September 19, 2025 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about the Bills just barely coming away with a win against the hapless Miami Dolphins, Clayton Kershaw announcing his retirement, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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a lot going on, a lot to juggle good news
as we have a lot of real estate to cover here.
We will cover it all throughout the overnight. But we'll
start play the hit small man. What of our old
bosses used to say. So we'll start out in the
Buffalo area, just down the road from Niagara Falls Orchard Park,
New York. Where you play football in September. You don't
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really have to worry about the weather very much. And
inn afcast mismatch. At least that's the way the game
was hyped up. You know that, and I know that
you had Al Michael's and Kirk kerb Street there. They
had the call on the Amazon, the biggest line on
the NFL if you're into gambling, biggest point spread in
the NFL for Week three by a wide margin. Josh
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Allen and the Bills were expected to absolutely blitz the
team from South Florida twelve and a half point favorites
over Tua's Woebegone Dolphins. So we watched it. I don't
know if you were watching this or not. Maybe not.
He might have been doing something else. But Josh Allen,
he did have three touchdown passes. The Bill, though, had
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to hold off the Dolphins. What Yes, the game was
tied up in the fourth quarter, but the Bills end
up winning the game thirty one to twenty one the
final and so yeah, Miami did cover the spread. James
Cook he was cooking the one hundred and eight yards
and rushing for a two yard touchdown as well. The Bills,
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at three and zero now in the year, continue their
world domination of the once proud Miami Dolphins, who've become
a punching bag in the NFL for a number of years.
So Buffalo's won seventh straight and fourteen of the past fifteen,
including the playoffs, against the team from South Florida. The
better story, though, is in the losing locker room. That
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is the better story, and so that is where we
will go. And the Miami Dolphins, who have been very
good to us in overnight talk radio by having their
coach who's apparently on the spectrum, and a bunch of
other stuff that's just outrageous. The miscues and a lack
of discipline highlighted here as the Dolphins end up zero
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to three, their worst start since way back in twenty nineteen.
Is barely alive back then, and they they will now
face more scrutiny as their head coach, Mike McDaniel is
dealing with job security issues. So let us discuss the
question who is wearing the bell of shame, the shame
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bell for the Miami Dolphins. Who's wearing the sham bell
for the Dolphins. I've got has Bro, Puffy Sticker, and
Wolfgang Puck and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some deep fried, delicious,
crunchy tacos. This is what we're going to do, all right.
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So let's see who's gonna who's gonna wear the shame bell?
Ding ding ding ding ning. How about Mike McDaniel and
his merry band of captains. Thank you, this was a
BC special, not Boston College. Bill Callahan, you probably don't
know who that is. His kid's a terrible coach with
the Titans. He sucked as a coach too, a long
lost Raider coach who should have been on the headset
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there in the fourth quarter screaming, We've got to be
the dumbest team in America in terms of playing the game,
the Miami Dolphins. And he wouldn't be wrong. He would
not have been wrong. Here. The Bills essentially treated Miami
like a broken vending machine in Miami. Put the dollar
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in the vending machine. They wanted the chips. The chips
were dangling. They pressed the button, they kicked it, they
shook the machine. They pleaded with the vending machine, please,
we want we want that bag of chips. It's Mark W.
We want that bag of chips. It's Mark W. And
the machine said, no, we're not giving you that bag
of chips. We took your money and we're not going
to do it. And that was the Dolphins. Buffalo was
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absolutely right. They were plumped for the taking here and
the Dolphins they tripped on their own shoelaces. And it
was the daily double, daily dabble. It was the daily
double here of dumb da dum dumb dum el capitan
no captan addition, So we start with defensive tackle Zach Sealer,
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who well apparently a captain for the Dolphins and never
heard of the guy at He had the Dunce cap
play of the night there. So let me set this
up there. It's the fourth quarter tie game, the Dolphins
defense somehow has held and the Bills are going to
punt the ball to Miami. Miami is going to get
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the ball with an opportunity in a tie game to
go down and take the lead. And what does Zach
Sealer do. He said, no, no, no, no, no, no
no no. He rough it. He roughs the kicker. He
runs into the punter. And so instead of getting the
ball back with a chance to take the lead and
put the pressure on the Buffalo Bills, instead you decided
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to give wrap Buffalo a first down inside your territory
and Josh Allen, because you clobbered the punter, Josh Allen
ended up going down and said thank you very much,
and boom punched it right in the end zone. So
that is the game changer right there. But wait, there's more.
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I said. Every great infomercial used to say back in
the day. The Encore Encore on Coore Encore to a
tongue of by LOOA mister tunnel vision himself deep in
Bill's territory, deep in Bill's territory, season on the line,
and what does Tua do? What does he do? He
locks in on Jalen Wattle and like it's prom night
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there and Buffalo's one of the linebackers, Torell Bernard, it's
not a bad name, Terrell Bernard. He cut right in
front of the passing lane and it's you know, it's
like on but he stole, He stole the flowers and
all that, and he picked off the pass, and the
legend of Tua turna the ball over continues here. It
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was a puke inducing throw. So let's hear from the
man of the hour. Tua. You're the franchise quarterback for
the Miami Dolphins. You had the ball in your hand
deep inside Buffalo territory at the twenty six yard line
of the Bills, and you threw an interception. What do
you have to say for yourself toa.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I thought I was in rhythm and timing of the play,
seeing the flat defender.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Go over the top of Jalen.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Jalen's turning around.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I think that was a really good play by the
defender had some color in my face trying to maneuver
the throw as well. Ten out of ten times, if
we're looking at that same thing, I'd still try to
work that timing of hitting that that spot. And I
think the linebacker made a great play on that.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Okay. So say that's like if I did a bad
segment of talk radio, I'd be like, well, ten out
of ten times, I'm gonna do that bad segment again,
because you know it's gonna work. It's absolutely gonna work.
That was and I'm not a Dolphin fan. And if
you listened or you watched over on YouTube, Benny versus
the Penny, we handicapped the game. We gave you the Dolphins.
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We got that one right. So I was happy that
Miami covered. They didn't win the game. I think they
were gonna win the game. But my god, that was
puke inducing by Tua. And it's another example of what
the f were they thinking in Miami giving this guy
the contract the game was just insane. They just they
got so much money these NFL teams that they give
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marginal quarterbacks massive amounts of money without actually earning it.
That is a two hundred million dollar quarterback who telegraphed
to pass in the fourth quarter deep in the opponent's territory.
The Duke of puke right there, and on that play
lights out the parties over there. You go, cannot do it,
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cannot do it at that time, not in that spot.
That is self destruction at its finest. They will teach
that how to self destruct the Miami Dolphins way there.
So the Miami Captains literally, in the fourth quarter of
a tie game, the Miami Dolphins captains went hasbro. They
torpedoed their own ship. You sank my battleship, is what
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they said. These are supposed to be the leaders, the
guys who set the tone, they're the ones that calm
the storm. And instead they were literally drilling holes in
the hole of the ship. And the Dolphins went from
going a wall in Indy to beating themselves in Buffalo.
So there they didn't show up for the first game,
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and then lost the close one with the pages last week,
and then here again against what's supposed to be one
of the powers in the AFC, had a chance in
the fourth quarter and did not get it done. Now
turning the page, page two, So some around the NFL
are calling this close defeat a positive. I'm being serious here,
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even some of the guys in the locker room postgame.
Tyreek Hill, the chieta who had a touchdown and then
did a nice little dance there. Tyreek Hill, the wide
receiver of the Dolphins, said that his team is quote
headed in the right direction, is what he said? All right,
So how do you measure that? Tyreek Hill postgame said,
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the Dolphins are headed to the right or in the
right direction. So how do you measure that? So I
measure that with four words? Are you kidding me? Are
you kidding me? That is a puffy sticker that reads
moral victory is what that is from Tyreek Hill? And
there are no moral victories in the NFL. It's one
of the great things about sports. A lot of times
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in life there's a gray area. You don't really know
where you're staying with people or your employer or things
like that. But in sports, you clearly have a winner
and a loser. You win and everyone kisses your ass
and says how great you are and gets all emotional,
and you lose and you wear the clown you know,
you drive the clown car, you wear the clown makeup
and all that period stuff. So let me decode Tyreek
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Kill's message here. He said, Essentially, we lost, but at
least at least we didn't look like a bunch of
total buffoons. You thought we were gonna get blown out.
We didn't get blown out. We still lost, Tarrek. Doesn't matter.
We didn't get blown out, but you lost by ten point.
It doesn't matter. You thought we'd lose by twelve and
a half. It's a problem, right if you're a real
contender and a real competitor, you don't you don't do that.
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What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Tyreek sounds like? Tyreek sounds like. We get these calls
every once in a while. They're not usual listeners, but
they're fanboys that'll call into the overnight show at three
in the morning and be like, hey, you know. They
try to convince me that, ah, the team's close, that
team's club. But the Cheetah reminding me of my old
dog Bella the shitsu. My god, no cheatah, more like
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a Now. Meanwhile, how about the coach? Can we get
a temperature reading on the Miami Coach right out of
a Cheech and Trong movie. Mike McDaniel and his hot seat.
What is the hot seat? Let's go over to cut
three here, McDaniel says, despite what it might look like,
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the Dolphins actually had plans to walk out of the
stadium in a good move, take a list.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Or expectation was to come in here and win the game.
And we knew we had to not turn the ball over,
and we knew we had to, you know, try to
get at least plus or at least even with him
in the in the takeaway department, and we had to
play good football and make some plays. And you know,
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we had a turnover in a critical situation, we had
a critical penalty against on a punt. Those types of
things can that's how these types of games are decided.
So it feels like a lot and it feels like
we have a lot of motivation to get back.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
To work, all right. So there is there. He is
the head coach. That's a leader of men. Right there,
Boys go out to battle, run through a wall right there. No,
I would like to go eat some taco bell is
what I would like to do. Here's one more from
the half baked coach of the Dolphins, who points out
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that this is this is where he sounds like he's
doing NPR or something. Well, take a list.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Frustration that turns to focus. I would say that I'm
very focused and motivated to continue eliminating things that cost
us games. And you know, you have a young team,
a lot of people that you're counting on, and you
need him to not be young for very much longer
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and continue to grow. But the it's I would say
focus because you know I, I know I have a
locker room that is all into growth through the process.
You know, there's some tough, tough lessons, are tough things
you have to deal with. The National Football League.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All right, So there is the head coach of the
Miami Dolphins, righty, Oh so bad? All right? Man alive? Okay,
So I like when he said we have a young
team that shouldn't be young. And of course then you
know what would happen if they had an old team. Oh,
we're an old team. You know, they complain about that.
Whatever they are, they will complain about. So the temperature
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reading on Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel's hot seat this game
was a lateral move. He's still in the in the bickram,
the yoga studio, the hot yoga right one hundred and
five degrees, very humid conditions. He's currently doing the triangle pose,
the yoga triangle post. He's marinating like a brisket, a
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brisket in asana. That's the coach the Dolphins who actually
made the playoffs each of that guy's two seasons, his
first two seasons as coach of the Dolphins, McDaniel the
last twenty one games. The Dolphins have lost thirteen of
the last twenty one games since that wild card loss
in frigid Kansas City, when Tua turned into an ice cube.
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They actually they had to melt him to put him
back on the bus after the game. It was wild.
He actually was an ice cube. It was crazy. So
now we hear that ownership of the Dolphins still loves
their boy, genius, pot loving head coach. There, the coach,
the nerd with the laminated play sheet, and so he
still got a steamy seat. And you know, the Dolphins
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hung in the game, but again no moral victories and
all that crap was it was a game that was winnable,
all right. Bad teams lose close games. Good teams win
close games. And right now Miami is a bad team.
And all the yoga in the world is not going
to stretch that into a team that is a playoff team,
not this year. All right, last word, So we go
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to the winners locker room. Now, what did you take away?
Here's the question, what did you take away from Josh
Allen's bills getting the win? So I thought this was
the classic example of exhale and thank a higher power
type of win. Right, you need a late game turnover
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just to get out of dodge against the Dolphins. Generally speaking,
that is not a good sign. Like the Dolphins were
a tinder box teetering on the brink of self destruction
and they still are. That's not a statement win. It
wouldn't have been even if they'd blown out the Dolphins
by a gazillion points. But that's more of a relief win.
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I mean, Buffalo at times was absolutely zonked on defense.
They turned to a into wolfgang puck. On third down,
Tuo was able to carve them up. It reminded me
of going to get some prime rib but this place
called Lowry's in LA This prime rib place over in Losienega.
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But listen, ten of fifteen on third down. The Dolphins
were ten of fifteen's that's insane. Sixty seven almost seventy
percent on third down the red zone Miami against the
Bills defense was one hundred percent success right when they
got in the red zone. That is not defense. That
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is more like a speedbump. Nevertheless, somehow Someway, because of
the generosity of the team from Florida, they ended up
with the w. And it's kind of like flying. Let's
say you're flying Jet Blue or something like that and
they cancel your direct flight and you're like, I have
to get to that game. I've got tickets to the game.
I got to get to the games. So they don't worry.
We got you. And so then they rerout you or
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reroute you, depending on where you came from. They re
route you into an airport you've never been to. In Bozeman,
Mont Tanem. The seat back screen doesn't work, you can't
watch the television and all that. The seat's not very comfortable,
but you still land on time for kickoff, so you're okay.
You're okay, like you're miserable, but you got there and
winning ugly. The art of the eighty percent, and as
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it been pointed out, like you only remember the end
you often don't remember how you got there. A give
example in baseball, the Dodgers last season won the World Series.
They sucked in several stretches last season, did not play
well at all, they were at a bad pitching staff,
and they still ended up winning. So people celebrate that
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because they won. They don't remember all the crap that
took place. You blocked that out. Listen, the Bills did
not ace the test here, but you're crammed enough to
pass the test. So if you're Sean McDermott the coach,
go out buy a lottery ticket you had. The Bills
had two fumbles in this game that both somehow ended
up back with Buffalo of fumbles of fifty to fifty propositions,
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so both ended up they didn't lose possession. The Bills
also missed a field goal in this game, so it's
more divine intervention is what it is.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Regardless, again, as we said, good teams win these games.
They grinded out like this and so it wasn't pretty.
But the Buffalo Bills continue. They're winning ways or off
to the three and zero start now. And that was
one of those games where if they played a team
that didn't self destruct and then the Bills end up
losing that game, but that not the case, so no
one will remember that at all.
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Some of our p ones were upset that I did
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I have editorial control, so that was my decision. So
the story here, the end of the road, the end
of the road. That's right, Nana, Nana, NANAA good bye
Clighton Kershaw. We learned that the Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw
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is quitting baseball. He's done. That's it. He will finally retire. Hallelujah.
At the end of the season. Eighteen years in Major
League Baseball and really stealing money for the last five
or six. Kershaw's final start of the regular season at
Dodgers Stadium will take place later on Friday night against
the Giants. The Dodgers currently lead the National League wild
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card race, and they are right there with the Padres
neck and neck down the stretch. They actually lead the
Padres in the division. It is unlikely they're going to
be in the wildcard round. That's the problem, because they're
not going to have one of the top two records.
So it is unlikely though that Clayton Kershaw, his old
bag of bones, will be in the postseason rotation. So
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Kershaw will be making his final start barring several Tommy
John injuries, which is not out of the question with
Dave Roberts and the Nerds managing the Dodgers. So Kershaw
is thirty seven and he will make his final start
against the Higant's longtime rivals there and the Dodgers, and
then he will fade away, become a team ambassador and
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still get paid a ton of money to do nothing,
which is pretty much what he's been doing the last
several years. So it is the hour of Clayton Kershaw.
Let's discuss. Let's get into it the question, are you
sad to see Clayton Kershaw retire from the Dodgers. I'm
getting that vibe. All this is a sad thing. So
my observations on this, I've got Christmas Light, clown College,
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but I'm guessing she does so. Number All right, am
I supposed to shed a tear here? No? Do I
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need to go out and get a clean xbox or
something like that, get a tissue? Please, it's time. It
is I do not understand the coverage it has been
in time. It has been time. This is not a
sad thing. This is a great thing. He should have
retired five years ago. Instead, Kershaw has been hanging out
at Dodgers Stadium like that one Christmas light you forgot
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to take down, and then you realize, wait a minute's June,
I should have taken that down. Why is that thing
still there? A part time player? Body breaking down year
after year after year, and the Dodgers kept re signing
him every season. They kept running his old ass out
there like he's still the cy young pitcher. And since
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the pandemic, you realize Kershaw. Here we are twenty twenty five,
Since the pandemic, Kershaw has one season over one hundred
and thirty innings pitched. One That is mascot territory. That
is mascot territory. You're paying him to sit in the
dugout and look nostalgic in the uniform. That's what they've
been doing. He's been well paid. Kershaw's earned eighty six
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million dollars since twenty twenty one for a guy who,
at best he is a midweek starter and at worst
a just a good luck charm you'd like to have
on the team. And listen, I'm not gonna sit here
and say, at his peak he was an amazing regular
season player, an amazing regular season pitcher. No one is
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denying that. No one's denying that. The last couple of years,
it's been Weekend at Bernie's is what it's been. The
baseball version. The Dodgers kept propping him up because it
made everyone feel all warm and fuzzy, Oh, we've got Kershaw,
and so they end up just burning money for a
part time pitcher because he used to be good. If anything,
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the Dodger fan, the real Dodger fan, should be relieved.
It clears the deck. No more pretending, no more make
believe with Kershaw, and you can still have him out
there and parade him out and pay him a bunch
of money to be a team ambassador and one of
those no show jobs and all that, and so move on.
Somebody else will be in there. They'll be fine now,
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page two. This is something that I kept hearing and
reading and I wanted to give my two cents on this.
There's a popular opinion among popular people the baseball blogger world,
the blogger sphere that the Dodgers are going to be
inspired by Clayton Kershaw. So will the Dodgers rally around
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Clayton Kershaw to win the twenty twenty five World Series.
They're gonna win the series for Kershaw? All right, So
let's tackle this. This is a Hollywood script that is
now being passed around as the gospel. So on this one,
I have a few words. Are you out of your mind?
This is the kind of drek, absolute drek that they
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give out in Sportswriter clown College. You go to Sportswriter
clown College, you cue the montage aging hero Championship bath,
fade to black. That's it, right, It's remember the Titans
meets Fields of Dream, Fields of Dream. Rather and only
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it's the twenty twenty five Dodgers, who've looked more like
a country club softball team than a bunch of dolls.
I want some doughs. I don't even know cats. I
need a dold. No, the Dodges are not dogs. They're
kiddi cats. And that's just the way they've been all year.
Now will that change? I'm not holding my breath for
that to change. But this group has been mostly spineless
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this year. It's a roster of floaters. And said, oh,
they're a playoff team. How could you say that? They're
an underachieving team. This team should have won one hundred
and ten games and they're gonna sneak into the playoffs.
It's embarrassing. And the guys who walk into that Dodger clubhouse,
they collect their giant fat checks, good for them, and
they coast along. They the trainer's room at Dodger Stadium.
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I'm told it's not a medical facility. It's a social club.
They ought to have a bartender and they're handing out mohidos.
My god. This is the mantra of the franchise. Do
the bare minimum. They've institutionalized this, and Kershaw's been a
part of it. You don't push pitchers, you don't push players,
you don't push anyone. It just floats along and cash
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the check. And Andrew Friedman is the smartest guy in
the world. And Dave Roberts just hits all the right
buttons blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. And now we're supposed to sit here,
you and I and pretend that you know the media
spin is accurate. They're selling you. They're gonna do it
for Kershaw. Okay, all right, so place, he's already got
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his storybook moment it happened last year. He's already got
two championships. Okay. And the man's career earnings are north
of three hundred million dollars. He does not need one
more for the road, does not need one more for
the road. Now, on a positive note. On a positive note,
thank god he didn't do one of those disgusting retirement tours.
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I will I will compliment Kershaw. I'm not a big
fan of his, but I will compliment Kershaw on this.
You know, the the over the top look at me
rocking chairs and every cowboy boots in Texas, pitching rubber
in San Francisco, the guitar in Cleveland, the lego set
in San Diego, all of that crap that's destined for
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a landfa. He didn't do that, all right, Now, Kershaw was.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Forced.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I don't forced is the right word. He was strongly
encouraged by Rob Manford. And the chatter is this has
been an open secret that everyone knew this was his
last year. Thus Major League Baseball allowed Kershaw, who had
no business sniffing the All Star Game. They dragged him
out there much like the Dodgers do at Dodger Stadium
as a mascot, and they said, you know, you don't
deserve to be on the All Star team, but we're
(30:37):
gonna put you there anyway and give you a farewell moment.
Remember the All Star Game in Atlanta. So they dragged
him to Georgia, for a very weird public spongebath as
a sendoff. It was gross. But otherwise, Kershaw, for the
most part, has pulled an Irish goodbye, goodbye good job
by him. You slip out the side door, no fuss,
no circus. That's the right way to do it. That
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is the right way to do it. So I do
appreciate Kershaw for leaving the right way. I wish he
would have done it five years ago. But that's fine,
all right. Final point. Now we're going to get into
the ugly part of the Kershaw story. And unfortunately I'm
not sitting here with my cheerleading outfit on. I left
that in the other room, pulled that out for certain occasions.
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Here's the final point. What is the legacy of Clayton Kershaw?
It's got one more regular season start? What is his legacy?
Right now? Clayton Kershaw is the most frustrating type of
player to ever have play for your team. Do you
agree or disagree with that? Let me make my elevator
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pitch why Clayton Kershaw is the most frustrating type of
player you could ever follow as a fan of athletic competition.
In the regular season, Clayton Kershaw has been a wagon,
an absolute wagon of fire hose. He would mow down
the Arizona Diamondbacks on a Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium
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and it was unbelievable. Wednesday night, May crazy crazy. He
was like Sandy Kofax reincarnated, even though Sandy's still alive.
Complete bus saw and then October would come around with
Clayton Kershaw and you'd be all excited, greatest picture of
this generation, bright lights, big stage and on the way
to the ballpark, I'm convinced that Clayton Kershaw would go
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down to Windy's, he would order a frosty and by
the time he got to the ballpark, he'd have eaten
the frosty and then he immediately suffered brain freeze the
moment he got on the mound. Every single time, every
single time, Clayton Kershaw was a frequent flyer during his career.
He was in the cockpit of the vomit comet. He
was in the cockpit of the vomit COBBT, flying the
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vomit Cobbat, spiraling out of control with the entire baseball
world watching, the entire country watching. And it wasn't just
once or twice. You were allowed to have one or
two bad runs in the play playoffs. You can eliminate
that right, You can say, wow, that was just a
one off or a two off. This is the essence
of Clayton Kershaw. It is his DNA. His DNA is
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he chokes in big games. We're talking twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,
twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. I was at the game in
twenty twenty three against the Diamondbacks and the flyover and
the game was over against the Arizona. You can pick
a year, any of those years, and there's Clayton Kershaw
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coughing up a hairball. If Clayton Kershaw was a dog
on the mound, he wouldn't be the bulldog that was
old Heirscheiser. He wouldn't be a pit bull or a
German shepherd. He would have been a choking dog, because
that's what he did, the kind you don't trust in traffic,
allergic to the big game. Run from the moment, from
generational legend in October to a liability in October, a
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generational legend in June and July, and then in October reliability.
That was his resume. The numbers do not lie. The numbers,
back up the eye test, the era in the players.
I believe it's two runs higher than the regular season.
That's not a drop off. That is a kamikaze mission,
is what that is. You hand him the ball in October,
you're basically lighting the fuse. That's it. So the tinder
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box and you're lighting the fuse. Now, I am gonna
give an exemption for twenty seventeen because every one of
their mother knows what happened in twenty seventeen was insane.
The cheating Astros were banging on trash cans, blowing in whistles.
They had buzzers strapped to Altuve in my opinion, But
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the rest that's all on the shoulders of Clayton Kershaw.
The rest of that is all on the shoulders of
Clayton Kershaw. If Kershaw was like our caller from Vegas,
Big Balls, Bob, you realize what his incompetence cost the Dodgers.
If he had a little bit of what but Pedro
Martinez had, or Kurt Shilling or Madison Bumgardner in his
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DNA as a big game pitcher, the Los Angeles Dodgers
would be on a Yankees like run right now, they
would have an ungodly amount of World Series in the
last twenty years. Modern era Yankees from those old school
Yankees back in the day, like Lou Garrick and Babe Ruth,
those Yankees, we're talking seven or eight World Series championships.
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The Dodgers would have at this point. But because Clayton
Kershaw sucks in big games, they're sitting on two and
they didn't really win those two until Kershaw was kind
of hanging on at the end of his career. When
Kershaw was the man, when he was the guy, they
never won. They never won when he was the featured
star above the marquee. It was only after they put
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other people in those roles and Kershaw still hung around
that they won. And listen, you can dress it up
all you want. The way I look at it Kershaw
is he's complicated because he's a Hall of Famer and
he's one of the great underachievers. At the same time,
when it matted most Clayton Kershaw did not deliver. And
(36:09):
that's that's the way you have to describe Kershaw. That
is the legacy of Clayton Kershaw. All right, great during
the regular season and then the playoffs. He's the last
guy you would want to pitch. He's the last pick.
He's the first pick in the regular season, he's the
last pick in the postseason. And that's that's an indictment.
That's a referendum on Kershaw. All right, and here's Kershaw
(36:31):
the announcement from his news conference prior to the Dodger
Giant game. How bad are the Giants? The Dodgers walked
I believe they walked ten batters in that game and
they still shut out the Giants. Holy crap. Anyway, here
is Clayton Kershaw announcing, I am done. Done. Dun dun dun, dun, dun,
dun dun.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
I have a lot of thank you to get through,
and I can't have time today to do a justice
for all the people that have helped me along the
way and got me to this point. So today I'm
just going to going to keep it short and sweet
and then you know, be able to really tell people
just how grateful I am for everybody that's in this organization,
that's in this room, that's been here later on, but yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna call it. I'm gonna retire We've
(37:12):
talked about a lot, and I've talked about a lot.
Kiddo's talked about it a lot, and I'm at peace
with it. I think it's I think it's the right
time it's been. It's been such a fun year. I've
had such a blast with this group. I've had such
a blast with all you guys.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, well, your time was actually a few years ago.
This is past the expiration dates. The bread's getting a
little moldy. Here's more from Clayton Kershaw. Now this one's
pretty amusing. Here's Kershaw pointing out that he has he
has hope for how this is all going to play out.
Take it is.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
Yeah, I can't think of a better season to go
it out, go out. And we still have a lot
to accomplish obviously this month, and the last thing I
want to do is be a distraction to anybody for
accomplishing our ultimate goal to win in the last game
of the season. So we're gonna get through this today
and then we're gonna go win the rest of the
games and be good.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You want to, but you don't win the rest of
the games, because I'll I'll take some action on that.
I'll be the Bookie on that one. I'll take a
couple of shekels on that that you don't win the
rest of the game. I know he's just saying what
you're supposed to say, and I wouldn't want to go
out any other way than this and all that stuff.
But again, the twenty twenty five Dodgers are one of
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the great underachieving team. They have eighty six wins. Eighty
six wins, so that is roughly twenty four wins from
where they were supposed to be. They're twenty four games
underway they should have been. I mean, you cannot make
this up. They are such massive underachievers it is wild.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
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Speaker 4 (38:43):
Here we go, Here we go?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
What about that? To the third degree? This is one
big gets grilled goo helo.
Speaker 9 (38:53):
Tyron Taylor is said to make his first start in
six hundred and twenty four days as Justin Field is
out for the jetson week three. Aaron Glennen says, there's
no better player that you would want as your backup quarterback.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yes, no one better. Ben.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Do you think the Jets could actually perform better under Tyrod.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
No. No, it's a lateral move because if you look
at Justin Fields, he's like background noise, and then Tyrod
Taylor's elevator music, it's the same thing. Neither one of
them is distinguished in any way. They're unglamorous, ordinary quarterbacks,
and they might play well this week with the backup,
(39:28):
but I long term it doesn't really matter. Next.
Speaker 9 (39:31):
Amazon Prime Video CEO Jay Marine said that recently he
is optimistic about streaming a Super Bowl someday. Ben, could
you see the biggest sporting event of them all being
leaving broadcast?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Yeah, I mean they will go where the money is
and if they can get more money from Eventually, this
is gonna take years, and it's like the boiling frog.
It's slowly. It's moving that way. Anyway, the sports are
moving to streaming services. It's pay per view. So the
next logical step would be he put the super Bowl
on that event, so on Amazon? Put that event on
(40:04):
Amazon next.
Speaker 9 (40:05):
Travis Hunter had a full workload of forty two offensive
snaps and forty three defensive snaps for the Jackson. Week
two wasn't a major factor on either side of the ball,
but Cohen suggested Liam Cohen. That is that even more
snaps are in Hunter's future? Is that the right move?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yes, he's average, apparently on both sides of the ball,
so you might as well play him. He's average on
both sides, and then maybe he'll make some money and
all that. You know, nothing special so far, but why not?
He wants to do it. He's young? What the hell?
How do we do?
Speaker 8 (40:31):
You?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Passed?
Speaker 4 (40:31):
The sedition?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Was?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I got the guys?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
I what the Fox Sports Radio has the best sports
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Search FSR to listen live. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame week?
Blame week too.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Here we go,
Big Man's lame jokes a week, actual jokes by act.
So listeners, do we have weed?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Is he there? All right? All right? I noticed you.
You're not calling. You're not calling anymore other than this.
You're very busy man. What do you? What do you
do all week?
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
And I know go on Puesday?
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Yeah, yeah, something like that. And all right, well, here
we go week the great Everything good with your weed man,
you're okay though? Yes? All right? Why do blind Scott
or check that? What do blind Scott and Cashews have
in common?
Speaker 2 (41:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
They're both nuts? All right? What did blind Scott say
whenever he read a scary story in braille? What something
bad is gonna happen? I can feel it? Said?
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Noah?
Speaker 1 (41:54):
See weed man, when you read braille, you got to
use your fingers. See that's that's Noah in Austin. Who
sent that one in? Where did blind Scott go to college?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Where?
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Ps U? Psychotic State University? That's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota?
All right? What what has been the biggest highlight of
Stefan Diggs this season?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
What?
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Well, apparently he scored on a dink and dunk play
with Cardi B. How about that? That's Chip in Maine.
Did you did you see his reaction when he was
asked about Cardi B being pregnant. It did not seem
like he was excited about that. That was very interesting.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
We kept it to himself.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Huh, yeah, that might have been to me. Okay, all right?
Why did weed man hit me get a gym membership?
Speaker 8 (42:48):
No know?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Why why did weed man hit me get a gym
membership because they have a nice bathroom where he plans
to get ripped. Ripped. That's true in Minnesota. Did you
hear that? Benny versus the Penny has led to a
YouTube spin off show, No What Yes? Make sure to
(43:09):
like and subscribe to weed Man Versus the Nickelbag. That's
Joe from Virginia Beach? Who sent that one? In a right?
The next joke here, Why does David Vasse want to
meet weed Man hippie?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Why?
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Because he heard that weed Man smells like Tuckis? That's
Lucky Tony. Have you noticed Lucky Tony not calling as
much since the Chicago Bears started owing too? Have you
noticed that? I've noticed that? Yeah, all right. Why was
Jordan Hudson kicked off Dancing with the Stars? Why she
(43:47):
demanded weed Man as her partner, but they both wanted
more days off? That's Tom in Indiana. When's the when's
the last time you worked weed Man? Or was it
a long time ago? Was it the eighties of the nineties,
(44:07):
the nineties? Okay, the nineties, I was gonna say, because
you you lost everything in the stock market crash in
the eighties though, right the late eighties, I know the
toy store. I know. I'm sorry, weed Man. I just
think you'd Oh I thought it was I thought I
thought it was the one in the eighties. So two
thousand and one you lost everything? Yeah, okay, all right,
(44:30):
and just think if you hadn't lost everything, you'd be
living in the mansion on Long Island right now. That
we never would have known each other. Why did weed
Man get in trouble at the bank. Why Well, an
old lady said she wanted his help checking her balance,
so he pushed her over. That's Eric in Kansas. That's
not nice, read man, all right. Why would weed Man
(44:52):
hippie make a great companion for Lorena? Why she snaps
her toes and he comes running. That's George and Uvaldi
Texas with that joke. It's Big Ben's lame jokes of
the league. What does what does? What does Lorena like
best about Major League Baseball season? What she loves makeup games?
(45:15):
That's Eke in Roseville. What does the Lorena and the
Iowa Hawkeye fans have in common? What they both hate?
The UMass minute man? The minute man. It's Eric in Kansas. There, Yeah,
all right, Uh, we have some some dad jokes here
(45:38):
from dad joke Jay? I thought these were okay? But
what do you call a mobile phone in prison?
Speaker 7 (45:45):
What?
Speaker 1 (45:46):
A cell phone? Why? Why? Why do heavy metal bands
refuse to drink coke? Why? It's pop? That's why pop.
That's a that's that's dad, dad joke Jay. Do you
have any jokes coop, any offensive jokes?
Speaker 9 (46:04):
Now?
Speaker 4 (46:05):
Actually I might, I might.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Let me let me see, all right, better do it quick.
What is the difference between a politician and a flying pig?
What the letter F? The letter F? That's it? Jo?
Speaker 4 (46:18):
He said, was dumb?
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Okay? What what? No joke? Coops out of the show.
What is the fastest way to become a millionaire?
Speaker 7 (46:24):
What?
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Be a billionaire and invest in the w n B
A it's right away, it'll go away there. How is
Tony in the Bay Area? Like a treasurer you have?
You need a map to and a shovel to find
them his family? I screwed that best, Eric in Cans,
thanks weed.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Man and the Entertainment for this Friday the fastest scoring
sentiment on radio.
Speaker 4 (46:48):
Now, thank you, Marcell.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
They're doing a lot Coop. I'm watching the video from
Stony They're doing a lot of needle point. A lot
of needle point going on at Stony Ridge here.
Speaker 9 (47:06):
Well, this is this is one of the fastest growing
segments in all of radio.
Speaker 4 (47:11):
We just add more people to it every week.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
It's pretty You can Marcel be part of it. I
feel like he needs to be part of it. He can,
he can. Why you stay on, Stay there, Marcel, and
you can comment on the story, scoop. How about that?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Oh, a lot of the fastest going segment and all.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Of the fun. Okay, all right, taking taking, thank you
for that.
Speaker 9 (47:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
I'm looking at the food too. The food looks pretty
good here at the Stony Ridge.
Speaker 9 (47:39):
I'm hungry now, nice, Okay, So we're gonna start off
in theaters and this weekend there's there's not a lot,
but there is kind of There's this movie that I
want to point out. It's not a wide release, so
you'll have to check and see where it's playing near you.
But it's called The Senior and.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Oh that's appropriate. I'm looking at these senior living facility
here that Dick and Daytons.
Speaker 9 (48:00):
Yes, it is based on a true story and it
is It stars Michael Chickliss, who you may remember from
The Shield.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
I've heard the name.
Speaker 9 (48:11):
Yes, it is based on the true story of Mike Flint, who,
at age fifty nine, became a college football linebacker.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, you can see something like that.
There's another story like that now or is that?
Speaker 9 (48:25):
I mean maybe maybe it's the movie that came out today. Yeah, okay,
it's it's rate a PG, so you can bring the
whole family. But this is so far, it's getting really
good reviews from the critics, so go ahead and check
that out. Moving on to television, we have it's called
Black Rabbit and it is the latest limited series on Netflix.
(48:49):
It stars Jason Bateman from Arrested Development and Ozark Fame.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I've heard of him.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
Yeah, yes.
Speaker 9 (48:57):
It is a set in New York's night life scene.
Jude Long also stars as the owner of the titular hotspot,
Black Rabbit, a VIP lounge and restaurant. He reluctantly allows
his brother, played by Jason Babman, back into the business,
but he brings a whole new set of troubles crime
threatened to bring down the whole operation.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Oh that's not nice.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
No, it's not good.
Speaker 9 (49:19):
But yeah, that is available right now streaming on Netflix.
Moving on, we have This is called The low Down.
It is a new show on FX, also available to
stream on Hulu. And it is a neo noir drama
set in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And it stars Ethan Hawk and
(49:40):
also Kyle McLaughlin. And he is a journalist, an obsessive
citizen journalist who lives and works out of a bookstore,
and his quest is to expose local government corruption and
it lands him in trouble.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
I wonder if Chris plankson that he works it lives
in Tulsa.
Speaker 9 (49:58):
Oh yeah, that's right. And a last, but not least
on Wednesday on Apple TV. Wednesday, September twenty fourth is
the premiere of season five of Slow Horses, one of
the best spy shows on TV.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
I know, Marcel, you seems excited. You have somebody to
add to that.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
Marshall, What's what's going on? Urself? What he is he
practicing for another call right now?
Speaker 9 (50:24):
It sounds like, yeah, wow, all right, thanks Marcel.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
It's not that easy being a talk radio caller, professional
caller anyway, great spy show, Slow Horses.
Speaker 9 (50:34):
It stars Gary Olman. It's fantastic. If you haven't checked
it out before, check it out now before season five
comes out this Wednesday, and that is Scoop Scoob on entertainment,
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a lot going on, a lot to juggle good news
as we have a lot of real estate to cover here.
We will cover it all throughout the overnight. But we'll
start play the hit small man. What of our old
bosses used to say. So we'll start out in the
Buffalo area, just down the road from Niagara Falls Orchard Park,
New York. Where you play football in September. You don't
(02:16):
really have to worry about the weather very much. And
inn afcast mismatch. At least that's the way the game
was hyped up. You know that, and I know that
you had Al Michael's and Kirk kerb Street there. They
had the call on the Amazon, the biggest line on
the NFL if you're into gambling, biggest point spread in
the NFL for Week three by a wide margin. Josh
(02:38):
Allen and the Bills were expected to absolutely blitz the
team from South Florida twelve and a half point favorites
over Tua's Woebegone Dolphins. So we watched it. I don't
know if you were watching this or not. Maybe not.
He might have been doing something else. But Josh Allen,
he did have three touchdown passes. The Bill, though, had
(03:00):
to hold off the Dolphins. What Yes, the game was
tied up in the fourth quarter, but the Bills end
up winning the game thirty one to twenty one the
final and so yeah, Miami did cover the spread. James
Cook he was cooking the one hundred and eight yards
and rushing for a two yard touchdown as well. The Bills,
(03:22):
at three and zero now in the year, continue their
world domination of the once proud Miami Dolphins, who've become
a punching bag in the NFL for a number of years.
So Buffalo's won seventh straight and fourteen of the past fifteen,
including the playoffs, against the team from South Florida. The
better story, though, is in the losing locker room. That
(03:45):
is the better story, and so that is where we
will go. And the Miami Dolphins, who have been very
good to us in overnight talk radio by having their
coach who's apparently on the spectrum, and a bunch of
other stuff that's just outrageous. The miscues and a lack
of discipline highlighted here as the Dolphins end up zero
(04:07):
to three, their worst start since way back in twenty nineteen.
Is barely alive back then, and they they will now
face more scrutiny as their head coach, Mike McDaniel is
dealing with job security issues. So let us discuss the
question who is wearing the bell of shame, the shame
(04:31):
bell for the Miami Dolphins. Who's wearing the sham bell
for the Dolphins. I've got has Bro, Puffy Sticker, and
Wolfgang Puck and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some deep fried, delicious,
crunchy tacos. This is what we're going to do, all right.
(04:52):
So let's see who's gonna who's gonna wear the shame bell?
Ding ding ding ding ning. How about Mike McDaniel and
his merry band of captains. Thank you, this was a
BC special, not Boston College. Bill Callahan, you probably don't
know who that is. His kid's a terrible coach with
the Titans. He sucked as a coach too, a long
lost Raider coach who should have been on the headset
(05:14):
there in the fourth quarter screaming, We've got to be
the dumbest team in America in terms of playing the game,
the Miami Dolphins. And he wouldn't be wrong. He would
not have been wrong. Here. The Bills essentially treated Miami
like a broken vending machine in Miami. Put the dollar
(05:34):
in the vending machine. They wanted the chips. The chips
were dangling. They pressed the button, they kicked it, they
shook the machine. They pleaded with the vending machine, please,
we want we want that bag of chips. It's Mark W.
We want that bag of chips. It's Mark W. And
the machine said, no, we're not giving you that bag
of chips. We took your money and we're not going
to do it. And that was the Dolphins. Buffalo was
(05:56):
absolutely right. They were plumped for the taking here and
the Dolphins they tripped on their own shoelaces. And it
was the daily double, daily dabble. It was the daily
double here of dumb da dum dumb dum el capitan
no captan addition, So we start with defensive tackle Zach Sealer,
(06:18):
who well apparently a captain for the Dolphins and never
heard of the guy at He had the Dunce cap
play of the night there. So let me set this
up there. It's the fourth quarter tie game, the Dolphins
defense somehow has held and the Bills are going to
punt the ball to Miami. Miami is going to get
(06:39):
the ball with an opportunity in a tie game to
go down and take the lead. And what does Zach
Sealer do. He said, no, no, no, no, no, no
no no. He rough it. He roughs the kicker. He
runs into the punter. And so instead of getting the
ball back with a chance to take the lead and
put the pressure on the Buffalo Bills, instead you decided
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to give wrap Buffalo a first down inside your territory
and Josh Allen, because you clobbered the punter, Josh Allen
ended up going down and said thank you very much,
and boom punched it right in the end zone. So
that is the game changer right there. But wait, there's more.
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I said. Every great infomercial used to say back in
the day. The Encore Encore on Coore Encore to a
tongue of by LOOA mister tunnel vision himself deep in
Bill's territory, deep in Bill's territory, season on the line,
and what does Tua do? What does he do? He
locks in on Jalen Wattle and like it's prom night
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there and Buffalo's one of the linebackers, Torell Bernard, it's
not a bad name, Terrell Bernard. He cut right in
front of the passing lane and it's you know, it's
like on but he stole, He stole the flowers and
all that, and he picked off the pass, and the
legend of Tua turna the ball over continues here. It
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was a puke inducing throw. So let's hear from the
man of the hour. Tua. You're the franchise quarterback for
the Miami Dolphins. You had the ball in your hand
deep inside Buffalo territory at the twenty six yard line
of the Bills, and you threw an interception. What do
you have to say for yourself toa.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I thought I was in rhythm and timing of the play,
seeing the flat defender.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Go over the top of Jalen.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Jalen's turning around.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I think that was a really good play by the
defender had some color in my face trying to maneuver
the throw as well. Ten out of ten times, if
we're looking at that same thing, I'd still try to
work that timing of hitting that that spot. And I
think the linebacker made a great play on that.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Okay. So say that's like if I did a bad
segment of talk radio, I'd be like, well, ten out
of ten times, I'm gonna do that bad segment again,
because you know it's gonna work. It's absolutely gonna work.
That was and I'm not a Dolphin fan. And if
you listened or you watched over on YouTube, Benny versus
the Penny, we handicapped the game. We gave you the Dolphins.
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We got that one right. So I was happy that
Miami covered. They didn't win the game. I think they
were gonna win the game. But my god, that was
puke inducing by Tua. And it's another example of what
the f were they thinking in Miami giving this guy
the contract the game was just insane. They just they
got so much money these NFL teams that they give
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marginal quarterbacks massive amounts of money without actually earning it.
That is a two hundred million dollar quarterback who telegraphed
to pass in the fourth quarter deep in the opponent's territory.
The Duke of puke right there, and on that play
lights out the parties over there. You go, cannot do it,
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cannot do it at that time, not in that spot.
That is self destruction at its finest. They will teach
that how to self destruct the Miami Dolphins way there.
So the Miami Captains literally, in the fourth quarter of
a tie game, the Miami Dolphins captains went hasbro. They
torpedoed their own ship. You sank my battleship, is what
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they said. These are supposed to be the leaders, the
guys who set the tone, they're the ones that calm
the storm. And instead they were literally drilling holes in
the hole of the ship. And the Dolphins went from
going a wall in Indy to beating themselves in Buffalo.
So there they didn't show up for the first game,
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and then lost the close one with the pages last week,
and then here again against what's supposed to be one
of the powers in the AFC, had a chance in
the fourth quarter and did not get it done. Now
turning the page, page two, So some around the NFL
are calling this close defeat a positive. I'm being serious here,
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even some of the guys in the locker room postgame.
Tyreek Hill, the chieta who had a touchdown and then
did a nice little dance there. Tyreek Hill, the wide
receiver of the Dolphins, said that his team is quote
headed in the right direction, is what he said? All right,
So how do you measure that? Tyreek Hill postgame said,
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the Dolphins are headed to the right or in the
right direction. So how do you measure that? So I
measure that with four words? Are you kidding me? Are
you kidding me? That is a puffy sticker that reads
moral victory is what that is from Tyreek Hill? And
there are no moral victories in the NFL. It's one
of the great things about sports. A lot of times
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in life there's a gray area. You don't really know
where you're staying with people or your employer or things
like that. But in sports, you clearly have a winner
and a loser. You win and everyone kisses your ass
and says how great you are and gets all emotional,
and you lose and you wear the clown you know,
you drive the clown car, you wear the clown makeup
and all that period stuff. So let me decode Tyreek
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Kill's message here. He said, Essentially, we lost, but at
least at least we didn't look like a bunch of
total buffoons. You thought we were gonna get blown out.
We didn't get blown out. We still lost, Tarrek. Doesn't matter.
We didn't get blown out, but you lost by ten point.
It doesn't matter. You thought we'd lose by twelve and
a half. It's a problem, right if you're a real
contender and a real competitor, you don't you don't do that.
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What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Tyreek sounds like? Tyreek sounds like. We get these calls
every once in a while. They're not usual listeners, but
they're fanboys that'll call into the overnight show at three
in the morning and be like, hey, you know. They
try to convince me that, ah, the team's close, that
team's club. But the Cheetah reminding me of my old
dog Bella the shitsu. My god, no cheatah, more like
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a Now. Meanwhile, how about the coach? Can we get
a temperature reading on the Miami Coach right out of
a Cheech and Trong movie. Mike McDaniel and his hot seat.
What is the hot seat? Let's go over to cut
three here, McDaniel says, despite what it might look like,
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the Dolphins actually had plans to walk out of the
stadium in a good move, take a list.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Or expectation was to come in here and win the game.
And we knew we had to not turn the ball over,
and we knew we had to, you know, try to
get at least plus or at least even with him
in the in the takeaway department, and we had to
play good football and make some plays. And you know,
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we had a turnover in a critical situation, we had
a critical penalty against on a punt. Those types of
things can that's how these types of games are decided.
So it feels like a lot and it feels like
we have a lot of motivation to get back.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
To work, all right. So there is there. He is
the head coach. That's a leader of men. Right there,
Boys go out to battle, run through a wall right there. No,
I would like to go eat some taco bell is
what I would like to do. Here's one more from
the half baked coach of the Dolphins, who points out
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that this is this is where he sounds like he's
doing NPR or something. Well, take a list.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Frustration that turns to focus. I would say that I'm
very focused and motivated to continue eliminating things that cost
us games. And you know, you have a young team,
a lot of people that you're counting on, and you
need him to not be young for very much longer
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and continue to grow. But the it's I would say
focus because you know I, I know I have a
locker room that is all into growth through the process.
You know, there's some tough, tough lessons, are tough things
you have to deal with. The National Football League.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
All right, So there is the head coach of the
Miami Dolphins, righty, Oh so bad? All right? Man alive? Okay,
So I like when he said we have a young
team that shouldn't be young. And of course then you
know what would happen if they had an old team. Oh,
we're an old team. You know, they complain about that.
Whatever they are, they will complain about. So the temperature
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reading on Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel's hot seat this game
was a lateral move. He's still in the in the bickram,
the yoga studio, the hot yoga right one hundred and
five degrees, very humid conditions. He's currently doing the triangle pose,
the yoga triangle post. He's marinating like a brisket, a
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brisket in asana. That's the coach the Dolphins who actually
made the playoffs each of that guy's two seasons, his
first two seasons as coach of the Dolphins, McDaniel the
last twenty one games. The Dolphins have lost thirteen of
the last twenty one games since that wild card loss
in frigid Kansas City, when Tua turned into an ice cube.
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They actually they had to melt him to put him
back on the bus after the game. It was wild.
He actually was an ice cube. It was crazy. So
now we hear that ownership of the Dolphins still loves
their boy, genius, pot loving head coach. There, the coach,
the nerd with the laminated play sheet, and so he
still got a steamy seat. And you know, the Dolphins
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hung in the game, but again no moral victories and
all that crap was it was a game that was winnable,
all right. Bad teams lose close games. Good teams win
close games. And right now Miami is a bad team.
And all the yoga in the world is not going
to stretch that into a team that is a playoff team,
not this year. All right, last word, So we go
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to the winners locker room. Now, what did you take away?
Here's the question, what did you take away from Josh
Allen's bills getting the win? So I thought this was
the classic example of exhale and thank a higher power
type of win. Right, you need a late game turnover
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just to get out of dodge against the Dolphins. Generally speaking,
that is not a good sign. Like the Dolphins were
a tinder box teetering on the brink of self destruction
and they still are. That's not a statement win. It
wouldn't have been even if they'd blown out the Dolphins
by a gazillion points. But that's more of a relief win.
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I mean, Buffalo at times was absolutely zonked on defense.
They turned to a into wolfgang puck. On third down,
Tuo was able to carve them up. It reminded me
of going to get some prime rib but this place
called Lowry's in LA This prime rib place over in Losienega.
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But listen, ten of fifteen on third down. The Dolphins
were ten of fifteen's that's insane. Sixty seven almost seventy
percent on third down the red zone Miami against the
Bills defense was one hundred percent success right when they
got in the red zone. That is not defense. That
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is more like a speedbump. Nevertheless, somehow Someway, because of
the generosity of the team from Florida, they ended up
with the w. And it's kind of like flying. Let's
say you're flying Jet Blue or something like that and
they cancel your direct flight and you're like, I have
to get to that game. I've got tickets to the game.
I got to get to the games. So they don't worry.
We got you. And so then they rerout you or
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reroute you, depending on where you came from. They re
route you into an airport you've never been to. In Bozeman,
Mont Tanem. The seat back screen doesn't work, you can't
watch the television and all that. The seat's not very comfortable,
but you still land on time for kickoff, so you're okay.
You're okay, like you're miserable, but you got there and
winning ugly. The art of the eighty percent, and as
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it been pointed out, like you only remember the end
you often don't remember how you got there. A give
example in baseball, the Dodgers last season won the World Series.
They sucked in several stretches last season, did not play
well at all, they were at a bad pitching staff,
and they still ended up winning. So people celebrate that
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because they won. They don't remember all the crap that
took place. You blocked that out. Listen, the Bills did
not ace the test here, but you're crammed enough to
pass the test. So if you're Sean McDermott the coach,
go out buy a lottery ticket you had. The Bills
had two fumbles in this game that both somehow ended
up back with Buffalo of fumbles of fifty to fifty propositions,
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so both ended up they didn't lose possession. The Bills
also missed a field goal in this game, so it's
more divine intervention is what it is.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Regardless, again, as we said, good teams win these games.
They grinded out like this and so it wasn't pretty.
But the Buffalo Bills continue. They're winning ways or off
to the three and zero start now. And that was
one of those games where if they played a team
that didn't self destruct and then the Bills end up
losing that game, but that not the case, so no
one will remember that at all.
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Some of our p ones were upset that I did
not begin the show with this. I felt it was
not worthy of top billing on and I have editorial control.
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I have editorial control, so that was my decision. So
the story here, the end of the road, the end
of the road. That's right, Nana, Nana, NANAA good bye
Clighton Kershaw. We learned that the Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw
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is quitting baseball. He's done. That's it. He will finally retire. Hallelujah.
At the end of the season. Eighteen years in Major
League Baseball and really stealing money for the last five
or six. Kershaw's final start of the regular season at
Dodgers Stadium will take place later on Friday night against
the Giants. The Dodgers currently lead the National League wild
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card race, and they are right there with the Padres
neck and neck down the stretch. They actually lead the
Padres in the division. It is unlikely they're going to
be in the wildcard round. That's the problem, because they're
not going to have one of the top two records.
So it is unlikely though that Clayton Kershaw, his old
bag of bones, will be in the postseason rotation. So
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Kershaw will be making his final start barring several Tommy
John injuries, which is not out of the question with
Dave Roberts and the Nerds managing the Dodgers. So Kershaw
is thirty seven and he will make his final start
against the Higant's longtime rivals there and the Dodgers, and
then he will fade away, become a team ambassador and
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still get paid a ton of money to do nothing,
which is pretty much what he's been doing the last
several years. So it is the hour of Clayton Kershaw.
Let's discuss. Let's get into it the question, are you
sad to see Clayton Kershaw retire from the Dodgers. I'm
getting that vibe. All this is a sad thing. So
my observations on this, I've got Christmas Light, clown College,
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and Wendy's and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make your Babushka's favorite taketos.
You probably didn't think you're a Babushka had a favorite tiketo,
but I'm guessing she does so. Number All right, am
I supposed to shed a tear here? No? Do I
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need to go out and get a clean xbox or
something like that, get a tissue? Please, it's time. It
is I do not understand the coverage it has been
in time. It has been time. This is not a
sad thing. This is a great thing. He should have
retired five years ago. Instead, Kershaw has been hanging out
at Dodgers Stadium like that one Christmas light you forgot
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to take down, and then you realize, wait a minute's June,
I should have taken that down. Why is that thing
still there? A part time player? Body breaking down year
after year after year, and the Dodgers kept re signing
him every season. They kept running his old ass out
there like he's still the cy young pitcher. And since
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the pandemic, you realize Kershaw. Here we are twenty twenty five,
Since the pandemic, Kershaw has one season over one hundred
and thirty innings pitched. One That is mascot territory. That
is mascot territory. You're paying him to sit in the
dugout and look nostalgic in the uniform. That's what they've
been doing. He's been well paid. Kershaw's earned eighty six
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million dollars since twenty twenty one for a guy who,
at best he is a midweek starter and at worst
a just a good luck charm you'd like to have
on the team. And listen, I'm not gonna sit here
and say, at his peak he was an amazing regular
season player, an amazing regular season pitcher. No one is
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denying that. No one's denying that. The last couple of years,
it's been Weekend at Bernie's is what it's been. The
baseball version. The Dodgers kept propping him up because it
made everyone feel all warm and fuzzy, Oh, we've got Kershaw,
and so they end up just burning money for a
part time pitcher because he used to be good. If anything,
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the Dodger fan, the real Dodger fan, should be relieved.
It clears the deck. No more pretending, no more make
believe with Kershaw, and you can still have him out
there and parade him out and pay him a bunch
of money to be a team ambassador and one of
those no show jobs and all that, and so move on.
Somebody else will be in there. They'll be fine now,
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page two. This is something that I kept hearing and
reading and I wanted to give my two cents on this.
There's a popular opinion among popular people the baseball blogger world,
the blogger sphere that the Dodgers are going to be
inspired by Clayton Kershaw. So will the Dodgers rally around
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Clayton Kershaw to win the twenty twenty five World Series.
They're gonna win the series for Kershaw? All right, So
let's tackle this. This is a Hollywood script that is
now being passed around as the gospel. So on this one,
I have a few words. Are you out of your mind?
This is the kind of drek, absolute drek that they
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give out in Sportswriter clown College. You go to Sportswriter
clown College, you cue the montage aging hero Championship bath,
fade to black. That's it, right, It's remember the Titans
meets Fields of Dream, Fields of Dream. Rather and only
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it's the twenty twenty five Dodgers, who've looked more like
a country club softball team than a bunch of dolls.
I want some doughs. I don't even know cats. I
need a dold. No, the Dodges are not dogs. They're
kiddi cats. And that's just the way they've been all year.
Now will that change? I'm not holding my breath for
that to change. But this group has been mostly spineless
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this year. It's a roster of floaters. And said, oh,
they're a playoff team. How could you say that? They're
an underachieving team. This team should have won one hundred
and ten games and they're gonna sneak into the playoffs.
It's embarrassing. And the guys who walk into that Dodger clubhouse,
they collect their giant fat checks, good for them, and
they coast along. They the trainer's room at Dodger Stadium.
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I'm told it's not a medical facility. It's a social club.
They ought to have a bartender and they're handing out mohidos.
My god. This is the mantra of the franchise. Do
the bare minimum. They've institutionalized this, and Kershaw's been a
part of it. You don't push pitchers, you don't push players,
you don't push anyone. It just floats along and cash
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the check. And Andrew Friedman is the smartest guy in
the world. And Dave Roberts just hits all the right
buttons blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. And now we're supposed to sit here,
you and I and pretend that you know the media
spin is accurate. They're selling you. They're gonna do it
for Kershaw. Okay, all right, so place, he's already got
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his storybook moment it happened last year. He's already got
two championships. Okay. And the man's career earnings are north
of three hundred million dollars. He does not need one
more for the road, does not need one more for
the road. Now, on a positive note. On a positive note,
thank god he didn't do one of those disgusting retirement tours.
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I will I will compliment Kershaw. I'm not a big
fan of his, but I will compliment Kershaw on this.
You know, the the over the top look at me
rocking chairs and every cowboy boots in Texas, pitching rubber
in San Francisco, the guitar in Cleveland, the lego set
in San Diego, all of that crap that's destined for
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a landfa. He didn't do that, all right, Now, Kershaw was.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Forced.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I don't forced is the right word. He was strongly
encouraged by Rob Manford. And the chatter is this has
been an open secret that everyone knew this was his
last year. Thus Major League Baseball allowed Kershaw, who had
no business sniffing the All Star Game. They dragged him
out there much like the Dodgers do at Dodger Stadium
as a mascot, and they said, you know, you don't
deserve to be on the All Star team, but we're
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gonna put you there anyway and give you a farewell moment.
Remember the All Star Game in Atlanta. So they dragged
him to Georgia, for a very weird public spongebath as
a sendoff. It was gross. But otherwise, Kershaw, for the
most part, has pulled an Irish goodbye, goodbye good job
by him. You slip out the side door, no fuss,
no circus. That's the right way to do it. That
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is the right way to do it. So I do
appreciate Kershaw for leaving the right way. I wish he
would have done it five years ago. But that's fine,
all right. Final point. Now we're going to get into
the ugly part of the Kershaw story. And unfortunately I'm
not sitting here with my cheerleading outfit on. I left
that in the other room, pulled that out for certain occasions.
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Here's the final point. What is the legacy of Clayton Kershaw?
It's got one more regular season start? What is his legacy?
Right now? Clayton Kershaw is the most frustrating type of
player to ever have play for your team. Do you
agree or disagree with that? Let me make my elevator
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pitch why Clayton Kershaw is the most frustrating type of
player you could ever follow as a fan of athletic competition.
In the regular season, Clayton Kershaw has been a wagon,
an absolute wagon of fire hose. He would mow down
the Arizona Diamondbacks on a Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium
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and it was unbelievable. Wednesday night, May crazy crazy. He
was like Sandy Kofax reincarnated, even though Sandy's still alive.
Complete bus saw and then October would come around with
Clayton Kershaw and you'd be all excited, greatest picture of
this generation, bright lights, big stage and on the way
to the ballpark, I'm convinced that Clayton Kershaw would go
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down to Windy's, he would order a frosty and by
the time he got to the ballpark, he'd have eaten
the frosty and then he immediately suffered brain freeze the
moment he got on the mound. Every single time, every
single time, Clayton Kershaw was a frequent flyer during his career.
He was in the cockpit of the vomit comet. He
was in the cockpit of the vomit COBBT, flying the
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vomit Cobbat, spiraling out of control with the entire baseball
world watching, the entire country watching. And it wasn't just
once or twice. You were allowed to have one or
two bad runs in the play playoffs. You can eliminate
that right, You can say, wow, that was just a
one off or a two off. This is the essence
of Clayton Kershaw. It is his DNA. His DNA is
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he chokes in big games. We're talking twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,
twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. I was at the game in
twenty twenty three against the Diamondbacks and the flyover and
the game was over against the Arizona. You can pick
a year, any of those years, and there's Clayton Kershaw
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coughing up a hairball. If Clayton Kershaw was a dog
on the mound, he wouldn't be the bulldog that was
old Heirscheiser. He wouldn't be a pit bull or a
German shepherd. He would have been a choking dog, because
that's what he did, the kind you don't trust in traffic,
allergic to the big game. Run from the moment, from
generational legend in October to a liability in October, a
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generational legend in June and July, and then in October reliability.
That was his resume. The numbers do not lie. The numbers,
back up the eye test, the era in the players.
I believe it's two runs higher than the regular season.
That's not a drop off. That is a kamikaze mission,
is what that is. You hand him the ball in October,
you're basically lighting the fuse. That's it. So the tinder
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box and you're lighting the fuse. Now, I am gonna
give an exemption for twenty seventeen because every one of
their mother knows what happened in twenty seventeen was insane.
The cheating Astros were banging on trash cans, blowing in whistles.
They had buzzers strapped to Altuve in my opinion, But
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the rest that's all on the shoulders of Clayton Kershaw.
The rest of that is all on the shoulders of
Clayton Kershaw. If Kershaw was like our caller from Vegas,
Big Balls, Bob, you realize what his incompetence cost the Dodgers.
If he had a little bit of what but Pedro
Martinez had, or Kurt Shilling or Madison Bumgardner in his
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DNA as a big game pitcher, the Los Angeles Dodgers
would be on a Yankees like run right now, they
would have an ungodly amount of World Series in the
last twenty years. Modern era Yankees from those old school
Yankees back in the day, like Lou Garrick and Babe Ruth,
those Yankees, we're talking seven or eight World Series championships.
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The Dodgers would have at this point. But because Clayton
Kershaw sucks in big games, they're sitting on two and
they didn't really win those two until Kershaw was kind
of hanging on at the end of his career. When
Kershaw was the man, when he was the guy, they
never won. They never won when he was the featured
star above the marquee. It was only after they put
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other people in those roles and Kershaw still hung around
that they won. And listen, you can dress it up
all you want. The way I look at it Kershaw
is he's complicated because he's a Hall of Famer and
he's one of the great underachievers. At the same time,
when it matted most Clayton Kershaw did not deliver. And
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that's that's the way you have to describe Kershaw. That
is the legacy of Clayton Kershaw. All right, great during
the regular season and then the playoffs. He's the last
guy you would want to pitch. He's the last pick.
He's the first pick in the regular season, he's the
last pick in the postseason. And that's that's an indictment.
That's a referendum on Kershaw. All right, and here's Kershaw
(36:31):
the announcement from his news conference prior to the Dodger
Giant game. How bad are the Giants? The Dodgers walked
I believe they walked ten batters in that game and
they still shut out the Giants. Holy crap. Anyway, here
is Clayton Kershaw announcing, I am done. Done. Dun dun dun, dun, dun,
dun dun.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
I have a lot of thank you to get through,
and I can't have time today to do a justice
for all the people that have helped me along the
way and got me to this point. So today I'm
just going to going to keep it short and sweet
and then you know, be able to really tell people
just how grateful I am for everybody that's in this organization,
that's in this room, that's been here later on, but yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna call it. I'm gonna retire We've
(37:12):
talked about a lot, and I've talked about a lot.
Kiddo's talked about it a lot, and I'm at peace
with it. I think it's I think it's the right
time it's been. It's been such a fun year. I've
had such a blast with this group. I've had such
a blast with all you guys.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, well, your time was actually a few years ago.
This is past the expiration dates. The bread's getting a
little moldy. Here's more from Clayton Kershaw. Now this one's
pretty amusing. Here's Kershaw pointing out that he has he
has hope for how this is all going to play out.
Take it is.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
Yeah, I can't think of a better season to go
it out, go out. And we still have a lot
to accomplish obviously this month, and the last thing I
want to do is be a distraction to anybody for
accomplishing our ultimate goal to win in the last game
of the season. So we're gonna get through this today
and then we're gonna go win the rest of the
games and be good.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You want to, but you don't win the rest of
the games, because I'll I'll take some action on that.
I'll be the Bookie on that one. I'll take a
couple of shekels on that that you don't win the
rest of the game. I know he's just saying what
you're supposed to say, and I wouldn't want to go
out any other way than this and all that stuff.
But again, the twenty twenty five Dodgers are one of
(38:19):
the great underachieving team. They have eighty six wins. Eighty
six wins, so that is roughly twenty four wins from
where they were supposed to be. They're twenty four games
underway they should have been. I mean, you cannot make
this up. They are such massive underachievers it is wild.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
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Speaker 4 (38:43):
Here we go, Here we go?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
What about that? To the third degree? This is one
big gets grilled goo helo.
Speaker 9 (38:53):
Tyron Taylor is said to make his first start in
six hundred and twenty four days as Justin Field is
out for the jetson week three. Aaron Glennen says, there's
no better player that you would want as your backup quarterback.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yes, no one better. Ben.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Do you think the Jets could actually perform better under Tyrod.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
No. No, it's a lateral move because if you look
at Justin Fields, he's like background noise, and then Tyrod
Taylor's elevator music, it's the same thing. Neither one of
them is distinguished in any way. They're unglamorous, ordinary quarterbacks,
and they might play well this week with the backup,
(39:28):
but I long term it doesn't really matter. Next.
Speaker 9 (39:31):
Amazon Prime Video CEO Jay Marine said that recently he
is optimistic about streaming a Super Bowl someday. Ben, could
you see the biggest sporting event of them all being
leaving broadcast?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Yeah, I mean they will go where the money is
and if they can get more money from Eventually, this
is gonna take years, and it's like the boiling frog.
It's slowly. It's moving that way. Anyway, the sports are
moving to streaming services. It's pay per view. So the
next logical step would be he put the super Bowl
on that event, so on Amazon? Put that event on
(40:04):
Amazon next.
Speaker 9 (40:05):
Travis Hunter had a full workload of forty two offensive
snaps and forty three defensive snaps for the Jackson. Week
two wasn't a major factor on either side of the ball,
but Cohen suggested Liam Cohen. That is that even more
snaps are in Hunter's future? Is that the right move?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yes, he's average, apparently on both sides of the ball,
so you might as well play him. He's average on
both sides, and then maybe he'll make some money and
all that. You know, nothing special so far, but why not?
He wants to do it. He's young? What the hell?
How do we do?
Speaker 8 (40:31):
You?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Passed?
Speaker 4 (40:31):
The sedition?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Was?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I got the guys?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
I what the Fox Sports Radio has the best sports
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at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app.
Search FSR to listen live. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame week?
Blame week too.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Here we go,
Big Man's lame jokes a week, actual jokes by act.
So listeners, do we have weed?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Is he there? All right? All right? I noticed you.
You're not calling. You're not calling anymore other than this.
You're very busy man. What do you? What do you
do all week?
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
And I know go on Puesday?
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Yeah, yeah, something like that. And all right, well, here
we go week the great Everything good with your weed man,
you're okay though? Yes? All right? Why do blind Scott
or check that? What do blind Scott and Cashews have
in common?
Speaker 2 (41:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
They're both nuts? All right? What did blind Scott say
whenever he read a scary story in braille? What something
bad is gonna happen? I can feel it? Said?
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Noah?
Speaker 1 (41:54):
See weed man, when you read braille, you got to
use your fingers. See that's that's Noah in Austin. Who
sent that one in? Where did blind Scott go to college?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Where?
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Ps U? Psychotic State University? That's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota?
All right? What what has been the biggest highlight of
Stefan Diggs this season?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
What?
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Well, apparently he scored on a dink and dunk play
with Cardi B. How about that? That's Chip in Maine.
Did you did you see his reaction when he was
asked about Cardi B being pregnant. It did not seem
like he was excited about that. That was very interesting.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
We kept it to himself.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Huh, yeah, that might have been to me. Okay, all right?
Why did weed man hit me get a gym membership?
Speaker 8 (42:48):
No know?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Why why did weed man hit me get a gym
membership because they have a nice bathroom where he plans
to get ripped. Ripped. That's true in Minnesota. Did you
hear that? Benny versus the Penny has led to a
YouTube spin off show, No What Yes? Make sure to
(43:09):
like and subscribe to weed Man Versus the Nickelbag. That's
Joe from Virginia Beach? Who sent that one? In a right?
The next joke here, Why does David Vasse want to
meet weed Man hippie?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Why?
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Because he heard that weed Man smells like Tuckis? That's
Lucky Tony. Have you noticed Lucky Tony not calling as
much since the Chicago Bears started owing too? Have you
noticed that? I've noticed that? Yeah, all right. Why was
Jordan Hudson kicked off Dancing with the Stars? Why she
(43:47):
demanded weed Man as her partner, but they both wanted
more days off? That's Tom in Indiana. When's the when's
the last time you worked weed Man? Or was it
a long time ago? Was it the eighties of the nineties,
(44:07):
the nineties? Okay, the nineties, I was gonna say, because
you you lost everything in the stock market crash in
the eighties though, right the late eighties, I know the
toy store. I know. I'm sorry, weed Man. I just
think you'd Oh I thought it was I thought I
thought it was the one in the eighties. So two
thousand and one you lost everything? Yeah, okay, all right,
(44:30):
and just think if you hadn't lost everything, you'd be
living in the mansion on Long Island right now. That
we never would have known each other. Why did weed
Man get in trouble at the bank. Why Well, an
old lady said she wanted his help checking her balance,
so he pushed her over. That's Eric in Kansas. That's
not nice, read man, all right. Why would weed Man
(44:52):
hippie make a great companion for Lorena? Why she snaps
her toes and he comes running. That's George and Uvaldi
Texas with that joke. It's Big Ben's lame jokes of
the league. What does what does? What does Lorena like
best about Major League Baseball season? What she loves makeup games?
(45:15):
That's Eke in Roseville. What does the Lorena and the
Iowa Hawkeye fans have in common? What they both hate?
The UMass minute man? The minute man. It's Eric in Kansas. There, Yeah,
all right, Uh, we have some some dad jokes here
(45:38):
from dad joke Jay? I thought these were okay? But
what do you call a mobile phone in prison?
Speaker 7 (45:45):
What?
Speaker 1 (45:46):
A cell phone? Why? Why? Why do heavy metal bands
refuse to drink coke? Why? It's pop? That's why pop.
That's a that's that's dad, dad joke Jay. Do you
have any jokes coop, any offensive jokes?
Speaker 9 (46:04):
Now?
Speaker 4 (46:05):
Actually I might, I might.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Let me let me see, all right, better do it quick.
What is the difference between a politician and a flying pig?
What the letter F? The letter F? That's it? Jo?
Speaker 4 (46:18):
He said, was dumb?
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Okay? What what? No joke? Coops out of the show.
What is the fastest way to become a millionaire?
Speaker 7 (46:24):
What?
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Be a billionaire and invest in the w n B
A it's right away, it'll go away there. How is
Tony in the Bay Area? Like a treasurer you have?
You need a map to and a shovel to find
them his family? I screwed that best, Eric in Cans,
thanks weed.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Man and the Entertainment for this Friday the fastest scoring
sentiment on radio.
Speaker 4 (46:48):
Now, thank you, Marcell.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
They're doing a lot Coop. I'm watching the video from
Stony They're doing a lot of needle point. A lot
of needle point going on at Stony Ridge here.
Speaker 9 (47:06):
Well, this is this is one of the fastest growing
segments in all of radio.
Speaker 4 (47:11):
We just add more people to it every week.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
It's pretty You can Marcel be part of it. I
feel like he needs to be part of it. He can,
he can. Why you stay on, Stay there, Marcel, and
you can comment on the story, scoop. How about that?
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Oh, a lot of the fastest going segment and all.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Of the fun. Okay, all right, taking taking, thank you
for that.
Speaker 9 (47:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
I'm looking at the food too. The food looks pretty
good here at the Stony Ridge.
Speaker 9 (47:39):
I'm hungry now, nice, Okay, So we're gonna start off
in theaters and this weekend there's there's not a lot,
but there is kind of There's this movie that I
want to point out. It's not a wide release, so
you'll have to check and see where it's playing near you.
But it's called The Senior and.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Oh that's appropriate. I'm looking at these senior living facility
here that Dick and Daytons.
Speaker 9 (48:00):
Yes, it is based on a true story and it
is It stars Michael Chickliss, who you may remember from
The Shield.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
I've heard the name.
Speaker 9 (48:11):
Yes, it is based on the true story of Mike Flint, who,
at age fifty nine, became a college football linebacker.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, you can see something like that.
There's another story like that now or is that?
Speaker 9 (48:25):
I mean maybe maybe it's the movie that came out today. Yeah, okay,
it's it's rate a PG, so you can bring the
whole family. But this is so far, it's getting really
good reviews from the critics, so go ahead and check
that out. Moving on to television, we have it's called
Black Rabbit and it is the latest limited series on Netflix.
(48:49):
It stars Jason Bateman from Arrested Development and Ozark Fame.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
I've heard of him.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
Yeah, yes.
Speaker 9 (48:57):
It is a set in New York's night life scene.
Jude Long also stars as the owner of the titular hotspot,
Black Rabbit, a VIP lounge and restaurant. He reluctantly allows
his brother, played by Jason Babman, back into the business,
but he brings a whole new set of troubles crime
threatened to bring down the whole operation.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Oh that's not nice.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
No, it's not good.
Speaker 9 (49:19):
But yeah, that is available right now streaming on Netflix.
Moving on, we have This is called The low Down.
It is a new show on FX, also available to
stream on Hulu. And it is a neo noir drama
set in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And it stars Ethan Hawk and
(49:40):
also Kyle McLaughlin. And he is a journalist, an obsessive
citizen journalist who lives and works out of a bookstore,
and his quest is to expose local government corruption and
it lands him in trouble.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
I wonder if Chris plankson that he works it lives
in Tulsa.
Speaker 9 (49:58):
Oh yeah, that's right. And a last, but not least
on Wednesday on Apple TV. Wednesday, September twenty fourth is
the premiere of season five of Slow Horses, one of
the best spy shows on TV.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
I know, Marcel, you seems excited. You have somebody to
add to that.
Speaker 4 (50:15):
Marshall, What's what's going on? Urself? What he is he
practicing for another call right now?
Speaker 9 (50:24):
It sounds like, yeah, wow, all right, thanks Marcel.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
It's not that easy being a talk radio caller, professional
caller anyway, great spy show, Slow Horses.
Speaker 9 (50:34):
It stars Gary Olman. It's fantastic. If you haven't checked
it out before, check it out now before season five
comes out this Wednesday, and that is Scoop Scoob on entertainment,
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