September 11, 2025 • 47 mins
Big Ben talks about the 49ers turning to Mac Jones after it was announced Brock Purdy suffered an injury, Anthony Rizzo retiring as a Cub and if they should retire his number, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!
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This is from the Bay Area and the forty nine
ers could be finer. We have our first quarterback injury,
our first quarterback injury of the regular season in the NFL.
If you have not seen this, maybe not the forty
nine Ers, Mister irrelevant. Brock Purty will be mister irrelevant
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going forward if you believe the Niners. And now most
of these reports are bogus, but we're going to assume
the position that this one is not. Brock Purty described
as a quote long shot, a long shot to play
against the Norlands Saints, which is as bad an NFL
team as you can find.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And now that.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Party could miss multiple weeks. I like how they say, well,
he's a long shot to play against Saints. Oh and oh,
by the way, he's probably gonna miss multiple games with
a toe injury. Now, Kyle Shanahan, who we just goofed
on in a previous episode of the show. So Shanahan
commented on Brock pretty in fact, rather than me just
read the quote.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Let's go the audio tape.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Here.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Is the forty nine.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Er coach any further sense about whether Brock will be
able to play on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh, I dance a long shot as well.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
That party's injury could be a multi week thing.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And that's the toe more so in the shoulder. Yes,
did someone's up on his foot in the pocket? Do
you know how the toe injury happened? Yeah, I think
it happened scrambling.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I think when I'm love tackle him by the sideline.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I believe it happened. Was playing through that in the
game or is just something you found out later?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That was where Yeah, he got grilled there he was
like he was like being integragated or interrogated rather interrogated
by the by the cops. All right, So Mac Jones
under this scenario, Mac Jones will be QB number one
when the forty nine ers on the New Orleans football
team if Brock Purty cannot play.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So let us discuss the question what is.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The biggest difference between brock Purty and Mac Jones. So
I've got Dino Nuggets, Johnny Depp and Icy Hot and
those are three things that have never been put together.
But we're gonna put him together and play Connect three.
So a who goofed? I've got to know right now.
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We have poked fun at Brock Party.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We have had a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Of fun, and we've been right with our analysis at
Brock Party. And I think he has he's played. The
more he's played, the more his frailties have been exposed,
and the real football people know he's not all that good, right,
And we pointed that out as weakness is because it's
part of the job as.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It talk shows.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
However, if you're being totally honest here, brock Purty, well,
he is certainly not Peyton Maning or Patrick Mahomes or
something like that compared to Mac Jones.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Though.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's like going from a nice meal at Dave's Hot Chicken,
and then he said, well, I can't go there, I
can't find one, and I don't want that Nashville Hot Chicken.
So instead I'm just gonna microwave some Dino Nuggets. And
that's what I'm gonna eat like. Already's strength is that
he hasn't screwed up too much. That he's kind of
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the little wind up toil toy for Kyle Shanahan's offense.
That he reads the defense and he'll get rid of
the ball, and as long as the playmakers are matriculating
the ball down the field, he's fine.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
From his time with the Patriots, he will stare down
that linebacker. He'll give that linebacker elevator eyes man up
and down and all around, and it's like.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It's his prom date.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And then he'll still throw the linebacker the ball, which
you shouldn't do. Not that I played quarterback in the NFL,
but forty four interceptions in less than sixteen hundred pass attempts.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
For mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You don't have to be a quarterback coach to know
that blows.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It's not just bad.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's like working at Santa's Workshop in the gift wrapping
department when it comes to turnovers. And on his best day,
Mac Jones, on his very best day, which of course
means as good as all the rest, he's mid.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
He's not a good quarterback, Mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He's just good enough to keep you from immediately cutting him,
and so he'll have a job in the NFL because
he shows up to practice and he's a good practice player.
But he's that guy that you you know, you kind
of regret the whole thing, but you want to get
away from the person. Like dating, you want to get
away from the person, but you don't really have anything
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else to do on.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
A Friday night, so you're like, I will hang out
with him whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But he's bad enough to lose winnable games, and that's
the issue. And I have no skin in the game.
I know that our guys are Nesto and some of
the other forty nine are Jay Scoop and Alameda Loo
and those guys that are big forty nine er fans
and some others that call the show.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You're a RAM fan, what do you? You don't know
what you're telling you this jet Listen.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I know Mac Jones from watching these games and being
you know, on Benny versus the Penny all these years
and handicapping the games. So he's he's bad enough to
lose winnable games. He's not bad enough to be out
of the league. That's the point, right, And brock Perty
he doesn't elevate players, that's our main argument, and mac
Jones he actively pulls them down into the mud with him.
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And so that's the other issue. Now Paige two looking
at the upcoming gig because it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It looks like the forty nine ers are going to
go with mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So with that as the backstory, who's under more pressure
this week? Is it mac Jones taking over at quarterback
or is it Kyle Shanahan who has to draw up
the playbook for mac Jones. So the arrow on this
one is clearly pointing the direction of mac Jones. The
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guy's career is dangling by a threat. He went from
the supposed savior of the Patriots and the handpicked quarterback
by Bill Belichick, and he was gonna be the guy
that leads New England out of a deep dark place
there and the next great Patriot quarterback. He was rudely
kicked out of the Northeast and sent to Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It's like, well that's a kind of a homecoming form
right Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And he was an afterthought in Jacksonville, and now he
goes to the forty nine ers and it's like a
charity case for Kyle Shanahan to put him out there,
so he absolutely he needs Mac Jones needs a big
game like Johnny Depp needed Pirates of the Caribbean four.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Because without it, I mean, if he goes out there
and loses to the Saints, I mean he is woof wow.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know, maybe he can be clipboard guy forever, but
most likely not even that. I mean Jones argument has
been the Jones camp, if there is such a thing
as a Jones camp, is that he's been surrounded by
flotsam and jetsam. That in New England they just had
bad football players around him, and in Jacksonville they had
underachieving but talented players.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
The Niners are supposed to be different.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now, they did have a down year last year, but
the Niner rosters supposed to be an upgrade.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Now that's debatable.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And we know that Kyle Shanahan is going to spoon
feed Mac Jones with his celebrated offensive system, which every
broadcaster on television.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Loves to tell you is the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And can he play Shanahan hide the quarterback like its
backyard football?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Can he do that? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Other than Christian McCaffrey, you look at that Niner depth chart,
there is no juice.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Where's the juice? There is no juice there.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You've got a mid quarterback in mac Jones, you've got
mid weapons, and you've got Shanahan who's doing some meatball
surgery trying to put.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It all together.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Now, if they weren't playing the Saints, who are actively
waving the white flag.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
They don't. They're not even trying.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
They're they're not even Spencer Rattler is their quarterback for
God's sakes, right, So this would be a certified disaster.
Like the Niners, as bad as they are, you think
they're gonna win just because they're the better team.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
That doesn't always work out that way.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And there's something in the points spreads involvements. But in
terms of the evidence here, George Kittle on injured reserve,
so he's not gonna play their safety blanket tight end.
Juwan Jennings is dinged up, So now you're most likely
rolling with Kendrick Bourne, who was an ex patriot, and
Ricky Piersall those are your options on offense. And so
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what does that mean? That means the usual screens dump
off to Christian mccafrey. It's Christian McCaffrey left, and then
when you get tired of that, it's Christian McCaffrey to
the right, and you pray for a busted play and
he takes it to the out Like Shanahan's going to
be the chef here calling up the plays and he'll
be cooking with the ingredients are spam and saltines instead
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of wagou beef, So there's no wagoo bee. Now, good
luck on that right and again Mac. The drama here
is that Mack.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Is playing for his football life. He's playing for his
football life.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And if you look at how he has played up
until this point, which is all we have to judge
him on, he has struggled pre snap. He appears to
have no idea how to read. He's illiterate when it
comes to reading a blitz. You can't do that to
save his life. And the Saints even in tank mon though,
here's the odd thing about like, even as bad as
the Saints are, there's still a few good players on
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the defense on defense, and they can't dial up some pressure.
So it's it's kind of like sending a man who
can't swim into the wavepool at six flags. Hurricane Harbor.
You just put him out there, and it's probably not
a good idea. It's probably not so all right. Now,
last word, we head from the forty nine Ers and
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we go to Petsburg, PA, the land of the Insers,
and that's where we have our weekly dose up a.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Radgers. Yes, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So the Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, he announced, despite having
good numbers against the Jets' former team and the Steelers
winning that game, Rogers said that his back was tight
in Week one and that kept him from moving how
he typically moves. He said he actually ran into one
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or two sacks against the Jets. Quote Rogers said, I
might be old, but I still feel like I can
move around pretty good, and I wasn't moving the way
I usually like to move close quote all right, So
question on this one for the esteem panel, what is
your takeaway from Aaron Rodgers saying that his back was
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essentially barking harf horf horf. Sounded like that his back
was barking harfrf just like Andre's dog, right, just like
his dog there willis so uh. The Steelers the way
I look at this, they have themselves a middle aged.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Quarterback that's kind of it's not my opinion, it's not
an outrageous opinion. That's what he is, you know, in
life and in football, he's an old quarterback. But after that.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Opening scene, right, I mean that was the opening scene
of the of the play, and Rogers essentially hit us
with the readed middle aged lament one game in, so
using the Mallord decoder, the Mallard Dacota, it's Rogers essentially saying, hey,
Mike chiropractor is now more important than my offensive coordinator.
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It's the NFL's version of that classic line from an
old TV show called The Honeymooners and Ralph Cramton, who
said it best, Oh my aching back, right, and Rogers,
you know, he's giving you the hippodrome sneak preview of
what's coming soon to a stadium near you. So it's
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one game in and Rogers is already saying, hey, my
back is barking.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Let's fast forward.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Now ahead in the broadcast until December in Pittsburgh, Chamber
of Commerce, day, thirty one degrees cloudy, just overcast, wind
blowing off the Allegheny and the confluence right there, and
you think that that back is going to feel looser
in those conditions.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I don't know, I'm asking for a friend.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, all right, Now, now that back is going to
sound like a rusty screen door in a windstorm by
the time we get to December, if he's even still
out there by the time we get December. So, no
matter how much it's a good lesson here, no matter
how much ayahuasca one drinks, Rogers is still like the
rest of us who reach middle aged right. He still
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thinks he can dance like he did in his twenties,
except when he goes to the club. Now he hits
the dance floor and a couple songs later, he's rubbing
icy hot all over his body. He is oiled up
with icy hot. That's how he's doing it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Now. He's at the athletic.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Stage of life where occasionally tying one shoes is a
warm up.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Exercise, and you go to the gym, say did you
warm up? Yeah? I warmed up.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
What you do I tied my shoes, Well, that's not
warming up. Well for me, it's warming up. So I
tied my shoes. Well, that's not really warming up, but
for me, it's tied my shoves. Now, where will you
bend over, you know, to bend over to pick up
the remote, and suddenly you need an MRI that kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
So keep an eye on this. We obviously will. We
have nothing else going on.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But by week eight, every time Rogers tries to roll out,
it's coming to look like your uncle Harvey getting off
the couch there and you know, watching after watching seven
hours of commercials that you used to have no commercials
on that Red Zone channel. So a lot of creeks, cracks,
groans all that. That's the soundtrack for Aver and Raders.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
So it's a bit of foreshadowing.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It's a bit of foreshadowing, a preview of future coming attractions.
And when the backlocks up in September, it's a bad
sign for December. So instead of the terrible towel, that
should change it up. I got an idea. Now, I'm
a marketing guy. You said what you used an overnight
I am an overnight guy, but I'm a marketing guy.
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Mallard marketing. How about this promotional giveaway? A lot of teams.
Football teams don't use give stuff away because they.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Don't need to. They only play eight games year.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Baseball teams give you a bobble Dodgers have had four
bobblehead nights.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
For Showhale, tony four of them.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Four of them, and people still line up six hours
before the game to get a o Tani bobble It's like, hey,
it's not that limited dummy anyway, that's not the point.
Football teams normally don't give stuff away. The Steelers are
known for what they're known for, the terrible towel. I'm
now the marketing director of the Pittsburgh Steels. Here's what
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I do.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I go out online and I purchase.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Forty thousand heating pads, and I put the Steeler logo
on them, and I have a promotion, Aaron Rodgers Heating
Pad Night. On one side, I put the Steeler logo.
On the other side, I put a mug shot of
Aaron Rodgers. Boom done. What a great promotion. All right,
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the terrible heating pads and put those out. Who says
no to that? Come on, it's a good idea. I
know you're shaking your head.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
That's a good idea. You can't come up with any
better than that, can you know?
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debates always drive me nuts, and since I have the
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bully pulpit here, I thought, why not just to have
some fun with this. So we go to dateline Chicago
and it's all she wrote for a franchise legend in
the Windy City.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
If you have not heard by now, maybe not Anthony
Rizzo done. Now we saw Rizzo. He is a Yankee.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Game the other night played with the Yankees, his last
big league team. Rizzo, though, was drinking a beer in
the stands and the news came out.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
He is going to.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Officially retire as a member of the Cups, one of
those ceremonial retirement ceremony thing of the jigs that I
love so much. And he's going to join the organization
as a team ambassador.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So Rizzo, thirty six, spent ten of his fourteen big
league seasons in Chicago. He has fully vested in the
Major League Baseball pension program. So he's set gonna get
big fat checks.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You know, as long as he lives.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And those are really nice checks, really sexy checks that
you're gonna get. And so he helped them win the
World Series in twenty sixteen, y'all told me that the
Cubs are going to become a dynasty, and they pretty much.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Snunk ever since then.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And so the issue here is this debate that has
popped up now that Rizzo's announced his retirement. Is he
going to get the ultimate honor from the Chicago National
League Baseball team?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
So let's discuss. That's a good jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So the question, should the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Should they retire his number?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So I've got ring around the Rosie Turtle, wax and Superman,
and we'll combine all of these ingredients together. We're gonna
make Babushka's favorite potato lacas is what we're gonna make,
all right, So number, I said number. My answer, should
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the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number? It's a hard no,
not a soft no. It's a hard no.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
We are against Jersey retirements as a rule of thumb.
This thing's gotten way out of hand, way out of hand.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
These uniform funerals are the corporate version of taking your
grandma's photo album and then charging you twenty dollars or
thirty dollars for the privilege of.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Looking at them. Hey remember sixteen, boy, that was a
long time ago. Remember the curse, the curse of the
Billy Goat. Yeah, somebody let Doc Mike know.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
The Billy Goat curses over because he's still dropping goat
heads off at Wrigley Feel. But it's Wrigleyville marketing oxygen
right now. I understand we got great cub fans. Tree
in Chicago wonderfully gave me a good gift package from
the Cubs, which is very kind, and and all the
other guys that we've met over the years in Chicago,
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So Eugene in Chicago, A lot of guys can't name
the moll g man.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I'm gonna try, though, No Phase, he always gets upset.
Who you said?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
My name?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
My name's Phase. I did meet him in a Cup
game actually, ironically enough.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But the whole point of this is to say, no,
Rizzo was a fine member of the Cubs organization. Congratulations,
But the whole marketing thing was like, come breathe the
air of twenty sixteen. Well, no, it's twenty twenty five.
I don't want to breathe the air of twenty I
don't want to breath the air of twenty sixteen. It's
twenty twenty five. And while the Cubs are playing the
violin in the background, that sappy.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Violin music as they roll out the highlight reel, the.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Fluff piece, and they're essentially selling bottled air from twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's what this is.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
It's all about the heartstrings and the people saying, well,
retire's number, retire's number, and you know, just keep the
cash register, Hummond and memory Lane, all that good stuff.
But you need an Anthony Rizzo ice bucket to the face.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Reality check here.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
If you look at the precedent, and I'm against retiring anyone's.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Number, I think the whole thing's lame.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
But if you are in the camp of retiring numbers,
there have to be some standards. You can't be like
the Yankees and retire everyone's number, right, it's embarrassing, or
the Celtics or the Lakers, it's so embarrassing. But the
Cubs have a president, Ernie Banks, mister Baseball, Ryan Sandberg who.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Just passed away not that long ago, Greg Maddox, Ron Santo,
Fergie Jenkins, Billy Williams.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's it. That's the list. Those all of them are
Hall of famers. Most of them are hardball immortals. And
Andre Dawson, who is a better Cub, didn't play as
long as you gotta go with a better Cub than
Anthony Rizzo. Dawson doesn't have his number retired, and I
believe he's a Hall of Famer. He actually works in
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the same business now, Andre Dawson. If you're old, you
know who he is. He played baseball a long time ago.
For he played so long ago. Was a team called
the Montreal Expos when he played. But Andre Dawson now
is an undertaker. He has the job that our friend
Hayes has in Minnesota, not quite the same exact job,
but he works at a mortuary. So anyway, this whole
thing is the riglely Ivy effect your wrapper. You know,
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anything in Ivy you put a retro font on it,
and the Cub fan will.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Eat it up.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
They will eat it up. It comes.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Actually, don't have a bad team this year. They don't
hear to have a championship team. And they're not a
bad team. And you know, everyone seems to have a
playoff shot. The Cubs are right there on that big
mix in the in the playoff field. But they'll sell
you the same old walk down Clark Street there and
the yellow brick road. And it's a brilliant business model.
And so it's not so much selling baseball, you're selling
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the nostalgia with stuff like this. And as far as
the whole number retirement thing, I know that most teams
are obsessed with this and just will retire numbers because
they can't help themselves. They have no control. It's out, yeah,
and it's it's off the hook. To me, though, you
should try to pee like the Dallas Cowboys. Well, I
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would just say the Cowboys. The Cowboys have never retired
a number. They have never retired number. They have a
ring of honor and the malor advice, unsolicited malle advice.
How about ring around the rosie or in this case,
ring around the ivy and just put a ring of
honor around Wrigley Field and say, all right, we have
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a haul, we have the number retirement.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
We're done doing that, and so from now on we're
gonna have a ring of honor. Boom.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
And you can even put it outside the stadium on
one of those rooftops with the Cubs bought and give
Rizzo a plaque and have a bobblehead day and there
you go. Problem solved, just like that, all right now
page two to Anaheim, we go, Yes, Anaheim, I saw this.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Oh you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So a report out from the baseball insider crowd that
it is most likely not going to be a return
to Ron Washington next season. Now, there's still a chance
he comes back, but more likely than not, Ron Washington
will be elevated. He had a major heart major bypasserger,
I believe, and so most likely he will just get
an advisor role and that's it. And so the Angels
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will have a new manager next year. So how do
you digest the report that the Halos are being tied
to Albert Poohos, Yes, that Albert Poohos, who played for
the team and really stole money from the team for
years and was terrible. And the possibility that they will
go back to Mike Sosha remember him, He's been out
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of baseball for several years. But they could turn back
to Mike Sosher, the guy that was the skipper when
they finally won the World Series back in the day.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
So how do I digest this?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It is the theater of the absurd in Anaheim, the
Los Angeles Angels, of Disneyland, of Turos, of eternal irrelevance,
all of that, and we don't talk about this guy
because the Angels are irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
We have apathy.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
But Artie Marino is doing cosplay as Jerry Jones and
failing miserably. He's chasing headlines. A lot of the moves
the Angels maker to chase headlines, and he's like addicted
to the shiny object. And he's running the Angels like
a bad Vegas lounge act. And he even did the
fake head fake thing where he's like, I'm gonna sell
(27:40):
the team. Psych I'm not selling the team bringing back
Mike Sosher though, why not go get a shovel, dig
up Genautry.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Bring back the ghost of Gene Autry. Trot his ass
out there on opening day twenty twenty six, and he
can sarenade Mike Soosha as he gets back into the
doug out back in the saddle again. And the Angels,
they might as well just tire my guy, Kawhi Leonard.
We know Kawhi loves no show jobs. Managing the Angels
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is a no show job. You're a mascot in a hoodie.
You're a Walmart greeter with a lineup card. In fact,
I don't understand why they have another. The Angel should
get Turtle Wax as a sponsor. The manager should have
a patch that says turtle Wax right on the uniform there,
because when you're managing the Angels, you spend about six
(28:31):
months of the year polishing turds. That's what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
That's it. It's the organizational philosophy.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And they had Mike Trout and Showyotani in the same
lineup to Hall of Famers for multiple seasons, and they
managed to be irrelevant by.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Labor Day every single year. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That is not a bug in the system. That is
an entire operating error, is what that is. That's a
software issue. There's a trojan horse in the software. And
hiring Albert Pools or bringing back Mike Sosher or I
don't know, go find Joe Madden somewhere in Margaritaville somewhere.
None of it matters. It's like asking a cord Don
(29:11):
Blue chef to cook an award winning meal and the
ingredients are kibbles and bits and catnip the Angels at
this point. They don't even need a manager. They don't
they need an exorcism, is what they need. Get some
holy water, some garlic clothes, all of it. Until then,
as the Great Donnie Brasco said, forget about it.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Remember this, the Angels could hire.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I'm convinced they could hire the Pope as the manager,
the Dali Lama could be the third base coach, and
the tooth Fairy could be the hitting coach, and they'd
still finish in fourth place.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
In the American League West.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That's the way they are now, one final final point
while I'm at it. So I saw this and I
thought it was worthy of a mention. Staying at the
Big A. This guy was the biggest deal in baseball.
Who didn't want to be the biggest deal in baseball?
Mike Trout. Remember, Mike Trout was the top player in baseball,
and he hated He's like like an introvert. Didn't want
to deal with the media, didn't want and didn't want
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to do interviews. So Mike Trout has gone. Based on
the Angels Twins game, which took place on Wednesday, Mike
Trout has now gone. I believe that math is right
on this one hundred and twenty three played appearances, twenty
eight games without hitting home run. He's sitting on three
ninety eight. His previous longest drought was one hundred and
seventeen played appearances.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That was a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So question, what do you make of Mike Trout and
his collapse in Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
So it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Like watching Superman walk around and he's got a neck
brace and he's limping it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
It's kind of like that, like this is brutal.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Mike Trout has been locked in since August sixth over
a month now on that same home run total, and
we know he's got that rare like it's a spinal
tap spinal condition thing there. He's basically the world's most
expensive day to day player. He's on that twelve year
contract for four hundred million dollars and I believe he's
(31:12):
got five years left. He will be thirty eight, Mike Trout,
and he's already a shell of what he was and
his salad days and the angels are handcuffed.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
They're handcuffed to Mike Trout.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Now, they are really nice handcuffs, like a Rolex pair
of solid gold handcuffs really solid, really good handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
They also have a ball and chain which it's got
the Angel logo on it.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
So it's okay, they've got the Angel logo.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yah, yeah, I know, I know. It's pretty exciting. So
they've got that going for him. But they're stuck. They're stuck,
and you cannot build a round Mike Trout anymore. You
cannot depend on Mike Trout anymore. He's played actually a
lot of games this year by Mike Trout standards. And
here's where things get interesting, right where the rubber meets
the road.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
ARTI Marino cannot cannot quit these guys. He can't.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I And people said, well, they're gonna trade Trout because
he's not a lead guy.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
He can be a good number three guy, Like you
have two stars, he's your third star. You can be
pretty good. But they had Otani.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Everyone knew that Otani was gonna leave the Angels because
they were they didn't know what they were doing.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
And instead of.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Trading Otani and saying we'll get some for him, they
just kept Otani because they got all that Japanese advertising,
which the Dodgers are obsessed with, by the way, Oh
my god, they are sucking every dollar they can out
of the Japanese economy. But and I don't blame him.
I do the same thing. But anyway, Otani left as
a free agent, and that means that based on that,
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Mike Trout is not going anywhere, Like even if teams
called the ends up, like Marino is going to Artie,
Marino is going to have to eat a bunch of
money just to get Trout out there, and he's.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I don't think he's gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I can't see him doing it, even though the Halos
could absolutely get offers and they could entice the Philadelphia
Phillies to bite on Trout from Jersey, but you know
in the Philadelphia part of Jersey, Southern Jersey, so I
believe he grew up a Phillies fan. And then the
Yankees are always there. They love Falling Stars, they can't
get enough of them. They're ready for the Falling Stars
(33:19):
challenge and all that.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So you find a.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Sucker who still believes that Mike Trout's got enough star
dust to justify acquiring him. And then the Phillies are
chasing rainbows and they're at a weird point now if
they don't win this year. They've got an older team,
a bunch of players that are going to leave in
free agency or could leave in free agency. So they
got to sign Schober he's going to be a free agent.
They've got Bryce Harper, he's getting older now. And so
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if you can put Trout out there with those guys
and Castellanos leaves, for example, that would make some sense
that the Yankees, they would be trying to resurrect Mike
Trout like their doctor Frankenstein if he went to the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And you look at the comps on this, if.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You take the name away, if you take the Mike
Trout name away, and did the blind Pepsi challenge, the
blind soda challenge, Mike Trout his production offensively this season
is on the same level with Isaac Parides of the
Astros and Jonathan Arnda of the Tampa Bay Rays, who
(34:19):
exactly these are not household names. They make chicken feed
compared to what Mike Trout makes. He's being fed like
a whale. He's being fed like a whale, and they're
being fed like a crab on the beach, a little
sand crab and the halo. Listen, we not to flog
a dead halo. But they're deep in a deep dark
place and they're not good. They're not bad. They're just
(34:42):
stuck on this treadmill of mediocrity. And more probably they're
a relevant while the Dodgers are in this golden era
where they make the playoffs every year, and if they
I can't imagine not.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Making the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two a I'm Eastern, eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Here we go, all right, Sam Maller, how about.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That to the third degree?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Now.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
I know it's only been one week, Ben, but it's
being reported that kickoff returns are way up so far
this season thanks to the new rule moving touchbacks to
the thirty five yard line. But as the NFL finally
fixed kickoffs.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
A small sample size, coop, small sample size, it was,
let's put it this way, week one, it was not
a useless play and for several years in the end,
actually more than several years, like you just didn't need
to watch kickoffs because it just nothing ever happened.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
So that's a time to go get snacks. That's not
a time to pay attention. But now, yeah, it's one
week so at this point we do the show today, Coop,
So I'm gonna go.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Next, the Toronto Blue Jays are only a few games
ahead of the Yankees in the Al East, and they
just had to put their star shortstop Bobaschett on the il.
Do you think they'll be able to hold off the
Bronx Bombers.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well, if you've seen the way the Yankees have played
this week, getting just destroyed by the by the Detroit Tedger,
the Yankees are a flawed baseball team, so Toronto's not
great either. But based on side by side the Yankees,
all they do is hit home runs. If they don't
hit home runs, they really don't win very often at all.
They showed some weaknesses in their bullpen here, so yeah,
(36:24):
oh god.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Next, A rold As Chapman has been on an insane
run for the Boston Red Sox. He was till yesterday,
well before that, it was seventeen straight appearances without allowing
a hit, only one run last thirty seven games.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Do you think chapman success this year secures him a
spot in the Hall.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
No, No, He's got a lot of baggage. And he
you know, he's one of those borderline guys. He's got
some Hall of Fame numbers. Now, if the Red Sox
going to run in the playoffs and he's lights out,
then you can revisit this. But he's still borderline Hall
of fame even with this renaissance, and he's been great.
He already signed for next year. The Red Sox already
signed Chapman to an extension. All right there, it is
(37:07):
mallor to the third degree. He got lit up by
the A's And how did we do pass this edition?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
That is one again? Take that, Justin and Cincinnati, I
won Justin.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
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Speaker 3 (37:32):
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Speaker 5 (37:43):
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Speaker 9 (37:53):
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Speaker 5 (37:54):
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hashtag ask fan, asked Ben, And now for the reading
of the questions and the Kooper loop.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
All right, we're gonna start off with a question from
Shane in Des Moines. He would like to know where
were you during the nine to eleven attacks. This is
for the whole crew.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Uh yeah, So I was working here at Fox Sports Radio.
I was actually doing updates at that time. I was
working on the Fox lot on Fairfax in West West
l A.
Speaker 9 (38:32):
And we were, you know.
Speaker 10 (38:34):
We just I did did news updates during the day
and then they they were worried actually that there was
they were going to.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Attack the Fox.
Speaker 10 (38:44):
Studios, the TV, the movie studios over there.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
So then they started like evacuating people, but they didn't
evacuate us because we had.
Speaker 10 (38:51):
To stay on the air and all that. It was.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
It was a crazy day, obviously, but I was working
at Fox Sports Radio doing updates and uh yeah, I
will always remember that, obviously. That was one of the
big days in my life.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
What about you and Loraina?
Speaker 6 (39:05):
What were you doing way back on nine to eleven?
Speaker 11 (39:08):
Oh my gosh, I was walking to my third grade
class and oh my god, and I remember stopping at
missus Summer's class and everyone was staring at the TVs
and I was like, what's going on? And my teacher
was just crying, and I was like, oh, this is serious.
Speaker 7 (39:28):
Yeah, I was really young.
Speaker 10 (39:29):
Yea, oh wow, I get you. That's that's like an
age flex. What you did there is an age flex?
An age flex?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
What that is?
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I often remember when I woke up. I had an
early shift, and I mean I was working nights mostly
back then, but I had to do an early shift
and I still remember my alarm went off and I
heard you.
Speaker 10 (39:48):
I was a clock radio back then, and I had
there was.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
An emergency broadcast alert because it was in between the
first plane and the second plane. And I remember hearing
the emergency broadcast thing. I was like, I thought I
was dreaming because I had never been activated in my life.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
And do you hear that?
Speaker 12 (40:06):
When?
Speaker 7 (40:07):
Do you ever hear that?
Speaker 10 (40:08):
Well, that was the only time I've ever heard it.
I don't know, maybe it's been activated since then, but
that was it. So I remember that too. I was like,
I thought I was dreaming. I was like, it's in
the same what about you?
Speaker 9 (40:17):
Cool?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I'm pretty sure that when it happened, I was I
was sleeping.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
Yeah, that was like five in the morning.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Yeah, But then I do remember my mom waking me up.
She was on the phone with my grandma, who uh
lived in Brooklyn her entire life, and so she was
like giving the play by play to my mom over
the phone. And then my Mom's like, we're under attack,
(40:47):
and I'm like, what what is happening? Uh?
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
And then we still went to school and it was
just it was weird. It was a weird vibe that
entire day.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
I also remember my my brother lives in Manhattan.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
So not that far away, you know, he doesn't live
down on the southern part of that. But my mom
makes you rest me. She was freaking out because my
sister in law was pregnant at the time, and she
was like, oh my god, like that made it even worse.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
So I just everyone was panicking that day anyway.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
All right, if that's been your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
What is next?
Speaker 9 (41:29):
What do we have next year?
Speaker 4 (41:31):
Lady Sideburns, Hi, Lady Sideburns would like to know have
any of you ever tried dog or cat food?
Speaker 10 (41:42):
Why?
Speaker 6 (41:42):
Why?
Speaker 10 (41:42):
Why would you?
Speaker 5 (41:46):
No? No, I'm not no.
Speaker 10 (41:49):
I think a better question would be.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
A better question would be, if you were to eat
dog or.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
Cat food, would you eat the wet variety or the
other variety?
Speaker 10 (42:02):
Like, which variety would you eat? If you were to
eat the food, I think you've got to eat the
country variety, I think right.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Well, I think based off the look Lorena and I shared,
I think both of our answers are different from yours.
Speaker 12 (42:18):
Yeah, Lorena, so you know those brothers I talked about
with the spit, Yeah, they used to hold me down
and shove Bagan strips in my mouth.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
How old were you?
Speaker 8 (42:33):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (42:33):
Seven, eight six five?
Speaker 10 (42:37):
You still this is a traumatic memory? You still remember this?
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (42:41):
And then you know I used to just share them
with my dog.
Speaker 11 (42:42):
After that, we'd kind of just lay in the backyard
and share some began strips.
Speaker 10 (42:46):
Oh my god, so you like to taste them off?
Speaker 12 (42:49):
You kept eating the worst things I've had worse.
Speaker 10 (42:53):
Yeah, well you could look like that.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Well, I guess, I guess mine's the worst because you
were being forest.
Speaker 9 (43:00):
I know.
Speaker 7 (43:01):
I tried. I just when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
I was like, I'll try it, like I don't know,
And I tried both the wet and the dry food.
Speaker 7 (43:11):
What about wet cat food? Though you haven't done that.
I know I haven't tried cat food, crossing the line.
I didn't have a cat until I was an adult.
So do you ever smell it in wonder?
Speaker 4 (43:21):
No, not with the caf food. The caf food smells disgusting.
But but that's what made me try the dog food
as a kid. Like you would open the web and
I thought that smells kind of good. I was like, yeah,
I was like, it smells delicious. Honestly, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
It was not.
Speaker 6 (43:35):
No, you book up like what it's made of, like
the types of the worst quality of meat that's not
for human consumption.
Speaker 10 (43:43):
They usually they give they give the dogs. I mean that's.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
Usually what they Maybe it's better now, but I don't
even think it is. I remember when I was working
early in my radio radio career, there was a guy
he'd worked in Iowa for a while, and he had
given like the cattle, like.
Speaker 9 (43:58):
The price of beef.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
He gave the on the on the radio and he's
explaining to me, like the different the different different meats.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
And I.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
Remember, like, there's the lowest.
Speaker 10 (44:09):
I don't think we even have any much called.
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Four D beef.
Speaker 10 (44:12):
It was dead disease dying disabled beef and.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
That was that was what went to dog food and
but for a while they were serving it at like
fast food restaurants and they stopped.
Speaker 10 (44:23):
The government got involved in to stop doing that. It's
asked Ben, why do we bossed?
Speaker 5 (44:27):
The cops will have an extended segment of ass Ben.
Speaker 6 (44:32):
Courtesy of the gremlins. As the gremlins have attacked here
and we are waiting for them to vacate the building here.
At some point they will leave us behind and then
we will get back to the fun of the phone calls.
I know somewhere in Boston a Leprechaun is freaking out
and blind Scott are freaking out the way we need
(44:52):
our time, how dare you? Anyway, we'll get to all
that more of ass Ben, and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
All right back to it, it is asked Ben, as
we broadcast from the remote studio which has been infested
with gremlins, and back.
Speaker 9 (45:12):
There they are. They're not in the area where they're
any equipment everywhere, which is which is a problem. But
they will leave at some point they will leave at
some point, likely by the time the show ends.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
Anyway, let's get over to the Koba loop for.
Speaker 10 (45:25):
The reading of the questions.
Speaker 5 (45:26):
It's ask Ben. Keep both questions coming in hashtag ask
Ben as we try to get that network connection back together.
Speaker 10 (45:33):
Go ahead there, Cooble loop.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
All right, late late night drug tester would like to
know do you sleep on top of or under your bedsheet?
Speaker 10 (45:43):
So it depends on the season. I like to sleep
in a morgue.
Speaker 6 (45:49):
My ideal conditions are about as cold as you can
pop about. I don't sleep well at it's hot, so
I generally speaking, will be under blankets because I'll even
in winter time, I'll like, he doesn't get that.
Speaker 10 (46:03):
Cold, but we live. But I'll put the I'll put
the ac on, put a fan on.
Speaker 6 (46:07):
I gotta have some white noise in the background and.
Speaker 10 (46:08):
All that stuff. So yeah, I'm an under the blanker guy.
Speaker 9 (46:11):
What about you have a rain?
Speaker 11 (46:13):
Definitely depends on the season and how cold it is
in the room. I will get all the way up
underneath those blankets, like head all the way under and
tuck my whole body in.
Speaker 7 (46:21):
The question is about the sheet.
Speaker 11 (46:23):
That's what I'm saying all the way up under the sheets. Right,
it's whether it's it's really coold or not. And if
it's not, I'll just get underneath the regular sheet on
top of my bed.
Speaker 10 (46:31):
Okay, who did not like your ankle?
Speaker 4 (46:36):
I'm just like you know, because it's different. I'm always
underneath the sheet. My wife is always on top of
the sheet. It creates problems.
Speaker 11 (46:44):
It's very wid he misplaced his anger.
Speaker 6 (46:48):
There's a wall, there's a divide between you and then she.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
She'll toss and turn and it screws up the bed sheets.
And then so then when I go to get in bed,
like I can't get under the sheet, and I always
needs to be under the sheet, no matter the season.
In the summertime, when it's too hot, I'll just I'll
just take the the we'll take the comforter off.
Speaker 7 (47:07):
The bed and it's just the sheet.
Speaker 10 (47:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (47:10):
But no matter what, I'm under the sheet.
Speaker 10 (47:12):
Yeah, I'm the same way. Quickly, What have we got quickly?
Speaker 4 (47:15):
Quickly? This is for you, Ben, what's the best and
worst part of working with Tom Looney?
Speaker 6 (47:22):
Well, the worst part is that he won't shut off
and the top I guess the best part is he
also won't shut up.
Speaker 10 (47:30):
Yeah, he needs somebody to talk. He just keeps talking
over and over.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
He loves Nobody loves talking about himselves more than Tom Looney,
no one, no one loves
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This is from the Bay Area and the forty nine
ers could be finer. We have our first quarterback injury,
our first quarterback injury of the regular season in the NFL.
If you have not seen this, maybe not the forty
nine Ers, Mister irrelevant. Brock Purty will be mister irrelevant
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going forward if you believe the Niners. And now most
of these reports are bogus, but we're going to assume
the position that this one is not. Brock Purty described
as a quote long shot, a long shot to play
against the Norlands Saints, which is as bad an NFL
team as you can find.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And now that.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Party could miss multiple weeks. I like how they say, well,
he's a long shot to play against Saints. Oh and oh,
by the way, he's probably gonna miss multiple games with
a toe injury. Now, Kyle Shanahan, who we just goofed
on in a previous episode of the show. So Shanahan
commented on Brock pretty in fact, rather than me just
read the quote.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Let's go the audio tape.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Here.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Is the forty nine.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Er coach any further sense about whether Brock will be
able to play on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh, I dance a long shot as well.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
That party's injury could be a multi week thing.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And that's the toe more so in the shoulder. Yes,
did someone's up on his foot in the pocket? Do
you know how the toe injury happened? Yeah, I think
it happened scrambling.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I think when I'm love tackle him by the sideline.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I believe it happened. Was playing through that in the
game or is just something you found out later?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That was where Yeah, he got grilled there he was
like he was like being integragated or interrogated rather interrogated
by the by the cops. All right, So Mac Jones
under this scenario, Mac Jones will be QB number one
when the forty nine ers on the New Orleans football
team if Brock Purty cannot play.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So let us discuss the question what is.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The biggest difference between brock Purty and Mac Jones. So
I've got Dino Nuggets, Johnny Depp and Icy Hot and
those are three things that have never been put together.
But we're gonna put him together and play Connect three.
So a who goofed? I've got to know right now.
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We have poked fun at Brock Party.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We have had a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Of fun, and we've been right with our analysis at
Brock Party. And I think he has he's played. The
more he's played, the more his frailties have been exposed,
and the real football people know he's not all that good, right,
And we pointed that out as weakness is because it's
part of the job as.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It talk shows.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
However, if you're being totally honest here, brock Purty, well,
he is certainly not Peyton Maning or Patrick Mahomes or
something like that compared to Mac Jones.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Though.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's like going from a nice meal at Dave's Hot Chicken,
and then he said, well, I can't go there, I
can't find one, and I don't want that Nashville Hot Chicken.
So instead I'm just gonna microwave some Dino Nuggets. And
that's what I'm gonna eat like. Already's strength is that
he hasn't screwed up too much. That he's kind of
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the little wind up toil toy for Kyle Shanahan's offense.
That he reads the defense and he'll get rid of
the ball, and as long as the playmakers are matriculating
the ball down the field, he's fine.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
From his time with the Patriots, he will stare down
that linebacker. He'll give that linebacker elevator eyes man up
and down and all around, and it's like.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It's his prom date.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And then he'll still throw the linebacker the ball, which
you shouldn't do. Not that I played quarterback in the NFL,
but forty four interceptions in less than sixteen hundred pass attempts.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
For mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You don't have to be a quarterback coach to know
that blows.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It's not just bad.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's like working at Santa's Workshop in the gift wrapping
department when it comes to turnovers. And on his best day,
Mac Jones, on his very best day, which of course
means as good as all the rest, he's mid.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
He's not a good quarterback, Mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He's just good enough to keep you from immediately cutting him,
and so he'll have a job in the NFL because
he shows up to practice and he's a good practice player.
But he's that guy that you you know, you kind
of regret the whole thing, but you want to get
away from the person. Like dating, you want to get
away from the person, but you don't really have anything
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else to do on.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
A Friday night, so you're like, I will hang out
with him whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But he's bad enough to lose winnable games, and that's
the issue. And I have no skin in the game.
I know that our guys are Nesto and some of
the other forty nine are Jay Scoop and Alameda Loo
and those guys that are big forty nine er fans
and some others that call the show.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You're a RAM fan, what do you? You don't know
what you're telling you this jet Listen.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I know Mac Jones from watching these games and being
you know, on Benny versus the Penny all these years
and handicapping the games. So he's he's bad enough to
lose winnable games. He's not bad enough to be out
of the league. That's the point, right, And brock Perty
he doesn't elevate players, that's our main argument, and mac
Jones he actively pulls them down into the mud with him.
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And so that's the other issue. Now Paige two looking
at the upcoming gig because it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It looks like the forty nine ers are going to
go with mac Jones.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So with that as the backstory, who's under more pressure
this week? Is it mac Jones taking over at quarterback
or is it Kyle Shanahan who has to draw up
the playbook for mac Jones. So the arrow on this
one is clearly pointing the direction of mac Jones. The
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guy's career is dangling by a threat. He went from
the supposed savior of the Patriots and the handpicked quarterback
by Bill Belichick, and he was gonna be the guy
that leads New England out of a deep dark place
there and the next great Patriot quarterback. He was rudely
kicked out of the Northeast and sent to Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It's like, well that's a kind of a homecoming form
right Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And he was an afterthought in Jacksonville, and now he
goes to the forty nine ers and it's like a
charity case for Kyle Shanahan to put him out there,
so he absolutely he needs Mac Jones needs a big
game like Johnny Depp needed Pirates of the Caribbean four.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Because without it, I mean, if he goes out there
and loses to the Saints, I mean he is woof wow.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
You know, maybe he can be clipboard guy forever, but
most likely not even that. I mean Jones argument has
been the Jones camp, if there is such a thing
as a Jones camp, is that he's been surrounded by
flotsam and jetsam. That in New England they just had
bad football players around him, and in Jacksonville they had
underachieving but talented players.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
The Niners are supposed to be different.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Now, they did have a down year last year, but
the Niner rosters supposed to be an upgrade.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Now that's debatable.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And we know that Kyle Shanahan is going to spoon
feed Mac Jones with his celebrated offensive system, which every
broadcaster on television.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Loves to tell you is the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And can he play Shanahan hide the quarterback like its
backyard football?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Can he do that? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Other than Christian McCaffrey, you look at that Niner depth chart,
there is no juice.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Where's the juice? There is no juice there.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You've got a mid quarterback in mac Jones, you've got
mid weapons, and you've got Shanahan who's doing some meatball
surgery trying to put.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
It all together.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Now, if they weren't playing the Saints, who are actively
waving the white flag.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
They don't. They're not even trying.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
They're they're not even Spencer Rattler is their quarterback for
God's sakes, right, So this would be a certified disaster.
Like the Niners, as bad as they are, you think
they're gonna win just because they're the better team.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
That doesn't always work out that way.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And there's something in the points spreads involvements. But in
terms of the evidence here, George Kittle on injured reserve,
so he's not gonna play their safety blanket tight end.
Juwan Jennings is dinged up, So now you're most likely
rolling with Kendrick Bourne, who was an ex patriot, and
Ricky Piersall those are your options on offense. And so
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what does that mean? That means the usual screens dump
off to Christian mccafrey. It's Christian McCaffrey left, and then
when you get tired of that, it's Christian McCaffrey to
the right, and you pray for a busted play and
he takes it to the out Like Shanahan's going to
be the chef here calling up the plays and he'll
be cooking with the ingredients are spam and saltines instead
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of wagou beef, So there's no wagoo bee. Now, good
luck on that right and again Mac. The drama here
is that Mack.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Is playing for his football life. He's playing for his
football life.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And if you look at how he has played up
until this point, which is all we have to judge
him on, he has struggled pre snap. He appears to
have no idea how to read. He's illiterate when it
comes to reading a blitz. You can't do that to
save his life. And the Saints even in tank mon though,
here's the odd thing about like, even as bad as
the Saints are, there's still a few good players on
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the defense on defense, and they can't dial up some pressure.
So it's it's kind of like sending a man who
can't swim into the wavepool at six flags. Hurricane Harbor.
You just put him out there, and it's probably not
a good idea. It's probably not so all right. Now,
last word, we head from the forty nine Ers and
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we go to Petsburg, PA, the land of the Insers,
and that's where we have our weekly dose up a.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Radgers. Yes, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So the Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, he announced, despite having
good numbers against the Jets' former team and the Steelers
winning that game, Rogers said that his back was tight
in Week one and that kept him from moving how
he typically moves. He said he actually ran into one
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or two sacks against the Jets. Quote Rogers said, I
might be old, but I still feel like I can
move around pretty good, and I wasn't moving the way
I usually like to move close quote all right, So
question on this one for the esteem panel, what is
your takeaway from Aaron Rodgers saying that his back was
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essentially barking harf horf horf. Sounded like that his back
was barking harfrf just like Andre's dog, right, just like
his dog there willis so uh. The Steelers the way
I look at this, they have themselves a middle aged.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Quarterback that's kind of it's not my opinion, it's not
an outrageous opinion. That's what he is, you know, in
life and in football, he's an old quarterback. But after that.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Opening scene, right, I mean that was the opening scene
of the of the play, and Rogers essentially hit us
with the readed middle aged lament one game in, so
using the Mallord decoder, the Mallard Dacota, it's Rogers essentially saying, hey,
Mike chiropractor is now more important than my offensive coordinator.
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It's the NFL's version of that classic line from an
old TV show called The Honeymooners and Ralph Cramton, who
said it best, Oh my aching back, right, and Rogers,
you know, he's giving you the hippodrome sneak preview of
what's coming soon to a stadium near you. So it's
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one game in and Rogers is already saying, hey, my
back is barking.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Let's fast forward.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Now ahead in the broadcast until December in Pittsburgh, Chamber
of Commerce, day, thirty one degrees cloudy, just overcast, wind
blowing off the Allegheny and the confluence right there, and
you think that that back is going to feel looser
in those conditions.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I don't know, I'm asking for a friend.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, all right, Now, now that back is going to
sound like a rusty screen door in a windstorm by
the time we get to December, if he's even still
out there by the time we get December. So, no
matter how much it's a good lesson here, no matter
how much ayahuasca one drinks, Rogers is still like the
rest of us who reach middle aged right. He still
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thinks he can dance like he did in his twenties,
except when he goes to the club. Now he hits
the dance floor and a couple songs later, he's rubbing
icy hot all over his body. He is oiled up
with icy hot. That's how he's doing it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Now. He's at the athletic.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Stage of life where occasionally tying one shoes is a
warm up.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Exercise, and you go to the gym, say did you
warm up? Yeah? I warmed up.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
What you do I tied my shoes, Well, that's not
warming up. Well for me, it's warming up. So I
tied my shoes. Well, that's not really warming up, but
for me, it's tied my shoves. Now, where will you
bend over, you know, to bend over to pick up
the remote, and suddenly you need an MRI that kind
of thing.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
So keep an eye on this. We obviously will. We
have nothing else going on.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
But by week eight, every time Rogers tries to roll out,
it's coming to look like your uncle Harvey getting off
the couch there and you know, watching after watching seven
hours of commercials that you used to have no commercials
on that Red Zone channel. So a lot of creeks, cracks,
groans all that. That's the soundtrack for Aver and Raders.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
So it's a bit of foreshadowing.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
It's a bit of foreshadowing, a preview of future coming attractions.
And when the backlocks up in September, it's a bad
sign for December. So instead of the terrible towel, that
should change it up. I got an idea. Now, I'm
a marketing guy. You said what you used an overnight
I am an overnight guy, but I'm a marketing guy.
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Mallard marketing. How about this promotional giveaway? A lot of teams.
Football teams don't use give stuff away because they.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Don't need to. They only play eight games year.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Baseball teams give you a bobble Dodgers have had four
bobblehead nights.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
For Showhale, tony four of them.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Four of them, and people still line up six hours
before the game to get a o Tani bobble It's like, hey,
it's not that limited dummy anyway, that's not the point.
Football teams normally don't give stuff away. The Steelers are
known for what they're known for, the terrible towel. I'm
now the marketing director of the Pittsburgh Steels. Here's what
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I do.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I go out online and I purchase.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Forty thousand heating pads, and I put the Steeler logo
on them, and I have a promotion, Aaron Rodgers Heating
Pad Night. On one side, I put the Steeler logo.
On the other side, I put a mug shot of
Aaron Rodgers. Boom done. What a great promotion. All right,
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the terrible heating pads and put those out. Who says
no to that? Come on, it's a good idea. I
know you're shaking your head.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
That's a good idea. You can't come up with any
better than that, can you know?
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bully pulpit here, I thought, why not just to have
some fun with this. So we go to dateline Chicago
and it's all she wrote for a franchise legend in
the Windy City.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
If you have not heard by now, maybe not Anthony
Rizzo done. Now we saw Rizzo. He is a Yankee.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Game the other night played with the Yankees, his last
big league team. Rizzo, though, was drinking a beer in
the stands and the news came out.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
He is going to.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Officially retire as a member of the Cups, one of
those ceremonial retirement ceremony thing of the jigs that I
love so much. And he's going to join the organization
as a team ambassador.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So Rizzo, thirty six, spent ten of his fourteen big
league seasons in Chicago. He has fully vested in the
Major League Baseball pension program. So he's set gonna get
big fat checks.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You know, as long as he lives.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And those are really nice checks, really sexy checks that
you're gonna get. And so he helped them win the
World Series in twenty sixteen, y'all told me that the
Cubs are going to become a dynasty, and they pretty much.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Snunk ever since then.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
And so the issue here is this debate that has
popped up now that Rizzo's announced his retirement. Is he
going to get the ultimate honor from the Chicago National
League Baseball team?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
So let's discuss. That's a good jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
So the question, should the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Should they retire his number?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So I've got ring around the Rosie Turtle, wax and Superman,
and we'll combine all of these ingredients together. We're gonna
make Babushka's favorite potato lacas is what we're gonna make,
all right, So number, I said number. My answer, should
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the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number? It's a hard no,
not a soft no. It's a hard no.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
We are against Jersey retirements as a rule of thumb.
This thing's gotten way out of hand, way out of hand.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
These uniform funerals are the corporate version of taking your
grandma's photo album and then charging you twenty dollars or
thirty dollars for the privilege of.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Looking at them. Hey remember sixteen, boy, that was a
long time ago. Remember the curse, the curse of the
Billy Goat. Yeah, somebody let Doc Mike know.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
The Billy Goat curses over because he's still dropping goat
heads off at Wrigley Feel. But it's Wrigleyville marketing oxygen
right now. I understand we got great cub fans. Tree
in Chicago wonderfully gave me a good gift package from
the Cubs, which is very kind, and and all the
other guys that we've met over the years in Chicago,
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So Eugene in Chicago, A lot of guys can't name
the moll g man.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I'm gonna try, though, No Phase, he always gets upset.
Who you said?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
My name?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
My name's Phase. I did meet him in a Cup
game actually, ironically enough.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But the whole point of this is to say, no,
Rizzo was a fine member of the Cubs organization. Congratulations,
But the whole marketing thing was like, come breathe the
air of twenty sixteen. Well, no, it's twenty twenty five.
I don't want to breathe the air of twenty I
don't want to breath the air of twenty sixteen. It's
twenty twenty five. And while the Cubs are playing the
violin in the background, that sappy.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Violin music as they roll out the highlight reel, the.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Fluff piece, and they're essentially selling bottled air from twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's what this is.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
It's all about the heartstrings and the people saying, well,
retire's number, retire's number, and you know, just keep the
cash register, Hummond and memory Lane, all that good stuff.
But you need an Anthony Rizzo ice bucket to the face.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Reality check here.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
If you look at the precedent, and I'm against retiring anyone's.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Number, I think the whole thing's lame.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
But if you are in the camp of retiring numbers,
there have to be some standards. You can't be like
the Yankees and retire everyone's number, right, it's embarrassing, or
the Celtics or the Lakers, it's so embarrassing. But the
Cubs have a president, Ernie Banks, mister Baseball, Ryan Sandberg who.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Just passed away not that long ago, Greg Maddox, Ron Santo,
Fergie Jenkins, Billy Williams.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's it. That's the list. Those all of them are
Hall of famers. Most of them are hardball immortals. And
Andre Dawson, who is a better Cub, didn't play as
long as you gotta go with a better Cub than
Anthony Rizzo. Dawson doesn't have his number retired, and I
believe he's a Hall of Famer. He actually works in
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the same business now, Andre Dawson. If you're old, you
know who he is. He played baseball a long time ago.
For he played so long ago. Was a team called
the Montreal Expos when he played. But Andre Dawson now
is an undertaker. He has the job that our friend
Hayes has in Minnesota, not quite the same exact job,
but he works at a mortuary. So anyway, this whole
thing is the riglely Ivy effect your wrapper. You know,
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anything in Ivy you put a retro font on it,
and the Cub fan will.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Eat it up.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
They will eat it up. It comes.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Actually, don't have a bad team this year. They don't
hear to have a championship team. And they're not a
bad team. And you know, everyone seems to have a
playoff shot. The Cubs are right there on that big
mix in the in the playoff field. But they'll sell
you the same old walk down Clark Street there and
the yellow brick road. And it's a brilliant business model.
And so it's not so much selling baseball, you're selling
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the nostalgia with stuff like this. And as far as
the whole number retirement thing, I know that most teams
are obsessed with this and just will retire numbers because
they can't help themselves. They have no control. It's out, yeah,
and it's it's off the hook. To me, though, you
should try to pee like the Dallas Cowboys. Well, I
(25:22):
would just say the Cowboys. The Cowboys have never retired
a number. They have never retired number. They have a
ring of honor and the malor advice, unsolicited malle advice.
How about ring around the rosie or in this case,
ring around the ivy and just put a ring of
honor around Wrigley Field and say, all right, we have
(25:45):
a haul, we have the number retirement.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
We're done doing that, and so from now on we're
gonna have a ring of honor. Boom.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
And you can even put it outside the stadium on
one of those rooftops with the Cubs bought and give
Rizzo a plaque and have a bobblehead day and there
you go. Problem solved, just like that, all right now
page two to Anaheim, we go, Yes, Anaheim, I saw this.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Oh you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So a report out from the baseball insider crowd that
it is most likely not going to be a return
to Ron Washington next season. Now, there's still a chance
he comes back, but more likely than not, Ron Washington
will be elevated. He had a major heart major bypasserger,
I believe, and so most likely he will just get
an advisor role and that's it. And so the Angels
(26:34):
will have a new manager next year. So how do
you digest the report that the Halos are being tied
to Albert Poohos, Yes, that Albert Poohos, who played for
the team and really stole money from the team for
years and was terrible. And the possibility that they will
go back to Mike Sosha remember him, He's been out
(26:54):
of baseball for several years. But they could turn back
to Mike Sosher, the guy that was the skipper when
they finally won the World Series back in the day.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
So how do I digest this?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It is the theater of the absurd in Anaheim, the
Los Angeles Angels, of Disneyland, of Turos, of eternal irrelevance,
all of that, and we don't talk about this guy
because the Angels are irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
We have apathy.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
But Artie Marino is doing cosplay as Jerry Jones and
failing miserably. He's chasing headlines. A lot of the moves
the Angels maker to chase headlines, and he's like addicted
to the shiny object. And he's running the Angels like
a bad Vegas lounge act. And he even did the
fake head fake thing where he's like, I'm gonna sell
(27:40):
the team. Psych I'm not selling the team bringing back
Mike Sosher though, why not go get a shovel, dig
up Genautry.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You can't do that.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Bring back the ghost of Gene Autry. Trot his ass
out there on opening day twenty twenty six, and he
can sarenade Mike Soosha as he gets back into the
doug out back in the saddle again. And the Angels,
they might as well just tire my guy, Kawhi Leonard.
We know Kawhi loves no show jobs. Managing the Angels
(28:10):
is a no show job. You're a mascot in a hoodie.
You're a Walmart greeter with a lineup card. In fact,
I don't understand why they have another. The Angel should
get Turtle Wax as a sponsor. The manager should have
a patch that says turtle Wax right on the uniform there,
because when you're managing the Angels, you spend about six
(28:31):
months of the year polishing turds. That's what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
That's it. It's the organizational philosophy.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And they had Mike Trout and Showyotani in the same
lineup to Hall of Famers for multiple seasons, and they
managed to be irrelevant by.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Labor Day every single year. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That is not a bug in the system. That is
an entire operating error, is what that is. That's a
software issue. There's a trojan horse in the software. And
hiring Albert Pools or bringing back Mike Sosher or I
don't know, go find Joe Madden somewhere in Margaritaville somewhere.
None of it matters. It's like asking a cord Don
(29:11):
Blue chef to cook an award winning meal and the
ingredients are kibbles and bits and catnip the Angels at
this point. They don't even need a manager. They don't
they need an exorcism, is what they need. Get some
holy water, some garlic clothes, all of it. Until then,
as the Great Donnie Brasco said, forget about it.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Remember this, the Angels could hire.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I'm convinced they could hire the Pope as the manager,
the Dali Lama could be the third base coach, and
the tooth Fairy could be the hitting coach, and they'd
still finish in fourth place.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
In the American League West.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That's the way they are now, one final final point
while I'm at it. So I saw this and I
thought it was worthy of a mention. Staying at the
Big A. This guy was the biggest deal in baseball.
Who didn't want to be the biggest deal in baseball?
Mike Trout. Remember, Mike Trout was the top player in baseball,
and he hated He's like like an introvert. Didn't want
to deal with the media, didn't want and didn't want
(30:09):
to do interviews. So Mike Trout has gone. Based on
the Angels Twins game, which took place on Wednesday, Mike
Trout has now gone. I believe that math is right
on this one hundred and twenty three played appearances, twenty
eight games without hitting home run. He's sitting on three
ninety eight. His previous longest drought was one hundred and
seventeen played appearances.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
That was a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So question, what do you make of Mike Trout and
his collapse in Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
So it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Like watching Superman walk around and he's got a neck
brace and he's limping it.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
It's kind of like that, like this is brutal.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Mike Trout has been locked in since August sixth over
a month now on that same home run total, and
we know he's got that rare like it's a spinal
tap spinal condition thing there. He's basically the world's most
expensive day to day player. He's on that twelve year
contract for four hundred million dollars and I believe he's
(31:12):
got five years left. He will be thirty eight, Mike Trout,
and he's already a shell of what he was and
his salad days and the angels are handcuffed.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
They're handcuffed to Mike Trout.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Now, they are really nice handcuffs, like a Rolex pair
of solid gold handcuffs really solid, really good handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
They also have a ball and chain which it's got
the Angel logo on it.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
So it's okay, they've got the Angel logo.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yah, yeah, I know, I know. It's pretty exciting. So
they've got that going for him. But they're stuck. They're stuck,
and you cannot build a round Mike Trout anymore. You
cannot depend on Mike Trout anymore. He's played actually a
lot of games this year by Mike Trout standards. And
here's where things get interesting, right where the rubber meets
the road.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
ARTI Marino cannot cannot quit these guys. He can't.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I And people said, well, they're gonna trade Trout because
he's not a lead guy.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
He can be a good number three guy, Like you
have two stars, he's your third star. You can be
pretty good. But they had Otani.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Everyone knew that Otani was gonna leave the Angels because
they were they didn't know what they were doing.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
And instead of.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Trading Otani and saying we'll get some for him, they
just kept Otani because they got all that Japanese advertising,
which the Dodgers are obsessed with, by the way, Oh
my god, they are sucking every dollar they can out
of the Japanese economy. But and I don't blame him.
I do the same thing. But anyway, Otani left as
a free agent, and that means that based on that,
(32:45):
Mike Trout is not going anywhere, Like even if teams
called the ends up, like Marino is going to Artie,
Marino is going to have to eat a bunch of
money just to get Trout out there, and he's.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I don't think he's gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I can't see him doing it, even though the Halos
could absolutely get offers and they could entice the Philadelphia
Phillies to bite on Trout from Jersey, but you know
in the Philadelphia part of Jersey, Southern Jersey, so I
believe he grew up a Phillies fan. And then the
Yankees are always there. They love Falling Stars, they can't
get enough of them. They're ready for the Falling Stars
(33:19):
challenge and all that.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So you find a.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Sucker who still believes that Mike Trout's got enough star
dust to justify acquiring him. And then the Phillies are
chasing rainbows and they're at a weird point now if
they don't win this year. They've got an older team,
a bunch of players that are going to leave in
free agency or could leave in free agency. So they
got to sign Schober he's going to be a free agent.
They've got Bryce Harper, he's getting older now. And so
(33:42):
if you can put Trout out there with those guys
and Castellanos leaves, for example, that would make some sense
that the Yankees, they would be trying to resurrect Mike
Trout like their doctor Frankenstein if he went to the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And you look at the comps on this, if.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You take the name away, if you take the Mike
Trout name away, and did the blind Pepsi challenge, the
blind soda challenge, Mike Trout his production offensively this season
is on the same level with Isaac Parides of the
Astros and Jonathan Arnda of the Tampa Bay Rays, who
(34:19):
exactly these are not household names. They make chicken feed
compared to what Mike Trout makes. He's being fed like
a whale. He's being fed like a whale, and they're
being fed like a crab on the beach, a little
sand crab and the halo. Listen, we not to flog
a dead halo. But they're deep in a deep dark
place and they're not good. They're not bad. They're just
(34:42):
stuck on this treadmill of mediocrity. And more probably they're
a relevant while the Dodgers are in this golden era
where they make the playoffs every year, and if they
I can't imagine not.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Making the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two a I'm Eastern, eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Here we go, all right, Sam Maller, how about.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That to the third degree?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Now.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
I know it's only been one week, Ben, but it's
being reported that kickoff returns are way up so far
this season thanks to the new rule moving touchbacks to
the thirty five yard line. But as the NFL finally
fixed kickoffs.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
A small sample size, coop, small sample size, it was,
let's put it this way, week one, it was not
a useless play and for several years in the end,
actually more than several years, like you just didn't need
to watch kickoffs because it just nothing ever happened.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
So that's a time to go get snacks. That's not
a time to pay attention. But now, yeah, it's one
week so at this point we do the show today, Coop,
So I'm gonna go.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Next, the Toronto Blue Jays are only a few games
ahead of the Yankees in the Al East, and they
just had to put their star shortstop Bobaschett on the il.
Do you think they'll be able to hold off the
Bronx Bombers.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well, if you've seen the way the Yankees have played
this week, getting just destroyed by the by the Detroit Tedger,
the Yankees are a flawed baseball team, so Toronto's not
great either. But based on side by side the Yankees,
all they do is hit home runs. If they don't
hit home runs, they really don't win very often at all.
They showed some weaknesses in their bullpen here, so yeah,
(36:24):
oh god.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Next, A rold As Chapman has been on an insane
run for the Boston Red Sox. He was till yesterday,
well before that, it was seventeen straight appearances without allowing
a hit, only one run last thirty seven games.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Do you think chapman success this year secures him a
spot in the Hall.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
No, No, He's got a lot of baggage. And he
you know, he's one of those borderline guys. He's got
some Hall of Fame numbers. Now, if the Red Sox
going to run in the playoffs and he's lights out,
then you can revisit this. But he's still borderline Hall
of fame even with this renaissance, and he's been great.
He already signed for next year. The Red Sox already
signed Chapman to an extension. All right there, it is
(37:07):
mallor to the third degree. He got lit up by
the A's And how did we do pass this edition?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
That is one again? Take that, Justin and Cincinnati, I
won Justin.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
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Speaker 3 (37:32):
For time more honey, Honey, I can ask bad Twitter.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Send us your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 10 (37:40):
And it is ask Ben.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
The extended Dance remix and it's made possible by the Gremlins.
Speaker 10 (37:52):
We're very excited about that.
Speaker 9 (37:53):
So we need.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
A lot of questions, So keep those questions coming in
hashtag ask fan, asked Ben, And now for the reading
of the questions and the Kooper loop.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
All right, we're gonna start off with a question from
Shane in Des Moines. He would like to know where
were you during the nine to eleven attacks. This is
for the whole crew.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Uh yeah, So I was working here at Fox Sports Radio.
I was actually doing updates at that time. I was
working on the Fox lot on Fairfax in West West
l A.
Speaker 9 (38:32):
And we were, you know.
Speaker 10 (38:34):
We just I did did news updates during the day
and then they they were worried actually that there was
they were going to.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Attack the Fox.
Speaker 10 (38:44):
Studios, the TV, the movie studios over there.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
So then they started like evacuating people, but they didn't
evacuate us because we had.
Speaker 10 (38:51):
To stay on the air and all that. It was.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
It was a crazy day, obviously, but I was working
at Fox Sports Radio doing updates and uh yeah, I
will always remember that, obviously. That was one of the
big days in my life.
Speaker 5 (39:04):
What about you and Loraina?
Speaker 6 (39:05):
What were you doing way back on nine to eleven?
Speaker 11 (39:08):
Oh my gosh, I was walking to my third grade
class and oh my god, and I remember stopping at
missus Summer's class and everyone was staring at the TVs
and I was like, what's going on? And my teacher
was just crying, and I was like, oh, this is serious.
Speaker 7 (39:28):
Yeah, I was really young.
Speaker 10 (39:29):
Yea, oh wow, I get you. That's that's like an
age flex. What you did there is an age flex?
An age flex?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
What that is?
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I often remember when I woke up. I had an
early shift, and I mean I was working nights mostly
back then, but I had to do an early shift
and I still remember my alarm went off and I
heard you.
Speaker 10 (39:48):
I was a clock radio back then, and I had
there was.
Speaker 6 (39:52):
An emergency broadcast alert because it was in between the
first plane and the second plane. And I remember hearing
the emergency broadcast thing. I was like, I thought I
was dreaming because I had never been activated in my life.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
And do you hear that?
Speaker 12 (40:06):
When?
Speaker 7 (40:07):
Do you ever hear that?
Speaker 10 (40:08):
Well, that was the only time I've ever heard it.
I don't know, maybe it's been activated since then, but
that was it. So I remember that too. I was like,
I thought I was dreaming. I was like, it's in
the same what about you?
Speaker 9 (40:17):
Cool?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I'm pretty sure that when it happened, I was I
was sleeping.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
Yeah, that was like five in the morning.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Yeah, But then I do remember my mom waking me up.
She was on the phone with my grandma, who uh
lived in Brooklyn her entire life, and so she was
like giving the play by play to my mom over
the phone. And then my Mom's like, we're under attack,
(40:47):
and I'm like, what what is happening? Uh?
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
And then we still went to school and it was
just it was weird. It was a weird vibe that
entire day.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
I also remember my my brother lives in Manhattan.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
So not that far away, you know, he doesn't live
down on the southern part of that. But my mom
makes you rest me. She was freaking out because my
sister in law was pregnant at the time, and she
was like, oh my god, like that made it even worse.
Speaker 10 (41:19):
So I just everyone was panicking that day anyway.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
All right, if that's been your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
What is next?
Speaker 9 (41:29):
What do we have next year?
Speaker 4 (41:31):
Lady Sideburns, Hi, Lady Sideburns would like to know have
any of you ever tried dog or cat food?
Speaker 10 (41:42):
Why?
Speaker 6 (41:42):
Why?
Speaker 10 (41:42):
Why would you?
Speaker 5 (41:46):
No? No, I'm not no.
Speaker 10 (41:49):
I think a better question would be.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
A better question would be, if you were to eat
dog or.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
Cat food, would you eat the wet variety or the
other variety?
Speaker 10 (42:02):
Like, which variety would you eat? If you were to
eat the food, I think you've got to eat the
country variety, I think right.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Well, I think based off the look Lorena and I shared,
I think both of our answers are different from yours.
Speaker 12 (42:18):
Yeah, Lorena, so you know those brothers I talked about
with the spit, Yeah, they used to hold me down
and shove Bagan strips in my mouth.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
How old were you?
Speaker 8 (42:33):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (42:33):
Seven, eight six five?
Speaker 10 (42:37):
You still this is a traumatic memory? You still remember this?
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (42:41):
And then you know I used to just share them
with my dog.
Speaker 11 (42:42):
After that, we'd kind of just lay in the backyard
and share some began strips.
Speaker 10 (42:46):
Oh my god, so you like to taste them off?
Speaker 12 (42:49):
You kept eating the worst things I've had worse.
Speaker 10 (42:53):
Yeah, well you could look like that.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Well, I guess, I guess mine's the worst because you
were being forest.
Speaker 9 (43:00):
I know.
Speaker 7 (43:01):
I tried. I just when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
I was like, I'll try it, like I don't know,
And I tried both the wet and the dry food.
Speaker 7 (43:11):
What about wet cat food? Though you haven't done that.
I know I haven't tried cat food, crossing the line.
I didn't have a cat until I was an adult.
So do you ever smell it in wonder?
Speaker 4 (43:21):
No, not with the caf food. The caf food smells disgusting.
But but that's what made me try the dog food
as a kid. Like you would open the web and
I thought that smells kind of good. I was like, yeah,
I was like, it smells delicious. Honestly, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
It was not.
Speaker 6 (43:35):
No, you book up like what it's made of, like
the types of the worst quality of meat that's not
for human consumption.
Speaker 10 (43:43):
They usually they give they give the dogs. I mean that's.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
Usually what they Maybe it's better now, but I don't
even think it is. I remember when I was working
early in my radio radio career, there was a guy
he'd worked in Iowa for a while, and he had
given like the cattle, like.
Speaker 9 (43:58):
The price of beef.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
He gave the on the on the radio and he's
explaining to me, like the different the different different meats.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
And I.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
Remember, like, there's the lowest.
Speaker 10 (44:09):
I don't think we even have any much called.
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Four D beef.
Speaker 10 (44:12):
It was dead disease dying disabled beef and.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
That was that was what went to dog food and
but for a while they were serving it at like
fast food restaurants and they stopped.
Speaker 10 (44:23):
The government got involved in to stop doing that. It's
asked Ben, why do we bossed?
Speaker 5 (44:27):
The cops will have an extended segment of ass Ben.
Speaker 6 (44:32):
Courtesy of the gremlins. As the gremlins have attacked here
and we are waiting for them to vacate the building here.
At some point they will leave us behind and then
we will get back to the fun of the phone calls.
I know somewhere in Boston a Leprechaun is freaking out
and blind Scott are freaking out the way we need
(44:52):
our time, how dare you? Anyway, we'll get to all
that more of ass Ben, and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
All right back to it, it is asked Ben, as
we broadcast from the remote studio which has been infested
with gremlins, and back.
Speaker 9 (45:12):
There they are. They're not in the area where they're
any equipment everywhere, which is which is a problem. But
they will leave at some point they will leave at
some point, likely by the time the show ends.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
Anyway, let's get over to the Koba loop for.
Speaker 10 (45:25):
The reading of the questions.
Speaker 5 (45:26):
It's ask Ben. Keep both questions coming in hashtag ask
Ben as we try to get that network connection back together.
Speaker 10 (45:33):
Go ahead there, Cooble loop.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
All right, late late night drug tester would like to
know do you sleep on top of or under your bedsheet?
Speaker 10 (45:43):
So it depends on the season. I like to sleep
in a morgue.
Speaker 6 (45:49):
My ideal conditions are about as cold as you can
pop about. I don't sleep well at it's hot, so
I generally speaking, will be under blankets because I'll even
in winter time, I'll like, he doesn't get that.
Speaker 10 (46:03):
Cold, but we live. But I'll put the I'll put
the ac on, put a fan on.
Speaker 6 (46:07):
I gotta have some white noise in the background and.
Speaker 10 (46:08):
All that stuff. So yeah, I'm an under the blanker guy.
Speaker 9 (46:11):
What about you have a rain?
Speaker 11 (46:13):
Definitely depends on the season and how cold it is
in the room. I will get all the way up
underneath those blankets, like head all the way under and
tuck my whole body in.
Speaker 7 (46:21):
The question is about the sheet.
Speaker 11 (46:23):
That's what I'm saying all the way up under the sheets. Right,
it's whether it's it's really coold or not. And if
it's not, I'll just get underneath the regular sheet on
top of my bed.
Speaker 10 (46:31):
Okay, who did not like your ankle?
Speaker 4 (46:36):
I'm just like you know, because it's different. I'm always
underneath the sheet. My wife is always on top of
the sheet. It creates problems.
Speaker 11 (46:44):
It's very wid he misplaced his anger.
Speaker 6 (46:48):
There's a wall, there's a divide between you and then she.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
She'll toss and turn and it screws up the bed sheets.
And then so then when I go to get in bed,
like I can't get under the sheet, and I always
needs to be under the sheet, no matter the season.
In the summertime, when it's too hot, I'll just I'll
just take the the we'll take the comforter off.
Speaker 7 (47:07):
The bed and it's just the sheet.
Speaker 10 (47:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (47:10):
But no matter what, I'm under the sheet.
Speaker 10 (47:12):
Yeah, I'm the same way. Quickly, What have we got quickly?
Speaker 4 (47:15):
Quickly? This is for you, Ben, what's the best and
worst part of working with Tom Looney?
Speaker 6 (47:22):
Well, the worst part is that he won't shut off
and the top I guess the best part is he
also won't shut up.
Speaker 10 (47:30):
Yeah, he needs somebody to talk. He just keeps talking
over and over.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
He loves Nobody loves talking about himselves more than Tom Looney,
no one, no one loves
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Charlie is America's hardest working grassroots activist who has your inside scoop on the biggest news of the day and what's really going on behind the headlines. The founder of Turning Point USA and one of social media's most engaged personalities, Charlie is on the front lines of America’s culture war, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of students on over 3,500 college and high school campuses across the country, bringing you your daily dose of clarity in a sea of chaos all from his signature no-holds-barred, unapologetically conservative, freedom-loving point of view. You can also watch Charlie Kirk on Salem News Channel