down the New York Rangers eight year,
eighty eight million dollar offer to become the highest bade
goalie in NHL history. The deal would have surpassed the
eight year, eighty four million dollars deal that Kerry Price
(36:14):
at the Canadian signed at twenty seventeen. Schasterk in his
scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent after this season.
Former Veslant Trophy winner and considered by many to be
the top goalie and the NHL Florida Panthers and forward
Carter vor Hagy agree on an eight year contract where
fifty six million dollars. He's been a part of Stanley
Cup winning teams in both Florida and Tampa Bay. Utah
Hockey Club named they are first ever captain in franchise history.
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That would be forward Clayton Keller, and the Sandler Kraken
selected Jordan Epley as their captain. That means that for
the first time since the twenty ten to twenty eleven season,
all thirty two NHL teams are playing with a captain
this season. And finally, Los Angeles is going to be
the host of the twenty twenty five NHL Draft. Oh
you go to that, Eddy, I probably will. It's going
to be at the Peacock Theater.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
As that what I'm I don't even know what the Peacock.
Speaker 9 (36:59):
The well, it changes names all the time. It was
the Microsoft.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Across across from skid.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
No, it's not from Crypto dot com arena. This is
gonna be the first to decentralize NHL draft.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
So no GMS or scouts will be there.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
That's stupid. They're so cheap they can't send them out.
They're doing what it's for a show. Yeah, they're doing
what the TV show in.
Speaker 9 (37:22):
The n H and the NBA are doing.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Now it's the players and the families will be there,
but none of the team represents and that is your
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