October 31, 2024 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about the Dodgers winning the World Series and the context of Freddie Freeman's huge performance throughout, who is to blame for the Yankees collapse and if Aaron Boone will stick around, Maller to the Third Degree, an extra long #AskBen, and more!
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story this hour rather obvious from the Bronx. I assume
you know what happened by now, but maybe not. Maybe
you've been hiding by the river, down by the river,
there somewhere I don't know. But Game five, Game five
World Series, Dodgers coming into the game up three games
to one, chance to win the title in New York
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and the Yankees trying to head back to LA for
a game that would have been played on Friday night,
And man, did it look good early for the Yankees?
Did it not right? I mean, come on, you know,
if you're watching or listening, you heard, if you didn't know,
Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Junior home runs early, gian Carlos
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Stanton at a home run, putting the bomb in the
Bronx Bombers, and the Yankees had a five nothing lead,
and Garrett Cole was on the mind as well, there's
no way the Yankees are going to lose that game.
There's a zero chance this game's over. The trolls were
starting to warm up. The cockroaches were starting to crawl
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out behind the refrigerator. Sam Old, Dodgers, Here we go again,
Here we go again, Yep, yep, yep, whole thing. And
then abra cadabra, hocus pocus. Just like that, the Dodgers
overcome a five run deficit, the greatest comeback in an
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elimination game of a World Series of all time. And
they got a lot of help from their friends, their friends.
And I'll tell you what, I'd give Aaron Judge a
game ball. I would give Volti a game ball. I
would Boy today suck on defense. My god, they even practice.
I don't think they practice. I think they only practice hitting.
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The Yankees. They don't practice defense. At least if they
do practice defense, they're wasting their time. Wow are they terrible?
But the Dodgers the most exciting playing baseball. A sackfly.
The Dodgers got a couple of sackflies, Gavin Lux and
Mookie Betts in the eighth inning, and they win it
seven to six. The final, the eighth World Championship in
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Dodger istriel, though we count the ones really only in LA.
But they win franchise eighth title all time and Walker
Buehler doing something the Dodgers rarely do. Asked to go
above and beyond the call of duty. Normally the Dodgers say,
just do the bare minom. That drives me crazy. You
know that. I love the Dodgers, but it drives me nuts.
Like to me, playoff baseball and the postseason is all
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about testing the boundaries of the human body. Very rarely
do the Dodgers do that. And Walker Buehler, it was
his day to throw on the side, but he came
in and he put the finishing touches. Although the game
was really run, it was one in the eighth inning
because that was with the meat of the Yankee lineup.
But nonetheless, Walker Buehler came in, first relief appearance since
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twenty eighteen, and he nailed it down and pitched a
perfect ninth inning, struck out former Dodger House. Look for
symbolic moments here. The guy that was traded by the
Dodgers to get Mookie Betts from the Red Sox is
the guy that's now in the Yankees who's struck out
to close out the game. But Walker Buler first major
League save ball game, over series, over season, over as
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the Doyers are the Kings of Major League Baseball. And
I'll tell you right now, I was driving in here.
I left right after the game, and I was treated
to Disney fireworks as I was cruising in here. It
was very reminiscent of what happened during the pandemic back
in the day. And I know in La Here a
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lot of people have access to those Mexican fireworks, man,
and they are going for it. It is like in Shane.
I thought I was in Fallujah. There were so many
explosions going off on my way in. But the Dodgers
are the champs. To let us discuss the question, what
is your level of surprise? Your level of surprise at
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the Dodgers comeback down five to nothing and they win
the championship. So I have Casey at the bat, Shakespeare
and remote control, and we will combine all of these
things together and we will have a celebratory parade, which
they're going to have in Los Angeles the day after Halloween.
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But the first thought I have on this, if you
were to dust off an old friend, the Mallard scale
of astonishment one to ten, with ten being o MG,
that would be a ten right, So I'm going to
be measured here. I don't want to be a shock
jock and be over the top. But when it was
five to nothing in the middle innings and it looked
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like the Dodgers were about to call off the dogs
and try to fight another day on Friday in Game six,
and then to see them come back, this is on
the Malar scale of astonishment one to ten, and I
don't want to be too dramatic. Nine hundred ninety nine,
that's where it was. I was at nine hundred and
ninety nine on the Mallard scale of astonishment. Was absolutely bananas, right,
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it was bonkers. It was all that and great on
so many levels, right, so many levels when it's five
to nothing, you know, I felt like I felt like
a Pastromomi because I was getting peppered by my annoying
friends who are on the East coast or Yankee fans
who were how you doing, Dodger boy, Yeah, same old Dodgers, right. Yeah.
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My favorite a friend of mine I've known for years
who clearly does not listen to anything I ever say
on the radio. The Yankees have all the momentum. How'd
that work out? How's that? How's that momentum. How's that doing?
Is that good? You enjoyed that momentum? Yeah, you losers. Yeah.
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So then the tide turned and boidered it turn. And
if you're a baseball person, you probably heard somewhere along
the way there's the famous poem Casey at the back,
there's no joy in Mudville. But I'd like to bring
up a different Casey here for a second. That would
be former Brooklyn and New York Yankee manager Casey Stangle.
And I quote him all the time, the immortal words
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of Casey Stangle, who pointed out so eloquently, way before
my time and before your time, that most ballgames are lost,
not one. And this is a great example of that
is a great example. It was glorious. It was a
tsunami of mistakes, fundamentally flawed by the New York Yankees there.
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And I just to give you a follow up, those
annoying New Yorkers who were texting me during the game
as they were up five to nothing and they were
prematurely celebrating having a grand time. Yeah, radio silence, radio silence,
when the sinkhole opened up and they fell in there.
So TV's bloopers and practical jokes watching the Yankees try
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to play defense there, whether it's not covering first base.
He even had Catcher's interference. How often do you see
that man? All right? Now, page two here, So as
we look at and can you break down the Dodgers
winning the championship year, how can you put into context
the performance by Freddie Freeman in the World Series. Now,
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he took home the MVP on as Freddie Freeman, but
this is really the Shakespearean wisdom. It's Shakespeare's wisdom. What
Freddie Freeman did here. It's the stuff that dreams are
made of. It is I mean, this is the masterclass
on stepping up. And one of my pet peeves in
this era of the Dodgers is oftentimes their biggest stars
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have been zeros in big games. It drives me insane.
But Freddie Freeman's not on that naughty list. Freddie Freeman
went out there, put his big boy pants on. The
lights were not too bright, the stage was not too big,
all those cliches. He hits a two run single in
this game, part of the Dodger rally. Had twelve RBIs
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in the World Series, most tying the all time record.
Bobby Richardson back sixty plus years ago, almost seventy years ago,
and voted World Series MVP, and rightfully so, there's nobody
else that could have been the MVP. So the Dodgers
were right there. They were one out from losing the
opener and the defining moment even with this Bonker's game
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in Game five, the defining moment will still be years
from now when we look back at this, it'll be
the Freddie Freeman Grand Slam, very similar to nineteen eighty eight.
If you're looking for comparisons in that and all you
trolls every well, the last time the Dodgers and Yankees played,
and the teams that I won the first two and
then they lost the next blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Put that in your pipe and
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smoke it. So Freddie Freeman, this is his World Series,
and who knows how many more years is gonna play,
but this is it. He's won before and maybe he'll
win again, but nothing will be quite like this. Now.
The last word here, as we and we'll be talking
about most of the night. They're not going to spend
the whole night on it, but we'll talk most mostly
baseball throughout the overnight. So how do you put into
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context the the ball on the package here the twenty
twenty four title does. What does this do? What does
this do for Dave Roberts and the Dodgers in general?
So we'll start with Dave Roberts. I have been very
critical I will remain very critical of Dave Roberts. There's
a lot of things that annoy me, a lot of
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things that he does, and the Dodgers do that bother me,
asking the bare minimum amount of players. For example, the
bullpen games. I hate those fugazi bullpen games. I can't
stand them. I hate them. I hate them, I hate them.
But fair is fair, right, fair is fair. And so
this is a night Dave Roberts gets some flowers. You know,
enjoy your flowers. They die soon, but enjoy them. So
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Dodgers win the championship and Dave Roberts saves his job.
He should have been fired. I would have fired him.
I've probably fired him ten times over the years, Dave Roberts.
But the last two years absolutely gutless, cowardly baseball by
the Dodgers, and the playoffs against the Padres and the Diamondbacks.
But they make up for it, right, You make up
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for it. You win the World Series this year, but
to get beaten to a pulp by San Diego and
Arizona and then come back. Roberts was hanging on by
his fingernails and he liked to bite his fingernails. Right.
The fellows figured it out. But this is a textbook
example also of something that we often preach from the
bully pulpit here at Fox Sports Radio, that the stats
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tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
Because if you looked at the if you look at
this going into the World Series, the Yankees had better
starting pitching. They the Dodgers had played very well offensively.
But the Yankees with Aaron Judge and Juan Soto, you thought, well,
those two guys are legit. Yankee Stadium all that, even
though the Dodgers at home field, a lot of the
advantages were in favor of the Yankees. So you don't
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you don't really worry about the stats. And then the
matchups don't necessarily matter, right, the matchups don't necessarily matter.
The film watching the highlight and the clips and all that,
that doesn't really matter. Home field, certainly, it doesn't matter.
Even the Dodgers had home field, that doesn't matter. The injuries,
the Dodgers were tattered, weather beaten, it didn't matter. All
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that matters is who does better in the moment, and
the Dodgers, obviously under the immense pressure, did better than
the choking dog New York Yankees. And to think the
Dodgers with all these great teams they've had over the
last ten to fifteen years, and teams that were healthy
for the most part in the playoffs, and it's this
team that is I'm telling you, they were going to
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the back of the refrigerator. They were going through the
Tupperwar trying to find somebody to pitch in some of
these situations here, and they did it. I mean, forget
Plan B. This was playing Z for the Dodgers and
they ended up winning the World Series. It all worked
and it's symbolic also that it validates the years of success.
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One of the big criticisms I saw Stan Casting, a
lifetime Baseball Sports Hank executive, used to be the GM
of the Atlanta Hawks back in the day. I saw
him on the on the dais there and one of
the big knocks and the Dodgers when they started this,
they're like, we're gonna copy the Atlanta Braves of the nineties.
But the Braves, if you're old enough to remember those
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Braves teams, and they had madex clavin and Smolts, they
only won one World Series. So it's like, oh, they
were in the World Series a bunch, but they only
won one and they had all the Hall of Famers. Well,
now the Dodgers have won two, and so it's it's
like a remote control situation. You hit the mute button
on the remote control for the Dodgers because they win
without their top pitchers. They win a second World Series,
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they do it without Otani doing anything. He sucked. He
was terrible in the World Series. His dog decoy would
have been better. Just horrible. And I'm not gonna change
my position. A lot of you were like, well, you're
gonna change you know. The Dodgers, they they won this.
This proves that this harder than what happened in twenty twenty.
No No, I maintained my position that the twenty twenty
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World Series was harder than this, and this doesn't change that.
Both the fact that they've won two in this stretch
of time that was much more difficult than this one,
even with all the injuries and all that, But it
was fundamentally different. That season was fundamentally different. It was
much much harder. We're in basketball. It was much more
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difficult or much easier other, I should say basketball, they
had that three months off before the playoffs. In baseball,
it was rapid fire. But we're not here to adjudicate that. Again,
the Dodgers are the champions of baseball. The celebration underway.
How's that Mookie Bets trade working out for Boston? You
guys happy with that return there? You gave your way
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Mookie Bets and two championships with the Doyers after signing
that massive, massive contract.
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number ten thousand. Now I did the math on this.
I think Steven Manhattan can confirm that the Yankees made
ten thousand mistakes in the World Series. Just in Game five.
They made ten thousand mistakes, and I enjoyed everyone every mistake.
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Dodgers win the Championship. Fall Classic is over Hum Newer
Hum Newer five game series. The Yankees in complete control.
They had the game on lockdown, and then the Great Escape.
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The Yankees imploded. Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Junior, and John
Carlos Stanton all said bye bye to the baseball. They
had all home runs relatively early in the game. Yankees
were up five to nothing, and it all all went away,
all of it, not part of it, all of it.
Then the Yankees got the lead again, Dodgers tied it
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at five. Yankees went up six five. Dodgers then go
ahead with a couple of sackflies in the eighth inning.
They go up seven to six. That would be your
final and the twenty twenty four baseball season is over.
The curtain has come down. The Dodgers are the champions.
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Now.
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We spent last hour talking about the Doyers in depth.
And if you're someone that maybe was covered up did
not hear our show last hour because of alternative programming,
you can download the podcast for a full male of
monologue on the Dodgers. But now, the better story is
in the losing locker room on this Halloween. So that
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is where we go. I've got a bunch of wild
thoughts on this Yankee team imploding poise. That a good story.
So the question is who gets the blame Street Pretzel
for the New York Yankees managed by Aaron Boone. Who
gets the blame Street Pretzel for the Yankees? So on
this one, I've got haberdasherie, late night infomercial and Tim
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Buck too, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a nice tropical vacation
because the team from New York will now be able
to go on a nice tropical vacation because they have
nothing else to do. There's no more baseball to be played.
That's it. That's all you're done. See you later, pick
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up your nice parting gift. The season is over, so
to kick off, though for New York, the one that's obvious,
this is an Ockham's Razors situation. The simplest answer is
the right answer. Judgment day, And as the great Biblical
scholars have pointed out over the years, the Lord giveth
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and the Lord take it away. El Capitan. Aaron Judge,
Aaron Judge, who had started to heat up right. In fact,
he was changing the narrative. He reached base not one,
not twice, nin how about four times? Had a home
run in this game. So okay, Judge is coming around.
He's better than Otani. Not so fast, my friends, not
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so fast, Because what happened next. Nobody had this on
their big board. We saw a demonic portal open up,
and it was little league baseball. Defensively in center field
for Aaron Judge. He ended up butchering a ball in
the outfield and that led to a swirling cauldron of doom,
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a demonic cauldron swirling of doom from the New York Yankees.
There it all happened when Judge was unable to come
up with a ball hit by Tommy Edmond, and it
was a line drive. There was a runner on and
nobody out in the fifth inning, and that error led
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to not one, not two, not three, nine four? How
about five Doyer runs? Five of them? Trick or treat? Well,
I think we know the answer to that. Happy Halloween.
You are now going to be haunted, Aaron Judge, you
will be haunted. That was an abomination, abysmal baseball, and
I loved every second of it. And Judge, as the
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captain of the Yankees, Aaron Judge set the tone because
shortly after that you had the shortstop Anthony Volpi, the
Derek Jeter want to be Anthony Volpi, who made an
error immediately after, had a chance to get out of
the inning with no runs scored, unscathed. Who goofed? I've
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got to know? And Anthony Rizzo bobbled the slowly hit
ground ball by Mookie Betts. Later on, we had a
pitcher throw over three times, only two, so that was
a bock. We had catchers interference. You had the highest
paid pitcher of all time in baseball fail to cover
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first base. It's unreal. It's unreal. But when all is
said and done, it starts at the very top, and
that's Aaron Judge el Capitan, who can go down to
the haberdasherie in Lower Manhattan and be fitted for the
scarlet letter and the matching shame bell. I hope you
enjoy that, because that stank and those cooties are gonna
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follow you around all right. Now, furthermore, does Aaron Boone
survive what happened in this world series? Does he live
to manage another day after the meltdown outside Midtown? Does
he survive another day? So this, at this point, it's
a fifty to fifty deal with a slight lean to
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him coming back, slight lean. So I'll go fifty two
four forty eight in favor of Boone returning. He shouldn't, right,
he should not. And here's why Aaron Boone is a
middle manager. That's what he is. He's just following the
marching orders from the nerds. That's all he is doing. Now.
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That said, he is the East Coast Dave Roberts. That's
what Dave Roberts does in LA. That's what Aaron Boone
does in New York. These are doppelganger franchises, but in
New York it's a little different. It's a little different, right, Typically,
somebody has to be held accountable. And I know we're
living in a different time and we're in the TikTok
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generation and all that. But back in the old days
when the Boss ruled the Rust, George Steinbrenner, if George
Steinbrener owned the Yankees and they played like this in
the World Series, George Steinbrenner would say, all right, Aaron Boone,
I want to meet with you tomorrow in the morning.
Brian Cashman, your ass is grass also, I'd like to
meet with you. But the kids now driving the mister
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Softy truck and it's soft Serve in the Brox, and
so they'll come up with some kind of compromise, That's
what I'm anticipating, and they'll turn on a classic late
night infomercial The Steinbrenner family, and they'll huddle around with
Aaron Boone, and they'll huddle around with Brian Cashman, and
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they'll hit the play button and they'll watch the Tom
Lemansky instructional videos on the fundamentals of baseball, and they'll
watch that over and over and over and over. Defensive fundamentals.
That's the tape that will do the trick. It's a
VHS tape. They might have a DVD. Maybe they have
a DVD. And Yeah. The other thing is unless they
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fire Cashman, there's no point in firing Boone because Cashman,
the GM is just going to hire somebody to do
the same thing Boone's doing. So that's a futile act
if you get rid of Boone, but you keep Cashman,
who seemingly has lifetime, tenured employment with the Yankees. All right,
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last thing here, So what does this world series now
being done? What does this do for the future of
Juan Soto? Now, he played pretty well, it is on
base a lot in this world series. He is a
free agent. The Padres sent him to New York for
a gaggle of suspects to be named later, and some
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of those guys turned out to be pretty good. But
the question, what does the World Series loss due for
the future of Juan Soda. So he is at a
fork in the road. It's a very nice gold plated
fork in the road. Juan Soda he is, and he
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has repeatedly said that he has enjoyed his time in
the Bronx. But you know, but means everything before the
word but doesn't really matter. But he will entertain all offers,
all offers once he hits the open market. So what
does that mean? Status quo stand pat is what it means. Right,
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One Soto is like the ad team. He's a soldier
of fortune. Now he's gotta get max money. He turned
down three hundred million from the Nationals, four hundred million
from the Padres, so if my math is correct, he's
got to get at least what five hundred million five
And the good thing is as a soldier of fortune,
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one Soto will play anywhere, right, He'll play from walla walla,
Washington to Tim Buck two away, He'll go Kalamazoo. It
doesn't matter anywhere whoever offers the most money. And he's
essentially got a blank check at this point. And he's
also got in addition to not only having a blank
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he's got the perfect out. Like if he leaves the Yankees,
he can say, hey, I just we couldn't win, we
weren't good enough. I want to go somewhere else where
they play better defense. If he stays it's like, well,
I have unfinished business. But you and I both know
and it's his prerogative to do this. But the common
denominator he will play for anybody, money, money, money, money, money, money, money,
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the Chicago White Sox, who are an absolute poop show.
If Jerry Ryan Storf is going to sell the White
Sox says all right, I'm gonna offer you six hundred million,
Juan Soto will be singing the praises of black Jack
McDowell and Frank Thomas and Hawk Harrelson and zoom out
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to Chicago.
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This is one big Ben gets grilled.
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Reports say that these Seahawks have been getting calls about
the availab availability of DK metcalf. Ben, do you think
there's any chance Seattle would let their star wide receiver go?
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Well, yeah, he's not immovable. If somebody offers you three
first round draft picks for DK Metcalf, you make the trade.
Seattle's stuck in this pit of mediocrity. They're not terrible,
they're just average. They're not good enough to win a
Super Bowl. Gino Smith sucks, and their defense isn't all
that good. But they're not horrific. They're average. And if
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you trade DK Metcalf, you're probably still average. So if
somebody gives them a Godfather offer, they'll trade them. Other
than that, they'll just hold on to him.
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Next, Chargers rookie wide receiver Laden McConkey, Yeah, had his
first real breakout game of his career with one hundred
and eleven receiving yards and two touchdowns against the Saints
last weekend. After the game, Jim Harbaugh compared him to
Steve Smith, Ben, do you think the Chargers have found
a diamond in the rough?
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Well, it's so soon to say. I mean, he played
well in that game. The Saints have been getting gouged
by everybody. They've been bludging by, you know, guys that
are good, guys that are bad. So does he stand
the test of time? But one thing I know about
Jim Harbaugh this guy is a bullshoy artist. Okay, this
guy lays it on thick, so I wouldn't take anything.
Harbaugh says. This guy just talks crap all the time.
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He's up selling, he's adding puffery. So we'll see what
he does on the field. I'm not gonna go by Harbaugh.
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Next, and Blake Griffin has reported the in line to
become the face of the Amazon Prime Videos NBA coverage
that begins next season.
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Ben, do you think Griffin will be a good fit? Well?
I like Blake Griffin. I enjoyed him with the Clippers.
The Lob City days were great, and Doc Rivers ruined
that and all. But no, there's only He's everyone wants Barkley.
He's not gonna be Charles Barkley. There's only one Charles
bark Blake Griffins. He's gonna fall short of that. So
I'm not I'm not expecting much. How do we do
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by actual listeners like yourself. We send the mic over
to the Koogle loop for this long extended dance remix
(30:39):
of ask Ben and friends your questions and our answers.
It'll always be Twitter. Yeah, it's called X. That's a
stupid name.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
We're gonna start off with Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Hi, Cowboy Killer, And he wants to know when a
new register line opens at a store, do you let
the person in front of you go or do you uh,
do you jump into that new line?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Well, this actually happens a lot. I do the grocery
shopping at the house, and so I'm at the store
a lot. Uh, during a couple of times during the week,
I'll go to the grocery store. Normally, the etiquette is
that the person who's opening the next line will come
over and invite the person who's at the very front
to step over. Now, if they they do that, then
(31:24):
obviously I follow the proper etigaint. If they don't do that.
Every man for himself, every man woman for themselves. What
about you, Eddie? Well, it depends. You know, I'm a gentleman.
So if it's h are you saying I'm not a gentleman?
Is that what you're saying? I didn't say that. You're
implying that. If it's if it's a lady, you know
(31:45):
that's a lady. Well, I believe in equal White, writes Eddie.
I believe women and men are equals. I believe in
being a gentleman. As I said, so dinosaur.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
If it's like an older lady, I'll I'll let her
go on through ahead of me. But if it's it's
it's younger or.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
A couple, it's a bushka, you'll let them go. It's
a younger person or it's this young guy. And then
usually when does a woman become a babushka? When does
that happen? How old are you when you're a baboush
Can you tell me it's your word, Loraina, How old
would you be when you're a baboushka? Six six? You
don't even know what that's? Seventy seventy is a babushka? Yeah?
(32:22):
All right, that means grandmother. Eddie means grandmother. As far
as the question at hand, here, Lorena telor line opens up,
do you run to the tailor line or let the
person who's next in line go?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Well, Ben, I have this thing called pretty girl privilege,
so usually for me specifically, and they always tell me
to go first.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Are you saying your life's a little easier when you
look like you do as opposed to us? I got you,
I understand, Jesus Christ. Cool. I heard that that was
on the it's jealous. Uh, but that only lasts for
so long, Loraine. At some point you lose that superpower,
so you must enjoy you must embrace the superpower.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Right, I will embrace it.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, for the record, I would not let Loraina go.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
I was just about to say, if lore women and
Eddie you said, you said you gentlemen mostly older women though,
like so you like the babushkis like she gets a
lot of stuff, she didn't need any she doesn't need
that for me.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Oh, she definitely gets a lot of stuff. Yes, yes,
she does more than more than us. Oh man, all right,
uh coop, yeah, I got you self. Checkout. Yeah, what
do they don't have? They also limit it now because
everyone in California steals everything, so they've limited how many
(33:42):
items you can have in self checkout. Yes, I haven't
done that at my story yet. The one I go
to does not have self checkout. Kind of what kind
of story?
Speaker 5 (33:50):
What do you do in the nineteen eighties, Eddie, I'm
just telling you it doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
What's next? They just remodeled the store too.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
The King Rory wants to know what is your favorite
horror film?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, growing up, I didn't really like horrord. The one
we watched a lot was Friday the Thirteenth. That as
a kid, that was like a big thing. But I mean,
I don't know, just be beetle twos doesn't really count.
That's not scary at all. I guess Friday in the genre,
I go Friday the thirteenth. What about you, Eddie? I
don't like.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Horror movies for the most part, but I would. I
would say, if I had to pick one, probably The
Shining The Shining.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
Yeah, all right, I like Insidious or The Red.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Cool. I think this counts as a horror movie. Silence
of the Lambs.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Oh, I love Lambs.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah that counts. Yeah, all right, what's the next Just
ask Ben, your questions are answers. Since the Dodgers won
the World Series, We're going the rest of the hour
commercial free. That has nothing to do with somebody the
company fing up? What is next year? Cool?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
All right, let's see, we're gonna start with We're gonna
go with the lady sideburns.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
High lady sideburns. Of all the ladies that have sideburns,
that's my favorite.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I'm pretty sure I already know what Ben's answer to this,
I answered, I do, but it's pretty much for the
rest of us this question. It is what celebrity death
was the most devastating for you?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Well, I know what yours is? Coup Well, yeah, yeah,
but yours is none of them. I don't care about celebrities.
Well no, I mean I there were people that I
knew that I was sad they died when Vin Scully died,
Tommy the Sword of these but they lived long lives,
and you know, if you live a long, full life,
it sucks. So no, I yeah, I don't really get
(35:34):
worked up over celebrity deaths. My mom dying, my dad dying.
I got pissed off about that, you know, celebrities. I
didn't really know him. Eddie, Yeah, I don't, uh see
Eddie's like me, see that Coop. Eddie's like me, I
don't know that.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
I there's certainly something I'm like, Oh no, that's too bad,
but I don't know that I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
That was when John Richard died. I was bombed, he
got killed. I sucked. I like John. I was good,
you know, Yeah, I mean a lot hard. I like
Phil Harton Dad. That was me. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I can't think of one where I was really like devastated.
I always thought, I don't know, that's too bad.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
But you know there's some of your surprised. I got
Paul Walker right when he got killed. Yeah, yeah, sure,
sure I got one. Lorena.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Besides Betty White, may she rest in peace, although.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That was lived like twenty more years than she was
supposed to. Who doesn't want was kind of sad she
didn't get to one hundred. She was so close, so close.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Okay, anyways, besides her, Brittany Murphy really ruined my heart
like that one.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
That one hurt.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, that was a shot.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
I actually actually have thought of one. Chris Chris Cornell.
Chris Cornell, I was a big Chris Cornell fan that
I was that I did bump me out? You know
that is that kind of music?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Gay? Yeah, Barley, Chris Farley.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
That one was sad. A lot of people were upset.
Jim Carre not Jim Carrey.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Yeah, you know, I'll give you one. I'll give you one.
So I told this story before, But there was a
guy that used to call LA Sports Radio named uh
what was his uh his name there from God, I
forget what name he used from Venice, George from Venice,
George Carlin, famous greatest comedian of all time for me,
George Carlin and one of my buddies, Lee Lee Kline
(37:15):
became friends with Carlin and I was supposed to meet Carlin,
but he died unexpectedly and I didn't get to meet him.
Had a heart attack. Right now, Coob's Kobe right, it's
gotta be cool, Kolobe. That one was devastating. That was unbelievable. Yeah,
that was amazing. Did you cry? I did? Yeah? That
(37:35):
was it was I thought it was fake. Remember initially,
who else they said was on the helicopter they thought
had died too, No, Rick Fox. Originally they said Rick Fox.
I did initial reports and then no, but it's like
a bunch of kids right in their parents. No, I
just I mean I remember it was right over here,
right up the road from us. I'm like a couple
of miles away from what we're broadcasting. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
I was getting ready to play a hockey game. We're
in the locker room and some guy on his phone's like,
oh my god, Kobe died. And I'm like, who's reporting that?
That was my reporter? Who's reporting that? Yeah, because you
know where those internet hoaxes.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I'm like, oh man, he's alive. Yeah, I can't remember
who he said it was. I was like, oh crap.
I kept getting texted. Was in the morning, and I'm like,
what people stopped texting me. That's That's exactly what happened
to me.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
I was sleeping, like my phone's blowing up, and I
don't ignore it, but I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
And then I lead you along, like, oh, lead me alone.
They wouldn't leave me alone? All right? What is next year?
On this Halloween Edition Extended Dance Remix Commercial Free.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
We've had this one many times, but it is Halloween,
so we'll do it again.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
What is what is your favorite candy. So I love
Butterfinger and Baby Ruth, but I'm not going to turn
down peanut butter cups. I mean, you knew me when
I was fat, So I'll eat anything any kind of candy,
but baby Rooth butter figure my go to. I love
the peanut butter cup Eddie.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
They actually look commercial and it's like this little girl
is in a costume and it's Reese's Peanut butter cups
and Kitkats. She's like both and then the woman gives
her like a Anyway, that's my two favorite size of Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's my two favorite kit Kat and Reese's Peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Most people don't have KitKat as their favorite. It's a nod.
You're odd. It's very odd, thank you, Loraine. Let me guess.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Lorena likes almond Joy You know.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
No, I do. I do like them. Sometimes you feel
like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Alm enjoyed got nuts.
I love that song anyways.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
No, you know what Halloween candy specifically that I really
enjoy that I only see a Halloween time. You know
those little peanut butter candies that are kind of chewable
and they're wrapped in orange or black. They look really
old fashioned and they're actually kind of disgusting.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You like them because they they flash back to your
childhood or yeah, only don't make the same version of
that for Christmas. They just have Christmas shapes. Don't they
do the same thing for that.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
No, I haven't seen the peanut butter ones.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No, I have seen them. For Christmas, they have like
Santa Claus ones, or they'll have you know, different Christmas
theme things. I've seen that.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Other than that, it's not only Snickers Snickers, Snickers you.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Know yourself when you're hungry.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
No Snickers cool? All right, So Coop's really analyzed this.
You gotta ven diagram. He's gonna my top. My top
one is Reese's Pieces. Love Reese's Pieces.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Now when it comes to I'm dividing it by chocolate
and candy because they're two different things.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
So you're going, you know your chocolate category, and chocolate
and candy are two different things. Yeah, I know what
he's saying, because yeah, there's chocolate and then there's like
the uh, the what do you call he likes like
gummy worms and yeah, exactly, that's candy.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
So so Reese's Pieces is the top and that's kind
that's candy coated chocolate kind of uh. But they used
to Snickers recently. More recently Twigs has kind of overtaken them.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
TwixT. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
If the caramel is like the right texture, it's it's great.
And then candy this is this is a new candy.
Nerds Gummies. Oh yes, my god, they're so good. There's
little gummy clusters just rolled in nerds and they're delicious.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
But you pop them in your mouth like popcorn. Yes, yeah,
like many calories are in those. I don't want to
think about it. I like the medicated and that reminds
me when I think it was KFC came out with
popcorn Chicken. I said, oh wow, that's great. I just
pop it on my mouth like popcorn, and then I
realized how many calories were, and I was like, oh crap.
Guys asked Bang, your questions are answered. Nobody says Milky Way.
(41:50):
Nobody milk garbage. That's why he says that. But these
are mainstream candies that no like mister Goodbar. Nobody says
my favorite candy. Mainstream candy is the Three Musketeers. Yep.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Three Musketeers and Milky Way are like the two worst,
well three three Musketeers.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
I'm okay with it. I wouldn't go out of the
way for it. But if it's in my when I
was a kid, I'd eat it. I'd eat everything when
I was a kid. But what is next to?
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Late night drug tester would like to know what is
a better surprise in your order of fast food fries?
Speaker 1 (42:18):
A single onion ring or a crispy tater tot? Huh? Yeah,
I love the bonus onion ring. That's what I love.
That's big unexpected when you don't order onion rings and
there's an onion ring. Oh my god, you won the lottery.
Holy crap. It's a good day to be alive. What
about you, Eddie. I went the other day by the way,
and they gave me double fries. I thought, oh to heaven,
(42:41):
double fries. I will go onion rings. Also, a little
extra onion ring there is nice. Yeah, I got. I
found some onion rings I can make in the air fryer.
They taste just like a fast food place. They're really good. Man,
make those at the house. What about you?
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Rain up?
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Yeah, give me that hit and onion ring.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Ben, Yeah, nobody picks tater top why would you pick
tat talk? Yeah, it's definitely. That is a simple question.
It's an easy one. That's a dumb question. Who asked
that question? That was late night drunk test? Ben job
by you late night truck. You're better than that late
night truck. Everyone picks how you rang Onion rang? What
is next? All right?
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Slug in Vegas? Everybody?
Speaker 4 (43:16):
What is the over under on burned lapd cop cars?
On Friday?
Speaker 5 (43:20):
I'm gonna go four and a half Eddie Justin in
cincinn Eddie said that they set a bus on fire
and wanted to know.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
If it was Yeah, boss is worse like four. He
can't work. He can go to the parade if his
bus has been burned. So maybe he did do it.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
I'm gonna bring the boss really well. According to what
he town was added, I'll have to click on the
link and tell you.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
I saw a naked guy running around New York. My
Justin sent that video. Do you see that? The other day?
Speaker 2 (43:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (43:49):
I'm thankfully no. I text my brother, I said, he
do you see this naked dude? He said? Which one?
Apparently times are good in New York. Right now, I'll
say I'll take the under on the What did you say?
Five and a half? Fur and a half?
Speaker 5 (44:01):
Four and a half by the way, says Sunset and
Echo Park where the flaming bus is at.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Oh, okay, not that far away from Dodger statey. But
what about you about Raina? I'm sorry?
Speaker 7 (44:11):
What was the question?
Speaker 1 (44:11):
How many cop cars the hoodlimbs will burn here overnight?
Seventeen seventeen? Wow? Okay, city busy. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
I just welcome to the conversation. I'm gonna go with two. Two, yes, two,
that's low, all right?
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Fair enough? What is next year? As they have people
have taken to the streets celebrating the Dodgers win? Literally,
what do we have? Ferg Dog would like to know why? Fergie?
What time do you turn off the lights on Halloween? Well?
Usually the kids, I mean usually kids only go out
to like what eight o'clock at the latest?
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Normally?
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Right, So it usually eight's the cutoff because they're little kids.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
Eddie, I don't go by time. When we run out
of candy, we're done, that's it.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
What if you still have candy? What do you mean
if we start? I said, well, run out of Loredo movie.
Speaker 6 (45:04):
I don't pass out candy at all, so I'm not
turning out, jeez.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I normally ended around nine, but I won't be here tomorrow.
I got like forty pounds of candy, and I'm sure
there'll be like seven kids that come to my house.
What for you? Oh, I'm gonna be so fat, but
I can't. I got a TV show. I can't be
fat now, Eddie
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story this hour rather obvious from the Bronx. I assume
you know what happened by now, but maybe not. Maybe
you've been hiding by the river, down by the river,
there somewhere I don't know. But Game five, Game five
World Series, Dodgers coming into the game up three games
to one, chance to win the title in New York
(02:10):
and the Yankees trying to head back to LA for
a game that would have been played on Friday night,
And man, did it look good early for the Yankees?
Did it not right? I mean, come on, you know,
if you're watching or listening, you heard, if you didn't know,
Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Junior home runs early, gian Carlos
(02:31):
Stanton at a home run, putting the bomb in the
Bronx Bombers, and the Yankees had a five nothing lead,
and Garrett Cole was on the mind as well, there's
no way the Yankees are going to lose that game.
There's a zero chance this game's over. The trolls were
starting to warm up. The cockroaches were starting to crawl
(02:51):
out behind the refrigerator. Sam Old, Dodgers, Here we go again,
Here we go again, Yep, yep, yep, whole thing. And
then abra cadabra, hocus pocus. Just like that, the Dodgers
overcome a five run deficit, the greatest comeback in an
(03:14):
elimination game of a World Series of all time. And
they got a lot of help from their friends, their friends.
And I'll tell you what, I'd give Aaron Judge a
game ball. I would give Volti a game ball. I
would Boy today suck on defense. My god, they even practice.
I don't think they practice. I think they only practice hitting.
(03:36):
The Yankees. They don't practice defense. At least if they
do practice defense, they're wasting their time. Wow are they terrible?
But the Dodgers the most exciting playing baseball. A sackfly.
The Dodgers got a couple of sackflies, Gavin Lux and
Mookie Betts in the eighth inning, and they win it
seven to six. The final, the eighth World Championship in
(03:58):
Dodger istriel, though we count the ones really only in LA.
But they win franchise eighth title all time and Walker
Buehler doing something the Dodgers rarely do. Asked to go
above and beyond the call of duty. Normally the Dodgers say,
just do the bare minom. That drives me crazy. You
know that. I love the Dodgers, but it drives me nuts.
Like to me, playoff baseball and the postseason is all
(04:21):
about testing the boundaries of the human body. Very rarely
do the Dodgers do that. And Walker Buehler, it was
his day to throw on the side, but he came
in and he put the finishing touches. Although the game
was really run, it was one in the eighth inning
because that was with the meat of the Yankee lineup.
But nonetheless, Walker Buehler came in, first relief appearance since
(04:42):
twenty eighteen, and he nailed it down and pitched a
perfect ninth inning, struck out former Dodger House. Look for
symbolic moments here. The guy that was traded by the
Dodgers to get Mookie Betts from the Red Sox is
the guy that's now in the Yankees who's struck out
to close out the game. But Walker Buler first major
League save ball game, over series, over season, over as
(05:09):
the Doyers are the Kings of Major League Baseball. And
I'll tell you right now, I was driving in here.
I left right after the game, and I was treated
to Disney fireworks as I was cruising in here. It
was very reminiscent of what happened during the pandemic back
in the day. And I know in La Here a
(05:30):
lot of people have access to those Mexican fireworks, man,
and they are going for it. It is like in Shane.
I thought I was in Fallujah. There were so many
explosions going off on my way in. But the Dodgers
are the champs. To let us discuss the question, what
is your level of surprise? Your level of surprise at
(05:51):
the Dodgers comeback down five to nothing and they win
the championship. So I have Casey at the bat, Shakespeare
and remote control, and we will combine all of these
things together and we will have a celebratory parade, which
they're going to have in Los Angeles the day after Halloween.
(06:15):
But the first thought I have on this, if you
were to dust off an old friend, the Mallard scale
of astonishment one to ten, with ten being o MG,
that would be a ten right, So I'm going to
be measured here. I don't want to be a shock
jock and be over the top. But when it was
five to nothing in the middle innings and it looked
(06:36):
like the Dodgers were about to call off the dogs
and try to fight another day on Friday in Game six,
and then to see them come back, this is on
the Malar scale of astonishment one to ten, and I
don't want to be too dramatic. Nine hundred ninety nine,
that's where it was. I was at nine hundred and
ninety nine on the Mallard scale of astonishment. Was absolutely bananas, right,
(06:58):
it was bonkers. It was all that and great on
so many levels, right, so many levels when it's five
to nothing, you know, I felt like I felt like
a Pastromomi because I was getting peppered by my annoying
friends who are on the East coast or Yankee fans
who were how you doing, Dodger boy, Yeah, same old Dodgers, right. Yeah.
(07:21):
My favorite a friend of mine I've known for years
who clearly does not listen to anything I ever say
on the radio. The Yankees have all the momentum. How'd
that work out? How's that? How's that momentum. How's that doing?
Is that good? You enjoyed that momentum? Yeah, you losers. Yeah.
(07:43):
So then the tide turned and boidered it turn. And
if you're a baseball person, you probably heard somewhere along
the way there's the famous poem Casey at the back,
there's no joy in Mudville. But I'd like to bring
up a different Casey here for a second. That would
be former Brooklyn and New York Yankee manager Casey Stangle.
And I quote him all the time, the immortal words
(08:05):
of Casey Stangle, who pointed out so eloquently, way before
my time and before your time, that most ballgames are lost,
not one. And this is a great example of that
is a great example. It was glorious. It was a
tsunami of mistakes, fundamentally flawed by the New York Yankees there.
(08:27):
And I just to give you a follow up, those
annoying New Yorkers who were texting me during the game
as they were up five to nothing and they were
prematurely celebrating having a grand time. Yeah, radio silence, radio silence,
when the sinkhole opened up and they fell in there.
So TV's bloopers and practical jokes watching the Yankees try
(08:48):
to play defense there, whether it's not covering first base.
He even had Catcher's interference. How often do you see
that man? All right? Now, page two here, So as
we look at and can you break down the Dodgers
winning the championship year, how can you put into context
the performance by Freddie Freeman in the World Series. Now,
(09:08):
he took home the MVP on as Freddie Freeman, but
this is really the Shakespearean wisdom. It's Shakespeare's wisdom. What
Freddie Freeman did here. It's the stuff that dreams are
made of. It is I mean, this is the masterclass
on stepping up. And one of my pet peeves in
this era of the Dodgers is oftentimes their biggest stars
(09:30):
have been zeros in big games. It drives me insane.
But Freddie Freeman's not on that naughty list. Freddie Freeman
went out there, put his big boy pants on. The
lights were not too bright, the stage was not too big,
all those cliches. He hits a two run single in
this game, part of the Dodger rally. Had twelve RBIs
(09:51):
in the World Series, most tying the all time record.
Bobby Richardson back sixty plus years ago, almost seventy years ago,
and voted World Series MVP, and rightfully so, there's nobody
else that could have been the MVP. So the Dodgers
were right there. They were one out from losing the
opener and the defining moment even with this Bonker's game
(10:14):
in Game five, the defining moment will still be years
from now when we look back at this, it'll be
the Freddie Freeman Grand Slam, very similar to nineteen eighty eight.
If you're looking for comparisons in that and all you
trolls every well, the last time the Dodgers and Yankees played,
and the teams that I won the first two and
then they lost the next blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Put that in your pipe and
(10:35):
smoke it. So Freddie Freeman, this is his World Series,
and who knows how many more years is gonna play,
but this is it. He's won before and maybe he'll
win again, but nothing will be quite like this. Now.
The last word here, as we and we'll be talking
about most of the night. They're not going to spend
the whole night on it, but we'll talk most mostly
baseball throughout the overnight. So how do you put into
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context the the ball on the package here the twenty
twenty four title does. What does this do? What does
this do for Dave Roberts and the Dodgers in general?
So we'll start with Dave Roberts. I have been very
critical I will remain very critical of Dave Roberts. There's
a lot of things that annoy me, a lot of
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things that he does, and the Dodgers do that bother me,
asking the bare minimum amount of players. For example, the
bullpen games. I hate those fugazi bullpen games. I can't
stand them. I hate them. I hate them, I hate them.
But fair is fair, right, fair is fair. And so
this is a night Dave Roberts gets some flowers. You know,
enjoy your flowers. They die soon, but enjoy them. So
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Dodgers win the championship and Dave Roberts saves his job.
He should have been fired. I would have fired him.
I've probably fired him ten times over the years, Dave Roberts.
But the last two years absolutely gutless, cowardly baseball by
the Dodgers, and the playoffs against the Padres and the Diamondbacks.
But they make up for it, right, You make up
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for it. You win the World Series this year, but
to get beaten to a pulp by San Diego and
Arizona and then come back. Roberts was hanging on by
his fingernails and he liked to bite his fingernails. Right.
The fellows figured it out. But this is a textbook
example also of something that we often preach from the
bully pulpit here at Fox Sports Radio, that the stats
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tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
Because if you looked at the if you look at
this going into the World Series, the Yankees had better
starting pitching. They the Dodgers had played very well offensively.
But the Yankees with Aaron Judge and Juan Soto, you thought, well,
those two guys are legit. Yankee Stadium all that, even
though the Dodgers at home field, a lot of the
advantages were in favor of the Yankees. So you don't
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you don't really worry about the stats. And then the
matchups don't necessarily matter, right, the matchups don't necessarily matter.
The film watching the highlight and the clips and all that,
that doesn't really matter. Home field, certainly, it doesn't matter.
Even the Dodgers had home field, that doesn't matter. The injuries,
the Dodgers were tattered, weather beaten, it didn't matter. All
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that matters is who does better in the moment, and
the Dodgers, obviously under the immense pressure, did better than
the choking dog New York Yankees. And to think the
Dodgers with all these great teams they've had over the
last ten to fifteen years, and teams that were healthy
for the most part in the playoffs, and it's this
team that is I'm telling you, they were going to
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the back of the refrigerator. They were going through the
Tupperwar trying to find somebody to pitch in some of
these situations here, and they did it. I mean, forget
Plan B. This was playing Z for the Dodgers and
they ended up winning the World Series. It all worked
and it's symbolic also that it validates the years of success.
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One of the big criticisms I saw Stan Casting, a
lifetime Baseball Sports Hank executive, used to be the GM
of the Atlanta Hawks back in the day. I saw
him on the on the dais there and one of
the big knocks and the Dodgers when they started this,
they're like, we're gonna copy the Atlanta Braves of the nineties.
But the Braves, if you're old enough to remember those
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Braves teams, and they had madex clavin and Smolts, they
only won one World Series. So it's like, oh, they
were in the World Series a bunch, but they only
won one and they had all the Hall of Famers. Well,
now the Dodgers have won two, and so it's it's
like a remote control situation. You hit the mute button
on the remote control for the Dodgers because they win
without their top pitchers. They win a second World Series,
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they do it without Otani doing anything. He sucked. He
was terrible in the World Series. His dog decoy would
have been better. Just horrible. And I'm not gonna change
my position. A lot of you were like, well, you're
gonna change you know. The Dodgers, they they won this.
This proves that this harder than what happened in twenty twenty.
No No, I maintained my position that the twenty twenty
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World Series was harder than this, and this doesn't change that.
Both the fact that they've won two in this stretch
of time that was much more difficult than this one,
even with all the injuries and all that, But it
was fundamentally different. That season was fundamentally different. It was
much much harder. We're in basketball. It was much more
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difficult or much easier other, I should say basketball, they
had that three months off before the playoffs. In baseball,
it was rapid fire. But we're not here to adjudicate that. Again,
the Dodgers are the champions of baseball. The celebration underway.
How's that Mookie Bets trade working out for Boston? You
guys happy with that return there? You gave your way
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Mookie Bets and two championships with the Doyers after signing
that massive, massive contract.
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ten thousand mistakes in the World Series. Just in Game five.
They made ten thousand mistakes, and I enjoyed everyone every mistake.
I enjoyed every one of them. Sarlie. This hour is
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Dodgers win the Championship. Fall Classic is over Hum Newer
Hum Newer five game series. The Yankees in complete control.
They had the game on lockdown, and then the Great Escape.
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The Yankees imploded. Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Junior, and John
Carlos Stanton all said bye bye to the baseball. They
had all home runs relatively early in the game. Yankees
were up five to nothing, and it all all went away,
all of it, not part of it, all of it.
Then the Yankees got the lead again, Dodgers tied it
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at five. Yankees went up six five. Dodgers then go
ahead with a couple of sackflies in the eighth inning.
They go up seven to six. That would be your
final and the twenty twenty four baseball season is over.
The curtain has come down. The Dodgers are the champions.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
We spent last hour talking about the Doyers in depth.
And if you're someone that maybe was covered up did
not hear our show last hour because of alternative programming,
you can download the podcast for a full male of
monologue on the Dodgers. But now, the better story is
in the losing locker room on this Halloween. So that
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is where we go. I've got a bunch of wild
thoughts on this Yankee team imploding poise. That a good story.
So the question is who gets the blame Street Pretzel
for the New York Yankees managed by Aaron Boone. Who
gets the blame Street Pretzel for the Yankees? So on
this one, I've got haberdasherie, late night infomercial and Tim
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Buck too, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a nice tropical vacation
because the team from New York will now be able
to go on a nice tropical vacation because they have
nothing else to do. There's no more baseball to be played.
That's it. That's all you're done. See you later, pick
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up your nice parting gift. The season is over, so
to kick off, though for New York, the one that's obvious,
this is an Ockham's Razors situation. The simplest answer is
the right answer. Judgment day, And as the great Biblical
scholars have pointed out over the years, the Lord giveth
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and the Lord take it away. El Capitan. Aaron Judge,
Aaron Judge, who had started to heat up right. In fact,
he was changing the narrative. He reached base not one,
not twice, nin how about four times? Had a home
run in this game. So okay, Judge is coming around.
He's better than Otani. Not so fast, my friends, not
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so fast, Because what happened next. Nobody had this on
their big board. We saw a demonic portal open up,
and it was little league baseball. Defensively in center field
for Aaron Judge. He ended up butchering a ball in
the outfield and that led to a swirling cauldron of doom,
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a demonic cauldron swirling of doom from the New York Yankees.
There it all happened when Judge was unable to come
up with a ball hit by Tommy Edmond, and it
was a line drive. There was a runner on and
nobody out in the fifth inning, and that error led
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to not one, not two, not three, nine four? How
about five Doyer runs? Five of them? Trick or treat? Well,
I think we know the answer to that. Happy Halloween.
You are now going to be haunted, Aaron Judge, you
will be haunted. That was an abomination, abysmal baseball, and
I loved every second of it. And Judge, as the
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captain of the Yankees, Aaron Judge set the tone because
shortly after that you had the shortstop Anthony Volpi, the
Derek Jeter want to be Anthony Volpi, who made an
error immediately after, had a chance to get out of
the inning with no runs scored, unscathed. Who goofed? I've
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got to know? And Anthony Rizzo bobbled the slowly hit
ground ball by Mookie Betts. Later on, we had a
pitcher throw over three times, only two, so that was
a bock. We had catchers interference. You had the highest
paid pitcher of all time in baseball fail to cover
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first base. It's unreal. It's unreal. But when all is
said and done, it starts at the very top, and
that's Aaron Judge el Capitan, who can go down to
the haberdasherie in Lower Manhattan and be fitted for the
scarlet letter and the matching shame bell. I hope you
enjoy that, because that stank and those cooties are gonna
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follow you around all right. Now, furthermore, does Aaron Boone
survive what happened in this world series? Does he live
to manage another day after the meltdown outside Midtown? Does
he survive another day? So this, at this point, it's
a fifty to fifty deal with a slight lean to
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him coming back, slight lean. So I'll go fifty two
four forty eight in favor of Boone returning. He shouldn't, right,
he should not. And here's why Aaron Boone is a
middle manager. That's what he is. He's just following the
marching orders from the nerds. That's all he is doing. Now.
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That said, he is the East Coast Dave Roberts. That's
what Dave Roberts does in LA. That's what Aaron Boone
does in New York. These are doppelganger franchises, but in
New York it's a little different. It's a little different, right, Typically,
somebody has to be held accountable. And I know we're
living in a different time and we're in the TikTok
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generation and all that. But back in the old days
when the Boss ruled the Rust, George Steinbrenner, if George
Steinbrener owned the Yankees and they played like this in
the World Series, George Steinbrenner would say, all right, Aaron Boone,
I want to meet with you tomorrow in the morning.
Brian Cashman, your ass is grass also, I'd like to
meet with you. But the kids now driving the mister
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Softy truck and it's soft Serve in the Brox, and
so they'll come up with some kind of compromise, That's
what I'm anticipating, and they'll turn on a classic late
night infomercial The Steinbrenner family, and they'll huddle around with
Aaron Boone, and they'll huddle around with Brian Cashman, and
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they'll hit the play button and they'll watch the Tom
Lemansky instructional videos on the fundamentals of baseball, and they'll
watch that over and over and over and over. Defensive fundamentals.
That's the tape that will do the trick. It's a
VHS tape. They might have a DVD. Maybe they have
a DVD. And Yeah. The other thing is unless they
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fire Cashman, there's no point in firing Boone because Cashman,
the GM is just going to hire somebody to do
the same thing Boone's doing. So that's a futile act
if you get rid of Boone, but you keep Cashman,
who seemingly has lifetime, tenured employment with the Yankees. All right,
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last thing here, So what does this world series now
being done? What does this do for the future of
Juan Soto? Now, he played pretty well, it is on
base a lot in this world series. He is a
free agent. The Padres sent him to New York for
a gaggle of suspects to be named later, and some
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of those guys turned out to be pretty good. But
the question, what does the World Series loss due for
the future of Juan Soda. So he is at a
fork in the road. It's a very nice gold plated
fork in the road. Juan Soda he is, and he
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has repeatedly said that he has enjoyed his time in
the Bronx. But you know, but means everything before the
word but doesn't really matter. But he will entertain all offers,
all offers once he hits the open market. So what
does that mean? Status quo stand pat is what it means. Right,
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One Soto is like the ad team. He's a soldier
of fortune. Now he's gotta get max money. He turned
down three hundred million from the Nationals, four hundred million
from the Padres, so if my math is correct, he's
got to get at least what five hundred million five
And the good thing is as a soldier of fortune,
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one Soto will play anywhere, right, He'll play from walla walla,
Washington to Tim Buck two away, He'll go Kalamazoo. It
doesn't matter anywhere whoever offers the most money. And he's
essentially got a blank check at this point. And he's
also got in addition to not only having a blank
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he's got the perfect out. Like if he leaves the Yankees,
he can say, hey, I just we couldn't win, we
weren't good enough. I want to go somewhere else where
they play better defense. If he stays it's like, well,
I have unfinished business. But you and I both know
and it's his prerogative to do this. But the common
denominator he will play for anybody, money, money, money, money, money, money, money,
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the Chicago White Sox, who are an absolute poop show.
If Jerry Ryan Storf is going to sell the White
Sox says all right, I'm gonna offer you six hundred million,
Juan Soto will be singing the praises of black Jack
McDowell and Frank Thomas and Hawk Harrelson and zoom out
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to Chicago.
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Speaker 1 (27:56):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Reports say that these Seahawks have been getting calls about
the availab availability of DK metcalf. Ben, do you think
there's any chance Seattle would let their star wide receiver go?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Well, yeah, he's not immovable. If somebody offers you three
first round draft picks for DK Metcalf, you make the trade.
Seattle's stuck in this pit of mediocrity. They're not terrible,
they're just average. They're not good enough to win a
Super Bowl. Gino Smith sucks, and their defense isn't all
that good. But they're not horrific. They're average. And if
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you trade DK Metcalf, you're probably still average. So if
somebody gives them a Godfather offer, they'll trade them. Other
than that, they'll just hold on to him.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Next, Chargers rookie wide receiver Laden McConkey, Yeah, had his
first real breakout game of his career with one hundred
and eleven receiving yards and two touchdowns against the Saints
last weekend. After the game, Jim Harbaugh compared him to
Steve Smith, Ben, do you think the Chargers have found
a diamond in the rough?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Well, it's so soon to say. I mean, he played
well in that game. The Saints have been getting gouged
by everybody. They've been bludging by, you know, guys that
are good, guys that are bad. So does he stand
the test of time? But one thing I know about
Jim Harbaugh this guy is a bullshoy artist. Okay, this
guy lays it on thick, so I wouldn't take anything.
Harbaugh says. This guy just talks crap all the time.
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He's up selling, he's adding puffery. So we'll see what
he does on the field. I'm not gonna go by Harbaugh.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Next, and Blake Griffin has reported the in line to
become the face of the Amazon Prime Videos NBA coverage
that begins next season.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Ben, do you think Griffin will be a good fit? Well?
I like Blake Griffin. I enjoyed him with the Clippers.
The Lob City days were great, and Doc Rivers ruined
that and all. But no, there's only He's everyone wants Barkley.
He's not gonna be Charles Barkley. There's only one Charles
bark Blake Griffins. He's gonna fall short of that. So
I'm not I'm not expecting much. How do we do
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he passes this win? We wont the get.
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Speaker 2 (30:49):
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We're gonna start off with Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Hi, Cowboy Killer, And he wants to know when a
new register line opens at a store, do you let
the person in front of you go or do you uh,
do you jump into that new line?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Well, this actually happens a lot. I do the grocery
shopping at the house, and so I'm at the store
a lot. Uh, during a couple of times during the week,
I'll go to the grocery store. Normally, the etiquette is
that the person who's opening the next line will come
over and invite the person who's at the very front
to step over. Now, if they they do that, then
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obviously I follow the proper etigaint. If they don't do that.
Every man for himself, every man woman for themselves. What
about you, Eddie? Well, it depends. You know, I'm a gentleman.
So if it's h are you saying I'm not a gentleman?
Is that what you're saying? I didn't say that. You're
implying that. If it's if it's a lady, you know
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that's a lady. Well, I believe in equal White, writes Eddie.
I believe women and men are equals. I believe in
being a gentleman. As I said, so dinosaur.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
If it's like an older lady, I'll I'll let her
go on through ahead of me. But if it's it's
it's younger or.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
A couple, it's a bushka, you'll let them go. It's
a younger person or it's this young guy. And then
usually when does a woman become a babushka? When does
that happen? How old are you when you're a baboush
Can you tell me it's your word, Loraina, How old
would you be when you're a baboushka? Six six? You
don't even know what that's? Seventy seventy is a babushka? Yeah?
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All right, that means grandmother. Eddie means grandmother. As far
as the question at hand, here, Lorena telor line opens up,
do you run to the tailor line or let the
person who's next in line go?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Well, Ben, I have this thing called pretty girl privilege,
so usually for me specifically, and they always tell me
to go first.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Are you saying your life's a little easier when you
look like you do as opposed to us? I got you,
I understand, Jesus Christ. Cool. I heard that that was
on the it's jealous. Uh, but that only lasts for
so long, Loraine. At some point you lose that superpower,
so you must enjoy you must embrace the superpower.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Right, I will embrace it.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, for the record, I would not let Loraina go.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
I was just about to say, if lore women and
Eddie you said, you said you gentlemen mostly older women though,
like so you like the babushkis like she gets a
lot of stuff, she didn't need any she doesn't need
that for me.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Oh, she definitely gets a lot of stuff. Yes, yes,
she does more than more than us. Oh man, all right,
uh coop, yeah, I got you self. Checkout. Yeah, what
do they don't have? They also limit it now because
everyone in California steals everything, so they've limited how many
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items you can have in self checkout. Yes, I haven't
done that at my story yet. The one I go
to does not have self checkout. Kind of what kind
of story?
Speaker 5 (33:50):
What do you do in the nineteen eighties, Eddie, I'm
just telling you it doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
What's next? They just remodeled the store too.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
The King Rory wants to know what is your favorite
horror film?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, growing up, I didn't really like horrord. The one
we watched a lot was Friday the Thirteenth. That as
a kid, that was like a big thing. But I mean,
I don't know, just be beetle twos doesn't really count.
That's not scary at all. I guess Friday in the genre,
I go Friday the thirteenth. What about you, Eddie? I
don't like.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Horror movies for the most part, but I would. I
would say, if I had to pick one, probably The
Shining The Shining.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
Yeah, all right, I like Insidious or The Red.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Cool. I think this counts as a horror movie. Silence
of the Lambs.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Oh, I love Lambs.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah that counts. Yeah, all right, what's the next Just
ask Ben, your questions are answers. Since the Dodgers won
the World Series, We're going the rest of the hour
commercial free. That has nothing to do with somebody the
company fing up? What is next year? Cool?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
All right, let's see, we're gonna start with We're gonna
go with the lady sideburns.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
High lady sideburns. Of all the ladies that have sideburns,
that's my favorite.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I'm pretty sure I already know what Ben's answer to this,
I answered, I do, but it's pretty much for the
rest of us this question. It is what celebrity death
was the most devastating for you?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Well, I know what yours is? Coup Well, yeah, yeah,
but yours is none of them. I don't care about celebrities.
Well no, I mean I there were people that I
knew that I was sad they died when Vin Scully died,
Tommy the Sword of these but they lived long lives,
and you know, if you live a long, full life,
it sucks. So no, I yeah, I don't really get
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worked up over celebrity deaths. My mom dying, my dad dying.
I got pissed off about that, you know, celebrities. I
didn't really know him. Eddie, Yeah, I don't, uh see
Eddie's like me, see that Coop. Eddie's like me, I
don't know that.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
I there's certainly something I'm like, Oh no, that's too bad,
but I don't know that I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
That was when John Richard died. I was bombed, he
got killed. I sucked. I like John. I was good,
you know, Yeah, I mean a lot hard. I like
Phil Harton Dad. That was me. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I can't think of one where I was really like devastated.
I always thought, I don't know, that's too bad.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
But you know there's some of your surprised. I got
Paul Walker right when he got killed. Yeah, yeah, sure,
sure I got one. Lorena.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Besides Betty White, may she rest in peace, although.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That was lived like twenty more years than she was
supposed to. Who doesn't want was kind of sad she
didn't get to one hundred. She was so close, so close.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Okay, anyways, besides her, Brittany Murphy really ruined my heart
like that one.
Speaker 7 (36:34):
That one hurt.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, that was a shot.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
I actually actually have thought of one. Chris Chris Cornell.
Chris Cornell, I was a big Chris Cornell fan that
I was that I did bump me out? You know
that is that kind of music?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Gay? Yeah, Barley, Chris Farley.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
That one was sad. A lot of people were upset.
Jim Carre not Jim Carrey.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Yeah, you know, I'll give you one. I'll give you one.
So I told this story before, But there was a
guy that used to call LA Sports Radio named uh
what was his uh his name there from God, I
forget what name he used from Venice, George from Venice,
George Carlin, famous greatest comedian of all time for me,
George Carlin and one of my buddies, Lee Lee Kline
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became friends with Carlin and I was supposed to meet Carlin,
but he died unexpectedly and I didn't get to meet him.
Had a heart attack. Right now, Coob's Kobe right, it's
gotta be cool, Kolobe. That one was devastating. That was unbelievable. Yeah,
that was amazing. Did you cry? I did? Yeah? That
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was it was I thought it was fake. Remember initially,
who else they said was on the helicopter they thought
had died too, No, Rick Fox. Originally they said Rick Fox.
I did initial reports and then no, but it's like
a bunch of kids right in their parents. No, I
just I mean I remember it was right over here,
right up the road from us. I'm like a couple
of miles away from what we're broadcasting. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
I was getting ready to play a hockey game. We're
in the locker room and some guy on his phone's like,
oh my god, Kobe died. And I'm like, who's reporting that?
That was my reporter? Who's reporting that? Yeah, because you
know where those internet hoaxes.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
I'm like, oh man, he's alive. Yeah, I can't remember
who he said it was. I was like, oh crap.
I kept getting texted. Was in the morning, and I'm like,
what people stopped texting me. That's That's exactly what happened
to me.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
I was sleeping, like my phone's blowing up, and I
don't ignore it, but I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
And then I lead you along, like, oh, lead me alone.
They wouldn't leave me alone? All right? What is next year?
On this Halloween Edition Extended Dance Remix Commercial Free.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
We've had this one many times, but it is Halloween,
so we'll do it again.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
What is what is your favorite candy. So I love
Butterfinger and Baby Ruth, but I'm not going to turn
down peanut butter cups. I mean, you knew me when
I was fat, So I'll eat anything any kind of candy,
but baby Rooth butter figure my go to. I love
the peanut butter cup Eddie.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
They actually look commercial and it's like this little girl
is in a costume and it's Reese's Peanut butter cups
and Kitkats. She's like both and then the woman gives
her like a Anyway, that's my two favorite size of Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's my two favorite kit Kat and Reese's Peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Most people don't have KitKat as their favorite. It's a nod.
You're odd. It's very odd, thank you, Loraine. Let me guess.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Lorena likes almond Joy You know.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
No, I do. I do like them. Sometimes you feel
like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Alm enjoyed got nuts.
I love that song anyways.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
No, you know what Halloween candy specifically that I really
enjoy that I only see a Halloween time. You know
those little peanut butter candies that are kind of chewable
and they're wrapped in orange or black. They look really
old fashioned and they're actually kind of disgusting.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You like them because they they flash back to your
childhood or yeah, only don't make the same version of
that for Christmas. They just have Christmas shapes. Don't they
do the same thing for that.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
No, I haven't seen the peanut butter ones.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No, I have seen them. For Christmas, they have like
Santa Claus ones, or they'll have you know, different Christmas
theme things. I've seen that.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Other than that, it's not only Snickers Snickers, Snickers you.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Know yourself when you're hungry.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
No Snickers cool? All right, So Coop's really analyzed this.
You gotta ven diagram. He's gonna my top. My top
one is Reese's Pieces. Love Reese's Pieces.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Now when it comes to I'm dividing it by chocolate
and candy because they're two different things.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
So you're going, you know your chocolate category, and chocolate
and candy are two different things. Yeah, I know what
he's saying, because yeah, there's chocolate and then there's like
the uh, the what do you call he likes like
gummy worms and yeah, exactly, that's candy.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
So so Reese's Pieces is the top and that's kind
that's candy coated chocolate kind of uh. But they used
to Snickers recently. More recently Twigs has kind of overtaken them.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
TwixT. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
If the caramel is like the right texture, it's it's great.
And then candy this is this is a new candy.
Nerds Gummies. Oh yes, my god, they're so good. There's
little gummy clusters just rolled in nerds and they're delicious.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
But you pop them in your mouth like popcorn. Yes, yeah,
like many calories are in those. I don't want to
think about it. I like the medicated and that reminds
me when I think it was KFC came out with
popcorn Chicken. I said, oh wow, that's great. I just
pop it on my mouth like popcorn, and then I
realized how many calories were, and I was like, oh crap.
Guys asked Bang, your questions are answered. Nobody says Milky Way.
(41:50):
Nobody milk garbage. That's why he says that. But these
are mainstream candies that no like mister Goodbar. Nobody says
my favorite candy. Mainstream candy is the Three Musketeers. Yep.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
Three Musketeers and Milky Way are like the two worst,
well three three Musketeers.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
I'm okay with it. I wouldn't go out of the
way for it. But if it's in my when I
was a kid, I'd eat it. I'd eat everything when
I was a kid. But what is next to?
Speaker 4 (42:12):
Late night drug tester would like to know what is
a better surprise in your order of fast food fries?
Speaker 1 (42:18):
A single onion ring or a crispy tater tot? Huh? Yeah,
I love the bonus onion ring. That's what I love.
That's big unexpected when you don't order onion rings and
there's an onion ring. Oh my god, you won the lottery.
Holy crap. It's a good day to be alive. What
about you, Eddie. I went the other day by the way,
and they gave me double fries. I thought, oh to heaven,
(42:41):
double fries. I will go onion rings. Also, a little
extra onion ring there is nice. Yeah, I got. I
found some onion rings I can make in the air fryer.
They taste just like a fast food place. They're really good. Man,
make those at the house. What about you?
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Rain up?
Speaker 7 (42:54):
Yeah, give me that hit and onion ring.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Ben, Yeah, nobody picks tater top why would you pick
tat talk? Yeah, it's definitely. That is a simple question.
It's an easy one. That's a dumb question. Who asked
that question? That was late night drunk test? Ben job
by you late night truck. You're better than that late
night truck. Everyone picks how you rang Onion rang? What
is next? All right?
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Slug in Vegas? Everybody?
Speaker 4 (43:16):
What is the over under on burned lapd cop cars?
On Friday?
Speaker 5 (43:20):
I'm gonna go four and a half Eddie Justin in
cincinn Eddie said that they set a bus on fire
and wanted to know.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
If it was Yeah, boss is worse like four. He
can't work. He can go to the parade if his
bus has been burned. So maybe he did do it.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
I'm gonna bring the boss really well. According to what
he town was added, I'll have to click on the
link and tell you.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
I saw a naked guy running around New York. My
Justin sent that video. Do you see that? The other day?
Speaker 2 (43:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (43:49):
I'm thankfully no. I text my brother, I said, he
do you see this naked dude? He said? Which one?
Apparently times are good in New York. Right now, I'll
say I'll take the under on the What did you say?
Five and a half? Fur and a half?
Speaker 5 (44:01):
Four and a half by the way, says Sunset and
Echo Park where the flaming bus is at.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Oh, okay, not that far away from Dodger statey. But
what about you about Raina? I'm sorry?
Speaker 7 (44:11):
What was the question?
Speaker 1 (44:11):
How many cop cars the hoodlimbs will burn here overnight?
Seventeen seventeen? Wow? Okay, city busy. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
I just welcome to the conversation. I'm gonna go with two. Two, yes, two,
that's low, all right?
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Fair enough? What is next year? As they have people
have taken to the streets celebrating the Dodgers win? Literally,
what do we have? Ferg Dog would like to know why? Fergie?
What time do you turn off the lights on Halloween? Well?
Usually the kids, I mean usually kids only go out
to like what eight o'clock at the latest?
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Normally?
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Right, So it usually eight's the cutoff because they're little kids.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
Eddie, I don't go by time. When we run out
of candy, we're done, that's it.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
What if you still have candy? What do you mean
if we start? I said, well, run out of Loredo movie.
Speaker 6 (45:04):
I don't pass out candy at all, so I'm not
turning out, jeez.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I normally ended around nine, but I won't be here tomorrow.
I got like forty pounds of candy, and I'm sure
there'll be like seven kids that come to my house.
What for you? Oh, I'm gonna be so fat, but
I can't. I got a TV show. I can't be
fat now, Eddie
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