October 17, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about if it was a mistake for Pat Murphy and the Brewers to go with an "opener" game, if there is anything to nitpick about the Dodgers performance, if the Tigers should pay Tarik Skubal $400 million, and much more!
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Talking Bays Ball.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number one, our one of the Ben Maler Show.
Welcome in on this Friday, the seventeenth day of October,
and today we wax loquacious about Major League Baseball. I
did want to say the Fifth Hour podcast is coming
up later today. I was inspired. There's some stories I'm
ranting and raving on today's podcast, you know, just random
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things off the top of my mind. But I was
inspired by something the Boston Celtics did. It triggered a
memory from years ago, very good memory I wanted to
share with you that we'll talk about in the fifth
Hour podcast. And some other random factoids. But here in
hour number one was the opener a tactical error for
Pat Murphy's brew crew as they are now on life support.
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The Brewers are down three in the National League Championship Series. Also,
with the Dodgers being in the driver's seat, is there
anything at all to nitpick about the Dodgers' performance in
the National League Championship Series is as they are dominating
in the playoffs, eight and one record in the postseason. Also,
if you were the Detroit Tigers, would you pay Trek
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Scooble four hundred million dollars. The Tigers offered him about
two hundred million dollars less than that last year. It's
a gigantic pay gap. We'll talk about that as well.
Here it is our number one.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It was an odd brew. If you will.
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back at it. And so I was at the intersection.
I could have made a right turn, I could have
made a left turn. I decided to go right down
the middle and not make any turn. So I made
that editorial decision based on the feedback that I have gotten.
We had a football game it was supposed to suck,
that didn't suck. That was actually a decent game. And
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so we'll get to that at some point throughout the night.
Obviously the American League, which wasn't much of a game.
We're gonna start in the National League, which also wasn't
much of a game. But we got to start somewhere,
and we have a blank audio canvas, four hours of
talk radio to take us through the overnight hours here.
So our lead is in La A, sun soaked there.
There's nothing like getting people into Dodgers Stadium in the
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middle of downtown Los Angeles, hit rush hour. Great scheduling,
great scheduling. They do it for television, So sun soaked,
late afternoon there in the middle of rush hour traffic.
The maz Now he didn't start because the Brewers are idiots,
but they he was the guy leading the Brewers traveling
circus in due Chavez Ravine in a gotta have it
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and this really was a gotta have it game for
the Brewers, a matchup with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Game three.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You blew the first two games at home. You gotta win,
Milwaukee looking to dig out of a hole.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
How did that go? Well?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
If you watched it, you know, oh what happened, But
maybe you were busy doing something. I don't know what
you're up to. Tommy Tanks delivered Tommy Edmund, the hero
from last year's playoffs in the NLCS, to Tommy Edmund.
Here the tie breaking single off the rookie flamethrower Jacob
Mazeroski the mizz in their two run, two run sixth inning,
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and the Dodgers able to out maneuver the brew Crew
three to one. And so there's a very fat woman
who's warming up her vocal cords right now as the
Doyers have a three games to none lead in the
best of seven National League Championship Series. That tells me
that the Dodgers need to win one more game if
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my malor math is correct. And so the Dodgers, who
underachieved during the regular season used load management, left starting
pitchers out for months at a time. Was a rag
tag lineup much of the regular season. They needed so
much to win a wild Card series against the low
Cincinnati Reds to start out the postseason marathon. And here
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we are, the Dodgers have played nine playoff games. And
all those really sexy stories that were written before the
baseball season about how great the Dodgers were, well, they're
looking like it now. They didn't look like it in
the regular season for much of it. With the Dodgers
are now in position. They're in the pole position to
become the first defending champion to reach the World Series
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in sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I was barely.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Alive the last time this happened. No defending champion has
gotten back to the Fall Classic since the Ryan Howard
Jimmy Rollins Philadelphia Phillies back in nine and no team's
won consecutive. You gotta get all the way back to
the nineties. Holy crap on a cracker, Batman, you got
to go back to the nineties. The Tory Jeter Bernie
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Williams Yankees.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
From ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
To two thousand, the Yankees took three championships in a row.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
The better story though, is in the losing locker room,
although barely the better story at this point, barely.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
The better story.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So Brewers manager Pat Murphy, who I kind of like
this guy, right, It seems like my kind of guy.
He seems like the kind of guy you want to
hang out with. Seems like it seems like a good dude.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He's taking a.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Lot of crap, a lot of backlash. If you saw
the game, you don't what I'm talking about. He made
the decision, and I'm sure this wasn't his decision. It
was somebody ahead of him, but they made the decision
collectively to start Aaron Ashby as the opener, and that
that's pretty good jumping off points. I think we'll start
with that, so let us discuss the question. Was the opener,
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if you will, a tactical error by Pat Murphy and
the brew crew in game number three of the NLCS.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So my thoughts was about, that's right. I've got I've got.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Warner Brothers, Doogie Howser MD and refurbished iPhone, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make fireballs, because it's gonna take fire balls
for the brew crew to come back to answer the question.
Was this strategy of going with the opener, meaning Aaron
Ashby a tactical error. Now you could say this is
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after the fact, but I'm nodding my head. Yes, I
have long died on the mountain of despising these openers.
Well you're such a boomer. Well I'm not a boomer. However,
back in my day we call this a spring training game.
Now they came up with a term for it. So, well,
it's an opener, you know, because we're smarter than everyone.
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We're the smartest people in the room. Okay, So Pat
Murphy and the Brewers Nerds got cute. They started as
cat Aaron Ashby as the opener, and it went exactly
how you would expect things to go when you let
the analytical department cosplay and do the strategy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Here he got how many outs? One out?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
One out, one more out than you got, one more
out than I got. Before all of a sudden, Pat
Murphy's oh, you know what I gotta I gotta get
this guy out of the game.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Uh yeah, one out.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And then they brought them is in Jacob Mazaraski, who
was thrown really pretty much into a blender.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Uh, here you go. The whole point of the opener
is like, Okay, we're gonna get you in. There be
a soft landing. Uh no. Uh. Now, the Brewers are averaging,
if my math is correct, one run a game.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
In the league Championship Series. They were one of the
top offensive teams in baseball this year. And starting Aaron
Ashby not the greatest solution, not the way to solve
the Rubik's QB here for the Brewers. The again, the
point is you start the opener, you give the the
bulk guy, because why not a soft spot to come in.
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But instead, as we said Pat Murphy, uh, the Brewers
lit the match and they dropped it on the bullpen
there and the dirty little secret when you run the
openers out, it is unbecoming in the postseason. It's just embarrassing, right,
And the Dodgers have done it, the Yankees have done it.
It's just embarrassing. It's usually because you have a roster
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that is devoid of elite talent. Right, you don't have
the horses. You just don't have the horsepower, and the
Brewers don't.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Lost Brandon Woodrif to injury and so that's fine. But
the openers, I don't like them anything outside of the
Cactus League of the grape Fruit League, if you want
to make an argument.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
They work in April and May.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Okay, not in the National League Championship Series, not against
a real lineup.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And I don't think the Dodgers did anything special.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
People are like, oh, I told you malor the Dodgers
are gonna gonna flip the switch, and they.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Flipped the switch.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I mean, I don't think the offense is all that good. Actually,
through sixteen pitches. Sixteen pitches, what a bleeping joke.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Got one out, as we said.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And the Milwaukee plan, well that was in the toilet,
that was in the crapper before most most of the
people had gotten through the traffic into the ballpark.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And it's the classic.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Move, I'm smarter than you, and I'm smarter than everyone
else who's in this little.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Room we're in and all that now even more embarrassing. Though.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The brew crew had the dream set up, so he said, well,
it didn't work out with Ashby, and the miz came
in and he actually did a pretty good job for
a while. The thing that blows you away about this, though,
is you figured the Brewers offense hadn't been very good,
and here's an opportunity because glass Noow did not make
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it deep, deep into the game, and so you were
given a lot of time against the Dodgers' bullpen, and
the brew crew had an atomic elbow dropped on them
by the Dodger bullpen. Who saw that coming. You wouldn't
trust those guys to guard a hot dog stand.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And they went out there and did fine.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
They twisted the Brewers lineup into pretzels, and so three
games into the National League Championship Series and everything the
Brewers had been pesky, determined, annoying, all that good stuff.
Now it's like a Warner Brothers cartoon, Pepe the pew
pu What stinks?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Milwaukee?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Three runs, nine hits, twenty seven innings of baseball. William
Contreras hitless in Game three for Milwaukee, part of a
two for thirty three combined performance for the likes of
Christian Yelich and Bryce Terrang who's still pogo sticking out
of the way of a pitch in Game one that
would have tied the game and would have allowed the
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Brewers to go win the game in xt ratings, but
alas he decided not to get hit by the pitch
and so just two for thirty three a couple of singles.
Andrew Vaughn went zero for four with the strikeout and
left some runners in scoring position there. So I believe,
if I'm not mistaken, he does not have a hit
in the NLCS. So the Brewers right now are drowning.
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They're not drowning in the Pacific Ocean. They're drowning in
flop sweat. The lack of discipline at the plate and
the fact that they've got guys chasing pitches out of
the zone outside the strike zone a stark contrast when
you juxtapose what they had been in the regular season
with plate discipline, and again the word is unbecoming.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now turning the page on that.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
From the LA side of things, the question is there
anything anything at all? The Dodgers are eight and one
in the playoffs, they're three to zero in the NLCS.
Is anything we can nitpick about the Dodgers' performance? So,
after a thorough deliberation, I've made the editorial decision that
there is there's one thing that is not right about
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the Dodgers, and here it is. You know what, I'm
about to say, do you know, No, you don't. Okay,
the Dodgers are playing such dominant baseball right now, it's
bad television. It's just bad TV. You've got Blake Snell.
Bro I'm risking my life bra Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasner,
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who wasn't as good as those guys, but collectively they
have gone doogie howser MD and they have put the
people watching the NLCS into a medically induced coma. Watching
the Milwaukee Brewers attempt to hitting Dodgers' er now from
starters is under two.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It's barely a run and a half.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It has been a master class, an absolute master class
on starting pitching, the Dodgers' rotation.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And the bullpen.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
In the bullpen, I can't believe I'm saying that the
bullpen if it lights out. The Brewers collectively have a
one forty three batting average. I didn't play major league baseball.
I don't think that's good. I don't think that's good.
Their op on base plus slugging is two to three,
which I also think is not good. The slugging percentage alone.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Is at a buck ninety, at a buck ninety and
the three runs.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So the Dodgers are hitting on all cylinders and it's
not a great product to watch right now. And it's
just a matter of when. It's not a matter of
if they get back to the World Series. And while
Toronto and Seattle appear to be in a catfight, the
Dodgers can soon sneak in a nice vacation, go to
Hawaii if they want, for a couple of days before
the Fall Classic. Now, teams take a three to nothing
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lead in any best of seven postseason series have gone
on to win forty out of forty one times. That
is a ninety seven point six percent success rate. Thirty
one sweeps out of the forty one. Now, the one
time that didn't happen. If you're old enough to have
remembered way back, I can't believe it's been twenty one years.
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Holy crap, But the four American League Championship Series, there
was this team called the Boston Red Sox, and they
had this thing called the Curse of the Bambino, and they.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Did the thing they weren't supposed to do at the time.
They weren't supposed to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
They came all the way back and they got it
done Red Sox against the Yankees that year. There was
this little pesky guy the Red Sox picked up in
a cash deal from the Dodgers who was a pinch
runner named Dave Roberts, who sparked the Red Sox comeback
with a steal off Mariano Rivera. I don't know what
happened to Dave Roberts. I don't know what he's doing now.
I think he turned into a sock puppet. All right,
(15:11):
last word. So we're gonna move away from the NLCS
because there's not much more to dissect. Interesting story out
at Detroit where the Tigers have been excommunicated from the playoffs.
They lost to Seattle, and now there's some chatter that
the Tigers are in financial peril as they have to
close the gap.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And oh what a gap.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It is the largest gap in negotiation history. That is,
if they plan on retaining long term, long term these
services of dominating, dominating starting.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Pitcher Terrek School. So I saw this, I thought this
was interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Now, the story bouncing around the pinball machine is that
Detroit offered Schooble less than the one hundred and seventy
million that the Red Sox signed Garrett Crochet two, So
they wanted to pay him less than one hundred and
seventy which seems.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Like a lot of money to me, I know.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And the Schooble, Now, the starting point for Schooble is
four hundred million dollars. Now that means, if you do
the calculation, the Tigers and the player are two hundred
million dollars off in the negotiation. So the question you
make the call, if you were the Tigers, would you
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pay one starting pitcher in this case, Derek Scougle four
hundred million dollars plus. Now we always preface these things
by saying that it's not my money. It's not And
you can crunch the numbers and figure out how many
how many advertising dollars do you have to make from TV?
How much money do you have to make from radio?
(16:48):
How much money do you have to make selling hot
dogs to make it work. I look at it and
my eyes get really large, and I just say, well,
that's a boondoggle, is what that is.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That's just a financial boom doggle And I wouldn't do it.
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Scooble, to me, has a pre existing condition, and the
fact that he's got, he's got already had elbow issues
and arm issues.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
He's fun to watch, he's great to watch.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
He's got the gas and the breaking pitches and all
that has got nasty stuff, as the kids say.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But he will turn twenty nine next.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Month, which is not old in the real world, but
in sports it's kind of middle aged. He's already had
the TJ, the Tommy John surgery and been through the
operating room. So that's not just a blank piece of
paper situation. This is a refurbished iPhone. It's like, oh right,
he had the Tommy John schooble. He's pitching very well.
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So think about like a refurbished iPhone. You wouldn't pay
full price for a refurbished iPhone. The iPhone has a
crack screen, and that does say certified pre owned. It
says that now the Komodo Dragon in the room, the
Komodo Dragon room scooble is not a whatever it takes warhorse,
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And there's nothing nobody liked that in baseball. But like,
if I could justify it, here's how I would justify. So, Okay,
I'm gonna pay this guy four hundred million because I
know if I need him to go one hundred and
twenty one hundred and thirty hundred and forty pitches. He
will do that, and he'll throw one hundred and thirty
pitches into that cold Michigan night sky like a modern
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day Jack Morris going out there, big balls and all that.
But no, the Tigers in the American League Divisional round.
He started two games and the Tigers lost both. They
lost both in large part because he was a ninety
nine one hundred pitch guy and ninety nine hundred and
one pitches that's it and has to come out of
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the game because he's very delicate. And for four hundred
million dollars, you better give me Shakespeare on the mound
and go above and beyond, go the extra mile and
the Monster contract. I know the Monster contracts are always
lost leaders.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You're not gonna make money on it, you know, just not.
You're not paying for the whole ride.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You're paying for the front seat at the amusement park,
and you're hoping the thing doesn't break down halfway through
the Loop de Loube on the roller coaster. Somebody, we know,
somebody's gonna do it. As I sit here and say, oh,
I'm not gonna pay him. Yeah, it's not my money.
I wouldn't pay him, and I'm skeptical whether the Tigers
are gonna pay him, which means if they're not gonna
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pay him, then all of a sudden, the trade thing
becomes a possibility. You never get fair return on investment
with those kind of things, so that's a problem. But
there's some owner who's going to light that match and
toss it on the pile of money and make sure
gasoline is all over it and hope the baseball gods
don't turn the schoobal elbow into or agami by year
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four of the contract. So again, we love the player,
it's not my deal. I just think any starting pitcher
the wait baseball's played today, where the value is placed
on the bullpen, I just I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Ald. What about the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Okay, the Dodgers have had a good run here in
the NLCS, and it's a little different for them because
they've gotten money to burn because of how they gouge
their fans with tickets and all that and parking at
Dodger Stadium. But there's a little different situation anyway, It
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Toronto is dead up. Now they've squared the books on
the Mariners again, more evidence that momentum is bull crap
because y'all told me that they had all the momentum.
Oh they can't be stopped, oh my, oh my, until
they got back home.
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They must hit their families.
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the money and ran to the day, shift and he
has the he has the gall to send a message
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critiquing the opening mallet Monologue chris And, houston who sold
out he's a sellout to the day, shift, says, Wow,
maller you're such a Dodger homer read the room, Dummy.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Nobody Outside la cares about The.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Dodgers, WELL i would argue that you reacting the way
you did is a win for. Me so moron the
houtzpu that you have not quite as much hutzbu as
when you called up the night the astros cheating scandal was,
exposed and then proceeded to tell us it was all,
fake that it was a it was all photoshopped and all.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
That that's still one of the all time great.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Moments anthony writes and, Says i'm A Cincinnati homer and
we love the Meta muso bowl go. Bangles all, right
we'll talk about that a little bit. Later Suer Mark
Steve wrightson, says this run of dominance in the playoffs
by The dodgers this year is just further proof that
what they did last, year winning three playoffs series with
only two starting pitchers was probably the most impressive playoff
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run in baseball. History, NO i would argue whatever Stuff
Walker buehler was. USING i don't know what he was,
doing But i'm sure it was all. Kosher Walker, bueler
who had been absolutely god awful before the playoffs and
then looked Like Oral herscheiser in some of those playoff
performances last year for The, dodgers and then this season
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with The Red sox went back to being a suck bag.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Player, man. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Eh all, Right The Mexican John dutton, Says, ben all
the stuff you're saying About Trek, skougle the tiger pitcher
who was gonna try to get forwarded to, MEN i
guarantee you you won't be saying that when The dodgers
sign him next. Season, YEAH i promise, you The Mexican John,
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DUTTON i do not change my.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
TAKES i die NEVER i lock.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
IN i am a, taurus Ask, ANDREA i Am i'm the,
bull hard, headed full of, bull AND I i serve Bull,
okay very, stubborn very very. Stubborn absolutely nature boy, SAYS
i guess you have to admit That dodgers have all the.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
MOMENTUM i know what you're trying to, do nich.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Boy it's not gonna. Work it's it's not going to.
Work So i'm not even gonna engage. You you fee
me In, chicago Says Hey, MALLARD a plus and cheesebagger
on The mallard, Monologue bernie The brewer is laying bloodied
on skid.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Row great work by The.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Doyers, yeah we Have cub fans For. DODGERS a lot
Of cub. FANS i don't know About. TREE i know
you fee. ME a lot of The chicago cub fan
base have united as one with The dodgers because The
Milwaukee brewers after the divisional round took their celebratory photo
on the.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
FIELD i love how these.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Teams i'll take the team photo on the field after
they win a playoffs. Series, anyway they took a team
photo and they had THE l sign like At. Wrigleyfield
you know they have THE w when they, win THE
l when they lose or so they had that and
mocking mocking The, cubs and so The cub fans are
devastated by. That and thereafter it late night drug tester
rights and says The dodgers can't sweep The. Brewers the
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time off will cause them to be rusty for The World.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Series, yeah they should lose a. Game lose The otani,
game is what he.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Says Ferg dog rights in From soca that winter wonderland Of.
FULLERTON i Hope Ferg, dog you've got your snow tires
from Tire raq because the winter's coming. Here we know
it gets very cold and snowy there In, Fullerton Ferg dog,
says after getting swept out of the playoffs by The dodgers,
tomorrow at least The brewer fans can always tell themselves
they still won the series six.', four.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah sure? Why?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Not absolutely shane And de moine rights, in, Says, HEY
ben i agree with you about momentum. In sports, THAT
said i don't care what happened last night or the.
NEXT game i care about the innings in front Of
the mariners. That night he says he's not concerned all.
Right now the nurse writes in, nurse JOCKEY who i
(30:16):
believe Is In KANSAS city i think He's In. Kansas city,
but anyway he Says the dodgers are the New evil
empire and the fans love to. Hate them they're The. New,
YANKEES yeah i don't disagree.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
With that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I'M fine i Mean. The dodgers if you're Not a,
dodger fan you should Hate. THE dodgers i would expect.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You to Hate.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
The DODGERS and i flashed back to it WAY before
i worked Here At Fox sports radio in, another LIFE
when i was doing stuff With the dodgers and they
never won. LIKE this, i mean they were MEDIOCRE when
i Was doing, dodger TALK but i remember ranting, and
raving And the dodgers had another crappy OFFSEASON.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
When i was. Doing it they didn't sign anybody. Of note.
You know it, was like oh, my god what are?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
They DOING and, I said i have, a dream, YOU
know i give THE whole i Ripped Off Martin luther.
KING speech i have, a dream, YOU know i want
to See the dodgers be Like.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
The, YANKEES yeah i want to see them. Go on
of course it didn't happen till LONG after i was done.
Doing that, But, yes lorena you're excited about, this, YES
yeah i just wanted because everyone. The listeners, you know he,
was saying it's only PEOPLE in la Like. The dodgers
that is the most False statement i've ever heard in.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
MY life i have.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
People messaging Me from Japan. And china, that's, right man, we're,
big bro. Don't know dodgers are for everybody the way
People from japan Like the.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Dodgers here did you hear that they have an actual
broadcast that during their commercials it just goes To show
hayes face like they're just looking at him in the dugout.
Doing nothing he's.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Just, killing yeah that's they Have. The tanya. They're, OBSESSED
crazy i got a. New, phenomenon yeah baseball is like
a new Sport. In japan they.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Never had. It's, amazing yes it's it's, absolutely, wild crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Crazy uh some of you have Asked if marlin's man is.
In town He's. In seattle as FAR as I Know,
MARLIN'S man i was hoping he would BE. IN la
i did see him On The toronto seattle game and
he was sitting not right behind home plate but a
little to. The left and he did send me some
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Photos from seattle and it appears they have a world
class spread for the really rich one percenters behind. Home
play and there's a lot of very wealthy People in
seattle because Of the internet money. Up there costco's. Headquartered,
there microsoft there's some major Companies, in seattle and they
have a REALLY nice. Vip section and as an, Added
Bonus marlin's man sent me a photo he got With The,
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mariner moose one of the iconic mascots and all not just,
a Moose The mariner moose just amazing and one of
the all time great bloopers At, the Kingdome The mariner
moose who was injured and it was it made for
an amazing highlight when mascots.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Get hurt and years ago you can look it's on.
The Internet The mariner moose fractured his. Right ankle, but,
it's uh it's.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So funny when the when the mascot takes a spill
because they've got the fun costume on and you can't.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Be upset you think it's, all stick you think they're all.
Acting right but it was. So good oh did yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
He was he was on the inline skates behind a
four wheeler and it, Was like i'm pretty sure it
was At. THE kingdome i think it was At. The
kingdome it was like the. Fifth, inning, yeah yeah you
got to. Say it So the mariner moose crashed into
the left field wall and fractured, his angel which as
(33:44):
good as, that is as funny as, that IS and
i really do believe. That's funny not the greatest mascot
blooper of. All time you Know where i'm going, with, This, Right,
Yep denver colorado is still.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
So.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
The nuggets it's only funny after, the, FACT though.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I know So Before denver Nuggets. CAME rocky i Think, it's,
rocky right the mascot For. The nuggets they took, you
know they had him on. A line they brought him
down from the from the roof of, the arena right
on a on a.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Bungee, cord right it brought. Him down they have a.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Pyrotechnic show they've got all these hot cheerleaders in their
little out shaking, their, asses Right and rocky had have.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Passed out.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
It looked like they were dropping his carcass and the
cheerleaders are.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Cheering the life bodies being lord from. The rafters oh,
my god it was. So good.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
One of the all, time great one of the all time.
Great bloopers THAT and i. Still laugh the OTHER blooper
i laugh at is you Remember the JaVale.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
McGee one when he was playing For The, Washington.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Wizards, and uh this is a. Random one this is
like shack a fool. Years ago and the ball was.
Turned over all nine players are running. One direction java
McKee's running the other direction away from the ball to
the other side of.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
The court. It was it Was absolutely uh. It was
it was just, just great just.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Absolutely, GREAT anyway i did not expect to bring mascot,
stories up but here.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
We are let's go to.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
The phones Mike in tucson. Is, Up, Hello Mike. Welcome
mikey you're on, the air in the. Air Everywhere, Hello, Mike.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Hey mike first, Of all Brown the dodgers. Right out
there's a Lot of. Dodgers haters Bild the dodgers been
playing chess when everyone's. Playing checkers THE contract Mlb in
japan their. Worldwide famous all that money they're printing money,
(36:05):
they have they Surpassed Rad soce. Yankee money dodgers can
do whatever. They want they're but hate them, or not
they're the smartest person in. The room they got the,
best players did, it strategically the. Prod, THEM now i
think they can be touched and you could hate them or.
LOVE them i had to take stuff to Take first.
(36:27):
Dodgs problems but you can't Hee. The dodgers they were,
smarter though Honey contract no one ever thought. About that
they did it opening UP the Mlb. In japan they
got all these Fans in. Japan worldwide they're getting all
this MONEY and i think men daughters are the cream of.
The CROP and i think they Surpassing the Yankees. Brad
sox but THAT'S something i. CALLED then i called it
(36:50):
because then versus a petty you're you're with when you're
with your Boy that i've been hitting, every week there's
a nice. LITTLE ball I Sent jessin cooper eighteen dollars
a Night to bengal straighto. My PARLAY but, I need
i need to be, With.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
You.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Ben yeah Are you are You. Saying dodgers you Can't.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
EVEN dodgers i know all these daughter, haters ship but
there's a pre.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
The.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Crop, wat.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah we're on the Radio thirty you. Can't CAN'T and
i know. We're friends you know we talk because that's how, Men.
Talk lorena. We're. Men okay do you understand we're in?
Your mouth we.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Have testosterone this is how. Men, TALK OKAY I i
I let can you LET the fcc know this is how.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Men? Talk please can you let. Them know i'll send. A,
Message okay but Is There?
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Tom looney you, need, me man you need me right
so you.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Want me To Fire? Tom looney, and uh and here?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Are?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
YOU okay i.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
HAVEN'T received i. Haven't received i'm.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
DOING it i.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Don't Know.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
And i've been surviving off part ladies.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You've been that's not a good way to live. Your life.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Right Now the dodgers, right now so the best team.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Ever built they're not the first time to stop.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Yeah, the bill but, they're smart the strategic what they've.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Done are, Europeion HERE so i, gotta go. Thank, you yeah,
come on what Do You david vasse with? That propaganda,
come on give me, A, break. Okay please the gods.
Are good they spent a lot, of.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Money they have a. Good team i'm happy. They're winning.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
It's.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Great uh they had a lot of crap teams BACK
when i was around, the team And so i'm happy that.
They've reached this is the golden Ear Of, dodger baseball
and you better enjoy it because at some point when
they have to pay all that, deferred Money or tani's
making one million dollars, a year you're gonna have to
pay him sixty nine million.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Dollars a year whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Per year once this, deals up and most people believe
they're going, to sell the ownership is going to sell
the team, by then and then whoever buys is going
to inherit all, this debt and Then the dodgers are
going to.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Have years and years.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Of mediocrity so enjoy it now because you're, you know
at some point you're gonna have to deal with the
repercussions of what is going on down the line with
all that, deferred money unless they change. The rules but
even they change, the rules you still got to pay,
the money so it doesn't. Really, matter well a name brand,
player again and let go we'll talk about that a
little late on, the clock bad job.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
By us here's the WHO am? I game here we
go it' to who pretend to be? Somebody else the.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Last pitcher as Old As max schurzer with a postseason win,
was me WHO?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Am i that's. The question.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
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It's our number one, our one of the Ben Maler Show.
Welcome in on this Friday, the seventeenth day of October,
and today we wax loquacious about Major League Baseball. I
did want to say the Fifth Hour podcast is coming
up later today. I was inspired. There's some stories I'm
ranting and raving on today's podcast, you know, just random
(00:24):
things off the top of my mind. But I was
inspired by something the Boston Celtics did. It triggered a
memory from years ago, very good memory I wanted to
share with you that we'll talk about in the fifth
Hour podcast. And some other random factoids. But here in
hour number one was the opener a tactical error for
Pat Murphy's brew crew as they are now on life support.
(00:46):
The Brewers are down three in the National League Championship Series. Also,
with the Dodgers being in the driver's seat, is there
anything at all to nitpick about the Dodgers' performance in
the National League Championship Series is as they are dominating
in the playoffs, eight and one record in the postseason. Also,
if you were the Detroit Tigers, would you pay Trek
(01:09):
Scooble four hundred million dollars. The Tigers offered him about
two hundred million dollars less than that last year. It's
a gigantic pay gap. We'll talk about that as well.
Here it is our number one.
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back at it. And so I was at the intersection.
I could have made a right turn, I could have
made a left turn. I decided to go right down
the middle and not make any turn. So I made
that editorial decision based on the feedback that I have gotten.
We had a football game it was supposed to suck,
that didn't suck. That was actually a decent game. And
(03:04):
so we'll get to that at some point throughout the night.
Obviously the American League, which wasn't much of a game.
We're gonna start in the National League, which also wasn't
much of a game. But we got to start somewhere,
and we have a blank audio canvas, four hours of
talk radio to take us through the overnight hours here.
So our lead is in La A, sun soaked there.
There's nothing like getting people into Dodgers Stadium in the
(03:26):
middle of downtown Los Angeles, hit rush hour. Great scheduling,
great scheduling. They do it for television, So sun soaked,
late afternoon there in the middle of rush hour traffic.
The maz Now he didn't start because the Brewers are idiots,
but they he was the guy leading the Brewers traveling
circus in due Chavez Ravine in a gotta have it
(03:46):
and this really was a gotta have it game for
the Brewers, a matchup with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Game three.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You blew the first two games at home. You gotta win,
Milwaukee looking to dig out of a hole.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
How did that go? Well?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
If you watched it, you know, oh what happened, But
maybe you were busy doing something. I don't know what
you're up to. Tommy Tanks delivered Tommy Edmund, the hero
from last year's playoffs in the NLCS, to Tommy Edmund.
Here the tie breaking single off the rookie flamethrower Jacob
Mazeroski the mizz in their two run, two run sixth inning,
(04:21):
and the Dodgers able to out maneuver the brew Crew
three to one. And so there's a very fat woman
who's warming up her vocal cords right now as the
Doyers have a three games to none lead in the
best of seven National League Championship Series. That tells me
that the Dodgers need to win one more game if
(04:43):
my malor math is correct. And so the Dodgers, who
underachieved during the regular season used load management, left starting
pitchers out for months at a time. Was a rag
tag lineup much of the regular season. They needed so
much to win a wild Card series against the low
Cincinnati Reds to start out the postseason marathon. And here
(05:05):
we are, the Dodgers have played nine playoff games. And
all those really sexy stories that were written before the
baseball season about how great the Dodgers were, well, they're
looking like it now. They didn't look like it in
the regular season for much of it. With the Dodgers
are now in position. They're in the pole position to
become the first defending champion to reach the World Series
(05:30):
in sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I was barely.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Alive the last time this happened. No defending champion has
gotten back to the Fall Classic since the Ryan Howard
Jimmy Rollins Philadelphia Phillies back in nine and no team's
won consecutive. You gotta get all the way back to
the nineties. Holy crap on a cracker, Batman, you got
to go back to the nineties. The Tory Jeter Bernie
(05:55):
Williams Yankees.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
From ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
To two thousand, the Yankees took three championships in a row.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
The better story though, is in the losing locker room,
although barely the better story at this point, barely.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
The better story.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
So Brewers manager Pat Murphy, who I kind of like
this guy, right, It seems like my kind of guy.
He seems like the kind of guy you want to
hang out with. Seems like it seems like a good dude.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He's taking a.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Lot of crap, a lot of backlash. If you saw
the game, you don't what I'm talking about. He made
the decision, and I'm sure this wasn't his decision. It
was somebody ahead of him, but they made the decision
collectively to start Aaron Ashby as the opener, and that
that's pretty good jumping off points. I think we'll start
with that, so let us discuss the question. Was the opener,
(06:39):
if you will, a tactical error by Pat Murphy and
the brew crew in game number three of the NLCS.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So my thoughts was about, that's right. I've got I've got.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Warner Brothers, Doogie Howser MD and refurbished iPhone, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make fireballs, because it's gonna take fire balls
for the brew crew to come back to answer the question.
Was this strategy of going with the opener, meaning Aaron
Ashby a tactical error. Now you could say this is
(07:14):
after the fact, but I'm nodding my head. Yes, I
have long died on the mountain of despising these openers.
Well you're such a boomer. Well I'm not a boomer. However,
back in my day we call this a spring training game.
Now they came up with a term for it. So, well,
it's an opener, you know, because we're smarter than everyone.
(07:35):
We're the smartest people in the room. Okay, So Pat
Murphy and the Brewers Nerds got cute. They started as
cat Aaron Ashby as the opener, and it went exactly
how you would expect things to go when you let
the analytical department cosplay and do the strategy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Here he got how many outs? One out?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
One out, one more out than you got, one more
out than I got. Before all of a sudden, Pat
Murphy's oh, you know what I gotta I gotta get
this guy out of the game.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Uh yeah, one out.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And then they brought them is in Jacob Mazaraski, who
was thrown really pretty much into a blender.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Uh, here you go. The whole point of the opener
is like, Okay, we're gonna get you in. There be
a soft landing. Uh no. Uh. Now, the Brewers are averaging,
if my math is correct, one run a game.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
In the league Championship Series. They were one of the
top offensive teams in baseball this year. And starting Aaron
Ashby not the greatest solution, not the way to solve
the Rubik's QB here for the Brewers. The again, the
point is you start the opener, you give the the
bulk guy, because why not a soft spot to come in.
(08:44):
But instead, as we said Pat Murphy, uh, the Brewers
lit the match and they dropped it on the bullpen
there and the dirty little secret when you run the
openers out, it is unbecoming in the postseason. It's just embarrassing, right,
And the Dodgers have done it, the Yankees have done it.
It's just embarrassing. It's usually because you have a roster
(09:06):
that is devoid of elite talent. Right, you don't have
the horses. You just don't have the horsepower, and the
Brewers don't.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Lost Brandon Woodrif to injury and so that's fine. But
the openers, I don't like them anything outside of the
Cactus League of the grape Fruit League, if you want
to make an argument.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
They work in April and May.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Okay, not in the National League Championship Series, not against
a real lineup.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And I don't think the Dodgers did anything special.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
People are like, oh, I told you malor the Dodgers
are gonna gonna flip the switch, and they.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Flipped the switch.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I mean, I don't think the offense is all that good. Actually,
through sixteen pitches. Sixteen pitches, what a bleeping joke.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Got one out, as we said.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And the Milwaukee plan, well that was in the toilet,
that was in the crapper before most most of the
people had gotten through the traffic into the ballpark.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And it's the classic.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Move, I'm smarter than you, and I'm smarter than everyone
else who's in this little.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Room we're in and all that now even more embarrassing. Though.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The brew crew had the dream set up, so he said, well,
it didn't work out with Ashby, and the miz came
in and he actually did a pretty good job for
a while. The thing that blows you away about this, though,
is you figured the Brewers offense hadn't been very good,
and here's an opportunity because glass Noow did not make
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it deep, deep into the game, and so you were
given a lot of time against the Dodgers' bullpen, and
the brew crew had an atomic elbow dropped on them
by the Dodger bullpen. Who saw that coming. You wouldn't
trust those guys to guard a hot dog stand.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And they went out there and did fine.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
They twisted the Brewers lineup into pretzels, and so three
games into the National League Championship Series and everything the
Brewers had been pesky, determined, annoying, all that good stuff.
Now it's like a Warner Brothers cartoon, Pepe the pew
pu What stinks?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Milwaukee?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Three runs, nine hits, twenty seven innings of baseball. William
Contreras hitless in Game three for Milwaukee, part of a
two for thirty three combined performance for the likes of
Christian Yelich and Bryce Terrang who's still pogo sticking out
of the way of a pitch in Game one that
would have tied the game and would have allowed the
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Brewers to go win the game in xt ratings, but
alas he decided not to get hit by the pitch
and so just two for thirty three a couple of singles.
Andrew Vaughn went zero for four with the strikeout and
left some runners in scoring position there. So I believe,
if I'm not mistaken, he does not have a hit
in the NLCS. So the Brewers right now are drowning.
(11:58):
They're not drowning in the Pacific Ocean. They're drowning in
flop sweat. The lack of discipline at the plate and
the fact that they've got guys chasing pitches out of
the zone outside the strike zone a stark contrast when
you juxtapose what they had been in the regular season
with plate discipline, and again the word is unbecoming.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now turning the page on that.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
From the LA side of things, the question is there
anything anything at all? The Dodgers are eight and one
in the playoffs, they're three to zero in the NLCS.
Is anything we can nitpick about the Dodgers' performance? So,
after a thorough deliberation, I've made the editorial decision that
there is there's one thing that is not right about
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the Dodgers, and here it is. You know what, I'm
about to say, do you know, No, you don't. Okay,
the Dodgers are playing such dominant baseball right now, it's
bad television. It's just bad TV. You've got Blake Snell.
Bro I'm risking my life bra Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasner,
(13:09):
who wasn't as good as those guys, but collectively they
have gone doogie howser MD and they have put the
people watching the NLCS into a medically induced coma. Watching
the Milwaukee Brewers attempt to hitting Dodgers' er now from
starters is under two.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
It's barely a run and a half.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It has been a master class, an absolute master class
on starting pitching, the Dodgers' rotation.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And the bullpen.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
In the bullpen, I can't believe I'm saying that the
bullpen if it lights out. The Brewers collectively have a
one forty three batting average. I didn't play major league baseball.
I don't think that's good. I don't think that's good.
Their op on base plus slugging is two to three,
which I also think is not good. The slugging percentage alone.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Is at a buck ninety, at a buck ninety and
the three runs.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So the Dodgers are hitting on all cylinders and it's
not a great product to watch right now. And it's
just a matter of when. It's not a matter of
if they get back to the World Series. And while
Toronto and Seattle appear to be in a catfight, the
Dodgers can soon sneak in a nice vacation, go to
Hawaii if they want, for a couple of days before
the Fall Classic. Now, teams take a three to nothing
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lead in any best of seven postseason series have gone
on to win forty out of forty one times. That
is a ninety seven point six percent success rate. Thirty
one sweeps out of the forty one. Now, the one
time that didn't happen. If you're old enough to have
remembered way back, I can't believe it's been twenty one years.
(14:39):
Holy crap, But the four American League Championship Series, there
was this team called the Boston Red Sox, and they
had this thing called the Curse of the Bambino, and they.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Did the thing they weren't supposed to do at the time.
They weren't supposed to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
They came all the way back and they got it
done Red Sox against the Yankees that year. There was
this little pesky guy the Red Sox picked up in
a cash deal from the Dodgers who was a pinch
runner named Dave Roberts, who sparked the Red Sox comeback
with a steal off Mariano Rivera. I don't know what
happened to Dave Roberts. I don't know what he's doing now.
I think he turned into a sock puppet. All right,
(15:11):
last word. So we're gonna move away from the NLCS
because there's not much more to dissect. Interesting story out
at Detroit where the Tigers have been excommunicated from the playoffs.
They lost to Seattle, and now there's some chatter that
the Tigers are in financial peril as they have to
close the gap.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And oh what a gap.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
It is the largest gap in negotiation history. That is,
if they plan on retaining long term, long term these
services of dominating, dominating starting.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Pitcher Terrek School. So I saw this, I thought this
was interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Now, the story bouncing around the pinball machine is that
Detroit offered Schooble less than the one hundred and seventy
million that the Red Sox signed Garrett Crochet two, So
they wanted to pay him less than one hundred and
seventy which seems.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Like a lot of money to me, I know.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And the Schooble, Now, the starting point for Schooble is
four hundred million dollars. Now that means, if you do
the calculation, the Tigers and the player are two hundred
million dollars off in the negotiation. So the question you
make the call, if you were the Tigers, would you
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pay one starting pitcher in this case, Derek Scougle four
hundred million dollars plus. Now we always preface these things
by saying that it's not my money. It's not And
you can crunch the numbers and figure out how many
how many advertising dollars do you have to make from TV?
How much money do you have to make from radio?
(16:48):
How much money do you have to make selling hot
dogs to make it work. I look at it and
my eyes get really large, and I just say, well,
that's a boondoggle, is what that is.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That's just a financial boom doggle And I wouldn't do it.
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Scooble, to me, has a pre existing condition, and the
fact that he's got, he's got already had elbow issues
and arm issues.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
He's fun to watch, he's great to watch.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
He's got the gas and the breaking pitches and all
that has got nasty stuff, as the kids say.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But he will turn twenty nine next.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Month, which is not old in the real world, but
in sports it's kind of middle aged. He's already had
the TJ, the Tommy John surgery and been through the
operating room. So that's not just a blank piece of
paper situation. This is a refurbished iPhone. It's like, oh right,
he had the Tommy John schooble. He's pitching very well.
(17:47):
So think about like a refurbished iPhone. You wouldn't pay
full price for a refurbished iPhone. The iPhone has a
crack screen, and that does say certified pre owned. It
says that now the Komodo Dragon in the room, the
Komodo Dragon room scooble is not a whatever it takes warhorse,
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And there's nothing nobody liked that in baseball. But like,
if I could justify it, here's how I would justify. So, Okay,
I'm gonna pay this guy four hundred million because I
know if I need him to go one hundred and
twenty one hundred and thirty hundred and forty pitches. He
will do that, and he'll throw one hundred and thirty
pitches into that cold Michigan night sky like a modern
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day Jack Morris going out there, big balls and all that.
But no, the Tigers in the American League Divisional round.
He started two games and the Tigers lost both. They
lost both in large part because he was a ninety
nine one hundred pitch guy and ninety nine hundred and
one pitches that's it and has to come out of
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the game because he's very delicate. And for four hundred
million dollars, you better give me Shakespeare on the mound
and go above and beyond, go the extra mile and
the Monster contract. I know the Monster contracts are always
lost leaders.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
You're not gonna make money on it, you know, just not.
You're not paying for the whole ride.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You're paying for the front seat at the amusement park,
and you're hoping the thing doesn't break down halfway through
the Loop de Loube on the roller coaster. Somebody, we know,
somebody's gonna do it. As I sit here and say, oh,
I'm not gonna pay him. Yeah, it's not my money.
I wouldn't pay him, and I'm skeptical whether the Tigers
are gonna pay him, which means if they're not gonna
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pay him, then all of a sudden, the trade thing
becomes a possibility. You never get fair return on investment
with those kind of things, so that's a problem. But
there's some owner who's going to light that match and
toss it on the pile of money and make sure
gasoline is all over it and hope the baseball gods
don't turn the schoobal elbow into or agami by year
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four of the contract. So again, we love the player,
it's not my deal. I just think any starting pitcher
the wait baseball's played today, where the value is placed
on the bullpen, I just I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Ald. What about the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Okay, the Dodgers have had a good run here in
the NLCS, and it's a little different for them because
they've gotten money to burn because of how they gouge
their fans with tickets and all that and parking at
Dodger Stadium. But there's a little different situation anyway, It
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Oh they can't be stopped, oh my, oh my, until
they got back home.
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Good oh, yeah that was a big topic on sports
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i guess the low water mark was it The colts
and The broncos on A thursday?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Night was? It it wasn't it like A i'm trying
to remember off the top of my.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Head it was like a field goal field goal type.
Thing wasn't there A thursday? Game it was like six
to three or something like. That and that was like
the worst of the. Worst and then it's gotten. Better
they're not all, good but this is this is. Entertaining
it was more entertaining than The mariners and The Blue.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Jays that's for. Sure that game wasn't very entertaining at.
All nice no.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Show good job by The mariners to go a. Wall
has anyone done a wellness check On robbie The mariner? Fanasy,
okay we checked On. Robbie see if he's all right? Now,
meanwhile here's a blast in the. Past this Guy chris In.
Houston if you've been with the show a long, Time
chris sold out to the dreaded day. Shift he took
the money and ran to the day, shift and he
has the he has the gall to send a message
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critiquing the opening mallet Monologue chris And, houston who sold
out he's a sellout to the day, shift, says, Wow,
maller you're such a Dodger homer read the room, Dummy.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Nobody Outside la cares about The.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Dodgers, WELL i would argue that you reacting the way
you did is a win for. Me so moron the
houtzpu that you have not quite as much hutzbu as
when you called up the night the astros cheating scandal was,
exposed and then proceeded to tell us it was all,
fake that it was a it was all photoshopped and all.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
That that's still one of the all time great.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Moments anthony writes and, Says i'm A Cincinnati homer and
we love the Meta muso bowl go. Bangles all, right
we'll talk about that a little bit. Later Suer Mark
Steve wrightson, says this run of dominance in the playoffs
by The dodgers this year is just further proof that
what they did last, year winning three playoffs series with
only two starting pitchers was probably the most impressive playoff
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run in baseball. History, NO i would argue whatever Stuff
Walker buehler was. USING i don't know what he was,
doing But i'm sure it was all. Kosher Walker, bueler
who had been absolutely god awful before the playoffs and
then looked Like Oral herscheiser in some of those playoff
performances last year for The, dodgers and then this season
(27:31):
with The Red sox went back to being a suck bag.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Player, man. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Eh all, Right The Mexican John dutton, Says, ben all
the stuff you're saying About Trek, skougle the tiger pitcher
who was gonna try to get forwarded to, MEN i
guarantee you you won't be saying that when The dodgers
sign him next. Season, YEAH i promise, you The Mexican John,
(27:59):
DUTTON i do not change my.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
TAKES i die NEVER i lock.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
IN i am a, taurus Ask, ANDREA i Am i'm the,
bull hard, headed full of, bull AND I i serve Bull,
okay very, stubborn very very. Stubborn absolutely nature boy, SAYS
i guess you have to admit That dodgers have all the.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
MOMENTUM i know what you're trying to, do nich.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Boy it's not gonna. Work it's it's not going to.
Work So i'm not even gonna engage. You you fee
me In, chicago Says Hey, MALLARD a plus and cheesebagger
on The mallard, Monologue bernie The brewer is laying bloodied
on skid.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Row great work by The.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Doyers, yeah we Have cub fans For. DODGERS a lot
Of cub. FANS i don't know About. TREE i know
you fee. ME a lot of The chicago cub fan
base have united as one with The dodgers because The
Milwaukee brewers after the divisional round took their celebratory photo
on the.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
FIELD i love how these.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Teams i'll take the team photo on the field after
they win a playoffs. Series, anyway they took a team
photo and they had THE l sign like At. Wrigleyfield
you know they have THE w when they, win THE
l when they lose or so they had that and
mocking mocking The, cubs and so The cub fans are
devastated by. That and thereafter it late night drug tester
rights and says The dodgers can't sweep The. Brewers the
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time off will cause them to be rusty for The World.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Series, yeah they should lose a. Game lose The otani,
game is what he.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Says Ferg dog rights in From soca that winter wonderland Of.
FULLERTON i Hope Ferg, dog you've got your snow tires
from Tire raq because the winter's coming. Here we know
it gets very cold and snowy there In, Fullerton Ferg dog,
says after getting swept out of the playoffs by The dodgers,
tomorrow at least The brewer fans can always tell themselves
they still won the series six.', four.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah sure? Why?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Not absolutely shane And de moine rights, in, Says, HEY
ben i agree with you about momentum. In sports, THAT
said i don't care what happened last night or the.
NEXT game i care about the innings in front Of
the mariners. That night he says he's not concerned all.
Right now the nurse writes in, nurse JOCKEY who i
(30:16):
believe Is In KANSAS city i think He's In. Kansas city,
but anyway he Says the dodgers are the New evil
empire and the fans love to. Hate them they're The. New,
YANKEES yeah i don't disagree.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
With that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I'M fine i Mean. The dodgers if you're Not a,
dodger fan you should Hate. THE dodgers i would expect.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You to Hate.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
The DODGERS and i flashed back to it WAY before
i worked Here At Fox sports radio in, another LIFE
when i was doing stuff With the dodgers and they
never won. LIKE this, i mean they were MEDIOCRE when
i Was doing, dodger TALK but i remember ranting, and
raving And the dodgers had another crappy OFFSEASON.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
When i was. Doing it they didn't sign anybody. Of note.
You know it, was like oh, my god what are?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
They DOING and, I said i have, a dream, YOU
know i give THE whole i Ripped Off Martin luther.
KING speech i have, a dream, YOU know i want
to See the dodgers be Like.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
The, YANKEES yeah i want to see them. Go on
of course it didn't happen till LONG after i was done.
Doing that, But, yes lorena you're excited about, this, YES
yeah i just wanted because everyone. The listeners, you know he,
was saying it's only PEOPLE in la Like. The dodgers
that is the most False statement i've ever heard in.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
MY life i have.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
People messaging Me from Japan. And china, that's, right man, we're,
big bro. Don't know dodgers are for everybody the way
People from japan Like the.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Dodgers here did you hear that they have an actual
broadcast that during their commercials it just goes To show
hayes face like they're just looking at him in the dugout.
Doing nothing he's.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Just, killing yeah that's they Have. The tanya. They're, OBSESSED
crazy i got a. New, phenomenon yeah baseball is like
a new Sport. In japan they.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Never had. It's, amazing yes it's it's, absolutely, wild crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Crazy uh some of you have Asked if marlin's man is.
In town He's. In seattle as FAR as I Know,
MARLIN'S man i was hoping he would BE. IN la
i did see him On The toronto seattle game and
he was sitting not right behind home plate but a
little to. The left and he did send me some
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Photos from seattle and it appears they have a world
class spread for the really rich one percenters behind. Home
play and there's a lot of very wealthy People in
seattle because Of the internet money. Up there costco's. Headquartered,
there microsoft there's some major Companies, in seattle and they
have a REALLY nice. Vip section and as an, Added
Bonus marlin's man sent me a photo he got With The,
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mariner moose one of the iconic mascots and all not just,
a Moose The mariner moose just amazing and one of
the all time great bloopers At, the Kingdome The mariner
moose who was injured and it was it made for
an amazing highlight when mascots.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Get hurt and years ago you can look it's on.
The Internet The mariner moose fractured his. Right ankle, but,
it's uh it's.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So funny when the when the mascot takes a spill
because they've got the fun costume on and you can't.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Be upset you think it's, all stick you think they're all.
Acting right but it was. So good oh did yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
He was he was on the inline skates behind a
four wheeler and it, Was like i'm pretty sure it
was At. THE kingdome i think it was At. The
kingdome it was like the. Fifth, inning, yeah yeah you
got to. Say it So the mariner moose crashed into
the left field wall and fractured, his angel which as
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good as, that is as funny as, that IS and
i really do believe. That's funny not the greatest mascot
blooper of. All time you Know where i'm going, with, This, Right,
Yep denver colorado is still.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
So.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
The nuggets it's only funny after, the, FACT though.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I know So Before denver Nuggets. CAME rocky i Think, it's,
rocky right the mascot For. The nuggets they took, you
know they had him on. A line they brought him
down from the from the roof of, the arena right
on a on a.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Bungee, cord right it brought. Him down they have a.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Pyrotechnic show they've got all these hot cheerleaders in their
little out shaking, their, asses Right and rocky had have.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Passed out.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
It looked like they were dropping his carcass and the
cheerleaders are.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Cheering the life bodies being lord from. The rafters oh,
my god it was. So good.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
One of the all, time great one of the all time.
Great bloopers THAT and i. Still laugh the OTHER blooper
i laugh at is you Remember the JaVale.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
McGee one when he was playing For The, Washington.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Wizards, and uh this is a. Random one this is
like shack a fool. Years ago and the ball was.
Turned over all nine players are running. One direction java
McKee's running the other direction away from the ball to
the other side of.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
The court. It was it Was absolutely uh. It was
it was just, just great just.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Absolutely, GREAT anyway i did not expect to bring mascot,
stories up but here.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
We are let's go to.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
The phones Mike in tucson. Is, Up, Hello Mike. Welcome
mikey you're on, the air in the. Air Everywhere, Hello, Mike.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Hey mike first, Of all Brown the dodgers. Right out
there's a Lot of. Dodgers haters Bild the dodgers been
playing chess when everyone's. Playing checkers THE contract Mlb in
japan their. Worldwide famous all that money they're printing money,
(36:05):
they have they Surpassed Rad soce. Yankee money dodgers can
do whatever. They want they're but hate them, or not
they're the smartest person in. The room they got the,
best players did, it strategically the. Prod, THEM now i
think they can be touched and you could hate them or.
LOVE them i had to take stuff to Take first.
(36:27):
Dodgs problems but you can't Hee. The dodgers they were,
smarter though Honey contract no one ever thought. About that
they did it opening UP the Mlb. In japan they
got all these Fans in. Japan worldwide they're getting all
this MONEY and i think men daughters are the cream of.
The CROP and i think they Surpassing the Yankees. Brad
sox but THAT'S something i. CALLED then i called it
(36:50):
because then versus a petty you're you're with when you're
with your Boy that i've been hitting, every week there's
a nice. LITTLE ball I Sent jessin cooper eighteen dollars
a Night to bengal straighto. My PARLAY but, I need
i need to be, With.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
You.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Ben yeah Are you are You. Saying dodgers you Can't.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
EVEN dodgers i know all these daughter, haters ship but
there's a pre.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
The.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Crop, wat.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah we're on the Radio thirty you. Can't CAN'T and
i know. We're friends you know we talk because that's how, Men.
Talk lorena. We're. Men okay do you understand we're in?
Your mouth we.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Have testosterone this is how. Men, TALK OKAY I i
I let can you LET the fcc know this is how.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Men? Talk please can you let. Them know i'll send. A,
Message okay but Is There?
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Tom looney you, need, me man you need me right
so you.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Want me To Fire? Tom looney, and uh and here?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Are?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
YOU okay i.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
HAVEN'T received i. Haven't received i'm.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
DOING it i.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Don't Know.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
And i've been surviving off part ladies.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You've been that's not a good way to live. Your life.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Right Now the dodgers, right now so the best team.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Ever built they're not the first time to stop.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Yeah, the bill but, they're smart the strategic what they've.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Done are, Europeion HERE so i, gotta go. Thank, you yeah,
come on what Do You david vasse with? That propaganda,
come on give me, A, break. Okay please the gods.
Are good they spent a lot, of.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Money they have a. Good team i'm happy. They're winning.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
It's.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Great uh they had a lot of crap teams BACK
when i was around, the team And so i'm happy that.
They've reached this is the golden Ear Of, dodger baseball
and you better enjoy it because at some point when
they have to pay all that, deferred Money or tani's
making one million dollars, a year you're gonna have to
pay him sixty nine million.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Dollars a year whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Per year once this, deals up and most people believe
they're going, to sell the ownership is going to sell
the team, by then and then whoever buys is going
to inherit all, this debt and Then the dodgers are
going to.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Have years and years.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Of mediocrity so enjoy it now because you're, you know
at some point you're gonna have to deal with the
repercussions of what is going on down the line with
all that, deferred money unless they change. The rules but
even they change, the rules you still got to pay,
the money so it doesn't. Really, matter well a name brand,
player again and let go we'll talk about that a
little late on, the clock bad job.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
By us here's the WHO am? I game here we
go it' to who pretend to be? Somebody else the.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Last pitcher as Old As max schurzer with a postseason win,
was me WHO?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Am i that's. The question.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
The, answer next be sure to catch live Editions Of
The Ben maller show weekdays at Two am eastern Eleven,
Pm Pacific bill miller.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
And you it Is The Ben.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Maller show the weekend is, almost Here the. Friday special
don't forget about That fifth. Hour podcast new episode drops today.
Later on so you got four hours of this show
to listen to on, the pod and then another hour
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wherever you, get podcasts but make sure to listen to that.
Fifth hour back to it, all right here's the payoff
(39:59):
On the WHO?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Am?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I GAMES where i pretend to be.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Somebody else so the last pitcher as Old As Toronto's
max scherzer to have a postseason win.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Was me WHO? Am i that is? The question what is?
The answer and let's see does anyone know?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
The answer we go To THE hoy Poloi The Great
Unwashed big GREG and i was Going With, David Vesse
frank Castanza from rob The, Goat Man Gay lord Perry From.
Malibu rubin that's. His answer who else do? We Have,
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guy williams Going With, Jamie Moyer carlo Gambino From, Mister
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From Late Night, Drug Tester alexa Bliss From just Josh.
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old But young frankenstein is. Unfortunately, Incorrect lorraine.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
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