November 25, 2025 • 48 mins
Big Ben talks about Christian McCaffrey and the 49ers defeating Bryce Young and the Panthers on MNF, Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner voicing his "concern" over the size of the Dodgers payroll, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Miley Cyrus Edition, and more!
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so our lead this hour, don't burn the lead my
man art or not so the final game of the
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weekend in the NFL, it is all over, just a
couple days off in the right back at it on Thanksgiving,
so it's just a brief pause in the NFL continues.
But our lead this hour from Santa Clara, not San Francisco.
Santa Clara, that is where the forty nine ers play
their home games, about forty five miles or so. As
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a crow flies south of San Francisco, wach only take
you about three hours with traffic, so this was the
site of the final game of the weekend. There came
to an end. The curtain came down. You had Bryce
Young and the Panthers skidding in to the Bay Area
for a wrestling match with Brock Party. Oh my aching tow, Well,
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he's back. Brock Party and the forty nine prety missed
a bunch of time with a messed up toe, but
he's back. This game was billed as the Christian McCaffrey
revenge Game. It's all about the revenge. Did you watch? No, okay,
you didn't miss anything. I'm not gonna sit here and
light you. Oh you should have seen this game. Oh
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my god, No, I'm jealous. I mean I did get
paid to watch it. In theory, plausibly got paid to
watch it. But man alive. So Christian McCaffrey, he hits
the billing. I think it was his greatest game. He
had one hundred and forty two yards from scrimmage, touched
the ball a ton, ended up with one hundred and
forty two yards from scrimmage, scored a touchdown in his
first matchup against the team that he played for that
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gave gave him away and give him away. They got
draft picks. Scratch your tickets, but that was the deal.
A couple of years back, McCaffrey went from Carolina to
San Francisco after he got paid by the Panthers and
then proceeded to get hurt on a regular basis, so
his first game there three years ago. Niners haven't won
any championships with Christian McCaffrey, and he's been very productive
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for them. The Niners get the ugly twenty to nine
win the final over the Panthers. McCaffrey gets the Niners
with his performance to eight and four on the season.
They were able to overcome the systemic and competence of
Brock Party, who threw not one, not two, but three
interceptions earlier. Holy Ernesto in the Bay our guy there,
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Big forty nine er far not happy with Rock Party,
but they are still in playoff position. The Niners with
that eighth win heading into the stretch run of the
regular season and down the stretch we go in the NFL. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. Carolina
had an opportunity, somehow, some way. Carolina had a shot
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to move into the penthouse of the Outhouse, which is
the NFC South. If they had won this game. Ifs
and butts were candy and nuts, it'd be Christmas every day.
It's not so Bryce Young went out there and better
store in the losing locker room. How did he do?
Bryce Young failing yet again, yet again to get the
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job done. The former number one overall traffic had one
hundred and sixty nine yards, barely had that one touchdown,
and not one but two interceptions. That is a good
jumping off points. So let us discuss the question. How
do you evaluate Bryce Young's performance for Carolina in a
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game that was certainly winnable. It's not like the Niners
were that great. The game was right there for the
taking in Carolina unable to take it. So my views
on this, I've got Panda Express, Zoo Animal and Express
pros and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to put the biscuit in the basket,
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is what we're going to do. Just put the biscuit
in the basket. So hey, we'll start with this. The
Carolina Pans watching them play, and I don't watch every game,
and I flip around. They usually play in the early
TV window on Sunday, But watching the Carolina Panthers play.
It's like a Nantucket sleigh ride watching them play. They
hooked the whale. They thought they hooked the whale, Bryce Young,
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and now they're getting dragged every week. Every week they're
getting dragged. And this was another opportunity to prove the
haters wrong and prove that you knew what you were doing. Instead,
he proved them right. He proved them right with this performance.
It was an island game. Everyone was watching. Everyone was
watching against a battle scarred, weather beaten defense. They did
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have Fred Warner and Nick Bosa in the stadium. They
happened to be watching while eating nachos and popcorn in
luxury boxes. They showed them on the TV. They were
not playing. They were not playing in the game. And
the Niners brock Perdy tried to and the game. The
Carolina try to give him the game. Here's the game.
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We don't want the guy. Take the guy, take the guy.
And what happened. Well, the quarterback there, Bryce Young's like,
you know what, it's very polite, it's very pro out
of you try to give us the game. You know what,
we don't really want that big road win. No, we
why would we want that to come on Bryce. Now,
we're good, We're here's here's another punt. We're gonna punt
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the ball. Knock yourself out, enjoyed the ball. My god,
what a debacle, What an absolute debacle watching Bryce Young
try to play quarterback. And then, as many have pointed out,
he's very robotic. You can tell he's been schooled. I
don't know whether it was Nick Saban or the people
that are riding his coat tails making their living off
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his performance and his you know, his posse of people
that are around him. All these athletes have groups of
people that are hangers on, and somebody gave him these
sports cliche one oh one, right, Reiki, I saw his
news con be. Very robotic is the word I keep
going back to. Anyway, here's a little taste of Bryce
Young talking about the trip back to North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Playing right back's gonna suck. I don't even know if
we have the twenty four hour luxury now when it's
you know, we're all competitors. It sucks to have this
outcome again. We don't have luxuries to think about big
picture you think of that's that's not a good recipe
for this league. Everyone demands our most intention so we'll
fill the page and go next week.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know, he reminds me of a zombie. He's saying
things that you would determine or write. You don't feel
like it's legit, Like you know what I'm saying. You
ever talk to him his phony. I do a podcast
on the weekends. I used to do a lot of
interviews on the podcast, and then I realized almost all
of them are terrible, So what am I doing? Uh,
wasting my time? So I stopped doing them. But I
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had a lot of people on over the years on
the podcast. One of the ones that stand out is
this guy named Tim Donahey. Now I don't know if
you know who Tim Donnie is or not. Tim Donahey
is the guy that was fixing NBA games and got caught.
By the way, I'm sure he's not the only one
as far as referees. He just happened to be the
one that got busted years ago, and he wrote a
book about it. There's been documentaries about Tim Donnie. So
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I had him on my podcast, very excited to get
him on, like this is big Tim Donnie. This guy's
big scandal on the big scandals of my life, and
this guy was a central figure in it, involving like
the mob, and so we had him on and asked
him a bunch of questions and he just was lifeless.
He answered the questions like a zombie. And that I
watched Bryce Young interview and it's like, there's no real emotion.
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I just like, here's what I'm supposed to say. I'm
gonna say it. I'm not gonna put any feeling, you know,
because I don't believe any of it. And that's that
you talk about blowing an opportunity. I mean, this was it.
And here's a refresher course, by the way, on Bryce Young.
Bryce Young is not a super nova. He is not
a super nova. He's the Panda Express. Sweet and sour
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chicken is what he is. He's a that's that's that's
essentially what he is. Right, And you think you're getting
something flavorful. You gown a Panda Express and I used
to eat there all the time back and they go
in there, Panta get that. You get that sweet and
sour chicken, and then you find out that it was
made two hours ago. It's lukewarm, it's soggy in five minutes,
and you're like, holy crap. What happened? Consistently inconsistent. Yeah,
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so a week ago, somehow the Atlanta Falcons should be
sent to the Canadian Football that we should trade the
Falcons for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. They allowed Bryce Young
to throw for four hundred and forty eight yards in
the previous game, this week one hundred and sixty nine yards. Now,
we did expect this to happen, right, We expected him
to have a worse performance. Of course, because he had
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a career game. You're gonna be worse. And this is
more of the standard performance for the quarterback there, Bryce Young.
By the way, that is a sixty two decline from
his previous performance. The two interceptions, now, brock Purty gift
wrapped three possessions in a row ended with interceptions for
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the forty nine ers in the first half, three straight.
That is literally, as we said, giving you the game.
And what did Carolina do. They turned those three interceptions
into three points one field goal. That's it, that's all three.
That's criminal. In fact, this entire game was an FCC
warning obscenity and decency and profanity watching this particular game.
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And hey, we were never really in on this guy,
the little fella. We're definitely out on the quarterback, Bryce
Young if you haven't figured out that part of the story.
This and the Carolina Panthers, they swung big, They traded
for the wrong guy. They gave up the family jewels
to the Bears to get their hands on this other
worldly quarterback, and they ended up getting a country bumpkin.
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They didn't want a country bumpkin. They got a country
bumping that is regular mouthfeasance with him out there, quarterback
that you get in Carolina. They need competence, and they've
got a lot of confusion, a lot of confusion with
him out there. And you cannot have a quarterback, cannot
have it who plays real suite one week and then
sour the next two or three. And that's what happened.
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You need a driver. Gotta have a driver, right, You
gotta have a driver, and you got a passenger. You
got somebody to buy, ticking the back of the bus,
high pick, low impact. That's pretty much it. And the
Panthers now that they have to hit the flea market,
they have to get either another reject from somebody else
or draft somebody and start this whole thing over. This
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is not the guy, and you're not gonna pay him.
Why would you pay him? He sucks, So there's no
reason to pay him, and you're gonna have to move on,
all right. Meanwhile, on the other side, the San Francisco
side of things, So what is your appraisal, here's the question,
what is your appraisal of the other quarterback, brock Perdy
and his play for the Niners in this Monday night game.
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So I have an unpopular opinion, unpopular opinion, alert, unpopular opinion.
All right, here's my unpopular opinion. We just slayed Bryce Young.
How bad Bryce Young was? Brock Purdy was more humiliating.
He actually was worse than Bryce Young. If that's possible
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that brock Purty could be worse than Bryce Young. He was.
And here's why Bryce Young is still in the beta
testing mode. He's in the beta testing mode. He's still
running on the pre release software. They have not signed him,
they have not given him the bag in Carolina, Brockhurdy,
brock Purty, Hurdy, rock Purty, Freudian slip. Brock Purdy got
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the loot, he got the train heist from the forty
nine ers. So he's not the trial version they've signed
up for the full subscription model. The forty nine ers
with Brock Purty, John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan, the smartest
people in the room, did the full background check. They
dated for a while, had a cute little romance. It
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was wonderful, puppy dog eyes, the whole thing, little netflix
and chill. They were friends with benefits for a while,
and they Niner said, let's put a ring on it.
So they put a ring on it. And they gave
him one hundred and eighty two million. They gave that
guy one hundred eight too billion, one hundred eight too big.
I can't play. They gave a guy who can't play
all right, too billion. Even Terry in England, the big
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forty nine er fans crying right now, Oh my god,
forty one million dollars per per year. It's gonna go off.
That's where he is right now. Forty one million dollars
a year for this guy. And what do they get
if brock Perty was a zoo animal. If he was
a zoo animal, what would rock pretty be. He would
be a donkey, but he would be a swamp donkey,
if you know what I'm saying. And man, did that
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look like a forty one million dollars a year quarterback.
I don't think so. One hundred and sixty nine yards
and three picks I jotted down. I was writing some
notes on my notes thing on my phone while I
was watching the game. And he should have had three
more interceptions. The Panthers drop two, and I'll say two
for sure. The third other one was iffy, but they
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could have six interceptions of the game. Panthers defensively, they're
not that great. They're okay, they're not that great. And
they turned him into a sock puppet brock Party and
my god, he was like, he was daring Carolina, Hey,
pick me off. I'm gonna just throw it. I'm gonna,
like I said, I'm Stevie Meatballs, I'm gonna be blind
and just chuck the ball up. We'll see what happens here.
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And so the ugly truth is, and people don't want
to say it, brock Purty is just a system guy.
If everything's great around him, he's fine. Well, everything's not
great around him right now. He's clearly not fine. The Niners,
they were thinking they were gonna get a Ferrari, They
ended up getting a Kia. They paid for a Ferrari.
They paid a Ferrari price, so they got a Kia.
And he's just the middle of the pack guy, that's
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all he is. And now they're seemingly stuck with him.
And I was thinking, convince another dumb team like the
Jets of somebody to take brock Party off their hands.
Good luck, all sales are final in terms of the contract.
The Panthers defense, making Brock Purty look bedraggled, a big
draggled Brock. That should be his nickname be draggled brock
rattled and all of that, like he was searching for
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his Stuffy in the middle of the game. I need
my support, Stuffy. Where's my Stuffy? Uh? Yeah? And this
is who he is. That's that's the that's what we
tried to warn. The Niners say, oh, you're just a
ram fit. Well you do the Overnight show you. I'm
not gonna listen to you. I tried to tell you, okay,
I tried to help you out. Did you listen.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Did the Niners listen?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well, good luck. I'm actually happy you didn't listen. And
I laugh at you. I laugh at you because this
ain't the guy this ain't the guy. You're not the guy, Poalp,
You're not. It's the boondoggle by the Bay, the boondoggle
by the Bay with Brock Party. That's what it is. Here.
We have seen better turn on investment by sir scratch
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Off going out and buying seven thousand Scratcher tickets. You
get more bang for your buck. Okay, we've seen that.
Party's not overrated. He's not. He's not overrated. He's just
poorly rated and overpaid is what he is. All right. Meanwhile,
last word, we go to the broadcast booth on a
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B Robert Salah, the defensive coordinator of the forty nine ers. Now,
if you didn't know Robert Sala was the forty nine
ers defensive coordinator, you knew everything about him by the
end of the broadcast. Okay, they featured him. He was
the star of the broadcast. They showed him, they gave
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him more screen time. Robert Salah the former Jets coach
than Kyle Shanahan, the actual head coach of you know,
the NFL team in Northern California. So the question, what
did you take away from the forty nine ers defensive
coordinator Robert Sala getting the spotlight on Monday Night football.
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So the ABC broadcast turned into the Robert Sala Showcase.
It was like a job fare for Robert Sala. They
showed him over and over and over and over, and
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees over there
at NBC. They were full slobber chops, saber slapper slabbert.
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They gave him the manny in the first half and
the petty in the second half. Very nice. It sounded
like they were lobbying for this guy to get another
head coaching job. It felt like an Express Pros commercial
that we do every once in a while here on
Fox Sports Radio, not a football games. Oh look at Roberts.
You knew that they had crossed the rubicon when Carolina
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missed a field goal and they got a reaction shot
of Robert South. He's the he's not a special team's coach.
He's the defensive coordinator. And they wanted a reaction shot
of the defensive coordinator when Carolina fed up a field goal. Hello,
what are we doing, dummies? Dumb dumb? What are you doing,
dum dumb? He's a divisive coordinator, all right, listen, we
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get it sala. He was on TV more than brock
Perty in this game, and he was fist pumping and
chest bumping and gyrating and all of that like he'd
taken three smelling salts or snorted something. I don't know what,
but he was jumping up and down. And they've done
this before. They did this when he was with San
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Francisco before, the same thing. Right, the legend of Robert Salah,
The legend of Robert Salah. Animated celebrations, awkward sideline interactions,
miked up meme material. He's become over his coaching career.
He's a sideline spectacle, is what he is. He's a
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walking gift factory Robert Salad. When he's on there coaching
the forty nine defensively, you'd think with that kind of
television time that he's got Sean McVeigh like credentials and
just amazing. Then you read the fine print. Let me
see her. So he coached let me see fifty six
games with the Jets and had a three point fifty
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eight winning percentage. I don't think that's good. Never made
the playoffs, not once. Was an abject failure as head
coach of the Jets. So there is that now. Regardless,
the broadcast on ABC treated him like he was the
next hot thing in coaching, like the next big thing,
and Buck and Aikman right there on the broadcast they
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were greasing the skids for a second act. Give this
man or another opportunity and NFL teams, you got to
take a look at this guy. That was the vibe.
That was the vibe they were given out. And it's
like Kyle Shannan, the actual coach, looked like an extra
in the movie. It was so absurd. Am I the
only one that noticed this? But maybe I'm the only
one that notices. I just it was one of those things.
The game was sucked, and I was like, I'm watching
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the game, like, buy this really stinks, man. And then
they kept showing Salad. Why they're showing him he sucked
as a head coach. What are they doing? And the
tipping point and I was gonna bring this up later,
but the tipping point was when they missed that Carolin
missed the field goal which went him close. And then
they cut to a reaction shot from Robert Sala. This
is so perfect. He's even a special teams coach. They
cut to a reaction shot. It's great. He sells the emotion,
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he sells it. He must be a great guy in
those production meetings, very photogenic on TV, and there is
clearly a shortage of good coaches, So who the hell knows?
Would it shocked me if Robert Sala got another opportunity somewhere,
because it's well, he just needs a second chance. You
gotta have a second chance.
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Or wherever you get your podcasts. So I had a
dud of a Monday night game, so We're not going
to revisit that the Niners win a clunker over the
Carolina Panthers. But I'll lead this hour from the Bronx.
What are you doing? Why would you do this? It's
a good story, that's why. So the Yankees are owned
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by the spawn of the Boss, George Steinbrener, long gone
from this mortal coil. So he gave the team to
the kids. And the Yankees are being run on the
day to day by hal Steinbrenner, who shocked a lot
of people recently. When we need an interview behind a
paywall at the Athletic and hal Steinbrenner expressed, quote can
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about the Dodgers winning back to back championships. So did
you see this? No, no, you did not, Okay, he said,
of course, it's a concern, hal Steinbrenner moaned behind a
paywall at the Athletic. He went into detail on the
Dodgers playing to their potential, that's the way he phrased it,
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to their potential when they needed to. He also made
an erroneous statement that the Dodgers got healthy at the
right time, which is incorrect. They were not healthy in
the World Series and they still won anyway, he said,
of course, it's always a concern. Here's the money quote,
It's always a concern. How Steinbrenner said, when you feel
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that one team is pulling away from the other twenty
nine or selfishly pulling away from me close quote mean
being the Yankees. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question. Yankees owner House Brenner has
quote concern over the Dodgers payroll and the fact that
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they've won now back to back World Series. How does
that one hit you? How does that one hit you?
So I've got Goose, Red Bull, and iron Man, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to hit the bullseye right there, bang bang,
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right in the bullseye. So number on. My first thought
is boo freaking who You've gotta be kidding me, right,
I thought? When I saw these quotes, I initially thought, Okay,
this has got to be like Sports Talk Berry the
Onion butt Crack Sports, one of the parody sites, one
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of the gag sites that Goose sends fake stuff up.
So I read it again, and then I read it again,
and then another time I went back and late I said,
let me do that one more time, just about I
don't want to get punked here. Yeah, this hits you,
It's real. It hits you like a fifty pound cartoon
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anville of Hutzba. It just boom right at the top
of your head of hutsba. His old man, George, George
George George George George George Steinbrenner. He'd said, well, ifs
and butts were candy nuts and all that, but if
Steinbrenner was still around, it is more probable than not
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that George Steinbrenner would have gone to the Winter Meetings
this year, which haven't happened yet. He would go into
the Winter Meetings. He would kick down the door and
then enter like the kool Aid man and going there
and he'd sign not one, not two, but three, three
All Stars out of pure spite because the Dodgers have
won back to back World Series. He'd signed a starting pitcher,
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he's signed a closer, and he'd sign high Swarber. Yeah, yeah,
he'd do it. He'd do it. The kids not so much,
not so much. Why it's old family money. They inherited
the cash machine. All right, this is the golden goose.
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You don't want to give away any of the golden
eggs any more than you have to when you have
a golden goose. So they talk about fiscal responsibility, the
New York Yankees talking about fiscal responsibility. Does it get
any zanier than that? Come on, now, we're not at
the dentist office here, We're not doing some dental hygiene.
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It's the damn New York Yankees. And you're going down
that avenue. You should never go down that avenue. Cry
me the Hudson River howl, all right, or even the
East River. The Dodgers spend and spend and spend. Some
of the Yankees they should spend the same amount. The
Yankees have a choke hold on the Japanese market. They've
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got Tokyo covered in Dodger blue. It's a haze of
Dodger blue and all that stuff. However, what a concept
the Yankees. The Dodgers are what the Yankees used to
be when the old man owned the team. That's the
same thing is Dodgers. That the Yankees never had Japan
even though they had some Japanese players, they never owned
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Tokyo the way the Dodgers own it. So you're in
a fork in the road the way I look at it,
if you're the Yankees here to fork in the road,
you can you can either stop whining and figure it
out how to beat the Dodgers, or you can do
what losers do and complain and boo hoooo its not fair. Yeah,
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just like that, Like the Mets, They've entered the chet.
The Mets were the only team in the top seven
in payroll that didn't make the playoffs. And to that,
I say good, I say good, you spend big, you
should be rewarded with the playoff spot. Why would we celebrate?
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And this is the thing that blows me away. And
I've known this job a long time, and I've taken
a lot of calls from people that love cheap bosses.
I can't stand cheap bosses. They drive me nuts. Okay,
I can't stand them. I want to work for someone
that spoils their employees. I want to work for someone
that takes care of their employees. That would be teams
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like the Dodgers and the Mets, and teams like the
Phillies that spend a lot of money. That's why I
want to reform you people. You want to work for
the tightwad owner that's who you want to work for.
So I don't get it. I don't understand why you
would want to work for that person. But you celebrate cheapness,
You romanticize the minor league system, they prospect, you go
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on and on and on. So why should we celebrate?
And some makes mine. I'll listen. You explain to me
why we should celebrate the penny pinching tightwad owners in
sports like this is not a coupon clipping contest. It
should not be a coupon clipping contest. It should not
be that. And as the ratings have shown here in
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the World Series that the Dodgers being the bad guys,
gotta have a fall guy. I gotta have a bad guy.
The Dodgers are the bad guys, and that's good. Bad
is good. The Dodgers are the bad guys in every
league needs a villain, and right now that's the Dodgers,
and they lean to it into it. Dave Roberts after
winning the series against the Milwaukee Brewers, when he got
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up to the dais and said, let's ruin baseball. He's
leaning into the heel character for the Dodgers, and they
got Shohil Tani and Yoshinobu youam a Moto and Moki
Pets and Freddie Freeman, all these guys. They're the nWo
of MLB is what they are, the Dodgers at this point.
And you don't beat them by moaning behind a paywall
(29:58):
on the athletic website. There beat them by matching the
energy you have, the money, you can flex around, the
money and all that stuff. And Hol's out here wringing
his hands and complaining like he's worried about the price
of gasoline and the amount you're paying for eggs, eggs
and milk. He's very concerned about all that. So be
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more like your dad. Be more like your father and
less like the guy you've been. And the payroll isn't
the problem. The payroll is not the problem here. It
is not. The mindset is. And hal did take a shot.
There was a subtle shot at Brian Cashman and the
players that he's brought in when hal Steinbrenner said they've
played to their potential when they needed to, which is
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a sign of Hey, the Yankees haven't played to their
potential when they needed to. So it's a little subtle shot,
a little nuance, a lot of you don't even get it,
but that's what he said. That's what he said, So
I thought that was that was interesting. It's capitalism in cleats,
is what it is, and I'm fine with it. The
Dodgers are predators. The Yankees are They kind of sound
like pray is what they sound like? All right now,
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Page two two Queens. We go stand in the New
York metropolitan area and we go across the way. There
was a big trade that happened over the weekend. Nobody
paid attention to it because of the NFL, but we
mentioned it briefly in passing in a previous episode of
the show. Well, the Mets made a decision to trade
a fan favorite, Brandon Nimmo is bye bye. They traded
(31:26):
his ass for Marcus Simeon over the weekend. The Rangers
the team getting Brandon Nemo and the New York Mexic
Hall a choir Marcus Simeon in the trade. So that
was the deal. David Sterns, the general manager of the
New York Metropolitans, addressed all this. He said that last
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year talking about the Mets last year, he said last
year wasn't good enough and running it back with the
exact same group, wasn't the right thing to do? He
then put it out at Marcus Simeon balances our lineup
from the right side, which is something we were seeking
to do. Close quote a right. Let's jump off on
that point question for the esteem panel. Do you expect
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Marcus Simeon to make a big difference, a little difference
or no difference in compared to Brandon Neimo for the
twenty twenty five vintage of the New York Mets. So
the arrow on this one, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation,
the arrow on this trade it is pointing towards a
little difference, just a little tick, little tick, that's all.
(32:32):
That's all, not much, not much at at best, and
we know best means as good as all the rest.
You're not getting the twenty twenty Marcus Simeon. You're not
getting that guy. He's not that guy. Pal, He's thirty
five years old now, been around the block. It's been
around the block more than the mailman, our buddy in
Nebraska now delivering the mail, listening to the podcast, and
not just that on like a double shift, like a
(32:53):
mailman on a double shift, doing that kind of thing.
Three straight seasons. If you look at the law of
diminishing returns, three straight years, home runs, down doubles, down runs,
batted in down down, down, down, down, down, down, downtown,
down down down. Now he's headed to the back nine
of his career and he's now a New York Met. Congratulations,
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a lot of mild. He's a journeyman, productive player. Still
a journeyman player. Productive. Yeah, it's been productive. And it's
like that. He's a jumper cable, Marcus said, men a
jumper cable that barely sparks, barely sparks. And we categorize
this transaction as a red bull trade. Say it's a
(33:37):
red bull trade. It's not about baseball. It's about caffeine.
It's about caffeine. Here, it's corporate adderall for the New
York Mets that they had to do something to shake
it up. This is a wake up call. So wake
up call to the well paid New York Mets clubhouse.
(33:58):
Guys got comfy. That's the argument the Mets front office
is making that they underachieved. And when you underachieve, and
you're very happy with underachieving, you go out there and
you make a move that screams and this move screams
nobody is safe with the Mets other than Juan Soto
who's got the forever contract, but everyone else so right,
(34:19):
Brandon Nimmo was the sacrifice and he was the lamb.
He was the lamb, That's what he was. And so
they sent him out the pasture. Now think he's from Wyoming,
so I guess he's cool with going to the Rangers
and all that. And clubhouse accountability is now a thing
for the New York Mets. And this is the message.
You trade more than just it's just more than a
baseball trade. It's like it just is. That is a
(34:43):
move that said, well, on theory, they wanted just a
right handed bat. Okay, they want to balance the lineup.
Blah blah blah blah blah. It's not about balancing the lineup.
You're really naive if you think it's about balancing the lineup.
This is about balancing the ego and keeping all of
that stuff in check. This isn't a remodel. It's not
(35:04):
a remodel. It's a rearranging the furniture before company comes over.
You know, like you have your relatives, especially this week
right with Thanksgiving, people visiting family and you come into
town and like, oh, your house is really neat. Well
that's because they just spent an hour and a half
cleaning the house before you showed up. Or if you
have people coming in from your in laws or your family,
you come, they come over, they clean up. You're let's
(35:27):
let's clean this thing up. Man, Come on, we got
to clean it up. Is what we got to do.
And that's how it works. So will Simeon help the
Mets a little? I mean he's going to help the
Mets a little bit, but it's more about the noise.
You're trying to You're trying to change the noise in
the substance. Wake up call. Not a cure. Not a cure,
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certainly for the Mets. All right, now, final point. We
go to New Orleans. We go to New Orleans. Well,
Kellen Moore, that's a head coach. I bet you didn't
know Kellen Moore a head coach, right, probably didn't. Well,
Keller Moore the head coach of the football team in
New Orleans. Obviously not a good Let me just do
this real quick. This we have a computer that resets,
it goes to sleep mode. The companies decided that we
(36:11):
need to do this, so I have to hit this
button or else it's going to cause a big so
I'll hit the button. Hold on of sec here. All right,
we're good for another twenty minutes. Okay, that's outstanding. Let
me tell you what a great operation we've got here.
Is absolutely great. Anyway, all right, Big Time Network Radio. Anyway,
Kellen Moore, that's the back to the point. Kellen Moore,
(36:32):
the coach of the Saints, defending the team's decision to
have the tarnished creepy kicker Justin Tucker in for a tryout. Yep,
that Justin Tucky, thirty six years old. Big fan of
the the Robin Tug massage, A big fan of that.
(36:52):
Who isn't But he got accused of a bunch of
massage therapists accused him of being a touchy feely and
all that got sued, No krim charges, nothing criminal. Eight
different Baltimore area massage parlors. They got a lot of
massage parlors in Baltimore, and this happened. Last incident happened
(37:13):
in twenty sixteen, so it's been about a decade, about
a decade since all this went down. Anyway, he was suspended.
NFL investigated and they suspended him after a probe for
ten games. Justin Tucker and he was released by the
Ravens back in May after thirteen seasons in Baltimore answering
(37:36):
questions from sports with Coleman, and they claimed it was
a football decision at the time. So the question why
on earth would the nor Lands Saints be taking a
look at Justin Tucker at this point would make it
make sense. He's thirty six years old. There's a lot
of baggage there, so why even bother going down this
(37:58):
lane if you're the well, the Saints have officially if
you didn't know this by now, they have officially hit
the rock bottom buffet, the rock bottom off. They serve dirt,
they serve little pebbles and it's really delicious, just absolutely. Yeah.
They're six feet under the Saints franchise, all of New
Orleans is under, but this season they're on hospice care.
(38:21):
So congratulations on that. And this is the team as
the lights go out on the season. Yet again, they're
turning over every stone at that rock Bottom Buffet, every stone,
even the slimy ones. They're doing all of that and
it's not about the moral compass. I always loving people.
Oh it's about the morality. No, it's not. They sell
(38:45):
you a lot of slogans. The NFL is very good
at slogans, and they're very good about giving the illusion
that they care about certain things. But I've learned over
the years that they don't. They talk the talk, they
don't walk the walk. The NFL. It's like, let's just
give out some pins. We'll do. We'll just put messages
here and there, and dumb people like messages, so we'll
(39:06):
just go with the messages and that's that, and that
will appease the dumb people. But they're really the Saints
are back to be in the eights in more ways
than one. Right, they're desperate, they're rummaging through the NFL's
bargain bind at this point. Welcome to the National Football League.
And the greatest quote of all time about this topic
(39:27):
of conversation from a brief Fox Sports Radio employee. They
hired him for the NFL draft a couple of times.
He's more known as the Cardinals general manager Steve Kim,
who famously said if Hannibal Lecter could run a four
to four, the NFL would call it an eating disorder
is what they would call it. For Hannibal Lecter, there's
that so and it really sums up the entire NFL
(39:50):
in one quote. Like it or not. Football. The game
of football is a bottom line business. And the Saints
need a bottom the bottom lines. They need a field
goal kicker. And they figured, no one's watching our games anyway,
we'll bring this guy in and if he's kickers, can
kick till their mid forties, can play another ten years.
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Justin Tucker in a dome in New Orleans, although he
was slipping last year. So it's really simple. It's not
that hard. If guy makes the kick teams hold their nose.
They signed the paperwork and all that. And there's some
really good massage parlors in New Orleans, I've heard. I've
not been to any of them, but I've heard they're
really good. There's a lot of debauchery in New Orleans.
(40:32):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, that really good time there for
Justin Tucker. Yeah, hell, that man a lot. So it
is performance over principles and all that stuff. This cover
your nose, signed, the DOCU sign and that's it. And
for the NFL, they always go in the answer, do
the same thing they use the Iron Man playbook is
(40:52):
what they do deflect and absorb. And here's what they're
gonna say. They signed Tucker. They haven't signedim yet, but
if the Saints signed Justin Tucker, it's going to be Listen,
we did our due diligence, we believe in second chances.
We're focused on football, and they'll do what about is him?
Speaker 6 (41:10):
Well?
Speaker 1 (41:10):
What about Deshaun Watson? What he did was worse than
Justin Tucker. And Deshaun Watson's one of the highest paid
players in the NFL, has got guaranteed Money's on the
Cleveland Browns. You know he's worse. So that's what about is?
What about him? What about this guy? So the Saints
aren't really interviewing Justin Tucker, They're interviewing their own desperation,
and they figure they can get away with it because again,
(41:31):
who's watching the Saints. The Saints go marching into irrelevancy
and they got no quarterback, they got no star players. There.
It's a faceless franchise, it really is.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
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Speaker 1 (41:49):
Smeller that to the third degree. This is one big
Ben gets great.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
Ravens have won five games in a row and somehow
find themselves was back in first place in the AFC
North with a two time MVP at the helm. Are
the Ravens a team we have to look out for?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
They're not going to the super Bowl, They're definitely gonna
be a playoff team, I would say at this point.
But Lamar's actually not even played all that well. I
would say the Ravens are a team that'll be a
playoff team, But Lamar sucks in the playoffs. He's dinged
up seemingly every week. So big picture. No next.
Speaker 6 (42:27):
Former Browns player Lee Bonden, whoever that is, spoke with
TMZ this weekend. Who that is said now is the
perfect time for the cleaf for the Cleveland Browns to
move on from Kevin Stefanski.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah, and that they should replace him with Dion Sanders.
What are your thoughts, Ben? Has this guy seen Colorado
play football this year?
Speaker 6 (42:43):
Like?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
What are we doing here? Colorado's terrible? So I don't
I love Deon. It'd be good talk radio. I'd love
it as a talk show host. But he doesn't deserve
to be promoted the way he's done, the job he's
done in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
Next seems every day we get a new report that
another team is interested in training for Anthony Davis. If
you have to take a guess on where he ends up,
where would that be?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
How many stays in Texas and goes to the Spurs
They like injured players in San Antonio? Why not I
see him going across the state over to San Antonio. No,
the Bulls, No, the Knicks. Knicks? Then, oh, buy the Knicks.
How do we do he passes? That's a winner. Player
on the phone. I WoT the game. I won the game.
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Speaker 4 (43:48):
All?
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Right away we go, it's signed out for Mallos mount
of Mind. That's walking in our concessions. Quick right, quick, quick,
all right? Who do we we have? Dave in so
Cal just down the road there and Sino man. Hello, Dave, welcome,
all right, David, Hello, yeah, so Dave. Who would you
like to partner up with?
Speaker 6 (44:08):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (44:09):
You got me? Or cool? Let me get you? All right, Dave,
try to control your emotion. Hold on a sec and
then we have any meenie miney moe. Let's say hello
to far out Dave. Hello, far out Dave? Hey, hey Ben,
you know the time it is mean to you about
to work? I doubt that's going to happen. All right,
(44:31):
Hold on a sec.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Well, the category is quickly cool please all right? So
this is a Dave versus Dave matchup. The categories are
this Miley Cyrus edition, she turned thirty three on Sunday.
We have the best of both worlds, the Climb we
Can't Stop and wrecking Ball. So cal Dave, you were
on first? Which category would you like? Wrecking Ball?
Speaker 1 (44:56):
All right? And far Out Dave?
Speaker 6 (44:58):
That leaves you with we Can't Stop the or the
best of both worlds?
Speaker 1 (45:03):
All right? All right, very good. We'll put forty five
seconds on the clock. Gentlemen, we need the first and
last name. Dave Socow Dave? Are you ready? Sokow? David Nzino?
All right? These athletes have all had a reputation as
locker room cancers. We'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way go. He is a star receiver
for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's currently facing charges in Miami
(45:27):
wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Over.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yes, that is correct. The how about this agent zero
for the Washington Wizards, NBA player, also in trouble with
the law right now? Former NBA player? All right, he
was a third baseman, five hundred home run guy or
close to it. Was traded for Mike Piazza from the
(45:50):
Marlins to the Dodgers back in the nineties. Played with
the Yankees and the Mets and the Brewers, and was
a journeyman, hit a lot of home runs. No, how
about this legends he slept with Lebron's mom. Internet legend
says this guy slept. You didn't get that one? Yes, yes,
(46:12):
of course, all right, ten points, good job, tremendous job.
We didn't get Gary Stratfield Delante West Gilbert reads, yes, all.
Speaker 6 (46:26):
Right, far out, Dave, we have We can't stop that.
These athletes are part of some of the biggest winning
streaks in their sports.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Are you ready? Far out Dave?
Speaker 6 (46:36):
Get there, sorry right now. No, the other Dave Dave
from Ohio not not soak out, Dave. You're not playing
right now, not right now? All right, Dave. Forty five
seconds on the clock, begin all right. The best quarterback
of all time in the NFL. No, no, no, for
the Patriots, Tom Brady. Yes, this guy is the enforcer
(47:01):
on the Warriors. He likes to kick people in the nuts.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Green.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
Yes, this guy scored one hundred points in an NBA game.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Well Chamberlin, yep.
Speaker 6 (47:11):
This guy was the wide receiver on the Colts for
Peyton Manning after Marvin Harrison. Ahead, Okay, this guy was
on the Cleveland Indians. He's now on the Mets.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
He was shortstop.
Speaker 6 (47:24):
Yeah, Francis Francisco Lindor. Yes, this guy was the center
on the Indian Appris All right, day, we're up at
socowed David and Cino. You've got the climb, the or
the best of best. Both worlds were a climb.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Which one you want? Okay, why not? Let's do it.
Forty five seconds on the clock. We need first and
last name. These athletes are in both college and pro
football Hall of Forty five seconds. Here we go. Greatest
tackle in Rams history from Ohio State, played for the
(48:05):
Saint Louis Rams. No for the offensive tackle for the
Saint Louis Rams in the two thousands. Yeah, how about
wide receiver for the wide receiver for the Chargers nicknamed
Bambi in the nineteen sixties and seventies, Bambi, Bambi wide receiver.
(48:29):
Do you like sports? You enjoy sports? I like you
like Bambi? We should? Should we ask Bamby questions a
quarterback for the Colts when they won the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (48:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (48:43):
A primetime Colorado coach from prime primetime God twenty points? Yeah, Orlando,
Orlando pace, Atlanta, Hallwarth Why would you call the player
trivia game?
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so our lead this hour, don't burn the lead my
man art or not so the final game of the
(02:13):
weekend in the NFL, it is all over, just a
couple days off in the right back at it on Thanksgiving,
so it's just a brief pause in the NFL continues.
But our lead this hour from Santa Clara, not San Francisco.
Santa Clara, that is where the forty nine ers play
their home games, about forty five miles or so. As
(02:35):
a crow flies south of San Francisco, wach only take
you about three hours with traffic, so this was the
site of the final game of the weekend. There came
to an end. The curtain came down. You had Bryce
Young and the Panthers skidding in to the Bay Area
for a wrestling match with Brock Party. Oh my aching tow, Well,
(02:57):
he's back. Brock Party and the forty nine prety missed
a bunch of time with a messed up toe, but
he's back. This game was billed as the Christian McCaffrey
revenge Game. It's all about the revenge. Did you watch? No, okay,
you didn't miss anything. I'm not gonna sit here and
light you. Oh you should have seen this game. Oh
(03:18):
my god, No, I'm jealous. I mean I did get
paid to watch it. In theory, plausibly got paid to
watch it. But man alive. So Christian McCaffrey, he hits
the billing. I think it was his greatest game. He
had one hundred and forty two yards from scrimmage, touched
the ball a ton, ended up with one hundred and
forty two yards from scrimmage, scored a touchdown in his
first matchup against the team that he played for that
(03:42):
gave gave him away and give him away. They got
draft picks. Scratch your tickets, but that was the deal.
A couple of years back, McCaffrey went from Carolina to
San Francisco after he got paid by the Panthers and
then proceeded to get hurt on a regular basis, so
his first game there three years ago. Niners haven't won
any championships with Christian McCaffrey, and he's been very productive
(04:05):
for them. The Niners get the ugly twenty to nine
win the final over the Panthers. McCaffrey gets the Niners
with his performance to eight and four on the season.
They were able to overcome the systemic and competence of
Brock Party, who threw not one, not two, but three
interceptions earlier. Holy Ernesto in the Bay our guy there,
(04:29):
Big forty nine er far not happy with Rock Party,
but they are still in playoff position. The Niners with
that eighth win heading into the stretch run of the
regular season and down the stretch we go in the NFL. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. Carolina
had an opportunity, somehow, some way. Carolina had a shot
(04:50):
to move into the penthouse of the Outhouse, which is
the NFC South. If they had won this game. Ifs
and butts were candy and nuts, it'd be Christmas every day.
It's not so Bryce Young went out there and better
store in the losing locker room. How did he do?
Bryce Young failing yet again, yet again to get the
(05:11):
job done. The former number one overall traffic had one
hundred and sixty nine yards, barely had that one touchdown,
and not one but two interceptions. That is a good
jumping off points. So let us discuss the question. How
do you evaluate Bryce Young's performance for Carolina in a
(05:35):
game that was certainly winnable. It's not like the Niners
were that great. The game was right there for the
taking in Carolina unable to take it. So my views
on this, I've got Panda Express, Zoo Animal and Express
pros and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to put the biscuit in the basket,
(05:55):
is what we're going to do. Just put the biscuit
in the basket. So hey, we'll start with this. The
Carolina Pans watching them play, and I don't watch every game,
and I flip around. They usually play in the early
TV window on Sunday, But watching the Carolina Panthers play.
It's like a Nantucket sleigh ride watching them play. They
hooked the whale. They thought they hooked the whale, Bryce Young,
(06:16):
and now they're getting dragged every week. Every week they're
getting dragged. And this was another opportunity to prove the
haters wrong and prove that you knew what you were doing. Instead,
he proved them right. He proved them right with this performance.
It was an island game. Everyone was watching. Everyone was
watching against a battle scarred, weather beaten defense. They did
(06:42):
have Fred Warner and Nick Bosa in the stadium. They
happened to be watching while eating nachos and popcorn in
luxury boxes. They showed them on the TV. They were
not playing. They were not playing in the game. And
the Niners brock Perdy tried to and the game. The
Carolina try to give him the game. Here's the game.
(07:04):
We don't want the guy. Take the guy, take the guy.
And what happened. Well, the quarterback there, Bryce Young's like,
you know what, it's very polite, it's very pro out
of you try to give us the game. You know what,
we don't really want that big road win. No, we
why would we want that to come on Bryce. Now,
we're good, We're here's here's another punt. We're gonna punt
(07:28):
the ball. Knock yourself out, enjoyed the ball. My god,
what a debacle, What an absolute debacle watching Bryce Young
try to play quarterback. And then, as many have pointed out,
he's very robotic. You can tell he's been schooled. I
don't know whether it was Nick Saban or the people
that are riding his coat tails making their living off
(07:49):
his performance and his you know, his posse of people
that are around him. All these athletes have groups of
people that are hangers on, and somebody gave him these
sports cliche one oh one, right, Reiki, I saw his
news con be. Very robotic is the word I keep
going back to. Anyway, here's a little taste of Bryce
Young talking about the trip back to North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Playing right back's gonna suck. I don't even know if
we have the twenty four hour luxury now when it's
you know, we're all competitors. It sucks to have this
outcome again. We don't have luxuries to think about big
picture you think of that's that's not a good recipe
for this league. Everyone demands our most intention so we'll
fill the page and go next week.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know, he reminds me of a zombie. He's saying
things that you would determine or write. You don't feel
like it's legit, Like you know what I'm saying. You
ever talk to him his phony. I do a podcast
on the weekends. I used to do a lot of
interviews on the podcast, and then I realized almost all
of them are terrible, So what am I doing? Uh,
wasting my time? So I stopped doing them. But I
(08:50):
had a lot of people on over the years on
the podcast. One of the ones that stand out is
this guy named Tim Donahey. Now I don't know if
you know who Tim Donnie is or not. Tim Donahey
is the guy that was fixing NBA games and got caught.
By the way, I'm sure he's not the only one
as far as referees. He just happened to be the
one that got busted years ago, and he wrote a
book about it. There's been documentaries about Tim Donnie. So
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I had him on my podcast, very excited to get
him on, like this is big Tim Donnie. This guy's
big scandal on the big scandals of my life, and
this guy was a central figure in it, involving like
the mob, and so we had him on and asked
him a bunch of questions and he just was lifeless.
He answered the questions like a zombie. And that I
watched Bryce Young interview and it's like, there's no real emotion.
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I just like, here's what I'm supposed to say. I'm
gonna say it. I'm not gonna put any feeling, you know,
because I don't believe any of it. And that's that
you talk about blowing an opportunity. I mean, this was it.
And here's a refresher course, by the way, on Bryce Young.
Bryce Young is not a super nova. He is not
a super nova. He's the Panda Express. Sweet and sour
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chicken is what he is. He's a that's that's that's
essentially what he is. Right, And you think you're getting
something flavorful. You gown a Panda Express and I used
to eat there all the time back and they go
in there, Panta get that. You get that sweet and
sour chicken, and then you find out that it was
made two hours ago. It's lukewarm, it's soggy in five minutes,
and you're like, holy crap. What happened? Consistently inconsistent. Yeah,
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so a week ago, somehow the Atlanta Falcons should be
sent to the Canadian Football that we should trade the
Falcons for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. They allowed Bryce Young
to throw for four hundred and forty eight yards in
the previous game, this week one hundred and sixty nine yards. Now,
we did expect this to happen, right, We expected him
to have a worse performance. Of course, because he had
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a career game. You're gonna be worse. And this is
more of the standard performance for the quarterback there, Bryce Young.
By the way, that is a sixty two decline from
his previous performance. The two interceptions, now, brock Purty gift
wrapped three possessions in a row ended with interceptions for
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the forty nine ers in the first half, three straight.
That is literally, as we said, giving you the game.
And what did Carolina do. They turned those three interceptions
into three points one field goal. That's it, that's all three.
That's criminal. In fact, this entire game was an FCC
warning obscenity and decency and profanity watching this particular game.
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And hey, we were never really in on this guy,
the little fella. We're definitely out on the quarterback, Bryce
Young if you haven't figured out that part of the story.
This and the Carolina Panthers, they swung big, They traded
for the wrong guy. They gave up the family jewels
to the Bears to get their hands on this other
worldly quarterback, and they ended up getting a country bumpkin.
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They didn't want a country bumpkin. They got a country
bumping that is regular mouthfeasance with him out there, quarterback
that you get in Carolina. They need competence, and they've
got a lot of confusion, a lot of confusion with
him out there. And you cannot have a quarterback, cannot
have it who plays real suite one week and then
sour the next two or three. And that's what happened.
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You need a driver. Gotta have a driver, right, You
gotta have a driver, and you got a passenger. You
got somebody to buy, ticking the back of the bus,
high pick, low impact. That's pretty much it. And the
Panthers now that they have to hit the flea market,
they have to get either another reject from somebody else
or draft somebody and start this whole thing over. This
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is not the guy, and you're not gonna pay him.
Why would you pay him? He sucks, So there's no
reason to pay him, and you're gonna have to move on,
all right. Meanwhile, on the other side, the San Francisco
side of things, So what is your appraisal, here's the question,
what is your appraisal of the other quarterback, brock Perdy
and his play for the Niners in this Monday night game.
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So I have an unpopular opinion, unpopular opinion, alert, unpopular opinion.
All right, here's my unpopular opinion. We just slayed Bryce Young.
How bad Bryce Young was? Brock Purdy was more humiliating.
He actually was worse than Bryce Young. If that's possible
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that brock Purty could be worse than Bryce Young. He was.
And here's why Bryce Young is still in the beta
testing mode. He's in the beta testing mode. He's still
running on the pre release software. They have not signed him,
they have not given him the bag in Carolina, Brockhurdy,
brock Purty, Hurdy, rock Purty, Freudian slip. Brock Purdy got
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the loot, he got the train heist from the forty
nine ers. So he's not the trial version they've signed
up for the full subscription model. The forty nine ers
with Brock Purty, John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan, the smartest
people in the room, did the full background check. They
dated for a while, had a cute little romance. It
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was wonderful, puppy dog eyes, the whole thing, little netflix
and chill. They were friends with benefits for a while,
and they Niner said, let's put a ring on it.
So they put a ring on it. And they gave
him one hundred and eighty two million. They gave that
guy one hundred eight too billion, one hundred eight too big.
I can't play. They gave a guy who can't play
all right, too billion. Even Terry in England, the big
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forty nine er fans crying right now, Oh my god,
forty one million dollars per per year. It's gonna go off.
That's where he is right now. Forty one million dollars
a year for this guy. And what do they get
if brock Perty was a zoo animal. If he was
a zoo animal, what would rock pretty be. He would
be a donkey, but he would be a swamp donkey,
if you know what I'm saying. And man, did that
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look like a forty one million dollars a year quarterback.
I don't think so. One hundred and sixty nine yards
and three picks I jotted down. I was writing some
notes on my notes thing on my phone while I
was watching the game. And he should have had three
more interceptions. The Panthers drop two, and I'll say two
for sure. The third other one was iffy, but they
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could have six interceptions of the game. Panthers defensively, they're
not that great. They're okay, they're not that great. And
they turned him into a sock puppet brock Party and
my god, he was like, he was daring Carolina, Hey,
pick me off. I'm gonna just throw it. I'm gonna,
like I said, I'm Stevie Meatballs, I'm gonna be blind
and just chuck the ball up. We'll see what happens here.
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And so the ugly truth is, and people don't want
to say it, brock Purty is just a system guy.
If everything's great around him, he's fine. Well, everything's not
great around him right now. He's clearly not fine. The Niners,
they were thinking they were gonna get a Ferrari, They
ended up getting a Kia. They paid for a Ferrari.
They paid a Ferrari price, so they got a Kia.
And he's just the middle of the pack guy, that's
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all he is. And now they're seemingly stuck with him.
And I was thinking, convince another dumb team like the
Jets of somebody to take brock Party off their hands.
Good luck, all sales are final in terms of the contract.
The Panthers defense, making Brock Purty look bedraggled, a big
draggled Brock. That should be his nickname be draggled brock
rattled and all of that, like he was searching for
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his Stuffy in the middle of the game. I need
my support, Stuffy. Where's my Stuffy? Uh? Yeah? And this
is who he is. That's that's the that's what we
tried to warn. The Niners say, oh, you're just a
ram fit. Well you do the Overnight show you. I'm
not gonna listen to you. I tried to tell you, okay,
I tried to help you out. Did you listen.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Did the Niners listen?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Well, good luck. I'm actually happy you didn't listen. And
I laugh at you. I laugh at you because this
ain't the guy this ain't the guy. You're not the guy, Poalp,
You're not. It's the boondoggle by the Bay, the boondoggle
by the Bay with Brock Party. That's what it is. Here.
We have seen better turn on investment by sir scratch
(17:02):
Off going out and buying seven thousand Scratcher tickets. You
get more bang for your buck. Okay, we've seen that.
Party's not overrated. He's not. He's not overrated. He's just
poorly rated and overpaid is what he is. All right. Meanwhile,
last word, we go to the broadcast booth on a
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B Robert Salah, the defensive coordinator of the forty nine ers. Now,
if you didn't know Robert Sala was the forty nine
ers defensive coordinator, you knew everything about him by the
end of the broadcast. Okay, they featured him. He was
the star of the broadcast. They showed him, they gave
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him more screen time. Robert Salah the former Jets coach
than Kyle Shanahan, the actual head coach of you know,
the NFL team in Northern California. So the question, what
did you take away from the forty nine ers defensive
coordinator Robert Sala getting the spotlight on Monday Night football.
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So the ABC broadcast turned into the Robert Sala Showcase.
It was like a job fare for Robert Sala. They
showed him over and over and over and over, and
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox refugees over there
at NBC. They were full slobber chops, saber slapper slabbert.
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They gave him the manny in the first half and
the petty in the second half. Very nice. It sounded
like they were lobbying for this guy to get another
head coaching job. It felt like an Express Pros commercial
that we do every once in a while here on
Fox Sports Radio, not a football games. Oh look at Roberts.
You knew that they had crossed the rubicon when Carolina
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missed a field goal and they got a reaction shot
of Robert South. He's the he's not a special team's coach.
He's the defensive coordinator. And they wanted a reaction shot
of the defensive coordinator when Carolina fed up a field goal. Hello,
what are we doing, dummies? Dumb dumb? What are you doing,
dum dumb? He's a divisive coordinator, all right, listen, we
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get it sala. He was on TV more than brock
Perty in this game, and he was fist pumping and
chest bumping and gyrating and all of that like he'd
taken three smelling salts or snorted something. I don't know what,
but he was jumping up and down. And they've done
this before. They did this when he was with San
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Francisco before, the same thing. Right, the legend of Robert Salah,
The legend of Robert Salah. Animated celebrations, awkward sideline interactions,
miked up meme material. He's become over his coaching career.
He's a sideline spectacle, is what he is. He's a
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walking gift factory Robert Salad. When he's on there coaching
the forty nine defensively, you'd think with that kind of
television time that he's got Sean McVeigh like credentials and
just amazing. Then you read the fine print. Let me
see her. So he coached let me see fifty six
games with the Jets and had a three point fifty
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eight winning percentage. I don't think that's good. Never made
the playoffs, not once. Was an abject failure as head
coach of the Jets. So there is that now. Regardless,
the broadcast on ABC treated him like he was the
next hot thing in coaching, like the next big thing,
and Buck and Aikman right there on the broadcast they
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were greasing the skids for a second act. Give this
man or another opportunity and NFL teams, you got to
take a look at this guy. That was the vibe.
That was the vibe they were given out. And it's
like Kyle Shannan, the actual coach, looked like an extra
in the movie. It was so absurd. Am I the
only one that noticed this? But maybe I'm the only
one that notices. I just it was one of those things.
The game was sucked, and I was like, I'm watching
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the game, like, buy this really stinks, man. And then
they kept showing Salad. Why they're showing him he sucked
as a head coach. What are they doing? And the
tipping point and I was gonna bring this up later,
but the tipping point was when they missed that Carolin
missed the field goal which went him close. And then
they cut to a reaction shot from Robert Sala. This
is so perfect. He's even a special teams coach. They
cut to a reaction shot. It's great. He sells the emotion,
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he sells it. He must be a great guy in
those production meetings, very photogenic on TV, and there is
clearly a shortage of good coaches, So who the hell knows?
Would it shocked me if Robert Sala got another opportunity somewhere,
because it's well, he just needs a second chance. You
gotta have a second chance.
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Or wherever you get your podcasts. So I had a
dud of a Monday night game, so We're not going
to revisit that the Niners win a clunker over the
Carolina Panthers. But I'll lead this hour from the Bronx.
What are you doing? Why would you do this? It's
a good story, that's why. So the Yankees are owned
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by the spawn of the Boss, George Steinbrener, long gone
from this mortal coil. So he gave the team to
the kids. And the Yankees are being run on the
day to day by hal Steinbrenner, who shocked a lot
of people recently. When we need an interview behind a
paywall at the Athletic and hal Steinbrenner expressed, quote can
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about the Dodgers winning back to back championships. So did
you see this? No, no, you did not, Okay, he said,
of course, it's a concern, hal Steinbrenner moaned behind a
paywall at the Athletic. He went into detail on the
Dodgers playing to their potential, that's the way he phrased it,
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to their potential when they needed to. He also made
an erroneous statement that the Dodgers got healthy at the
right time, which is incorrect. They were not healthy in
the World Series and they still won anyway, he said,
of course, it's always a concern. Here's the money quote,
It's always a concern. How Steinbrenner said, when you feel
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that one team is pulling away from the other twenty
nine or selfishly pulling away from me close quote mean
being the Yankees. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question. Yankees owner House Brenner has
quote concern over the Dodgers payroll and the fact that
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they've won now back to back World Series. How does
that one hit you? How does that one hit you?
So I've got Goose, Red Bull, and iron Man, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to hit the bullseye right there, bang bang,
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right in the bullseye. So number on. My first thought
is boo freaking who You've gotta be kidding me, right,
I thought? When I saw these quotes, I initially thought, Okay,
this has got to be like Sports Talk Berry the
Onion butt Crack Sports, one of the parody sites, one
(24:52):
of the gag sites that Goose sends fake stuff up.
So I read it again, and then I read it again,
and then another time I went back and late I said,
let me do that one more time, just about I
don't want to get punked here. Yeah, this hits you,
It's real. It hits you like a fifty pound cartoon
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anville of Hutzba. It just boom right at the top
of your head of hutsba. His old man, George, George
George George George George George Steinbrenner. He'd said, well, ifs
and butts were candy nuts and all that, but if
Steinbrenner was still around, it is more probable than not
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that George Steinbrenner would have gone to the Winter Meetings
this year, which haven't happened yet. He would go into
the Winter Meetings. He would kick down the door and
then enter like the kool Aid man and going there
and he'd sign not one, not two, but three, three
All Stars out of pure spite because the Dodgers have
won back to back World Series. He'd signed a starting pitcher,
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he's signed a closer, and he'd sign high Swarber. Yeah, yeah,
he'd do it. He'd do it. The kids not so much,
not so much. Why it's old family money. They inherited
the cash machine. All right, this is the golden goose.
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You don't want to give away any of the golden
eggs any more than you have to when you have
a golden goose. So they talk about fiscal responsibility, the
New York Yankees talking about fiscal responsibility. Does it get
any zanier than that? Come on, now, we're not at
the dentist office here, We're not doing some dental hygiene.
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It's the damn New York Yankees. And you're going down
that avenue. You should never go down that avenue. Cry
me the Hudson River howl, all right, or even the
East River. The Dodgers spend and spend and spend. Some
of the Yankees they should spend the same amount. The
Yankees have a choke hold on the Japanese market. They've
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got Tokyo covered in Dodger blue. It's a haze of
Dodger blue and all that stuff. However, what a concept
the Yankees. The Dodgers are what the Yankees used to
be when the old man owned the team. That's the
same thing is Dodgers. That the Yankees never had Japan
even though they had some Japanese players, they never owned
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Tokyo the way the Dodgers own it. So you're in
a fork in the road the way I look at it,
if you're the Yankees here to fork in the road,
you can you can either stop whining and figure it
out how to beat the Dodgers, or you can do
what losers do and complain and boo hoooo its not fair. Yeah,
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just like that, Like the Mets, They've entered the chet.
The Mets were the only team in the top seven
in payroll that didn't make the playoffs. And to that,
I say good, I say good, you spend big, you
should be rewarded with the playoff spot. Why would we celebrate?
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And this is the thing that blows me away. And
I've known this job a long time, and I've taken
a lot of calls from people that love cheap bosses.
I can't stand cheap bosses. They drive me nuts. Okay,
I can't stand them. I want to work for someone
that spoils their employees. I want to work for someone
that takes care of their employees. That would be teams
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like the Dodgers and the Mets, and teams like the
Phillies that spend a lot of money. That's why I
want to reform you people. You want to work for
the tightwad owner that's who you want to work for.
So I don't get it. I don't understand why you
would want to work for that person. But you celebrate cheapness,
You romanticize the minor league system, they prospect, you go
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on and on and on. So why should we celebrate?
And some makes mine. I'll listen. You explain to me
why we should celebrate the penny pinching tightwad owners in
sports like this is not a coupon clipping contest. It
should not be a coupon clipping contest. It should not
be that. And as the ratings have shown here in
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the World Series that the Dodgers being the bad guys,
gotta have a fall guy. I gotta have a bad guy.
The Dodgers are the bad guys, and that's good. Bad
is good. The Dodgers are the bad guys in every
league needs a villain, and right now that's the Dodgers,
and they lean to it into it. Dave Roberts after
winning the series against the Milwaukee Brewers, when he got
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up to the dais and said, let's ruin baseball. He's
leaning into the heel character for the Dodgers, and they
got Shohil Tani and Yoshinobu youam a Moto and Moki
Pets and Freddie Freeman, all these guys. They're the nWo
of MLB is what they are, the Dodgers at this point.
And you don't beat them by moaning behind a paywall
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on the athletic website. There beat them by matching the
energy you have, the money, you can flex around, the
money and all that stuff. And Hol's out here wringing
his hands and complaining like he's worried about the price
of gasoline and the amount you're paying for eggs, eggs
and milk. He's very concerned about all that. So be
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more like your dad. Be more like your father and
less like the guy you've been. And the payroll isn't
the problem. The payroll is not the problem here. It
is not. The mindset is. And hal did take a shot.
There was a subtle shot at Brian Cashman and the
players that he's brought in when hal Steinbrenner said they've
played to their potential when they needed to, which is
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a sign of Hey, the Yankees haven't played to their
potential when they needed to. So it's a little subtle shot,
a little nuance, a lot of you don't even get it,
but that's what he said. That's what he said, So
I thought that was that was interesting. It's capitalism in cleats,
is what it is, and I'm fine with it. The
Dodgers are predators. The Yankees are They kind of sound
like pray is what they sound like? All right now,
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Page two two Queens. We go stand in the New
York metropolitan area and we go across the way. There
was a big trade that happened over the weekend. Nobody
paid attention to it because of the NFL, but we
mentioned it briefly in passing in a previous episode of
the show. Well, the Mets made a decision to trade
a fan favorite, Brandon Nimmo is bye bye. They traded
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his ass for Marcus Simeon over the weekend. The Rangers
the team getting Brandon Nemo and the New York Mexic
Hall a choir Marcus Simeon in the trade. So that
was the deal. David Sterns, the general manager of the
New York Metropolitans, addressed all this. He said that last
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year talking about the Mets last year, he said last
year wasn't good enough and running it back with the
exact same group, wasn't the right thing to do? He
then put it out at Marcus Simeon balances our lineup
from the right side, which is something we were seeking
to do. Close quote a right. Let's jump off on
that point question for the esteem panel. Do you expect
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Marcus Simeon to make a big difference, a little difference
or no difference in compared to Brandon Neimo for the
twenty twenty five vintage of the New York Mets. So
the arrow on this one, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation,
the arrow on this trade it is pointing towards a
little difference, just a little tick, little tick, that's all.
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That's all, not much, not much at at best, and
we know best means as good as all the rest.
You're not getting the twenty twenty Marcus Simeon. You're not
getting that guy. He's not that guy. Pal, He's thirty
five years old now, been around the block. It's been
around the block more than the mailman, our buddy in
Nebraska now delivering the mail, listening to the podcast, and
not just that on like a double shift, like a
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mailman on a double shift, doing that kind of thing.
Three straight seasons. If you look at the law of
diminishing returns, three straight years, home runs, down doubles, down runs,
batted in down down, down, down, down, down, down, downtown,
down down down. Now he's headed to the back nine
of his career and he's now a New York Met. Congratulations,
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a lot of mild. He's a journeyman, productive player. Still
a journeyman player. Productive. Yeah, it's been productive. And it's
like that. He's a jumper cable, Marcus said, men a
jumper cable that barely sparks, barely sparks. And we categorize
this transaction as a red bull trade. Say it's a
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red bull trade. It's not about baseball. It's about caffeine.
It's about caffeine. Here, it's corporate adderall for the New
York Mets that they had to do something to shake
it up. This is a wake up call. So wake
up call to the well paid New York Mets clubhouse.
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Guys got comfy. That's the argument the Mets front office
is making that they underachieved. And when you underachieve, and
you're very happy with underachieving, you go out there and
you make a move that screams and this move screams
nobody is safe with the Mets other than Juan Soto
who's got the forever contract, but everyone else so right,
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Brandon Nimmo was the sacrifice and he was the lamb.
He was the lamb, That's what he was. And so
they sent him out the pasture. Now think he's from Wyoming,
so I guess he's cool with going to the Rangers
and all that. And clubhouse accountability is now a thing
for the New York Mets. And this is the message.
You trade more than just it's just more than a
baseball trade. It's like it just is. That is a
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move that said, well, on theory, they wanted just a
right handed bat. Okay, they want to balance the lineup.
Blah blah blah blah blah. It's not about balancing the lineup.
You're really naive if you think it's about balancing the lineup.
This is about balancing the ego and keeping all of
that stuff in check. This isn't a remodel. It's not
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a remodel. It's a rearranging the furniture before company comes over.
You know, like you have your relatives, especially this week
right with Thanksgiving, people visiting family and you come into
town and like, oh, your house is really neat. Well
that's because they just spent an hour and a half
cleaning the house before you showed up. Or if you
have people coming in from your in laws or your family,
you come, they come over, they clean up. You're let's
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let's clean this thing up. Man, Come on, we got
to clean it up. Is what we got to do.
And that's how it works. So will Simeon help the
Mets a little? I mean he's going to help the
Mets a little bit, but it's more about the noise.
You're trying to You're trying to change the noise in
the substance. Wake up call. Not a cure. Not a cure,
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certainly for the Mets. All right, now, final point. We
go to New Orleans. We go to New Orleans. Well,
Kellen Moore, that's a head coach. I bet you didn't
know Kellen Moore a head coach, right, probably didn't. Well,
Keller Moore the head coach of the football team in
New Orleans. Obviously not a good Let me just do
this real quick. This we have a computer that resets,
it goes to sleep mode. The companies decided that we
(36:11):
need to do this, so I have to hit this
button or else it's going to cause a big so
I'll hit the button. Hold on of sec here. All right,
we're good for another twenty minutes. Okay, that's outstanding. Let
me tell you what a great operation we've got here.
Is absolutely great. Anyway, all right, Big Time Network Radio. Anyway,
Kellen Moore, that's the back to the point. Kellen Moore,
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the coach of the Saints, defending the team's decision to
have the tarnished creepy kicker Justin Tucker in for a tryout. Yep,
that Justin Tucky, thirty six years old. Big fan of
the the Robin Tug massage, A big fan of that.
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Who isn't But he got accused of a bunch of
massage therapists accused him of being a touchy feely and
all that got sued, No krim charges, nothing criminal. Eight
different Baltimore area massage parlors. They got a lot of
massage parlors in Baltimore, and this happened. Last incident happened
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in twenty sixteen, so it's been about a decade, about
a decade since all this went down. Anyway, he was suspended.
NFL investigated and they suspended him after a probe for
ten games. Justin Tucker and he was released by the
Ravens back in May after thirteen seasons in Baltimore answering
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questions from sports with Coleman, and they claimed it was
a football decision at the time. So the question why
on earth would the nor Lands Saints be taking a
look at Justin Tucker at this point would make it
make sense. He's thirty six years old. There's a lot
of baggage there, so why even bother going down this
(37:58):
lane if you're the well, the Saints have officially if
you didn't know this by now, they have officially hit
the rock bottom buffet, the rock bottom off. They serve dirt,
they serve little pebbles and it's really delicious, just absolutely. Yeah.
They're six feet under the Saints franchise, all of New
Orleans is under, but this season they're on hospice care.
(38:21):
So congratulations on that. And this is the team as
the lights go out on the season. Yet again, they're
turning over every stone at that rock Bottom Buffet, every stone,
even the slimy ones. They're doing all of that and
it's not about the moral compass. I always loving people.
Oh it's about the morality. No, it's not. They sell
(38:45):
you a lot of slogans. The NFL is very good
at slogans, and they're very good about giving the illusion
that they care about certain things. But I've learned over
the years that they don't. They talk the talk, they
don't walk the walk. The NFL. It's like, let's just
give out some pins. We'll do. We'll just put messages
here and there, and dumb people like messages, so we'll
(39:06):
just go with the messages and that's that, and that
will appease the dumb people. But they're really the Saints
are back to be in the eights in more ways
than one. Right, they're desperate, they're rummaging through the NFL's
bargain bind at this point. Welcome to the National Football League.
And the greatest quote of all time about this topic
(39:27):
of conversation from a brief Fox Sports Radio employee. They
hired him for the NFL draft a couple of times.
He's more known as the Cardinals general manager Steve Kim,
who famously said if Hannibal Lecter could run a four
to four, the NFL would call it an eating disorder
is what they would call it. For Hannibal Lecter, there's
that so and it really sums up the entire NFL
(39:50):
in one quote. Like it or not. Football. The game
of football is a bottom line business. And the Saints
need a bottom the bottom lines. They need a field
goal kicker. And they figured, no one's watching our games anyway,
we'll bring this guy in and if he's kickers, can
kick till their mid forties, can play another ten years.
(40:11):
Justin Tucker in a dome in New Orleans, although he
was slipping last year. So it's really simple. It's not
that hard. If guy makes the kick teams hold their nose.
They signed the paperwork and all that. And there's some
really good massage parlors in New Orleans, I've heard. I've
not been to any of them, but I've heard they're
really good. There's a lot of debauchery in New Orleans.
(40:32):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, that really good time there for
Justin Tucker. Yeah, hell, that man a lot. So it
is performance over principles and all that stuff. This cover
your nose, signed, the DOCU sign and that's it. And
for the NFL, they always go in the answer, do
the same thing they use the Iron Man playbook is
(40:52):
what they do deflect and absorb. And here's what they're
gonna say. They signed Tucker. They haven't signedim yet, but
if the Saints signed Justin Tucker, it's going to be Listen,
we did our due diligence, we believe in second chances.
We're focused on football, and they'll do what about is him?
Speaker 6 (41:10):
Well?
Speaker 1 (41:10):
What about Deshaun Watson? What he did was worse than
Justin Tucker. And Deshaun Watson's one of the highest paid
players in the NFL, has got guaranteed Money's on the
Cleveland Browns. You know he's worse. So that's what about is?
What about him? What about this guy? So the Saints
aren't really interviewing Justin Tucker, They're interviewing their own desperation,
and they figure they can get away with it because again,
(41:31):
who's watching the Saints. The Saints go marching into irrelevancy
and they got no quarterback, they got no star players. There.
It's a faceless franchise, it really is.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
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Speaker 1 (41:49):
Smeller that to the third degree. This is one big
Ben gets great.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
Ravens have won five games in a row and somehow
find themselves was back in first place in the AFC
North with a two time MVP at the helm. Are
the Ravens a team we have to look out for?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
They're not going to the super Bowl, They're definitely gonna
be a playoff team, I would say at this point.
But Lamar's actually not even played all that well. I
would say the Ravens are a team that'll be a
playoff team, But Lamar sucks in the playoffs. He's dinged
up seemingly every week. So big picture. No next.
Speaker 6 (42:27):
Former Browns player Lee Bonden, whoever that is, spoke with
TMZ this weekend. Who that is said now is the
perfect time for the cleaf for the Cleveland Browns to
move on from Kevin Stefanski.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah, and that they should replace him with Dion Sanders.
What are your thoughts, Ben? Has this guy seen Colorado
play football this year?
Speaker 6 (42:43):
Like?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
What are we doing here? Colorado's terrible? So I don't
I love Deon. It'd be good talk radio. I'd love
it as a talk show host. But he doesn't deserve
to be promoted the way he's done, the job he's
done in Colorado.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
Next seems every day we get a new report that
another team is interested in training for Anthony Davis. If
you have to take a guess on where he ends up,
where would that be?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
How many stays in Texas and goes to the Spurs
They like injured players in San Antonio? Why not I
see him going across the state over to San Antonio. No,
the Bulls, No, the Knicks. Knicks? Then, oh, buy the Knicks.
How do we do he passes? That's a winner. Player
on the phone. I WoT the game. I won the game.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
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Speaker 4 (43:48):
All?
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Right away we go, it's signed out for Mallos mount
of Mind. That's walking in our concessions. Quick right, quick, quick,
all right? Who do we we have? Dave in so
Cal just down the road there and Sino man. Hello, Dave, welcome,
all right, David, Hello, yeah, so Dave. Who would you
like to partner up with?
Speaker 6 (44:08):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (44:09):
You got me? Or cool? Let me get you? All right, Dave,
try to control your emotion. Hold on a sec and
then we have any meenie miney moe. Let's say hello
to far out Dave. Hello, far out Dave? Hey, hey Ben,
you know the time it is mean to you about
to work? I doubt that's going to happen. All right,
(44:31):
Hold on a sec.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Well, the category is quickly cool please all right? So
this is a Dave versus Dave matchup. The categories are
this Miley Cyrus edition, she turned thirty three on Sunday.
We have the best of both worlds, the Climb we
Can't Stop and wrecking Ball. So cal Dave, you were
on first? Which category would you like? Wrecking Ball?
Speaker 1 (44:56):
All right? And far Out Dave?
Speaker 6 (44:58):
That leaves you with we Can't Stop the or the
best of both worlds?
Speaker 1 (45:03):
All right? All right, very good. We'll put forty five
seconds on the clock. Gentlemen, we need the first and
last name. Dave Socow Dave? Are you ready? Sokow? David Nzino?
All right? These athletes have all had a reputation as
locker room cancers. We'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way go. He is a star receiver
for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's currently facing charges in Miami
(45:27):
wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Over.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yes, that is correct. The how about this agent zero
for the Washington Wizards, NBA player, also in trouble with
the law right now? Former NBA player? All right, he
was a third baseman, five hundred home run guy or
close to it. Was traded for Mike Piazza from the
(45:50):
Marlins to the Dodgers back in the nineties. Played with
the Yankees and the Mets and the Brewers, and was
a journeyman, hit a lot of home runs. No, how
about this legends he slept with Lebron's mom. Internet legend
says this guy slept. You didn't get that one? Yes, yes,
(46:12):
of course, all right, ten points, good job, tremendous job.
We didn't get Gary Stratfield Delante West Gilbert reads, yes, all.
Speaker 6 (46:26):
Right, far out, Dave, we have We can't stop that.
These athletes are part of some of the biggest winning
streaks in their sports.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Are you ready? Far out Dave?
Speaker 6 (46:36):
Get there, sorry right now. No, the other Dave Dave
from Ohio not not soak out, Dave. You're not playing
right now, not right now? All right, Dave. Forty five
seconds on the clock, begin all right. The best quarterback
of all time in the NFL. No, no, no, for
the Patriots, Tom Brady. Yes, this guy is the enforcer
(47:01):
on the Warriors. He likes to kick people in the nuts.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
Green.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
Yes, this guy scored one hundred points in an NBA game.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Well Chamberlin, yep.
Speaker 6 (47:11):
This guy was the wide receiver on the Colts for
Peyton Manning after Marvin Harrison. Ahead, Okay, this guy was
on the Cleveland Indians. He's now on the Mets.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
He was shortstop.
Speaker 6 (47:24):
Yeah, Francis Francisco Lindor. Yes, this guy was the center
on the Indian Appris All right, day, we're up at
socowed David and Cino. You've got the climb, the or
the best of best. Both worlds were a climb.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Which one you want? Okay, why not? Let's do it.
Forty five seconds on the clock. We need first and
last name. These athletes are in both college and pro
football Hall of Forty five seconds. Here we go. Greatest
tackle in Rams history from Ohio State, played for the
(48:05):
Saint Louis Rams. No for the offensive tackle for the
Saint Louis Rams in the two thousands. Yeah, how about
wide receiver for the wide receiver for the Chargers nicknamed
Bambi in the nineteen sixties and seventies, Bambi, Bambi wide receiver.
(48:29):
Do you like sports? You enjoy sports? I like you
like Bambi? We should? Should we ask Bamby questions a
quarterback for the Colts when they won the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (48:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (48:43):
A primetime Colorado coach from prime primetime God twenty points? Yeah, Orlando,
Orlando pace, Atlanta, Hallwarth Why would you call the player
trivia game?
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