December 13, 2024 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about the 49ers losing to the Rams in a TNF that did not have any touchdowns scored, Juan Soto's opening press conference with the NY Mets, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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That is what we will begin. Play the hit small
man play there So Brockpurty, what a chicken soup for
the soul story.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Brock Purdy had been.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
NFL Nobody unwanted last player pick and then part of
a Niner team that lost in the Super Bowl, the
runner up forty nine ers. Look at a stay alive.
You have a great chance, as it was going into
the game to make the playoffs. The Niners playoff chase
not much of a chase at all right now, and
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they went against Matthew Stafford and the La Rims. They
visited Santa Clair there in an NFC West Donnybrook and
it was a rainy night. California cool, not East Coast cool,
not Midwest cool, but California cool.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
With some rain.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
A week fifteen NFL card. In a way, al Michaels
was it. You know it's a big game. When Al
Michaels calls the game, it's al Michaels. Al f and
Michaels and Herbie Kirk kurb Street were there for the
Amazon And I don't know if you watched this or
not we were watching it. Of course we were, and
we watched. If you didn't, it's our good Mitch for
the day.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We watched for you. The great Joshua.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Carty, who a kicker, an idiot kicker, Joshua Carty the headliner.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He kicked not one, not two, not three, but four
four field.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Goals and the ram survive a clunker and beat the
forty nine Ers twelve.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
To six on a Thursday night in what is a.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Very important pivot point game in the NFC West playoff race.
As one of these teams they all wear the dunch
cap in the NFC West, but one of them are
going to the playoffs as a division winner and a
home playoff game. This was the only NFL game this
year that did not have at least one touchdown.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
This was it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
This was a throwback, as Al Michaels pointed out on
the broadcast, to that dreadful Colt Bronco game a few
years ago, but that the Rams now move within a
half game of division leading Seattle. Don't choke, Gino, do
not choke. When you got green bag coming in on Monday,
do not choke. I think it's Monday is Sunday Monday.
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But don't choke Gino. Now the forty nine Ers are
now five and eight. Using Maler math, that tells me
they are three games under five hundred. They led this
game six to three heading the fourth quarter. They obviously
do not win the game. And now it's almost over.
So let us discuss the question what does this loss
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say about Kyle Shanahan's forty nine Ers. So I've got
Fat Lady, rusted out, containership, and Swiss army knife, and
we will combine all of these things together and that
we are going to make some sour dough bread. Of course,
the Niners are just sour. They're not the dough. They're
not the bread. They're just sour. So a to be fair,
(04:36):
this was a bumpy ride all season. It's been a
pumpy ride, and not all precincts are reporting in. But
the Ben Mallor Show is calling this election over. The
forty nine Ers done right now. In the bowels of
the team facility, the Fat Lady is stretching and warming
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up her vocal cords. Turn out the last parties over.
It was a nice run while it lasted. I feel
bad for Nesto and some of the super fans of
the show in the Bay Area who loved the Niners.
But you guys have had it good the last couple
of years. An NFC champ to chump. That's the story
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of the forty nine ers. The Niners a shell of
what they had been, and it's really the perfect storm
this year.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's I and I, I and I.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Injuries and incompetence, brock Party, this is an ugly situation.
You talk about opening up Pandora's box. Brock Purty, the
poster boy here on this night, looking like mister irrelevant
for the forty nine Ers, completed less than fifty percent
of his passes, less than fifty percent of his passes,
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averaged less than five yards per pass on a rainy
night in northern California. Obviously no touchdowns, had an interception,
a passer rating below fifty, a passer rating below fifty,
and that means that brock Purty played like a nag,
not a jag. A jag is just a guy. A
nag is not a guy. He's not a guy. You're
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not that guy, Palt, You're not that guy. And that
opens up a major can of worms here because the
Niners that have to make a decision.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Do you pay him or not? Do you give him
the big money? Is there a world.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Where the forty nine ers would trade Brock party and
then go out and try to sign Sam Darnold. I
say there is that world, all right, And they know
behind this and there I say, this is public. But
this was not a ringing endorsement, not a sizzle real
game by any means. For Brock Purdy against a RAM
team that has been up and down on defense, you
look very pedestrian. Not a guy that stirs the drink,
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not a guy that changes the game. And then you've
got Kyle Shanahan, who has mastered blowing leads. And not
only is the fat lady singing, also Porky Pig is saying, uh,
that's all folks, all right now? Page two, Now we
get to the good stuff. A juicy subplot, a very
juicy subplot emerged after the game. So the story within
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the story, Now, what is the juicy subplot?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You're asking, what is it? Well, I'll tell you what
it is.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So forty nine Er coach Kyle Shanahan let us know
that linebacker Devondre Campbell had decided he had had enough
and he took his ball and went home metaphorically.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Of course, he didn't take the ball, he just walked
off the field.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So Kyle Shanahan revealing that the linebacker Devondre Campbell decided
he did not want to play anymore. I'm good, coach,
I don't want to play, and he left in the
middle of the game. He said, I'm out of here.
He left the field in the third quarter. Now, Shanahan
was non committal immediately following the game regarding Campbell's future
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with the forty nine, but he did say that someone
who doesn't want to play doesn't have a spot on
his team.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Really, that's a bold take, all.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Right, So how should the forty nine ers handle Devondre
Campbell quitting in the middle of a game.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
An island game. Who cares if with an island game
or not?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
He quit?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So the first thought is obvious, this is a dereliction
of duties. You left your post, and so what the
Niners have to do here? Friendly advice unsolicited advice for
the Niners. You treat Campbell like an old, rusted out
container ship out in the Pacific Ocean. He must be decommissioned.
The forty nine ers have been infected this season by
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dark energy. I don't know where it came from, but
it's there. And Devondre Campbell he goes a wall. He's
not a foxhole guy. He's not a huddle guy, and
he's not a football player. He's a waiver wire guy,
is what he is. Right, and let let him go
see a therapist or whatever and work out his issues.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
But he's not in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
There's no place for that in the NFL, because I'm
sure there's plenty of other guys in the Niners that
probably wanted to walk off the field and quit too
the way.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
They were playing, but they didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Right, you got to finish what you start. The Code
of the West, You finish what you start. Bad job
by him, All right, last word, let's go to the
winning locker room where you can ram it all day
and you can ram it all night.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And that's what the Rams did.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So what is your level of confidence in Sean mcvay's
l A R I MS after winning this game? What
is your level of confidence in the Rams winning the
NFC West. So I'm gonna go first, Malord Scale of
confidence one to five, with five meaning it is a
Garon tight a Garron t So I am at a four. Okay,
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I'm at a four unexpected goodness.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's how I will phrase this unexpected goodness.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And now you know, some of you, know, those of
you that actually pay attention that I realized that most
people that listen to audio content only hear a fraction
of what I'm saying, only process you only process.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
A little bit of what I'm saying. But I like
the Rams.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I grew up that was as Looting Tunes teleprompter Tom
says on the TV show that is the team of
my youth, the l A Rams. I loved him when
I was a kid, and now as an adult, I'm
a jaded middle aged man. So I just like whoever
I bet on. But I still have a place in
my heart for the Rams. And listen, we thought going
in this game, I thought the Rams are gonna lose
this game, and they impressed me. In years past, that
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would have been in l I don't care how bad
the Niners were playing going to the game, the Rams
would have found a way to gag that game. And
that has been the kryptonite for Sean McVay. Kyle Shanahan
has had mcvay's number. The Niners have had good teams
in the regular season. Of course, the biggest matchup between
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Shanahan McVay was in the NFC Championship Game, a game
I was lucky enough to be at and a few
years ago, and the Rams won.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That game to go to the Super Bowl. But that
is side.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You look at the ingredients here, Rainy cool night, forty
nine ers have had their number short week, a defense
that has not played particularly well, spotty defense for the Rams,
all the ingredients for.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
A free fall, a gag in years past.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But instead the Rams win a game without a touchdown
for the first time since twenty sixteen, the last time
a Ram team won a game where they did not
score a touchdown. They showed moxie, they showed gumption, grit,
all those big words, all that stuff. And the thing
to me that I'm going to take away from this game,
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and I jotted this down on the notes thing on
my iPhone, whatever you call I think it's called the
notes thing. So Matthew Stafford bridging the third quarter in
the fourth quarter, to me, this was a defining moment,
a point of d marque for.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
The Rams and for the entire season.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They orchestrated a seventeam play, nine minute and forty five
second drive. They just eight the clock up. They ended
up only getting a field goal. But that's the kind
of a drive. If you can bottle that up, if
you're the Rams, if you can bottle that up and
do that down the line in a playoff game, that's
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the kind of thing that gets you to beat a
big bad Lion team or a big bad Philadelphia Eagle
team in a playoff match. You hold the ball for
nine minutes and forty something seconds on a drive and
it was the game time was thirty five minutes in
favor of the Rams. The Niners had it for less
than twenty five minutes. So it was a huge advantage
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for the Rams in time of possession and they ran
I think it was twelve more plays, which were you know,
is a lot, but it could have been worse, could
have been a lot worse. So just all around for
the La Rams, a big time performance and the Rams
the last week less than a week, the Rams have
shown to be a Swiss army knife team. You don't
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want to play a Swiss Army knife team.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
And I was on with my friend Bob Fesco on
his show in Kansas City yesterday in the morning, and
I was half asleep, half awake, one of those deals
with Dad Dusty, who's on that show. He was like,
there's no team you'd rather play or not want to
play than the Rams. And I was like, well, yeah,
I don't trust the defense. But the fact that the
Rams were able to win a game where it was
an absolute Barton burner with the Buffalo Bills and they
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outlasted Josh Allen, giving up six touchdowns, and now they
win a slugfest, just an ugly game with the Niners.
That is winning Swiss army knife style, winning multiple ways.
Use the large blade, you can use the bottle opener,
all that's of the corkscrew, any of those things.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So that does bud Well and the Rams are on
on brand. They are one.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They were one and four to start the year. The
Rams are seven and two since that one and four start,
and they already have a winning hand over the Seattle
football team, right they won that game in Seattle, so
you're looking at that and that's who they're chasing right now.
The Cardinals are falling apart in the division and the Rams.
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They have the Jets, the Cardinals and the Seahawks that
close out the year. They should win every one of
those games. They will be favored in every one of
those games to close the year out. Cardinals and Seahawks
at home, Jets in Jersey. And so they're set up. Now,
don't screw up. That's really the story here.
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new King of Queens was introduced. These opening news conferences
are religious revivals. So feel good, it's grab ass, it's
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everything's great. And this was more grandeur than anything. And
as our leader, our lead from Flushing, well, baseball for you,
little baseball. We'll get back to the football where the
Lrims really did ram it all day and ram it
all night. As the Rams beat the forty nine ers
and are now in position they've set themselves up to
win the NFC West and Seattle's about to fall apart
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there with Green Bay. But this is about baseball. So
after agreeing to the largest contract in baseball, the largest
contract in American sport, in fact, the largest contract in
all of sport on this little planet that we all
share as brothers and sisters from different mothers. And so
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he was all smiles, right, he was in a good
mood for the most part. He got a fifteen year
contract seven hundred and sixty five million, which likely will
go up from that. Either it will go up to
over eight hundred million, or he will opt out of
that contract. The deal includes a seventy five million dollars
signing bonus Cha Ching Chichang Chi Ching. There's an opt
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out after the fifth year that the Metsican void. They
just add, as I mentioned, some more money, and so
that would mean over the final ten years of the contract,
Soto will end up getting a total value of over
eight hundred million dollars to play baseball. He will likely
end up being a designated hitter. He's not a very
good defensive player. Before you know he'll be a designated hitter.
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He doesn't hustle all that much, and he gets four
bats the game or something, so for four played appearances
on average a night, he's going to get an ungodly
amount ofment. Good for him, now, Soto, as you might
imagine if somebody gave you a contract that could be
up to.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Eight hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
He was lavishing praise on the Metropolitans and throwing a
bunch of sweet platitudes out, saying that they're a great organization,
and then he used the D word and that is
where people's eyebrows were raised.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Take a listen to one Soto slipping in.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
The d.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
They showed me how the organization run steens and how
they look at their future. I think it was one
of the things that opened my eyes a little bit
more while they're being constructing and building to take all
the way all the way up.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
To fifteen years, twenty years and never know. Definitely that
was one of the things that.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I opened my eyes more. How hungry they are for
to win a championship and to want a mega A
dynasty in New.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
York Mets, okay, and I believe your nose was growing Pinocchio.
He said the word dynasty multiple times. Of course, if
you wanted to be part of a dynasty, there's one
going on in Los Angeles right now.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It's called the Dodgers. Wow, all right, okay, pal.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He also said regarding New York sports, he said, it's
a Mets town, New York. It's been a Mets town
for a long time, so I think we just got
to bring it to the top, he said. He stressed
that owner Steve Cohen is going to take care of
his family and there's a lot to chew on and
we'll get right into it. Why not let us discuss
the question how did one Soto vibe with you? How
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did he vibe with you the opening Mets introductory news conference. Now,
I am not a Mets fan, so you know that
going so that means I'm the perfect person to break
this down. But to answer the question, how did Wan
Soto vibe with you at the opening news conference of
his Mets career, I've got New York Philharmonic token and menu,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a pastrami sandwich at Katz's
Delhi in Manhattan, which is the second greatest pastami sandwich
I've ever had. The top pastrami sandwich I've ever had
is at Langers Deli in Los Angeles. Very upsetting the
people in New York that they don't dominate the pastrami game,
(20:40):
that there's a better pastrami sandwich in LA.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Number one doing the autopsy, doing the autopsy based on
what I saw.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
And I watch every second of this. I do have
somewhat of a life.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
That we taped the TV show on Thursday, I had
to sleep for a few hours, had to get ready
for this show. I had to watch a NFL game.
But these are first world problems.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Let me tell you something. These are first ward problems.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
But I did watch a good chunk of it on
the YouTube or was at MLB dot com I forget
I think it was YouTube anyway, So doing the autopsy
based on what I watched of this event. One Soto
is who we thought he was before the event. If
you want to crown him, you can crown his ass,
right one Soto.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Let me tell you what kind of guy this is.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
One Soto is the New York Philharmonic kind of guy.
He's center stage right there in the orchestra, and Soto
is He's got a trumpet. He's blowing his own trumpet,
is what he's doing right there. I mean, listen, I
get it, dude. You're a good baseball player. Congratulations, you're
good in terms of Q rating. In terms of liability,
you're in the bottom percent. Kyle pompous, persnickety, humble, bragging.
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That's the face of the Mets. I mean, now, I
got family in New York. You know, I've been there
many times over the years. And the Met fan is
a blue collar fan. The Met fan these are like
construction guys, fireman, blue collar workers. That's a Met fan.
The Yankee fan is Wall Street now that's the elitist fan.
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But I look at Sono, and this guy's much more
of a Yankee than he is a Met. The way
he carries himself. He's so smug and you know, look
at me type guy and all that. Now, as for
the dynasty part of that, I wonder which website Ajan
Soto uses to buy his psychedelic toad venom, because you
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have to be licking some psychedelic toad venom there to
think that the Mets are are anywhere near a dynasty,
that the Dodgers are going to own the National League
at least for the next couple of years. And even
though you understand all these news conferences, as I said,
it is a pep rally, it is a religious revival.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
It is raw ray and.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Everything's great and rainbows, puppy dogs, lollipops, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It's just wonderful. Right now, turning the page, but not
leaving the story. We're not leaving the story. Were turning
the page.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
So among the other revelations that I jotted down was
the relationship between one Soto, Aaron Judge, and all.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Of his old Yankee teammates.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Listen to what One Soda had to say about the
team that he used to play for ten miles away
over in the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
You've been in touch with anybody from your former team
and could you share what those conversations might have.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Been, Like, I haven't talked to any of those guys.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Definitely, we talked to them through playoff at the end
of the playoffs, but after that, I make these processes.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
I haven't talked to any of those.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
All right, So one Sodo says he has not talked
to any of his old teammates and was Aaron Judge
Also later on he mentioned Aaron Judge not talked to him.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Obviously he's part of the team.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So to Aaron Judger or any of his ex Yankee
teammates through this process or process, does this raise any
suspicion to you?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So I will answer this now. I will tell you no,
I am not a fan of Sodo. I don't like
to why of this the vibe I got from I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I'm a vibe police here, Like he really cares what
I think of him.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
But I just didn't like to w However, I cannot
fault one Soda on this one. One Sodo has always
been since he came to the scene in DC with
the Nationals and our friend the ant man there.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
He knows this.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
He's nothing more than a mercenary. Okay, He's never pretended
to be anything else. That's the reason that in your
mid twenties, you've already played for four teams because you
just were chasing the money and you won. Congratulations, you
found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,
and now you are going to have to play for
the Mets for a number of years. But it's telling
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that El Capitan of the New York Yankees, Aaron Judge
did not even bother to try to recruit Juan Soda.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
All right, and they can.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Say, hey, we're you know, we're good buddies and all that,
but not even a token call, not even a token
call to play to the cameras now putting on my psychologist.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Hat here behind the microphone.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Isn't that a dead way if you won't even use
a token call to make yourself look good to win
some clout points with the baseball media and social media
clout and all that, saying, well, Aaron Judge tried to
convince Juan Soto to come back to the Yankees, he
wondn't even do that.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
That tells me there's something more going on there.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Now, I will point out that people that work together,
these are almost always superficial relationships. It's you're a coworker,
you're not real friends. No, colleague are not friends. Colleagues
are people that you know, you work with and you
hope make you look better at work and all that.
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That's what a colleague is. And so even in baseball
or whatever, and these guys spent a long time playing
trans and automobiles and all that. We had a similar
story before the Viking Falcon game where Justin Jefferson said
he had not spoken to Kirk Cousins since he left Minnesota.
And I said at the time, and I stand by
that take. I'm not changing the take that, yeah, these
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guys are friends because they are forced to be friends
during the season, are co workers colleagues. Once the season ends,
they're on their own time. They don't have to hang
out with these people or associate with these people. All right,
final point one more nugget not a chicken nugget, but
one more nugget. Regarding what's next for the Metropolitan, it's
the owner. Steve Cohen says, the Mets are quote still
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engaged with Pete Alonso. However, however, they're letting Alonso test
the market.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
They're letting him testimony. So how does this sound to you?
How does this sound to you?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
So?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Okay? So I'll go here.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
When you look at the menu, you know, you sit down,
they hand you the menu, and here's the menu, here's
the specials. And then they'll say, oh, here's the catcher
the day. The catcher the day is not the polar bear, okay.
And it's illegal to hunt polar bears. I believe sounds
like it should be illegal. So they're not serving blubber.
They're not serving the polar bear as the catcher today.
(27:28):
And Steve Cohen knows this like he's got f you money.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And then some.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
And if Steve Cohen really wanted Pete Alonzo to come back,
he certainly would not allow him to test the market. Right,
but things have changed. Alonzo last season, while his overall
numbers were good you break them down, the analytical numbers
were not good. He was no longer a holy terror,
terrible numbers with runners in scoring position. It's fair to
say the Mets no longer deem him essential.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Now he's not a center the Men's.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
If you look at the temperature in the room for
the Mets regarding their interest in Alonzo.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
It's luke warm. That's the temperature.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
If you really want Alonzo back, you move mountains.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Am I wrong on this? Maybe I am?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You move mountains. You keep him away as much as
you can from testing the mark. You say no, no,
nobody else is going to make you a better offer. Alonzo, though,
has already started meeting with other teams as he tries
to navigate the minefield that is free agency and avoid
the booby traps.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And nobody though at this point, based.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
On the fact that contracts have been signed now for
several weeks and nobody has lined up Pete Alonzo, and
that is a pretty good indicator, a pretty good indicator
that there is not an overwhelming amount of interest. Now,
whether the Giants or the Texas Rangers, somebody like that
(28:59):
steps up the Orioles offers him some money, fine, but
at this point it's not an overwhelming amount of interest.
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Speaker 4 (29:14):
Smaller.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
How about to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
This is one thing that gets graill.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
So rumors of how Tom Brady is going to affect
the Raiders continue to pour in. On Wednesday was a
report that Brady's influence could mean Mike Rabel as a
replacement for Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Ben, are you buying that no? Antonio Piers should get
another year. They railroaded Pierce. They gave him a crappy
offensive coordinator that he didn't pick. They gave as I understated,
and he has no quarterback. The Raiders are going to
have a top five pick in the draft right now,
they have the number one pick. Let's see what Antonio
Pierce can do when he actually has a chance with
a decent a better roster, a better offensive coordinator, and
(29:56):
Tom Brady owns a bit of the Raiders. They gonna
let Tom Brady be the GM of the Why would
you do that?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Next?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Looking around the NBA media landscape and you'll find that
the Oklahoma City Thunder at the top of most power
rankings now, Ben, they were the number one seed last
year but lost in the conference semifinals.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Do you think they'll make a deeper run this year?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, they are loaded and Kyrie in Oka, see who's
a big fan of the show, is not gonna like this.
But it's not good for the NBA. There's just not
a lot of national appeal. They have good players, but
they don't have the wow factor in Okay. See, that's
a league that needs the wow factor and they're just
missing that.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
They're winning a lot, but they're missing that. But I
do think they'll go on a big round the clubs next.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
NFL Exact Troy Vincent called the on side kick a
dead play due to the low recovery rate, said the
league will consider changes in the offseason.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Ben, how can the league fix this? Oh yeah, so
here's what you can do. Grow some hair in their
chest and go back to the old kickoff. All right,
stop being a bunch of wosses. It's ridiculous. How did
we do, Kobolo? You pass this edition?
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That is a win?
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Another win. Add that to my lifetime record right there,
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Speaker 6 (35:52):
This week we're gonna have a little bit of an
abbreviated version of Coop Scooping Entertainments. And that's mostly because
as far as the movie theater goes, I don't think
there's anything worth pointing out to you coming out this weekend.
But that is not the case on television. So I've
got a couple of things for you here. One second,
I well, I get this thing off my screen, okay.
(36:14):
First is a new series that is available right now
on Netflix. It is called No Good Deed. It is
a dark comedy and basically it follows three families that
are vying to purchase the same multimillion dollar house in
Los Angeles currently owned by an empty nester couple played
by Lisa Kudro and Ray Romano. Now the hearse the
(36:36):
house comes with dark and dangerous secrets and other stars
in this show are Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson, and Dennis Leary.
And all episodes stream today. That is available on Netflix.
Pretty good reviews on that one.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Moving on to a this is a new movie.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
This is also on Netflix and it should also be
available right now.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
It is called carry On and.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
It stars a young TSA agent who is played by
Taron Edgerton who fights to outsmart, a mysterious traveler who
blackmails in it blackmails him into letting a dangerous package
slip onto a Christmas Eve flight. So it's a Christmas thriller. Oh,
I love that.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
That's what we need. We need that Christmas thriller.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
That's right. Jason Bateman also stars in this one. That's
what Crampus does for me. Thrills you on Christmas? Yes
about Christmas?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Yes? Okay, last, but not least this one. I'm kind
of excited. I'm hopeful about now if a you are
a fan of Coopscub Entertainment. You know, I'm a big
fan of the old Showtime show Dexter starring Michael C.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Hall.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Showtime is it's not a reboot, it's a spin off,
and this is called Dexter Original Sin Now. If you
have Paramount Plus with Showtime, you can stream it right now. Otherwise,
if you just have the Showtime cable channel, that will
premiere on Sunday. And basically this is a we're going
into the past, so it's a set in nineteen ninety one.
(38:16):
It's a prequel series and it's centered on a twenty
somethingter version of the serial killer Dexter Morgan, who is
now played by somebody named Patrick Gibson. But the voiceovers,
the you know, his internal voice is still gonna be
narrated by Michael C.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Hall.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Christian Slater will play Dexter's father, Harry, and the show
also stars Patrick Dempsey, Christina Milion and a couple other
and Sarah Michelle Geller also guest stars in this show
that is available on Paramount Plus with Showtime, and that
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That is what we will begin. Play the hit small
man play there So Brockpurty, what a chicken soup for
the soul story.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Brock Purdy had been.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
NFL Nobody unwanted last player pick and then part of
a Niner team that lost in the Super Bowl, the
runner up forty nine ers. Look at a stay alive.
You have a great chance, as it was going into
the game to make the playoffs. The Niners playoff chase
not much of a chase at all right now, and
(02:10):
they went against Matthew Stafford and the La Rims. They
visited Santa Clair there in an NFC West Donnybrook and
it was a rainy night. California cool, not East Coast cool,
not Midwest cool, but California cool.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
With some rain.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
A week fifteen NFL card. In a way, al Michaels
was it. You know it's a big game. When Al
Michaels calls the game, it's al Michaels. Al f and
Michaels and Herbie Kirk kurb Street were there for the
Amazon And I don't know if you watched this or
not we were watching it. Of course we were, and
we watched. If you didn't, it's our good Mitch for
the day.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We watched for you. The great Joshua.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Carty, who a kicker, an idiot kicker, Joshua Carty the headliner.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He kicked not one, not two, not three, but four
four field.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Goals and the ram survive a clunker and beat the
forty nine Ers twelve.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
To six on a Thursday night in what is a.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Very important pivot point game in the NFC West playoff race.
As one of these teams they all wear the dunch
cap in the NFC West, but one of them are
going to the playoffs as a division winner and a
home playoff game. This was the only NFL game this
year that did not have at least one touchdown.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
This was it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
This was a throwback, as Al Michaels pointed out on
the broadcast, to that dreadful Colt Bronco game a few
years ago, but that the Rams now move within a
half game of division leading Seattle. Don't choke, Gino, do
not choke. When you got green bag coming in on Monday,
do not choke. I think it's Monday is Sunday Monday.
(03:49):
But don't choke Gino. Now the forty nine Ers are
now five and eight. Using Maler math, that tells me
they are three games under five hundred. They led this
game six to three heading the fourth quarter. They obviously
do not win the game. And now it's almost over.
So let us discuss the question what does this loss
(04:12):
say about Kyle Shanahan's forty nine Ers. So I've got
Fat Lady, rusted out, containership, and Swiss army knife, and
we will combine all of these things together and that
we are going to make some sour dough bread. Of course,
the Niners are just sour. They're not the dough. They're
not the bread. They're just sour. So a to be fair,
(04:36):
this was a bumpy ride all season. It's been a
pumpy ride, and not all precincts are reporting in. But
the Ben Mallor Show is calling this election over. The
forty nine Ers done right now. In the bowels of
the team facility, the Fat Lady is stretching and warming
(04:56):
up her vocal cords. Turn out the last parties over.
It was a nice run while it lasted. I feel
bad for Nesto and some of the super fans of
the show in the Bay Area who loved the Niners.
But you guys have had it good the last couple
of years. An NFC champ to chump. That's the story
(05:18):
of the forty nine ers. The Niners a shell of
what they had been, and it's really the perfect storm
this year.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's I and I, I and I.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Injuries and incompetence, brock Party, this is an ugly situation.
You talk about opening up Pandora's box. Brock Purty, the
poster boy here on this night, looking like mister irrelevant
for the forty nine Ers, completed less than fifty percent
of his passes, less than fifty percent of his passes,
(05:46):
averaged less than five yards per pass on a rainy
night in northern California. Obviously no touchdowns, had an interception,
a passer rating below fifty, a passer rating below fifty,
and that means that brock Purty played like a nag,
not a jag. A jag is just a guy. A
nag is not a guy. He's not a guy. You're
(06:08):
not that guy, Palt, You're not that guy. And that
opens up a major can of worms here because the
Niners that have to make a decision.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Do you pay him or not? Do you give him
the big money? Is there a world.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Where the forty nine ers would trade Brock party and
then go out and try to sign Sam Darnold. I
say there is that world, all right, And they know
behind this and there I say, this is public. But
this was not a ringing endorsement, not a sizzle real
game by any means. For Brock Purdy against a RAM
team that has been up and down on defense, you
look very pedestrian. Not a guy that stirs the drink,
(06:43):
not a guy that changes the game. And then you've
got Kyle Shanahan, who has mastered blowing leads. And not
only is the fat lady singing, also Porky Pig is saying, uh,
that's all folks, all right now? Page two, Now we
get to the good stuff. A juicy subplot, a very
juicy subplot emerged after the game. So the story within
(07:08):
the story, Now, what is the juicy subplot?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You're asking, what is it? Well, I'll tell you what
it is.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So forty nine Er coach Kyle Shanahan let us know
that linebacker Devondre Campbell had decided he had had enough
and he took his ball and went home metaphorically.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Of course, he didn't take the ball, he just walked
off the field.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So Kyle Shanahan revealing that the linebacker Devondre Campbell decided
he did not want to play anymore. I'm good, coach,
I don't want to play, and he left in the
middle of the game. He said, I'm out of here.
He left the field in the third quarter. Now, Shanahan
was non committal immediately following the game regarding Campbell's future
(07:55):
with the forty nine, but he did say that someone
who doesn't want to play doesn't have a spot on
his team.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Really, that's a bold take, all.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Right, So how should the forty nine ers handle Devondre
Campbell quitting in the middle of a game.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
An island game. Who cares if with an island game
or not?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
He quit?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
So the first thought is obvious, this is a dereliction
of duties. You left your post, and so what the
Niners have to do here? Friendly advice unsolicited advice for
the Niners. You treat Campbell like an old, rusted out
container ship out in the Pacific Ocean. He must be decommissioned.
The forty nine ers have been infected this season by
(08:40):
dark energy. I don't know where it came from, but
it's there. And Devondre Campbell he goes a wall. He's
not a foxhole guy. He's not a huddle guy, and
he's not a football player. He's a waiver wire guy,
is what he is. Right, and let let him go
see a therapist or whatever and work out his issues.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
But he's not in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
There's no place for that in the NFL, because I'm
sure there's plenty of other guys in the Niners that
probably wanted to walk off the field and quit too
the way.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
They were playing, but they didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Right, you got to finish what you start. The Code
of the West, You finish what you start. Bad job
by him, All right, last word, let's go to the
winning locker room where you can ram it all day
and you can ram it all night.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And that's what the Rams did.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
So what is your level of confidence in Sean mcvay's
l A R I MS after winning this game? What
is your level of confidence in the Rams winning the
NFC West. So I'm gonna go first, Malord Scale of
confidence one to five, with five meaning it is a
Garon tight a Garron t So I am at a four. Okay,
(09:46):
I'm at a four unexpected goodness.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's how I will phrase this unexpected goodness.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And now you know, some of you, know, those of
you that actually pay attention that I realized that most
people that listen to audio content only hear a fraction
of what I'm saying, only process you only process.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
A little bit of what I'm saying. But I like
the Rams.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I grew up that was as Looting Tunes teleprompter Tom
says on the TV show that is the team of
my youth, the l A Rams. I loved him when
I was a kid, and now as an adult, I'm
a jaded middle aged man. So I just like whoever
I bet on. But I still have a place in
my heart for the Rams. And listen, we thought going
in this game, I thought the Rams are gonna lose
this game, and they impressed me. In years past, that
(10:32):
would have been in l I don't care how bad
the Niners were playing going to the game, the Rams
would have found a way to gag that game. And
that has been the kryptonite for Sean McVay. Kyle Shanahan
has had mcvay's number. The Niners have had good teams
in the regular season. Of course, the biggest matchup between
(10:52):
Shanahan McVay was in the NFC Championship Game, a game
I was lucky enough to be at and a few
years ago, and the Rams won.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That game to go to the Super Bowl. But that
is side.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You look at the ingredients here, Rainy cool night, forty
nine ers have had their number short week, a defense
that has not played particularly well, spotty defense for the Rams,
all the ingredients for.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
A free fall, a gag in years past.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But instead the Rams win a game without a touchdown
for the first time since twenty sixteen, the last time
a Ram team won a game where they did not
score a touchdown. They showed moxie, they showed gumption, grit,
all those big words, all that stuff. And the thing
to me that I'm going to take away from this game,
(11:46):
and I jotted this down on the notes thing on
my iPhone, whatever you call I think it's called the
notes thing. So Matthew Stafford bridging the third quarter in
the fourth quarter, to me, this was a defining moment,
a point of d marque for.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
The Rams and for the entire season.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They orchestrated a seventeam play, nine minute and forty five
second drive. They just eight the clock up. They ended
up only getting a field goal. But that's the kind
of a drive. If you can bottle that up, if
you're the Rams, if you can bottle that up and
do that down the line in a playoff game, that's
(12:26):
the kind of thing that gets you to beat a
big bad Lion team or a big bad Philadelphia Eagle
team in a playoff match. You hold the ball for
nine minutes and forty something seconds on a drive and
it was the game time was thirty five minutes in
favor of the Rams. The Niners had it for less
than twenty five minutes. So it was a huge advantage
(12:49):
for the Rams in time of possession and they ran
I think it was twelve more plays, which were you know,
is a lot, but it could have been worse, could
have been a lot worse. So just all around for
the La Rams, a big time performance and the Rams
the last week less than a week, the Rams have
shown to be a Swiss army knife team. You don't
(13:12):
want to play a Swiss Army knife team.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
And I was on with my friend Bob Fesco on
his show in Kansas City yesterday in the morning, and
I was half asleep, half awake, one of those deals
with Dad Dusty, who's on that show. He was like,
there's no team you'd rather play or not want to
play than the Rams. And I was like, well, yeah,
I don't trust the defense. But the fact that the
Rams were able to win a game where it was
an absolute Barton burner with the Buffalo Bills and they
(13:40):
outlasted Josh Allen, giving up six touchdowns, and now they
win a slugfest, just an ugly game with the Niners.
That is winning Swiss army knife style, winning multiple ways.
Use the large blade, you can use the bottle opener,
all that's of the corkscrew, any of those things.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
So that does bud Well and the Rams are on
on brand. They are one.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
They were one and four to start the year. The
Rams are seven and two since that one and four start,
and they already have a winning hand over the Seattle
football team, right they won that game in Seattle, so
you're looking at that and that's who they're chasing right now.
The Cardinals are falling apart in the division and the Rams.
(14:24):
They have the Jets, the Cardinals and the Seahawks that
close out the year. They should win every one of
those games. They will be favored in every one of
those games to close the year out. Cardinals and Seahawks
at home, Jets in Jersey. And so they're set up. Now,
don't screw up. That's really the story here.
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new King of Queens was introduced. These opening news conferences
are religious revivals. So feel good, it's grab ass, it's
(16:21):
everything's great. And this was more grandeur than anything. And
as our leader, our lead from Flushing, well, baseball for you,
little baseball. We'll get back to the football where the
Lrims really did ram it all day and ram it
all night. As the Rams beat the forty nine ers
and are now in position they've set themselves up to
win the NFC West and Seattle's about to fall apart
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there with Green Bay. But this is about baseball. So
after agreeing to the largest contract in baseball, the largest
contract in American sport, in fact, the largest contract in
all of sport on this little planet that we all
share as brothers and sisters from different mothers. And so
(17:08):
he was all smiles, right, he was in a good
mood for the most part. He got a fifteen year
contract seven hundred and sixty five million, which likely will
go up from that. Either it will go up to
over eight hundred million, or he will opt out of
that contract. The deal includes a seventy five million dollars
signing bonus Cha Ching Chichang Chi Ching. There's an opt
(17:32):
out after the fifth year that the Metsican void. They
just add, as I mentioned, some more money, and so
that would mean over the final ten years of the contract,
Soto will end up getting a total value of over
eight hundred million dollars to play baseball. He will likely
end up being a designated hitter. He's not a very
good defensive player. Before you know he'll be a designated hitter.
(17:55):
He doesn't hustle all that much, and he gets four
bats the game or something, so for four played appearances
on average a night, he's going to get an ungodly
amount ofment. Good for him, now, Soto, as you might
imagine if somebody gave you a contract that could be
up to.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Eight hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
He was lavishing praise on the Metropolitans and throwing a
bunch of sweet platitudes out, saying that they're a great organization,
and then he used the D word and that is
where people's eyebrows were raised.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Take a listen to one Soto slipping in.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
The d.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
They showed me how the organization run steens and how
they look at their future. I think it was one
of the things that opened my eyes a little bit
more while they're being constructing and building to take all
the way all the way up.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
To fifteen years, twenty years and never know. Definitely that
was one of the things that.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
I opened my eyes more. How hungry they are for
to win a championship and to want a mega A
dynasty in New.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
York Mets, okay, and I believe your nose was growing Pinocchio.
He said the word dynasty multiple times. Of course, if
you wanted to be part of a dynasty, there's one
going on in Los Angeles right now.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It's called the Dodgers. Wow, all right, okay, pal.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
He also said regarding New York sports, he said, it's
a Mets town, New York. It's been a Mets town
for a long time, so I think we just got
to bring it to the top, he said. He stressed
that owner Steve Cohen is going to take care of
his family and there's a lot to chew on and
we'll get right into it. Why not let us discuss
the question how did one Soto vibe with you? How
(19:54):
did he vibe with you the opening Mets introductory news conference. Now,
I am not a Mets fan, so you know that
going so that means I'm the perfect person to break
this down. But to answer the question, how did Wan
Soto vibe with you at the opening news conference of
his Mets career, I've got New York Philharmonic token and menu,
(20:17):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a pastrami sandwich at Katz's
Delhi in Manhattan, which is the second greatest pastami sandwich
I've ever had. The top pastrami sandwich I've ever had
is at Langers Deli in Los Angeles. Very upsetting the
people in New York that they don't dominate the pastrami game,
(20:40):
that there's a better pastrami sandwich in LA.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Number one doing the autopsy, doing the autopsy based on
what I saw.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
And I watch every second of this. I do have
somewhat of a life.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
That we taped the TV show on Thursday, I had
to sleep for a few hours, had to get ready
for this show. I had to watch a NFL game.
But these are first world problems.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Let me tell you something. These are first ward problems.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
But I did watch a good chunk of it on
the YouTube or was at MLB dot com I forget
I think it was YouTube anyway, So doing the autopsy
based on what I watched of this event. One Soto
is who we thought he was before the event. If
you want to crown him, you can crown his ass,
right one Soto.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Let me tell you what kind of guy this is.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
One Soto is the New York Philharmonic kind of guy.
He's center stage right there in the orchestra, and Soto
is He's got a trumpet. He's blowing his own trumpet,
is what he's doing right there. I mean, listen, I
get it, dude. You're a good baseball player. Congratulations, you're
good in terms of Q rating. In terms of liability,
you're in the bottom percent. Kyle pompous, persnickety, humble, bragging.
(21:55):
That's the face of the Mets. I mean, now, I
got family in New York. You know, I've been there
many times over the years. And the Met fan is
a blue collar fan. The Met fan these are like
construction guys, fireman, blue collar workers. That's a Met fan.
The Yankee fan is Wall Street now that's the elitist fan.
(22:17):
But I look at Sono, and this guy's much more
of a Yankee than he is a Met. The way
he carries himself. He's so smug and you know, look
at me type guy and all that. Now, as for
the dynasty part of that, I wonder which website Ajan
Soto uses to buy his psychedelic toad venom, because you
(22:38):
have to be licking some psychedelic toad venom there to
think that the Mets are are anywhere near a dynasty,
that the Dodgers are going to own the National League
at least for the next couple of years. And even
though you understand all these news conferences, as I said,
it is a pep rally, it is a religious revival.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
It is raw ray and.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Everything's great and rainbows, puppy dogs, lollipops, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
It's just wonderful. Right now, turning the page, but not
leaving the story. We're not leaving the story. Were turning
the page.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
So among the other revelations that I jotted down was
the relationship between one Soto, Aaron Judge, and all.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Of his old Yankee teammates.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Listen to what One Soda had to say about the
team that he used to play for ten miles away
over in the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
You've been in touch with anybody from your former team
and could you share what those conversations might have.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Been, Like, I haven't talked to any of those guys.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Definitely, we talked to them through playoff at the end
of the playoffs, but after that, I make these processes.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
I haven't talked to any of those.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
All right, So one Sodo says he has not talked
to any of his old teammates and was Aaron Judge
Also later on he mentioned Aaron Judge not talked to him.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Obviously he's part of the team.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So to Aaron Judger or any of his ex Yankee
teammates through this process or process, does this raise any
suspicion to you?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
All right?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So I will answer this now. I will tell you no,
I am not a fan of Sodo. I don't like
to why of this the vibe I got from I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I'm a vibe police here, Like he really cares what
I think of him.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
But I just didn't like to w However, I cannot
fault one Soda on this one. One Sodo has always
been since he came to the scene in DC with
the Nationals and our friend the ant man there.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
He knows this.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
He's nothing more than a mercenary. Okay, He's never pretended
to be anything else. That's the reason that in your
mid twenties, you've already played for four teams because you
just were chasing the money and you won. Congratulations, you
found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,
and now you are going to have to play for
the Mets for a number of years. But it's telling
(25:01):
that El Capitan of the New York Yankees, Aaron Judge
did not even bother to try to recruit Juan Soda.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
All right, and they can.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Say, hey, we're you know, we're good buddies and all that,
but not even a token call, not even a token
call to play to the cameras now putting on my psychologist.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Hat here behind the microphone.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Isn't that a dead way if you won't even use
a token call to make yourself look good to win
some clout points with the baseball media and social media
clout and all that, saying, well, Aaron Judge tried to
convince Juan Soto to come back to the Yankees, he
wondn't even do that.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
That tells me there's something more going on there.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Now, I will point out that people that work together,
these are almost always superficial relationships. It's you're a coworker,
you're not real friends. No, colleague are not friends. Colleagues
are people that you know, you work with and you
hope make you look better at work and all that.
(26:09):
That's what a colleague is. And so even in baseball
or whatever, and these guys spent a long time playing
trans and automobiles and all that. We had a similar
story before the Viking Falcon game where Justin Jefferson said
he had not spoken to Kirk Cousins since he left Minnesota.
And I said at the time, and I stand by
that take. I'm not changing the take that, yeah, these
(26:29):
guys are friends because they are forced to be friends
during the season, are co workers colleagues. Once the season ends,
they're on their own time. They don't have to hang
out with these people or associate with these people. All right,
final point one more nugget not a chicken nugget, but
one more nugget. Regarding what's next for the Metropolitan, it's
the owner. Steve Cohen says, the Mets are quote still
(26:53):
engaged with Pete Alonso. However, however, they're letting Alonso test
the market.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
They're letting him testimony. So how does this sound to you?
How does this sound to you?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
So?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Okay? So I'll go here.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
When you look at the menu, you know, you sit down,
they hand you the menu, and here's the menu, here's
the specials. And then they'll say, oh, here's the catcher
the day. The catcher the day is not the polar bear, okay.
And it's illegal to hunt polar bears. I believe sounds
like it should be illegal. So they're not serving blubber.
They're not serving the polar bear as the catcher today.
(27:28):
And Steve Cohen knows this like he's got f you money.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
And then some.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
And if Steve Cohen really wanted Pete Alonzo to come back,
he certainly would not allow him to test the market. Right,
but things have changed. Alonzo last season, while his overall
numbers were good you break them down, the analytical numbers
were not good. He was no longer a holy terror,
terrible numbers with runners in scoring position. It's fair to
say the Mets no longer deem him essential.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Now he's not a center the Men's.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
If you look at the temperature in the room for
the Mets regarding their interest in Alonzo.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
It's luke warm. That's the temperature.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
If you really want Alonzo back, you move mountains.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Am I wrong on this? Maybe I am?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
You move mountains. You keep him away as much as
you can from testing the mark. You say no, no,
nobody else is going to make you a better offer. Alonzo, though,
has already started meeting with other teams as he tries
to navigate the minefield that is free agency and avoid
the booby traps.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
And nobody though at this point, based.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
On the fact that contracts have been signed now for
several weeks and nobody has lined up Pete Alonzo, and
that is a pretty good indicator, a pretty good indicator
that there is not an overwhelming amount of interest. Now,
whether the Giants or the Texas Rangers, somebody like that
(28:59):
steps up the Orioles offers him some money, fine, but
at this point it's not an overwhelming amount of interest.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
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Speaker 4 (29:14):
Smaller.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
How about to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
This is one thing that gets graill.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
So rumors of how Tom Brady is going to affect
the Raiders continue to pour in. On Wednesday was a
report that Brady's influence could mean Mike Rabel as a
replacement for Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Ben, are you buying that no? Antonio Piers should get
another year. They railroaded Pierce. They gave him a crappy
offensive coordinator that he didn't pick. They gave as I understated,
and he has no quarterback. The Raiders are going to
have a top five pick in the draft right now,
they have the number one pick. Let's see what Antonio
Pierce can do when he actually has a chance with
a decent a better roster, a better offensive coordinator, and
(29:56):
Tom Brady owns a bit of the Raiders. They gonna
let Tom Brady be the GM of the Why would
you do that?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Next?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Looking around the NBA media landscape and you'll find that
the Oklahoma City Thunder at the top of most power
rankings now, Ben, they were the number one seed last
year but lost in the conference semifinals.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Do you think they'll make a deeper run this year?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, they are loaded and Kyrie in Oka, see who's
a big fan of the show, is not gonna like this.
But it's not good for the NBA. There's just not
a lot of national appeal. They have good players, but
they don't have the wow factor in Okay. See, that's
a league that needs the wow factor and they're just
missing that.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
They're winning a lot, but they're missing that. But I
do think they'll go on a big round the clubs next.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
NFL Exact Troy Vincent called the on side kick a
dead play due to the low recovery rate, said the
league will consider changes in the offseason.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Ben, how can the league fix this? Oh yeah, so
here's what you can do. Grow some hair in their
chest and go back to the old kickoff. All right,
stop being a bunch of wosses. It's ridiculous. How did
we do, Kobolo? You pass this edition?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
That is a win?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Another win. Add that to my lifetime record right there,
all time wins king.
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I think it seemed like it was every other week?
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the comedian? Why did Lizzo turn down a date?
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Has a yacht cover and that's that's oak Dog who
sent that one in?
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Lizzo so inspired to help catch murderers? Why because she
gets to go to McDonald's.
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Yeah, that's a Kurt from Earth.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah you see we man that caught that guy who
killed the insurance guy allegedly eating hash browns at the
McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
He was sad hash browns.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
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as a free person. Possibly Big Ben's lame jokes of
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Tony Tony in the Bay Area. There did you hear that? Doc?
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Mike got fired from his job at the drug testing lab.
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Oh yeah, he was drinking on the job. It was
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weed Man?
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What a whack jobless Kurt from Earth there?
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What they said in order to qualify they needed a
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Cooper one to do them the clasp And here you in,
very efficient Marcel Man. What a voiceover man?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Oh thank you Marcel. Uh.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
This week we're gonna have a little bit of an
abbreviated version of Coop Scooping Entertainments. And that's mostly because
as far as the movie theater goes, I don't think
there's anything worth pointing out to you coming out this weekend.
But that is not the case on television. So I've
got a couple of things for you here. One second,
I well, I get this thing off my screen, okay.
(36:14):
First is a new series that is available right now
on Netflix. It is called No Good Deed. It is
a dark comedy and basically it follows three families that
are vying to purchase the same multimillion dollar house in
Los Angeles currently owned by an empty nester couple played
by Lisa Kudro and Ray Romano. Now the hearse the
(36:36):
house comes with dark and dangerous secrets and other stars
in this show are Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson, and Dennis Leary.
And all episodes stream today. That is available on Netflix.
Pretty good reviews on that one.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Moving on to a this is a new movie.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
This is also on Netflix and it should also be
available right now.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
It is called carry On and.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
It stars a young TSA agent who is played by
Taron Edgerton who fights to outsmart, a mysterious traveler who
blackmails in it blackmails him into letting a dangerous package
slip onto a Christmas Eve flight. So it's a Christmas thriller. Oh,
I love that.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
That's what we need. We need that Christmas thriller.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
That's right. Jason Bateman also stars in this one. That's
what Crampus does for me. Thrills you on Christmas? Yes
about Christmas?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Yes? Okay, last, but not least this one. I'm kind
of excited. I'm hopeful about now if a you are
a fan of Coopscub Entertainment. You know, I'm a big
fan of the old Showtime show Dexter starring Michael C.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Hall.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Showtime is it's not a reboot, it's a spin off,
and this is called Dexter Original Sin Now. If you
have Paramount Plus with Showtime, you can stream it right now. Otherwise,
if you just have the Showtime cable channel, that will
premiere on Sunday. And basically this is a we're going
into the past, so it's a set in nineteen ninety one.
(38:16):
It's a prequel series and it's centered on a twenty
somethingter version of the serial killer Dexter Morgan, who is
now played by somebody named Patrick Gibson. But the voiceovers,
the you know, his internal voice is still gonna be
narrated by Michael C.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Hall.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Christian Slater will play Dexter's father, Harry, and the show
also stars Patrick Dempsey, Christina Milion and a couple other
and Sarah Michelle Geller also guest stars in this show
that is available on Paramount Plus with Showtime, and that
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