October 1, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jerry Jones praising Cowboys WR George Pickens, Pickens admitting that he didn't know the NFL had ties, whether or not to expect super stardom from Stefon Diggs with the Pats, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we all, it's our number for our number four
of the Ben Mahler Show podcast. And here in our
number four we parts the words in Jerry's world? What's
Jerry Jones looking to accomplish with his praise of Cowboy
wide receiver George Pickens. Also speaking of George Pickens, he
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straight up admits that he didn't know the NFL even
had ties. Your reaction to that one, and do you
expect super stardom from Stefan Diggs with the Patriots? He
says he's still learning the playbook and not real comfortable
with everything, so we'll get to that as well. Here
it is our number four. Have a wonderful Wednesday. Welcome
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to October. Here's our number four, a case of slim Pickens.
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this hour is from football. We can tell you the
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baseball games the wild card winners. On Day number one
of the wild Card Playoffs in baseball, Cleveland Guardians lost
to the Detroit Tigers, so Detroit wins. The Red Sox
came back to beat the Yankees. Tremendous managing by Aaron Boone,
good fundamental baseball by the New York Yankees. As the
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Red Sox went away from advancing there and On the
National League side of the bracket, the Chicago Cubs have
the Podres on thin ice. It's a best of three.
Cubs came back to beat the Padres, and the Dodgers
molly wopped the Cincinnati Reds in the late game, although
the Dodger bullpen walked two Reds batters across home plate.
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They suck, all right, but that's not what we're here for.
We're here to talk some football. We'll start out where else,
Jerry's world. We're going to start out at Jerry's world.
And while Dallas failed to beat Green Bay, they didn't
lose over the weekend. On Sunday night, your run of
the mill forty forty tie and the bar is so low?
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How low is it? It's so long? Glad you asked that
that is considered a win for the Boys. The ring
master of the fund zone in Jerry's world, the death
Star in a good mood, in a really good mood.
If you didn't see this or hear about it, maybe not.
The Cowboys owner Jerry Jones spoke glowingly about his wide
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receiver George Pickens, who stepped up with CD lamb down
for the count, and he talked about the future of
George Pickens, who is a free agent at the end
of the season. Sounded very optimistic. Jerry Jones did about
securing and procuring a deal before Pickens leaves the Cowboys
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in free aig see, and he waxed loquacious Jerry Jones
about what a wonderful teammate George Pickens is and the
preparation that he does for games and you see the
results on Sunday and all that stuff. This on his
paid radio appearance in Dallas, he said, I'm proud to
tell you here's the money. Quote. Jerry said, I'm proud
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to tell you that we've got some outstanding structure in
our cap space. Jerry said that will allow us to
do a lot of things that I didn't think we
could at this time last year. Jones opined, we got it,
we paid a price for it, we can do it now.
Close quote. All right, So that's a pretty good jumping
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off point. Let's discuss the question. What's Jerry Jones looking
to accomplish with his praise, slaber, slap slobber over Cowboys
wide receiver George Pickens. So I've got surfboard, Mick Donald's
and hand grenades, and we will combine all of these
things together. And we are contractually obligated to say we're
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gonna make the gobba gool because if we don't say
we're gonna make the gobbagool, my buddy in Florida get
all upset. Why didn't you say the gobbagool. I'm from
New Jersey, I know gobbagool. You didn't say gobbagol. Okay,
I said the gobbagool. I've checked that gobbagool box, all right.
Not a lead off here, all right. So Jerry Jones,
I like the fact that he's not only the GM
he's not only the owner. He's also in charge of
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the bubble bath. This is a bubble bath. He's given
a bubble bath at George Pickint's classic Jerry Jones eyewash.
That's what that is. Jerry Jones eyew wash.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Now we know he's got ulterior motives. I get it.
I'm into it. Why not. It's kind of fun. And
this is the two for one special. Now, when you
go into the store, if you look to the right,
they've got the regular price dout us. But if you
look to the left, they have the two for one special.
The discount area and Jerry went right to the left.
There he went to the discount area. He said, I
want the two for one special. So if I buy one,
I get two. Okay, good, I want to I'll buy one,
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I'll get two. Done. Because not only does he praise
George Pickens for torching Green by which he did, hit
a wonderful game, good friend, Mazda, and at the same time,
though Jerry Jones patting himself on the back, like, see,
I'm the GM. I'm the one that traded for George Pickens.
I got him for some pocket lint from Mike Tomlin
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and the Pittsburgh Steels. And now, by the way, I
have the salary cap space. I do because I'm the
GM of the team and I went out, I traded
our top defensive player, and I have salary cap space.
Look at me. I'm gonna do a pirouette on the
catwalk and shake my toush e. I am Jerry Jones.
How great is that? Genius? That's essentially that's essentially what
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he's doing. And he's going on and on and on
and on and all that stuff. Uh So, listen, we
know there's a term for this. It's it's Jerry's polishing
his surfboard, is what he's doing, getting all Does anyone
get all hot and bothered by the salary cap space?
Is there anyone? I've never met anyone who's like a
real human being that has a pulse and has like
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a life that actually gets turned on for salary cap space.
I don't believe there's anyone who's a real human being
that would post something on social media or call the
radio show. I am so horny we have salary cap space.
I don't think that person exists, right, Like, if you're
someone that gets all hot and bothered by cap structure,
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may I recommend some meds and some therapy. Okay, you
don't get the Lombardy for unused salary cap space. You don't.
And the salary cap is it's nonsense, right, it's make
believe in all that stuff. I'm a salary cap cruther.
And some of you think the moon landing was fake,
some of you think nine to eleven was fake, some
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of you think Roswell was whatever, and whatever you think whatever,
conspiracy by my belief is a cap fake. It's it's
the old age, old thing. I said, Ah, we want
to get rid of a player. We're gonna say we
have to get rid of the player because the salary
caps is But if you want a player to stay,
we'll just move some numbers around. We'll fut's around. We'll
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make it work. We'll make it work. Yeah, that's how
it's gonna go, all right. So anyway, Jerry Jones, it's
not like he's cracking the Da Vinci code. It's like
he's not you know, congratulations, you turned Micah Parsons into
cheddar cheese for green Bay check that box. And now
you're acting like you just solve world hunger because you
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can now pay George Pickets. Okay, listen, Jerry's got to
get for Gab. Good for him. He's got to get
for Gabe. He's the kind of guy that could contact
our friend Danny DeVito, America's favorite trash man, and could
sell Danny DeVito on some garbage. And he's like, I'm
gonna I'm gonna sell trash to a garbage man because
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I'm Jerry Jones, and they'd eat it up all right. Now. Furthermore,
stick with the theme of the hour Slim pickens. So
following that tie with the Packers, the story has been
bouncing around the echo chamber. The pinball machine of hot
takes over the last couple of days here. Dallas wide
receiver George Pickens told state sponsored prov the news service
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of the NFL, the NFL Network, the pr arm of
the NFL. George Pickens told state sponsored NFL media that
he was ready for a second overtime on Sunday night. Well,
how could there be a second overtime? They don't have
a second overtime. Well, according to George Pickens, he said,
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I've never been part of a tie in my life.
I didn't even know football worked like that, George Pickens said.
And I thought we would start another quarter right now,
he said, moments after the game. But a tie, Pickens claim,
that's a first time. All right, let's discuss the question.
Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens straight up admitting that he
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didn't know the NFL even had ties. Your reaction, all right,
So this is not the first time. I've been doing
this job a long time. I remember Donovan McNabb famously
years ago, used to play quarterback for the Eagles. Probably
don't even know who that is anymore, But McNabb didn't
know there was ties in overtime. There have been other
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players sporadically, and so he said, well, how is this
even possible. It's like, this is your job, buddy. You're
supposed to know that there could be ties in the NFL.
You're a professional football player, plausibly a professional football player.
It's not like the NFL just all of a sudden
invented ties this past week and said, why don't we
have a tie? Everyone loves ties. We'll have a tie. No,
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So what Pickens did here he went into the confessional booth.
George Pickens went into the confessional booth, and he admitted, Hey, listen,
football is my job. It is not my passion. That's it, right,
Tell me you don't follow the NFL without telling me
you don't follow the NFL.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
In fact, since George Pickens came into the NFL, there
have been two ties since he entered the NFL back
in twenty twenty two. He incriminated himself. Yeah, it's the
equivalent of working at McDonald's. Like i'd like to work
at me, I'll get a job at McDonald's, I'll work
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at Mickeyd's, Sir at McDonald's. And then you're gobsmacked when
you're working at McDonald's. You just said, Wait a minute,
you're telling me that McDonald sells French fries. What in
the world. My mind is blown. I didn't know that.
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That's George Pickens. I it's like ties have always been
part of it, and yeah, it's like no, no, no, man, no, yeah,
we actually we sell fries. That's your industry. That's it.
It's like the most basic thing. And the other part
of it is during the games, the officials before overtime
announced the rulesers, Oh, we're gonna have a ten minute overtime.
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Each team will possess the ball, and so and so
scores a touchdown and if there is no if no
one has the lead at the end of the ten
minute period, that's it. That's all. She wrote. Game over,
we end in a time. So it's a total cell
phone by George Pickens. Total cell phone, the most basic
thing that is announced as I don't know. I do
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appreciate his honesty, though I don't, and is perfect. George
Pickens is perfect for the circus and Jerry's will and
you just wait, things are going pretty well right now.
Pickens played well in this game. At some point I
will be coming into this studio. I'll turn on the microphone,
I'll turn the cameras on here, and we will be
discussing George Pickens, the knucklehead, get on teet. At some
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point this year he will do something that will cause
a hullabaloo and we will be there for all of it. Now,
last thing to New England. We going of hullablu wide receivers.
Stefan Diggs was asked recently his comfort level with the
Patriots offense so far this season. On a scale of
one to ten, he said five. He said he was
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at a five for his comfort level. So question do
you expect Obviously, you expect that to get better. So
do you expect super stardom from Steffan Diggs with the Patriots?
He's only at a five. He went over one hundred
yards against the morbid Carolina Panthers this past weekend. So
an answer to that question, my answer would be no,
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I'm shaking my head. No, I do not believe George
Pickens is headed to that five out of ten. That's
not even lukewarm. That's not even lukewarm. That's maybe I'll
figure this stuff out. I don't know. We're quarter of
the way through the season.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Quarter of the.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Way and he's not comfortable. Does he need new sheets?
Does he need a new pillow? Stefan Diggs, we're about
twenty five percent into the NFL seasons, I like at
a five and you watch the clips, you watch the tape,
and pretty obvious at this point based on small sample size,
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we're not getting the Buffalo version of Stefan Diggs. We're
not getting the Houston version of the Minnesota version. This
is the Patsy's version of Stefan Diggs, which is a
much different thing than we have seen in years past year.
And Digs at this point not a star. We play star,
not star. I have him in that supporting actor category
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for Drake May. Now. The Patriots play an Island game
this weekend. They played the Buffalo Bills. That game's got
a little juice to it. AFC East rivals Buffalo a
touchdown and a half favorite on Draft Kings right now,
just look that up a few minutes ago. But let's
not fair. He's not a star and all that stuff.
He's less than a year these Stefan Diggs marching in chowder.
Society will say it was less than a year of
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removed from shredding his ACL so everything'snna be okay. Not
exactly a quick bounce back when you're north of the
age of thirty and all that stuff. The whole game.
Much like we talked about Tyreek Hill and speed, a
lot of Stefan Diggs gave his speed and he's also
the problem with him is Stefan Diggs is juggling hand
grenades right now. He's got a bunch of off field
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stuff with Cardi b in one ear and baby Mama
drama from random Floozies in the other, so there's a
lot going on. So he's got the health problem. Is
not exactly locked in like he's in his salad days,
not that he was necessarily locked in even then. So
good luck. And if you look at the early results,
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there are a bunch of receivers in the NFL. You say,
if you're one of the top receivers, they're gonna get
you the ball. Stefan Diggs is in terms of targets,
He's not even in the top fifty in targets in
the NFL. He's tied with Travis Kelcey, who's aging rapid
for Kansas City. Now the eleven yards per catch is
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not terrible. But then you look at the context of
the NFL. He's sixty sixth in the NFL, one six
away from the side of the devil. And I'm not bad,
but not wow. You don't go wow right now. It's
more of a eh eh than a wow. And he
turns thirty two in November or in October. Now, so
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next month he'll turn thirty two. And that is an
age when receivers, with the mileage piling up and all that,
you go from prime rib delicious, prime rib with a
carving station. I'll like you go from prime rib to
mystery meat. I don't know what it is. It's a
mystery meat. I have no idea. I don't understand what
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is it. Yeah, that's it. So now that doesn't mean
he's going to completely fall off the mat, I said
supporting actors to Fawn Diggs. I look at him like
an occasional highlight here and there to remind you of
what he used to be. They'll make go one handed
grab against the bills and even score a touchdown. People
get all excited for that. And yeah, but you cannot
depend on him. He's not the Alpha. He's not gonna
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be the Alpha with the Patriots. It is the Ben
Malor Show. He being Stefan Diggs. Talk about that also
the baseball playoffs playoffs, if you want to discuss we
are one day in the Red Sox win at Yankee Stadium,
the Tigers win in Cleveland. So the road teams winning
their National League side of the bracket. The home team's winning,
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the Chicago Cubs and the Doyers. And if those teams
win today, those series will end and we'll be on
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we continue on later this hour, we do a pass word,
the word Game of the Stars password. But let's go
to the phones get a State of Ohio baseball report.
Hours ago, people were demanding Dick. They wanted Dick from Dayton.
They said, we need Dick, and here's Dick. Dick.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Welcome, Good morning, Ben and crew.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
How are you well?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
If I was any better, I'd be a Red, but
not a Cincinnati Red because they didn't get it done there.
Or I would be a Guardian but not a Cleveland
Guardian because they didn't get it on either. What's going
on with these teams, Dick?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I can't figure it out. I just you know that
the Guardians have to be the best. I think, well, well,
in baseball, they come back from a fifteen game, you
know slide that they did. But we're I guess we're worried.
But well, it doesn't look like the Bigs, the Browns
they're going to do good, does it?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well, let's focus in on the Baseball Now Supermarket. Steve
is a fan of your work. He said, Ben, can
you please ask Dick and Dayton what the Cleveland Guardians
need to do to beat the Detroit Tigers. Do you
have any advice you want to give? Any advice there
to the Cleveland baseball team.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
I think today I was listening that to the fan
and there was a gift from there with Dan and
they were talking about, you know, this game, but they
were just worried that if they get behind, you know,
it's all it's it's over. And it's a.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Lot of fans just so your your advice is to
not get behind. It's scary back there. Sometimes that is good, Yeah,
it smells. And in the Reds, any advice of the Reds, Dick,
they gave up ten runs to the Dodgers last night.
That's not good.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
That's not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, what do they need to do? Maybe pitch better?
Maybe that's yeah, pitch that's better. Yeah, Okay, I got you.
I feel like I led the witness on that one. Yeah,
I got you. But just tightest talk baseball. You know,
he doesn't talk. He's a football guy.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Titus, right, Yeah, him and Jeff, he's uh yeah, he's
there on the Browns postgame show.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, he would talk, they would talk baseball. Yeah yeah,
did you see the big news of the Browns are
changing quarterbacks? It looks like how about that?
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Yeah, they need to change quarterback. I mean that it
was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well if you, if you are mister positives upset, it's
really bad. Uh yeah, I got.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I talked to one of my friends and he used
to work down the dial, Kenny Rhoda JT. And they're
good friends of mine. He worked down the dial there
opposite of the other sister station, and we've been good friends.
And the end Zone show is really good with Jeff
and Tider.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Sure, those are legends.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
Absolutely, And I went back to playing some music.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Oh good, did you win the Talent Show?
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I wanted to show here at Stony Ridge. But this
group I played with Marcia's Every Every Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
And that's the Dolls Mercy Society. Is that? Am I
correct on that?
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
That's the Dult Where and then I'm going to go
Monday to the h It's called the Country Jam and Moraine.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Okay, but you're not You're not doing the string Benders
anymore the kettering, Oh you do? Okay, all right? And
what about the kettering banjo society is no longer society? Right, nope,
and there's nothing. What about the Clifton Opera House. Used
to talk about that all the time. There's no more
Clifton opera houses. That's not the thing anymore.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Rebuilding it there, okay, rebuilding that. So we'll be back.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But you're Is it true? You're a three tool player, Dick.
You've got the banjo, the mandolin and the guitar. Is
that accurate?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Okay, yeah, yeah, you're a three tool player. All right, Well,
very go, thank you, bye bye, bye bye. There he
goes Dick from Dayton legend, absolute legend on the show.
Let's say hello to Steve in Manhattan, the Big Apple.
What's going on? Steve? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Only New Yorkers could turn the riots coup into his
fastardization of spring Break, Ben the stinguished paneled span the audience.
They are all right, and anybody wants to line up
and call and ask me a question, go right a head,
I don't care if it's complicated.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So you want you want questions? You want people to
call up at eight seven seven ninety nine, on Fox.
Fair enough, we can do that. Did you take one
of those fifteen thousand dollars helicopter rides out to the
golf event over the weekend?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
No, listen, they are they are lucky the Long Honor
Railroad didn't go hunch strike. There would have been nobody
out there, but they broke records for ridership going out there.
You know, New York is a funny like Yah, it is.
It's kind of funny with the way they were going
to ask to Rory and stuff. I mean I could
if I got I gotta be in a saloon at
two o'clock in the morning to explain to people around
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the country why they're going after this poor guy. But yeah,
we'll take calls if anybody wants to ask.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Any kind of questions. See, we'll go to We'll take
some calls here. Why not call her? You're on on
the air, Salo to Steven Manhattan. Hello, caller, who's this caller?
Are you there? Call is? Who's this.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
All?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Right? Well, apparently that person's sleeping. Let's go to another line,
Random line. You're on there? Hello, random line?
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Hello, Oh Steve, are you saying the New Yorkers did
a good job at the Ryder Cup. That was a
complete joke. The people from New York made the United
States of America look terribly bad. Did you see them cheering?
They had fake comedians there.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
They had got all right, see if your thoughts on that,
Steven Manhattan, listen, you know your.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Bottle of Jack Daniels, a few six packs and all
bets of Rolf my man, and uh they were going
after Rory. It was uncalled for. And like I said,
I'd have to be in a saloon at two o'clock
in the morning to explain why they're going.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
After this guy having fun. It's a gamesmanship fan engagement.
Let's say, hello, caller, you're on the air with Steven Manhattan.
Hello Mike, Mike the Leprecaun. Hello Michael Leprigun.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well, I must admit he's a very genuine man. They
grew on the fans. They threw beer at Rory's wife
and it sells his children. So I want to congratulate
him from being honest. And then does he have a
comment about the Yankees that night? In case you didn't
notice the Red Sox one?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Do I have a comment about about that game?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
But the Yank and the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah, I do. I do have a comment about that game. Listen.
If they're gonna use what do you call it, he
wants apple sauces, steak souls of HEYI whatever to do
the lineups and write off these lineups. I think anything
is possible. Anybody could go in there and win. And
when you have, uh, these playoffs of these wildcard teams,
you're good. You're gonna the first team that's gonna be
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on the five hundred some year to win the World Series.
There's basically they ad more teams and more player flats
to get the Yankees in the playoffs and they just
got to do a better job.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, everything's going to like a beige color. There's no
great there's some bad teams. There's no really great regular
season teams because the load management they do. The load
management is what they do where they just kind of
coast along and they all spend a month on the
d L here or the I L or wherever they
call it, and they don't take it that seriously.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yeah, but you know, annoying load manager.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
You know what that is.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
They're doing their cycles, they're getting juiced up, and they
got to take off a two or three head.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
It's just it. It's they're the the younger generations have
been indoctrinated into being lazy, that they they want you
to be lazy, and that you don't need to play
every game, and they charge a lot of money for
regular season games. But it's like it's not that big
a deal whether you miss a bunch of games, Like
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that's the whole that's the whole mindset. There's a there's
a term. It's called well. It's like if you're at a store,
last in first out, you know how like you put bread,
if you're the bread man, you put bread out, and
we called it faifo. First in, first out? Is that
what did I say? Last in, last last in? First's
last in first out, meaning that you look at the
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dates on the bread and the dates that it's closest
to expiring. You put that in last because that's the
people that buy the bread are going to buy that first.
But my move though, I go I know that trick,
so I will have long arms and I will go
to the back of the bread. Yeah, and I will
take the bread that has an extra fresh one, an
extra couple of weeks. I'll specifically look at dates, especially
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for like fresh cut fruit and stuff. Yeah, what about you, Steve,
do you go to the bodegas left? Last time I
was in New York, there's all weed shops. They got
rid of all the bodegas. It's gone.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Well, the weed shops they close them down, they open
up again. They pop up all over the place. There
are I mean real New York is. We call them
deli's deli cotests. I know people call bodegas. There are
bodegas and there the difference between a deli and a bodega.
You go to a bodega is like a cat sitting
on accunt of which violates every state.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
That's so disgusting.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well, it sits on the counter until they run out
of meat and then it's in your sandwich. So you know, well.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
That's telling me that you got you know, you got
rats and mice running around the joint.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But if you're in Manhattan, there's rats running around. It's
just they're everywhere. It's not like they stay out of
a deli because it's a deli. They don't know it's
a deli. They want to eat, so they're just doing.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
During during Hurricane Sandy, we found out they could swim
the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That's right, all right, are you? Yeah? Your bow got
in the most move on. Let's say a loo to
Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcell, welcome.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Why saw Steve heard about it in Manhattan?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You want to talk to him? Well, all right, Steven Manhattan,
sayalo to Marcelle he's over in Brooklyn, say hello, Oh
what's up?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Marcel?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Do you on believe in? Believe it in our city
and our state has all of it?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
And I know you're exactly right about the Ryder Cup
over there in Long Island, not far from us, the
Europeans beating Americans for no darn reason.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Tremendous commentary, Marcel, you should be on golf coverage on television.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Well, thank you very.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Much there, Matt, and I do agree with you with that. Yeah,
your on the right A cup in Long Island, not
far from us.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
The right cup, well that's out there in beth Page.
Yet there's not it's really farming Dale. It's not that close. No,
it isn't. I mean, you gotta get on you you
do as you get on the lawn railroad, right, and
what you do.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
We don't need to break we don't need to break down.
If I Mars anything else, Marcel, What do you got
for me? Marcel? What do you got? Tell me something good?
Tell me something good, Marcel.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Well, I heard about that Mike Coward Kahn Red Sox
beating the Yankees yesterday. Well let's see what the Bronx
farmers are coming right back.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh, okay, hold on a sec here, I think there's
a Red Sox fan that wants to talk to you. Hello,
a Red Sox fan. You're on the here.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Hello, greetings, good morning, mister Marcel.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
I believe that your night.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
I believed arms the feet off.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Okay, well, put your money where your mouth is.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Well that's the case.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
How much money do you have, Marcel?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I put twenty dollars for.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Miss Wow, twenty twenty bucks.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Then I put you.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
As a matter of fact, to tie things up tonight
in game two of Bros.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I am yes, I'm in fact, I actually got a phone.
I'm gonna go over to the airport, fly into the Bronx.
I'll be there for the game tonight. And Aaron Boone
is announced that I'll be the first guy out of
the bullpen, so I'll be out of the bullpen there.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Oh, oh, good on you, thank you, good.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
On you leaving the overnight show to work in the
Yankee bullpen for the playoff. He's actually wearing a Bronx
Bomber's hat right now. That is right at the pit front.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
So looking for twenty eight World chaps this year.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
I guarantee you for that.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Oh, you guarantee it a good I'm done with you.
Let's go to Cowboy John Bradd and Windsor, Ontario is
clearing his throat right now. Hello Cowboy John Brad, Oh,
hello Ben.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
Pardon my voice, but my parents were married eighty nine
years ago today. Rod Caruz eighty former Detroit Tigers left
handed pitcher on the sixty eight World Champions. John Gordon
seventy nine and Brittish singer Robert Palmer, pioneering African American
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tennis player in golfer Alfier Gibson and Robert Cardassie and
the elder of the OJA Dream Team dying September twenty sixth,
twenty eighth and thirtieth at twenty three. And see John
Brimm who sang the original version of ice Cream Man
that Van Halen covered night twenty two years ago to
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day eighty one, eighty eighty.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
You need some garlic, cowboy, you need to gargle salt water.
You got to get your vrse back.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah this year. I know I probably
sound horrible. Seventy nine years ago talking of the twenty
two Nuremberg trial, can say the nineteen were convicted. We're given.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
People need to hear.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
That were carried out fifteen days later October sixties, nineteen
forty six. But anyway, old Bobby Shance the oldest living
Major League player in the nineteen fifty two Most Valuable
Players Art the League guy and was one hundred years
old last Thursday, and quickly. Anyway, you got to be
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a boy to be a cowboy. Hopefully speak to people
tomorrow with a better boys slam.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Biden Cowboy John. The honeymoon's over in Boulder, Colorado. Dion's
Sanders say say, hey, we are underachieving Colorado off to
the two and three start. They're zero and two in
Big twelve play the Buffaloes. They had a chance to
make a big impact, like relatively speaking, a big impact.
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They had a chance to beat BYU, a top twenty
five team, had a fourteen point lead in the first half,
and they gave it all away. They gave it all away.
And the Buffalos while they are moving the ball, they
are playing no defense at all. Second worst average in
the Big twelve, given up four hundred four yards per game.
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So Dion having some problems there. For sure. We'll move on.
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in our contestants against my better judgment. We have hollering James. Hello, James.
Oh you're awake now you were on the air twice
already sleeping? Okay, James, welcome. Who do you want to
partner up with? James? Oh? Thank god? How lucky am
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My dreams are coming true? I know, all right? It
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In Needles is a town in California named Needles. Hello John, Hello, man,
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I'll take that instead.
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Oh what about me? I mean what am I? Come
on six and shoe? I don't know. On radio, I'm
very cute in person, and on TV not so much. Anyway. Oh,
let's play the game. We have a list of words here,
and you have punched James in James pick a number
one to ten, hollering James, the legend in Minnesota, hollering James.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Can you say that a little more pizazz?
Speaker 7 (37:36):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
All right? How about uh premature?
Speaker 7 (37:45):
Premature?
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Oh no, oh no, no.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
First number one.
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So you think you by saying the word number one
that the clue would be oh my god, no, Go
ahead there, John, John, let's.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Go with punctually.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, you got it on my clue. I guess all right, John,
picking number one to two to ten?
Speaker 4 (38:18):
John, let's go with number ship.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Go ahead, cool, let's go with uh.
Speaker 9 (38:31):
Oh, come on, come on.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Let's go with uh gag No, James, let's go James. Wise. Crack.
That's one word. Why is crack? Wise? Crack? Pick a
number James pick a number, picking James number three. Uh,
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you know we don't have time, coop. Unfortunately, the time
we can't get it in now we ended up at
a time. Oh next week, you guys want to call back,
We'll do it next week. We'll tie. Hey, Ties, what
is this the NFL
Here we all, it's our number for our number four
of the Ben Mahler Show podcast. And here in our
number four we parts the words in Jerry's world? What's
Jerry Jones looking to accomplish with his praise of Cowboy
wide receiver George Pickens. Also speaking of George Pickens, he
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straight up admits that he didn't know the NFL even
had ties. Your reaction to that one, and do you
expect super stardom from Stefan Diggs with the Patriots? He
says he's still learning the playbook and not real comfortable
with everything, so we'll get to that as well. Here
it is our number four. Have a wonderful Wednesday. Welcome
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to October. Here's our number four, a case of slim Pickens.
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baseball games the wild card winners. On Day number one
of the wild Card Playoffs in baseball, Cleveland Guardians lost
to the Detroit Tigers, so Detroit wins. The Red Sox
came back to beat the Yankees. Tremendous managing by Aaron Boone,
good fundamental baseball by the New York Yankees. As the
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Red Sox went away from advancing there and On the
National League side of the bracket, the Chicago Cubs have
the Podres on thin ice. It's a best of three.
Cubs came back to beat the Padres, and the Dodgers
molly wopped the Cincinnati Reds in the late game, although
the Dodger bullpen walked two Reds batters across home plate.
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They suck, all right, but that's not what we're here for.
We're here to talk some football. We'll start out where else,
Jerry's world. We're going to start out at Jerry's world.
And while Dallas failed to beat Green Bay, they didn't
lose over the weekend. On Sunday night, your run of
the mill forty forty tie and the bar is so low?
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How low is it? It's so long? Glad you asked that
that is considered a win for the Boys. The ring
master of the fund zone in Jerry's world, the death
Star in a good mood, in a really good mood.
If you didn't see this or hear about it, maybe not.
The Cowboys owner Jerry Jones spoke glowingly about his wide
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receiver George Pickens, who stepped up with CD lamb down
for the count, and he talked about the future of
George Pickens, who is a free agent at the end
of the season. Sounded very optimistic. Jerry Jones did about
securing and procuring a deal before Pickens leaves the Cowboys
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in free aig see, and he waxed loquacious Jerry Jones
about what a wonderful teammate George Pickens is and the
preparation that he does for games and you see the
results on Sunday and all that stuff. This on his
paid radio appearance in Dallas, he said, I'm proud to
tell you here's the money. Quote. Jerry said, I'm proud
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to tell you that we've got some outstanding structure in
our cap space. Jerry said that will allow us to
do a lot of things that I didn't think we
could at this time last year. Jones opined, we got it,
we paid a price for it, we can do it now.
Close quote. All right, So that's a pretty good jumping
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off point. Let's discuss the question. What's Jerry Jones looking
to accomplish with his praise, slaber, slap slobber over Cowboys
wide receiver George Pickens. So I've got surfboard, Mick Donald's
and hand grenades, and we will combine all of these
things together. And we are contractually obligated to say we're
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gonna make the gobba gool because if we don't say
we're gonna make the gobbagool, my buddy in Florida get
all upset. Why didn't you say the gobbagool. I'm from
New Jersey, I know gobbagool. You didn't say gobbagol. Okay,
I said the gobbagool. I've checked that gobbagool box, all right.
Not a lead off here, all right. So Jerry Jones,
I like the fact that he's not only the GM
he's not only the owner. He's also in charge of
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the bubble bath. This is a bubble bath. He's given
a bubble bath at George Pickint's classic Jerry Jones eyewash.
That's what that is. Jerry Jones eyew wash.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Now we know he's got ulterior motives. I get it.
I'm into it. Why not. It's kind of fun. And
this is the two for one special. Now, when you
go into the store, if you look to the right,
they've got the regular price dout us. But if you
look to the left, they have the two for one special.
The discount area and Jerry went right to the left.
There he went to the discount area. He said, I
want the two for one special. So if I buy one,
I get two. Okay, good, I want to I'll buy one,
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I'll get two. Done. Because not only does he praise
George Pickens for torching Green by which he did, hit
a wonderful game, good friend, Mazda, and at the same time,
though Jerry Jones patting himself on the back, like, see,
I'm the GM. I'm the one that traded for George Pickens.
I got him for some pocket lint from Mike Tomlin
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and the Pittsburgh Steels. And now, by the way, I
have the salary cap space. I do because I'm the
GM of the team and I went out, I traded
our top defensive player, and I have salary cap space.
Look at me. I'm gonna do a pirouette on the
catwalk and shake my toush e. I am Jerry Jones.
How great is that? Genius? That's essentially that's essentially what
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he's doing. And he's going on and on and on
and on and all that stuff. Uh So, listen, we
know there's a term for this. It's it's Jerry's polishing
his surfboard, is what he's doing, getting all Does anyone
get all hot and bothered by the salary cap space?
Is there anyone? I've never met anyone who's like a
real human being that has a pulse and has like
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a life that actually gets turned on for salary cap space.
I don't believe there's anyone who's a real human being
that would post something on social media or call the
radio show. I am so horny we have salary cap space.
I don't think that person exists, right, Like, if you're
someone that gets all hot and bothered by cap structure,
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may I recommend some meds and some therapy. Okay, you
don't get the Lombardy for unused salary cap space. You don't.
And the salary cap is it's nonsense, right, it's make
believe in all that stuff. I'm a salary cap cruther.
And some of you think the moon landing was fake,
some of you think nine to eleven was fake, some
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of you think Roswell was whatever, and whatever you think whatever,
conspiracy by my belief is a cap fake. It's it's
the old age, old thing. I said, Ah, we want
to get rid of a player. We're gonna say we
have to get rid of the player because the salary
caps is But if you want a player to stay,
we'll just move some numbers around. We'll fut's around. We'll
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make it work. We'll make it work. Yeah, that's how
it's gonna go, all right. So anyway, Jerry Jones, it's
not like he's cracking the Da Vinci code. It's like
he's not you know, congratulations, you turned Micah Parsons into
cheddar cheese for green Bay check that box. And now
you're acting like you just solve world hunger because you
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can now pay George Pickets. Okay, listen, Jerry's got to
get for Gab. Good for him. He's got to get
for Gabe. He's the kind of guy that could contact
our friend Danny DeVito, America's favorite trash man, and could
sell Danny DeVito on some garbage. And he's like, I'm
gonna I'm gonna sell trash to a garbage man because
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I'm Jerry Jones, and they'd eat it up all right. Now. Furthermore,
stick with the theme of the hour Slim pickens. So
following that tie with the Packers, the story has been
bouncing around the echo chamber. The pinball machine of hot
takes over the last couple of days here. Dallas wide
receiver George Pickens told state sponsored prov the news service
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of the NFL, the NFL Network, the pr arm of
the NFL. George Pickens told state sponsored NFL media that
he was ready for a second overtime on Sunday night. Well,
how could there be a second overtime? They don't have
a second overtime. Well, according to George Pickens, he said,
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I've never been part of a tie in my life.
I didn't even know football worked like that, George Pickens said.
And I thought we would start another quarter right now,
he said, moments after the game. But a tie, Pickens claim,
that's a first time. All right, let's discuss the question.
Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens straight up admitting that he
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didn't know the NFL even had ties. Your reaction, all right,
So this is not the first time. I've been doing
this job a long time. I remember Donovan McNabb famously
years ago, used to play quarterback for the Eagles. Probably
don't even know who that is anymore, But McNabb didn't
know there was ties in overtime. There have been other
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players sporadically, and so he said, well, how is this
even possible. It's like, this is your job, buddy. You're
supposed to know that there could be ties in the NFL.
You're a professional football player, plausibly a professional football player.
It's not like the NFL just all of a sudden
invented ties this past week and said, why don't we
have a tie? Everyone loves ties. We'll have a tie. No,
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So what Pickens did here he went into the confessional booth.
George Pickens went into the confessional booth, and he admitted, Hey, listen,
football is my job. It is not my passion. That's it, right,
Tell me you don't follow the NFL without telling me
you don't follow the NFL.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
In fact, since George Pickens came into the NFL, there
have been two ties since he entered the NFL back
in twenty twenty two. He incriminated himself. Yeah, it's the
equivalent of working at McDonald's. Like i'd like to work
at me, I'll get a job at McDonald's, I'll work
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at Mickeyd's, Sir at McDonald's. And then you're gobsmacked when
you're working at McDonald's. You just said, Wait a minute,
you're telling me that McDonald sells French fries. What in
the world. My mind is blown. I didn't know that.
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That's George Pickens. I it's like ties have always been
part of it, and yeah, it's like no, no, no, man, no, yeah,
we actually we sell fries. That's your industry. That's it.
It's like the most basic thing. And the other part
of it is during the games, the officials before overtime
announced the rulesers, Oh, we're gonna have a ten minute overtime.
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Each team will possess the ball, and so and so
scores a touchdown and if there is no if no
one has the lead at the end of the ten
minute period, that's it. That's all. She wrote. Game over,
we end in a time. So it's a total cell
phone by George Pickens. Total cell phone, the most basic
thing that is announced as I don't know. I do
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appreciate his honesty, though I don't, and is perfect. George
Pickens is perfect for the circus and Jerry's will and
you just wait, things are going pretty well right now.
Pickens played well in this game. At some point I
will be coming into this studio. I'll turn on the microphone,
I'll turn the cameras on here, and we will be
discussing George Pickens, the knucklehead, get on teet. At some
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point this year he will do something that will cause
a hullabaloo and we will be there for all of it. Now,
last thing to New England. We going of hullablu wide receivers.
Stefan Diggs was asked recently his comfort level with the
Patriots offense so far this season. On a scale of
one to ten, he said five. He said he was
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at a five for his comfort level. So question do
you expect Obviously, you expect that to get better. So
do you expect super stardom from Steffan Diggs with the Patriots?
He's only at a five. He went over one hundred
yards against the morbid Carolina Panthers this past weekend. So
an answer to that question, my answer would be no,
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I'm shaking my head. No, I do not believe George
Pickens is headed to that five out of ten. That's
not even lukewarm. That's not even lukewarm. That's maybe I'll
figure this stuff out. I don't know. We're quarter of
the way through the season.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Quarter of the.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Way and he's not comfortable. Does he need new sheets?
Does he need a new pillow? Stefan Diggs, we're about
twenty five percent into the NFL seasons, I like at
a five and you watch the clips, you watch the tape,
and pretty obvious at this point based on small sample size,
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we're not getting the Buffalo version of Stefan Diggs. We're
not getting the Houston version of the Minnesota version. This
is the Patsy's version of Stefan Diggs, which is a
much different thing than we have seen in years past year.
And Digs at this point not a star. We play star,
not star. I have him in that supporting actor category
(14:34):
for Drake May. Now. The Patriots play an Island game
this weekend. They played the Buffalo Bills. That game's got
a little juice to it. AFC East rivals Buffalo a
touchdown and a half favorite on Draft Kings right now,
just look that up a few minutes ago. But let's
not fair. He's not a star and all that stuff.
He's less than a year these Stefan Diggs marching in chowder.
Society will say it was less than a year of
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removed from shredding his ACL so everything'snna be okay. Not
exactly a quick bounce back when you're north of the
age of thirty and all that stuff. The whole game.
Much like we talked about Tyreek Hill and speed, a
lot of Stefan Diggs gave his speed and he's also
the problem with him is Stefan Diggs is juggling hand
grenades right now. He's got a bunch of off field
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stuff with Cardi b in one ear and baby Mama
drama from random Floozies in the other, so there's a
lot going on. So he's got the health problem. Is
not exactly locked in like he's in his salad days,
not that he was necessarily locked in even then. So
good luck. And if you look at the early results,
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there are a bunch of receivers in the NFL. You say,
if you're one of the top receivers, they're gonna get
you the ball. Stefan Diggs is in terms of targets,
He's not even in the top fifty in targets in
the NFL. He's tied with Travis Kelcey, who's aging rapid
for Kansas City. Now the eleven yards per catch is
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not terrible. But then you look at the context of
the NFL. He's sixty sixth in the NFL, one six
away from the side of the devil. And I'm not bad,
but not wow. You don't go wow right now. It's
more of a eh eh than a wow. And he
turns thirty two in November or in October. Now, so
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next month he'll turn thirty two. And that is an
age when receivers, with the mileage piling up and all that,
you go from prime rib delicious, prime rib with a
carving station. I'll like you go from prime rib to
mystery meat. I don't know what it is. It's a
mystery meat. I have no idea. I don't understand what
(16:46):
is it. Yeah, that's it. So now that doesn't mean
he's going to completely fall off the mat, I said
supporting actors to Fawn Diggs. I look at him like
an occasional highlight here and there to remind you of
what he used to be. They'll make go one handed
grab against the bills and even score a touchdown. People
get all excited for that. And yeah, but you cannot
depend on him. He's not the Alpha. He's not gonna
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the word Game of the Stars password. But let's go
to the phones get a State of Ohio baseball report.
Hours ago, people were demanding Dick. They wanted Dick from Dayton.
They said, we need Dick, and here's Dick. Dick.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Welcome, Good morning, Ben and crew.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
How are you well?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
If I was any better, I'd be a Red, but
not a Cincinnati Red because they didn't get it done there.
Or I would be a Guardian but not a Cleveland
Guardian because they didn't get it on either. What's going
on with these teams, Dick?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I can't figure it out. I just you know that
the Guardians have to be the best. I think, well, well,
in baseball, they come back from a fifteen game, you
know slide that they did. But we're I guess we're worried.
But well, it doesn't look like the Bigs, the Browns
they're going to do good, does it?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well, let's focus in on the Baseball Now Supermarket. Steve
is a fan of your work. He said, Ben, can
you please ask Dick and Dayton what the Cleveland Guardians
need to do to beat the Detroit Tigers. Do you
have any advice you want to give? Any advice there
to the Cleveland baseball team.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
I think today I was listening that to the fan
and there was a gift from there with Dan and
they were talking about, you know, this game, but they
were just worried that if they get behind, you know,
it's all it's it's over. And it's a.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Lot of fans just so your your advice is to
not get behind. It's scary back there. Sometimes that is good, Yeah,
it smells. And in the Reds, any advice of the Reds, Dick,
they gave up ten runs to the Dodgers last night.
That's not good.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
That's not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, what do they need to do? Maybe pitch better?
Maybe that's yeah, pitch that's better. Yeah, Okay, I got you.
I feel like I led the witness on that one. Yeah,
I got you. But just tightest talk baseball. You know,
he doesn't talk. He's a football guy.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Titus, right, Yeah, him and Jeff, he's uh yeah, he's
there on the Browns postgame show.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, he would talk, they would talk baseball. Yeah yeah,
did you see the big news of the Browns are
changing quarterbacks? It looks like how about that?
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Yeah, they need to change quarterback. I mean that it
was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well if you, if you are mister positives upset, it's
really bad. Uh yeah, I got.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I talked to one of my friends and he used
to work down the dial, Kenny Rhoda JT. And they're
good friends of mine. He worked down the dial there
opposite of the other sister station, and we've been good friends.
And the end Zone show is really good with Jeff
and Tider.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Sure, those are legends.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
Absolutely, And I went back to playing some music.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Oh good, did you win the Talent Show?
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I wanted to show here at Stony Ridge. But this
group I played with Marcia's Every Every Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
And that's the Dolls Mercy Society. Is that? Am I
correct on that?
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
That's the Dult Where and then I'm going to go
Monday to the h It's called the Country Jam and Moraine.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Okay, but you're not You're not doing the string Benders
anymore the kettering, Oh you do? Okay, all right? And
what about the kettering banjo society is no longer society? Right, nope,
and there's nothing. What about the Clifton Opera House. Used
to talk about that all the time. There's no more
Clifton opera houses. That's not the thing anymore.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Rebuilding it there, okay, rebuilding that. So we'll be back.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But you're Is it true? You're a three tool player, Dick.
You've got the banjo, the mandolin and the guitar. Is
that accurate?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Okay, yeah, yeah, you're a three tool player. All right, Well,
very go, thank you, bye bye, bye bye. There he
goes Dick from Dayton legend, absolute legend on the show.
Let's say hello to Steve in Manhattan, the Big Apple.
What's going on? Steve? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Only New Yorkers could turn the riots coup into his
fastardization of spring Break, Ben the stinguished paneled span the audience.
They are all right, and anybody wants to line up
and call and ask me a question, go right a head,
I don't care if it's complicated.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So you want you want questions? You want people to
call up at eight seven seven ninety nine, on Fox.
Fair enough, we can do that. Did you take one
of those fifteen thousand dollars helicopter rides out to the
golf event over the weekend?
Speaker 4 (24:25):
No, listen, they are they are lucky the Long Honor
Railroad didn't go hunch strike. There would have been nobody
out there, but they broke records for ridership going out there.
You know, New York is a funny like Yah, it is.
It's kind of funny with the way they were going
to ask to Rory and stuff. I mean I could
if I got I gotta be in a saloon at
two o'clock in the morning to explain to people around
(24:48):
the country why they're going after this poor guy. But yeah,
we'll take calls if anybody wants to ask.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Any kind of questions. See, we'll go to We'll take
some calls here. Why not call her? You're on on
the air, Salo to Steven Manhattan. Hello, caller, who's this caller?
Are you there? Call is? Who's this.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
All?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Right? Well, apparently that person's sleeping. Let's go to another line,
Random line. You're on there? Hello, random line?
Speaker 10 (25:15):
Hello, Oh Steve, are you saying the New Yorkers did
a good job at the Ryder Cup. That was a
complete joke. The people from New York made the United
States of America look terribly bad. Did you see them cheering?
They had fake comedians there.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
They had got all right, see if your thoughts on that,
Steven Manhattan, listen, you know your.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Bottle of Jack Daniels, a few six packs and all
bets of Rolf my man, and uh they were going
after Rory. It was uncalled for. And like I said,
I'd have to be in a saloon at two o'clock
in the morning to explain why they're going.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
After this guy having fun. It's a gamesmanship fan engagement.
Let's say, hello, caller, you're on the air with Steven Manhattan.
Hello Mike, Mike the Leprecaun. Hello Michael Leprigun.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well, I must admit he's a very genuine man. They
grew on the fans. They threw beer at Rory's wife
and it sells his children. So I want to congratulate
him from being honest. And then does he have a
comment about the Yankees that night? In case you didn't
notice the Red Sox one?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Do I have a comment about about that game?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
But the Yank and the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah, I do. I do have a comment about that game. Listen.
If they're gonna use what do you call it, he
wants apple sauces, steak souls of HEYI whatever to do
the lineups and write off these lineups. I think anything
is possible. Anybody could go in there and win. And
when you have, uh, these playoffs of these wildcard teams,
you're good. You're gonna the first team that's gonna be
(26:46):
on the five hundred some year to win the World Series.
There's basically they ad more teams and more player flats
to get the Yankees in the playoffs and they just
got to do a better job.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, everything's going to like a beige color. There's no
great there's some bad teams. There's no really great regular
season teams because the load management they do. The load
management is what they do where they just kind of
coast along and they all spend a month on the
d L here or the I L or wherever they
call it, and they don't take it that seriously.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yeah, but you know, annoying load manager.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
You know what that is.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
They're doing their cycles, they're getting juiced up, and they
got to take off a two or three head.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
It's just it. It's they're the the younger generations have
been indoctrinated into being lazy, that they they want you
to be lazy, and that you don't need to play
every game, and they charge a lot of money for
regular season games. But it's like it's not that big
a deal whether you miss a bunch of games, Like
(27:48):
that's the whole that's the whole mindset. There's a there's
a term. It's called well. It's like if you're at a store,
last in first out, you know how like you put bread,
if you're the bread man, you put bread out, and
we called it faifo. First in, first out? Is that
what did I say? Last in, last last in? First's
last in first out, meaning that you look at the
(28:11):
dates on the bread and the dates that it's closest
to expiring. You put that in last because that's the
people that buy the bread are going to buy that first.
But my move though, I go I know that trick,
so I will have long arms and I will go
to the back of the bread. Yeah, and I will
take the bread that has an extra fresh one, an
extra couple of weeks. I'll specifically look at dates, especially
(28:32):
for like fresh cut fruit and stuff. Yeah, what about you, Steve,
do you go to the bodegas left? Last time I
was in New York, there's all weed shops. They got
rid of all the bodegas. It's gone.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Well, the weed shops they close them down, they open
up again. They pop up all over the place. There
are I mean real New York is. We call them
deli's deli cotests. I know people call bodegas. There are
bodegas and there the difference between a deli and a bodega.
You go to a bodega is like a cat sitting
on accunt of which violates every state.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
That's so disgusting.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Well, it sits on the counter until they run out
of meat and then it's in your sandwich. So you know, well.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
That's telling me that you got you know, you got
rats and mice running around the joint.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
But if you're in Manhattan, there's rats running around. It's
just they're everywhere. It's not like they stay out of
a deli because it's a deli. They don't know it's
a deli. They want to eat, so they're just doing.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
During during Hurricane Sandy, we found out they could swim
the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That's right, all right, are you? Yeah? Your bow got
in the most move on. Let's say a loo to
Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcell, welcome.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Why saw Steve heard about it in Manhattan?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You want to talk to him? Well, all right, Steven Manhattan,
sayalo to Marcelle he's over in Brooklyn, say hello, Oh
what's up?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Marcel?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Do you on believe in? Believe it in our city
and our state has all of it?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
And I know you're exactly right about the Ryder Cup
over there in Long Island, not far from us, the
Europeans beating Americans for no darn reason.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Tremendous commentary, Marcel, you should be on golf coverage on television.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Well, thank you very.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Much there, Matt, and I do agree with you with that. Yeah,
your on the right A cup in Long Island, not
far from us.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
The right cup, well that's out there in beth Page.
Yet there's not it's really farming Dale. It's not that close. No,
it isn't. I mean, you gotta get on you you
do as you get on the lawn railroad, right, and
what you do.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
We don't need to break we don't need to break down.
If I Mars anything else, Marcel, What do you got
for me? Marcel? What do you got? Tell me something good?
Tell me something good, Marcel.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Well, I heard about that Mike Coward Kahn Red Sox
beating the Yankees yesterday. Well let's see what the Bronx
farmers are coming right back.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh, okay, hold on a sec here, I think there's
a Red Sox fan that wants to talk to you. Hello,
a Red Sox fan. You're on the here.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Hello, greetings, good morning, mister Marcel.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
I believe that your night.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
I believed arms the feet off.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Okay, well, put your money where your mouth is.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Well that's the case.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
How much money do you have, Marcel?
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I put twenty dollars for.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Miss Wow, twenty twenty bucks.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Then I put you.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
As a matter of fact, to tie things up tonight
in game two of Bros.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I am yes, I'm in fact, I actually got a phone.
I'm gonna go over to the airport, fly into the Bronx.
I'll be there for the game tonight. And Aaron Boone
is announced that I'll be the first guy out of
the bullpen, so I'll be out of the bullpen there.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Oh, oh, good on you, thank you, good.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
On you leaving the overnight show to work in the
Yankee bullpen for the playoff. He's actually wearing a Bronx
Bomber's hat right now. That is right at the pit front.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
So looking for twenty eight World chaps this year.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
I guarantee you for that.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Oh, you guarantee it a good I'm done with you.
Let's go to Cowboy John Bradd and Windsor, Ontario is
clearing his throat right now. Hello Cowboy John Brad, Oh,
hello Ben.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
Pardon my voice, but my parents were married eighty nine
years ago today. Rod Caruz eighty former Detroit Tigers left
handed pitcher on the sixty eight World Champions. John Gordon
seventy nine and Brittish singer Robert Palmer, pioneering African American
(32:41):
tennis player in golfer Alfier Gibson and Robert Cardassie and
the elder of the OJA Dream Team dying September twenty sixth,
twenty eighth and thirtieth at twenty three. And see John
Brimm who sang the original version of ice Cream Man
that Van Halen covered night twenty two years ago to
(33:04):
day eighty one, eighty eighty.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
You need some garlic, cowboy, you need to gargle salt water.
You got to get your vrse back.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah this year. I know I probably
sound horrible. Seventy nine years ago talking of the twenty
two Nuremberg trial, can say the nineteen were convicted. We're given.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
People need to hear.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
That were carried out fifteen days later October sixties, nineteen
forty six. But anyway, old Bobby Shance the oldest living
Major League player in the nineteen fifty two Most Valuable
Players Art the League guy and was one hundred years
old last Thursday, and quickly. Anyway, you got to be
(33:50):
a boy to be a cowboy. Hopefully speak to people
tomorrow with a better boys slam.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Biden Cowboy John. The honeymoon's over in Boulder, Colorado. Dion's
Sanders say say, hey, we are underachieving Colorado off to
the two and three start. They're zero and two in
Big twelve play the Buffaloes. They had a chance to
make a big impact, like relatively speaking, a big impact.
(34:15):
They had a chance to beat BYU, a top twenty
five team, had a fourteen point lead in the first half,
and they gave it all away. They gave it all away.
And the Buffalos while they are moving the ball, they
are playing no defense at all. Second worst average in
the Big twelve, given up four hundred four yards per game.
(34:36):
So Dion having some problems there. For sure. We'll move on.
We are going to have password the word Game of Stars.
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you idiot?
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Password the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meler.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Let's do this. Here we go password time. Let's welcome
in our contestants against my better judgment. We have hollering James. Hello, James.
Oh you're awake now you were on the air twice
already sleeping? Okay, James, welcome. Who do you want to
partner up with? James? Oh? Thank god? How lucky am
I am? I the luckiest man in the world. Holy crap,
(36:36):
My dreams are coming true? I know, all right? It
was amazing, Yes, all right? And John is in Needles.
In Needles is a town in California named Needles. Hello John, Hello, man,
what's going on? John? Who do you want to partner
up with? We've got Lorena or coop Lorena. You're out
(36:59):
of the show when I don't get picked. I know,
well you hit all the mail though, you're right.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
I'll take that instead.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Oh what about me? I mean what am I? Come
on six and shoe? I don't know. On radio, I'm
very cute in person, and on TV not so much. Anyway. Oh,
let's play the game. We have a list of words here,
and you have punched James in James pick a number
one to ten, hollering James, the legend in Minnesota, hollering James.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Can you say that a little more pizazz?
Speaker 7 (37:36):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
All right? How about uh premature?
Speaker 7 (37:45):
Premature?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Oh no, oh no, no.
Speaker 7 (37:50):
First number one.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
So you think you by saying the word number one
that the clue would be oh my god, no, Go
ahead there, John, John, let's.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Go with punctually.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, you got it on my clue. I guess all right, John,
picking number one to two to ten?
Speaker 4 (38:18):
John, let's go with number ship.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Go ahead, cool, let's go with uh.
Speaker 9 (38:31):
Oh, come on, come on.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Let's go with uh gag No, James, let's go James. Wise. Crack.
That's one word. Why is crack? Wise? Crack? Pick a
number James pick a number, picking James number three. Uh,
(38:57):
you know we don't have time, coop. Unfortunately, the time
we can't get it in now we ended up at
a time. Oh next week, you guys want to call back,
We'll do it next week. We'll tie. Hey, Ties, what
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