October 17, 2024 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about the Dodgers blowing out the Mets in Game 3 of the NLCS, Raiders owner Mark Davis denying rumors of a Maxx Crosby trade, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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the podcast. But our lead this hour from the big
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stage there in Queens. That was the setup Game three,
just down the way from LaGuardia National League Championship Series.
And it's all in favor of the Mets now. From
when I was reading, oh Man, the Mets one Game
two and all the momentum, all the moment the series
was tied up one, you probably knew that going into
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Game three as the festivities resumed on the FS one.
Were you watching nothing else on the watch? You probably did,
or let's you just stare at the wall, but perhaps not.
So we watched. Don't worry. We watched so you would
not have to. The game was played on a chilly
October night, so the way playoff baseball is supposed to
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be played, right. Temperatures dip down to the mid forties
at one point in the Big Apple, and it was
a home run of Paloosa for the Dodgers, as Cheek
k Hernandez shohe Otani and Max Munsey all had dingers,
and the Dodgers absolutely abused the Metropolitans ate nothing in
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their own place of work. There ate nothing the final
a domination situation on a Wednesday night, and the Dodgers
that now pitched their fourth shutout out. These are all
team shutouts, but four shutouts in the past five playoff games.
And the good guys have a two games to one
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lead over the bad guys in the National League Championship Series.
So let us discuss the question better story, losing locker room,
better story losing locker room. So question who gets the
blame pretzel for the Francisco Lindor Mets who lose and
really had no shot, not on this game, no chance
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at all. So I've got limited edition Uber eats and
Doppler radar, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a boneyard, which
is where the Mets offense appears to be, somewhere out
in the boneyard, somewhere far far away. But let's start
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with this. The vaunted Mets lineup here and the comeback kids,
and they got that thing. Didn't see it here? Didn't
see it? Did you see it? I didn't see it.
And I know that JD. Martinez like to talk about
embracing the suck. But unfortunately for the Mets, they sucked
at a time you cannot suck, which is during the
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course of the game. Here Walker Buehler, who generally speaking,
having watched him pitch this year since he came back
from injury, Walker Buehler has been serving up spicy meatballs
all season. The baseball coming out of walker Bueler hand,
his hand has been like that of a beach ball
for opposing hitters, and he looked much closer to the
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player that he had been prior to all of these injuries,
these Tommy john surgeries here, but he didn't get an
assist from the Mets. Let's be honest here, this is
some competence by the Mets, and I I'm all for it,
right the Mets came out there. They just was something
missing from the Mets here. They played like zombies on
Xanax in this game defensively, only charged with one error
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in but if you're watching it, there were a couple
of bobbled balls, plays that could have been made, and
several miscues that helped the Dodgers cause here and then
you had Luis Severino. No matter how many players wear
his number, on the EyeBlack there he was wobbly on
the mound. There was a lot of traffic, a lot
of congestion, and so that was a bit of a
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problem the lineup though for the Mets, no punch. They
had eight men they left on base in this game.
And all these fantastic worshiping Mets fans there all worshiping
the Purple Blob for McDonald's, and you saw several shots
on the broadcast and people dressed up like the Purple Blob.
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But the Mets in this particular game, they underwent a metamorphosis.
They turned into the limited edition Grimace Shake. Okay, they
were very flavored milkshake, soft serf. Was the Mets approach
to this particular game a public pants for all this
see year. Just four Measley singles. That's it. That's all.
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Not one extra base hit for the Mets as they
go down. Now, in terms of the team that won,
what is surprising to you? What is surprising to you
the most about the Dodgers' domination in Game number three
of the NLCS just in general? So this is like
we do commercials no sweat bets or whatever. They're like
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a no sweat bet really like no sweat. There was
no drama. Dodgers scored, Mets never scored. Dodgers never really
in any danger. This is like a random Wednesday game
against the Rockies. That's not how playoff games are supposed
to go. But I would say that the way the
Dodgers approached this against the Mets, it was an Uber
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Eats delivery. It was an Uber Eats delivery. And the
Dodger pitching they supplied the toasted bagel haves and then
they had the thicklymered soft cream sheese on the locks
there on the bagel. There were a lot of bagels
on the scoreboard there everywhere, and Walker Bueler of all people, again,
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I cannot stress this enough. This guy, his entire arm
is held together by Scotch tape and Elmer's glue. And
he didn't go more than four innings. And so that's
modern baseball. I don't like it. I think it sucks.
But he went four shutout innings and combined with four
relievers on the four hitter for the Doyers, who are
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now two wins away from going back to the World Series.
Remember a couple years back, they won the hardest World
Series of all time during a global pandemic. Now that's
much easier this year. We'll see what they can do
down the line. But a methodical beatdown of the Mets
and the Dodgers. If you look at the top line pitchers, three, three, four,
five of the top guys that were supposed to be
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a rotation, they're sending out hand me downs in some
of these bullpen jobs. The starting rotation. Most of the
big guns are in the repair shop at this point,
and they're in the they need to be updated in
the app store and all of that. But the second
line of cast offs, other than a certain relief pitcher
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we will not name here. It just did not have
a knack for that job. But other than that, they've
been mouthwatering good in this playoff situation here, and you
judged a pose the difference between the Mets and the Dodgers.
And the Dodgers it was like the old Baseball card
company from back in the day. They were going upper
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deck is what they were doing. Upper tank there oh
Tani and Max Munsey and then the Metropolitans were warning
track fly balls. Three or four balls went to the
warning track and as well, it's too cold, the ball
doesn't travel well. I guess it travel for the Dodgers,
but not them. The moonshots they were leaving the ballpark here.
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And then you have the curious case of k k Hernandez,
the belly bumping k k Hernandez or even junk bumping
Key k Hernandez there who hit two twenty nine during
the regular season and is Captain America in the playoffs.
Captain America. All right, now, last word here. So we're
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two to one Dodgers over the Mets. Where do things
stand big picture heading into Game four, which we played
later on on Thursday at the site of the crime there,
Dodgers and the Mets. So the Doppler radar forecast, not
the Mexican doppler from Roberto he didn't work anymore. He
took that with him. But the Doppler radar forecast calls
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for partly cloudy for the Mets and a chance of
doom because you talk about being up against it here.
The Mets manhandled two of the three games in the NLCS,
and if not for the generosity of Dave Roberts and
the Nerds to throw a bullpen game in Game two,
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we'd likely be talking about a sweep situation heading into
the game on Thursday night. The Mets hitters who were
twisted into garlic knots, delicious garlic knots by Walker Bueler,
and he had an ERA of over five. And it
wasn't like two or three starts. He had sixteen starts
this year had an ERA of five and a half.
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For the Dodgers. Well, the one thing that is guaranteed now,
and I will guarantee you that the NLCS will not
be ending in New York unless the Dodgers win. That's it.
The Mets cannot win in their home ballpark here. The
series at worst will be going back to the West
Coast for Games six and possibly Game seven. Good luck
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on that. Very unlikely that will be the case. Game four,
Game four again coming up Thursday night. Here the scene
in Queens, and we'll see Yoshernobu Yamamodo, the three hundred
and twenty five million dollar guy who actually lived up
to the hype in the game against the Padres in
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the NLDS. And now he's back at it again against
a journeyman left. And that's how bad the Mets are.
They're starting Jose Kintana in the game that will either
be down three to one or maybe two to two.
And he pitched this guy talking about journeyman for eight
teams and I know he's not an NFL player, but
he is a jag just a guy, just a guy.
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And that cute little pumpkin story. It's starting to rot
a little bit. You look at the Mets line up here.
They got several players that are running in circles. Here,
Francisco Alvarez, pu what stinks, Jose Iglesias. I'd rather have
the singer and JD Martinez all dead beats at this
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particular point.
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lead this hour. Play the edsminey, we'll leave baseball. We'll
get back to baseball later. Let's go to football. And
the trading is underway. The flag is up and we
had Devonte Adams traded to the Jets. More on that
later we saw the Buffalo Bills acquire Amari Cooper. That
toamare As he comes over from the Cleveland football team.
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Are lead this hour though, is from Viva Las Vegas.
That is where the Raiders. The post mortem on the
departure of one Devonte Adams is the talk. And now
what do you think happened? So Devonte Adams is traded
to the Jets. So now the buzzards are out circling
around the Raider facility there in Henderson, Nevada, and they're
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like Hey, what can we get? What can we pick away?
The boss attempted to put the kibosh on the There
has been a growing drum beat that the other star
on the Raiders could be entering the transfer portal. I'm
not sure if you've been following along or not. Maybe not,
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but Raiders owner Mark Davis, he's the guy with the
funny hair. Mark Davis tried to end the rampant speculation,
not just the grassroots movement, but the speculation regarding the
future of Max Crosby. When he told reporters that Max
Crosby will not be going anywhere. He called the noise
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not true. That's a quote not true, said, it's just
not happening from the owner's mouth. Mark Davis, who was
in the rate genetic lottery. He happened to be born
to al and now he runs the Raiders. So let
us discuss the question. For those of you a little slow.
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The Raiders owner Mark Davis has denied that Max Crosby
the trade rumors are based in reality. How much stalk
do you put in this? I've got Surge, Party City,
and Tuxedo. Well, put all these things together and take
a helicopter ride now, n burn. So Mark Davis was
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not very convincing on this side of the microphone. I
don't know about where you sit, but on this side,
not too convincing. And here's why, right, Max Frosby, you'd say,
this is the guy should play for the Raiders' entire
career and all that. And you know he's got the
whole persona. He's got that raider thing down pack, like
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he was born to be a raider right out of
Central Casting, right, he's down to the tattoos, the whole thing.
But regardless of that, Mark Davis not convincing because it
just the tone. There's something about the tonot even play
it for you. We didn't hear you didn't hear it,
but trust me, the vibe I got the aura from
Mark Davis was well, I'm saying there's a shot here.
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You know, everyone's got a price, and if the price
is right, we'll make something happen. Right, And I do
believe no one's untradable, right, the idea that no one,
you know, there's anyone in the NFL that cannot be
trade as well, mahomes will never be traded and all that.
And you say, well, that's the one guy but everyone
else is in play there and all that. But at
some point Mahomes gets a little older and injuries start
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piling up. It wouldn't be impossible to see a scenario
where he ends up getting traded. But in this part
of the book, all right, Max Crosby, he's twenty seven,
so he's based on the average life expectancy of domination
as an NFL player, he's got about five years or
so of sustained success, and so that makes him a
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bigger commodity. And it's not Dino Might. It's dynamic pricing,
also known as surge pricing. The surge pricing so the
Raiders could automatically raise their price tag because hey, the
demand is high, there's not a lot available. And if
it is true that Tom Brady is going to be
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meddling with the Raiders, wouldn't Brady want to put his
own mark on the Raiders? And that means drafting a
whole new crop of players. And the way this works,
you don't get full credit if the team turns things
around and you did it with the leftover players, you
don't get the full amount of credit. And if you're
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the Lions, though, this is your time, This is your
time and my entire life. The Lions were a joke
and now they're actually relevant, and who knows how long
this is gonna last. You've got to go for it.
You gotta go all in, all right. The Lions are
in that winning window at this particular point, and if
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they want Crosby make the Godfather offer, who cares? You
have draft picks to reinforce and try to win championships
and all that stuff. And it's they're just they're a
renewable resource. You can get rid of them. And a
lot of people might not know this, but Max Crosby
was born in Michigan and attended Eastern Michigan, so he's
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got family there. And I know he spent some time
living in Texas as well, but there's there's some family
in the state of Michigan. So there's there's a chance
Eastern Michigan local boy comes home, does well all right? Now?
Page two here, staying with the Raiders theme, Antonio Pierce,
the head coach of the Raiders. He was asked about
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the trade of Devonte Adams. Did he say A were parked?
Be no comment or c next man up? All right?
The answer, by the way, Antonio Pierce, downplaying the loss
of Devonte Adams, said, next man up, move on. Is
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it that simple? Is it that simple? And so I'm
not in my yes. I mean, the Raiders have become
a bad team. There was a shot early on where
they beat the Ravens, and then the game that the
whole thing went to hell was to lose the Carolina
at home. That is an unforgivable sin and that was
the point of demarcation for the Raiders. That's where they
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were at the fork in the road and they gagged
up a game they were at home against a terrible
Carolina team and allowed Andy Dalton to tear them up.
And now the season's gone to tatters just like that.
But I'm not in my head. I agree with Antonio
Pierce because what is he supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Here?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
A serious question, like what are you supposed to do?
What do you go down to party city there and
get some balloons and you have no other options? Do
you have a pity party? The two Chu train keeps
moving and it's a grueling adventure of marathon the NFL
season and all that. Devonte Adams is just another disgruntled
employee and so they got rid of me. He didn't
want to play there, and he was guilty of embellishing
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a hamstring injury. It would appear, based on the evidence
that we have to expedite the train to the Jets.
And sure looks that way considering that he got traded
and now he's going to play in the game on
Sunday where he missed the last couple of Raider games.
Oh my, hammy, the hammy went whammy. But all of
a sudden he's good to go. So if you're the Raiders,
somebody else will have an opportunity. One door closes, the
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other one opens up. All these cliches and all that,
and somebody will have an opportunity to lead the Raiders
in receiving. Right, take the ball from Devonte Adams and
go on your way, although you do have a turd,
and Aidan O'Connell throw you the football for now. All right,
final point. We go now to the berg. We go
to the burg. Why because that is where steeer wide
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receiver George Pickens continues to feed the content machine for
those of us who are in the world of gas baggery,
the wizardry of gas baggery. So George Pickens spoke on
some FS one show, I don't know what, and they
changed the name of all these shows. He was popped
up on FS one this week, George Pickens, and he
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was talking about slot receivers. So there's not about that
and receivers who can rack up really gaudy fantasy stats, right,
really gott gotty fantasy stats. And well, rather let me
tell you what George Pickens said. Let's go to the
audio tape. Stemmatically is the biggest is the biggest thing,
you know football?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Uh, that's how you get I'm and Ross Saint Brown's
you know slot merchants.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know that's schematically getting get fed the ball. Right,
So that's the money quote right there, slot merchant slot.
Oh my god, that's so offensive. He called me a
slot merchant. Yeah, that's the money quote. So we'll react
to that. George Pickens, the guy with the funny riding
on his EyeBlack, says, Hey, George Pickens, I'm on Ross
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Saint Brown slot merchant. What jumps out at you about
that quote? What jumps out at you about that quotell? Right?
So I will go first here because I don't see you,
I don't hear you. So I'm gonna go first. So
Pickens in the cartoon bubble above my head, to the
right of my head, Pickens is wearing a tuxedo and
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he wants to have a nice dance at the haters ball, right,
But it's bigger than that. This is the green eyed Monster,
is what it is that George Pickens' statistics blow compared
to the top receivers in the NFL, and it chills him, right,
He's a diva with a capital D. And it drives
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him insane that he thinks he's better than I'm on
around say Brown and all these guys, and yet they
have better numbers. And so he's obviously jealous, and he's like, well,
he's just a slot merchant and all that. But what
he's ultimately saying is he's upset with the offensive coaching
staff in Pittsburgh. George Pickens that he wants to be
a slot merchant at He would like to be the
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guy that gets all the catches and all that stuff.
If it's that easy, why didn't he do it right?
And why is it Pittsburgh not you using George Pickens
in that way, and you can argue they don't have
a quarterback so it doesn't matter with the two stiffs
that they have there and Russell Wilson who's likely going
to play this weekend, and Justin Fields. But I'm on
Ross Saint Brown though. If he's a slot merchant, good
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for him. You talk about cashing in as a slot merchant.
Picked up seventy seven million dead presidents this past offseason
from the Lions, and that that's guaranteed money. So the
Lions are like, hey, we look, you're stat stuffing and
compiling stats and all that, but we like that. We'll
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pay you a lot of money for that.
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To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Coop dal Loop.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Joe Burrow is on track to set career highs in
numerous categories and is playing some of the best football
of his career.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Here.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
However, he's got the eighth best odds to win MVP now.
The last quarterback to win MVP playing for a team
that finished with less than eleven wins was John L.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Way back in eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Ben if the Bengals finished with a winning record, and
Burrow continues his pace.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Could he win? Uh, well, he he could. He could
have a seat to watch Mahomes or Derek Henrio. Derek
Hemry's like with Lamar Jackson. No, he's not going to win.
You have to be on a good team. He is
not on a good team. That is not going And
I love Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow to me, I know
the numbers look good and all that. The eyeball test
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does not look all that good for Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
So no.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Next, that's being reported that the Cults expect Anthony Richardson
to start this week.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Does he give the team a better chance to win
than Joe Flacco?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
God? No, no, you know the ads that there was
an obvious question. Coop Uh Anthony Richardson. I would not
want him on my flag football team. He's that bad
at throwing the ball. He's everything bad people thought he
was going to be coming out of Florida. Joe Flacco
gives a better chance to win. Richardson's a disaster in
every way and he gets hurt every other game. Next.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Ryan Day is in his sixth season as head coach
at Ohio State, and he has delivered double digit wins
every single season except the COVID shortened season. However, he's
now only two and six in games against teams ranked
in the top five. Do you think his seat could
be warming up?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yes, it's Ohio State, right, they don't have any patients
at Ohio State and the losses to the Michigan Now,
Michigan's falling off the map now, so it's a little
bit easier. But yeah, he's absolutely on the hot seat.
How do we know you pass up? That is a win?
I want the game. Don't yawn, Eddie. I want to
get no yawning, Eddie Yon.
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hashtag ask Ben, Ask Google.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Well Ben, this is a rarity we have a question
just for you.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Oh so nice. I'm the star. Make it all about me.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Shane and des Moines.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Hi Shane, he wants to know, Ben, what is your
favorite knockoff.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Food to make?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, so I love that. The thing that started that
was the what's the name of that cookie? Is it
crumble cookie or whatever? Like the ten dollars cookie. So
my wife bought me some of those, and I was like, Oh,
that's a great cookie. And then I found out how
much it cost. I wanted to puke in my mouth.
So I found a ripoff recipe and love it. So
I would say that because I feel I can get
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the most bang for the buck. But I've I've fuched
around with a lot of ripoff so I got pretty
good raising canes, rip off chicken figures at home. But
it takes so long to make this stuff that it's
it kind of like your time is very important. So
it tastes good, but you spend so much time making it,
it's frustrating. LORAINI you wanted to add something to that?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You want to No, I just agreed.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, okay, what is next? Cool?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Cowboy Killer?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Why Cowboy Killer?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Do you use a regular or electric toothbrush.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, so the wife got a deal at Costco. It's electric.
I love it because it times out. Fun fact, all right,
ray for this. The electric toothbrush thirty seconds on each
upper and lower side, right and left, So you're supposed
brush your teeth for two minutes and it buzzes after
thirty seconds. So after thirty seconds, you go from the
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upper top to the bottom and then you go to
the other side. Perfect brush teeth every time, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I have an electric toothbrush as well. Many years ago,
I went to this charity event and they were giving
out like prizes and I won an electric toothbrush. I'd
never used it before. I'm like, oh, this is fantastic.
I'm never not using an electric toothbrush again.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So I've used it ever since because yours time out
after thirty seconds. So it seems like the lights on
it that you did bleep, doesn't. That's that's what it is.
It tells you to go to the law the part
of your mouth. Yeah, I just do it until I'm
done doing I don't. I don't. You don't listen to
the clock. That's the whole. It's an advantage that one
has with the electric. So if you do it for longer,
it's not good. Well you only need to do the
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thirty seconds and then on east side. Yeah, I do
a little more. You can do bonus. But all right,
that's about it.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Now, I'm a manual made in Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You're old school, yes, yes, okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Cool, Yeah, we're we're what they call non talent, and
so we can only afford the manual toothbrush.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
What happened to?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Come on, movie star? You come on that, liar, liar,
money left over? Come on through all of that, you
blew through all that money, all that gambling. You're doing coop.
They have these things called sales at Costco. They're not
they're not that expensive. Okay, yeah, wait for the let
me go on sale. What's next? What do we have here?
It's ask Ben your questions, our answers.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Donkey sausage, I donkey. He would like to know. Did
anyone decorate for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So this is actually funny story. So my wife loves Halloween.
It's like her favorite holidays, so she wanted to decorate
for Halloween. Unfortunately, we have like two giant cases of
Halloween decorations. We can't find it. So she can't deca
she can't. There's somewhere in the garage. We have no
idea where they are. So unfortunately, no decorations.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
What about you, Edah, Yeah, we do have Halloween decorations,
and my wife loves loves lights. Now, it started with
Christmas lights, which makes sense. Obviously it's now gone to
like every holiday now has a set of lights. So
we have orange lights strung about and they will stay
for Halloween and things.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, sure, because it makes sense. It's orange and brown
are colors of Thanksgiving, so we have orange and purple.
But we do have brown lights. Why not? I've never
seen anybody with brown lights. Surely sell them on the interweb.
I think that would be ugly. I think purple is
ugly too. What about it's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
My house an organ is decorated, but I did not
do it.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
It doesn't really count. You don't live you know. I
don't know if you know this, but you don't live
in an organ right now?
Speaker 5 (30:26):
You know that, Yes, but the house is decorated.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We have three decorations.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Three let me guess. A pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
There's there's like a it's like a plastic stack of pumpkins.
Oh okay, I see and then two separate gravestones.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Names on the gravestones. I can't recall any any fake
spider web no.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
No, no, but the gravestones do make noises.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
What kind of was.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I don't remember. I just know that they do. Yeah, okay,
well my wife did all this.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, yeah, you just signed off.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Petry has great decorations, by the way, for you Penny pictures.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Well did they pay for any advertising?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Well no, I'm just saying I buy my stuff from
there when I do grape stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Cool, nice little free spot. Costco the costcos.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Costco is different Costcos.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
They go and get it. I said, that's.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Where I Costco. Costco is allowed all but so many
people have snuck into Costco and now they have card readers.
Yeah I saw that. Whether you a holes ruined our fun.
Oh you used to just be able to flash the
Costco card. Now you got to like scan it. No
interlopers allowed, sorry, Lorena, Yeah all right. You still can
go in though, isn't it legally in California? Away if
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you want to buy alcohol, it's still allowed.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
And I wanted like, even though I have a Costco membership,
I've wanted to just say, I'm just buying alcohol to
see what they do.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, you should try me. Yeah, that's right, don't don't
do it at your local cost, go to.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
A different I'm just here for the hot now all
what is.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
What is next?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Show yours membership?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Correct? Yeah? Yeah, they're cutting down man.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Uh next we have from ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Hi Fergie Fergie the Furry.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Do movies ever make you cry?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Uh? No? No, I mean maybe when I was younger,
but no, I'm a jaded, middle aged man. Nothing can
make me cry this night. What about you, Eda?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
I mean not like rolling down tears. I've had, you know,
like watery eyes. I guess probably watching something, but not
really like actual tears.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Now, Lorena, I'm a big boob.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Ben I cry all the time. I was just telling
Coop if we go and watch Wicked, I'm gonna cry
the whole time. Oh boy, I already know.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Cool. Yeah your crier.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, movies, movies, certain movies can get me.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, I'll bring How about a good TV show like
Benny Versus the Penny that makes what is next? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
But not for the reason you think you see.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That shirt Man and Mooney. Every time I sit there
and I'm getting ready for the show. And he you
always hear him before you see him. He's talking to everybody.
What is next? Where are you have here? Quick?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
The King? Rory would like to te Rory if flying
cars was a thing, would you fly one?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I would not do one. I would not do a
flying car for like ten years. I'd let everyone crash
their flying car. Wait ten years it, yeah, because it'll
it'll be a it'll be cheaper and then be all
the mistakes and all the accidents will be taken care of.
Aed eight ten years off a long time. Three Lorena,
no Ben, no flying cars.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
No, I don't want to die.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I think five years is the right answer. That's a
that's a good yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
The other thing, too, is about like the flying cars.
I mean, won't the traffic just be in the sky
so you're not really defeating the purple I mean, the
whole point of it would be to beat the traffic,
but instead of being on the ground, it would be
in the sky.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Well you know, yeah, only some people can afford it
at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
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Speaker 1 (34:16):
I guess it's hockey season somewhere, so let's bring in
Eddie right there there he is, Eddie r.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Stuck all of it. It's puck the world with Eddy Garcia.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Puck with the p that's right, with the p that's right,
Fuck Puck, Puck Wolfgang Puck. We have had every team
in the nahow now open the season. Not everybody's played
at home yet. My La Kings are still on the
road for another week.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
But anyway.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Columbus Blue Jackets had their home opener on Tuesday night
against the Florida Panthers, and of course they had a
chance to honor their late star Johnny Goodrou, tragically killed
in the offseason by a drunk driver. Both teams wore
his number thirteen in the pregame warm up. They retired
his number thirteen to the Blue Jackets before the game.
His family was on hand, and then they started the
(35:05):
game without a left winger on the ice, which was
Caudrow's position. His old buddy Sean Monahan, who joined the
team this offseason after playing with Gadrou and Calgary, obviously
never got a chance to play with his former teammate again,
but he did score a goal. Unfortunately for the Blue Jackets,
though they could not win the game, losing to the
defending Stanley Cup champion in Florida Panthers four to three,
but a well done ceremony and honoring Johnny Gudrou There
(35:29):
in Columbus, we had some teams still undefeated on the season.
That would be the Dallas Stars might pick to win
the Stanley Cup. They're off to a four and h start.
So are the Calgary Flames, who I don't think anybody
picked to win the Stanley Cup, but they're off to
a very nice start as well.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
He can't win the Stanley Cup in October.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Ay they say you can't lose it, though I don't
know if that's accurate or not. But meanwhile, the Caldrao
Avalanche Wally mentioned a surprising yeah four Yeah, that's a
team that was Bodley cure.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Everyone.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Yeah, we're talking about this yesterday, but we'll repeat it
because sometimes not everybody listening every day.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
But we had a goalie goal with the Minnesota Wild.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Philip Gustafson scored the fourth goal in a four to
one win for the Wild over the Saint Louis, whose
fifteenth goalie in NHL history is scored a goal and
he gave first wild goalie ever to do it.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
The number one.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Overall pick in this year's draft of the San Jose Sharks,
Macklin Celebrini had.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
A up and down debut.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Now, I scored a goal in his first NHL game,
which is which is very good, exciting for him, but
he also got hurt and now he has been sidelined
with a hip injury.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Meanwhile, it's all about Leo carl Soon the doc said,
that's what it's about. Wow, Okay, thank you. Flyers.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Rookie matve Mitschkov, expecting to be celebrating his biggest challenger
for the Rookie of the Year, had two goals the
other day against the Oilers in a overtime lost by
Philadelphia Washington Capital straleg Undervechkin looking to get his first
goal on the season. He starts the year forty two
away from Wayne Gretzky's all time record.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
His countryman, You've getting.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Malkoin of the Penguins hit the five hundred goal club
and a six to five overtime win over the Sabers
and his teammate Sidney Crosby hit the sixth hundred point
mark in that same game. We have four new coaches
get their first wins with their new teams this week,
Travis Green to the Senators, Craig Brubey of the Maple Leafs,
Dan Bilsmo the Kraken, and Dean Everison of the Blue Jackets.
There's still one new coach waiting to get his first win.
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That would be Ryan Worshowski for the San Jose Sharks.
They are they are winless on the season. Maybe the
wildest game of the season has already been played the
La Kings and Ottawa Senators. They scored fifteen goals. Senators
get to win eight to seven in overtime. That was
a Canadian Thanksgiving Day game.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
How's that King's defense working out? Eddie not well at all? Good?
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Nope, captain of the defending Stanley Cup champion of Florida
Panthers always under Barkoff. Gonna be out two to three
weeks the old lower body injury. And I'm sure Andy
the comic book guy will fight a positive spin on
this story. But his Buffalo Sabers. They had a fight
in practice between a couple of teammates Captain Rasmus Dudley.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Boys hit on Peyton Krebs.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
Yeah, that's not something you see much should practice, and
they dropped the gloves on each other.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But we fight all the time in the hallways around
here and nobody knows. You know, there was one fight
back in the day. I remember I was here for that.
That guy became a network TV broadcaster. It was the
greatest punch ever thrown. Yeah, he got out of this
place and became a network TV broadcaster and he's doing
very well. Yeah, it's good for him. Yeah, and that's
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the podcast. But our lead this hour from the big
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stage there in Queens. That was the setup Game three,
just down the way from LaGuardia National League Championship Series.
And it's all in favor of the Mets now. From
when I was reading, oh Man, the Mets one Game
two and all the momentum, all the moment the series
was tied up one, you probably knew that going into
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Game three as the festivities resumed on the FS one.
Were you watching nothing else on the watch? You probably did,
or let's you just stare at the wall, but perhaps not.
So we watched. Don't worry. We watched so you would
not have to. The game was played on a chilly
October night, so the way playoff baseball is supposed to
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be played, right. Temperatures dip down to the mid forties
at one point in the Big Apple, and it was
a home run of Paloosa for the Dodgers, as Cheek
k Hernandez shohe Otani and Max Munsey all had dingers,
and the Dodgers absolutely abused the Metropolitans ate nothing in
(02:47):
their own place of work. There ate nothing the final
a domination situation on a Wednesday night, and the Dodgers
that now pitched their fourth shutout out. These are all
team shutouts, but four shutouts in the past five playoff games.
And the good guys have a two games to one
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lead over the bad guys in the National League Championship Series.
So let us discuss the question better story, losing locker room,
better story losing locker room. So question who gets the
blame pretzel for the Francisco Lindor Mets who lose and
really had no shot, not on this game, no chance
(03:31):
at all. So I've got limited edition Uber eats and
Doppler radar, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a boneyard, which
is where the Mets offense appears to be, somewhere out
in the boneyard, somewhere far far away. But let's start
(03:51):
with this. The vaunted Mets lineup here and the comeback kids,
and they got that thing. Didn't see it here? Didn't
see it? Did you see it? I didn't see it.
And I know that JD. Martinez like to talk about
embracing the suck. But unfortunately for the Mets, they sucked
at a time you cannot suck, which is during the
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course of the game. Here Walker Buehler, who generally speaking,
having watched him pitch this year since he came back
from injury, Walker Buehler has been serving up spicy meatballs
all season. The baseball coming out of walker Bueler hand,
his hand has been like that of a beach ball
for opposing hitters, and he looked much closer to the
(04:37):
player that he had been prior to all of these injuries,
these Tommy john surgeries here, but he didn't get an
assist from the Mets. Let's be honest here, this is
some competence by the Mets, and I I'm all for it,
right the Mets came out there. They just was something
missing from the Mets here. They played like zombies on
Xanax in this game defensively, only charged with one error
(04:59):
in but if you're watching it, there were a couple
of bobbled balls, plays that could have been made, and
several miscues that helped the Dodgers cause here and then
you had Luis Severino. No matter how many players wear
his number, on the EyeBlack there he was wobbly on
the mound. There was a lot of traffic, a lot
of congestion, and so that was a bit of a
(05:21):
problem the lineup though for the Mets, no punch. They
had eight men they left on base in this game.
And all these fantastic worshiping Mets fans there all worshiping
the Purple Blob for McDonald's, and you saw several shots
on the broadcast and people dressed up like the Purple Blob.
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But the Mets in this particular game, they underwent a metamorphosis.
They turned into the limited edition Grimace Shake. Okay, they
were very flavored milkshake, soft serf. Was the Mets approach
to this particular game a public pants for all this
see year. Just four Measley singles. That's it. That's all.
(06:06):
Not one extra base hit for the Mets as they
go down. Now, in terms of the team that won,
what is surprising to you? What is surprising to you
the most about the Dodgers' domination in Game number three
of the NLCS just in general? So this is like
we do commercials no sweat bets or whatever. They're like
(06:27):
a no sweat bet really like no sweat. There was
no drama. Dodgers scored, Mets never scored. Dodgers never really
in any danger. This is like a random Wednesday game
against the Rockies. That's not how playoff games are supposed
to go. But I would say that the way the
Dodgers approached this against the Mets, it was an Uber
(06:48):
Eats delivery. It was an Uber Eats delivery. And the
Dodger pitching they supplied the toasted bagel haves and then
they had the thicklymered soft cream sheese on the locks
there on the bagel. There were a lot of bagels
on the scoreboard there everywhere, and Walker Bueler of all people, again,
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I cannot stress this enough. This guy, his entire arm
is held together by Scotch tape and Elmer's glue. And
he didn't go more than four innings. And so that's
modern baseball. I don't like it. I think it sucks.
But he went four shutout innings and combined with four
relievers on the four hitter for the Doyers, who are
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now two wins away from going back to the World Series.
Remember a couple years back, they won the hardest World
Series of all time during a global pandemic. Now that's
much easier this year. We'll see what they can do
down the line. But a methodical beatdown of the Mets
and the Dodgers. If you look at the top line pitchers, three, three, four,
five of the top guys that were supposed to be
(07:53):
a rotation, they're sending out hand me downs in some
of these bullpen jobs. The starting rotation. Most of the
big guns are in the repair shop at this point,
and they're in the they need to be updated in
the app store and all of that. But the second
line of cast offs, other than a certain relief pitcher
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we will not name here. It just did not have
a knack for that job. But other than that, they've
been mouthwatering good in this playoff situation here, and you
judged a pose the difference between the Mets and the Dodgers.
And the Dodgers it was like the old Baseball card
company from back in the day. They were going upper
(08:36):
deck is what they were doing. Upper tank there oh
Tani and Max Munsey and then the Metropolitans were warning
track fly balls. Three or four balls went to the
warning track and as well, it's too cold, the ball
doesn't travel well. I guess it travel for the Dodgers,
but not them. The moonshots they were leaving the ballpark here.
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And then you have the curious case of k k Hernandez,
the belly bumping k k Hernandez or even junk bumping
Key k Hernandez there who hit two twenty nine during
the regular season and is Captain America in the playoffs.
Captain America. All right, now, last word here. So we're
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two to one Dodgers over the Mets. Where do things
stand big picture heading into Game four, which we played
later on on Thursday at the site of the crime there,
Dodgers and the Mets. So the Doppler radar forecast, not
the Mexican doppler from Roberto he didn't work anymore. He
took that with him. But the Doppler radar forecast calls
(09:41):
for partly cloudy for the Mets and a chance of
doom because you talk about being up against it here.
The Mets manhandled two of the three games in the NLCS,
and if not for the generosity of Dave Roberts and
the Nerds to throw a bullpen game in Game two,
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we'd likely be talking about a sweep situation heading into
the game on Thursday night. The Mets hitters who were
twisted into garlic knots, delicious garlic knots by Walker Bueler,
and he had an ERA of over five. And it
wasn't like two or three starts. He had sixteen starts
this year had an ERA of five and a half.
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For the Dodgers. Well, the one thing that is guaranteed now,
and I will guarantee you that the NLCS will not
be ending in New York unless the Dodgers win. That's it.
The Mets cannot win in their home ballpark here. The
series at worst will be going back to the West
Coast for Games six and possibly Game seven. Good luck
(10:48):
on that. Very unlikely that will be the case. Game four,
Game four again coming up Thursday night. Here the scene
in Queens, and we'll see Yoshernobu Yamamodo, the three hundred
and twenty five million dollar guy who actually lived up
to the hype in the game against the Padres in
(11:09):
the NLDS. And now he's back at it again against
a journeyman left. And that's how bad the Mets are.
They're starting Jose Kintana in the game that will either
be down three to one or maybe two to two.
And he pitched this guy talking about journeyman for eight
teams and I know he's not an NFL player, but
he is a jag just a guy, just a guy.
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And that cute little pumpkin story. It's starting to rot
a little bit. You look at the Mets line up here.
They got several players that are running in circles. Here,
Francisco Alvarez, pu what stinks, Jose Iglesias. I'd rather have
the singer and JD Martinez all dead beats at this
(11:52):
particular point.
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lead this hour. Play the edsminey, we'll leave baseball. We'll
get back to baseball later. Let's go to football. And
the trading is underway. The flag is up and we
had Devonte Adams traded to the Jets. More on that
later we saw the Buffalo Bills acquire Amari Cooper. That
toamare As he comes over from the Cleveland football team.
(13:28):
Are lead this hour though, is from Viva Las Vegas.
That is where the Raiders. The post mortem on the
departure of one Devonte Adams is the talk. And now
what do you think happened? So Devonte Adams is traded
to the Jets. So now the buzzards are out circling
around the Raider facility there in Henderson, Nevada, and they're
(13:51):
like Hey, what can we get? What can we pick away?
The boss attempted to put the kibosh on the There
has been a growing drum beat that the other star
on the Raiders could be entering the transfer portal. I'm
not sure if you've been following along or not. Maybe not,
(14:11):
but Raiders owner Mark Davis, he's the guy with the
funny hair. Mark Davis tried to end the rampant speculation,
not just the grassroots movement, but the speculation regarding the
future of Max Crosby. When he told reporters that Max
Crosby will not be going anywhere. He called the noise
(14:34):
not true. That's a quote not true, said, it's just
not happening from the owner's mouth. Mark Davis, who was
in the rate genetic lottery. He happened to be born
to al and now he runs the Raiders. So let
us discuss the question. For those of you a little slow.
(14:56):
The Raiders owner Mark Davis has denied that Max Crosby
the trade rumors are based in reality. How much stalk
do you put in this? I've got Surge, Party City,
and Tuxedo. Well, put all these things together and take
a helicopter ride now, n burn. So Mark Davis was
(15:20):
not very convincing on this side of the microphone. I
don't know about where you sit, but on this side,
not too convincing. And here's why, right, Max Frosby, you'd say,
this is the guy should play for the Raiders' entire
career and all that. And you know he's got the
whole persona. He's got that raider thing down pack, like
(15:41):
he was born to be a raider right out of
Central Casting, right, he's down to the tattoos, the whole thing.
But regardless of that, Mark Davis not convincing because it
just the tone. There's something about the tonot even play
it for you. We didn't hear you didn't hear it,
but trust me, the vibe I got the aura from
Mark Davis was well, I'm saying there's a shot here.
(16:03):
You know, everyone's got a price, and if the price
is right, we'll make something happen. Right, And I do
believe no one's untradable, right, the idea that no one,
you know, there's anyone in the NFL that cannot be
trade as well, mahomes will never be traded and all that.
And you say, well, that's the one guy but everyone
else is in play there and all that. But at
some point Mahomes gets a little older and injuries start
(16:25):
piling up. It wouldn't be impossible to see a scenario
where he ends up getting traded. But in this part
of the book, all right, Max Crosby, he's twenty seven,
so he's based on the average life expectancy of domination
as an NFL player, he's got about five years or
so of sustained success, and so that makes him a
(16:46):
bigger commodity. And it's not Dino Might. It's dynamic pricing,
also known as surge pricing. The surge pricing so the
Raiders could automatically raise their price tag because hey, the
demand is high, there's not a lot available. And if
it is true that Tom Brady is going to be
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meddling with the Raiders, wouldn't Brady want to put his
own mark on the Raiders? And that means drafting a
whole new crop of players. And the way this works,
you don't get full credit if the team turns things
around and you did it with the leftover players, you
don't get the full amount of credit. And if you're
(17:31):
the Lions, though, this is your time, This is your
time and my entire life. The Lions were a joke
and now they're actually relevant, and who knows how long
this is gonna last. You've got to go for it.
You gotta go all in, all right. The Lions are
in that winning window at this particular point, and if
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they want Crosby make the Godfather offer, who cares? You
have draft picks to reinforce and try to win championships
and all that stuff. And it's they're just they're a
renewable resource. You can get rid of them. And a
lot of people might not know this, but Max Crosby
was born in Michigan and attended Eastern Michigan, so he's
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got family there. And I know he spent some time
living in Texas as well, but there's there's some family
in the state of Michigan. So there's there's a chance
Eastern Michigan local boy comes home, does well all right? Now?
Page two here, staying with the Raiders theme, Antonio Pierce,
the head coach of the Raiders. He was asked about
(18:34):
the trade of Devonte Adams. Did he say A were parked?
Be no comment or c next man up? All right?
The answer, by the way, Antonio Pierce, downplaying the loss
of Devonte Adams, said, next man up, move on. Is
(18:55):
it that simple? Is it that simple? And so I'm
not in my yes. I mean, the Raiders have become
a bad team. There was a shot early on where
they beat the Ravens, and then the game that the
whole thing went to hell was to lose the Carolina
at home. That is an unforgivable sin and that was
the point of demarcation for the Raiders. That's where they
(19:17):
were at the fork in the road and they gagged
up a game they were at home against a terrible
Carolina team and allowed Andy Dalton to tear them up.
And now the season's gone to tatters just like that.
But I'm not in my head. I agree with Antonio
Pierce because what is he supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Here?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
A serious question, like what are you supposed to do?
What do you go down to party city there and
get some balloons and you have no other options? Do
you have a pity party? The two Chu train keeps
moving and it's a grueling adventure of marathon the NFL
season and all that. Devonte Adams is just another disgruntled
employee and so they got rid of me. He didn't
want to play there, and he was guilty of embellishing
(19:56):
a hamstring injury. It would appear, based on the evidence
that we have to expedite the train to the Jets.
And sure looks that way considering that he got traded
and now he's going to play in the game on
Sunday where he missed the last couple of Raider games.
Oh my, hammy, the hammy went whammy. But all of
a sudden he's good to go. So if you're the Raiders,
somebody else will have an opportunity. One door closes, the
(20:17):
other one opens up. All these cliches and all that,
and somebody will have an opportunity to lead the Raiders
in receiving. Right, take the ball from Devonte Adams and
go on your way, although you do have a turd,
and Aidan O'Connell throw you the football for now. All right,
final point. We go now to the berg. We go
to the burg. Why because that is where steeer wide
(20:40):
receiver George Pickens continues to feed the content machine for
those of us who are in the world of gas baggery,
the wizardry of gas baggery. So George Pickens spoke on
some FS one show, I don't know what, and they
changed the name of all these shows. He was popped
up on FS one this week, George Pickens, and he
(21:01):
was talking about slot receivers. So there's not about that
and receivers who can rack up really gaudy fantasy stats, right,
really gott gotty fantasy stats. And well, rather let me
tell you what George Pickens said. Let's go to the
audio tape. Stemmatically is the biggest is the biggest thing,
you know football?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Uh, that's how you get I'm and Ross Saint Brown's
you know slot merchants.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know that's schematically getting get fed the ball. Right,
So that's the money quote right there, slot merchant slot.
Oh my god, that's so offensive. He called me a
slot merchant. Yeah, that's the money quote. So we'll react
to that. George Pickens, the guy with the funny riding
on his EyeBlack, says, Hey, George Pickens, I'm on Ross
(21:50):
Saint Brown slot merchant. What jumps out at you about
that quote? What jumps out at you about that quotell? Right?
So I will go first here because I don't see you,
I don't hear you. So I'm gonna go first. So
Pickens in the cartoon bubble above my head, to the
right of my head, Pickens is wearing a tuxedo and
(22:10):
he wants to have a nice dance at the haters ball, right,
But it's bigger than that. This is the green eyed Monster,
is what it is that George Pickens' statistics blow compared
to the top receivers in the NFL, and it chills him, right,
He's a diva with a capital D. And it drives
(22:30):
him insane that he thinks he's better than I'm on
around say Brown and all these guys, and yet they
have better numbers. And so he's obviously jealous, and he's like, well,
he's just a slot merchant and all that. But what
he's ultimately saying is he's upset with the offensive coaching
staff in Pittsburgh. George Pickens that he wants to be
a slot merchant at He would like to be the
(22:52):
guy that gets all the catches and all that stuff.
If it's that easy, why didn't he do it right?
And why is it Pittsburgh not you using George Pickens
in that way, and you can argue they don't have
a quarterback so it doesn't matter with the two stiffs
that they have there and Russell Wilson who's likely going
to play this weekend, and Justin Fields. But I'm on
Ross Saint Brown though. If he's a slot merchant, good
(23:15):
for him. You talk about cashing in as a slot merchant.
Picked up seventy seven million dead presidents this past offseason
from the Lions, and that that's guaranteed money. So the
Lions are like, hey, we look, you're stat stuffing and
compiling stats and all that, but we like that. We'll
(23:37):
pay you a lot of money for that.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
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Speaker 1 (23:45):
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Speaker 2 (23:47):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Coop dal Loop.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Joe Burrow is on track to set career highs in
numerous categories and is playing some of the best football
of his career.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Here.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
However, he's got the eighth best odds to win MVP now.
The last quarterback to win MVP playing for a team
that finished with less than eleven wins was John L.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Way back in eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Ben if the Bengals finished with a winning record, and
Burrow continues his pace.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Could he win? Uh, well, he he could. He could
have a seat to watch Mahomes or Derek Henrio. Derek
Hemry's like with Lamar Jackson. No, he's not going to win.
You have to be on a good team. He is
not on a good team. That is not going And
I love Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow to me, I know
the numbers look good and all that. The eyeball test
(24:35):
does not look all that good for Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
So no.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Next, that's being reported that the Cults expect Anthony Richardson
to start this week.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Does he give the team a better chance to win
than Joe Flacco?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
God? No, no, you know the ads that there was
an obvious question. Coop Uh Anthony Richardson. I would not
want him on my flag football team. He's that bad
at throwing the ball. He's everything bad people thought he
was going to be coming out of Florida. Joe Flacco
gives a better chance to win. Richardson's a disaster in
every way and he gets hurt every other game. Next.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Ryan Day is in his sixth season as head coach
at Ohio State, and he has delivered double digit wins
every single season except the COVID shortened season. However, he's
now only two and six in games against teams ranked
in the top five. Do you think his seat could
be warming up?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yes, it's Ohio State, right, they don't have any patients
at Ohio State and the losses to the Michigan Now,
Michigan's falling off the map now, so it's a little
bit easier. But yeah, he's absolutely on the hot seat.
How do we know you pass up? That is a win?
I want the game. Don't yawn, Eddie. I want to
get no yawning, Eddie Yon.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
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Speaker 1 (25:54):
Twitter said us your questions on Twitter now and no
wait here you go. It is asked Ben. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour, and the
reading of the questions over to the koogle hoop keep
them coming in fast and furious style, and used the
hashtag ask Ben, Ask Google.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Well Ben, this is a rarity we have a question
just for you.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Oh so nice. I'm the star. Make it all about me.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Shane and des Moines.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Hi Shane, he wants to know, Ben, what is your
favorite knockoff.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Food to make?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, so I love that. The thing that started that
was the what's the name of that cookie? Is it
crumble cookie or whatever? Like the ten dollars cookie. So
my wife bought me some of those, and I was like, Oh,
that's a great cookie. And then I found out how
much it cost. I wanted to puke in my mouth.
So I found a ripoff recipe and love it. So
I would say that because I feel I can get
(26:55):
the most bang for the buck. But I've I've fuched
around with a lot of ripoff so I got pretty
good raising canes, rip off chicken figures at home. But
it takes so long to make this stuff that it's
it kind of like your time is very important. So
it tastes good, but you spend so much time making it,
it's frustrating. LORAINI you wanted to add something to that?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
You want to No, I just agreed.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, okay, what is next? Cool?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Cowboy Killer?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Why Cowboy Killer?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Do you use a regular or electric toothbrush.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, so the wife got a deal at Costco. It's electric.
I love it because it times out. Fun fact, all right,
ray for this. The electric toothbrush thirty seconds on each
upper and lower side, right and left, So you're supposed
brush your teeth for two minutes and it buzzes after
thirty seconds. So after thirty seconds, you go from the
(27:47):
upper top to the bottom and then you go to
the other side. Perfect brush teeth every time, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I have an electric toothbrush as well. Many years ago,
I went to this charity event and they were giving
out like prizes and I won an electric toothbrush. I'd
never used it before. I'm like, oh, this is fantastic.
I'm never not using an electric toothbrush again.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
So I've used it ever since because yours time out
after thirty seconds. So it seems like the lights on
it that you did bleep, doesn't. That's that's what it is.
It tells you to go to the law the part
of your mouth. Yeah, I just do it until I'm
done doing I don't. I don't. You don't listen to
the clock. That's the whole. It's an advantage that one
has with the electric. So if you do it for longer,
it's not good. Well you only need to do the
(28:28):
thirty seconds and then on east side. Yeah, I do
a little more. You can do bonus. But all right,
that's about it.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Now, I'm a manual made in Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
You're old school, yes, yes, okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Cool, Yeah, we're we're what they call non talent, and
so we can only afford the manual toothbrush.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
What happened to?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Come on, movie star? You come on that, liar, liar,
money left over? Come on through all of that, you
blew through all that money, all that gambling. You're doing coop.
They have these things called sales at Costco. They're not
they're not that expensive. Okay, yeah, wait for the let
me go on sale. What's next? What do we have here?
It's ask Ben your questions, our answers.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Donkey sausage, I donkey. He would like to know. Did
anyone decorate for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So this is actually funny story. So my wife loves Halloween.
It's like her favorite holidays, so she wanted to decorate
for Halloween. Unfortunately, we have like two giant cases of
Halloween decorations. We can't find it. So she can't deca
she can't. There's somewhere in the garage. We have no
idea where they are. So unfortunately, no decorations.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
What about you, Edah, Yeah, we do have Halloween decorations,
and my wife loves loves lights. Now, it started with
Christmas lights, which makes sense. Obviously it's now gone to
like every holiday now has a set of lights. So
we have orange lights strung about and they will stay
for Halloween and things.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Well, sure, because it makes sense. It's orange and brown
are colors of Thanksgiving, so we have orange and purple.
But we do have brown lights. Why not? I've never
seen anybody with brown lights. Surely sell them on the interweb.
I think that would be ugly. I think purple is
ugly too. What about it's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
My house an organ is decorated, but I did not
do it.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
It doesn't really count. You don't live you know. I
don't know if you know this, but you don't live
in an organ right now?
Speaker 5 (30:26):
You know that, Yes, but the house is decorated.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We have three decorations.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Three let me guess. A pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
There's there's like a it's like a plastic stack of pumpkins.
Oh okay, I see and then two separate gravestones.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Names on the gravestones. I can't recall any any fake
spider web no.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
No, no, but the gravestones do make noises.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
What kind of was.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
I don't remember. I just know that they do. Yeah, okay,
well my wife did all this.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, yeah, you just signed off.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
Petry has great decorations, by the way, for you Penny pictures.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Well did they pay for any advertising?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Well no, I'm just saying I buy my stuff from
there when I do grape stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Cool, nice little free spot. Costco the costcos.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Costco is different Costcos.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
They go and get it. I said, that's.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Where I Costco. Costco is allowed all but so many
people have snuck into Costco and now they have card readers.
Yeah I saw that. Whether you a holes ruined our fun.
Oh you used to just be able to flash the
Costco card. Now you got to like scan it. No
interlopers allowed, sorry, Lorena, Yeah all right. You still can
go in though, isn't it legally in California? Away if
(31:47):
you want to buy alcohol, it's still allowed.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
And I wanted like, even though I have a Costco membership,
I've wanted to just say, I'm just buying alcohol to
see what they do.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, you should try me. Yeah, that's right, don't don't
do it at your local cost, go to.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
A different I'm just here for the hot now all
what is.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
What is next?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Show yours membership?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Correct? Yeah? Yeah, they're cutting down man.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Uh next we have from ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Hi Fergie Fergie the Furry.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Do movies ever make you cry?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Uh? No? No, I mean maybe when I was younger,
but no, I'm a jaded, middle aged man. Nothing can
make me cry this night. What about you, Eda?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
I mean not like rolling down tears. I've had, you know,
like watery eyes. I guess probably watching something, but not
really like actual tears.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Now, Lorena, I'm a big boob.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Ben I cry all the time. I was just telling
Coop if we go and watch Wicked, I'm gonna cry
the whole time. Oh boy, I already know.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Cool. Yeah your crier.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah, movies, movies, certain movies can get me.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, I'll bring How about a good TV show like
Benny Versus the Penny that makes what is next? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
But not for the reason you think you see.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That shirt Man and Mooney. Every time I sit there
and I'm getting ready for the show. And he you
always hear him before you see him. He's talking to everybody.
What is next? Where are you have here? Quick?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
The King? Rory would like to te Rory if flying
cars was a thing, would you fly one?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I would not do one. I would not do a
flying car for like ten years. I'd let everyone crash
their flying car. Wait ten years it, yeah, because it'll
it'll be a it'll be cheaper and then be all
the mistakes and all the accidents will be taken care of.
Aed eight ten years off a long time. Three Lorena,
no Ben, no flying cars.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
No, I don't want to die.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I think five years is the right answer. That's a
that's a good yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
The other thing, too, is about like the flying cars.
I mean, won't the traffic just be in the sky
so you're not really defeating the purple I mean, the
whole point of it would be to beat the traffic,
but instead of being on the ground, it would be
in the sky.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Well you know, yeah, only some people can afford it
at the beginning.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
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Speaker 1 (34:16):
I guess it's hockey season somewhere, so let's bring in
Eddie right there there he is, Eddie r.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Stuck all of it. It's puck the world with Eddy Garcia.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Puck with the p that's right, with the p that's right,
Fuck Puck, Puck Wolfgang Puck. We have had every team
in the nahow now open the season. Not everybody's played
at home yet. My La Kings are still on the
road for another week.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
But anyway.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Columbus Blue Jackets had their home opener on Tuesday night
against the Florida Panthers, and of course they had a
chance to honor their late star Johnny Goodrou, tragically killed
in the offseason by a drunk driver. Both teams wore
his number thirteen in the pregame warm up. They retired
his number thirteen to the Blue Jackets before the game.
His family was on hand, and then they started the
(35:05):
game without a left winger on the ice, which was
Caudrow's position. His old buddy Sean Monahan, who joined the
team this offseason after playing with Gadrou and Calgary, obviously
never got a chance to play with his former teammate again,
but he did score a goal. Unfortunately for the Blue Jackets,
though they could not win the game, losing to the
defending Stanley Cup champion in Florida Panthers four to three,
but a well done ceremony and honoring Johnny Gudrou There
(35:29):
in Columbus, we had some teams still undefeated on the season.
That would be the Dallas Stars might pick to win
the Stanley Cup. They're off to a four and h start.
So are the Calgary Flames, who I don't think anybody
picked to win the Stanley Cup, but they're off to
a very nice start as well.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
He can't win the Stanley Cup in October.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Ay they say you can't lose it, though I don't
know if that's accurate or not. But meanwhile, the Caldrao
Avalanche Wally mentioned a surprising yeah four Yeah, that's a
team that was Bodley cure.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Everyone.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Yeah, we're talking about this yesterday, but we'll repeat it
because sometimes not everybody listening every day.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
But we had a goalie goal with the Minnesota Wild.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Philip Gustafson scored the fourth goal in a four to
one win for the Wild over the Saint Louis, whose
fifteenth goalie in NHL history is scored a goal and
he gave first wild goalie ever to do it.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
The number one.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Overall pick in this year's draft of the San Jose Sharks,
Macklin Celebrini had.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
A up and down debut.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Now, I scored a goal in his first NHL game,
which is which is very good, exciting for him, but
he also got hurt and now he has been sidelined
with a hip injury.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Meanwhile, it's all about Leo carl Soon the doc said,
that's what it's about. Wow, Okay, thank you. Flyers.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Rookie matve Mitschkov, expecting to be celebrating his biggest challenger
for the Rookie of the Year, had two goals the
other day against the Oilers in a overtime lost by
Philadelphia Washington Capital straleg Undervechkin looking to get his first
goal on the season. He starts the year forty two
away from Wayne Gretzky's all time record.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
His countryman, You've getting.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Malkoin of the Penguins hit the five hundred goal club
and a six to five overtime win over the Sabers
and his teammate Sidney Crosby hit the sixth hundred point
mark in that same game. We have four new coaches
get their first wins with their new teams this week,
Travis Green to the Senators, Craig Brubey of the Maple Leafs,
Dan Bilsmo the Kraken, and Dean Everison of the Blue Jackets.
There's still one new coach waiting to get his first win.
(37:14):
That would be Ryan Worshowski for the San Jose Sharks.
They are they are winless on the season. Maybe the
wildest game of the season has already been played the
La Kings and Ottawa Senators. They scored fifteen goals. Senators
get to win eight to seven in overtime. That was
a Canadian Thanksgiving Day game.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
How's that King's defense working out? Eddie not well at all? Good?
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Nope, captain of the defending Stanley Cup champion of Florida
Panthers always under Barkoff. Gonna be out two to three
weeks the old lower body injury. And I'm sure Andy
the comic book guy will fight a positive spin on
this story. But his Buffalo Sabers. They had a fight
in practice between a couple of teammates Captain Rasmus Dudley.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Boys hit on Peyton Krebs.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
Yeah, that's not something you see much should practice, and
they dropped the gloves on each other.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But we fight all the time in the hallways around
here and nobody knows. You know, there was one fight
back in the day. I remember I was here for that.
That guy became a network TV broadcaster. It was the
greatest punch ever thrown. Yeah, he got out of this
place and became a network TV broadcaster and he's doing
very well. Yeah, it's good for him. Yeah, and that's
your plucked. The World Report
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