October 14, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about the Brewers losing Game 1 of the NLCS thanks to a brilliant outing by Blake Snell for the Dodgers, Jayden Daniels and the Commanders falling to the Chicago Bears on MNF, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Usher Edition, and more!
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Yes, we stand on the bully pulpit and we look
down on the sporting world from the peak and we
spit loogis at you. But where are we gonna be?
You know, you know where I'm gonna begin, right?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Is there any question where I'm going to be in
the Come on, Yes, We're going to start out in
the land of the dere We'll start out in Wisconsin.
It was oening night of the National League Championship Series
in the American League is already played two games, although
really just Seattle's played two games. The Bluejays really haven't
played one, but more on that later, but we'll start
with the National League. That was the late game, David
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versus Goliath. That's the building, the build up, David versus Goliath,
and unlike the Bible game, one went to Goliath. So
the Dodgers Brinks truck pulled up there with all that
money and moo la, moo la, moo lah, the big
Blue and Green wrecking crew, the Green from the Money,
the show. Hey Otani, Dodgers drove into Milwaukee. I think
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o Tany was driving the Brinks truck there. It'll playdate
with the brew crew, the ragtag upstart. Don't belong here,
Milwaukee Brewers. Where are you watching?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
There was other stuff going on. We had two football games.
It was good night if you like just sitting on
your ass and getting hemorrhoids flipping around. So perhaps not
Blake Snell. Yes, that Blake Snell. We don't like him.
Blake Snell allowed one base runner in eight eight shutout innings,
and the La bullpen leaked a lot of fluid.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
There was a lot of fluid at.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The crime scene, and by the skin on their chinny
chin chin, the Dodgers barely hold off and they open
up the NLCS with a two to one win over
the Milwaukee Baseball team. Snell struck out not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven,
not eight, not nine.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Ten, ten, He walked none.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Ten, I got no walks, and the game still was
in the balance as it was too nothing LA. They
got an insurance run late, and then in the ninth,
bottom of the ninth the Brewers scored a run off.
What I was told by Roberto the bus driver, and
my friend already is big Dodger fan. I said, listen,
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this Roki Sazaki unhitable. This guy is so good, he's amazing. Well,
he wasn't in this game, and he didn't even make
it out of the inning. Sazaki was touched up and
the bases were loaded. Blake Trining came in in the
middle of all that, and the Brewers bases loaded. Bryce
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Terrain at the plate to end the game and.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Saw wing saw Wing Bara. He struck out.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So Game two, quick turnaround, Game two, best of seven,
Best of seven. NLCS will be right back at it
on Tuesday night. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on on the mound for
the Dodgers. He's good against Freddie Peralta, he's also good
a couple of all stars. That is the pitching match
up there. But the better story is in the losing
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locker room. So that is where we are going to go.
And let us discuss the question for the esteem panel
who is most responsible for Pat Murphy's Brewers losing game
number one of the NLCS. So my thoughts, I've got
military grade body armor, meat ball surgery, and pigeon and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Delicious cheese curds, because.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Even when the Brewers don't play well, the cheese curds
taste delicious, absolutely delicious. So my first thought on this,
what a gut punch for the brewkery. Now, you know,
I would like to see the Dodgers win, but I
have course, I'm a neutral observer from the bully pulpit here.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But the story here, as we.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Spin the Wisconsin cheese wheel of regret, and there's lots
of regret to go around, it's yes, round and round,
the cheese will goes round and round and round. Amstop,
big chase, Big Chase. It's easy to sit here and
just do the lazy things. Oh, you know, let's just
tip the old cheesehead cap to Blake Snell if you're
the Brewers and said, wow, he went full snell Zilla
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his cheesy nickname, and shoved it down your throat. He
shoved it down your throat. It's easy to say that
that's the lazy river approach. We don't do lazy. Other
people do lazy. We're not doing lazy. We're not good,
but we're not lazy.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And so, as a talk show host looking at this objectively,
we know the story for Milwaukee is way uglier.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Then just say, man, Blake Snow was great. That's it.
You know what wonderful? What if I told you the
Milwaukee Brewers in Game one of the National League Championship
Series actually executed their game plan to a t. They
did well, they lost the game. What are you an idiot?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You're moron.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
That's why you're on overnights. Shot up. You lose there.
Let me explain, I mean, let me explain.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, So the whole plan for the Bruis, they knew
they were not going to get to Blake Snow. Now,
they would have liked to have not been as a
knemic as they were but the plan was much like
the Philadelphia Filis and everyone that plays the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You want it close and get to the bullpen late.
You want a close game, get to the bullpen late.
Have an opportunity against the bullpen. So the Brewers, they
didn't get blown out.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It wasn't seven to nothing going to the bottom of
the night, didning It was a two run game. It
should have been a one run game. But it was
a two run game going to the ninth bottom of
the night. So they did what they wanted. They got
into the bullpen. Close game. They dragged this thing into
the suck bag Dodger bullpen. You realized when Dave Roberts
when he goes to the bullpen, now I know these
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are not really his decisions, and the nerds decide who
pitches and who doesn't pitch it. But Dave Roberts, when
you go to the bullpen, they call to the bullpen. Okay,
It's like he's reaching into a bucket with dark water
and it's filled with piranhas and razor blades, handed blindfolded.
That's the call to the bullpen for the Dodgers. And
this is exactly where the Brewers wanted to be. They
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had the game where they wanted to be, and they
still blow it. That Brewers still blow it. Milwaukee actually
had the Dodgers right where they wanted them again. They
had the tying run on third the winning run on
second base, bottom of the ninth inning. The crowd's going bananas,
and what happens the moment too big? Yeah, you screwed
the thing up at the end there, bottom of the
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ninth and now the bases were lowered by this point.
The very wobbly, the very very wide. You know that
wobbly table. You can go to a restaurant sometimes the
table's kind of wobbley. Doesn't that suck?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
God? That's it? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Can I change tables? The tables? What Blake trining is
the wobbley table. So he comes in on the mound
and he throws it on just a bit inside, just
a little bit. Is a pitch that literally had a
bullseye on bryce terrain of the Brewers. It would have
either hit him in the knee or the lower leg.
The ball was about to give the man a tattoo
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in front of thousands of people in Wisconsin, right there
on the leg and free run batted in tie game,
and even if you don't score another run the rest
of the game, it's all slopped from the Dodger bullpen
and those guys blow. You would have had an advantage.
It would have been the chaos situation. And instead Bryce
Terrain gets on a pogo stick and jumps out of
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the way and it's like he's in dodgeball in Jim class.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
He gets out of the way there and that was it.
That was it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
One pitch later, good afternoon, good evening, and good night,
strike three, swinging body. He also swung on a pitch
out of the strike zone. So that is it. The Brewers,
who were given a gift the Dodgers wanted to give
them that game. They did not want that game. They
did not want that game to dodge. They said, we
want you to have the game Milwaukee. The door was
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WI open, I wide open. And instead instead of charging
through it like some beer soaked dudes that smell like
broughtwurst right there in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They politely step back. They said, listen, we know our
place in the baseball universe. We don't want the game.
You take the game.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And the doctor said, okay, we wanted to give it you,
but you don't want it, Okay, we'll take it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And Pat Murphy's scouting report for game number two is
pretty simple.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Here that it needs the need for the Brewers.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You have the whiteboard in the clubhouse where they talk
about points of emphasis and all that stuff. So if
the bases are loaded and the ball's coming at you,
wear it. I am to wear it like you're at
fashion Week in Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Wear it.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay, you're not made out of glass. You're not going
to shatter if you get hit by a pitch. Do
not flinch, Do not flinch. Take one for the team.
In fact, I recommend that you imagine yourself as a
human pinata.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And what they need to go and.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Do is get some military grade body armor, slap the
Brewer's logo on it, and pass it out to everyone
that goes up the home plate. That's how the underdog
team gets it done, a team that does not have
the firepower. Just don't flinch, don't flinch. Take one for
the team. And legendary playoff moments don't come from hopping
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like you're on a pogo stick.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Away.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You don't want to look like a scared Kangaroo with
ossiwas in Western Australia. Now the man of the hour
that could have should have tied the game and the
night we'd still be playing right now. Bryce Terrang said, well,
it's just it's it's nature that took its course.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Take aless, you know, it's it sucks.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
It is, it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It is what it is.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Natural reaction to kind of get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And there's a lot.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I mean, there's nothing I could do. I can't go back.
And then I was looking up at the top of
the zone for the sinker sweeper that he's thrown and
he threw meineforcing took off. So yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, it is what it is. You sucked any time
you cannot suck. Okay, I know you can't go back
and do it. But our job is to critic you.
We're the critic. We are in the upper balcony and
we are right now throwing paper planes that we're shooting
them down your direction. Meanwhile, as for the Dawyers who
tried to give the game away but still won, it
is all about Blake Snell.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Now, Brewers manager Pat Murphy said of that performance by
Blake Snell. It was the most dominant performance he's seen.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
He's been in.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Milwaukee for like a decade, I believe close to it,
if not a decade, not all his manager, but his
coach and whatnot. Freddie Freeman was licking the toes of
Blake Snell. He said it was a masterpiece. So the
question is, how do you quantify the dominant performance in
game number one of the LCS by Blake Snell of
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the Doyers. So this is peak twenty twenty five Dodgers
if you want to a preview, a glimpse the Dodgers
in a nutshell game one of the NLCS. It was
smooth jazz, keeping your jazz commercial free right there, right
for eight innings, and then heavy metal, heavy.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Metal wash pit in the ninth fitting.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It was a white knuckle, teeth grinding, no fingernails left,
hold on for dear life situation. It was a roller
coaster ride. The big Blue wrecking crew almost wrecked the
entire game right there. And they're many nights where you're
watching what I'm told you about the all time great teams.
Oh my god, this roster's amazing, and you're watching through
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your fingers, right, you're watching through your fingers like this,
and you're like, oh my god, this is like a horror.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Movie, is what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But Blake Snell was surgical. It doesn't mean we like him,
but he was surgical.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Was good.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Picasso in Spikes and all that continues to be a
mortal enemy of this show. We remember. We have very
good memories here. The timeless quotes. We were on the
air during the pandemic back in twenty twenty. I had
players I got mine, Bro, well he got his, and Bro,
I'm risking my life.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, but I think he's okay. Might have died a
couple times on the mount, but he survived. So it's
very nice that Blake can miss three months of work.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Bro, I'm risking my life.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's right, Bro, three months sabbatical during the season while
everyone else is playing. And I was selling the great
Mike harmon my colleague here at Fox Sports. Ready, we
were discussing the thinking about the Dodgers is it's kind
of like you don't even pay attention. They're ruining the
regular season, like the NBA players have ruined the regular
season in pro bouncy ball, Like we don't even pay
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attention to the NBA regular season because the players don't
really care. The Dodgers don't really care about the regular season. Well,
they won all these games.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
There were twelve games under where the expectation was the
gambling market, and they had guys that could have pitched,
but they just wanted to be cautious, sounded up bundan
of caution and all that. They didn't really take it
that seriously.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And yet here we are there, seven wins away from
winning another World Series. And so I guess the lesson
is it we should not pay much attention at all
to regular season baseball. But again back to play stell.
So if you're gonna skip three months, right, three months, fine,
you better be like a Bond villain in October. And
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he has been, and Snow was out there. He was
a surgeon, as we said, The Brewers were the patient there,
and it was a little meatball surgery. The scalpel was
very sharp, very very sharp.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
There.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Now we would have left Blake Snell, and I mean,
what are you saving him for. He's just gonna miss
four months of next season anyway, so you might as
well pitch him to a one hundred and twenty pitches.
He threw one hundred and three. It's the playoffs, and
that was his.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Night, right, This is the way I was talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
In modern baseball, you can't have your night fully because
because of the analytics and all that stuff. But this
was his night. And Dave Roberts goes to the bullpen.
It's not really a strategy when the Dodgers go to
the bullpen. It is playing a Russian roulette. But there
are five bullets in the chamber. So that's not a
great The odds aren't really in your favor there. The
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odds aren't great for you when you're playing that way.
Roki Sazaki, who had been nails right y'all, told me, oh,
this guy's amazing, And well, let's just say he wasn't exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Mariano Rivera in Game one of.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The National League Championship Series, so had a hit, he
gave up a couple of walks, base runners panic in
the streets, and so that's October. It's not supposed to
be easy, they tell us. All right, so you've got
that soft underbelot and any team that wins a championship,
the same thing applies. You have to overcome your kryptonite
for the Dodgers. It continues to be their bullpen and
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exposed nerves yet again for the Dodgers, and a lot
of people that like the team have ulcers watching the
team play. They survive and so they advance. All right, now,
last word, and this is something that people aren't really
talking about. You know, the LA media soft one guy.
I've been in LA a long time. This one guy
in LA media.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That had balls. He's dead.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
TJ Simers, everyone else is a total fanboy in the
LA media. So what is your level of concern for
the obviously slumping show?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Hey, Oltani, what is your level of good?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So now we don't particularly care what his dominance was
in the regular season, right, we just mentioned the Dodgers
in the regular season. It's just kind of a it's
more of a nuisance than anything, the way they approach
the regular season.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And Otani was great.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
He's most likely going to win another MVP and the
fifty five home runs, the double Nickels for home runs,
and three MVP trophies that he's collected. There, I'm sure,
I sure as hell don't care about the seven hundred
million dollars country. All of that is prologued, it does
not matter here right now in this mammy shoe, Haltani
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is say it with me now, non factor. He's a
non factor for the Dodger and they're still winning.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
They're still winning.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The guy's batting a buck thirty three, which I think
is a highway somewhere. A buck thirty three in October,
buck thirty three for Otani in October. And you're supposed
to be the man, and that's what you're doing in
the face of the sport and all that. Right now,
he's not, you know, he's he's a birdy. He's a
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stool pitching, is what he is. He's a decoy in
the postseason right now, Otani is a decoy. He didn't
play well in the World Series last year, not playing
well this year, and teams are still walking him out
of an abundance of respect because of his aura. They're
still walking show Haltoni's reputation precedes him and all that.
But when they actually pitched to Otani, there's a hole
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in his swing. In fact, I went back and I looked,
I watched on the on the rebroadcast of the clips online,
and the hole in Otani's swing is actually the size
of a school bus that Roberto the bus drive could
drive through.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's that big a hole, pretty big, pretty big hole there.
He looks lost in some of these at bats. Didn't
if you watch the game or maybe a blind heard it,
but he just looked lost.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
And it's not the Otani that we see from April
until September. This is different Otani. And because the Dodgers
are winning, he looks mortal, right, he looks mortal, but
they're winning, and if they stumble, they lose game two here,
or you lose a couple of games.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
The story becomes a def con one for the talk.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Shows, and you've already got people say, well, what's going
on here?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Like Otani's not like one thirty three. The broadcasters they.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Give him a bubble bath, they give him the manny
and the petty on the TV broadcast, they love him
and playoff baseball exposing those wards.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
He's very similar to Barry Bonds.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
A lot of home runs, and Bonds was a not
known for being very good in the postseason, and he's
getting that October treatment here where there's a lot of
intentional walks, there's nibbling around the zone and and the
Dodgers keep winning, and so this is on the back burner.
I would be clear, this is on the back burner here.
But the malar level of concern, which is the only
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measurement that matters, the mallor level of concern, is we're
at a medium right now in the stove. We're not
going all the way up to full burn. We're at
a medium there, and we will at a moment's notice
go full blown panic, full blown panic when the Dodgers
start losing some of these games because of Tani's not
hitting a one thirty three batting average, and we're three rounds,
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one game into the third round, but we're three rounds
into the playoffs there, and the conversation will flip from
generational superstar to the ghost of October.
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outside the Beltway. There the late game on the Monday
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night football twin. But we'll get back to the baseball
if you're on hold on the app out the baseball.
As the Mariners are up two to ozho on Toronto
and the Dodgers barely get by the Milwaukee Brewers in
Game one of the NLCS. And if the Mariners and
Dodgers play in the World Series, uh, the entire sports media,
the the triangle of sports media on the East Coast
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is going to lose their mond.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You I don't want to watch that. Who wants to
watch the Burners and the Dodgers of the world.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Of course they're gonna complain. If Toronto's in there, they're
gonna complain. If Milwaukee's in it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
They're gonna complain. Oh, this is so bad, all right?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Anyway to the football twin Bill on a Monday night,
You've got Troy Aikman and Joe Buck.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
They were doing the Fox Refugees. We're doing the game
on ABC.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
They were there in the Brew Dob Bears, Dob Bears,
fresh off the bye week, trying to snap out of
that hibernation. The Chicago Bears team against the squad formerly
known as the Redskins right there they were the match
up there and Caleb Williams and Dob Bears get the
better of Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
If you did not see the game, as they take
down the Commanders on.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
The final play as time ran out, Chicago defeating Washington
by one point twenty five twenty four on a thirty
eight yard field goal by kicker Jake Moody. Yes, the
same Jake Moody who was fired by the forty nine Ers,
the same Jake Moody who was at loggerheads with his
teammates on the sidelines because he missed so many kicks
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in a forty nine er uniform. Well, he makes the
game winner, as he was the interim kicker there for
the team from Chicago, the Chicago Bears, paced by DeAndre Swift,
he ran for one hundred and eight yards on just
fourteen carries.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I'm told that's pretty good. I'm told that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And also grabbed a pair of receptions for sixty seven yards,
including a fifty five yard catch and run yak and
e yack yards after the catch there for a touchdown
against a very sloppy Washington defense poor tackling. There by
that defensive units of the Bears are over five hundred.
Don't tell anybody, but the Chicago Bears are over five hundred.
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At three and two, They're coming off their bye week,
and they've now extended their winning streak to not one,
not two, but three aps in a row. So the
Bears have won three straight under Ben Johnson. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin, and the question what went wrong?
What went wrong for Jaden Daniels and the Washington football team?
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And I've got Bart Simpson, Hollywood Squares, and Will Smith
and we'll combine all of these things together and make
the Baba Ganoosh.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
We're gonna make the Baba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So to kick off here, this was a night to
absolutely forget for Jadeen Daniels, the Prodigy, the breakout star
of the twenty twenty four NFL season, not just Jaden Daniels,
but the Commanders in general. Jayden Daniels is the headliner
and all that. And my word, and it's a conjoined word,
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but my word for this night, for Jaden Daniels and
the Commanders is self inflicted. Self inflicted is the term
I will use here most games. As a rule, we
have several truisms, if you will, several of the points
that are part of the ethos of the show. Better
stories in the losing locker room and most games are lost,
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not one. These two things are related. You see the
better stories in losing locker room because most of the
time somebody eft up to cost their team the game.
This is a great example of it. This is exhibit
exhibit to exhibit A. If you will exhibit A on this.
You don't need a Zibruder film style frame by frame
breakdown to figure it out. Jade and Daniels, I know
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Halloween's a few weeks away here, we're in the middle
of October, so but Jane Daniels picked up his Halloween
costume a little early. He decided he wanted to be
Bart Simpson, and he said, you know, when you're.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Bart Simpson, you got to hand out candy, and I'm
gonna hand out butterfinger and he used his butterfingers to
give the game to the team from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Daniels out there in the rain, rainy night and auditioning
for the remake. I don't know if this is still
in the air the America's Funniest Home Videos that used
to be a think back of the day but is
still on. Really, but it must be America's Funniest Cell
Phone Videos exactly that they had no home video, but
he had Jaden Daniels one interception, he had two fumbles,
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lost one of the two fumbles in the game. Also,
his running back Jakobe Krosky Merritt also fumbled on his own.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
So those three.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Hairballs coughed off by the Washington football team gift wrapped
thirteen points. Thirteen points for Eugene in Chicago's Bears. As
they get it done now, they might as well have
left the Amazon package on the porch and then Washington
just invites Caleb Williams to come over there and come
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pick it up. Before the porch pirates get it and
he picked up the packages. I like the package. That's
a good package. And here's the thing, Chicago wasn't even
that shark like. This was not the most aesthetically pleasing matchup.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
It was not ian.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Chicago had nine penalty I think we're over eighty yards
in penalties.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
They were begging, begging.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Washington to put the game away, but Washington said, na, nah,
you know we can't have it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
We want you.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Very similar to the end of that Dodger Brewers game
in the NLCS where the Dodgers tried to give the
game away and the Brewers, like Pogo sticked out of
the batter's box and said, we don't want the game.
And the same thing here, the magic carpar It was
a magic carberk. We all agree on that it was
a magic carpet ride. Last season NFC title game. And
there's some turbulence going on now, right there's some turbulence.
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This is not a team that looks like a playoff
team right now, just based on what we saw here recently.
They did beat the Chargers, the beaten and broken Chargers
in the previous game, but if you look at Dan
Quinn medicine Man's Washington Commanders. One week they are the
Grandfather clock ticking perfectly, and the next week they're busted
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in in a pawn shop. And it goes back and forth,
it goes back and forth. And then on the other side,
the Bears, they come out of the bye week, they're
feeling all good about themselves, right, they win their third
Strade game.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
And we were.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Goofing on Ben Johnson earlier in the year, some turbulence
to begin the seasons, behind the scenes, drama, O rama,
and now he's like, wow, he could be the coach
of the month, you know, why not? Coach of the month?
All excited. So the Bears feeling good about themselves, Washington.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Not so much. Outside of that, we go out to Detroit.
Follow up, follow up.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
To fisticus postgame fallout from the Monday Night Haymakers scene
around the football world, the NFL has decided to punish
Lions safety Brian Branch.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Did you hear about this? Yes? You did? Okay?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Brian Branch maybe not, has been suspended suspended for one game,
one game he will miss without pay for unsportsmanlike conduct
after he decided to get physical with Chiefs wide receiver
Juju Smith Schuster. That set off a Johnny Brook post
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game as they were showing on NBC. So the question,
give me your reaction to the Lions safety Brian Branch
being suspended for his postgame haymaker to someone wearing a
helmet by the way in ju Ju Smith Shuster, So
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this is all about the island. It's all about the
island us. Everybody's watching these island games. You cannot run,
you cannot hide. They're gonna get you. Bad boys, bad boys,
They're gonna get you. I he can't pretend that nobody
saw it. It wasn't the early TV window when there
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were seven other games going on.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
This was a game, standalone game.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And look, I know there's some I got some feedback
from some of our guys in Michigan who are like,
they'd like the Lions.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I'm like, well, you're not getting the whole story.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Ear Now we figure things out, and some of those
line guys are crying, they're complaining. Well, but Juju Smith
Schuster shoved mister Branch in the back during the game,
and that's what he was upset about, and that's why
he became combative postgame. And my response to that is
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two words.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Who cares?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Uh, This isn't recess, It's the National Football League. And
you swing on someone and after the final whistle the referees.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Are leaving the field like this is.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Games overright, Calm down everything, you're in the postgame scrum.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Second.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
The old days, we'd laugh about this, But the modern NFL,
this is corporate NFL. This is the bureaucracy of football,
modern NFL. If you do that, and Brian Branch did
it to the Lions, you're handing the NFL a hammer,
a massive hammer, and you're telling Roger Goodell in the NFL.
You're saying, please hit me, hit me right in the nose,
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right in the schnozzle, right between the eyes, hit me
with the hammer. Hit me with the hammer. That's what
you're saying, right, you're saying that. And so the NFL obliged.
They said, okay, we'll hit you in the face with
the hammer. Now, this is not Branch's first rodeo.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's not his first dance here. He's been through this before.
He's got a little bit of a rap sheet. Not
he's not the all time greatest villain in the NFL.
But he's gotten some issues here. So the league loves
to pretend that they're all about sportsmanship. They love that
the optics of the Island games very important here, the
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sportsmanship optics, especially in these primetime games.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
And so this is like the Hollywood Squares.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
If you play in one of these games on the
NFL calendar, you are in the center square, even a
safety for the Detroit Lions. And Sunday Night you had Royalty,
had Taylor Swift, the First Lady of America, you had
Caitlin Clark, the Second Lady of America. They were in
the house, everyone's watching, everyone's checking it out right there, right,
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and then you do something stupid, and that's going to
cost this guy some real money. Now there's a chance
the NFL vacates the suspension and just finds him a
game check and allows him to play or something like that.
But that is, if he does miss the Lions next game,
Brian Branch will lose seventy six thousand, six hundred and
twenty four dollars for that punch. Have you ever wanted
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to punch someone enough where you'd be willing to give
up seventy thousand dollars of your money?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Because he did.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And this isn't about sending a message. It's childish. Even
Branch agrees with that. I thought me saying that. That's
mister Branch of the Lions. He said in himself postgame
he said it was childish. I mean that when a
guy had mins it in the locker room like that,
there's not a lot of debate.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
He said it was childish. It was childish, and he's.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Absolutely cooked cooked in his appeal Dan Campbell. Now, the
franchise charter, as I understand it with the Detroit Lions
is go out there and bite kneecaps, play tough, but
you've got to be disciplined. Okay, So instead this is
more wwe like, it's more along those lines. That's what
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this is.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Last thing, dubb Pittsburg. We we go Pittsburgh, PA. Where Steelers
coach Mike Tomlin open league question the Browns and general
manager Andrew Berry for the decision to decide mid season.
You know what Joe flaccoh eh, we don't need Joe Flacco.
(35:14):
And they traded into the Bengals. And so the Steelers
beat the Cleveland Browns on Sunday being pretty good, all right,
and So Mike Tomlin at his newser on Monday, the
issue of now going against Joe Flack of the Steelers
and Bengals play on Thursday Night football.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Hey, here's what Mike Tomlin had a said. Five. It's
interesting one to have you hear it. Here's Tomlin in
his own words.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
You know, to be honest, it was shocking to me.
Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than me or us,
because it doesn't make sense to me to trade a
quarterback that you think enough of to make your opening
day starter to a division opponent that's hurting in that area.
But that's just my personal feeling.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Okay, short and sweet from Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
So again, those comments coming day after the Steelers mollywop
the Browns and their rookie quarterback Dyllan Gabriel, a two
touchdown win for the team that loves Iron City Beer,
and just a couple of days before the Bengals will
take on the Steelers here that game in Cincinnati. Tickets
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are available on Thursday night. So the question, what did
you make of Mike Tomlin calling out calling out the
general manager Andrew Berry for trading Joe Flacco in the division.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
So my rear. I loved it. I thought it was
obviously I brought it up on the show. I liked it.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I would don't bring this stuff up. I don't like
I have this other stuff I ignore because it doesn't interest me.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I thought this was great.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Because Tomlin is not exactly known for just blurting out criticism.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
He's a great sound by.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Tomlin's one of my favorite people in sports to listen
to because he speaks not in cliches. He gives you
something fresh, even if it's a cliche wrapped in a different,
different group of words.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
And I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
And so this is not some passive, aggressive, oh gollie
g coach speak that we get from almost all of
these guys. No, this was straight right across the jaw.
That was a straight right right across the jaw kaboom,
kind of like Brian Branch And so I thought it
was God. He used the name, he used his name,
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he said his name, say my name, he said his name,
he said the name, he said the GM's name. That's personal,
that is personal. It is It's very rare. This is
a special treat. We don't normally get this. Normally we
get is off the record comments where you know so
and so said a person high up in the Pittsburgh
(37:45):
Steelers Like this could have been reported that way.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Tomlin could have told one of his beat reporters.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well, listen, I don't understand why this happened, and then
the reporter would have said, according to a source close
to the Steelers, they're upset that so and so Joe
Flacco was traded to Cincinnati. But no, Tomlin just he
came on and said it. He said, listen, we're all
in the same division. And he's like he walked into
the AFC North Family Diner and he flipped the table
(38:12):
over like a scene out of a comedy, and he
flipped the table right over there, and he said, Hey, Liz,
what the hell are you doing? What's wrong with you
calling out the Browns like a guy calling his neighbor
an idiot for leaving the keys in his ignition, Like
what are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
And you know you don't just hand a.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Team that's broken like Cincinnati, a division rival, a quarterback
not keeping Mike Tomlin's He's saying the quiet part out loud, right,
we know that. But this is a classic Pittsburgh Ginser
type stuff from tom because the Steelers they kick your
ass on Sunday, that was a domination situation. Then Monday
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comes around and now Mike Tomlin planted a terrible towel
right on the front of the lawn and he put
one also. He sent it to the Cleveland brown facility
even though they're not playing the Browns again right away,
and they kicked Cleveland's ass. Dylan Gabriel not very good,
playing like he was out there in the innermurals and
(39:15):
not doing well at the rec center, the rookie quarterback
for the Browns, and tom was like, hey, and one
more thing, by the way, boom, let me pour a
little salt in the wound.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
And he did.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
So that was essentially Mike Tomlin. He was doing some
cosplay as Will Smith. Remember that famous scene that the
oscars a few years ago when he walks up and
in this case, he walked up to Andrew Barry. Of
course we have the microphone.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Tomlin walks up and you know, slap him right across
the face and he walked away, had the mic still
in his hand, just walked away and that was it.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Now to play Devil's Advocate. While we loved what Tomlin
had to say, we totally get why the Bengals did
what they did because they the Bengals needed a quarterback.
From the Browns perspective, though it made sense also to us.
And so I will play devil's advocate and try.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
To give a little bit of at a boy to
Andrew Berry, because what I had heard was Cleveland was
planning on releasing Joe flacko that once they made the
decision to get off Joe Flacco and they were going
to go with Dylan Gabriel and they've got Shdera.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Sanders's like, okay, we're gonna get rid of this guy.
Flacco's done, they were done with him. And so in
this case, they're like, well, we got a ham sandwich.
We don't really like ham sandwich, but we got a
ham HOGI for this guy.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
And we were not even going to get that.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Because we're just going to put him on waivers, and
so we got something instead of nothing.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
It's not a great sandwich, but we'll take it. And
all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
The optics are are pretty bad, I'll agree, the optics
are not great.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Right. The training your former.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Number one quarterback Joe in the division to a desperate
division rival who lost their quarterback for the season in
Joe Burrow in mid October earlier than that does not
look great, rights, that's Factory of Sadness Vintage.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
One oh one right there. But meanwhile, Tomlin's in the
corner there and he's just sipping Iron City beer and
he's sharpening the blade, Mike Tomlin and getting ready for
that Thursday night game in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
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Speaker 3 (41:24):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we gore? How
about that?
Speaker 2 (41:27):
To the third degree, This is one gets great.
Speaker 8 (41:35):
The Seattle Seahawks knocked off the previously foign one Jacksonville Jaguars,
and Sam Donald is looking better each week.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
With his new team.
Speaker 8 (41:42):
Then do you think it's safe to say that Donald's
resurgent with the Vikings last year wasn't they fluke?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
No, it is not, because the thing he did with
the Vikings is at the end of the year he
rode the vomit comet and so yeah, he's playing well,
I'll give him that right now. The real measuring stick, though,
for Sam Donald, the acid test is late season games.
Late season games when you lost a couple of offensive linemen, Like,
he's fine if everything's perfect. When things aren't perfect, he collapses,
(42:08):
And so I don't trust him. He's playing well, I'll
give him that right now, but I still don't trust him.
Speaker 8 (42:12):
Next, So, the Tampa Bay Bucks have been hit with
a number of injuries to playmakers this season, but that
hasn't stopped them from going five and one to start
the year. Now, Ben, they have the best record in
the NFC, But are they the best team?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Well, we do the show. What do we say, Coop today?
Is we got to worry about today right now? Yeah,
you'd have to say the Buccaneers are playing better than
anyone else in the NFC. Do I think that'll be
the case by the time we get to the playoffs
in January? No, But we do the show today and
right now they're playing very well, and they got a
bunch of guys out and they're not bitching about it.
(42:43):
They're going out and playing ball and they're they're winning.
So and we've done a one to eighty on Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 8 (42:49):
Next, with the Ravens falling to one and five on
the season, at what point do you think the team
should consider shutting Lamar Jackson down never you never know.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
It's the NF This is not the NBA, this is
not Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
No, you don't.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
I hate that. I can't stand shut it down. I
can't stand it.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
The trade deadline is coming up in a couple of weeks.
We'll see if the Ravens start unloading players.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
But I no, don't. If he wants to play an
these healthy playing, how do we do? Way? I want again?
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I'm a winner, one win a chicken dinner.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
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Speaker 3 (43:43):
Probably not, that's sure. Here we go. Time now for
Malors Mountain of Money. And let's welcome in our contestants.
And who do we have?
Speaker 1 (43:52):
This is page down. Let's say hello to d J,
who's in Anchorage, Alaska. Hello DJ, welcome, good.
Speaker 9 (44:03):
Evening, Ben, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
On man, all right, good to have you. What are
you doing Anchorage, DJ?
Speaker 9 (44:09):
I liv an Anchorage for my jobs. I got a
two week on, two week off job on the north
part of the state with an oil and gas company.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
You're rolling in the money man, making the big bunny, right, yeah,
but someday probably right, I guess, so I don't know.
All right, Well, hold on, you're gonna play the game. DJ.
Who do you want to partner up with me? Ben? Coop?
Or if you really want to have some fun Lorena?
Speaker 9 (44:29):
She got the best voice in Late Night Lorena. But also,
no disrespect to you, mister Ben mollershot caller. I'm gonna
go Coop.
Speaker 8 (44:36):
Yeah right right, he knows he gives the superior clue loser.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Let's go to Mac in Washington. Who's gonna play? Hello
Macady Mack, Welcome Mac? Oh Ben, what's going on? Buddy?
You ready to play?
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Sure?
Speaker 8 (44:53):
I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 9 (44:54):
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
All right. What are you doing? Washington? I have a
landscape property manager since late in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Okay, so a long time twenty seven years. All right,
let's do it. Here we go and quickly, Coop?
Speaker 3 (45:10):
What are the categories? Please?
Speaker 8 (45:11):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malard's Mountain of money Usher. Addition,
he turns forty seven years old.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Today.
Speaker 8 (45:16):
The categories are confessions, burn, second round and at a
DJ you were on first, which category would you like?
Speaker 9 (45:26):
Burn?
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Burn?
Speaker 3 (45:27):
All right?
Speaker 4 (45:28):
And then MAC, how about.
Speaker 8 (45:30):
You confession confessions second round or ATA confession second round?
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Confessions?
Speaker 3 (45:40):
Well you say both?
Speaker 8 (45:42):
There are two separate categories. Do you want confessions or
second round?
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Second round?
Speaker 8 (45:46):
Okay, okay, alright, alright, alright, DJ, our category is burn.
These athletes have their houses damaged or destroyed by fire.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He is
a guard. He wanted to championship with the lebron James.
He's on the Mavericks now. Yes, this guy is a
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wide receiver. He just got hurt for the season for
the Dolphins. Yes, this guy was on the seventy six ers,
the Clippers, the Pacers. He always gets hurt everywhere. His
number is thirteen. He was teamed up with Kawhi Leonard
on the Clippers. All right, he is the He is
the current coach of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
Terrible clue.
Speaker 9 (46:30):
Oh that's uh, Jesus.
Speaker 4 (46:33):
He's got initials for his name.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Jesus is coaching the Lakers. All right.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
How about the former MVP for the brewerswing here twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
M VP for a right yell too late thirty points, Coop.
That's a good job, but you solid effort. All right?
Let me if you didn't talk over Mike showt show
us on this show Master, Mack. You ready to go here?
These are some of the greatest fleets drafted in the
second round. Are you ready?
Speaker 9 (47:04):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (47:05):
All right? Forty five seconds?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Run away go a quarterback who won the Super Bowl
with the New Orleans Saints. Yes, the star of the
Denver Nuggets they just won the championship a couple of
years back.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
He's from uh yeah, go ahead there he.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Knows the joker, Oh John cut a bit. Okay, that's
not even close. Running back running back joking, Well, okay,
how about the greatest receiver of all time for the
forty nine ers with Joe Montana in the nineteen eighties,
the gold No, all right, how about the greatest Red
(47:42):
Sox DH of all time? African Americans, an outfielder in
the nineteen eighties, won an MVP Award, Hall of Famer.
Speaker 8 (47:52):
Great job, A thank you. I think I think you
really showed me how it's done.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Absolutely, I was very impressed with that.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
He didn't he just no, he didn't get that ten points.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
You didn't get Jerry Rice at the end there, you
didn't get that.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
Well, Jerry Rice doesn't even on the list, so that
would have been weird.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Well, he said Jim Rice. Though he didn't get Jim right,
I said Jerry didn't get Jim Rise. All right, let's back.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
You're back up again.
Speaker 8 (48:14):
Would you like confessions or at a?
Speaker 4 (48:18):
All right, go ahead, ben hold on, don't start all right?
Speaker 3 (48:23):
All right? These athletes were all born in Atlanta. Here
we go, forty five seconds, run away, go uh, let's
see he won an MVP in Orlando Center. Not Shaquille O'Neal,
though he was on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
Power what's his first name? Yes, there you go, running
back for the Saints right now? Currently start running back
for the New Orleans Saints. He got into a dust
up in Vegas, punched the guy on camera.
Speaker 9 (48:50):
Yeah, but I'm drawing a blank.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Okay, it doesn't help us. M VP for the Carolina Panthers.
He's now he wears funny hats. He's on TV.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Now, yeah, there you go. All right, let's see what
else do we have our greatest nick of all time?
From the nineteen sixties. Oh no, we won't winter. We won.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
We did win win.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
I won the game. I won the game.
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Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yes, we stand on the bully pulpit and we look
down on the sporting world from the peak and we
spit loogis at you. But where are we gonna be?
You know, you know where I'm gonna begin, right?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Is there any question where I'm going to be in
the Come on, Yes, We're going to start out in
the land of the dere We'll start out in Wisconsin.
It was oening night of the National League Championship Series
in the American League is already played two games, although
really just Seattle's played two games. The Bluejays really haven't
played one, but more on that later, but we'll start
with the National League. That was the late game, David
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versus Goliath. That's the building, the build up, David versus Goliath,
and unlike the Bible game, one went to Goliath. So
the Dodgers Brinks truck pulled up there with all that
money and moo la, moo la, moo lah, the big
Blue and Green wrecking crew, the Green from the Money,
the show. Hey Otani, Dodgers drove into Milwaukee. I think
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o Tany was driving the Brinks truck there. It'll playdate
with the brew crew, the ragtag upstart. Don't belong here,
Milwaukee Brewers. Where are you watching?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
There was other stuff going on. We had two football games.
It was good night if you like just sitting on
your ass and getting hemorrhoids flipping around. So perhaps not
Blake Snell. Yes, that Blake Snell. We don't like him.
Blake Snell allowed one base runner in eight eight shutout innings,
and the La bullpen leaked a lot of fluid.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
There was a lot of fluid at.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The crime scene, and by the skin on their chinny
chin chin, the Dodgers barely hold off and they open
up the NLCS with a two to one win over
the Milwaukee Baseball team. Snell struck out not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven,
not eight, not nine.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Ten, ten, He walked none.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Ten, I got no walks, and the game still was
in the balance as it was too nothing LA. They
got an insurance run late, and then in the ninth,
bottom of the ninth the Brewers scored a run off.
What I was told by Roberto the bus driver, and
my friend already is big Dodger fan. I said, listen,
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this Roki Sazaki unhitable. This guy is so good, he's amazing. Well,
he wasn't in this game, and he didn't even make
it out of the inning. Sazaki was touched up and
the bases were loaded. Blake Trining came in in the
middle of all that, and the Brewers bases loaded. Bryce
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Terrain at the plate to end the game and.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Saw wing saw Wing Bara. He struck out.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So Game two, quick turnaround, Game two, best of seven,
Best of seven. NLCS will be right back at it
on Tuesday night. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on on the mound for
the Dodgers. He's good against Freddie Peralta, he's also good
a couple of all stars. That is the pitching match
up there. But the better story is in the losing
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locker room. So that is where we are going to go.
And let us discuss the question for the esteem panel
who is most responsible for Pat Murphy's Brewers losing game
number one of the NLCS. So my thoughts, I've got
military grade body armor, meat ball surgery, and pigeon and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make some.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Delicious cheese curds, because.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Even when the Brewers don't play well, the cheese curds
taste delicious, absolutely delicious. So my first thought on this,
what a gut punch for the brewkery. Now, you know,
I would like to see the Dodgers win, but I
have course, I'm a neutral observer from the bully pulpit here.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But the story here, as we.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Spin the Wisconsin cheese wheel of regret, and there's lots
of regret to go around, it's yes, round and round,
the cheese will goes round and round and round. Amstop,
big chase, Big Chase. It's easy to sit here and
just do the lazy things. Oh, you know, let's just
tip the old cheesehead cap to Blake Snell if you're
the Brewers and said, wow, he went full snell Zilla
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his cheesy nickname, and shoved it down your throat. He
shoved it down your throat. It's easy to say that
that's the lazy river approach. We don't do lazy. Other
people do lazy. We're not doing lazy. We're not good,
but we're not lazy.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And so, as a talk show host looking at this objectively,
we know the story for Milwaukee is way uglier.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Then just say, man, Blake Snow was great. That's it.
You know what wonderful? What if I told you the
Milwaukee Brewers in Game one of the National League Championship
Series actually executed their game plan to a t. They
did well, they lost the game. What are you an idiot?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You're moron.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
That's why you're on overnights. Shot up. You lose there.
Let me explain, I mean, let me explain.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, So the whole plan for the Bruis, they knew
they were not going to get to Blake Snow. Now,
they would have liked to have not been as a
knemic as they were but the plan was much like
the Philadelphia Filis and everyone that plays the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You want it close and get to the bullpen late.
You want a close game, get to the bullpen late.
Have an opportunity against the bullpen. So the Brewers, they
didn't get blown out.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It wasn't seven to nothing going to the bottom of
the night, didning It was a two run game. It
should have been a one run game. But it was
a two run game going to the ninth bottom of
the night. So they did what they wanted. They got
into the bullpen. Close game. They dragged this thing into
the suck bag Dodger bullpen. You realized when Dave Roberts
when he goes to the bullpen, now I know these
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are not really his decisions, and the nerds decide who
pitches and who doesn't pitch it. But Dave Roberts, when
you go to the bullpen, they call to the bullpen. Okay,
It's like he's reaching into a bucket with dark water
and it's filled with piranhas and razor blades, handed blindfolded.
That's the call to the bullpen for the Dodgers. And
this is exactly where the Brewers wanted to be. They
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had the game where they wanted to be, and they
still blow it. That Brewers still blow it. Milwaukee actually
had the Dodgers right where they wanted them again. They
had the tying run on third the winning run on
second base, bottom of the ninth inning. The crowd's going bananas,
and what happens the moment too big? Yeah, you screwed
the thing up at the end there, bottom of the
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ninth and now the bases were lowered by this point.
The very wobbly, the very very wide. You know that
wobbly table. You can go to a restaurant sometimes the
table's kind of wobbley. Doesn't that suck?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
God? That's it? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Can I change tables? The tables? What Blake trining is
the wobbley table. So he comes in on the mound
and he throws it on just a bit inside, just
a little bit. Is a pitch that literally had a
bullseye on bryce terrain of the Brewers. It would have
either hit him in the knee or the lower leg.
The ball was about to give the man a tattoo
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in front of thousands of people in Wisconsin, right there
on the leg and free run batted in tie game,
and even if you don't score another run the rest
of the game, it's all slopped from the Dodger bullpen
and those guys blow. You would have had an advantage.
It would have been the chaos situation. And instead Bryce
Terrain gets on a pogo stick and jumps out of
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the way and it's like he's in dodgeball in Jim class.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
He gets out of the way there and that was it.
That was it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
One pitch later, good afternoon, good evening, and good night,
strike three, swinging body. He also swung on a pitch
out of the strike zone. So that is it. The Brewers,
who were given a gift the Dodgers wanted to give
them that game. They did not want that game. They
did not want that game to dodge. They said, we
want you to have the game Milwaukee. The door was
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WI open, I wide open. And instead instead of charging
through it like some beer soaked dudes that smell like
broughtwurst right there in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They politely step back. They said, listen, we know our
place in the baseball universe. We don't want the game.
You take the game.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And the doctor said, okay, we wanted to give it you,
but you don't want it, Okay, we'll take it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And Pat Murphy's scouting report for game number two is
pretty simple.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Here that it needs the need for the Brewers.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You have the whiteboard in the clubhouse where they talk
about points of emphasis and all that stuff. So if
the bases are loaded and the ball's coming at you,
wear it. I am to wear it like you're at
fashion Week in Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Wear it.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay, you're not made out of glass. You're not going
to shatter if you get hit by a pitch. Do
not flinch, Do not flinch. Take one for the team.
In fact, I recommend that you imagine yourself as a
human pinata.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
And what they need to go and.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Do is get some military grade body armor, slap the
Brewer's logo on it, and pass it out to everyone
that goes up the home plate. That's how the underdog
team gets it done, a team that does not have
the firepower. Just don't flinch, don't flinch. Take one for
the team. And legendary playoff moments don't come from hopping
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like you're on a pogo stick.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Away.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You don't want to look like a scared Kangaroo with
ossiwas in Western Australia. Now the man of the hour
that could have should have tied the game and the
night we'd still be playing right now. Bryce Terrang said, well,
it's just it's it's nature that took its course.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Take aless, you know, it's it sucks.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
It is, it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It is what it is.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Natural reaction to kind of get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And there's a lot.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I mean, there's nothing I could do. I can't go back.
And then I was looking up at the top of
the zone for the sinker sweeper that he's thrown and
he threw meineforcing took off. So yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, it is what it is. You sucked any time
you cannot suck. Okay, I know you can't go back
and do it. But our job is to critic you.
We're the critic. We are in the upper balcony and
we are right now throwing paper planes that we're shooting
them down your direction. Meanwhile, as for the Dawyers who
tried to give the game away but still won, it
is all about Blake Snell.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Now, Brewers manager Pat Murphy said of that performance by
Blake Snell. It was the most dominant performance he's seen.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
He's been in.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Milwaukee for like a decade, I believe close to it,
if not a decade, not all his manager, but his
coach and whatnot. Freddie Freeman was licking the toes of
Blake Snell. He said it was a masterpiece. So the
question is, how do you quantify the dominant performance in
game number one of the LCS by Blake Snell of
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the Doyers. So this is peak twenty twenty five Dodgers
if you want to a preview, a glimpse the Dodgers
in a nutshell game one of the NLCS. It was
smooth jazz, keeping your jazz commercial free right there, right
for eight innings, and then heavy metal, heavy.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Metal wash pit in the ninth fitting.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It was a white knuckle, teeth grinding, no fingernails left,
hold on for dear life situation. It was a roller
coaster ride. The big Blue wrecking crew almost wrecked the
entire game right there. And they're many nights where you're
watching what I'm told you about the all time great teams.
Oh my god, this roster's amazing, and you're watching through
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your fingers, right, you're watching through your fingers like this,
and you're like, oh my god, this is like a horror.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Movie, is what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
But Blake Snell was surgical. It doesn't mean we like him,
but he was surgical.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Was good.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Picasso in Spikes and all that continues to be a
mortal enemy of this show. We remember. We have very
good memories here. The timeless quotes. We were on the
air during the pandemic back in twenty twenty. I had
players I got mine, Bro, well he got his, and Bro,
I'm risking my life.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah, but I think he's okay. Might have died a
couple times on the mount, but he survived. So it's
very nice that Blake can miss three months of work.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Bro, I'm risking my life.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's right, Bro, three months sabbatical during the season while
everyone else is playing. And I was selling the great
Mike harmon my colleague here at Fox Sports. Ready, we
were discussing the thinking about the Dodgers is it's kind
of like you don't even pay attention. They're ruining the
regular season, like the NBA players have ruined the regular
season in pro bouncy ball, Like we don't even pay
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attention to the NBA regular season because the players don't
really care. The Dodgers don't really care about the regular season. Well,
they won all these games.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
There were twelve games under where the expectation was the
gambling market, and they had guys that could have pitched,
but they just wanted to be cautious, sounded up bundan
of caution and all that. They didn't really take it
that seriously.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And yet here we are there, seven wins away from
winning another World Series. And so I guess the lesson
is it we should not pay much attention at all
to regular season baseball. But again back to play stell.
So if you're gonna skip three months, right, three months, fine,
you better be like a Bond villain in October. And
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he has been, and Snow was out there. He was
a surgeon, as we said, The Brewers were the patient there,
and it was a little meatball surgery. The scalpel was
very sharp, very very sharp.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
There.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Now we would have left Blake Snell, and I mean,
what are you saving him for. He's just gonna miss
four months of next season anyway, so you might as
well pitch him to a one hundred and twenty pitches.
He threw one hundred and three. It's the playoffs, and
that was his.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Night, right, This is the way I was talking about.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
In modern baseball, you can't have your night fully because
because of the analytics and all that stuff. But this
was his night. And Dave Roberts goes to the bullpen.
It's not really a strategy when the Dodgers go to
the bullpen. It is playing a Russian roulette. But there
are five bullets in the chamber. So that's not a
great The odds aren't really in your favor there. The
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odds aren't great for you when you're playing that way.
Roki Sazaki, who had been nails right y'all, told me, oh,
this guy's amazing, And well, let's just say he wasn't exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Mariano Rivera in Game one of.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The National League Championship Series, so had a hit, he
gave up a couple of walks, base runners panic in
the streets, and so that's October. It's not supposed to
be easy, they tell us. All right, so you've got
that soft underbelot and any team that wins a championship,
the same thing applies. You have to overcome your kryptonite
for the Dodgers. It continues to be their bullpen and
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exposed nerves yet again for the Dodgers, and a lot
of people that like the team have ulcers watching the
team play. They survive and so they advance. All right, now,
last word, and this is something that people aren't really
talking about. You know, the LA media soft one guy.
I've been in LA a long time. This one guy
in LA media.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
That had balls. He's dead.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
TJ Simers, everyone else is a total fanboy in the
LA media. So what is your level of concern for
the obviously slumping show?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Hey, Oltani, what is your level of good?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So now we don't particularly care what his dominance was
in the regular season, right, we just mentioned the Dodgers
in the regular season. It's just kind of a it's
more of a nuisance than anything, the way they approach
the regular season.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And Otani was great.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
He's most likely going to win another MVP and the
fifty five home runs, the double Nickels for home runs,
and three MVP trophies that he's collected. There, I'm sure,
I sure as hell don't care about the seven hundred
million dollars country. All of that is prologued, it does
not matter here right now in this mammy shoe, Haltani
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is say it with me now, non factor. He's a
non factor for the Dodger and they're still winning.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
They're still winning.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
The guy's batting a buck thirty three, which I think
is a highway somewhere. A buck thirty three in October,
buck thirty three for Otani in October. And you're supposed
to be the man, and that's what you're doing in
the face of the sport and all that. Right now,
he's not, you know, he's he's a birdy. He's a
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stool pitching, is what he is. He's a decoy in
the postseason right now, Otani is a decoy. He didn't
play well in the World Series last year, not playing
well this year, and teams are still walking him out
of an abundance of respect because of his aura. They're
still walking show Haltoni's reputation precedes him and all that.
But when they actually pitched to Otani, there's a hole
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in his swing. In fact, I went back and I looked,
I watched on the on the rebroadcast of the clips online,
and the hole in Otani's swing is actually the size
of a school bus that Roberto the bus drive could
drive through.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's that big a hole, pretty big, pretty big hole there.
He looks lost in some of these at bats. Didn't
if you watch the game or maybe a blind heard it,
but he just looked lost.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
And it's not the Otani that we see from April
until September. This is different Otani. And because the Dodgers
are winning, he looks mortal, right, he looks mortal, but
they're winning, and if they stumble, they lose game two here,
or you lose a couple of games.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
The story becomes a def con one for the talk.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Shows, and you've already got people say, well, what's going
on here?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Like Otani's not like one thirty three. The broadcasters they.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Give him a bubble bath, they give him the manny
and the petty on the TV broadcast, they love him
and playoff baseball exposing those wards.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
He's very similar to Barry Bonds.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
A lot of home runs, and Bonds was a not
known for being very good in the postseason, and he's
getting that October treatment here where there's a lot of
intentional walks, there's nibbling around the zone and and the
Dodgers keep winning, and so this is on the back burner.
I would be clear, this is on the back burner here.
But the malar level of concern, which is the only
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measurement that matters, the mallor level of concern, is we're
at a medium right now in the stove. We're not
going all the way up to full burn. We're at
a medium there, and we will at a moment's notice
go full blown panic, full blown panic when the Dodgers
start losing some of these games because of Tani's not
hitting a one thirty three batting average, and we're three rounds,
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one game into the third round, but we're three rounds
into the playoffs there, and the conversation will flip from
generational superstar to the ghost of October.
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night football twin. But we'll get back to the baseball
if you're on hold on the app out the baseball.
As the Mariners are up two to ozho on Toronto
and the Dodgers barely get by the Milwaukee Brewers in
Game one of the NLCS. And if the Mariners and
Dodgers play in the World Series, uh, the entire sports media,
the the triangle of sports media on the East Coast
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is going to lose their mond.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You I don't want to watch that. Who wants to
watch the Burners and the Dodgers of the world.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Of course they're gonna complain. If Toronto's in there, they're
gonna complain. If Milwaukee's in it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
They're gonna complain. Oh, this is so bad, all right?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Anyway to the football twin Bill on a Monday night,
You've got Troy Aikman and Joe Buck.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
They were doing the Fox Refugees. We're doing the game
on ABC.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
They were there in the Brew Dob Bears, Dob Bears,
fresh off the bye week, trying to snap out of
that hibernation. The Chicago Bears team against the squad formerly
known as the Redskins right there they were the match
up there and Caleb Williams and Dob Bears get the
better of Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
If you did not see the game, as they take
down the Commanders on.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
The final play as time ran out, Chicago defeating Washington
by one point twenty five twenty four on a thirty
eight yard field goal by kicker Jake Moody. Yes, the
same Jake Moody who was fired by the forty nine Ers,
the same Jake Moody who was at loggerheads with his
teammates on the sidelines because he missed so many kicks
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in a forty nine er uniform. Well, he makes the
game winner, as he was the interim kicker there for
the team from Chicago, the Chicago Bears, paced by DeAndre Swift,
he ran for one hundred and eight yards on just
fourteen carries.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I'm told that's pretty good. I'm told that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And also grabbed a pair of receptions for sixty seven yards,
including a fifty five yard catch and run yak and
e yack yards after the catch there for a touchdown
against a very sloppy Washington defense poor tackling. There by
that defensive units of the Bears are over five hundred.
Don't tell anybody, but the Chicago Bears are over five hundred.
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At three and two, They're coming off their bye week,
and they've now extended their winning streak to not one,
not two, but three aps in a row. So the
Bears have won three straight under Ben Johnson. But the
better story is in the losing locker room. So that
is where we will begin, and the question what went wrong?
What went wrong for Jaden Daniels and the Washington football team?
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And I've got Bart Simpson, Hollywood Squares, and Will Smith
and we'll combine all of these things together and make
the Baba Ganoosh.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
We're gonna make the Baba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So to kick off here, this was a night to
absolutely forget for Jadeen Daniels, the Prodigy, the breakout star
of the twenty twenty four NFL season, not just Jaden Daniels,
but the Commanders in general. Jayden Daniels is the headliner
and all that. And my word, and it's a conjoined word,
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but my word for this night, for Jaden Daniels and
the Commanders is self inflicted. Self inflicted is the term
I will use here most games. As a rule, we
have several truisms, if you will, several of the points
that are part of the ethos of the show. Better
stories in the losing locker room and most games are lost,
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not one. These two things are related. You see the
better stories in losing locker room because most of the
time somebody eft up to cost their team the game.
This is a great example of it. This is exhibit
exhibit to exhibit A. If you will exhibit A on this.
You don't need a Zibruder film style frame by frame
breakdown to figure it out. Jade and Daniels, I know
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Halloween's a few weeks away here, we're in the middle
of October, so but Jane Daniels picked up his Halloween
costume a little early. He decided he wanted to be
Bart Simpson, and he said, you know, when you're.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Bart Simpson, you got to hand out candy, and I'm
gonna hand out butterfinger and he used his butterfingers to
give the game to the team from Chicago.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Daniels out there in the rain, rainy night and auditioning
for the remake. I don't know if this is still
in the air the America's Funniest Home Videos that used
to be a think back of the day but is
still on. Really, but it must be America's Funniest Cell
Phone Videos exactly that they had no home video, but
he had Jaden Daniels one interception, he had two fumbles,
(27:33):
lost one of the two fumbles in the game. Also,
his running back Jakobe Krosky Merritt also fumbled on his own.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
So those three.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Hairballs coughed off by the Washington football team gift wrapped
thirteen points. Thirteen points for Eugene in Chicago's Bears. As
they get it done now, they might as well have
left the Amazon package on the porch and then Washington
just invites Caleb Williams to come over there and come
(28:05):
pick it up. Before the porch pirates get it and
he picked up the packages. I like the package. That's
a good package. And here's the thing, Chicago wasn't even
that shark like. This was not the most aesthetically pleasing matchup.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
It was not ian.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Chicago had nine penalty I think we're over eighty yards
in penalties.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
They were begging, begging.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Washington to put the game away, but Washington said, na, nah,
you know we can't have it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
We want you.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Very similar to the end of that Dodger Brewers game
in the NLCS where the Dodgers tried to give the
game away and the Brewers, like Pogo sticked out of
the batter's box and said, we don't want the game.
And the same thing here, the magic carpar It was
a magic carberk. We all agree on that it was
a magic carpet ride. Last season NFC title game. And
there's some turbulence going on now, right there's some turbulence.
(28:58):
This is not a team that looks like a playoff
team right now, just based on what we saw here recently.
They did beat the Chargers, the beaten and broken Chargers
in the previous game, but if you look at Dan
Quinn medicine Man's Washington Commanders. One week they are the
Grandfather clock ticking perfectly, and the next week they're busted
(29:21):
in in a pawn shop. And it goes back and forth,
it goes back and forth. And then on the other side,
the Bears, they come out of the bye week, they're
feeling all good about themselves, right, they win their third
Strade game.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
And we were.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Goofing on Ben Johnson earlier in the year, some turbulence
to begin the seasons, behind the scenes, drama, O rama,
and now he's like, wow, he could be the coach
of the month, you know, why not? Coach of the month?
All excited. So the Bears feeling good about themselves, Washington.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Not so much. Outside of that, we go out to Detroit.
Follow up, follow up.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
To fisticus postgame fallout from the Monday Night Haymakers scene
around the football world, the NFL has decided to punish
Lions safety Brian Branch.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Did you hear about this? Yes? You did? Okay?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Brian Branch maybe not, has been suspended suspended for one game,
one game he will miss without pay for unsportsmanlike conduct
after he decided to get physical with Chiefs wide receiver
Juju Smith Schuster. That set off a Johnny Brook post
(30:36):
game as they were showing on NBC. So the question,
give me your reaction to the Lions safety Brian Branch
being suspended for his postgame haymaker to someone wearing a
helmet by the way in ju Ju Smith Shuster, So
(30:57):
this is all about the island. It's all about the
island us. Everybody's watching these island games. You cannot run,
you cannot hide. They're gonna get you. Bad boys, bad boys,
They're gonna get you. I he can't pretend that nobody
saw it. It wasn't the early TV window when there
(31:18):
were seven other games going on.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
This was a game, standalone game.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
And look, I know there's some I got some feedback
from some of our guys in Michigan who are like,
they'd like the Lions.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I'm like, well, you're not getting the whole story.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Ear Now we figure things out, and some of those
line guys are crying, they're complaining. Well, but Juju Smith
Schuster shoved mister Branch in the back during the game,
and that's what he was upset about, and that's why
he became combative postgame. And my response to that is
(31:51):
two words.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Who cares?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Uh, This isn't recess, It's the National Football League. And
you swing on someone and after the final whistle the referees.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Are leaving the field like this is.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Games overright, Calm down everything, you're in the postgame scrum.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Second.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
The old days, we'd laugh about this, But the modern NFL,
this is corporate NFL. This is the bureaucracy of football,
modern NFL. If you do that, and Brian Branch did
it to the Lions, you're handing the NFL a hammer,
a massive hammer, and you're telling Roger Goodell in the NFL.
You're saying, please hit me, hit me right in the nose,
(32:35):
right in the schnozzle, right between the eyes, hit me
with the hammer. Hit me with the hammer. That's what
you're saying, right, you're saying that. And so the NFL obliged.
They said, okay, we'll hit you in the face with
the hammer. Now, this is not Branch's first rodeo.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's not his first dance here. He's been through this before.
He's got a little bit of a rap sheet. Not
he's not the all time greatest villain in the NFL.
But he's gotten some issues here. So the league loves
to pretend that they're all about sportsmanship. They love that
the optics of the Island games very important here, the
(33:14):
sportsmanship optics, especially in these primetime games.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
And so this is like the Hollywood Squares.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
If you play in one of these games on the
NFL calendar, you are in the center square, even a
safety for the Detroit Lions. And Sunday Night you had Royalty,
had Taylor Swift, the First Lady of America, you had
Caitlin Clark, the Second Lady of America. They were in
the house, everyone's watching, everyone's checking it out right there, right,
(33:40):
and then you do something stupid, and that's going to
cost this guy some real money. Now there's a chance
the NFL vacates the suspension and just finds him a
game check and allows him to play or something like that.
But that is, if he does miss the Lions next game,
Brian Branch will lose seventy six thousand, six hundred and
twenty four dollars for that punch. Have you ever wanted
(34:02):
to punch someone enough where you'd be willing to give
up seventy thousand dollars of your money?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Because he did.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And this isn't about sending a message. It's childish. Even
Branch agrees with that. I thought me saying that. That's
mister Branch of the Lions. He said in himself postgame
he said it was childish. I mean that when a
guy had mins it in the locker room like that,
there's not a lot of debate.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
He said it was childish. It was childish, and he's.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Absolutely cooked cooked in his appeal Dan Campbell. Now, the
franchise charter, as I understand it with the Detroit Lions
is go out there and bite kneecaps, play tough, but
you've got to be disciplined. Okay, So instead this is
more wwe like, it's more along those lines. That's what
(34:52):
this is.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Last thing, dubb Pittsburg. We we go Pittsburgh, PA. Where Steelers
coach Mike Tomlin open league question the Browns and general
manager Andrew Berry for the decision to decide mid season.
You know what Joe flaccoh eh, we don't need Joe Flacco.
(35:14):
And they traded into the Bengals. And so the Steelers
beat the Cleveland Browns on Sunday being pretty good, all right,
and So Mike Tomlin at his newser on Monday, the
issue of now going against Joe Flack of the Steelers
and Bengals play on Thursday Night football.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Hey, here's what Mike Tomlin had a said. Five. It's
interesting one to have you hear it. Here's Tomlin in
his own words.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
You know, to be honest, it was shocking to me.
Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than me or us,
because it doesn't make sense to me to trade a
quarterback that you think enough of to make your opening
day starter to a division opponent that's hurting in that area.
But that's just my personal feeling.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Okay, short and sweet from Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
So again, those comments coming day after the Steelers mollywop
the Browns and their rookie quarterback Dyllan Gabriel, a two
touchdown win for the team that loves Iron City Beer,
and just a couple of days before the Bengals will
take on the Steelers here that game in Cincinnati. Tickets
(36:14):
are available on Thursday night. So the question, what did
you make of Mike Tomlin calling out calling out the
general manager Andrew Berry for trading Joe Flacco in the division.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
So my rear. I loved it. I thought it was
obviously I brought it up on the show. I liked it.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I would don't bring this stuff up. I don't like
I have this other stuff I ignore because it doesn't interest me.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I thought this was great.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Because Tomlin is not exactly known for just blurting out criticism.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
He's a great sound by.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Tomlin's one of my favorite people in sports to listen
to because he speaks not in cliches. He gives you
something fresh, even if it's a cliche wrapped in a different,
different group of words.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
And I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
And so this is not some passive, aggressive, oh gollie
g coach speak that we get from almost all of
these guys. No, this was straight right across the jaw.
That was a straight right right across the jaw kaboom,
kind of like Brian Branch And so I thought it
was God. He used the name, he used his name,
(37:23):
he said his name, say my name, he said his name,
he said the name, he said the GM's name. That's personal,
that is personal. It is It's very rare. This is
a special treat. We don't normally get this. Normally we
get is off the record comments where you know so
and so said a person high up in the Pittsburgh
(37:45):
Steelers Like this could have been reported that way.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Tomlin could have told one of his beat reporters.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well, listen, I don't understand why this happened, and then
the reporter would have said, according to a source close
to the Steelers, they're upset that so and so Joe
Flacco was traded to Cincinnati. But no, Tomlin just he
came on and said it. He said, listen, we're all
in the same division. And he's like he walked into
the AFC North Family Diner and he flipped the table
(38:12):
over like a scene out of a comedy, and he
flipped the table right over there, and he said, Hey, Liz,
what the hell are you doing? What's wrong with you
calling out the Browns like a guy calling his neighbor
an idiot for leaving the keys in his ignition, Like
what are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
And you know you don't just hand a.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Team that's broken like Cincinnati, a division rival, a quarterback
not keeping Mike Tomlin's He's saying the quiet part out loud, right,
we know that. But this is a classic Pittsburgh Ginser
type stuff from tom because the Steelers they kick your
ass on Sunday, that was a domination situation. Then Monday
(38:52):
comes around and now Mike Tomlin planted a terrible towel
right on the front of the lawn and he put
one also. He sent it to the Cleveland brown facility
even though they're not playing the Browns again right away,
and they kicked Cleveland's ass. Dylan Gabriel not very good,
playing like he was out there in the innermurals and
(39:15):
not doing well at the rec center, the rookie quarterback
for the Browns, and tom was like, hey, and one
more thing, by the way, boom, let me pour a
little salt in the wound.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
And he did.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
So that was essentially Mike Tomlin. He was doing some
cosplay as Will Smith. Remember that famous scene that the
oscars a few years ago when he walks up and
in this case, he walked up to Andrew Barry. Of
course we have the microphone.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Tomlin walks up and you know, slap him right across
the face and he walked away, had the mic still
in his hand, just walked away and that was it.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Now to play Devil's Advocate. While we loved what Tomlin
had to say, we totally get why the Bengals did
what they did because they the Bengals needed a quarterback.
From the Browns perspective, though it made sense also to us.
And so I will play devil's advocate and try.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
To give a little bit of at a boy to
Andrew Berry, because what I had heard was Cleveland was
planning on releasing Joe flacko that once they made the
decision to get off Joe Flacco and they were going
to go with Dylan Gabriel and they've got Shdera.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Sanders's like, okay, we're gonna get rid of this guy.
Flacco's done, they were done with him. And so in
this case, they're like, well, we got a ham sandwich.
We don't really like ham sandwich, but we got a
ham HOGI for this guy.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
And we were not even going to get that.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Because we're just going to put him on waivers, and
so we got something instead of nothing.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
It's not a great sandwich, but we'll take it. And
all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
The optics are are pretty bad, I'll agree, the optics
are not great.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Right. The training your former.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Number one quarterback Joe in the division to a desperate
division rival who lost their quarterback for the season in
Joe Burrow in mid October earlier than that does not
look great, rights, that's Factory of Sadness Vintage.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
One oh one right there. But meanwhile, Tomlin's in the
corner there and he's just sipping Iron City beer and
he's sharpening the blade, Mike Tomlin and getting ready for
that Thursday night game in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we gore? How
about that?
Speaker 2 (41:27):
To the third degree, This is one gets great.
Speaker 8 (41:35):
The Seattle Seahawks knocked off the previously foign one Jacksonville Jaguars,
and Sam Donald is looking better each week.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
With his new team.
Speaker 8 (41:42):
Then do you think it's safe to say that Donald's
resurgent with the Vikings last year wasn't they fluke?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
No, it is not, because the thing he did with
the Vikings is at the end of the year he
rode the vomit comet and so yeah, he's playing well,
I'll give him that right now. The real measuring stick, though,
for Sam Donald, the acid test is late season games.
Late season games when you lost a couple of offensive linemen, Like,
he's fine if everything's perfect. When things aren't perfect, he collapses,
(42:08):
And so I don't trust him. He's playing well, I'll
give him that right now, but I still don't trust him.
Speaker 8 (42:12):
Next, So, the Tampa Bay Bucks have been hit with
a number of injuries to playmakers this season, but that
hasn't stopped them from going five and one to start
the year. Now, Ben, they have the best record in
the NFC, But are they the best team?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Well, we do the show. What do we say, Coop today?
Is we got to worry about today right now? Yeah,
you'd have to say the Buccaneers are playing better than
anyone else in the NFC. Do I think that'll be
the case by the time we get to the playoffs
in January? No, But we do the show today and
right now they're playing very well, and they got a
bunch of guys out and they're not bitching about it.
(42:43):
They're going out and playing ball and they're they're winning.
So and we've done a one to eighty on Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 8 (42:49):
Next, with the Ravens falling to one and five on
the season, at what point do you think the team
should consider shutting Lamar Jackson down never you never know.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
It's the NF This is not the NBA, this is
not Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
No, you don't.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
I hate that. I can't stand shut it down. I
can't stand it.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
The trade deadline is coming up in a couple of weeks.
We'll see if the Ravens start unloading players.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
But I no, don't. If he wants to play an
these healthy playing, how do we do? Way? I want again?
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I'm a winner, one win a chicken dinner.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
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what it takes to get to the top?
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Probably not, that's sure. Here we go. Time now for
Malors Mountain of Money. And let's welcome in our contestants.
And who do we have?
Speaker 1 (43:52):
This is page down. Let's say hello to d J,
who's in Anchorage, Alaska. Hello DJ, welcome, good.
Speaker 9 (44:03):
Evening, Ben, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
On man, all right, good to have you. What are
you doing Anchorage, DJ?
Speaker 9 (44:09):
I liv an Anchorage for my jobs. I got a
two week on, two week off job on the north
part of the state with an oil and gas company.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
You're rolling in the money man, making the big bunny, right, yeah,
but someday probably right, I guess, so I don't know.
All right, Well, hold on, you're gonna play the game. DJ.
Who do you want to partner up with me? Ben? Coop?
Or if you really want to have some fun Lorena?
Speaker 9 (44:29):
She got the best voice in Late Night Lorena. But also,
no disrespect to you, mister Ben mollershot caller. I'm gonna
go Coop.
Speaker 8 (44:36):
Yeah right right, he knows he gives the superior clue loser.
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Let's go to Mac in Washington. Who's gonna play? Hello
Macady Mack, Welcome Mac? Oh Ben, what's going on? Buddy?
You ready to play?
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Sure?
Speaker 8 (44:53):
I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 9 (44:54):
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
All right. What are you doing? Washington? I have a
landscape property manager since late in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Okay, so a long time twenty seven years. All right,
let's do it. Here we go and quickly, Coop?
Speaker 3 (45:10):
What are the categories? Please?
Speaker 8 (45:11):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malard's Mountain of money Usher. Addition,
he turns forty seven years old.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
Today.
Speaker 8 (45:16):
The categories are confessions, burn, second round and at a
DJ you were on first, which category would you like?
Speaker 9 (45:26):
Burn?
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Burn?
Speaker 3 (45:27):
All right?
Speaker 4 (45:28):
And then MAC, how about.
Speaker 8 (45:30):
You confession confessions second round or ATA confession second round?
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Confessions?
Speaker 3 (45:40):
Well you say both?
Speaker 8 (45:42):
There are two separate categories. Do you want confessions or
second round?
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Second round?
Speaker 8 (45:46):
Okay, okay, alright, alright, alright, DJ, our category is burn.
These athletes have their houses damaged or destroyed by fire.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He is
a guard. He wanted to championship with the lebron James.
He's on the Mavericks now. Yes, this guy is a
(46:07):
wide receiver. He just got hurt for the season for
the Dolphins. Yes, this guy was on the seventy six ers,
the Clippers, the Pacers. He always gets hurt everywhere. His
number is thirteen. He was teamed up with Kawhi Leonard
on the Clippers. All right, he is the He is
the current coach of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
Terrible clue.
Speaker 9 (46:30):
Oh that's uh, Jesus.
Speaker 4 (46:33):
He's got initials for his name.
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Jesus is coaching the Lakers. All right.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
How about the former MVP for the brewerswing here twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
M VP for a right yell too late thirty points, Coop.
That's a good job, but you solid effort. All right?
Let me if you didn't talk over Mike showt show
us on this show Master, Mack. You ready to go here?
These are some of the greatest fleets drafted in the
second round. Are you ready?
Speaker 9 (47:04):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (47:05):
All right? Forty five seconds?
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Run away go a quarterback who won the Super Bowl
with the New Orleans Saints. Yes, the star of the
Denver Nuggets they just won the championship a couple of
years back.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
He's from uh yeah, go ahead there he.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Knows the joker, Oh John cut a bit. Okay, that's
not even close. Running back running back joking, Well, okay,
how about the greatest receiver of all time for the
forty nine ers with Joe Montana in the nineteen eighties,
the gold No, all right, how about the greatest Red
(47:42):
Sox DH of all time? African Americans, an outfielder in
the nineteen eighties, won an MVP Award, Hall of Famer.
Speaker 8 (47:52):
Great job, A thank you. I think I think you
really showed me how it's done.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Absolutely, I was very impressed with that.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
He didn't he just no, he didn't get that ten points.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
You didn't get Jerry Rice at the end there, you
didn't get that.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
Well, Jerry Rice doesn't even on the list, so that
would have been weird.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
Well, he said Jim Rice. Though he didn't get Jim right,
I said Jerry didn't get Jim Rise. All right, let's back.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
You're back up again.
Speaker 8 (48:14):
Would you like confessions or at a?
Speaker 4 (48:18):
All right, go ahead, ben hold on, don't start all right?
Speaker 3 (48:23):
All right? These athletes were all born in Atlanta. Here
we go, forty five seconds, run away, go uh, let's
see he won an MVP in Orlando Center. Not Shaquille O'Neal,
though he was on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
Power what's his first name? Yes, there you go, running
back for the Saints right now? Currently start running back
for the New Orleans Saints. He got into a dust
up in Vegas, punched the guy on camera.
Speaker 9 (48:50):
Yeah, but I'm drawing a blank.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Okay, it doesn't help us. M VP for the Carolina Panthers.
He's now he wears funny hats. He's on TV.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Now, yeah, there you go. All right, let's see what
else do we have our greatest nick of all time?
From the nineteen sixties. Oh no, we won't winter. We won.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
We did win win.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
I won the game. I won the game.
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